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US12171148B2	Fabrication methods Various fabrication methods are disclosed. In one such method, at least one structure is formed on a substrate which protrudes outwardly from a plane of the substrate. A beam is used to form a layer of material, at least part of which is in direct contact with a semiconductor structure on the substrate, the semiconductor structure comprising at least one nanowire. The beam has a non-zero angle of incidence relative to the normal of the plane of the substrate such that the beam is incident on one side of the protruding structure, thereby preventing a portion of the nanowire in a shadow region adjacent the other side of the protruding structure in the plane of the substrate from being covered with the material.
US12171146B2	Vibrator device A vibrator device includes a package including a base that is a semiconductor substrate and a lid that is a semiconductor substrate and has a housing section, a vibrator element and a passive element housed in the housing section and placed at the base, an oscillation circuit placed at the base and electrically coupled to the vibrator element, and a circuit that is placed at the base or the lid, is electrically coupled to the passive element, and operates based on an oscillation signal from the oscillation circuit.
US12171139B2	Organic electroluminescent materials and devices A compound having a metal coordination complex structure, where the compound is capable of functioning as a phosphorescent emitter in an organic light emitting device at room temperature is disclosed. The compound has a first ligand coordinated to a metal. The free-state of the first ligand has a first triplet energy T1 of EL at 77K, while the compound has a first triplet energy T1 of E at 77K, and the difference in energy (ΔE) between E and EL is ≤250 meV. The compound has a triplet emission spectrum with a FWHM value of no more than 45 nm. Organic light emitting devices, consumer products, and formulations containing the compounds are also disclosed.
US12171137B2	Organic electroluminescent materials and devices A compound comprising a ligand LA of Formula I coordinated to a metal M as represented by the dotted lines wherein ring A is a 5-membered or 6-membered carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring, and ring B is a multicyclic ring system comprising four to eight fused 5-membered or 6-membered, carbocyclic or heterocyclic rings; wherein the ring B includes a structure of Formula II wherein ring C is a 5-membered or 6-membered carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring, and the dotted lines of Formula II represent fusion of the structure of Formula II as part of the multicyclic ring system of ring B; T1, T2, and T3 are independently selected from N or C; and L is a linker L2-L1 with L2 and L1 independently selected from the group consisting of O, S, NRN, CR1R2, CR3R4, SiR1R2, and SiR3R4; wherein at least one of L1 or L2 is CR1CR2 or SiR1R2; and the metal M is selected from the group consisting of Ir, Rh, Re, Ru, Os, Pt, Pd, Au, and Cu. An OLED that includes an organic layer, and the organic layer comprises a compound of Formula I above. An OLED that includes an organic layer including a compound with a ligand LA of Formula I, and a consumer product with an OLED.
US12171136B2	Solar cell cutting and passivation integrated processing method and solar cell thereof Disclosed are a solar cell cutting and passivation integrated processing method and a solar cell prepared using the method. The solar cell includes a substrate (1), a front electrode layer (2), a light absorption layer (3) and a back electrode layer (4) from bottom to top. Before laser structured cutting is performed for the back electrode layer (4), a protective layer (5) is disposed on a surface of the back electrode layer (4), and then laser structured cutting is performed for the back electrode layer (4), or the back electrode layer (4) and the light absorption layer (3) simultaneously through the protective layer (5) to obtain a corresponding structured trench (P3) while the protective layer (5) is kept from being cut by laser, and a material of the protective layer (5) is partially molten due to a localized high temperature generated by the laser processing in a laser structured cutting process and infiltrates into an underlying corresponding structured trench (P3). In this method, at the time of performing laser cutting processing, passivation is performed for newly-processed trench at the same time, reducing production costs, saving processing time. Further, the trench edges after cutting are repaired to improve the morphology of the processed trench, improving the stability of the cell and extending the service life of the cell.
US12171133B2	Display device with sub-pixels and sensing elements A display device includes a base layer, and a pixel layer disposed on the base layer. The pixel layer includes reference pixel units and photo-sensing elements. Each of the reference pixel units includes a first light-emitting element, a second light-emitting element, and a third light-emitting element. Each of the photo-sensing elements is interposed between two second light-emitting elements adjacent to each other in a first direction, and at least one of the first light-emitting element or the third light-emitting element includes a plurality of sub-light-emitting elements electrically connected to each other.
US12171124B2	Display substrate and preparation method thereof, and display apparatus The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a preparation method thereof and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes a display region and an edge region located around the display region; the edge region includes a composite insulating layer disposed on a substrate, a power cord disposed on the composite insulating layer and an isolation dam disposed on the power cord, wherein the isolation dam is provided with auxiliary power cords. Both an auxiliary power cord of the isolation dam adjacent to the display region and an auxiliary power cord of the isolation dam away from the display region are lapped on the power cord.
US12171122B2	Display panel and display apparatus including the same A display panel includes a substrate including a first display area, a second display area, a first display element in the first display area, and a second display element in the second display area; a first pixel circuit in the first display area and electrically connected to the first display element; a second pixel circuit arranged outside the second display area and electrically connected to the second display element; an inorganic insulating layer arranged over the substrate and including a groove corresponding to the second display area; and a connection wiring arranged inside the groove and electrically connecting the second display element to the second pixel circuit, wherein the connection wiring and at least one of conductive layers of the second pixel circuit include a same material, and the connection wiring includes portions having different widths depending on a position of the connect wiring arranged in the second display area.
US12171121B2	Transparent display device capable of minimizing size of non-transmissive area A transparent display device reducing or minimizing the size of a non-transmissive area is provided. The transparent display device includes a substrate having thereon transmissive areas and a plurality of subpixels in a non-transmissive area disposed between the transmissive areas, a first signal line extended between the transmissive areas in a first direction, a second signal line extended between the transmissive areas in a second direction, and a capacitor including a first capacitor pattern portion longitudinally provided between the first signal line and the transmissive area in the first direction and a second capacitor pattern portion extended from one end of the first capacitor pattern portion and longitudinally provided between the second signal line and the transmissive area in the second direction.
US12171118B2	Display device A display device includes a circular display area and a non-display area surrounding the circular display area. The display device may further include a load matcher disposed adjacent to an edge of the circular display area in the circular display area, a pixel disposed in the circular display area, spaced apart from the non-display area by the load matcher, and connected to the load matcher, and a repair pixel disposed adjacent to the edge of the circular display area in the non-display area, and connected to the pixel.
US12171116B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus may include a substrate, a display element disposed above the substrate, an encapsulation layer disposed above the display element and including an inorganic encapsulation layer and an organic encapsulation layer, and a touch-sensing layer disposed above the encapsulation layer. The touch-sensing layer may include a first insulating layer including a side surface inclined with respect to a top surface of the encapsulation layer and including an organic material. The touch-sensing layer may include a conductive layer including sensing electrodes, and a second insulating layer covering the conductive layer and including a refractive index that may be different from that of the first insulating layer.
US12171114B2	Display apparatus Provided is a display apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure which includes a substrate including a display area and at least one non-display area; a light emitting device and a plurality of transistors disposed in the display area of the substrate; and a power wiring disposed in the at least one non-display area and electrically connected to the plurality of transistors and the light emitting device. The at least one non-display area includes a camera hole area and a disconnection area, and the disconnection area has a closed loop shape to surround the camera hole area. Therefore, provided is a display apparatus that is more stable for permeation of moisture and oxygen.
US12171113B2	Flexible OLED substrate and encapsulation method thereof A flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) substrate includes a flexible substrate, an inorganic barrier layer, an OLED device, and an adhesive-filling layer. The inorganic barrier layer is disposed on the flexible substrate. The OLED device is disposed on the inorganic barrier layer. The adhesive-filling layer covers the OLED device and the inorganic barrier layer. The flexible substrate further comprises a base substrate, a bending portion, and a covering portion. A thin film transistor layer is disposed on the base substrate, and the bending portion is connected to the base substrate and the covering portion. The covering portion covers the adhesive-filling layer and is stacked above the base substrate.
US12171112B2	Display device and electronic apparatus A display device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a transparent substrate, an element substrate, a color filter layer, a metal electrode layer, and a transparent adhesive layer. The element substrate includes an opposing surface facing the transparent substrate, and an organic EL element that emits light from a display region of the opposing surface. The color filter layer is disposed on the opposing surface to avoid a bonding region provided in a peripheral region surrounding the display region of the opposing surface. The metal electrode layer is disposed on the element substrate to avoid at least a part of an overlapping region that overlaps with the bonding region when viewed from the transparent substrate. The transparent adhesive layer bonds the transparent substrate and the element substrate to each other via the bonding region.
US12171111B2	Display panel and electroluminescent display device including the same A display panel includes a first insulation film including a first hole exposing a portion of an upper surface of an auxiliary electrode, a second insulation film including a second hole overlapping the first hole of the first insulation film, an electrode pattern disposed on a portion of an upper surface of the first insulation film and overlapping the second hole of the second insulation film, a first electrode of a light emitting device disposed on the second insulation film, a bank overlapping a portion of an upper surface of the first electrode and disposed on the second insulation film, a light emitting layer of the light emitting layer disposed on the portion of the upper surface of the auxiliary electrode, and a second electrode of the light emitting device, contacting the portion of the upper surface of the auxiliary electrode overlapping the first hole of the first insulation film, thereby allowing the cathode electrode and the auxiliary electrode to be electrically connected with each other.
US12171110B2	Display substrate, preparation method thereof and display device A display substrate and a preparation method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display substrate (200/300/400) includes a display region (201/301/401) and an opening region (2011/3011/4011), the display region (200/300/400) surrounds the opening region (2011/3011/4011), a first barrier wall (2012/3012/4012) is between the display region (201/301/401) and the opening region (2011/3011/4011), and the first barrier wall (2012/3012/4012) surrounds the opening region (2011/3011/4011); the first barrier wall (2012/3012/4012) includes a first metal layer structure, and at least one side surface, surrounding the opening region (2011/3011/4011), of the first metal layer structure includes a recess (2012A/3012A/4012A). The display substrate combines the imaging device with the display region of the display substrate and has a better encapsulation effect.
US12171109B2	Flexible display panel, flexible display device and method of forming flexible display panel A flexible display panel, a flexible display device and a method of forming the flexible display panel are provided. The flexible display panel includes: a substrate; thin film transistors arranged in an array on the substrate; an electroluminescent device arranged on the thin film transistors and driven by the thin film transistors, including a pixel defining layer and an electroluminescent material defined by the pixel defining layer;a thin film encapsulation layer on the electroluminescent device; a quantum dot photoconversion layer on the thin film encapsulation layer, including an isolation portion and a quantum dot luminescent material surrounded by the isolation portion, where an orthographic projection of the isolation portion onto the substrate covers an orthographic projection of the pixel defining layer onto the substrate; and a cover plate arranged on the quantum dot photoconversion layer.
US12171107B2	Imaging element, stacked imaging element and solid-state imaging device, and method of manufacturing imaging element An imaging element of the present disclosure includes a photoelectric conversion section including a first electrode 21, a photoelectric conversion layer 23A including an organic material, and a second electrode 22 that are stacked; an inorganic semiconductor material layer 23B is formed between the first electrode 21 and the photoelectric conversion layer 23A; and a value ΔEN (=ENanion−ENcation) is less than 1.695, and preferably 1.624 or less, which results from subtracting an average value ENcation of electronegativities of cationic species included in the inorganic semiconductor material layer from an average value ENanion of electronegativities of anionic species included in the inorganic semiconductor material layer 23B.
US12171103B1	Multi-input threshold gate having stacked and folded non-planar capacitors A configuration for efficiently placing a group of capacitors with one terminal connected to a common node is described. The capacitors are stacked and folded along the common node. In a stack and fold configuration, devices are stacked vertically (directly or with a horizontal offset) with one terminal of the devices being shared to a common node, and further the capacitors are placed along both sides of the common node. The common node is a point of fold. In one example, the devices are capacitors. N number of capacitors can be divided in L number of stack layers such that there are N/L capacitors in each stacked layer. The N/L capacitors are shorted together with an electrode (e.g., bottom electrode). The electrode can be metal, a conducting oxide, or a combination of a conducting oxide and a barrier material. The capacitors can be planar, non-planar or replaced by memory elements.
US12171094B2	Semiconductor structure, formation method thereof and memory Embodiments of the present application disclose a semiconductor structure, a formation method thereof and a memory. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; a channel located in the substrate, the channel being configured to form a gate structure; and a convex portion arranged on an inner wall of the channel. The embodiments of the present application can increase a channel length and solve a short-channel effect.
US12171091B2	Multi-layer high-k gate dielectric structure A transistor includes a gate structure that has a first gate dielectric layer and a second gate dielectric layer. The first gate dielectric layer is disposed over the substrate. The first gate dielectric layer contains a first type of dielectric material that has a first dielectric constant. The second gate dielectric layer is disposed over the first gate dielectric layer. The second gate dielectric layer contains a second type of dielectric material that has a second dielectric constant. The second dielectric constant is greater than the first dielectric constant. The first dielectric constant and the second dielectric constant are each greater than a dielectric constant of silicon oxide.
US12171090B2	Uniform layouts for SRAM and register file bit cells Uniform layouts for SRAM and register file bit cells are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a six transistor (6T) static random access memory (SRAM) bit cell on a substrate. The 6T SRAM bit cell includes first and second active regions parallel along a first direction of the substrate. First, second, third and fourth gate lines are over the first and second active regions, the first, second, third and fourth gate lines parallel along a second direction of the substrate, the second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US12171089B2	Light-source apparatus and distance measurement apparatus A light-source apparatus includes a light-source chip, a case, first and second electrically-conductive parts, a substrate, an electromagnetic shield plate, an electrically-conductive layer and an electrically-conductive unit. The light-source chip is received in the case. Each of the first and second electrically-conductive parts is a part of the case. The case is mounted to the substrate. The electromagnetic shield plate covers at least part of the substrate. The electrically-conductive layer is formed on the substrate and electrically connected with both the second electrically-conductive part and the electromagnetic shield plate. The electrically-conductive unit is provided to electrically connect the first electrically-conductive part and the electromagnetic shield plate.
US12171082B2	Immersion cooling apparatus An immersion cooling apparatus includes a pressure vessel including a vessel body and at least one lid. The at least one lid is detachably joined to the vessel body, wherein a certain lid of the at least one lid has a coolant outlet and a coolant inlet. The pressure vessel is filled with liquid coolant. A mounting member places the circuit board at a position between the coolant outlet and the coolant inlet within the pressure vessel. The circuit board is immersed in the liquid coolant within the pressure vessel such the circuit board is surrounded with the liquid coolant. The liquid coolant forcedly flows from one side of the circuit board to outside through the coolant outlet and forcedly flows into the other side of the circuit board from outside through the coolant inlet.
US12171081B2	Crossbar and sled for a modular server and/or information handling system A crossbar is provided that is operable to be removably installed in a sled for a modular server and/or information handling system, for example a network equipment building system. The crossbar includes a frame, a keystone portion of the frame forming a keystone air duct, and a riser guide extending from the frame. The keystone portion is operable to direct air flow through the keystone air duct towards a heat sink and/or a CPU. The riser guide is operable to align a riser to be plugged into a motherboard installed in the sled. The frame is operable to be a structural component that is substantially coupled to the sled chassis.
US12171076B2	Electronic device comprising flexible display and method for operating same An electronic device including a flexible display is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing, a second housing slidably coupled to a side surface of the first housing, a flexible display including a first area on the first housing and a second area extending from the first area, a gear structure arranged in the first housing, and an installation member rotatably coupled to the first housing and separated from or mounted on at least a part of a human body, wherein the flexible display can be rotated and rolled according to the rotation of the gear structure while the first area is exposed to the outside, such that at least a part of the second area may be exposed to the outside.
US12171074B2	Display device A display device includes a main body including a display module for outputting an image, a bending module located at a center of a rear surface of the main body, a pair of links respectively extending in left and right directions, wherein one end of the link is coupled to the bending module, and link brackets respectively located at left and right ends of the main body, wherein the other end of each link is connected to each link bracket, the bending module changes an angle of the pair of links, and, when the bending module is driven, the other end of the link slides horizontally with respect to the link bracket. The display device is able to switch a state of the display module into a flat state or a bent state, so that a user is able to use the display device in a desired shape.
US12171070B2	Display module and display device A display module and a display device which can improve a heat-dissipation performance and a shock absorption function while reducing a bezel area, and in particular, reduce an impact applied to an edge of a cushion plate, and reduce deterioration in the shock absorption function due to moisture. A chamfer is formed along an edge of a metal foam included in the cushion plate to implement the improvement. Thus, a spacing between the edge of the cushion plate and a frame is maximized such that the impact applied to the edge of the cushion plate can be reduced as much as possible. Further, a rear face of a body and a chamfer of the metal foam can be covered with a water-proof layer, such that moisture invasion into the cushion plate can be reduced as much as possible.
US12171068B2	Electronic device and method for manufacturing electronic device An electronic device includes a housing formed of a resin member having a predetermined light absorption property and having an opening, a circuit board accommodated in the housing and on which an electronic circuit is formed, at least one terminal including one end portion and the other end portion electrically connected to the circuit board, and a cover portion covering the opening of the housing, penetrating the at least one terminal, and formed of a resin member having a predetermined light transmitting property. The one end portion of the at least one terminal is located opposite to the other end portion with reference to the cover portion, and the cover portion is molded at a mold temperature of 100 degrees to 180 degrees. The at least one terminal and the circuit board are electrically connected by solder joining. The housing and the cover portion are connected by laser welding.
US12171067B2	Method of manufacturing printed wiring board There is provided a method for manufacturing a printed wiring board that effectively suppresses pattern failure and is also excellent in fine circuit forming properties. This method includes: providing an insulating substrate including a roughened surface; performing electroless plating on the roughened surface of the insulating substrate to form an electroless plating layer less than 1.0 μm thick having a surface having an arithmetic mean waviness Wa of 0.10 μm or more and 0.25 μm or less and a valley portion void volume Vvv of 0.010 μm3/μm2 or more and 0.028 μm3/μm2 or less; laminating a photoresist on the surface of the electroless plating layer; performing exposure and development to form a resist pattern; applying electroplating to the electroless plating layer; stripping the resist pattern; and etching away an unnecessary portion of the electroless plating layer to form a wiring pattern.
US12171065B2	Electronic device including interposer An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a first printed circuit board disposed in an internal space of the housing and including first conductive terminals, and a second printed circuit board disposed parallel to the first printed circuit board in the internal space and including second conductive terminals electrically connected to the first conductive terminals. The second printed circuit board includes at least some conductive terminals of the second conductive terminals, or at least one connection failure prevention structure disposed around at least some conductive terminals of the second conductive terminals.
US12171062B2	Electrically conductive adhesive, electronic circuit using the same, and method for manufacturing such electronic circuit Objects of the present invention are to provide an electrically conductive adhesive which is capable of suppressing a rise in an electric resistance value of a joining part between an electronic component and a substrate under high temperature and high humidity while a specific resistance value is suppressed to be low; an electronic circuit using such electrically conductive adhesive; and a method for manufacturing such electronic circuit. According to the present invention, provided is the electrically conductive adhesive which includes an electrically conductive filler, a surface of the electrically conductive filler being a coating layer including silver, a compounded amount of the electrically conductive filler being 29.0 vol. % to 63.0 vol. % with respect to the electrically conductive adhesive, a compounded amount of the silver being 3.5 vol. % to 7.0 vol. % with respect to the electrically conductive adhesive. In addition, also provided are an electronic circuit using the electrically conductive adhesive of the present invention and a method for manufacturing such electronic circuit.
US12171060B2	Device for temperature measurement A device for current determination includes a shunt and a device for temperature measurement including a printed circuit board, an evaluation unit and a temperature sensor. The printed circuit board has a milled groove which runs spirally around the temperature sensor, so that the temperature sensor is arranged on a printed circuit board plateau defined by the milled groove and is displaceable in a direction that is parallel to a normal vector of a plane defined by the printed circuit board. When the temperature sensor is displaced relative to the plane of the printed circuit board, a restoring force is brought about between the printed circuit board and the temperature sensor, wherein the shunt includes a resistance region having a substantially flat surface, wherein the device for current determination is arranged in the resistance region on the surface of the shunt in such a way that the temperature sensor is arranged in thermal connection with the resistance region of the shunt, wherein voltage taps are arranged on both sides of the temperature sensor and electrically contact the surface of the shunt in order to detect a potential difference along the resistance region.
US12171059B2	High-frequency circuit and communication module A high-frequency circuit is configured so as to include a printed circuit board and a flexible circuit board connected to the printed circuit board, wherein the printed circuit board includes: a first dielectric layer having a first surface and a second surface, a first ground conductor being formed on the first surface; a second dielectric layer having a third surface and a fourth surface, a second ground conductor being formed on the fourth surface; and first signal lines wired between the second surface and the third surface, the flexible circuit board includes: a third dielectric layer having a fifth surface and a sixth surface, a third ground conductor being formed on the fifth surface; a fourth dielectric layer having a seventh surface and an eighth surface, a fourth ground conductor being formed on the eighth surface; and second signal lines wired between the sixth surface and the seventh surface.
US12171058B2	Printed circuit board (PCB) module comprising an embedded radio-frequency semiconductor die A printed circuit board (PCB) module comprising a unitarily formed multilayer PCB, where the multilayer PCB comprises a plurality of layers, the plurality of layers comprising interleaved conductive and non-conductive layers, a first outer surface and an opposing second outer surface, the first outer surface comprising one or more components, the second outer surface comprising one or more electrical contacts such as solder bumps, and a first embedded semiconductor die having an active side facing the first outer surface, wherein the first embedded semiconductor die comprises a wireless radio-frequency transceiver such as a Bluetooth-compliant transceiver.
US12171055B2	Pulsed laser thermal excitation At a designated range an ultra-short pulse laser beam collapses focusing its power and thereby creating a plasma. A range specific thermal plasma is formed from a pulsed laser configured to produce a pulsed wavefront at a peak power. The peak power of the wavefront exceeds a self-focusing critical power level. An optical wavefront controlling element having one or more optical lens manipulates the pulsed wavefront based on a ratio of the peak power to the self-focusing critical power level, and an atmospheric condition, initiating whole beam collapse at the designated range.
US12171053B2	System for monitoring a plasma An amplified optical beam is provided to a region that receives a target including target material, an interaction between the amplified optical beam and the target converting at least some of the target material from a first form to a second form to form a light-emitting plasma; first data comprising information related to the amplified optical beam is accessed; second data comprising information related to the light-emitting plasma is accessed; and an amount of the target material converted from the first form to the second form is determined. The determination is based on at least the first data and the second data, and the second form of the target material is less dense than the first form of the target material.
US12171052B2	Oven having multiple chokes An oven includes: a body part defining an inner space that has an opening in one direction, a front plate disposed along a circumference of the opening of the body part and extending in a direction intersecting with the one direction, and a door part configured to contact the front plate to cover the inner space. The door part includes a door plate configured to overlap with the inner space and the front plate in the one direction and providing a protrusion that protrudes from a central portion thereof toward the inner space, a first choke provided in an annular shape along a circumference of the protrusion, and a second choke disposed outside the first choke, provided in an annular shape along a circumference of the first choke, and configured to overlap with the front plate in the one direction.
US12171049B2	Cartridge with a heater assembly for an aerosol-generating system An aerosol-generating system including a cartridge is provided, the cartridge including a liquid storage portion including a housing configured to hold a liquid aerosol-forming substrate, the housing having an opening; and a heater assembly including at least one heater element fixed to the housing and extending across an opening of the housing, wherein a width of the at least one heater element of the heater assembly is smaller than a width of the opening of the housing. The heater element may be spaced from a periphery of the opening, leading to more efficient heating and aerosol production.
US12171047B2	Relative location conditioned staged download service for internet-of-things (IoTs) Methods, systems, and computer program products of this disclosure provide a staged transmission service (e.g., a data transfer service for downloading or uploading) at a transfer node to a device in motion (DIM) wirelessly paired to the transfer node. When a DIM accepts a download task, the download node paired with the DIM receives a notice from the DIM of the acceptance. The download node retrieves, from a data repository, a dataset specified by the download task. A processing device of the download node may stage the dataset in a staged download service in preparation to transfer the dataset to the DIM. The processing device may initiate a transfer of at least a portion of the dataset to the DIM responsive to one or more data transfer properties satisfying a predefined set of conditions. The data transfer properties are determined based on a location and a movement of the DIM.
US12171044B2	Method and device for ultra-wideband communication Methods and devices are provided for ultra-wideband (UWB) communication. A first UWB device generates a discovery message providing information used for discovery of the first UWB device. The first UWB device broadcasts the discovery message through a narrowband (NB) discovery channel. The NB discovery channel is not associated with a UWB channel. The UWB channel is one of a plurality of candidate UWB channels allocated for the UWB communication.
US12171043B2	Electronic devices with intuitive sharing capabilities An electronic device may use information about the location of nearby devices to make sharing with those devices more intuitive for a user. When two devices are pointed towards one another, each device may automatically present the option to share information with the other device. When a user wishes to share information with one or more devices in a group of users, an array of icons representing the nearby users may be positioned on the display according to the locations of the nearby users so that the sharing user can easily select which user he or she wishes to share with. A sharing user may broadcast a signal and nearby users may elect to receive the signal by pointing their devices towards the sharing user. A user of two devices may share information between the two devices and may use one device to manipulate the information on the other device.
US12171037B2	Apparatus of GNB to enable an inactive mode in dual connectivity Embodiments of a next generation Node-B (gNB), User Equipment (UE) and methods for communication are generally described herein. A gNB may be configurable to operate as a master gNB (MgNB). The MgNB may transmit radio-resource control (RRC) signaling to provide information for dual connectivity to allow the UE to utilize radio resources of both a master cell group (MCG) associated with the MgNB and a secondary cell group (SCG) associated with a secondary gNB (SgNB). The MgNB may transmit, to the SgNB, an SgNB release request message that indicates a partial suspension of the dual connectivity, wherein: a first portion of a configuration for the SCG is to be maintained and a second portion of the configuration for the SCG is to be released.
US12171035B2	End-to-end system design for THz network Methods, systems, and apparatuses are presented for utilizing a narrowband assisting network (NBAN) and a positioning assisting network (PAN) to assist in establishing and managing communications on a THz band wireless communication network. The THz network may be capable of transmitting/receiving with high bandwidth, but may be resource intensive and may be constrained to line-of-sight (LoS) communications. The NBAN and PAN may help to minimize the resources consumed by the THz network. The NBAN may identify a set of nodes of the THz network as candidates for establishing a connection with a user equipment (UE). The PAN may determine a position of each candidate relative to the UE, and may communicate the position to the respective candidate and to the UE, which may use the position information to expedite a beam alignment procedure. The NBAN may provide scheduling and other control signaling for the THz network.
US12171034B2	Technique for supporting dual connectivity in WLAN system According to one embodiment of the present specification, an STA may be connected to a primary AP and a secondary AP simultaneously. The STA may acquire control information related to whether the secondary AP can acquire a transmission/reception signal of the primary AP. Thereafter, the STA may transmit a UL signal to the primary AP. The STA may transmit, on the basis of whether the secondary AP can acquire the transmission/reception signal of the primary AP, a block acknowledgement request (BAR) signal for a UL signal to the secondary AP.
US12171033B1	Method and system for vehicle inspection A system and method for using a mobile device to capture the proper execution of a series of one or more tasks with pre-assigned constraints that are associated with a specific set of assets is disclosed herein. The assets have certain known physical attributes and characteristics and are configured in a known manner. The assets are preferably vehicles such as trucks.
US12171032B2	Method for relaying data using different frequency bands and electronic device performing same According to an example embodiment, an electronic device may include: a communication module comprising communication circuitry configured to exchange data with an external device and at least one processor operationally connected to the communication module and configured to control the electronic device, wherein, through the communication module, the processor may be configured to: receive a scan command from a first main device using a first wireless communication link in a first frequency band, detect at least one external electronic device by performing a scan of a second frequency band based on the scan command, transmit a detection result of the external electronic device to the first main device using the first wireless communication link, receive an establishment command to establish a wireless link with the external electronic device from the first main device using the first wireless communication link, establish the wireless link with the external electronic device using the second frequency band based on the establishment command to establish the wireless link with the external electronic device, and transmit a result of the establishment of the wireless link to the first main device using the first wireless communication link, data may be exchanged between the first main device and the electronic device via the first wireless communication link and data may be exchanged between the external electronic device and the electronic device via the wireless link.
US12171030B2	Method for transmitting and receiving urgent information in wireless communication system supporting machine type communication, and device for same Proposed in the present specification is a method for transmitting and receiving urgent information in a wireless communication system supporting machine type communication, and a device for same. Specifically, a method performed by a terminal may include the steps of: receiving information including a Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) threshold value from a base station; determining a Coverage Enhancement (CE) mode on the basis of the RSRP threshold value and an RSRP measurement value; determining a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) resource on the basis of the CE mode; and transmitting a PRACH preamble to the base station on the basis of the PRACH resource.
US12171029B2	Method and device in node used for wireless communication The present disclosure provides a method and device in a node for wireless communications. A first node transmits a first sequence and a first radio signal, the first sequence is associated with the first radio signal; and receives a second radio signal; the first radio signal is used to carry a target identifier; the second radio signal comprises a first information block, the first information block comprises a first field and a second field, the second field is used to determine a first value, and the first value is a non-negative integer; the first field and a value interval to which the first value belongs are used to determine whether the second radio signal comprises a second information block. Through the re-analyzing of the existing signalings, the present disclosure avoids extra signaling overhead, realizes contention resolution of 2-step RACH, and supports flexible switching between 2-step RACH and 4-step RACH.
US12171021B2	Hierarchical sensing in a wireless communications system Wireless communications systems and methods related to communications in a network are provided. A first wireless communication device may perform in a shared radio frequency band during a first portion of a frame period, a first listen-before-talk (LBT) using a first beam characteristic. Additionally, the first wireless communication device may perform in the shared radio frequency band during a second portion of the frame period, a second LBT using a second set of beam characteristics different from the first beam characteristic. The first wireless communication device may communicate with a second wireless communication device in the shared radio frequency band during the second portion of the frame period, one or more communication signals using the second set of beam characteristics. Other aspects and features are also described.
US12171019B2	Random access resource processing method and device The present disclosure provides a random access resource processing method and device. The method includes: receiving first indication information from a network device, where the first indication information is used to indicate whether a preset random access resource is available; and transmitting first acknowledgment information to the network device.
US12171011B2	Reconfiguration of sidelink configuration and sidelink resource allocation A method and apparatus for reconfiguration of sidelink configuration and sidelink resource allocation in a wireless communication system is provided. Upon leaving a connected state and entering a new state, while in the new state, a first wireless device configured to operate in a wireless communication system keeps performing sidelink transmission to a second wireless device based on a first sidelink configuration received via dedicated signaling, receives, from a network via broadcast signaling, a second sidelink configuration, and performs the sidelink transmission to the second wireless device based on the second sidelink configuration.
US12171009B2	Wireless communication apparatus and channel allocation method Disclosed is a base station in which the frequency usage efficiency can be improved when the communication bandwidths are asymmetric in the uplink line and the downlink line. A base station can communicate by using a plurality of downlink unit bands and a smaller number of uplink unit bands. A control unit allocates uplink resource allocation information and downlink resource allocation information to a PDCCH which is arranged in each of the plurality of downlink unit bands, and allocates a response signal to the uplink line data to a PHICH which is arranged in the same number of downlink unit bands from the plurality of downlink unit bands as there are uplink unit bands. A transmit RF unit transmits the resource allocation information or the response signal.
US12171008B2	UE scheduling grant based on a pro-scheduler implementation This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for a UE scheduling grant based on a pro-scheduler implementation. A first UE may transmit a first sidelink grant transmission to a second UE with a resource reservation for a second sidelink grant transmission from the first UE. The second UE may select a sidelink resource that avoids an overlap with the resource reservation for the sidelink grant transmission from the first UE and transmit a sidelink transmission using the sidelink resource that avoids the overlap with the resource reservation. In further aspects, the second UE may transmit a sidelink transmission based on the first sidelink grant.
US12171004B2	Method and apparatus for performing measurement by user equipment in wireless communication system The present invention relates to a method of performing measurement by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method includes the steps of: when an uplink data transmission occurs in a measurement gap, determining a starting point of a temporary measurement gap based on a completion time of the uplink data transmission; transmitting information about the temporary measurement gap including the starting point of the temporary measurement gap; transmitting an uplink data during the measurement gap; and performing measurements during the temporary measurement gap.
US12171002B2	Information mapping method, information acquisition method, terminal device and network device Provided are an information mapping method, an information acquisition method, a terminal device, and a network device. The information mapping method includes mapping at least one information domain of channel state information to at least one field of uplink control information, dividing the at least one field into a first partial field and a second partial field, generating a first bit sequence based on the first partial field, and generating a second bit sequence based on the second partial field.
US12170998B2	Method and apparatus for performing DRX operation based on resource allocation information in NR V2X Provided are a method for performing wireless communication by a first device, and an apparatus for supporting same. The method may comprise: starting a timer for an active time; receiving, from a second device through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) based on a first sidelink (SL) resource, a first sidelink control information (SCI) including information related to a time domain of a second SL resource and information related to a frequency domain of the second SL resource; receiving, from the second device through a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) related to the PSCCH based on the first SL resource, a second SCI and data; determining a value of a SL discontinuous reception (DRX) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) round trip time (RTT) timer, based on a time interval between the first SL resource and the second SL resource; and starting the SL DRX HARQ RTT timer.
US12170996B2	Repetition indication for physical uplink control channel enhancement A wireless node comprising a radio, and a processor operably coupled to the radio, wherein the processor is configured to determine a number of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource repetitions for transmitting a PUCCH message; and wherein the radio is configured to transmit an indication, to a wireless device, of the number of PUCCH repetitions for a PUCCH message, and receive repetitions of the PUCCH message from the wireless device based on the number of PUCCH repetitions.
US12170992B2	Data transmission method, apparatus, and related device A data transmission method and apparatus, and a related device, and may be used in the internet of vehicles, for example, V2X, LTE-V, or V2V, or may be used in fields such as D2D, intelligent driving, and intelligent connected vehicle. A network device may send first downlink control information to a first terminal device and a second terminal device, to indicate the first terminal device and the second terminal device to perform user cooperative transmission in a first stage. After the transmission in the first stage is completed, the network device sends second downlink control information to the first terminal device and the second terminal device, to indicate the first terminal device and the second terminal device to perform user cooperative transmission in a second stage. The network device uses a two-level scheduling manner to improve transmission efficiency in the second stage.
US12170990B2	Component carrier (CC) selection for a user equipment (UE) based on one or more CC selection criteria A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving one or more configuration messages indicating a plurality of component carriers (CCs) and one or more CC selection criteria associated with the plurality of CCs. The method further includes receiving a downlink message and transmitting, based on the downlink message, one or more repetitions of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback message using a particular CC of the plurality of CCs. The particular CC is selected by the UE from the plurality of CCs based on the one or more CC selection criteria.
US12170985B2	Enhancements of frequency domain resource allocation schemes for physical uplink shared channel in NR-unlicensed Apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing frequency domain resource allocation schemes for use in unlicensed spectrum. A wireless device may determine a frequency domain resource allocation scheme for use for uplink communication in unlicensed spectrum. The wireless device may receive information indicating a frequency domain resource allocation for an uplink communication in unlicensed spectrum in accordance with the frequency domain resource allocation scheme. The wireless device may perform the uplink communication using the indicated frequency domain resource allocation.
US12170983B2	Method and device for indicating resource allocation Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and device for indicating time domain resource allocation. The method comprises: determining time information of a resource region based on numerology information of the resource region, the resource region being allocated for transmitting data to a terminal device; and transmitting the time information to the terminal device to enable the terminal device to receive the data on the resource region.
US12170982B2	Method and device related to spatial relation in a node used for wireless communication The present disclosure discloses a method and a device in a node for wireless communications. A first node receives a first information block; and operates first-type information in a first radio resource block. The first information block is used for determining a first radio resource set and K information units, K being a positive integer greater than 1; the first radio resource block belongs to the first radio resource set; the K information units respectively indicate K spatial relations; a first condition set is used for determining whether a spatial relation corresponding to the operation performed in the first radio resource block is related to the K information units; the first condition set is related to a first parameter. The method provided herein improves the reliability of transmission on physical layer control channel.
US12170976B2	Generation of information related to geographical area Disclosed is a method for generating information indicative of objects in a geographical area, the method includes: receiving a request; determining a number of positioning services for inquiring the data in accordance with the data in the request; generating a request for information; modifying the received information from the determined number of positioning services by filtering out privacy related information in relation to objects in the geographical area; and generating a response to the requesting entity. Also disclosed is an apparatus, a system, and a computer program product.
US12170975B2	Signal transmission method, and related device and system The present disclosure relates to signal transmission methods, devices, and systems. One example method includes sending, by a network device, a plurality of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) blocks in one or more burst set windows, where the one or more burst set windows include a plurality of candidate positions that are used to transmit the plurality of SS/PBCH blocks. SS/PBCH blocks sent at positions corresponding to at least two particular indexes have a quasi co-located (QCL) relationship.
US12170972B2	Time synchronization in cellular communication networks According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising, embedding information for time synchronization to a SSB, encrypting the SSB and transmitting in a cellular communication network the encrypted SSB comprising the information for time synchronization.
US12170971B2	Time synchronization for coordinated restricted target wake time (r-TWT) operation This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for coordinated scheduling of service periods (SPs). In some aspects, an access point (AP) may receive timing information indicating an SP associated with an overlapping basic service set (OBSS) and may transmit, to its associated STAs, coordinated timing information indicating the timing of the SP in relation to its timing synchronization function (TSF) timer. In some aspects, the AP may adjust the timing information to account for an offset between its TSF timer and a TSF timer associated with the OBSS. In some other aspects, the AP may synchronize its TSF timer with the TSF timer associated with the OBSS. The AP may further communicate with the STAs based on the coordinated timing information. For example, the AP may schedule communications with the STAs to be orthogonal to communications in the OBSS during the SP.
US12170970B2	Methods to configure neighbor cell resynchronization signal (RSS) parameters Embodiments include methods, performed by a network node in a wireless network, for signaling resynchronization signal (RSS) configurations of neighbor cells to one or more user equipment (UEs). Such methods include encoding a plurality of parameters of respective RSS configurations of one or more neighbor cells. For each particular neighbor cell, the parameters can include one or more RSS frequency locations and an RSS time offset for the particular neighbor cell, and the encoding can be based on a bitmap and a parameter associated with the particular neighbor cell (e.g., a physical cell ID). Such methods also include transmitting, to the one or more UEs, at least a portion of the encoded parameters of the respective RSS configurations of the neighbor cells. Embodiments also include complementary methods performed by UEs, as well as network nodes and UEs configured to perform such methods.
US12170965B2	Power control According to an example aspect, there is provided an apparatus, configured to receive, by a user terminal, configuration for a grant-free transmission on a shared radio resource, the grant-free transmission comprising at least one collision avoidance transmission and at least one data transmission, wherein the at least one collision avoidance transmission precedes the at least one data transmission, determine a first transmission power for the at least one data transmission, determine a second transmission power for the at least one collision avoidance transmission based on information indicative to the a location of the user terminal proportionate to the a location of an access node providing a radio cell, and transmit the at least one collision avoidance transmission at the second determined power and the at least one data transmission at the determined first transmission power.
US12170962B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting or receiving information relating to link in wireless LAN system A method performed by a first STA in a wireless local area network (WLAN) according to various embodiments may comprise transmitting or receiving a TWT setup request message and a TWT setup response message. The first STA may perform a TWT operation on the basis of the TWT setup request message and the TWT setup response message. The TWT setup request message and the TWT setup response message may be transmitted or received through a first link included in multiple links. The first STA may set the first link to be in an awake state in order to perform the TWT operation through the first link.
US12170959B2	Terminal power saving method, power saving apparatus, information sending method and apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device A terminal can save power by utilizing preset conditions. For example, when a first preset condition is satisfied, a first carrier currently activated is switched to a power saving state. The first preset condition is satisfied for indicating a power saving operation to be performed.
US12170958B2	Power-saving signal configuration and transmission methods and apparatuses Disclosed in the present application are power-saving signal configuration and transmission methods and apparatuses. In the present application, a base station configures search space set configuration information of a power-saving signal, and sends same to a terminal. The power-saving signal search space set configuration information includes first configuration information and second configuration information; the first configuration information is search space set configuration information of a power-saving signal used when the terminal is in a short DRX cycle; and the second configuration information is search space set configuration information of a power-saving signal used when the terminal is in a long DRX cycle.
US12170955B2	Network slice configuration update Network slice configuration update methods for providing a user equipment (UE) registered with (or attempting to register with) a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) the most up-to-date Configured NSSAI for the PLMN.
US12170942B2	Subscriber identity module device for emergency communications Methods, devices, and systems are provided for transmitting emergency communications. For example, an emergency communication device may comprise a subscriber identity module (SIM) card, a sensor, a processor, and a memory that stores executable instructions that perform operations when executed by the processor. In some aspects, the device comprises at least three buttons that cause a transmission of an emergency communication to an emergency response server or preprogrammed contact. In response to the sensor of the device detecting a button being pressed, a location service, which determines the location of the device based on the SIM card, is initiated. Accordingly, the device causes the transmission of the emergency communication comprising the location of the device. Further, the emergency communication to the emergency response server may also comprise medical information associated with a user of the user device.
US12170941B2	Methods and systems for establishing and maintaining presence information of neighboring bluetooth devices A communication device and method can include one or more processors operatively coupled to memory, a sensor and an output device, where the one or more processors to perform operations of identifying target person locations using internet searching and short range communication enabled devices such as Bluetooth LE devices.
US12170940B2	Enhancement on smartwatch implementation The subject matter described herein provides systems and techniques to automatically configure a proximal device, such as a smart watch, a tablet, or any other smart device, based on configuration information sent from the user equipment (UE) to the proximal device when the local communications connection, such as a wireless connection, between the devices is weak. If it is determined that there is a weak local communications connection between the UE and the proximal device the UE may automatically send network configuration information to the proximal device. If it is determined that there is a weak local communications connection between the UE and the proximal device the UE may automatically turn on its mobile hotspot, and automatically send the mobile hotspot configuration information to the proximal device.
US12170937B2	Communication systems and methods for delivering data selectively over unicast paths and multicast paths Communication systems and methods for receiving and converting multicast data are disclosed. An example communication system includes an airborne central processing unit configured to: convert multicast data received on a multicast fast path via a satellite to unicast data, forward the unicast data to a user device within a vehicle, collect one or more metrics regarding the multicast data, and transmit the one or more metrics to a satellite ground station via the satellite.
US12170932B2	Wireless based presence detection Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for presence detection of a wireless device in a sensing region. Communication parameters determined by a computing device over one or more periods may be used to generate criteria for determining the occurrence of enter events or leave events. The criteria may comprise, for values of one or more communication parameters, rates of change associated with movement into or out of the sensing region. The criteria may be compared against subsequent data associated with the communication parameters to determine if an enter event or a leave event has occurred.
US12170930B2	Carrier aggregation—handover synergism Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) and a Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) for a plurality of carriers at a user equipment (UE) device, the plurality of carriers transmitted by a source group of cells including a source primary cell (PCell) and one or more source secondary cells (SCells) associated with the source PCell, and initiating a handover of communication with the UE device from the source group of cells to a target group of cells, wherein the target group of cells includes a target PCell and one or more target SCells, wherein the initiating the handover is responsive to the RSRP exceeding a predetermined RSRP threshold and the SNR exceeding a predetermined SNR threshold. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12170925B2	Network nodes for handling non-fulfillment of QoS requirements The invention relates to network nodes for handling non-fulfilment of QoS requirements in wireless communication systems. A first network node obtains QoS requirements associated with a PDU session of a client device application. When the QoS requirements will not be met in a core network, the first network node transmits a first QoS notification to a second network node, wherein the first QoS notification indicates that the one or more QoS requirements will not be met in the core network. When the QoS requirements will not be met in a radio access network, the first network node transmits a second QoS notification to a master node, wherein the second QoS notification indicates that the one or more QoS requirements will not be met in the radio access network. Furthermore, the invention also relates to corresponding methods and computer program.
US12170924B2	Systems and methods for optimizing network transmissions Batched network coding (BNC) is a low-complexity solution to network transmission in multi-hop networks with packet loss that divides data to be transmitted into multiple packets and pads the data when necessary. However, an inappropriate choice of packet size leads to a significant overhead. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, and apparatuses that overcome the shortcomings of traditional BNC solutions by dynamically deciding a packet size through optimization of the overhead. As a result, embodiments of the present disclosure boost throughput of systems leveraging BNC transmission techniques by providing file-specific and dynamically determined optimizations. The disclosed techniques for performing dynamic optimization of transmissions also reduce computational complexity, enabling use case deployments in which nodes having reduced computational resources and power requirements are utilized while maintaining improved performance of the network (e.g., in terms of throughput, etc.).
US12170920B2	Method for controlling network slice, information processing apparatus, and system A problem to be solved is to control a network slice from a core network. A method to be executed by an information processing apparatus in a cloud-based computing environment includes the steps of: receiving, from a mobility management device, a congestion notification including a slice identifier for a congested slice; transmitting, to a slice allocation device, a setting request for setting a subslice to the slice corresponding to the slice identifier, upon reception of the congestion notification; and transmitting, when a subslice identifier associated with the slice identifier is set in the slice allocation device and the subslice identifier is added in the mobility management device, an instruction to establish communication using the subslice corresponding to the subslice identifier and the slice corresponding to the slice identifier to the mobility management device.
US12170918B2	Capability for L1/L2 non-serving cell reference signal measurement and reporting An apparatus, e.g., a UE, is disclosed. The apparatus may transmit, to a serving cell, UE capability information for performing L1/L2 measurements of at least one target RS received from a non-serving cell and reporting measurement information. The apparatus may receive, based on the transmitted UE capability information, a configuration including a TCI state scheduling the UE to receive the at least one target RS from the non-serving cell based on at least one source RS associated with the TCI state, and to perform the L1/L2 measurements of the at least one target RS. The number of RS reported in the measurement report may be based on at least one of a UE capability, an indication received from the serving cell, a pre-configuration, or an indication received from the serving cell in which the indication is within the UE capability.
US12170917B2	Discontinuous downlink channel monitoring Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device, otherwise known as a user equipment (UE) may transmit capability information including an indication of a discontinuous monitoring delay period. The UE may receive a message including an indication to adjust monitoring of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), and monitor for the PDCCH during the discontinuous monitoring delay period. The UE may adjust monitoring for the PDCCH following the discontinuous monitoring delay period during a temporal period based on the received indication to adjust monitoring of the PDCCH. In some examples, at least one of physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) reception, downlink reference signal monitoring, uplink reference signal transmissions, and channel reporting is enabled during the temporal period while monitoring of the PDCCH is adjusted.
US12170912B2	Correlating radio access network messages of aggressive mobile devices Excessive signaling by devices against a radio access network (RAN) can be detected and mitigated. A security management component (SMC) can determine whether a total number of control signals received by a base station from devices satisfies a threshold total number of control signals indicative of excessive signaling. If so, SMC can identify a device associated with the base station based on analyzing communication conditions associated with the device. SMC can determine whether to classify the device as an excessive signaling device based on whether the number of control signals received from the device by the base station satisfies a threshold number of control signals indicative of excessive signaling. If so, SMC can determine the device is an excessive signaling device. In response, SMC can perform or facilitate performing a mitigation action to mitigate excessive signaling or can generate statistics relating to the excessive signaling.
US12170904B2	Automated security hangar for private cellular networks The described technology is generally directed towards an automated security hangar for private cellular networks. In response to detecting that a user equipment is departing a geographic area served by a private cellular network, the user equipment can encrypt its data and send it to a private cellular network server. The server can receive and securely store the encrypted data, and the server can provide a code to the user equipment. The user equipment can store the code, disconnect from the private cellular network, and depart the geographic area. When the user equipment returns to the geographic area and reconnects to the private cellular network, the user equipment can present the code to the server. The server can validate the code, the user equipment, and/or the operator of the user equipment, and the server can return the encrypted data to the user equipment.
US12170903B2	Methods and apparatuses for unmanned aerial system (UAS) identification, binding and pairing Methods and apparatuses are described herein for paring an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a UAV-controller (UAV-C). For example, a UAV having a UAV wireless transmit/receive unit (UAV WTRU) may transmit, to an access and mobility management function (AMF), a non-access stratum (NAS) request message that includes a paring request indication and a UAV-controller (UAV-C) identification (UAV-C ID). The UAV-C ID may be carried in a paring request to an unmanned aerial system (UAS) service supplier (USS)/UAS traffic management (UTM) for paring authorization of the UAV with a UAV-C associated with the UAV-C ID. The UAV may receive, from the AMF, a NAS response message that includes an unmanned aerial system (UAS) identification (UAS ID) indicating that the UAV is paired with the UAV-C, wherein the UAS ID is assigned by the USS/UTM.
US12170902B2	User agent inference and active endpoint fingerprinting for encrypted connections A cyber security appliance can inoculate a fleet of network devices by analyzing each endpoint of a secure connection. The appliance can receive a hostname for a malicious web server. The appliance can generate an unencrypted target fingerprint based on sending a series of unencrypted connection protocol requests to the malicious web server and an encrypted target fingerprint based on sending a series of encrypted secure connection protocol requests to the malicious web server. The appliance can build a combined web server fingerprint for the malicious web server based on both the encrypted target fingerprint derived and the unencrypted target fingerprint. The appliance can determine a set of suspicious IP addresses based on the combined web server fingerprint for the malicious web server. The appliance can inoculate a fleet of network devices against a cyberattack using the IP addresses to preemptively alert the fleet of cyber-attack.
US12170901B2	Security context obtaining method and apparatus, and communications system A security context obtaining method includes: a first access and mobility management function (AMF) receiving a first registration request message sent by a user equipment (UE) and validating integrity protection for the first registration request message; if the first AMF successfully validates integrity protection for the first registration request message, sending, by the first AMF, a second request message to a second AMF; the second AMF receiving the second request message; and if the second request message carries indication information and the indication information is used to indicate that the UE is validated, sending, by the second AMF, a security context of the UE to the first AMF.
US12170900B2	Method for providing an elastic content filtering security service in a mesh network The present disclosure is directed to distributing processing capabilities throughout different nodes in a wireless mesh network. Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure increase the efficiency of communications in a wireless mesh network because they help minimize the need to forward communications to other nodes in the wireless mesh network such that an evaluation can be performed. Apparatus and methods consistent with the present disclosure may distribute ratings or verdicts associated with previous requests to access data to different nodes in a wireless mesh network without generating additional wireless communications through the wireless mesh network. Apparatus and methods consistent with the present disclosure distribute content ratings to different nodes in a wireless network such that different wireless nodes may block redundant requests to undesired content without increasing messaging traffic.
US12170896B2	Cloud profile A mobile device is configured for use with selected mobile services and performs operations including receiving a request to use a given selected mobile service (SMS) which facilitates virtualization of an application program, first identifying and retrieving mobile application data (MAD) associated with the SMS from a first data store and receiving the SMS. A server provides the SMS to the mobile device and the SMS provides at least one feature of the application program to a first user. The MAD facilitates providing of the SMS on the mobile device and the SMS facilitates providing of features of the application program without having the mobile device download and execute the application program. The operations may include communicatively coupling the mobile device with a wireless component (WC) which communicatively couples the mobile device with the server and first authenticating, with the WC, a subscriber identity module (SIM) for the mobile device.
US12170894B2	Selective access point key caching An example system includes a plurality of AP devices configured to provide a wireless network at a site, the plurality of AP devices including a first AP device configured to determine a set of roaming candidates within the site for client devices connected to the first AP device, wherein the set of roaming candidates includes one or more AP devices of the plurality of AP selected according to a selection criteria; in response to establishing a connection with a client device, cache a key associated with the client device in the memory of the first AP device; generate a packet with the key associated with the client device, and a list of APs that includes one or more identifiers of the one or more AP devices within the set of roaming candidates for the first AP device; and transmit the packet to the plurality of AP devices at the site.
US12170888B2	Cell handover method, communication apparatus, and system When triggering a handover request, a source network device requests a measurement indication from a target access network device using the handover request, where the measurement indication indicates the terminal device to measure a channel state of a target cell. In this way, the source network device sends the measurement indication to the terminal device using an RRC reconfiguration message. Then, the terminal device measures the specified channel state of the target cell based on the measurement indication, to obtain a measurement result, and then determines, depending on whether the measurement result meets a handover condition, whether to perform cell handover.
US12170886B2	Methods and systems for optimizing behavior of audio playback systems A method for perceptual rendering of audio for playback by a playback speaker system includes optimizing a first finite impulse response (FIR) filter associated with a first channel of audio input of audio associated with a source, for application to a first speaker in a playback speaker system for output by a first transducer of the first speaker. The method includes optimizing a second finite impulse response (FIR) filter associated with a second channel of audio input of the audio associated with the source, for application to a second speaker in the playback speaker for output by at least one transducer of the second speaker, wherein optimizing the second FIR Filter further comprises modifying the second FIR filter to include at least one coefficient defined based upon a relationship between the first transducer and a second transducer.
US12170885B2	Systems and methods of adjusting bass levels of multi-channel audio signals Systems and methods for adjusting bass levels of a multi-channel audio signal include, among other features, (i) receiving the multi-channel signal via a playback device; (ii) separating, from the multi-channel signal, low-frequency signals comprising frequencies less than a threshold frequency; (iii) determining electrical energies of the low-frequency signals; (iv) determining a first energy by summing the electrical energies of the low-frequency signals; (v) consolidating the low-frequency signals into a consolidated low-frequency signal; (vi) determining a second energy by determining an electrical energy of the consolidated low-frequency signal; (vii) generating a gain-adjusted low-frequency signal by adjusting a gain of the consolidated low-frequency signal based on both (a) the first energy and (b) the second energy; (viii) generating a gain-adjusted multi-channel signal by mixing the gain-adjusted low-frequency signal back into the multi-channel signal; and (ix) using the gain-adjusted multi-channel signal to play back gain-adjusted multi-channel audio content via the playback device.
US12170884B2	Processing device and processing method A processing device according to an embodiment includes: a frequency characteristics acquisition unit configured to acquire frequency characteristics of at least one sound pickup signal; a smoothing processing unit configured to perform smoothing processing so as to generate second spectral data smoother than first spectral data based on the frequency characteristics; a first compression unit configured to calculate a first difference value corresponding to a difference between the second spectral data and the first spectral data in a first band, and to compress the second spectral data based on the first difference value; and a filter generation unit configured to generate a filter, based on the second spectral data.
US12170883B2	Spatial audio for wearable devices Spatial audio is rendered at a companion device or server connected to a wearable device, where the spatial audio is rendered based on a first pose estimate of the wearable device that is estimated at the companion device or server. The rendered spatial audio is then transmitted to the wearable device. The rendered spatial audio is refined at the wearable device based on a second pose estimate of the wearable device that is estimated at the wearable device. The refined spatial audio is then provided for playback via speakers of the wearable device.
US12170881B2	Multichannel audio system, acoustic profile information generating device, wireless recording playback device, program, and method for generating acoustic profile information [Problem] To generate acoustic profile information using a simple operation and without increasing the cost of a multichannel audio device. [Solution] A wireless recording playback terminal 5 is positioned at a listening point of a multichannel audio device 2 as a measuring microphone. The wireless recording playback terminal 5 records, as channel playback data in accordance with a test signal playback command received from the multichannel audio device 2, a test signal outputted from a speaker 3 that corresponds to the channel designated by the command. The wireless recording playback terminal 5 also plays back the sound source of the test signal and records the played-back sound source as sound source playback data without being outputted to the outside from the speaker. An acoustic profile information generation server 4 compares these playback data to measure the delay time and attenuation rate of the channel playback data with respect to the sound source playback data, generates the acoustic profile information of the designated channel on the basis of the result of this measurement, and sets the generated acoustic profile information to the multichannel audio device 2.
US12170877B2	Package structure of micro speaker and method for forming the same A package structure of a micro speaker includes a substrate having a hollow chamber. A diaphragm is disposed on the top surface of the substrate. The diaphragm includes a first portion suspended over the hollow chamber and a second portion surrounding the first portion. In a plan view, the second portion of the diaphragm and the hollow chamber do not overlap. A coil is embedded in the first portion of the diaphragm. At least one dummy structure is embedded in the second portion of the diaphragm, and it is electrically isolated from the coil structure by the diaphragm. A carrier board is disposed on the bottom surface of the substrate. A permanent magnetic element is disposed on the carrier board and in the hollow chamber. A package lid is wrapped around the substrate and the diaphragm, and has a lid opening that exposes a portion of the diaphragm.
US12170876B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and video sound output system Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a video sound output system that execute an output process of an acoustic signal in synchronization with a video signal.The information processing apparatus includes a control section that detects a position of a sound source appearing in a video displayed on a screen of a display unit and that uses one or more vibrators to vibrate the display unit and thereby control output of sound such that a sound image of sound in synchronization with the video is localized at the position where the sound source appears on the screen displaying the video. In a case of displaying videos of two or more video sources on individual windows, the control section localizes a sound image of a sound source detected from the video of each video source at a position where the sound source appears in the corresponding window.
US12170875B2	Managing playback of multiple streams of audio over multiple speakers A multi-stream rendering system and method may render and play simultaneously a plurality of audio program streams over a plurality of arbitrarily placed loudspeakers. At least one of the program streams may be a spatial mix. The rendering of said spatial mix may be dynamically modified as a function of the simultaneous rendering of one or more additional program streams. The rendering of one or more additional program streams may be dynamically modified as a function of the simultaneous rendering of the spatial mix.
US12170874B2	Digital non-linearity compensation in a silicon microphone According to an embodiment, a digital microphone includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for receiving an analog input signal; a DC blocker component coupled to the ADC; a digital low pass filter coupled to the DC block component; and a nonlinear compensation component coupled to the digital low pass filter for providing a digital output signal.
US12170867B2	Earbud location detection based on acoustical signature with user-specific customization An earbud is configured to detect its location (e.g., in-ear and out-of-ear) based on an acoustical signature with and without user-specific customization. The earbud location may be indicated to a host, e.g., to determine playback. Location determinations are based on features extracted from acoustical samples taken by the earbud compared to features extracted from out-of-ear acoustical samples and non-user-specific and/or user-specific in-ear samples. A non-user-specific machine learning (ML) model trained on features extracted from non-user-specific in-ear and out-of-ear samples may be an initial/default locator. The non-user-specific model may be customized for specific users. A user-specific in-model may be created by training the non-user-specific model on features extracted from user-specific in-ear samples collected when the earbud is located in-ear for a specific user. The user-specific ML model may be selected to classify a location of the earbud for one or more associated hosts.
US12170866B2	Microphone suspension system A microphone includes a housing. The microphone includes a windscreen coupled with the housing. The windscreen and the housing define a central volume. The microphone includes an audio module within the central volume. The audio module includes a receiver capsule, a carrier unit coupled with the receiver capsule, and a counterweight coupled with the carrier unit. The microphone includes a suspension element that is coupled with the housing and carrier unit to suspend the audio module within the central volume. The suspension element includes an inner body that contacts the carrier unit. The suspension element includes first and second flanges extending outward from the inner body. The first and second flange are fixedly coupled with the housing. A cross-section of the first and second flange includes an arched region that extends at least partially to an inner wall of the housing. The arched regions are oriented in opposite directions.
US12170864B2	Wooden or other dielectric capacitive touch interface and loudspeaker having same Wireless-enabled loudspeaker includes a capacitive touch user interface. The loudspeaker may comprise at least one electroacoustic transducer, a processor in communication with the at least one electroacoustic transducer, and an exterior surface comprising a capacitive touch user interface that allows a user to control operation of the loudspeaker. The exterior surface acts a dielectric for the capacitive touch user interface. The loudspeaker may comprise a wireless transceiver circuit for receiving and transmitting wireless communication signals via a wireless network. The wireless transceiver circuit may receive wirelessly audio content from streaming audio content servers that are connected to the Internet. The capacitive touch user interface comprises a plurality of capacitive sense electrodes.
US12170859B2	Electronic apparatus, method for controlling electronic apparatus, and control program To generate multiple types of images of the same subject, an electronic apparatus includes a drive control unit that controls the drive of an image sensor, a division unit that divides an image capture region of the image sensor into at least first and second regions, and an image generation unit that generates a first image by capturing an image of the same subject in the first region and generates a second image by capturing an image of the same subject in the second region.
US12170856B2	Image processing device for controlling pixel output level and operating method thereof An image sensor includes a pixel array that includes a first pixel group located in a first row and including a first select transistor and a first floating diffusion region, a second pixel group located in a second row and including a second select transistor and a second floating diffusion region, and a column line connected to both the first pixel group and the second pixel group. While charges generated by a photoelectric conversion element of the first pixel group are transferred to the first floating diffusion region, the first select transistor is turned off, the second select transistor is turned on, and a first voltage is applied to the column line through the second select transistor. A photoelectric conversion element of the second pixel group generates charges prior to the photoelectric conversion element of the first pixel group, so as to be transferred to the second floating diffusion region.
US12170853B2	Imaging device The present disclosure relates to an imaging device capable of achieving miniaturization and height reduction of a device configuration, reducing generation of a flare or a ghost, preventing separation of a lens. A size relation of “solid-state imaging element>lens non-effective region>lens effective region” is established in a vertical direction with respect to an incident direction of incident light. The present disclosure is applicable to an imaging device.
US12170852B2	Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a sub-image generation unit, a luminance ratio map generation unit, and an electric heating wire pattern estimation unit. The sub-image generation unit generates sub-images by dividing a first image in a lateral direction. The first image is one of a left image and a right image that are captured by a stereo camera through a windshield provided with an electric heating wire. The luminance ratio map generation unit sequentially selects one of the sub-images and generates map data based on the selected sub-image and a second image. The map data indicates a ratio between luminance values. The second image is another of the left image and the right image. The electric heating wire pattern estimation unit performs an estimation of a wiring pattern of the electric heating wire based on the map data regarding each of the sub-images.
US12170847B2	Industrial camera An industrial camera includes an electric zoom optical system, an imaging unit generating a captured image with a number of pixels larger than a number of pixels of an inspection target image, an image generation unit executing downscaling a captured image corresponding to an output region of the imaging unit, an interface unit receiving designation of a zoom magnification, and a calculation unit calculating an optical magnification of optical zooming and a magnification of the downscaling based on the zoom magnification. When the zoom magnification is smaller than or equal to a predetermined magnification, an inspection target image is generated by downscaling a captured image at a scaling magnification calculated based on the zoom magnification. When the zoom magnification is larger than the predetermined magnification, the zoom optical system is driven at the optical magnification calculated based on the zoom magnification to generate an inspection target image.
US12170844B2	Photographing method and electronic device A photographing method and an electronic device. The photographing method includes: receiving, by the electronic device, a first operation for triggering the electronic device to enter a large aperture mode; obtaining, by the electronic device, a distance value between the electronic device and a photographed target object in response to the first operation; enabling, by the electronic device in a case that a distance value does not exceed a first distance threshold, a first camera and a second camera to acquire the image of the target object; enabling, by the electronic device in a case that the distance value exceeds the first distance threshold, the first camera and a third camera to acquire the image of the target object; and displaying, by the electronic device, a preview image including the target object.
US12170842B2	Illumination control device, imaging device, and storage medium To realize an illumination control device and the like that can make color reproductivity of an image compatible with an S/N ratio at the time of infrared illumination, the illumination control device includes a visible light measurement unit configured to measure an amount of visible light components; an infrared illumination unit configured to perform infrared illumination; and a control unit configured to cause an intensity of the infrared illumination by the infrared illumination unit to gradually change as the amount of visible light components measured by the visible light measurement unit decreases from a first threshold to a second threshold.
US12170841B2	Power reduction for LEDs based on infrared pulsing A system is provided for reducing infrared (IR) light emitting diode (LED) power in a night mode for LED operations. The system may include an input power source, one or more LEDs coupled to the input power source, an auto-exposure controller (AEC) coupled to one or more LEDs, and one or more transistor switches coupled between the one or more LEDs and the AEC. The AEC may be coupled to an image sensor of an imaging system and may configure attributes of exposure frames for the image sensor. The AEC may generate a plurality of pulses that control one or more transistor switches. The AEC may execute an algorithm that synchronizes the activation of one or more LEDs to occur during the exposure frame.
US12170838B2	Imaging device, imaging instruction method, and imaging instruction program Provided are an imaging device, an imaging instruction method, and an imaging instruction program capable of efficiently changing an imaging condition during capturing of a moving image. In one aspect of the present invention, an imaging device is an imaging device including an imaging unit that captures a moving image and a processor. The processor receives a first operation by a user of causing the imaging unit to start capturing of a first moving image based on a first imaging parameter and of issuing an instruction to set a second imaging parameter different from the first imaging parameter during the capturing of the first moving image, receives a second operation by the user of causing the imaging unit to start capturing of a second moving image based on the second imaging parameter after the reception of the first operation, causes the imaging unit to capture the first moving image until a third instruction to end the capturing of the first moving image is received in a case where the second operation is received, and causes the imaging unit to end the capturing of the first moving image in a case where the third instruction is received.
US12170837B2	Camera placement guidance The description relates to cameras, such as security cameras, and providing guidance for positioning cameras to achieve desired goals. One example can receive an image of a scene overlaid with transparent indicators that reflect accuracy of object detection in individual regions of the image. The example can correlate input received from the user on the display relative to the regions. The example can analyze subsequent images of the scene with rules derived from the input from the user.
US12170834B2	Creative camera The present disclosure generally relates to displaying visual effects in image data. In some examples, visual effects include an avatar displayed on a user's face. In some examples, visual effects include stickers applied to image data. In some examples, visual effects include screen effects. In some examples, visual effects are modified based on depth data in the image data.
US12170832B2	Slim pop-out wide camera lenses Pop-out lens systems for compact digital cameras, comprising an image sensor and a lens with a field of view FOV>60 deg and having i lens elements L1-Li starting with L1 from an object side toward an image side, each lens element Li having a respective focal length fi, the lens elements divided into two lens groups G1 and G2 separated by a big gap (BG), the lens having a pop-out total track length TTL<20 mm in a pop-out state and a collapsed total track length c-TTL in a collapsed state, wherein BG>0.25×TTL, wherein either G1 can move relative to G2 and to the image sensor for focusing or G1 and G2 can move together relative to the image sensor for focusing, and wherein a ratio c-TTL/TTL<0.7.
US12170830B2	Electronic apparatus and method for controlling thereof A method for controlling an electronic apparatus includes: obtaining a video including content that performs a task; identifying, within a first portion of the video, an object and motion information corresponding to the object; obtaining first text that describes the first portion of the video based on information corresponding to the object and the motion information; obtaining second text based on voice information obtained from the first portion of the video; and providing information for performing the task based on the first text and the second text.
US12170822B2	Method and apparatus for controlling video playing, electronic device and storage medium Provided are a method and apparatus for controlling video playing, an electronic device and a storage medium. The solution is as follows: in response to at least one video being playing or paused on a display screen, acquiring a current face image of a user in front of the display screen; parsing the current face image by using an augmented reality-based gaze tracking method to determine a current visual focus of the user on the display screen; and controlling, according to the current visual focus, the at least one video to continue playing or be paused on the display screen.
US12170818B2	Methods and apparatus to calibrate audience measurement ratings based on return path data Methods and apparatus to calibrate media ratings based on return path data are disclosed. An apparatus includes programmable circuitry to execute machine readable instructions to: determine a subscriber calibration factor for media based on first panel tuning information obtained from first metering devices in first panelist households that subscribe to a content provider that provides media through return path data (RPD) devices; determine a nonsubscriber calibration factor for the media based on second panel tuning information obtained from second metering devices in second panelist households that do not subscribe to the content provider; and determine a final rating for the media based on an initial rating and at least one of the subscriber calibration factor or the nonsubscriber calibration factor, the initial rating based on RPD tuning information obtained from RPD devices in subscriber households that subscribe to the content provider.
US12170816B2	Assigning priority for an automated assistant according to a dynamic user queue and/or multi-modality presence detection Implementations relate to an automated assistant that provides and manages output from one or more elements of output hardware of a computing device. The automated assistant manages dynamic adjustment of access permissions to the computing device according to, for example, a detected presence of one or more users. An active-user queue can be established each time a unique user enters a viewing window of a camera of the computing device when, up to that point, no user was considered active. Multiple image frames can be captured via the camera and processed to determine whether an initial user remains in the viewing window and/or whether another user has entered the viewing window. The initial user can be considered active as long as they are exclusively detected in the viewing window. Restricted content associated with the user may be rendered by the computing device whilst the user is active.
US12170813B2	Channel reporting during fast channel change Methods, systems, and computer readable media described herein can be operable to facilitate different reporting treatment for certain join requests received during a fast channel change. A gateway device may automatically detect the FCC (Fast Channel Change) via a configured interval. The gateway device may be configured such that if a subsequent IGMP (Internet group management protocol) join request was received within the configured interval since a previous join request, the previous join request may be ignored. According to the configuration of the gateway device, in a FCC, only the first channel and the last channel are reported, and the middle channel changes may be ignored.
US12170809B2	Reproducing device, reproducing method, program, and transmitting device A transmitting apparatus including circuitry configured to generate caption data corresponding to content data and having elements defined in Extensible Markup Language (XML), and output the content data and the generated caption data to a reproducing device.
US12170807B2	Techniques for managing generation and rendering of user interfaces on client devices Techniques and systems are provided for processing user interface content. For example, a server computer can receive a user interface event corresponding to a user interface of a device (e.g., a client device, another server computer, or other device). An application associated with the user interface event can be determined, and an interface model can be generated using the application associated with the user interface event. The interface model defines state information for one or more graphic objects of the user interface. The state information results from the user interface event. The server computer can send the interface model to the device, which enables the device to render the user interface.
US12170798B2	Intelligent assignment and data management of stored media content A remote storage digital video recorder (RSDVR) retains multiple copies of media programs so long as the copies are expected to be useful to at least one user. Rather than assigning copies to specific users at the time the program is recorded, copies can be assigned as the users request access to the particular media programs. Copies of unassigned programs can be deleted according to a schedule to reduce disk storage and processing demands on the system. A pool of program copies that are not initially assigned to particular users can be maintained until the user makes a specific request to view the program. This “late assignment” of program copies can substantially reduce the amount of data stored by the RSDVR system without substantially impacting the viewer experience.
US12170797B2	Link bandwidth improvement techniques One embodiment provides a video transport system. The video transport system includes graphics processing circuitry to generate a video transport unit (TU) corresponding to a scan line of a first video frame that is unchanged from a second video frame, wherein the video TU includes a control sequence and an unchanged data payload corresponding to a defined number of pixels of the scan line of the first video frame. The video transport system of this embodiment also includes source tunneling bridge circuitry to generate a bus TU based on the video TU; the source tunneling bridge circuitry to parse the control sequence or the unchanged data payload of the video TU, and to generate the bus TU having a header that includes a field to identify the defined number of pixels of the unchanged data payload, and to eliminate, in whole or in part, the unchanged data payload in the bus TU.
US12170791B2	Apparatus for transmitting 3D contents and method thereof An apparatus for transmitting 3D contents includes an input configured to receive a point cloud to be converted into a 2D image; a global grid generator configured to create a global grid that determines a size of a 2D image to be converted from the point cloud; a point cloud converter configured to create a V3C bitstream in which the point cloud is converted to a 2D image of a size determined by the global grid based on V-PCC; and a grid information extractor configured to extract size information of the global grid from the V3C bitstream; an encapsulator configured to create ISOBMFF data based on the V3C bitstream and the extracted global grid size information; and a transmitter configured to transmit the ISOBMFF data.
US12170789B2	Motion compensation along different directions Motion compensation along different directions is disclosed. A method for video processing including: determining, for a conversion between a current video block of a video and a bitstream representation of the current video block, optical flow associated with the current video block in an optical flow-based motion refinement process or prediction process, wherein the optical flow is derived along directions that are different from a horizontal direction and/or a vertical direction; and performing the conversion based on the optical flow.
US12170786B2	Device and method for encoding and decoding image using AI An image decoding method includes obtaining feature data of a current optical flow and feature data of a current residual image from a bitstream; obtaining the current optical flow and first weight data by applying the feature data of the current optical flow to an optical flow decoder; obtaining the current residual image by applying the feature data of the current residual image to a residual decoder; obtaining a preliminary prediction image from the previous reconstructed image, based on the current optical flow; obtaining a final prediction image by applying sample values of the first weight data to sample values of the preliminary prediction image; and obtaining a current reconstructed image corresponding to the current image by combining the final prediction image with the current residual image.
US12170784B2	Method and apparatus for coding unit partitioning A method for coding unit partitioning in a video encoder is provided that includes performing intra-prediction on each permitted coding unit (CU) in a CU hierarchy of a largest coding unit (LCU) to determine an intra-prediction coding cost for each permitted CU, storing the intra-prediction coding cost for each intra-predicted CU in memory, and performing inter-prediction, prediction mode selection, and CU partition selection on each permitted CU in the CU hierarchy to determine a CU partitioning for encoding the LCU, wherein the stored intra-prediction coding costs for the CUs are used.
US12170782B2	Fast intra-prediction mode selection in video coding A method for determining intra-prediction modes for prediction units (PUs) of a largest coding unit (LCU) is provided that includes determining an intra-prediction mode for each child PU of a PU, and selecting an intra-prediction mode for the PU based on the intra-prediction modes determined for the child PUs.
US12170780B2	Method and apparatus for real-time SAO parameter estimation The disclosure provides a sample adaptive offset (SAO) encoder. The SAO encoder includes a statistics collection (SC) block and a rate distortion optimization (RDO) block coupled to the SC block. The SC block receives a set of deblocked pixels and a set of original pixels. The SC block categorizes each deblocked pixel of the set of deblocked pixels in at least one of a plurality of band and edge categories. The SC block estimates an error in each category as difference between a deblocked pixel of the set of deblocked pixels and corresponding original pixel of the set of original pixels. The RDO block determines a set of candidate offsets associated with each category and selects a candidate offset with a minimum RD cost. The minimum RD cost is used by a SAO type block and a decision block to generate final offsets for the SAO encoder.
US12170778B2	Technology to accelerate scene change detection and achieve adaptive content display Systems, apparatuses and methods may include a source device that generates a scene change notification in response to a movement of a camera, modifies an encoding scheme associated with the video content captured by the camera in response to the scene change notification, identifies a full-frame difference threshold, wherein scene analysis information includes frame difference data, and compares the frame difference data to an intermediate threshold that is less than the full-frame difference threshold, wherein the scene change notification is generated when the frame difference data exceeds the intermediate threshold. A sink device may obtain transport quality data associated with video content, modify an output parameter of a display based on the transport quality data, determine a view perspective of a still image containing a plurality of image slices, retrieve only a subset of the plurality of image slices based on the view perspective and decode the retrieved subset.
US12170775B2	Image decoding device, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium An image coding device that suppresses degradation of subjective image quality while improving the coding efficiency of residual coefficients of two chroma components. The image coding device that codes image data constituted by one luma component and two chroma components, comprises quantizing unit that performs an orthogonal transform on each of components of a block obtained by dividing an image to be coded, and quantizes transform coefficients of each of the components obtained from the orthogonal transform; and coding unit that codes residual coefficients obtained by the quantizing unit, wherein when coding the transform coefficients of the orthogonal transform of the two chroma components in an integrated manner, the coding unit quantizes transform coefficients of the orthogonal transform obtained from the integration using a predetermined quantization matrix, and codes residual coefficients obtained from the quantizing.
US12170774B2	Image decoding device, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium An image coding device that suppresses degradation of subjective image quality while improving the coding efficiency of residual coefficients of two chroma components. The image coding device that codes image data constituted by one luma component and two chroma components, comprises quantizing unit that performs an orthogonal transform on each of components of a block obtained by dividing an image to be coded, and quantizes transform coefficients of each of the components obtained from the orthogonal transform; and coding unit that codes residual coefficients obtained by the quantizing unit, wherein when coding the transform coefficients of the orthogonal transform of the two chroma components in an integrated manner, the coding unit quantizes transform coefficients of the orthogonal transform obtained from the integration using a predetermined quantization matrix, and codes residual coefficients obtained from the quantizing.
US12170770B2	Image encoding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, control methods and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium An image decoding apparatus comprises a decoder which decodes data indicating a plurality of values corresponding to a part of a quantization matrix; a generator which derives the plurality of values from the data and generates the matrix; and an inverse quantizing unit which performs the inverse quantizing on an object block using the matrix, wherein, if width or height of the matrix is larger than or equal to a predetermined size, the generating unit generates the matrix by associating a first value among the plurality of values with a first element corresponding to DC component in the matrix, associating a second value with a second element adjacent to the first element, and, for the elements other than the first and second elements, associating each of one or more values with a plurality of elements of the matrix.
US12170769B2	Video encoding method, encoding processing method, and video encoding apparatus A video encoding method includes: storing quantized data of frames which have undergone a quantization process by serially storing the quantized data of the frames on a per quantized data of one frame basis; determining a quantization parameter to be used when performing a quantization process of a next frame immediately following the frames, based on quantized data of a predetermined number of frames among the quantized data of the frames; performing the quantization process of the next frame based on the quantization parameter to generate quantized data of the next frame;and executing encoding processes for entropy encoding quantized data of frames including the next frame in parallel between the frames including the next frame.
US12170768B2	Table maintenance for HMVP candidate storage The disclosure relates to table maintenance for HMVP candidate storage. A method for processing video, including: determining, during a conversion between a first block of visual media data and a corresponding coded representation of the visual media data, the first block being coded with geometry partition mode; determining, based on at least one table storing history based motion vector prediction (HMVP) candidates which include motion information based on previously coded blocks, motion information of at least one sub-portion of the first block; performing the conversion of the first block using the determined motion information.
US12170759B2	Chroma from luma prediction model selection A decoder may determine reference signals of a chroma block. The decoder may decode a decision rule in a bitstream. The decoder may determine a chroma prediction model among one or more linear models and one or more non-linear models based on the decision rule. The decoder may generate a prediction of the chroma block based on the reference signals of the chroma block and the chroma prediction model. The decoder may determine a reconstruction of the chroma block based on the prediction of the chroma block and a decoded residual of the chroma block.
US12170757B2	Hardware codec accelerators for high-performance video encoding Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and techniques for real-time codec encoding of video files using hardware-assisted accelerators that utilize a combination of parallel and sequential processing, in which at least a part of intra-frame block prediction is performed with parallel processing.
US12170744B2	Apparatus for providing a connection to a wide area network for voice calls, a power management circuit, and a method for providing a connection to a wide area network for voice calls An apparatus for providing a connection to a wide area network for voice calls includes a wide area network circuit configured to transmit voice call data packets, a phone connection circuit configured to receive a voice call signal from a phone, a processor circuit configured to generate voice call data packets based on a voice call signal received by the phone connection circuit and a power management circuit configured to switch off at least a part of the apparatus to reach a power down mode of the apparatus, if a supply voltage drops below a supply voltage threshold.
US12170743B2	Systems and methods for handling customer conversations at a contact center A contact center server receives an input from a customer device as part of a conversation. The contact center server (CCS) identifies at least one of: one or more intents, one or more entities, or one or more entity values from the input. The CCS detects one or more escalation conditions based on the input and pauses the conversation based on the detected one or more escalation conditions. The CCS outputs a conversation transcript and the identified one or more intents, the one or more entities, or the one or more entity values to an agent device. The CCS receives agent-identified-information or agent-modified-information from the agent device. Subsequently, the CCS resumes the conversation by providing a response to the input based on the received agent-identified-information or the agent-modified-information.
US12170741B2	Authenticating a call recording using audio watermarks Audio qualities of a call and of a call recording are identified and compared to authenticate the call recording as a true representation of the call. A call is enabled between two or more participants, and the call is recorded to generate a call recording. The call recording is authenticated based on a match between audio watermarks included within the call and audio watermarks included within the call recording. An indication of the authentication is then output, such as for further processing or display.
US12170738B2	Composite cryptographic systems with variable configuration parameters and memory bound functions Various methods for implementing cryptographic systems can reduce the likelihood of security vulnerabilities. A cryptographic system can utilize a combination of cryptographic processes to securely construct immutable ledgers and/or blockchains. These cryptographic systems can be referred to as composite cryptographic systems. A device can be configured to add a block to a distributed ledger maintained by a composite cryptographic system. The device can include a network interface, memory, and a processor. The processor can be configured to obtain a first proof using a first cryptographic system, obtain a second proof using a second cryptographic system; and broadcast a block to securely add the block to a distributed ledger. The block can be capable of being validated by using the first cryptographic system to generate the first proof and by using the second cryptographic system to generate the second proof.
US12170734B2	System and method for off-chain cryptographic transaction verification Systems and methods for off-chain verification of cryptographic transactions are disclosed. The system receives a first transaction from a first blockchain, wherein the first transaction is associated with a first address of a first user device and receives a notification of an analysis of a whitelist status for the first transaction. The system performs a first off-chain check on the first transaction to determine validity of the first transaction and if the first off-chain check fails, determines whether a second off-chain check is required. If the second off-chain check is required the system performs the second off-chain check and if the second off-chain check fails, determines whether a supervised check is required. If the supervised check is required, the system sends transaction parameters of the first transaction to a second user device and submits transaction details to the first blockchain if an approval is received from the supervisor user device.
US12170733B2	Utilization management system, management device, utilization control device, utilization management method, and computer-readable program According to the present invention, the convenience of a utilization management technology for a usage target object is enhanced and the security risk is reduced. This utilization control device (1) is capable of communicating only in a near field communication (63) and stores a first public key that is paired with a first secret key stored in a management device (2). When hole data is received with a first signature from a provider terminal (3), the first signature is verified by means of the first key, and when the signature verification is established, the hole data is set to an own device (1). The hole data includes a second public key that is paired with a second secret key stored in the management device (2). When a utilization permit card is received with a second signature from a user terminal (4), the second signature is verified with the second public key, and when the signature verification is validated, transaction information included in the utilization permit card is acquired. In addition, with reference to the acquired transaction information, when a condition specified by the transaction information is satisfied, a utilization limit to the object to be utilized (a house (50)) is released.
US12170731B2	Method and system of all-or-nothing transform (AONT) for increasing blockchain integrity A method for generating a block for a blockchain utilizing an all-or-nothing transform includes: storing, in a memory of a blockchain node in a blockchain network, a blockchain comprised of a plurality of blocks including at least a most recent block; receiving a plurality of blockchain transactions; applying an all-or-nothing transform (AONT) to the plurality of blockchain transactions to generate a plurality of pseudomessage blocks; generating a new block header including at least a timestamp and a hash value associated with the most recent block; generating a new block including at least the generated new block header and the plurality of pseudomessage blocks; and transmitting the generated new block to a plurality of additional blockchain nodes in the blockchain network.
US12170730B2	Unique token authentication verification value Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods for validating transactions using a cryptogram. One embodiment of the invention is directed to a method of processing a remote transaction initiated by a communication device provisioned with a token. The method comprises receiving, by a service provider computer, from an application on the communication device, a request for a token authentication cryptogram, wherein the token authentication cryptogram includes encrypted user exclusive data. The service provider computer may generate the token authentication cryptogram to include the user exclusive data. The service provider computer may send the token authentication cryptogram to the application, where the token authentication cryptogram can be used to validate the transaction, and the user exclusive data is extracted from the token authentication cryptogram during validation.
US12170729B2	Method and system for providing quantum random number on basis of quantum entropy source A method and a system of providing a quantum random number based on a quantum entropy source. The method includes generating a quantum random number and providing the quantum random number to a device. The generating of the quantum random number based on the quantum entropy source includes determining, by a management unit, whether quantum random numbers stored in a storage are insufficient; generating a quantum random number based on the quantum entropy source using a quantum random number generator provided in a production unit in response to a determination that the quantum random numbers are insufficient; verifying, by a verification unit, the generated quantum random number based on NIST SP800-90B and SP800-22; and in response to quality of the generated quantum number satisfying a criterion, storing the verified quantum random number in the storage.
US12170727B2	Method, apparatus, and device for key generation and terminal provisioning Provided in embodiments of the present application are a a key generation and terminal provisioning method, an apparatus, and a device thereof. The method for generating a key includes: sending, by an enrollee, a first request message to a configurator, the first request message comprising a first identifier, and the first identifier used to instruct the configurator to perform a network reconfiguration operation; receiving, by the enrollee, a first message sent by the configurator and including first key information; generating, by the enrollee, a session key according to the first key information; sending, by the enrollee, a second message to the configurator, the second message comprising second key information, thus allowing the configurator to generate the session key according to the second key information. In a process of an enrollee and a configurator performing provisioning for the first time, key information of each other is exchanged to generate a session key required for subsequent network reconfiguration performed on the enrollee, so that when the network reconfiguration is performed on the enrollee, it is unnecessary to perform an authentication process again, thereby improving the network configuration efficiency.
US12170719B2	Electronic device using homomorphic encryption and encrypted data processing method thereof An electronic device includes a memory storing data from an external source, an application processing unit (APU) transmitting a secret key and public key generation command, an isolated execution environment (IEE) generating a secret key in response to the secret key generation command, generating a public key based on the secret key in response to the public key generation command, and storing the secret key, and a non-volatile memory performing write and read operations depending on a request of the APU. When the data are stored in the memory, the APU transmits a public key request to the IEE and in response the IEE transfers the public key to the APU through a mailbox protocol. The APU generates a ciphertext by performing homomorphic encryption on the data based on an encryption key in the public key, and classifies and stores the public key and the ciphertext in the non-volatile memory.
US12170718B2	Large-precision homomorphic comparison using bootstrapping Systems and methods for improving homomorphic encryption are provided. A processor receives an encrypted ciphertext; splits the encrypted ciphertext into a plurality of smaller digits; applies a homomorphic floor function to clear a least significant bit from a current smaller digit; scales down the encrypted ciphertext, using modulus switching, thereby changing the ciphertext modulus to a new modulus; applies a bootstrapping procedure for a sign evaluation function to determine a sign of the scaled down encrypted ciphertext; and transmits the sign with the ciphertext to a server for subsequent use.
US12170715B2	System and method for dynamically delivering content A system and method for dynamically delivering content includes a user device having a processor in communication with a capture device and a terminal having a data processor in communication with a display, memory device, and user interface, wherein the terminal is configured to dynamically generate a signal. The user device is configured to interact with the terminal and the capture device is configured to capture the signal and translate the signal to an action. The action includes generating content at the user device and/or downloading or accessing content to the user device.
US12170714B2	Cross host beacon probing in a virtualized computing system An example method of beacon probing in a computing system includes: sending, by cross-host beacon probing (CHBP) software executing in a first host of the computing system, a first beacon probe from a first network interface controller (NIC) of the first host to NICs on a same layer 2 domain as the first NIC, the NICs including a second NIC of the first host and cross-host NICs of at least one host other than the first host; receiving, at the CHBP software through the first NIC, acknowledgements (ACKs) to the first beacon probe from the cross-host NICs; and determining, in response to the first beacon probe, connectivity statuses of the first NIC and the second NIC by the CHBP software based on the ACKs and on whether the second NIC receives the first beacon probe.
US12170711B2	Method and system for transmitting software artifacts from a source network to a target network A method for transmitting software artifacts from a source network to a target network is disclosed. Each target and source network is assigned to a proxy system comprising a plug-in. The transmission is monitored on the target network side. A target network-internal information structure is provided containing entries, each of which characterizes a software artifact that can be downloaded when authorization is granted by an operator of the target network by the plug-in. The entries are read from the target network-internal information structure. Requests from the target network relating to the availability of new software artifacts are received on behalf of the source network. For each request, at least one entry which matches the request is searched in the target network-internal information structure. Based on the at least one matching entry being present in the target network-internal information structure, either the software artifact is retrieved or the request is blocked.
US12170710B2	External device management Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, to manage devices during emergent conditions are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, by a first computing device, data indicating a function of a second computing device. The actions further include determining, by the first computing device, a context of the second computing device. Based on the context of the second computing device, the actions further include determining, by the first computing device, whether to activate the function of the second computing device. Based on determining whether to activate the function of the second computing device, the actions further include determining, by the first computing device, whether to output, to the second computing device, an instruction to activate the function.
US12170708B2	Data synchronization method and apparatus A data synchronization method and apparatus, applied to a first data service module. The method includes receiving a first request from a second service module, where the first request is used to request to synchronize service data of a first service module; obtaining the service data of the first service module; and sending the service data of the first service module to the second service module. In solutions provided in the present disclosure, the first data service module replaces the first service module to synchronize the service data of the first service module for the second service module.
US12170701B2	Isolating videoconference streams In some implementations, techniques may include requesting a set of input video streams from a videoconferencing service. The input video streams can be received at a computing device and the streams can correspond to one or more videoconference participants. In addition, the techniques may include receiving settings for one or more output video streams of a set of output video streams. These settings can indicate one or more output video stream properties. The techniques may include producing the set of output video streams from the set of input video streams according to the one or more output video stream properties. Moreover, the techniques may include outputting one or more output video streams of the set of output video streams.
US12170700B2	Multicasting data of data streams Techniques for multicasting data to multiple clients are described. Each client stores an identifier indicating a data stream associated with, for example intended for, the client. A server receives the data streams, determines the identifier for each received data stream, transmits a mapping between the identifiers and respective multicast streams to the clients, and multicasts data of the received data streams in accordance with the mapping. By transmitting the mapping to the clients, and multicasting data of the received data streams in accordance with the mapping, each client may obtain data of the particular data stream with which they are associated.
US12170690B2	Formulating responses for slowing requests from malicious domain name system (DNS) clients A method of delaying computer network clients from sending DNS queries. The method includes receiving a DNS query from a client and consulting a client record in a client record database and/or a flow record in a flow record database storing information about the flow including about one or more previous DNS queries and/or responses in the flow. The method further includes formulating a response to the DNS query as a function of the information about the client and/or the information about the flow, updating the client record with information about the client and/or the flow record with information about the DNS query and the response as formulated, and transmitting the response as formulated to the client. The DNS query includes a question and the response is intentionally defective or incomplete and causes the client to be delayed in sending another DNS query as part of an attack.
US12170684B2	Systems and methods for predicting the likelihood of cyber-threats leveraging intelligence associated with hacker communities Various embodiments of a system and methods for reasoning about enterprise-related external cyber threats using a rule-leaning approach are disclosed.
US12170683B2	Suspicious group detection Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for determining a level of abusive network behavior suspicion for groups of entities and for identifying suspicious entity groups. A suspiciousness metric is developed and used to evaluate a multi-view graph across multiple views where entities are associated with nodes of the graph and attributes of the entities are associated with levels of the graph.
US12170682B1	Application endpoint cybersecurity techniques A system and method for application endpoint validation and securement is presented. The method includes: detecting an application endpoint on a resource deployed in a computing environment; generating in a security database: a representation of the application endpoint, and a representation of the resource, wherein the security database includes a representation of the computing environment; determining a network path between the resource and an external network, the network path including the application endpoint and a reachability parameter; initiating active inspection of the application endpoint over the network path; and initiating a mitigation action in the computing environment in response to determining through active inspection that the application endpoint is exposed to the external network.
US12170681B2	Method and system for detecting data traffic in a communication network Method for detecting data traffic in a communication network, wherein in order to detect data traffic in a communication network, at least one network infrastructure device to which at least one first communication terminal and one second communication terminal are connected provides a monitoring interface that is secured against unauthorized access, is assigned to the two communication terminals, and is intended for detecting data traffic between at least the first and the second communication device, where a device detecting apparatus determines available monitoring interfaces on network infrastructure devices as well as address information assigned to the monitoring interfaces and provides this interface information to at least one recording apparatus that is separate from the at least one network infrastructure device.
US12170674B1	Agentless remote machine management Systems and techniques are provided herein to an agentless Information Technology (IT) asset management system that automatically identifies and executes remedial actions independent of a client-side agent installed on the client system. In particular, artificial intelligence is used to trigger agentless actions via one or more application programming interfaces (APIs). The APIs trigger services that interface directly with operating system supported functionalities to manage IT assets.
US12170673B2	Systems and methods for providing access to a secure device A system may receive first level authentication data from a first user, authorize first level access to a secure device, and transmit a push notification including a second factor authentication key to a first user device responsive to first factor authentication data matching stored authentication data for the first user. The system may receive a wireless communication from the first user device attenuated by one or more beam attenuating materials to form a first attenuated beam profile. In response to a match of the first attenuated beam profile to a stored beam profile beyond a predetermined threshold, the system may associate the second factor authentication key as an authorized login credential for the first user. The system may receive the second factor authentication key from the first user and authorize the second factor authentication data to grant the first user second level access to the secure device.
US12170671B2	Systems and methods for secure selection of a user profile in a shared context Disclosed are systems and methods for secure selection of a user profile in a shared context. For example, a method may include: determining, by one or more processors, an association between a user device and a shared user profile; determining, by the one or more processors, that the user device is within a predetermined proximity of a multiuser device; determining, by the one or more processors, the shared user profile associated with the user device as a result of determining that the user device is within the predetermined proximity of the multiuser device; receiving, by the one or more processors, biometric verification from the first user; and activating, by the one or more processors, the first specific user profile associated with the first user on the multiuser device as a result of determining that the first user has successfully provided biometric verification.
US12170667B2	Fast access to local area network (LAN) graphical user interface (GUI) by client device A network device for providing a LAN GUI to a client device. The network device receives a request for access by the client device to the LAN GUI. The network device analyzes a LAN GUI access whitelist and determines whether the client device is in the LAN GUI access whitelist. The client device is granted access to the LAN GUI without receiving a password from the client device when the client device is determined to be in the LAN GUI access whitelist. An address entry page may be presented to add the MAC address of the client device to the LAN GUI access whitelist and a password page may be presented to display the LAN GUI password. When the client device is not in the LAN GUI access list, a login page is presented for entering the password to obtain access to the LAN GUI.
US12170662B2	Domain unrestricted mobile initiated login Provided is a process for mobile-initiated authentications to web services. Credential values of the user are established within a trusted execution environment of the mobile device and representations are transmitted to a server. The user of the mobile device may authenticate with the mobile device to the server, which may convey access to a web-based service from a relying device that executes a client authentication component to report user sessions to the server. The user may select the relying device from the mobile device to cause the relying device to present credentials to the web-service to login, authenticate, or otherwise obtain user-level permission for the user on the relying device. The user of the mobile device may authenticate with the mobile device to the server, and may initiate the authentication process from the mobile device, without inputting credentials corresponding to the web-service on the relying device.
US12170660B1	Audio tokens for multi-factor authentication Techniques are described for performing multi-factor authentication of a user during a service session, based at least partly on a code conveyed using an audio file. A code is generated that corresponds to the user and/or their user device. A playback device that is registered to the user can be used to output a playback of an audio file that encodes the code. The playback of the audio file is conveyed through the service session by the user device and received by a backend server, which analyzes the playback of the audio file to extract the code. The user can be authenticated based at least partly on verifying the code that is extracted from the playback of the audio file, by comparing the extracted code to the code that was generated and sent to the playback device.
US12170652B2	Packet transmission method and apparatus and computer storage medium A packet transmission method and apparatus, and a computer storage medium, and relates to the field of communications technologies. A first device obtains service type information of an original packet. The first device generates an encapsulating security payload (ESP) packet of the original packet based on a target security association, where the ESP packet includes a packet header, an ESP header, a service type field, a first encrypted part, and an ESP authentication data field, and the service type field includes the service type information. The first device sends the ESP packet to a second device. The second device parses the service type field to obtain the service type information of the original packet. The second device performs a target operation on the ESP packet based on a service policy and the service type information of the original packet.
US12170649B2	Rule selection management based on currently available domain name system (DNS) servers Systems, methods, and software are included herein to manage domain name system (DNS) requests to DNS servers. In one implementation, a computing device joins a local network and identifies a connection to a first DNS server associated with the local network. The computing device further implements first DNS rules based on the connection to the first server and monitors when a second DNS server is available using the local network. When the second DNS server becomes available, the computing device implements second DNS rules in place of the first DNS rules, wherein the second DNS rules direct DNS requests to the second DNS server in place of the first DNS server.
US12170648B2	Device and method for controlling the access to an electrical device An apparatus for controlling the access of a user device to an electrical appliance. The apparatus is configured to determine electrical appliance data relating to data communication of the electrical appliance and to determine user device data relating to data communication of the user device. Furthermore, the apparatus is configured to determine, based on the electrical appliance data and on the user device data, whether or not the electrical appliance and the user device are in a common local communication network. The apparatus allows the user device to access the electrical appliance if it is determined that the electrical appliance and the user device are present in a common local communication network.
US12170644B2	Binding flows to unique addresses or ports Techniques for binding communication flows to unique addresses and/or ports, and configuring networking devices internal to a network to apply policy without the need to further introspect a given stream. Further, by creating mappings of unique addresses and/or ports to flows, the network devices are able to enforce policy without needing to coordinate with an edge node of the network at which the communication session terminates. Further, the techniques may include providing an SDN controller with a mapping between a unique address/port and a network flow, determining flow-specific policy to enforce on the flow, and programming one or more network devices to enforce the flow-specific policy in the network using the unique address/port.
US12170634B2	Dynamic and semi-persistent scheduling mixed multi-panel uplink precoding In conventional wireless communication systems, only a single transmit precoding matrix indicator (TPMI) with a single associated sounding reference signal (SRS) resource indicator (SRI) is configured/activated in downlink control signal (DCI) for retransmission of data. To enable better performance in retransmission, the UE may dynamically turn on/off/switch panels for retransmissions.
US12170632B2	Systems and methods for multiple HAPs base station connection This disclosure is directed towards improved methods for identifying one or more base stations for connection with user equipment. The user equipment may establish a connection with a base stations based on an estimated location of the base station. Additionally, the user equipment may receive an indication from the base station to scan for additional base stations at additional estimated locations. Further, the user equipment may determine one or more connection parameters (e.g., distance from communication hub to user equipment, angle of communication hub relative to user equipment, shadowing at the communication hub, and the like) associated with the base stations within the geographical area. The user equipment may establish connection with base stations that are determined to have the best signal strength based on the connection parameters.
US12170630B2	Method, device and system for configuring radio transmission and reception parameters Disclosed is a method for configuring radio transmission and reception parameters. The method includes: configuring, by a station, a transmission module by using a first parameter set and transmitting a first radio frame, where the first radio frame has a second parameter set; and configuring, by the station, a reception module by using the second parameter set and receiving a second radio frame triggered by the first radio frame. Also disclosed are an apparatus and system for configuring radio transmission and reception parameters.
US12170627B2	User terminal and radio communication method One aspect of a user terminal according to the present invention includes: a receiving section that receives a downlink shared channel transmitted from a plurality of transmission/reception points; and a control section that controls transmission of a transmission confirmation signal corresponding to the downlink shared channel, based on downlink control information including at least one of a count value and a total value of DL assignment jointly controlled in the plurality of transmission/reception points.
US12170622B2	Network resource selection for flows using flow classification In some embodiments, a method receives a set of packets for a flow and determines a set of features for the flow from the set of packets. A classification of an elephant flow or a mice flow is selected based on the set of features. The classification is selected before assigning the flow to a network resource in a plurality of network resources. The method assigns the flow to a network resource in the plurality of network resources based on the classification for the flow and a set of classifications for flows currently assigned to the plurality of network resources. Then, the method sends the set of packets for the flow using the assigned network resource.
US12170612B2	Data requesting and routing protocol in a data mesh In one embodiment, a device of a data mesh divides a data query into a first subquery and a second subquery for different data sources in the data mesh, based on query routing data associated with the device. The device performs the first subquery in the data mesh, to obtain a first subquery response. The device also performs the second subquery in the data mesh, to obtain a second subquery response. The device provides a query response that aggregates the first subquery response and the second subquery response.
US12170610B2	Zoning configurations and border gateway protocol (BGP) route maps for route advertisements Systems and methods use zoning configuration to construct border gateway protocol (BGP) route maps. The constructed route maps may then be used to selectively advertise routes between BGP peer devices without having to advertise all available routes to all entities or subsystems in a network. Advantageously, this significantly reduces potential security risks to the network and improves scalability of services in non-volatile memory express over Fabric and other systems.
US12170608B2	Link behavior prediction for use in path selection Techniques are described for predicting future behavior of links in a network and generating dynamic thresholds for link metrics for use in path selection. In one example, a computing system receives historical values of a link metric for links of a network. The computing system executes a machine learning system which processes the historical values of the link metric to generate: (1) a predicted future value of the link metric for each link; and (2) a threshold for the link metric indicating whether the predicted future value for each link is anomalous. The computing system computes a path based on the predicted future values of the link metric and the threshold for the link metric. The computing system provisions the computed path, thereby enabling a network device to forward network traffic along the computed path.
US12170601B2	Network management device, network management system and network management method A network management device determines at least one of that an individual error occurs in a target terminal device when a difference between (i) a response time for the target terminal device and (ii) an average response time that is an average value of the response time for each of two or more terminal devices belonging to a group to which the target terminal device belongs is larger than a first predetermined value, and that a group error occurs in a target group when a difference between (i) a current average response time that is an average value of the response time and (ii) a previous average response time that is an average value of a previous response time for two or more terminal devices belonging to the target group is larger than a second predetermined value, the previous response time being immediately prior to the response time.
US12170600B2	Virtual network assistant having proactive analytics and correlation engine using unsupervised ML model Techniques are described in which a network management system processes network event data received from the AP devices. The NMS is configured to dynamically determine, in real-time, a minimum (MIN) threshold and a maximum (MAX) threshold for expected occurrences for each event type, wherein the MIN thresholds and MAX thresholds define ranges of expected occurrences for the network events of the corresponding event types. The NMS applies an unsupervised machine learning model to the network event data to determine predicted counts of occurrences of the network events for each of the event types and identify, based on the predicted counts of occurrences and the dynamically-determined minimum threshold values and maximum threshold values for each event type, one or more of the network events as indicative of abnormal network behavior.
US12170598B2	Artificial intelligence (AI) related signalling flow over backhaul interfaces This patent document describes, among other things, techniques, and apparatuses for providing artificial intelligence to improve wireless network efficiency and performance. In one aspect, a method of wireless communication is disclosed. The method includes transmitting, from a first network node to a second network node, a first network control message requesting to start an artificial intelligence process comprising an artificial intelligence objective or an identification code. The method further includes receiving, at the first network node from the second network node, a first reply message indicating at least one of the artificial intelligence process has started, the identifier, a request indicator for a model for the artificial intelligence process, or a failure message.
US12170597B2	Integrated development environment for development and continuous delivery of cloud-based applications A system implements a cloud-based digital platform allows developers to build new applications/services and then deploy to cloud platforms among continuous deployment, A/B test, blue/green deployment, and canary deployment. The system configures a service mesh on top of a cluster of computers. The system initializes a new service via templates that include common libraries, security scan pipeline, monitoring as code pipeline, and code coverage management for internal policy compliances, as well automated cloud resources request and provisioning. One or more proxy services, that extract data from the data sources using filters, can be executed. The system may use machine learning based models that are trained using the data extracted by the proxy service. The system allows automatic provisioning, computation orchestration, storage requests, and artificial intelligence insight feedback, as well as automated self-services to navigate complex systems and reduce on-boarding times of the platform.
US12170593B1	Business policy management for self-driving network A controller device manages a plurality of network devices. The controller device includes one or more processing units configured to receive an indication of a stateful intent, the data structure including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, each node of the plurality of nodes being representative of a respective network device of the plurality of network devices. The one or more processing units are configured to determine, using an abstract function configured at a node of the plurality of nodes, a stateless intent for implementing the stateful intent and generate low level configuration data for the plurality of network devices based on the stateless intent. The one or more processing units are configured to interface with one or more of the plurality of network devices to configure the one or more of the plurality of network devices with the low level configuration data.
US12170591B1	Online optimization method for power consumption policy of terminal of internet of things Disclosed is an online optimization method for a power consumption policy of a terminal of Internet of things (IoT), including: performing comprehensive scanning on a user terminal and a link, and obtaining a link behavior graph; inputting the link behavior graph into a simulation based optimization (SBO) system to obtain power consumption parameters for minimizing power consumption of the user terminal; performing centralized storage on the link behavior graph and the power consumption parameters; regularly sending, by the user terminal, operation data to a server, and evaluating, by the server, whether a power consumption policy needs to be optimized; and issuing, by the server, a parameter update instruction to complete the upgrading of the power consumption policy of the user terminal. In the present disclosure, the update of the power consumption policy of the user terminal can be conveyed more quickly and more efficiently.
US12170587B2	Transmitting apparatus A transmitting apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure transmits a plurality of first transmission data and a plurality of second transmission data by using an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing) method. The transmitting apparatus includes frame configuring circuitry, which in operation, generates a frame including a first period in which a preamble is transmitted, a second period in which the plurality of first transmission data is multiplexed by a time division multiplexing method and is transmitted, and a third period in which the plurality of second transmission data is multiplexed by a frequency division multiplexing method and is transmitted; and transmitting circuitry that transmits the frame.
US12170586B2	Pulse-amplitude modulation transmitter and receiver and method of limiting transition level thereof A pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) transmitter includes a transceiver, and at least one processor connected to the transceiver and configured to identify, from among symbols included in an input signal, a symbol that exceeds a specified transition level, when the symbol exceeding the transition level is identified, obtain a frame buffer including at least one bit among bits constituting the identified symbol, encode input data by inverting at least one bit among the bits constituting the identified symbol, and transmit the frame buffer and the encoded input data.
US12170582B2	Bitmap signaling of services using segment routing Systems and methods associated with a node in a Segment Routing network include, responsive to what services are support at a node in a Segment Routing network, creating a bitmap to represent the plurality of services supported at the node; and transmitting an advertisement with the bitmap such that the advertisement is a single advertisement of multiple services. This approach can reduce the advertisement of rout updates by orders of magnitude.
US12170579B2	User interfaces for multi-participant live communication The present disclosure generally relates to methods and user interfaces for managing live communication between multiple participants using a computer system in accordance with some embodiments.
US12170578B2	Audio in audio-visual conferencing service calls To optimize audio quality of playback with other audio in calls established using an audio-visual conferencing service, at least two audio profiles for one or more audio playback devices connectable to the apparatus are maintained for the audio-visual conferencing service. The at least two audio profiles comprise a first audio profile for at least transmitting audio of a first quality for playback and a second audio profile for at least transmitting audio of a second quality for playback. It is allowed to change an active audio profile during a call established using the audio-visual conferencing service by switching the active audio profile between at least the first audio profile and the second audio profile. The received audio in the call is delivered to the audio playback device according to the active audio profile.
US12170577B2	Videoconference audiovisual controller Techniques may include receiving, by a computing device, a first set of video streams from a videoconferencing service, the video streams corresponding to one or more videoconference participants. In addition, the techniques may include receiving a second set of video streams from one or more cameras communicably coupled with the computing device. The techniques may include receiving settings for one or more video streams of a third set of video streams, the settings indicating one or more video feed properties. Moreover, the techniques may include producing a third set of video streams from the first set of video streams according to the one or more video feed properties. Also, the techniques may include outputting one or more video streams of the second set of video streams and the third set of video streams.
US12170576B2	Method for transmitting and receiving data channel based on a plurality of symbol sets communication system and apparatus for the same Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving data channels in a communication system. An operation method of a terminal in a communication system may comprise receiving, from a base station, resource allocation information of a plurality of physical uplink shared channels (PUSCHs) used for repetitive transmission of a same transport block (TB); identifying a position of each of the plurality of PUSCHs in a time domain based on the resource allocation information; and repeatedly transmitting the same TB to the base station at the position of each of the plurality of PUSCHs. Therefore, performance of the communication system can be improved.
US12170575B2	Hybrid automatic repeat request feedback control by base station A method may include transmitting, to a wireless device, radio resource control (RRC) messages that include parameters of a multicast and broadcast service (MBS). The parameters may indicate a first feedback operation with hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback being enabled and may indicate a second feedback operation with the HARQ feedback being disabled. A group common downlink control information (DCI) may indicate one of the first feedback operation or the second feedback operation. The method may also include transmitting a first group common DCI, which may schedule a first transport block (TB) of the MBS and may indicate the first feedback operation. The method may further include receiving, based on the first group common DCI indicating the first feedback operation, a first HARQ feedback for the first TB.
US12170574B2	Method and apparatus for HARQ-ACK retransmission The present application relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, the method includes: receiving a first group of downlink transmissions; transmitting a first HARQ-ACK codebook for the first group of downlink transmissions in response to channel access procedure for transmitting the first HARQ-ACK codebook being successful; receiving a second group of downlink transmissions; determining whether to retransmit HARQ-ACK feedback for the first group of downlink transmissions; transmitting a combined HARQ-ACK codebook in response to determining to retransmit the HARQ-ACK feedback for the first group of downlink transmissions and channel access procedure for transmitting the combined HARQ-ACK codebook being successful, wherein the combined HARQ-ACK codebook includes a first sub-codebook corresponding to the first group of downlink transmissions and a second sub-codebook corresponding to the second group of downlink transmissions; and transmitting a second HARQ-ACK codebook for the second group of downlink transmissions in response to determining not to retransmit the HARQ-ACK feedback for the first group of downlink transmissions and channel access procedure for transmitting the second HARQ-ACK codebook being successful.
US12170573B2	Sensor measurement timestamp differences In one embodiment, a device may transmit, via a network to an application, a series of sensor measurements captured by the device, each sensor measurement having an associated timestamp based on a clock of the device. The device may receive, from the application, an indication that at least a portion of the series of sensor measurement were not received by the application. The device may determine, for those sensor measurements not received by the application, timestamp differences between their timestamps and a current time of the clock of the apparatus, after receiving the indication. The device may resend the portion of the series of sensor measurements to the application and their timestamp differences.
US12170567B2	Systems and methods for generating electron density maps An embodiment of the disclosure provides a method of generating an electron density map of a D-region of the ionsphere. The method can comprise: defining a plurality of grid pixels corresponding to a portion of the D-region of the ionosphere; receiving a plurality of electromagnetic signals, each of the plurality of electromagnetic signals having propagated along a distinct propagation path through a portion of the D-region corresponding to one or more of the plurality of grid pixels; clustering the plurality of electromagnetic signals based on similarities in a point-of-origin of the plurality of electromagnetic signals; determining a path-averaged electron density curve for each of the plurality of clustered signals; determining a basis representation of an electron density curve of the plurality of grid pixels, which is consistent with the path-averaged electron density curves; and generating, based on the basis representation, an electron density map for the D-region of the ionosphere.
US12170566B2	Converged avionics data network An apparatus and method for operating an avionics data network includes a network switch core configured for a time-sensitive networking (TSN) schema, a set of ARINC 664 (A664) and a set of TSN networking end nodes communicatively connected with the network switch core. The network switch core is configured to receive, from the first set of networking end nodes, a set of data frames, determine the respective schema of the set of data frames, police the set of data frames based on the determined respective schema using a set of predetermined rules, forward the set of data frames to a predetermined queue on an egress port of the network switch core based on the determined respective schema, and transmit set of data frames to an end node of the second set of networking end nodes having a corresponding schema.
US12170560B2	Network entity, user equipment, and method The present disclosure pertains to a network entity for a mobile telecommunications system having circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment, wherein the circuitry is further configured to transmit, to the at least one user equipment, time information for indicating a beam which will cover the at least one user equipment.
US12170554B2	Signal generation method and signal generation device A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
US12170553B2	Information sending method, information receiving method, and related device Embodiments of this application provide an information sending method, an information receiving method, and a related device. In the information sending method, a network device sends first signaling that carries first indication information, and the network device further sends second signaling that carries second indication information. The first indication information indicates a subset identifier corresponding to a first precoding subset in a first codebook. The first codebook includes a plurality of precoding subsets. Each precoding subset includes a plurality of precoding matrices, and different precoding subsets correspond to different subset identifiers. The second indication information indicates a matrix identifier corresponding to a first precoding matrix in the first precoding subset. Precoding matrices in the first precoding subset correspond to different matrix identifiers, and the first precoding matrix is used to precode a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) carried on a first subband.
US12170549B2	Heat diffuser in wrist worn wireless power and data system A rechargeable wearable electronic device includes a wireless power receiver system, a device portion, and a band portion. The wireless power receiver system includes a receiver antenna, a power conditioning system, and a controller. The device portion includes a device housing containing an electronic circuitry module, which includes the wireless power receiver system and a rechargeable power source, wherein the circuitry module generates heat during wireless charging of the rechargeable power source. The band portion is for attaching the wearable electronic device to a user appendage, the band portion having a heat spreading layer of a thermally conductive material, the heat spreading layer having an inner portion within the device housing in thermal contact with the electronic circuitry module, to absorb heat from the electronic circuitry module and spread the absorbed heat to the remainder of the heat spreading layer.
US12170544B2	Optical signal processing circuit, optical reception apparatus, and optical signal processing method An optical signal processing circuit (1) includes: an FDE-MIMO equalizer (2) configured to generate, based on continuous subcarrier signals including a target subcarrier signal in an optical multicarrier signal to be received, the continuous subcarrier signals that have been subjected to frequency-domain MIMO equalization processing; and a TDE-MIMO equalizer (3) configured to generate, based on the continuous subcarrier signals that have been subjected to the frequency-domain MIMO equalization processing, the target subcarrier signal that has been subjected to time-domain MIMO equalization processing.
US12170543B2	Optical receiver chip based on OTN transmission technology An optical receiver chip based on OTN transmission technology to solve the high power consumption and serous signal attenuation problems for data transmission below 100 m in the data center includes a receiver, a digital control unit, and a power module. The receiver includes a 28G transimpedance amplifier and a limiting amplifier, converts a weak optical signal into an electrical signal, process a two-stage amplification, and output the signal in a limited state. The signal is then processed by a photodiode into a DC current RSSI, and judged by the internal received signal strength indicator module or the internal optical modulation amplitude loss of signal module of the limiting amplifier. If the signal does not meet the protocol requirements, the output buffer with de-emphasis and the linear equalizer are turned off, and the judgment result is transmitted to the host computer outside the chip simultaneously.
US12170540B2	Radio frequency over omni-directional free space optics Systems and methods for reducing detection and interference of signals communicated from a communication device. The methods comprise: coupling an RF-to-FSO converter to a port of the communication device; providing a first radio frequency signal from the communication device to the RF-to-FSO converter via the port; using the first radio frequency signal by the RF-to-FSO converter to modulate an optical signal; and emitting the modulated optical signal from the RF-to-FSO converter through free space.
US12170536B2	Amplifier with integrated notch filter Techniques for providing low-cost and effective jammer rejection for an amplifier is disclosed. The amplifier includes an input node and an output node, a first transistor and a second transistor, a load circuitry, an inductor, and a capacitor. A first terminal of the first transistor is coupled to a ground. A second terminal of the first transistor is coupled to a first terminal of the second transistor. A second terminal of the second transistor is coupled to the output node. The load circuitry is coupled between a power supply and the second terminal of the second transistor. A first terminal of the inductor is coupled to the ground through a first switch. A first terminal of the capacitor is coupled to the first terminal of the second transistor and a second terminal of the capacitor is coupled to a second terminal of the inductor.
US12170529B1	Accelerating low-density parity-check decoding via scheduling, and related devices, methods and computer programs Devices, methods and computer programs for accelerating low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding via scheduling are disclosed. At least some of the example embodiments described herein may allow reducing cost and improving power efficiency beyond that of semiconductor processor scaling currently used in accelerating LDPC decoding.
US12170528B2	Method and apparatus for data decoding in communication or broadcasting system An apparatus and method for efficiently decoding a low-density parity-check (LDPC) code in a communication or broadcasting system are provided. The disclosure relates to performing decoding of an LDPC code by using layered scheduling or a method equivalent thereto, and provides an LDPC decoding apparatus and method for improving decoding performance without increasing decoding complexity by applying appropriate decoding scheduling according to structural or algebraic characteristics of an LDPC code.
US12170527B2	High linearity resistive digital-to-analog converters with dynamic control for temperature and voltage invariant on-resistance of switches Circuitry is disclosed herein that dynamically (temperature-invariant and voltage-invariant) adjusts the Ron of switches in a resistive Nyquist-rate digital to analog converter (DAC) to thereby reduce DAC nonlinearity errors and improve INL results of greater than 16b. Consistent with the present disclosure, the DAC includes an R-2R ladder in which each bit corresponds to a switch. A control circuit is provided for generating signals applied to the gate of the switch to cause the on-resistances of the switch to be a particular value, such that the on-resistance of the switch plus the sum of two resistors, one having the resistance R, and the other having a resistance R′ is equivalent to the resistance of the 2R-size resistors or twice the resistance of the R-sized resistors in the ladder.
US12170522B2	Time-to-digital converter stop time control In described examples, an electronic circuit for determining a phase difference between a first clock signal and a second clock signal includes a timer circuit, circuitry for generating a selectively delayed transition of the second clock signal, and phase determination circuitry. The timer circuit produces an elapsed time between a transition of the first clock signal and the selectively delayed transition of the second clock signal. The circuitry for generating the selectively delayed transition of the second clock signal generates the selectively delayed transition in response to a random selection of a respective output from a plurality of second clock signal delay stages. The phase determination circuitry provides the phase difference in response to the elapsed time and the random selection of a respective output from a plurality of second clock signal delay stages.
US12170521B2	Comparator The invention relates to an asynchronous comparator that presents low average power consumption and short propagation delay. The comparator bias current is dependent on the differential input voltage in a way that the current increases when the differential input voltage is low and decreases when the differential input voltage is high.
US12170520B2	Driving output circuit, chip, and driving output method A driving output circuit, a chip, and a driving output method are provided; the driving output circuit includes: a timer for outputting a timing signal; a bootstrap module for generating a first turn-on voltage based on an input signal; a charge pump for generating a second turn-on voltage based on the timing signal; a driving module including an upper driving MOSFET and a lower driving MOSFET connected to the upper driving MOSFET, and the upper driving MOSFET is connected to the lower driving MOSFET at a signal output; the first turn-on voltage and the second turn-on voltage are both used to turn on the upper driving MOSFET and/or the lower driving MOSFET to cause the signal output to output an output signal. The present disclosure provides a dynamic hybrid driving output circuit, which has improved gate oxide reliability and an enhanced anti-leakage function when not powered.
US12170513B2	Transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonator with reduced substrate to contact bump thermal resistance An acoustic resonator device with low thermal impedance has a substrate and a single-crystal piezoelectric plate having a back surface attached to a top surface of the substrate via a bonding oxide (BOX) layer. An interdigital transducer (IDT) formed on the front surface of the plate has interleaved fingers disposed on the diaphragm, the overlapping distance of the interleaved fingers defining an aperture of the resonator device. Contact pads are formed at selected locations over the surface of the substrate to provide electrical connections between the IDT and contact bumps to be attached to the contact pads. The piezoelectric plate is removed from at least a portion of the surface area of the device beneath each of the contact pads to provide lower thermal resistance between the contact bumps and the substrate.
US12170511B2	LC filter An LC filter includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers layered therein, plate electrodes, capacitor electrodes, inductor vias, and ground vias. The plate electrodes are provided on different layers of the multilayer body. The capacitor electrodes each define a capacitor between itself and the electrode. The inductor via is connected with the electrode and the capacitor electrode, while the inductor via is connected with the electrode and the capacitor electrode. The ground vias connect the plate electrodes to each other. The inductor via and the capacitor electrode define a resonance circuit that receives a signal from an input terminal. The inductor via and the capacitor electrode define a resonance circuit that transfers a signal to the output terminal.
US12170502B1	Variable reflective surface and solar panel configuration Described is a method for managing a trackable solar panel assembly and a variable reflective surface. The method can receive solar farm characteristics and location characteristics for the solar farm. The method can also receive solar panel assembly characteristics for a solar panel assembly and variable reflective surface characteristics for a variable reflective surface. The method can optimize control parameters for the solar panel assembly and the variable reflective surface, based on the solar farm characteristics, the location characteristics, the solar panel assembly characteristics, and the variable reflective surface characteristics. The method can adjust the variable reflective surface based on the control parameters.
US12170501B2	Core synchronization for linear generators Systems and methods are provided for controlling two or more linear generators each operating according to a repeated behavior to constitute a cycle. A control system utilizes control circuitry to determine a desired phase offset between operation cycles of a first linear generator and a second linear generator of the two or more linear generators. During operation, an actual phase offset between the first linear generator and the second linear generator is determined. The control circuitry of the control system is used to modify the operation of at least one of the first linear generator or the second linear generator to achieve the desired phase effect.
US12170499B2	Motor drive apparatus According to one embodiment, a motor drive apparatus includes a first inverter, a second inverter, and a controller. This controller rotationally moves, at the time of startup of a motor, a rotor of the motor to an initial position by DC excitation of supplying DC exciting currents from the first and second inverters to the phase windings of the motor and, after this rotational movement, PWM-controls switching of the first and second inverters in such a manner that a rotational speed of the rotor becomes a target rotational speed. Then, the controller carries out the DC excitation fey which a zero-axis current in each of the phase windings becomes approximately zero.
US12170492B2	Electric power conversion apparatus An electric power conversion apparatus includes a semiconductor module, a control circuit board and a wireless communication unit. The semiconductor module has at least one semiconductor element built therein. The control circuit board is configured to control the semiconductor module. The wireless communication unit is configured to wirelessly communicate electrical signals between the semiconductor module and the control circuit board. The wireless communication unit includes a first communication device provided on the control circuit board so as to face the semiconductor module, and a second communication device provided on the semiconductor module so as to face the control circuit board. Moreover, there are no obstacles on a straight path between the first and second communication devices.
US12170491B2	Circuit arrangement and method for generating an AC voltage A circuit arrangement for generating an AC voltage has at least one modular inverter including a cascade of inverter units, a control device for controlling the inverter units, and a data transmission system for signal transmission between the control device and the inverter units. Each of the inverter units is connected to a respective DC voltage source, has a control input and a data output and is configured, depending on control signals received from the control device via the control input, to make the respective DC voltage source available on the output side for generating the AC voltage. The data transmission system has a control line and at least one data line each connected to the control device. The control line is connected to the control inputs of the inverter units and the at least one data line is connected to the data outputs of the inverter units.
US12170489B2	Device for compensating for current or voltage This application relates to an active compensating device. In one aspect, the active compensating device includes two or more high current paths through which a second current supplied by a second device is transmitted to a first device, and a sensing unit sensing the first current on the high current paths and generating an output signal corresponding to the first current. The device may also include an amplifying unit amplifying the output signal of the sensing unit to generate an amplified current and a compensating unit generating a compensation current based on the amplified current and allowing the compensation current to flow to each of the two or more high current paths. The device may further include a first anti-disturbance unit connected in parallel to output terminals of the sensing unit, and a second anti-disturbance unit connected in parallel to input terminals of the compensating unit.
US12170487B2	Insulating transformer and power conversion device equipped with same An insulating transformer includes a plurality of sub-insulating transformers connected in series. Polarity directions of all sub-windings are identical. When a current I flows from a first main terminal to a third main terminal through the first sub-winding, an interphase capacitance, and the second sub-winding, excitation inductance of the first sub-winding and excitation inductance of the second sub-winding are configured to have opposite polarities.
US12170486B2	Control circuit of switching mode power supply and control method thereof A method for controlling a switching mode power supply is disclosed. An auxiliary winding feedback voltage of the switching mode power supply is sampled and held to obtain an auxiliary winding sample hold voltage. The auxiliary winding feedback voltage is sampled and held at an inflection point time to obtain an auxiliary winding inflection point voltage when the switching mode power supply operates in DCM or CRM. A secondary rectifier forward voltage signal is generated based on the auxiliary winding sample hold voltage and the auxiliary winding inflection point voltage before the switching mode power supply operates in CCM. A correction voltage is provided based on the secondary rectifier forward voltage signal when the switching power supply operates in CCM. An error amplifier signal is generated based on the correction voltage. The output power of the switching mode power supply is adjusted based on the error amplifier signal.
US12170485B2	Switching regulator circuit Embodiments of a switching regulator include a single inductor or two inductors connecting an input circuit and a multi-output end circuit that may drive different loads at different respective voltage levels. The input circuit may include a plurality of input switches, and may boost an input voltage or a ground voltage via operation in one of a plurality of selected modes such as a buck mode, a boost mode and a boost-buck mode, to thereby provide an applied voltage to the one or more inductors. Each selected mode may be based on a target voltage for one of a plurality of unit output ends (output load driving sections) in the multi-output end circuit. Output voltages may be monitored and on-times of switches controlled in the multi-output end circuit to maintain the output voltages in respective target ranges.
US12170482B2	Control circuit for switching converter with minimum on-time and off-time control and wide duty range A control circuit for a switching converter, where: in a first operation state, the control circuit controls a switching period of the switching converter to remain unchanged, controls a turn-on time of a power transistor in the switching converter to be not less than a minimum turn-on time in each switching period, and controls a turn-off time of the power transistor to be not less than a minimum turn-off time; in a second operation state, the control circuit controls the turn-on time of the power transistor to be the minimum turn-on time in each switching period, and adjusts the switching period to further reduce a duty cycle; and in a third operation state, the control circuit controls the turn-off time of the power transistor to be the minimum turn-off time in each switching period, and adjusts the switching period to further increase the duty cycle.
US12170479B2	Power management system and electronic device A power management system includes a direct current-direct current DC-DC conversion circuit, a first control circuit, a charging circuit, an input port, and an output port. The input port is configured to receive an input voltage. The output port is configured to supply an output voltage to a load. The DC-DC conversion circuit is configured to charge the output port from the input port, to adjust the output voltage. The first control circuit is configured to: obtain a second feedback voltage of the output voltage from the output port, generate a first control signal based on the second feedback voltage and a second reference signal, and supply the first control signal to the charging circuit. The charging circuit charges the output port from the input port based on the first control signal, to supplementally adjust the output voltage.
US12170471B2	Device for attaching motor protector and encapsulated-type electric compressor A device for attaching a motor protector includes: an accommodating member; and a fixation member to which the accommodating member accommodating a motor protector is detachably attached. The fixation member includes a base portion and at least two arm portions. The two arm portions sandwich and hold the accommodating member once the accommodating member is pushed to inside of the two arm portions. The fixation member further includes assisting portions that extend from the base portion to a side of the accommodating member, are caused to pass through assisting portion insertion holes provided in the accommodating member and stick out inside the accommodating member and at positions where the assisting portions sandwich the accommodating member with the arm portions, and cause an elastic force to act on the accommodating member in a case where the accommodating member moves in a direction that is parallel to the base portion.
US12170470B2	Stator of an electric machine and an electric machine A stator of an electric machine comprises a stator core structure (101) and a stator winding comprising a plurality of stator coils (102a-102f) mechanically supported by the stator core structure. Each stator coil comprises electrical conductors and a cooling tube (103) for conducting cooling fluid in the longitudinal direction of the electrical conductors. The stator comprises cooling elements (104a-104c) having heat-conductive mechanical contacts with the stator core structure. The cooling elements comprise channels for conducting the cooling fluid, and the cooling tubes of the stator coils are connected to each other via the cooling elements. The cooling elements transfer heat caused by iron losses from the stator core structure to the cooling fluid. Furthermore, the cooling elements act as manifolds for conducting the cooling fluid between the cooling tubes of the stator coils.
US12170469B2	Electric drive and method of operating the electric drive An electric drive (20) comprising an electric machine (10) is specified. The electric machine (10) comprises a stator (21) and a rotor (22) mounted so as to be movable with respect to the stator (21), wherein the stator (21) comprises at least two first conductor sections (23) and at least two second conductor sections (24), the stator (21) comprises at least one first short-circuiting means (25) and at least one second short-circuiting means (26), the first conductor sections (23) are electrically connected to the first short-circuiting means (25), the second conductor sections (24) are electrically connected to the second short-circuiting means (26), and the first conductor sections (23) and the second conductor sections (24) are each designed to be supplied with a separate electric phase. Moreover, a supply system (46) for the electric drive (20) and a method of operating the electric drive (20) are specified.
US12170466B1	Concentrated motor winding configuration and method of manufacturing Systems and methods to form concentrated motor windings may include bending wires into a U-shape, inserting the wires onto a stator pole, bending ends of the wires around the stator pole, and welding respective pairs of the ends of the bent wires. In some example embodiments, the U-shape may include a twist along a central portion thereof. In other example embodiments, a twist may be introduced along the respective pairs of bent ends of the wires that are then welded. In addition, the wires may be stacked and laterally inserted onto the stator pole. Further, the wire bending, twisting, insertion, welding, and other forming processes may be performed by automated or robotic machinery or equipment.
US12170465B2	Electronic power module An electronic module for controlling a motor includes a module housing including a bottom surface, walls, and an open face, a printed circuit board (PCB) arranged along a plane within the module housing; a plurality of power terminals; and a plurality of power switches mounted on the PCB to switchably connect a supply of electric power from a power source to the plurality of power terminals. The plurality of power terminals includes first portions projecting outside the module housing through one of the walls along a direction substantially parallel to the plane for coupling to a plurality of wires couplable to the motor, and second portions extending substantially perpendicularly to the plane and electrically contacting the PCB.
US12170462B2	Rotating electrical machine with magnet unit and axially stacked restriction member A rotating electrical machine includes a magnetic field-producing unit and a magnetic carrier. The magnetic field-producing unit includes a magnet unit equipped with magnetic poles arranged to have magnetic polarities. The rotating electrical machine includes an armature equipped with a multi-phase winding. The magnet unit is mounted to a stator-side peripheral surface of the magnet carrier. The rotating electrical machine incudes a cylindrical restriction member mounted on the stator-side peripheral surface of the magnet unit. The restriction member is configured to restrict radial movement of the magnet unit relative to the magnet carrier. The restriction member has a stacked configuration stacked in an axial direction of the rotor.
US12170460B2	Stator with phase shift A stator for an electric machine comprises a stator core and a winding positioned on the stator core. The stator core includes a plurality of teeth defining a plurality of slots. The winding is comprised of a plurality of segmented conductors connected together to provide a plurality of parallel paths per phase for the winding, each conductor comprising (i) an end loop provided on a crown end of the stator core, (ii) two legs extending through the slots, and (iii) two leg ends extending out of the slots on a connection end of the stator core, each leg end having a twist portion. The legs of the conductors are arranged in layers in the slots, wherein the layers include a total number of layers (L), L being greater than five and L/2 being an odd whole number. Each leg end extending from each of the layers has a common twist associated with the layer from which said leg extends. The common twist associated with at least half of the layers is a first twist, and the common twist associated with at least one of the layers is a second twist that is different from the first twist.
US12170458B2	Uninterruptible power supply device This uninterruptible power supply device includes an input module provided with a plurality of conductor wires having a plate shape including at least a plurality of AC input wires, and an uninterruptible power supply module. In addition, the plurality of AC input wires each extend in an X direction in which the uninterruptible power supply module and the input module are adjacent to each other, and have AC input cable attachment portions in which an AC input cable is attached. The AC input cable attachment portions are disposed so as to be separated from each other in a Y direction, which is a direction in which a front side and a rear side of the input module face each other.
US12170455B1	Energy storage device manger, management system, and methods of use This invention provides an energy storage device manager, a system comprising the energy storage device manager, computer-readable media configured for providing the energy storage device manager, and methods of using the energy storage device manager. The energy storage device manager can optionally control charge buses and/or load buses to modulate the state of charge of an energy storage device. The energy storage device manager can optionally be configured with a plurality of modes that target different states of charge. The plurality of modes can optionally comprise a maintain mode which targets a nominal (e.g. 50%) charge state and a high-charge mode that targets a state of charge greater than the maintain mode. The plurality of modes can optionally further include an in-use mode which targets a state of charge greater than the maintain mode, and turns on a load bus that is turned off in the preparation mode. The energy storage device manager can optionally be configured to determine a charge start time to execute the preparation mode. The energy storage device manager can optionally be configured to determine the charge start time based on forecast data (e.g. power prediction forecast determined based on weather forecast).
US12170451B2	Method for controlling battery energy storage system and battery energy storage system A method for controlling a battery energy storage system and a battery energy storage system including at least three battery energy storage units, a switching arrangement, and a control arrangement configured to select at least two battery energy storage units such that a sum of short circuit currents of the selected battery energy storage units is below a short circuit current limit, which is less than a sum of short circuit currents of the at least three battery energy storage units, and such that a sum of discharge or charge powers of the selected battery energy storage units equals to or exceeds a power limit, and such that states of charge of the selected battery energy storage units are within a determined range, and to control the switching arrangement to couple only the selected at least two battery energy storage units to a DC power connection.
US12170449B2	Wireless power receiving device and method of obtaining quality factor of wireless power transmitting device A wireless power transmitting device according to an embodiment of the present specification relates to a wireless power transmitting device for transmitting wireless power to a wireless power receiving device, and comprises: a power conversion circuit including a primary coil for transmitting the wireless power to the wireless power receiving device; and a communication/control circuit for communicating with the wireless power receiving device and controlling the power conversion circuit, wherein, before transmitting the wireless power to the wireless power receiving device, the communication/control circuit temporarily applies driving power to the primary coil and then stops the transmission of the driving power, and obtains a quality factor on the basis of a change in the voltage or current of the primary coil during a period of time in which the transmission of the driving power is stopped.
US12170447B2	Electronic device for wirelessly charging external electronic device An electronic includes: a housing including a first plate, a second plate, and a side member; a display; a conductive coil parallel to the second plate and disposed between the display and the second plate; a wireless charging circuitry electrically connected to the conductive coil; and a processor operatively connected with the display and the wireless charging circuitry. The wireless charging circuitry receives a signal for wirelessly transferring power to an external electronic device from the processor, receives information about the external electronic device, receives a power control signal from the external electronic device via the conductive coil, applies a charging current of a first frequency to the conductive coil based at least in part on a request signal, increases a frequency of the charging current, compares the increased frequency with a first value, and adjusts a duty cycle of the charging current.
US12170433B2	Amplitude-modulated laser Systems and methods are described for producing an amplitude-modulated laser pulse train. The laser pulse train can be used to cause fluorescence in materials at which the pulse trains are directed. The parameters of the laser pulse train are selected to increase fluorescence relative to a constant-amplitude laser pulse train. The amplitude-modulated laser pulse trains produced using the teachings of this invention can be used to enable detection of specific molecules in applications such as gene or protein sequencing.
US12170432B2	Dieless crimping tool A crimping tool with a housing, a motor, a switch connected to the motor for activating the motor, a pump driven by the motor, a piston driven by the pump, an indenter operably connected to the piston, and a tool head connected to the housing, wherein a workpiece can be disposed between the tool head and the indenter. A current sensor is connected to the motor for sensing current flowing through the motor. A processor receives current data from the current sensor, the processor analyzing the current data to determine completion of a crimping operation and/or an error condition. A display connected to the processor can indicate completion of a crimping operation and/or an error condition.
US12170429B2	Rotary connector having an external connection terminal movable in multiple directions A rotary connector includes a case, a rotor, a flexible cable, an external connection terminal, and a terminal holder. The case includes an outer cylindrical part, the rotor includes an inner cylindrical part, disposed within a housing space of the case, and is rotatably held by the case, the flexible cable is housed in a wound state between the inner cylindrical part and the outer cylindrical part within the housing space, the external connection terminal is provided on an end portion of the flexible cable, and the terminal holder holds the external connection terminal, such that the external connection terminal is movable in a first axis direction and in a second axis direction and is rotatable about a rotation center axis that is parallel to the first axis direction. The first axis direction intersects the second axis direction.
US12170421B2	Plug storage seat and plug kit A plug storage base and a plug kit. The plug storage base is configured to store at least two detachable plugs. The plug storage base comprises a connecting body and at least two storage structures disposed on the connecting body, wherein each of the storage structures comprises a mounting recess provided in the connecting body; the mounting recess is arranged in a run-through manner in an extension direction thereof; the mounting recess is configured to store a plugging structure; and a recess wall of the mounting recess is provided with a first slip connection structure for slip connection with the plugging structure of the detachable plug. The plug storage base can store at least two detachable plugs, and achieve fitting and slip connection with the detachable plugs by means of the first slip connection structures, so as to prevent the loss of multiple detachable plugs when being placed separately.
US12170418B2	Connector and display apparatus having the same A display apparatus including: a display panel; a chassis assembly supporting the display panel; a printed circuit board accommodated in the chassis assembly, and configured to drive and control the display panel; and a connector installed on the printed circuit board, and including a seating portion and a connector terminal positioned on one side of the seating portion, wherein the connector is connected to the cable by seating a surface of a body of a cable on the seating portion in a vertical direction while the surface of the body of the cable faces the seating portion and contact-coupling a cable terminal formed at one end of the body of the cable with the connector terminal.
US12170414B2	PCB having edge antenna, and battery including PCB having edge antenna The present invention relates to a PCB adopting an edge antenna which designs an antenna pattern in an edge region of the PCB to generate a beam pattern generated from the antenna pattern not in a vertical direction to an antenna plane but in a lateral direction of the PCB, thereby enabling face-to-face communication between large-area battery packs laterally adjacent to each other, and a battery including the PCB adopting the edge antenna.
US12170413B2	Antenna device An antenna device is provided. The antenna device includes: a first dielectric layer; a second dielectric layer disposed on the first dielectric layer; a third dielectric layer disposed between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer; a feed via configured to penetrate the first dielectric layer; a first feed pattern disposed between the first dielectric layer and the third dielectric layer; a second feed pattern disposed between the second dielectric layer and the third dielectric layer and configured to overlap the first feed pattern; and a patch antenna pattern disposed on the second dielectric layer and configured to overlap the first feed pattern and the second feed pattern, wherein a dielectric constant of the third dielectric layer is less than a dielectric constant of the first dielectric layer and a dielectric constant of the second dielectric layer.
US12170412B2	Broadband patch antenna A broadband patch antenna comprises a substrate, a ground plate attached to one surface of the substrate, a radiation plate attached to the other surface of the substrate opposite the one surface of the substrate, and a feed line attached to the other surface of the substrate and having one end connected to the radiation plate. The feed line comprises a first line and a second line. The ground plate has the shape of capital “L” having a first groove, a second groove, and a third groove, and may not comprise a portion corresponding to the radiation plate. The first groove is positioned at a first portion which corresponds to a connection portion between the first line and the radiation plate, the second groove is positioned at a second portion which corresponds to a connection portion between the second line and the radiation plate, and the third groove may be positioned so as to be spaced apart from the first groove and the second groove.
US12170411B2	Antenna device, antenna module, communication device, and radar device An antenna device includes a substrate, a first ground layer, a radiation electrode, and waveguide structures. Each of the waveguide structures has a slit and a conductor wall. The slit is positioned in an electric field direction of the radiation electrode and provided in the first ground layer. The conductor wall surrounds the slit and extends in a thickness direction of the substrate. A dimension of the waveguide structure in a magnetic field direction in plan view is greater than ½ of a wavelength of a radio wave emitted by the radiation electrode in a medium of the substrate. A length from the slit to a terminal portion of the waveguide structure is about ¼ of a wavelength of the radio wave emitted by the radiation electrode in the waveguide structure.
US12170406B2	Antenna array with independent RFIC chip and antenna element lattice geometries An antenna apparatus includes a first component layer having a plurality of RFICs arranged in a first lattice geometry (e.g., rectangular), where each RFIC comprises beamforming circuitry. A second, parallel component layer overlays the first component layer and includes a plurality of antenna elements arranged in a second, different lattice geometry (e.g., triangular). The antenna elements have respective feed points each coupled to an input/output (I/O) pad of an RFIC. Each I/O pad is aligned with the feed point coupled thereto along an axis orthogonal to the first and second layers.
US12170403B2	Isotropic 3D-printed gradient-index RF lens Inhomogeneous dielectric lenses for electromagnetic waves can be produced by a process such as 3D printing to have controllable dielectric values. Dielectric values can be produced by a varying density of air voids within, for example, a dielectric matrix to obtain an effective overall density. Approaches in accordance with various embodiments can obtain uniform, isotropic dielectric properties without resonant behavior by the use of aperiodic distributions of nonuniformly-sized air voids. Target air fraction and distribution of air voids can be specified by a target dielectric constant through dielectric mixing rules, such as Maxwell-Garnet mixing rules, and a requirement for locally uniform distributions of air voids, while varying the density of the air voids across the overall structure to produce a desired gradient of dielectric properties.
US12170396B2	Systems and methods for tool signal extension A tool is provided with a connector that can be configured to removably receive a corresponding connector of an extender having an antenna to electrically connect the extender to the tool. With the connector of the tool electrically connected to the connector of the extender, the controller can be configured to utilize the antenna.
US12170395B2	Combo antenna module and portable device having same Suggested is a combo antenna module configured to implement the same antenna performance as that of a combo antenna module having a general size, even in a state in which the size thereof is reduced by adjusting, within a set range, a distance at which magnetic sheets disposed on the top and the bottom of an antenna sheet are spaced apart. The suggested combo antenna module comprises: an antenna sheet; a top magnetic sheet disposed on the upper surface of the antenna sheet; and a bottom magnetic sheet disposed on the lower surface of the antenna sheet, wherein the top magnetic sheet includes a projecting region which overlaps with the bottom magnetic sheet while having the antenna sheet therebetween, and the top magnetic sheet and the bottom magnetic sheet are spaced apart at a distance within a set range at a side portion of the projecting region.
US12170394B2	Smart lock having an electromechanical key The invention concerns a locking mechanism (10) configured to switch from a locked state to an unlocked state, comprising: a. a processor (11) configured to read an identification code of an identification key (13) and configured to cause the locking mechanism (10) to switch from the locked state to the unlocked state if the identification code of the identification key (13) is an authorized code of the locking mechanism (10), b. a printed circuit board (14) in a first plane comprising an aperture (15) configured to accept insertion of the identification key (13) according to a first axis (Y) secant to the printed circuit board (14), the identification key (13) comprising a NFC passive part (16), c. a NFC active part comprising a wire antenna (18) positioned on the printed circuit board (14), the wire antenna (18) comprising a first at least one winding around the aperture (15), the wire antenna being connected to the processor (11), wherein the locking mechanism is configured to establish a NFC communication between the NFC active part of the locking mechanism and the NFC passive part (16) of the identification key (13) when the identification key (13) is inserted into the aperture (15).
US12170384B2	Battery module and battery pack including the same A battery pack includes a plurality of battery modules, and each battery module includes: a plurality of battery cells mutually laminated in a first direction and forming a laminated structure; a pair of end plates, each end plate of the pair of end plates being in surface contact with a first and a second ends of the laminated structure, respectively, in the first direction; and a pair of busbar assemblies. In particular, each bus bar assembly of the pair of bus bar assemblies is disposed at the first end and the second end of the laminated structure, respectively, in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US12170381B2	Motor control for gas engine replacement device Gas-engine replacement devices described herein include a housing that includes battery receptacle configured to removably receive a battery pack, a motor located within the housing, a power take-off shaft receiving torque from the motor and protruding from a side of the housing, a power switching network configured to selectively provide power from the battery pack to the motor, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is coupled to the power switching network and configured to receive a current measurement associated with the motor and control the power switching network according to one of a freewheeling mode or a synchronous rectification mode based on the current measurement.
US12170374B2	Secondary battery A secondary battery includes: a solid electrolyte layer which contains a tantalum oxide as a solid electrolyte; a positive-electrode active material layer which is disposed on an upper surface of the solid electrolyte layer and contains a nickel hydroxide (Ni(OH)2) as a positive-electrode active material; and a negative-electrode active material layer disposed on a lower surface of the solid electrolyte layer so as to be opposite to the positive-electrode active material layer and containing a titanium oxide (TiOx) or a titanium oxide (TiOx) and a silicon oxide (SiOx) as a negative-electrode active material. There is provided a secondary battery capable of improving electricity storage performance by improving a self-discharge.
US12170368B2	Method of manufacturing positive electrode active material for lithium ion secondary battery A method of manufacturing a positive electrode active material for a lithium-ion secondary battery includes a water-washing step of washing a lithium-nickel composite oxide containing Li, Ni, and an element M with water, and conducting a filtration to form a washed-cake, a mixing step of mixing, while heating, the washed-cake and a tungsten compound without lithium while heating to obtain a tungsten mixture, and a heat treatment step of heat-treating the tungsten mixture, wherein a water content of the washed-cake is 3.0% by mass or more and 10.0% by mass or less, a ratio of a number of tungsten atoms contained in the tungsten mixture to a total number of nickel and the element M atoms contained in the lithium-nickel composite oxide is 0.05 at. % or more and 3.00 at. % or less, and a temperature of the mixing step is 30° C. or higher and 70° C. or lower.
US12170365B2	Lithium-ion rechargeable battery negative electrode active material and preparation method thereof, lithium-ion rechargeable battery negative electrode plate, and lithium-ion rechargeable battery A lithium-ion rechargeable battery negative electrode active material and a preparation method thereof, a lithium-ion rechargeable battery negative electrode plate, and a lithium-ion rechargeable battery are disclosed. The negative electrode active material includes a carbon core and a coating layer formed on a surface of the carbon core, a material of the coating layer includes amorphous carbon and a doping element, and the doping element includes element nitrogen. The lithium-ion rechargeable battery negative electrode active material has the carbon core, and the coating layer that includes the doping element and the amorphous carbon is provided on the surface of the carbon core.
US12170364B2	Layered electrode materials and methods for rechargeable zinc batteries Layered electrode materials, positive electrodes, rechargeable zinc batteries, and methods are provided. A layered electrode material for use in a rechargeable zinc battery includes a plurality of active metal slab layers in a layered configuration. The active metal slab layer includes a plurality of redox active metal centers and a closely-packed anionic sublattice. A plurality of interlamellar spaces separate adjacent active metal slab layers in the layered configuration. The interlamellar space includes at least one pillar species. The layered electrode material has a combined average metal oxidation state in a range of +3 to +4 in an initial charged state. The layered electrode material accepts solvated zinc cations via intercalation into the interlamellar space upon reduction.
US12170362B2	Negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery A negative electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte with a negative electrode mixture layer that includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer is formed on the negative electrode current collector and includes a negative electrode active material and a first binding agent. The negative electrode active material in the first layer includes a carbon material A and a Si-containing compound. The first binding agent includes polyacrylic acid or a salt thereof. The second layer is formed on the first layer and includes a negative electrode active material and a second binding agent. The negative electrode active material in the second layer includes a carbon material B. The carbon material B has a tap density higher than a tap density of the carbon material A. A packing density of the second layer is lower than a packing density of the first layer.
US12170361B2	Batteries with anodes of carbon-coated macro-porous silicon Silicon materials suitable for use as an anode material and associated method of production are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a silicon material includes crystalline silicon in a matrix and macro-scale pores distributed in the matrix of the crystalline silicon. The macro-scale pores can have a size greater than 100 nanometers, and surfaces of crystalline silicon in the macro-scale pores are coated with carbon.
US12170356B2	Battery apparatus and cooling control method thereof Disclosed is a battery apparatus that measures a temperature of the battery apparatus, determines an estimated naturally-decreasing temperature based on information including a difference between the temperature of the battery apparatus and an atmospheric temperature in response to the temperature of the battery apparatus being higher than the atmospheric temperature, determine a stop temperature based on a reference temperature of the stop temperature and the estimated naturally-decreasing temperature, and stops a cooling operation of the battery apparatus in response to the temperature of the battery apparatus being lower than the stop temperature.
US12170349B2	Printed structure with electrical contact having reflowable polymer core A printed structure comprises a device comprising device electrical contacts disposed on a common side of the device and a substrate non-native to the device comprising substrate electrical contacts disposed on a surface of the substrate. At least one of the substrate electrical contacts has a rounded shape. The device electrical contacts are in physical and electrical contact with corresponding substrate electrical contacts. The substrate electrical contacts can comprise a polymer core coated with a patterned contact electrical conductor on a surface of the polymer core. A method of making polymer cores comprising patterning a polymer on the substrate and reflowing the patterned polymer to form one or more rounded shapes of the polymer and coating and then patterning the one or more rounded shapes with a conductive material.
US12170345B2	Display device using semiconductor light-emitting element, and manufacturing method therefor The present invention provides a display device using a semiconductor light-emitting element and a manufacturing method therefor, the display device transferring semiconductor light-emitting elements on a temporary substrate, and then directly implementing, through a stack process, the structure of a wiring substrate on the temporary substrate on which the semiconductor light-emitting elements are arrayed, thereby enabling the semiconductor light-emitting elements and the wiring substrate to be electrically connected.
US12170343B2	Light emitting element and display device including the same A light emitting element and a display device including the same are provided. The light emitting element includes: a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and an active layer between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer; a passivation layer surrounding an outer surface of at least one selected from the first semiconductor layer, the second semiconductor layer, and the active layer; and an insulation layer surrounding an outer surface of the passivation layer, wherein the passivation layer includes a two-dimensional (2D) material.
US12170335B2	Epitaxial structures for semiconductor devices The present disclosure describes a semiconductor device and methods for forming the same. The semiconductor device includes nanostructures on a substrate and a source/drain region in contact with the nanostructures. The source/drain region includes epitaxial end caps, where each epitaxial end cap is formed at an end portion of a nanostructure of the nanostructures. The source/drain region also includes an epitaxial body in contact with the epitaxial end caps and an epitaxial top cap formed on the epitaxial body. The semiconductor device further includes gate structure formed on the nanostructures.
US12170332B2	Fin field effect transistor devices including NMOS device and PMOS device with varied geometry of work function layers A semiconductor structure includes a first device and a second device. The first device includes a plurality of first fins, a first work function layer over the plurality of first fins, and a first contact layer over the first work function layer. The second device includes a plurality of second fins, a second work function layer and the first work function layer over the plurality of the second fins, and a second contact layer over the first work function layer and the second work function layer. A distance between a bottom surface of the first work function layer and a bottom surface of the first contact layer is greater than a distance between a side surface of the first work function layer of the first device and a side surface of the first contact layer.
US12170331B2	Conductive structures and methods of formation A titanium precursor is used to selectively form a titanium silicide (TiSix) layer in a semiconductor device. A plasma-based deposition operation is performed in which the titanium precursor is provided into an opening, and a reactant gas and a plasma are used to cause silicon to diffuse to a top surface of a transistor structure. The diffusion of silicon results in the formation of a silicon-rich surface of the transistor structure, which increases the selectivity of the titanium silicide formation relative to other materials of the semiconductor device. The titanium precursor reacts with the silicon-rich surface to form the titanium silicide layer. The selective titanium silicide layer formation results in the formation of a titanium silicon nitride (TiSixNy) on the sidewalls in the opening, which enables a conductive structure such as a metal source/drain contact to be formed in the opening without the addition of another barrier layer.
US12170330B2	Three dimensional vertically structured electronic devices An apparatus includes at least one vertical transistor, where the at least one vertical transistor includes: a substrate including a first semiconductor material, an array of three dimensional (3D) structures above the substrate, a sidewall heterojunction layer positioned on at least one vertical sidewall of each 3D structure, and an isolation region positioned between the 3D structures. Each 3D structure includes the first semiconductor material. The sidewall heterojunction layer includes a second semiconductor material, where the first and second semiconductor material have different bandgaps.
US12170319B2	Dual contact process with stacked metal layers Embodiments disclosed herein include complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) devices and methods of forming CMOS devices. In an embodiment, a CMOS device comprises a first transistor with a first conductivity type, where the first transistor comprises a first source region and a first drain region, and a first metal over the first source region and the first drain region. In an embodiment, the CMOS device further comprises a second transistor with a second conductivity type opposite form the first conductivity type, where the second transistor comprises a second source region and a second drain region, a second metal over the second source region and the second drain region, and the first metal over the second metal.
US12170316B2	Nitride semiconductor device with element isolation area A semiconductor device includes first and second nitride semiconductor layers. The second layer on the first nitride has a first region, a second region, and a third region between the first and second regions. A first gate electrode is in the first region and extends parallel to a surface of a substrate. A first source electrode is in the first region and extends in the first direction. A second gate electrode in the second region and extends in the first direction. A second source electrode is in the second region and extends in the first direction. A drain electrode coupled to a first and a second wiring. The first wiring directly contacts the second nitride semiconductor layer in the first region. The second wiring directly contacts the second nitride semiconductor layer in the second region. An insulation material is in the third region.
US12170308B2	Light emitting display apparatus A light emitting display apparatus includes a substrate including a plurality of pixels each including an emission area; a light extraction pattern including a plurality of concave portions in the emission area; and a light emitting portion over the light extraction pattern, wherein at least one of the plurality of concave portions has a curvature of 0.217 μm−1 to 0.311 μm−1.
US12170307B2	Display device and tiled display device including the same A display device comprises a first substrate, a first power bottom line on the first substrate, a second substrate on the first power bottom line, the second substrate having a first power connection hole to expose the first power bottom line, and a pixel driving unit including a plurality of switching elements on the second substrate.
US12170305B2	Flat panel detector, driving method, driving device and flat panel detection device The present disclosure discloses a flat panel detector, a driving method, a driving device and a flat panel detection device. The flat panel detector includes: a base substrate, and a plurality of detection units located on the base substrate; each of the detection units includes a photodiode and a detection transistor; the flat panel detector further includes: a compensation semiconductor material layer including a plurality of compensation structures mutually spaced; each detection transistor is correspondingly provided with a compensation structure, and the compensation structure is located between a gate and a gate insulating layer of the corresponding detection transistor.
US12170304B2	Imaging element, stacked imaging element, and solid-state imaging device An imaging element has at least a photoelectric conversion section, a first transistor TR1, and a second transistor TR2, the photoelectric conversion section includes a photoelectric conversion layer 13, a first electrode 11, and a second electrode 12, the imaging element further has a first photoelectric conversion layer extension section 13A, a third electrode 51, and a fourth electrode 51C, the first transistor TR1 includes the second electrode 12 that functions as one source/drain section, the third electrode that functions as a gate section 51, and the first photoelectric conversion layer extension section 13A that functions as the other source/drain section, and the first transistor TR1 (TRrst) is provided adjacent to the photoelectric conversion section.
US12170303B2	Semiconductor device and electronic equipment A semiconductor device capable of realizing a capacitative element of which a capacitance value has low bias dependence and of which capacitance density is high without lowering operating voltage is provided. The semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a first capacitative element stacked on the semiconductor substrate; and a second capacitative element which is stacked on an opposite side to a side of the semiconductor substrate of the first capacitative element and of which a capacitance value has bias characteristics being opposite to bias characteristics of a capacitance value of the first capacitative element, wherein the first capacitative element and the second capacitative element are connected in parallel.
US12170296B2	Image sensor with pixel separation structure Disclosed is an image sensor comprising a semiconductor substrate that includes first through fourth pixel regions, each including first through fourth photoelectric conversion sections, and a pixel separation structure disposed in the semiconductor substrate and separating the first through fourth pixel regions from each other. The second pixel region is spaced apart in a first direction from the first pixel region. The fourth pixel region is spaced apart in a second direction from the first pixel region. The second direction intersects the first direction. The semiconductor substrate includes first impurity sections disposed on corresponding central portions of the first through fourth pixel regions, and a second impurity section disposed between the second and fourth pixel regions. Impurities doped in the first impurity sections have a conductivity type different from that of impurities doped in the second impurity section.
US12170293B2	Array substrate, display device, and method of producing array substrate An array substrate includes a thin film transistor including a drain electrode, a first insulation film included in an upper layer than the drain electrode and including a contact hole overlapping the drain electrode, a pixel electrode included in an upper layer than the first insulation film and overlaps the drain electrode at least inside the contact hole and is connected to the drain electrode, a second insulation film included in an upper layer than the pixel electrode and overlaps the pixel electrode inside the contact hole and extends outside the contact hole, a conductive portion included in an upper layer than the second insulation film and overlaps the pixel electrode at least inside the contact hole, and an insulation portion included in an upper layer than the pixel electrode and in a lower layer than the conductive portion and overlaps the pixel electrode inside the contact hole.
US12170291B2	Display device Provided is a display device with extremely high resolution, a display device with higher display quality, a display device with improved viewing angle characteristics, or a flexible display device. Same-color subpixels are arranged in a zigzag pattern in a predetermined direction. In other words, when attention is paid to a subpixel, another two subpixels exhibiting the same color as the subpixel are preferably located upper right and lower right or upper left and lower left. Each pixel includes three subpixels arranged in an L shape. In addition, two pixels are combined so that pixel units including subpixel are arranged in matrix of 3×2.
US12170284B2	Semiconductor on insulator having a semiconductor layer with different thicknesses Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an integrated chip. The integrated chip comprises a semiconductor substrate. A semiconductor layer is disposed over the semiconductor substrate. An insulating structure is buried between the semiconductor substrate and the semiconductor layer. The insulating structure has a first region and a second region. The insulating structure has a first thickness in the first region of the insulating structure, and the insulating structure has a second thickness different than the first thickness in the second region of the insulating structure.
US12170283B2	Capacitor cell and structure thereof Capacitor cells are provided. A first PMOS transistor is coupled between a power supply and a first node, and has a gate directly connected to a second node. A first NMOS transistor is coupled between a ground and the second node, and has a gate directly connected to the first node. A second PMOS transistor is coupled between the second node and the power supply, and has a gate directly connected to the second node. A second NMOS transistor is coupled between the first node and the ground, and has a gate directly connected to the first node. Sources of the first and second NMOS transistors share an N+ doped region in the P-type well region. The first NMOS transistor is disposed between the second NMOS transistor and the first and second PMOS transistors. Source of the first PMOS transistor is directly connected to the power supply.
US12170282B2	Semiconductor device with fin transistors and manufacturing method of such semiconductor device A semiconductor device and method of making same. The semiconductor device includes: a first conductivity type transistor and a second conductivity type transistor, wherein each of the first conductivity type transistor and the second conductivity type includes a gate insulating film formed on a base, a metal gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film, and side wall spacers formed at side walls of the metal gate electrode, wherein the gate insulating film is made of a high dielectric constant material, and wherein offset spacers are formed between the side walls of the metal gate electrode and the inner walls of the side wall spacers in any one of the first conductivity type transistor and the second conductivity type transistor, or offset spacers having different thicknesses are formed in the first conductivity type transistor and the second conductivity type transistor.
US12170280B2	Method of manufacturing gate structure and method of manufacturing fin-field effect transistor A method of manufacturing a gate structure includes at least the following steps. A gate dielectric layer is formed. A work function layer is deposited on the gate dielectric layer. A barrier layer is formed on the work function layer. A metal layer is deposited on the barrier layer to introduce fluorine atoms into the barrier layer. The barrier layer is formed by at least the following steps. A first TiN layer is formed on the work function layer. A top portion of the first TiN layer is converted into a trapping layer, and the trapping layer includes silicon atoms or aluminum atoms. A second TiN layer is formed on the trapping layer.
US12170272B2	Display device and method of fabricating the same A display device and a method of fabricating a display device. The display device includes a substrate including an emission area and a subarea adjacent to the emission area, a bank disposed in the emission area of the substrate, a height difference compensation pattern disposed in the subarea of the substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode that are disposed on the bank, the first electrode and the second electrode being spaced apart from each other, and a light-emitting element disposed in the emission area, between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US12170271B2	Embedded optical sensors in a micro-led display A micro-light-emitting diode (LED) display includes a number of micro-LED pixel elements and multiple optical sensors integrated with the micro-LED pixel elements. A transparent conductor layer is disposed over the micro-LED pixel elements and optical sensors.
US12170268B2	Embedded metal lines Techniques are disclosed herein for creating metal bitlines (BLs) in stacked wafer memory. Using techniques described herein, metal BLs are created on a bottom surface of a wafer. The metal BLs can be created using different processes. In some configurations, a salicide process is utilized. In other configurations, a damascene process is utilized. Using metal reduces the resistance of the BLs as compared to using non-metal diffused BLs. In some configurations, wafers are stacked and bonded together to form three-dimensional memory structures.
US12170266B2	Semiconductor package A semiconductor package includes a chip stack comprising semiconductor chips vertically stacked on a substrate in a first direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate, pillars between the substrate and the chip stack, an adhesive layer on a bottom surface of a lowermost semiconductor chip of the semiconductor chips, a first lower protective layer between the adhesive layer and the pillars, a second lower protective layer between the first lower protective layer and the adhesive layer, and a mold layer covering the chip stack and filling a space between the pillars. A thickness of the second lower protective layer in the first direction is greater than a thickness of the adhesive layer in the first direction.
US12170262B2	Method for forming an electrical connection between an electronic chip and a carrier substrate and electronic device An electrical connection wire connects an electrical connection pad of an electrical chip and an electrical connection pad of a carrier substrate to which the electronic chip is mounted. A dielectric layer surrounds at least the bonding wire. The dielectric layer may be a dielectric sheath or a hardened liquid dielectric material. A dielectric material may also cover at least a portion of the electrical chip and carrier substrate. A liquid electrically conductive material is deposited and hardened to form a local conductive shield surrounding the dielectric layer at the bonding wire.
US12170259B2	Semiconductor package and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor package that include first and second semiconductor chips bonded together, wherein the first semiconductor chip includes a first semiconductor substrate, a first semiconductor element layer and a first wiring structure sequentially stacked on a first surface of the first semiconductor substrate, first connecting pads and first test pads on the first wiring structure, and first front-side bonding pads, which are connected to the first connecting pads, wherein the second semiconductor chip includes a second semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor element layer and a second wiring structure sequentially stacked on a third surface of the second semiconductor substrate, and first back-side bonding pads bonded to the first front-side bonding pads on the fourth surface of the second semiconductor substrate, and wherein the first test pads are not electrically connected to the second semiconductor chip.
US12170258B2	Memory devices having vertical transistors and methods for forming the same In certain aspects, a memory device includes a semiconductor layer, a peripheral circuit including a peripheral transistor in contact with the semiconductor layer, an array of memory cells disposed beside the semiconductor layer and the peripheral circuit, and bit lines coupled to the memory cells. Each of the memory cells includes a vertical transistor extending in a first direction, and a storage unit coupled to the vertical transistor. Each of the bit lines extends in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A respective one of the bit lines and a respective storage unit are coupled to opposite ends of each one of the memory cells in the first direction.
US12170256B2	Contact pad fabrication process for a semiconductor product A method for fabricating a semiconductor product includes forming a dielectric layer over a top level metallization layer of a semiconductor process wafer. The dielectric layer is patterned using a grayscale mask process to define a contact pad opening in the dielectric layer, thereby producing a patterned dielectric layer in which the contact pad opening is aligned to a contact pad defined in the top level metallization layer. A metal layer is deposited over the patterned dielectric layer, including within the contact pad opening. A portion of the metal layer is removed by a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process, with a remaining portion of the metal layer having a sloped sidewall.
US12170247B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes first memory layers and second memory layers arranged in alternation in a first direction. First memory layers and second memory layers include memory strings and first wirings connected to these memory strings in common. First memory layers and second memory layers include: signal amplifier circuits electrically connected to the first wirings; second wirings connected to the signal amplifier circuits; first switch transistors connected to the second wirings; third wirings electrically connected to the second wirings via the first switch transistors; and fourth wirings electrically connected to the second wirings without via the first switch transistors. The semiconductor memory device includes: first via-contact electrodes extending in the first direction and connected to the third wirings in first memory layers; and second via-contact electrodes extending in the first direction and connected to the fourth wirings in second memory layers.
US12170246B2	Semiconductor device with contact structure A semiconductor process system etches thin films on semiconductor wafers. The semiconductor process system includes a machine learning based analysis model. The analysis model dynamically selects process conditions for an etching process by receiving static process conditions and target thin-film data. The analysis model identifies dynamic process conditions data that, together with the static process conditions data, result in predicted remaining thin-film data that matches the target thin-film data. The process system then uses the static and dynamic process conditions data for the next etching process.
US12170242B2	Fan-out wafer level package structure A method for forming a package structure may comprise applying a die and vias on a carrier having an adhesive layer and forming a molded substrate over the carrier and around the vias, and the ends of the vias and mounts on the die exposed. The vias may be in via chips with one or more dielectric layers separating the vias. The via chips 104 may be formed separately from the carrier. The dielectric layer of the via chips may separate the vias from, and comprise a material different than, the molded substrate. An RDL having RDL contact pads and conductive lines may be formed on the molded substrate. A second structure having at least one die may be mounted on the opposite side of the molded substrate, the die on the second structure in electrical communication with at least one RDL contact pad.
US12170236B2	Method for forming package structure A method for forming a package structure is provided. The method includes bonding a package component to a substrate through a plurality of first connectors. The package component comprises a first semiconductor die and a second semiconductor die. The method also includes forming a dam structure over the substrate and surrounding the first connectors. A top surface of the dam structure is lower than a bottom surface of the package component. The method further includes filling an underfill layer in a space between the dam structure and the first connectors. In addition, the method includes removing the dam structure after the underfill layer is formed.
US12170234B2	Daisy-chain seal ring structure A semiconductor device includes a first wafer and a second wafer. The semiconductor device includes a seal ring structure comprising a first metal structure in a body of the first wafer, a second metal structure in the body of the first wafer, a third metal structure in a body of the second wafer, and a metal bonding structure including a first set of metal elements coupling the first metal structure and the third metal structure through an interface between the first wafer and the second wafer, and a second set of metal elements coupling the second metal structure and the third metal structure through the interface between the first wafer and the second wafer.
US12170230B2	Methods of forming bottom dielectric isolation layers Embodiments of this disclosure relate to methods for removing a dummy material from under a superlattice structure. In some embodiments, after removing the dummy material, it is replaced with a bottom dielectric isolation layer beneath the superlattice structure.
US12170229B2	Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing thereof A semiconductor device includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a fourth transistor. The first and second transistors operate under a lower gate voltage than the third and fourth transistors. The first transistor has a first active gate structure and the second transistor has a second active gate structure. The first and second active gate structures are separated by a first gate isolation structure along a first direction. The third transistor has a third active gate structure and the fourth transistor has a fourth active gate structure. The third and fourth active gate structures are separated by a second gate isolation structure along the first direction. The variation of a first distance between respective sidewalls of the first gate isolation structure is equal to the variation of a second distance between respective sidewalls of the second gate isolation structure along the first direction.
US12170226B2	Method for separating dies from a semiconductor substrate A method for separating dies from a semiconductor substrate having dies adjoining a first surface of the substrate includes: attaching the substrate to a carrier via the first surface; generating first modifications by introducing laser irradiation into an interior of the substrate via a second surface of the substrate, the first modifications extending between the first surface and a vertical level in the interior that is being spaced from the second surface, the first modifications laterally surrounding the dies; generating second modifications by introducing laser irradiation into the interior via the second surface, the second modifications sub-dividing the substrate into a first part between the first surface and the second modifications, and a second part between the second surface and the second modifications; separating the parts along a first separation area defined by the second modifications; and separating the dies along a second separation area defined by the first modifications.
US12170222B2	Substrate support assembly for substrate treatment apparatus The present invention relates to a substrate support assembly for a substrate treatment apparatus, including: a chuck base supporting the substrate to be treated, disposed rotatable around a rotation axis, and having an installation accommodation portion formed near the outer peripheral surface thereof in a circumferential direction thereof and a receiving recess formed open on the top thereof at the inside surrounded by the installation accommodation portion; chuck pins disposed on the top of the installation accommodation portion of the chuck base and movable along directions away from and approaching the substrate; a mechanism unit disposed in the installation accommodation portion and connected to the chuck pins to move the chuck pins; a driving unit for transmitting power to the mechanism unit; and an ultrasonic cleaning unit disposed in the receiving recess.
US12170221B2	Apparatus for processing substrate The present inventive concept relates to a substrate processing apparatus including a supporting part for supporting a substrate; a disk supporting a plurality of the supporting parts; a lid disposed on the disk; and a first protrusion portion coupled to the disk to protrude in an upward direction from the disk to the lid in a center region disposed inward from the supporting parts and a gap region disposed between the supporting parts.
US12170218B2	Method for cleaning electrostatic chuck A method includes detecting a location of a particle on a bottom surface of an electrostatic chuck; moving a platform to a position under the bottom surface of the electrostatic chuck and right under the particle; and rotating the platform about a center of the platform to remove the particle from the bottom surface of the electrostatic chuck.
US12170216B2	Transfer device, processing system, and transfer method According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a transfer device has a first holding part configured to contact an edge part of a substrate when holding the substrate, and a second holding part formed with an elastic member and configured to contact only a back surface of the substrate when holding the substrate.
US12170215B2	Systems and methods for correction of impact of wafer tilt on misregistration measurements A method for correcting misregistration measurements of a semiconductor wafer for errors therein arising from tilt of the wafer including measuring, for at least one location on a wafer, a difference between a Tool Induced Shift (TIS) of a metrology device in a first illumination arrangement with respect to the wafer wherein a surface of the wafer is generally orthogonally illuminated by an illumination source of the metrology device and a TIS of the metrology device in a second illumination arrangement with respect to the wafer, wherein the surface is obliquely illuminated by the illumination source, and correcting a misregistration measurement measured by the metrology device at the at least one location for errors therein arising from tilt of the wafer at the location by subtracting from the misregistration measurement a weighted value of the difference between the TIS in the first and second illumination arrangements.
US12170211B2	Laser processing apparatus A laser processing apparatus includes an energy distribution correcting unit that forms skirt parts of a Gaussian distribution of an energy distribution in a Y-axis direction regarding a laser beam emitted from a laser oscillator into a perpendicular distribution, an imaging lens group composed of two or more lenses that form an image of the beam shape of the laser beam for which the energy distribution has been corrected by the energy distribution correcting unit on the upper surface of the workpiece, and one cylindrical lens that adjusts the energy density in an X-axis direction regarding the laser beam for which the energy distribution has been corrected by the energy distribution correcting unit.
US12170206B2	Method of processing substrate, method of manufacturing semiconductor device, recording medium, and substrate processing apparatus A film having film continuity can be formed.There is provided a technique including: preparing a substrate having a metal-containing film formed on a surface thereof; and slimming the metal-containing film by pulse-supplying a halogen-containing gas to the substrate.
US12170205B2	Methods for fabricating semiconductor structures Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to method of forming trench and via features using dielectric and metal mask layers. Particularly, embodiments of present disclosure provide a hard mask stack including a first dielectric mask layer, and second dielectric mask layer and a metal mask layer, wherein the first dielectric mask layer and second dielectric mask layer have a high etch selectivity.
US12170203B2	Integrated circuit with conductive via formation on self-aligned gate metal cut An integrated circuit includes a first nanostructure transistor having a first gate electrode and a second nanostructure transistor having a second gate electrode. A dielectric isolation structure is between the first and second gate electrodes. A gate connection metal is on a portion of the top surface of the first gate electrode and on a portion of a top surface of the second gate electrode. The gate connection metal is patterned to expose other portions of the top surfaces of the first and second gate electrodes adjacent to the dielectric isolation structure. A conductive via contacts the exposed portion of the top surface of the second gate electrode.
US12170201B2	Method for preparing semiconductor structure and semiconductor structure A method for preparing a semiconductor structure, and a semiconductor structure are provided. In a prepared first pattern structure, a thickness of a first insulating layer is equal to a thickness of a second insulating layer, and a thickness of a third insulating layer is equal to a thickness of a fourth insulating layer.
US12170199B2	Cyclic spin-on coating process for forming dielectric material The present disclosure is generally related to semiconductor devices, and more particularly to a dielectric material formed in semiconductor devices. The present disclosure provides methods for forming a dielectric material layer by a cyclic spin-on coating process. In an embodiment, a method of forming a dielectric material on a substrate includes spin-coating a first portion of a dielectric material on a substrate, curing the first portion of the dielectric material on the substrate, spin-coating a second portion of the dielectric material on the substrate, and thermal annealing the dielectric material to form an annealed dielectric material on the substrate.
US12170197B2	Selective passivation and selective deposition Methods for selective deposition, and structures thereof, are provided. Material is selectively deposited on a first surface of a substrate relative to a second surface of a different material composition. A passivation layer is selectively formed from vapor phase reactants on the first surface while leaving the second surface without the passivation layer. A layer of interest is selectively deposited from vapor phase reactants on the second surface relative to the passivation layer. The first surface can be metallic while the second surface is dielectric, or the second surface is dielectric while the second surface is metallic. Accordingly, material, such as a dielectric, can be selectively deposited on either metallic or dielectric surfaces relative to the other type of surface using techniques described herein. Techniques and resultant structures are also disclosed for control of positioning and shape of layer edges relative to boundaries between underlying disparate materials.
US12170194B2	Magnetron plasma sputtering arrangement A magnetron plasma sputtering arrangement including an evacuable chamber, wherein in the evacuable chamber a tuning electrode, operatively connected to a biasing source with respect to ground, and including an aperture defining at least one axis of length, is arranged in a flow path for plasma between a sputtering head and a substrate. A plasma sputtered material originating at a sputtering target will traverse the aperture before depositing onto the surface of the substrate as a thin film.
US12170193B2	Temperature estimation apparatus, plasma processing system, temperature estimation method and temperature estimation program A temperature estimation apparatus includes an estimation unit configured to successively estimate temperature data by successively inputting given time series process data relating to conditions inside a processing space in which plasma processing is performed, into a time series model generated in advance that correlates data values, in each time period, of time series process data relating to conditions inside the processing space, with a data value, at a respective time point, of time series temperature data measured inside the processing space.
US12170192B2	Plasma abatement system utilizing water vapor and oxygen reagent Implementations of the present disclosure relate to systems for abating F-gases present in the effluent of semiconductor manufacturing processes. In one implementation, a system is provided that includes a water and oxygen delivery system. The water and oxygen delivery system includes a water vapor reagent source fluidly coupled with a chamber foreline via a first conduit; and an oxygen reagent source fluidly coupled with the chamber foreline via a second conduit fluidly coupled with the first conduit. The system further includes a plasma source fluidly coupled with the water and oxygen delivery system via the chamber foreline.
US12170191B2	Substrate supporting apparatus and substrate treating apparatus including the same Provided is a substrate supporting apparatus with improved durability. The substrate supporting apparatus includes a body configured to support a substrate and formed of a dielectric substance; a heat transfer medium supply hole installed to penetrate the body; a first electrostatic electrode disposed in the body; and a second electrostatic electrode disposed in the body, located on the first electrostatic electrode, and electrically connected to the first electrostatic electrode.
US12170190B2	Wafer support table and RF rod A wafer support table includes a ceramic base having a wafer placement surface and including an RF electrode and a heater electrode embedded, the RF electrode being closer to the wafer placement surface; a hole extending from a surface of the ceramic base opposite the wafer placement surface toward the RF electrode; and an RF rod through having a top end joined to the RF electrode or joined to a conductive member connected to the RF electrode, wherein the RF rod is a hybrid rod including a first rod member that is made of Ni and constitutes a portion of the RF rod from the top end to a predetermined position and a second rod member that is joined to the first rod member and constitutes a portion of the RF rod from the predetermined position to the base end and is made of a non-magnetic material.
US12170187B2	Gas supply system, plasma processing apparatus, and gas supply method A system includes: gas supply flow paths for supplying independently a main gas to a processing chamber; a flow rate control valve disposed in each gas supply flow path; an additive-gas flow path connected to the flow rate control valve; a valve for addition disposed in the additive-gas flow path; and a controller for controlling the flow rate control valve and the valve for addition to execute controls of: calculating flow rates of the main gas and an additive gas to be mixed with the main gas; calculating a total of the flow rates; calculating an internal pressure of each gas supply flow path with the total flow rate, and first and second relationships between previously acquired gas flow rates and gas pressures of the main gas and the additive gas, respectively; calculating an internal pressure ratio; and proportionally controlling openings of flow rate control valves based on the ratio.
US12170186B2	Showerhead assembly with heated showerhead Methods and apparatus for substrate processing are described. In some embodiments a showerhead assembly includes a heated showerhead having a heater and a gas diffusion plate coupled to the heater, the gas diffusion plate having a plurality of channels extending through the gas diffusion plate; an ion filter spaced from the heated showerhead, the ion filter having a first side facing the heated showerhead and a second side opposite the first side, the ion filter having a plurality of channels extending through the ion filter; a heat transfer ring in contact between the heated showerhead and the ion filter, the heat transfer ring being thermally conductive and electrically insulative, the heat transfer ring comprised of a plurality of elements spaced from one another along an interface between the heated showerhead and the ion filter; and a remote plasma region defined between the heated showerhead and the ion filter.
US12170184B2	Transmission electron microscope and inspection method using transmission electron microscope A transmission electron microscope capable of obtaining a hollow-cone dark-field image and visually displaying irradiation conditions thereof includes an irradiation unit for irradiating a specimen with an electron beam, an objective lens for causing the electron beam transmitted through the specimen to form an image, beam deflectors positioned higher than a position where the specimen is placed, an objective movable aperture for passing only a portion of the electron beam transmitted through the specimen, and a deflection coil control unit. The deflection coil control unit controls a deflection angle of the electron beam using the beam deflectors such that the specimen is irradiated with the electron beam at a predetermined angle with respect to an optical axis while the electron beam is moving in a precessional manner and only a diffracted wave and/or a scattered wave having a desired angle passes through the objective movable aperture.
US12170182B2	Ribbon beam angle adjustment in an ion implantation system The present disclosure relates generally to ion implantation, and more particularly, to systems and processes for adjusting a ribbon beam angle of an ion implantation system. An exemplary ion implantation system includes an ion source configured to generate a ribbon beam, a wafer chuck configured to hold a wafer during implantation by the ribbon beam, a dipole magnet disposed between the ion source and the wafer chuck, and a controller. The dipole magnet includes at least two coils configured to adjust a ribbon beam angle of the ribbon beam at one or more locations along a path of the ribbon beam between the ion source and the wafer held in the wafer chuck. The controller is configured to control the ion source, the wafer chuck, and the dipole magnet.
US12170181B2	Pyrotechnic circuit breaker A pyrotechnic circuit breaker comprising: a casing, at least two connection terminals, an internal electrical circuit connecting the two connection terminals and formed for example by an electrical conductor, an opening member, which is movable and arranged to open a part to be opened of the internal electrical circuit when moving between an initial position and a final position, so as to form at least two discrete portions of conductor after opening, a pyrotechnic actuator arranged to move the opening member from the initial position to the final position, an inner chamber defined by an internal wall formed in the casing, and receiving the part to be opened, an insulating grease, arranged in the inner chamber, wherein the insulating grease is arranged on or covers at least two predetermined parts of the internal wall.
US12170180B2	Three-phase arc quenching device operated by one actuator An arc quenching device for a three-phase electrical switchgear. The device includes a first busbar, a second busbar and a third busbar, each of a respective phase of the three-phase switchgear. The device also includes at least one piston of an electrically conductive material and having a tapered shape, tapering towards its front end. The device also includes only one pyrotechnical actuator arranged to, when the pyrotechnical actuator is fired, axially move each of the at least one piston until all of the first, second and third busbars are short-circuited to each other via the at least one piston.
US12170178B2	Dual conductor Thomson coil for faster opening of a hybrid circuit breaker A dual conductor Thomson coil actuator for use in opening the separable contacts of a circuit interrupter comprises two nested conductors wound to form a single coil, rather than the traditional design comprising one single conductor wound to form a coil of the same size. Each of the two conductors can be excited by half the capacitance that would be used to excite the traditional single conductor coil, using the same voltage as the single conductor coil. When the same total capacitor-stored energy that would be used to excite the single conductor coil is instead used to excite the dual conductor coil, the initial pulse of aggregate current through the dual conductor coil is greater than the initial pulse of current through the single conductor coil, resulting in a faster initial opening distance of the separable contacts during an opening stroke.
US12170171B2	Electronic component An electronic component that includes: a ceramic body; and an external electrode on a surface of the ceramic body, wherein the external electrode includes: a base layer in contact with the surface of the ceramic body, the base layer including a granulate of a metal material and a continuous phase of a titanium-containing oxide present around the granulate of the metal material; and a plating layer on the base layer.
US12170170B2	Multilayer electronic component A multilayer electronic component, includes: a body including a dielectric layer, and first and second internal electrodes alternately disposed in a first direction with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween; a first connection portion including a first conductive layer disposed on the third surface and connected to the first internal electrode, and a first insulating layer disposed on the first conductive layer; a second connection portion including a second conductive layer disposed on the fourth surface and connected to the second internal electrode, and a second insulating layer disposed on the second conductive layer; a first external electrode including a first electrode layer connected to the first conductive layer, wherein the first external electrode is disposed on any one of the first, second, fifth, and sixth surfaces; and a second external electrode including a second electrode layer connected to the second conductive layer.
US12170168B2	Supercapacitors comprising phosphonate and arsonate metal organic frameworks (MOFs) as active electrode materials An electrode suitable for constructing an electrochemical double layer capacitor and/or supercapacitor is provided that includes an electrode material a metal organic framework (MOF), wherein the MOF includes an inorganic building unit including metal atoms selected from group 1 to group 12 elements, and functional groups of organic linkers including oxygen (O) and one or more atoms selected from the group comprising phosphorus (P), arsenic (As), antimony (Sb), silicon (Si), selenium (Se) and bismuth (Bi). The functional groups of the organic linkers can include phosphonate, arsonate, phosphonic acid, phosphinic acid, arsonic acids and/or arsenic acids, monoester and/or diester forms thereof. Further, the metal atoms may be selected from zinc (Zn), cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), cobalt (Co), nickel (Ni), gold (Au) and silver (Ag). The use of the MOF as a semiconductor in semiconductor applications, a semiconductive device, such as a photovoltaic cell, including the MOF are also provided.
US12170166B2	Device for generating magnetic field and method for controlling same Disclosed is a radiation and magnetic field generating apparatus irradiating photon beam radiation to in-body affected tissue of a subject. The apparatus includes a radiation generating unit that irradiates the photon beam radiation to the subject and induces generation of secondary electrons in an area of the subject where the photon beam radiation is irradiated, a magnetic field generating unit that includes an insertion structure for forming a low-density space and forms a magnetic field in an area in which the secondary electrons are generated, and a synchronization control unit that controls formation of the magnetic field and controls the formation of the magnetic field such that the secondary electrons move while avoiding normal tissue adjacent to the affected tissue.
US12170162B2	Warped magnetic tunnel junctions and bit-patterned media The present invention comprises Magnetic Tunnel Junctions and Bit-Patterned Media with a warped geometry with the purpose of attaining large thermal stability factors and dramatically increasing the scalability of the magnetic bits while still allowing the reduction of switching current density and switching magnetic field, and also increasing switching speed. The warped shape allows providing thermal stability to the bits through dynamic exchange energy barrier and also by providing additional net magnetic anisotropy through shape-induced reduction of the demagnetization field. The dynamic exchange energy barrier in turn allows engineering the damping torque and the free-layer's magnetic parameters to a much larger extent than the current planar technology. It also allows much faster magnetic-field-induced switching of patterned bits than it is possible with current hard disk drive technology, through the use of precession torque instead of conventional damping torque.
US12170161B2	Stock solution A process and a system for producing a stock solution for production of a ferrofluid is provided. The process includes contacting an acidic solution in a reaction container filled with an excess of a bulk material containing Fe(III) and optionally Fe(II). The acid reacts with the bulk material to form the stock solution (Ls) having dissolved ferric (Fe(III)) and optionally ferrous (Fe(II)) ions which is then separated from the bulk material.
US12170157B2	Low-profile cable armor Disclosed is an armored cable assembly which may include a plurality of conductors and a metal sheath disposed over the plurality of conductors. The metal sheath may have a plurality of revolutions extending helically along a lengthwise axis, each of the plurality of revolutions including a first section having a curved profile, a second section extending from the first section, the second section having a planar profile, and a third section extending from the second section. The third section may include a free end angled towards an interior cavity of the metal sheath, the free end extending past a plane defined by a bottom most point of the first section of an adjacent revolution, the plane extending perpendicular to the second section.
US12170156B2	Power equipment and associated manufacturing method Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a power equipment and method for providing the same. Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a power equipment. The power equipment includes a high voltage part, a low voltage part, and an insulation oil adapted to impregnate the high voltage part and insulate the high voltage part from the low voltage part. The insulation oil is partially filled with polymer particles with a lower thermal expansion coefficient than the insulation oil. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the degree of expansion of the insulation medium can be reduced in a cost-effective way.
US12170155B2	Conductive paste, preparation method thereof, and preparation method of conductive film This application discloses a conductive paste, a preparation method thereof, and a preparation method of a conductive film using the conductive paste. The conductive paste comprises: a thermoplastic polyurethane, conductive particles, and an organic solvent, the thermoplastic polyurethane and the conductive particles being proportionally mixed in the organic solvent, and the thermoplastic polyurethane being dispersed in the form of particles among the conductive particles. A thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer is used as a binder, and the conductive particles are mixed in the organic solvent containing the thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer. The conductive particles ensure the conductivity of the conductive film prepared using the conductive paste. The thermoplastic polyurethane has strong adhesion ability, and is suitable for use on the surface of most substrates, to form a conductive film with good adhesion and no cracking.
US12170153B2	Systems and techniques for calibrating radioisotope delivery systems with a gamma detector An infusion system may include a radioisotope generator that generates a radioactive eluate via elution, a beta detector, a gamma detector, and a controller. The beta detector and the gamma detector may be positioned to measure beta emissions and gamma emissions, respectively, emitted from the radioactive eluate. In some examples, the controller is configured to calibrate the infusion system using the gamma detector. For example, the controller may generate a radioactive eluate and measure the activity of the radioactive eluate using both the beta detector and the gamma detector. The high accuracy of the activity measured by the gamma detector may be used to calibrate the infusion system. In subsequent use, the infusion system calibrated using the gamma detector may adjust measurements made to monitor and/or control patient infusion procedures.
US12170152B2	BWR nuclear fuel assembly comprising an interaction device between a lower tie plate and a fuel channel A BWR fuel assembly is elongated along a fuel assembly axis and comprises a lower tie plate, an upper tie plate axially spaced from the lower tie plate, a bundle of fuel rods extending axially between the lower tie plate and the upper tie plate, and a tubular fuel channel extending from the lower tie plate to the upper tie plate with encasing the fuel rods. The fuel assembly comprises an interaction device mounted on the lower tie plate and configured to interact with the fuel channel. The interaction device has an inactive configuration and an active configuration.
US12170150B2	Automatic lead orientation adjustment Via a graphical interface, virtual representations of an anatomical region of a human and a medical device selection mechanism are displayed. The medical device selection mechanism includes a plurality of implantable leads each medically implantable in the anatomical region. In the graphical interface, a user-selected implantable lead is moved from the medical device selection mechanism to the anatomical region. A first side of the user-selected implantable lead is initially displayed when the user-selected implantable lead is moved to the anatomical region. In the graphical interface, the user-selected implantable lead is automatically rotated in the anatomical region, such that a second side of the user-selected implantable lead is displayed after the user-selected implantable lead has been automatically rotated. The second side is opposite the first side.
US12170146B2	Omnichannel therapeutic platform A computer-implemented method for treating a medical condition via a digital therapeutic platform, the method including receiving one or more user inputs, generating a script at a script generator, based on the one or more user inputs, determining therapeutic digital content by applying the script as an input to a therapeutic machine learning platform, receiving the therapeutic digital content via at least one of a therapeutic content database or a content generator, identifying a user platform to output the therapeutic digital content, modifying the therapeutic digital content for output via the user platform, providing the therapeutic digital content via the user platform, receiving feedback based on user consumption of the therapeutic digital content via the user platform and adjusting at least one of the script generator or the therapeutic machine learning platform based on the feedback.
US12170143B1	Multi-sided match making platforms A multi-sided match making (“MMM”) computer system including at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device for matching consumers to providers is provided. The at least one processor is configured to: (i) receive registration data from a user, (ii) receive user data from at least one of a sensor and a mobile device associated with the user, (iii) analyze the registration data and the user data, (iv) determine a need based upon the analyzed registration and user data, (v) transmit the determined need to at least one caregiver associated with the user, and (vi) match the user to at least one provider based upon the determined need, wherein the provider is at least one of the caregiver, another caregiver, and a service, and wherein the provider is able to meet the determined need for the user.
US12170140B2	Customizable multimodality image hanging protocols Systems and methods for generating and using a customized hanging protocol for the display of medical images. The methods may include receiving an indication to create a first hanging step of the hanging protocol, displaying a workspace having a plurality of viewports for displaying medical images, and displaying a plurality of building blocks corresponding to different types of medical images. The method may also include receiving a selection of a first building block in the plurality of building blocks, wherein the first building block corresponds to a first type of medical image, and receiving an indication of a location in the workspace for the first building block to be placed. Based on the indication of the location in the workspace for the first building block, one or more of the plurality of viewports is filled with the first building block.
US12170139B2	Virtual checklists for orthopedic surgery An extended reality (XR) visualization device worn by an orthopedic surgeon outputs a XR visualization for display. The XR visualization includes a set of one or more virtual checklist items. Each of the one or more virtual checklist items corresponds to an item in a checklist of steps of an orthopedic surgery. Additionally, the XR visualization device detects a command of the orthopedic surgeon to select a virtual checklist item in the set of virtual checklist items. In response to detecting the command, the XR visualization device updates the XR visualization to include additional information regarding a step of the orthopedic surgery corresponding to the selected virtual checklist item.
US12170138B2	Systems and methods for time-based athletic activity measurement and display An athletic parameter measurement device worn by an athlete during an athletic activity session includes a housing which attaches to the athlete, a display, a processor associated with the display, and an athletic parameter measurement sensor. During the athletic activity, the device detects, using the sensor, a vertical jump height of the athlete, and displays, during the performance of the athletic activity session, a representation of the vertical jump height on the display.
US12170137B2	Methods and apparatus for virtual competition A system configured to be coupled with a participant of an activity. The system comprises: a participant activity monitoring unit configured for monitoring a performance of the activity by the participant; an activity information module configured for storing performance information corresponding to the activity; and a participant performance correlator configured for delivering comparative performance data based on the monitored performance of the activity by the participant and the stored performance information.
US12170136B2	Insulin pump having basal rate testing features Methods of establishing an insulin delivery rate in a pump and an insulin pump are disclosed. A method includes selecting a set of alerts from one or more sets of alerts. The method also includes initiating a test process based on the set of alerts. The method further includes, upon activation of each alert in the selected set of alerts, prompting a user to input a blood glucose level.
US12170135B2	Systems and methods for evaluating query perturbations Methods and systems for evaluating a query perturbation, in a cell based assay representing a test state, are provided. Control data points having dimensions representing measurements of different features across control cell aliquots are obtained. Test data points having dimensions representing measurements of different features across test cell aliquots are obtained. A composite test vector is computed between measures of central tendency across the control data points and measures of central tendency across the test data points. Query perturbation data points having dimensions representing measurements of different features across perturbation cell aliquots are obtained. A composite query perturbation vector is computed between measures of central tendency across the control data points and measures of central tendency across the plurality of query perturbation data points.
US12170128B2	Circuit for synchronization for an interconnection protocol, controller and storage device A synchronization circuit for an interconnection protocol, a controller and a storage device are provided. The synchronization circuit includes a first synchronization circuit module and a second synchronization circuit module. The first synchronization circuit module converts first control information of a first clock domain output by a data link layer receiver of the first device into second control information of a second clock domain, and outputs the second control information of the second clock domain. The second synchronization circuit module is coupled to the first synchronization circuit module, and converts the second control information of the second clock domain output by the first synchronization circuit module into third control information of a third clock domain to be output to a data link layer transmitter of the first device. Any two among the first, second and third clock domains are asynchronous.
US12170126B2	Stacked DRAM device and method of manufacture A memory device includes a first dynamic random access memory (DRAM) integrated circuit (IC) chip including first memory core circuitry, and first input/output (I/O) circuitry. A second DRAM IC chip is stacked vertically with the first DRAM IC chip. The second DRAM IC chip includes second memory core circuitry, and second I/O circuitry. Solely one of the first DRAM IC chip or the second DRAM IC chip includes a conductive path that electrically couples at least one of the first memory core circuitry or the second memory core circuitry to solely one of the first I/O circuitry or the second I/O circuitry, respectively.
US12170122B2	Techniques for initializing memory error correction Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for initializing memory error correction are described. A memory system may perform operations relating to writing data to multiple memory cells belonging to one or more rows of the memory system in response to a single write command. For example, the memory system may receive (e.g., from a host system) an activation command (e.g., a row group activation command) indicating a row group address. The memory system may activate a set of rows indicated by the row group address. In response to a write command (e.g., a row group write command), the memory system may write data in a respective memory cell of each row indicated by the row group address. For example, each memory cell to be written may correspond to a column address included in the write command. The memory system may write a same logic state to each memory cell.
US12170117B2	3D NAND memory with built-in capacitor An apparatus that includes a set of memory components of a memory sub-system is provided. The set of memory components include a first memory block comprising first units of linearly arranged memory cells and a second memory block comprising second units of linearly arranged memory cells. The set of memory components include a slit portion dividing the first and second memory blocks. The slit portion includes a capacitor in which a first metal portion of the capacitor is adjacent to the first units of linearly arranged memory cells and a second metal portion of the capacitor is adjacent to the second units of linearly arranged memory cells.
US12170114B2	Three-dimensional memory device and method for reading the same A three-dimensional (3D) memory device and method for reading the same are provided. The device includes memory cell strings each including multiple memory cells. In each memory cell string, a topmost memory cell is connected to a top selection gate connected to a bit line, and a bottommost memory cell is connected to a bottom selection gate. The method includes sequentially programming multiple memory cells in a memory cell string according to a programming sequence; in reading a memory cell, applying a corresponding bit line voltage to the memory cell string according to the programming sequence of the memory cell.
US12170112B2	Storage device for determining memory cell type after data input during program operation and operating method thereof A storage device may input a program command requesting to program target data into the memory, input the target data into a memory, and input the program confirmation command into the memory after inputting the program command and the target data into the memory. In this case, the program confirmation command may include information about a cell type of memory cells to be programmed with target data among a plurality of memory cells.
US12170110B2	Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) circuitry for low-voltage memory bit-line and word-line decoders A memory including a memory array having a plurality of bit-line inputs and a plurality of word-line inputs; a bit-line decoder; and a control circuit is provided. The bit-line decoder includes a first circuit and a second circuit including a plurality of low-voltage field effect transistors (FET). The control circuit provides control signals to the plurality of low-voltage FETs in a sequence of a pre-pulse phase, a pulse phase, and a post-pulse phase, wherein at the pulse phase, the first circuit and the second circuit receives a desired voltage. The control circuit provide control signals the plurality of low-voltage FETs a voltage no greater than a low-voltage at the pre-pulse phase and the post-pulse phase. In silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technologies, use of low-voltage FETs in the bit-line and word-line decoders reduces the area of the periphery circuits of the memory array without requiring change to the memory array itself.
US12170105B2	One time programmable (OTP) magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) A memory device includes a plurality of magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) cells including a first one-time programmable (OTP) MRAM cell. A first OTP select transistor is connected to the first OTP MRAM cell. The first OTP select transistor configured to selectively apply a breakdown current to the first OTP MRAM cell to write the first OTP MRAM cell to a breakdown state.
US12170104B2	Storage element and storage apparatus A storage element includes a layer structure including a storage layer having a direction of magnetization which changes according to information, a magnetization fixed layer having a fixed direction of magnetization, and an intermediate layer disposed therebetween, which intermediate layer contains a nonmagnetic material. The magnetization fixed layer has at least two ferromagnetic layers having a direction of magnetization tilted from a direction perpendicular to a film surface, which are laminated and magnetically coupled interposing a coupling layer therebetween. This configuration may effectively prevent divergence of magnetization reversal time due to directions of magnetization of the storage layer and the magnetization fixed layer being substantially parallel or antiparallel, reduce write errors, and enable writing operation in a short time.
US12170102B1	Short on wafer laser for heat assisted magnetic recording An apparatus includes a substrate. A laser is deposited above the substrate. The laser includes one or more non-self-supporting layers of crystalline material. The laser has a length along a light path in a range of about 40 um to about 350 um. An optical input coupler is configured to receive light from the laser. A waveguide is deposited proximate the optical input coupler. The waveguide is configured to communicate light from the laser via the optical input coupler to a near-field transducer that directs energy resulting from plasmonic excitation to a recording medium.
US12170101B2	Magnetic head with multilayer configuration between magnetic poles and magnetic recording device According to one embodiment, a magnetic head includes a first magnetic pole, a second magnetic pole, and a magnetic element provided between the first and the second magnetic poles. The magnetic element includes first to fifth magnetic layers, and first to sixth non-magnetic layers. The fifth magnetic layer includes a first element and at least one of Fe, Co or Ni. The first element includes at least one selected from the group consisting of Cr, V, Mn, Ti, N and Sc. The fifth non-magnetic layer includes at least one selected from the group consisting of Ru, Ir, Ta, Rh, Pd, Pt and W. The sixth non-magnetic layer includes at least one selected from the group consisting of Cu, Au, Cr, Al, V and Ag.
US12170098B2	Sound detection method The present disclosure discloses a sound detection method. The method includes: obtaining an initial sound signal and a spatial distribution spectrum of the initial sound signal; segmenting the initial sound signal, to obtain a target sound segment, and obtaining a timestamp corresponding to the target sound segment, the target sound segment including a speech of at least one object, and the timestamp being used for indicating a start time of the target sound segment and an end time of the target sound segment; segmenting the spatial distribution spectrum by using the timestamp, to obtain a spatial distribution spectrum segment corresponding to the target sound segment; and inputting the target sound segment and the spatial distribution spectrum segment into a sound detection model, to obtain a first sound detection result, the first sound detection result being used for describing whether sound of multiple objects exists in the initial sound signal.
US12170093B2	Audio decoder, apparatus for generating encoded audio output data and methods permitting initializing a decoder An audio decoder decodes a bit stream of encoded audio data, which bit stream represents a sequence of audio sample values and includes a plurality of frames, wherein each frame includes associated encoded audio sample values. The audio decoder includes a determiner configured to determine whether a frame of the encoded audio data is a special frame including encoded audio sample values associated with the special frame and additional information, wherein the additional information include encoded audio sample values of a number of frames preceding the special frame, wherein the encoded audio sample values of the preceding frames are encoded using the same codec configuration as the special frame, wherein the number of preceding frames is sufficient to initialize the decoder to be in a position to decode the audio sample values associated with the special frame if the special frame is the first frame upon start-up of the decoder.
US12170092B2	Signal processing device, method, and program The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a method, and a program that can obtain a signal with higher sound quality.The signal processing device includes: a calculation unit that calculates a parameter for generating a difference signal corresponding to an input compressed sound source signal on the basis of a prediction coefficient and the input compressed sound source signal, the prediction coefficient being obtained by learning using, as training data, a difference signal between an original sound signal and a learning compressed sound source signal obtained by compressing and coding the original sound signal; a difference signal generation unit that generates the difference signal on the basis of the parameter and the input compressed sound source signal; and a synthesis unit that synthesizes the generated difference signal and the input compressed sound source signal. The present technology can be applied to a signal processing device.
US12170091B2	Sound signal encoding method, sound signal decoding method, sound signal encoding apparatus, sound signal decoding apparatus, program, and recording medium A downmix unit 110 obtains downmix signals which are signals obtained by mixing input sound signals of a left channel input and input sound signals of a right channel input. A left channel signal subtraction unit 130 and a right channel signal subtraction unit 150 code the difference between the input sound signals and a multiplication value of the downmix signals and a subtraction gain for each of the left channel and the right channel. In such a configuration, a left channel subtraction gain estimation unit 120 and a right channel subtraction gain estimation unit 140 determine the subtraction gain such that the quantization errors resulting from the two processes of coding/decoding are reduced.
US12170087B1	Altering audio to improve automatic speech recognition Techniques for altering audio being output by a voice-controlled device, or another device, to enable more accurate automatic speech recognition (ASR) by the voice-controlled device. For instance, a voice-controlled device may output audio within an environment using a speaker of the device. While outputting the audio, a microphone of the device may capture sound within the environment and may generate an audio signal based on the captured sound. The device may then analyze the audio signal to identify speech of a user within the signal, with the speech indicating that the user is going to provide a subsequent command to the device. Thereafter, the device may alter the output of the audio (e.g., attenuate the audio, pause the audio, switch from stereo to mono, etc.) to facilitate speech recognition of the user's subsequent command.
US12170086B1	Language switching on a speech interface device A speech interface device is configured to switch between languages, at the request of a user, in order to locally process utterances spoken in different languages, even in instances when a remote system is unavailable to, slower than, or otherwise less preferred than the speech interface device. For example, a user can request to set the language setting of the speech interface device to a second language, different from a first language to which the language setting of the device is currently set. Based on this user request, a local speech processing component of the device may load a language model(s) associated with the second language. The speech interface can also output voice prompts in the second language to manage the user's experience while a language update is in progress on the speech interface device.
US12170084B2	Control device and system including the same The present disclosure relates to a control device and a system including the same. The control device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: an external device interface configured to transmit and receive signals to and from a display device; a user input interface configured to receive a user input; an audio output unit including a speaker; and a controller configured to: when a first voice input is received through the user input interface in a standby mode, check a first command corresponding to the first voice input; transmit a signal for activating a function of the display device to the display device through the external device interface when the first command is a command related to image output; and output a response to the first command through the audio output unit when the first command is not the command related to image output.
US12170082B1	On-the-fly transcription/redaction of voice-over-IP calls An improved method for transcribing/redacting VOIP calls on the fly produces redacted transcripts/audio, in real time, without producing any non-volatile storage footprint for unredacted call audio or transcripts.
US12170076B2	Adaptation and modification of a Theremin system A musical instrument with novel configurations and performance techniques that can play notes and scale tones is disclosed. The musical instrument implements design and ergonomic changes to a Theremin's traditional configuration and use. The musical instrument includes an additional sound generation device such as an actuator that is operated to provide rhythm and tonal results. The musical instrument includes a pitch antenna that is configured in a horizontal position, which creates a different plane of reference with respect to performance motions employed for modifying the pitch. The musical instrument allows for a user to play notes and scale tones in a standing, seated, or ambulatory position. Improved playing interfaces, accessory items, and other characteristics for enhancing the playing of the musical instrument are provided.
US12170075B2	Comparison training for music generator Techniques are disclosed relating to automatically generating new music content based on image representations of audio files. A music generation system includes a music generation subsystem and a music classification subsystem. The music generation subsystem may generate output music content according to music parameters that define policy for generating music. The classification subsystem may be used to classify whether music is generated by the music generation subsystem or is professionally produced music content. The music generation subsystem may implement an algorithm that is reinforced by prediction output from the music classification subsystem. Reinforcement may include tuning the music parameters to generate more human-like music content.
US12170068B2	Backlight apparatus and operating method thereof In a backlight apparatus, a master driving circuit generates a transmission frame including a training period including a clock training pattern and a data period including a plurality of data packets respectively corresponding to the plurality of blocks. A plurality of slave driving circuits correspond to the plurality of blocks, respectively, and are connected to the master driving circuit in a daisy chain structure. Each slave driving circuit receives the transmission frame through the daisy chain structure, recovers a clock based on the clock training pattern, and drives the plurality of light emitting elements included in a corresponding block among the plurality of blocks based on its own data packet among a plurality of data packets.
US12170065B2	Pixel circuit, pixel drive method and display device A pixel circuit, a pixel drive method and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes an energy storage control circuit, an energy storage circuit, a first initialization circuit, a drive circuit, and a light-emitting element. The first initialization circuit writes a first initial voltage into a control terminal of the drive circuit under control of a first initialization control signal. The energy storage control circuit control a second end of the energy storage circuit to be connected to the first voltage terminal under control of an energy storage control signal in a refresh frame, and is configured to control the second end of the energy storage circuit to be disconnected from the first voltage terminal under control of the energy storage control signal in an initialization phase included in a hold frame and a data writing phase included in the hold frame.
US12170064B2	Pixel circuit and driving method therefor, and display panel A pixel circuit, a driving method for a pixel circuit, and a display panel. The pixel circuit includes a drive module, a data write module, a first compensation module, a second compensation module, a light-emitting module, a storage module and a coupling module. The data write module is configured to write a voltage related to a data voltage to a control terminal of the drive module. The drive module is configured to provide a drive signal to the light-emitting module according to the voltage of the control terminal to drive the light-emitting module to emit light. A first terminal of the second compensation module is connected to the control terminal of the drive module, a second terminal of the second compensation module is connected to a first terminal of the first compensation module.
US12170063B2	Pixel circuit, display apparatus, and driving method A pixel circuit, a display apparatus, and a driving method. The pixel circuit include: a driving circuit, a data writing circuit, a compensation circuit, a light emission control circuit, a first reset circuit, a second reset circuit, and a light-emitting element. The data writing circuit is for writing a data signal into the first terminal of the driving circuit based on a writing control signal; the first reset circuit is for applying a first reset voltage to the control terminal of the driving circuit based on a first reset control signal; and the second reset circuit is for applying a second reset voltage to a first electrode of the light-emitting element based on a second reset control signal. The writing control signal and the second reset control signal are synchronized in each write frame, and the writing control signal remains at an invalid level in each skip frame.
US12170059B2	Display substrate, preparation method thereof, and display apparatus with optimized fan-out A display substrate and a manufacturing method therefor, and a display device are provided in the present disclosure. The display substrate includes a drive circuit layer disposed on a substrate, the drive circuit layer includes a plurality of circuit units, at least one circuit unit of the plurality of circuit units includes a pixel drive circuit, a first power supply line providing a power supply signal to the pixel drive circuit, a data signal line providing a data signal to the pixel drive circuit, and a data fan-out line connected with the data signal line; at least a portion of the first power supply line, the data signal line, and the data fan-out line extends along a second direction and is arranged at intervals along a first direction.
US12170058B2	Signal processing device to improve contrast of a displayed image The present disclosure relates to a signal processing device and an image display apparatus including the same. The image display apparatus includes a display, an image receiver configured to receive an input image, and a signal processing device configured to perform signal processing of the input image from the image receiver and to output image data to the display, wherein, when a luminance deviation of a first input image is greater than a luminance deviation of a second input image, the signal processing device controls a luminance adjustment change rate of a first input image to be less than a luminance adjustment change rate of the second input image. Accordingly, contrast of an image displayed on the display is improved.
US12170051B2	Source driver integrated circuit, method of driving the same, and timing controller A source driver IC capable of cancelling an output offset is provided. The source driver IC comprises a reception circuit configured to receive an input data packet from a timing controller when operating in a normal mode and obtain an image data and a first clock signal from the input data packet, a control circuit configured to receive and output the image data and the first clock signal from the reception circuit when operating in the normal mode. The control circuit is configured to receive and output a second clock signal from the timing controller when operating in a low power mode. The source driver IC further comprises an output buffer circuit configured to output a data voltage related to the image data when operating in the normal mode and maintain an output of the data voltage when operating in the low power mode.
US12170044B2	Two-dimensional compositing Two-dimensional compositing that preserves the curvatures of non-flat surfaces is disclosed. In some embodiments, a mapping is associated with a two-dimensional rendering that maps a potentially variable portion of the two-dimensional rendering to a canvas. The mapping is generated from a three-dimensional model of the potentially variable portion of the two-dimensional rendering. The potentially variable portion of the two-dimensional rendering is dynamically modified according to the mapping to reflect content comprising the canvas or edits received with respect to the canvas.
US12170040B2	Flexible display device with a slidable region and control method thereof Provided is a display device, which includes a flexible display panel including a display region and a peripheral region surrounding the display region; a driver integrated circuit (IC) disposed in the peripheral region; a plurality of detection circuits disposed in the peripheral region and close to the slidable region; at least one input signal line; at least one control signal line and at least one detection signal line.
US12170037B2	Alignment for tiles of tiled displays Tiled displays having display tiles, are described as well as methods of making and/or operating tiled displays and tiles. Methods and devices are described for a tiled display having tiles lying in an X-Y plane, the methods and devices being for setting or adjusting the position of neighbouring tiles in a tiled display to reduce differences in the Z direction between tiles of a tiled display, whereby the tiles lie in the X-Y plane.
US12170035B2	Display module, method of fabricating the same, and back film A display module includes a flexible display panel and a bearing structure. The flexible display panel includes a display part and a fan-out part coupled to the display part. The bearing structure includes a first bearing film and a first supporting structure. The first bearing film is at a non-light-emitting side of the flexible display panel, covers the display part and the fan-out part, and is configured to bear the flexible display panel. The first supporting structure is at a side of the first bearing film away from the flexible display panel. An orthographic projection of the first supporting structure on the flexible display panel is within an area where the fan-out part is located and at one end away from the display part, and the first supporting structure supports a portion of the fan-out part of the flexible display panel and a portion of the first bearing film.
US12170034B2	Self-laminating rotating cable marker with breakaway portion A self-laminating rotating cable marker label is constructed of a transparent film having a first adhesive area, an adhesive-free smooth area, and a second adhesive area. A print-on area forms one side of the transparent film, the print-on area adapted to receive indicia identifying the cable about which the marker label is applied. A perforation extends across the transparent film providing a line of separation of the transparent film. When wrapped around a cable, the second adhesive area overlies the print-on area such that the cable identifying indicia is visible through the transparent second adhesive area. As the transparent film is wrapped around the cable, the first adhesive area adheres to the cable. The remainder of the transparent film is rotated, breaking the perforation, whereby the smooth area of the film in contact with the cable provides smooth rotation of the label around the cable.
US12170027B2	Aircraft mission calculation system, able to calculate an environmental benefit index, and related process An aircraft mission calculation system is configured to calculate an environmental benefit index. The system includes an aircraft trajectory calculation engine, able to calculate at least one potential mission trajectory between a geographic point of origin and a geographic point of destination. The aircraft trajectory calculation engine comprises an environmental benefit index calculation module, able to activate the calculation engine. The environmental benefit index calculation module is able to determine an environmental benefit index (GI) of the potential trajectory from the first amount of carbon dioxide (Q1(TR1)) produced on a first reference trajectory defining a fastest mission, the second amount of carbon dioxide produced on a second reference trajectory (Q2(TR2)), defining a mission minimizing the amount of carbon dioxide produced, and the potential amount of carbon dioxide produced on the potential trajectory.
US12170022B2	Driving assistance apparatus A driving assistance apparatus including an approach detection part detecting an approach of a railway vehicle along a travel path from a diagonally backward of a subject vehicle to the subject vehicle without using a road-to-vehicle communication, a notification part notifying a driver of information and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform estimating a traveling direction of the subject vehicle at an intersection, and controlling the notification part so as to notify the driver of the approach of the railway vehicle when the traveling direction crossing the travel path is estimated and the approach of the railway vehicle to the subject vehicle is detected by the approach detection part.
US12170020B2	Terminal device and infrared light transmission method A terminal device and an infrared light transmission method are provided. A proximity light emission component and an infrared remote control emission component of the terminal device are in a shared mode. The proximity light emission component and the infrared remote control emission component share a same infrared lamp, lampshade, and appearance hole. A function of infrared remote control or a function of proximity light detection may be performed as required through one appearance hole, which can simplify hardware design and help to reduce costs. In addition, an infrared top path parallel to a screen of the terminal device and an infrared forward path perpendicular to the screen of the terminal device may be constructed based on an internal structure of the lampshade, and infrared light is transmitted through the infrared top path and the infrared forward path.
US12170014B2	Vehicle state presentation system, vehicle, terminal device, and vehicle state presentation method A terminal device separate from a vehicle includes a receiver that receives a notification signal from the vehicle indicating that the vehicle is in a first state different from a second state, a notification unit that notifies a user of the terminal device of the first state based on the notification signal, an input unit that receives, from the user of the terminal device, an input commanding the first state to be maintained, and a transmitter that transmits a signal to the vehicle based on the input received by the input unit. The vehicle includes a control unit that performs control that maintains the first state after lapse of a predetermined time from a time that the notification unit of the terminal device notifies of the first state of the vehicle when a reception unit of the vehicle receives the signal transmitted from the transmitter within the predetermined time.
US12170013B2	Electronic tag An electronic tag can be secured to a body of a person. The electronic tag has an antenna which transmits or receives an electromagnetic signal. An inductive proximity sensor determines a proximity of a metallic object to the electronic tag, based on electromagnetic coupling between the inductive proximity sensor and the metallic object. The inductive proximity sensor determines, based on the proximity being below a proximity threshold, that a metallic object is attenuating the electromagnetic signal transmitted or received by the antenna.
US12170008B2	Remote activation or deactivation of a device for theft deterrence In some aspects, a server device may obtain information relating to a location of a device that is to be delivered to a physical location associated with a recipient. The server device may transmit, based at least in part on the information indicating that the location of the device is at the physical location of the recipient, a first communication prompting the recipient to indicate whether the recipient is in possession of the device. The server device may receive a second communication indicating whether the recipient is in possession of the device. The server device may transmit a signal to cause a change of an activation state of one or more operations of the device based at least in part on whether the second communication indicates that the recipient is in possession of the device. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12170007B2	Computer learning for merchandise security Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems, devices, and methods for displaying and securing articles of merchandise. In one example, a merchandise security system includes a plurality of articles of merchandise on display in a retail store and at least one machine learning camera configured to capture images of one or more of the articles of merchandise for detecting information regarding the articles of merchandise, making predictions based on such information, and providing notifications based on such information.
US12170005B2	Processing security-related messages Methods and systems for processing messages received from a security device are presented. In some embodiments, a server may receive one or more messages from a security console and subsequently may determine the location of the security console. The server then may identify one or more other devices that are grouped, e.g., located within a predetermined distance, with the security console. Thereafter, the server may send one or more alert messages to the identified devices.
US12170002B2	Amusement devices and games involving progressive jackpots Various embodiments of a successive choice game including methods and apparatus are described. Further embodiments are disclosed.
US12170001B2	System and method for utilizing a mobile device to facilitate fund transfers between a cashless wagering account and a gaming establishment retail account The present disclosure relates generally to a system that utilizes a mobile device to facilitate the transfer of funds between a gaming establishment retail account and a cashless wagering account, and further between the cashless wagering account and an electronic gaming machine.
US12170000B2	Virtual chip purchase vouchers Systems and methods that employ a virtual chip purchase voucher to transfer an amount funds between one or more gaming establishment accounts associated with a user and one or more gaming table components associated with a gaming establishment gaming table.
US12169997B2	Method of placing wagers through a mobile device through a television wagering platform A system for controlling how wagering odds for individual plays inside of a live sporting event are combined with the broadcast of the live sporting event on a display with a mobile device that is paired with a set top box.
US12169996B2	Gaming machine and display lifting system for use with gaming machines A display lifting system for use with a gaming machine is described herein provided. The display lifting system includes a scissor-type extension assembly, a display unit lift assembly, and a display unit support assembly. The display lifting system is configured to position a display unit between a first position having the display unit adjacent a gaming cabinet, a second position having the display unit spaced a distance from the display unit housing, and a third position having the display unit positioned nearer to a ground surface to facilitate removing the display unit from the support frame assembly.
US12169995B2	Evaluating currency in areas using image processing A system evaluates currency in an area using image processing. In some examples, the system receives an image of an area from an image sensor, processes the image to identify at least one item of currency in the area, determine a value of the currency irrespective of validity, and counts the currency. In various examples, the system receives an image of an area from an image sensor; processes the image to identify at least one item of currency in the area; determines whether the currency has an error condition; and when the currency is determined to have the error condition, provides output on the error condition. In a number of examples, the system receives an image of an area from an image sensor; processes the image to identify at least one item of currency in the area; determines whether the currency is valid; and when the currency is determined to be suspect, provides output on the currency.
US12169994B2	Processing of medium A device for processing a medium includes: a conveyor for conveying the medium; an internal storage for storing the medium, the internal storage being disposed inside a body of the device and connected to the conveyor; an external storage for storing the medium, the external storage being disposed outside the body and connected to the conveyor; a temporary storage for storing the medium temporarily, the temporary storage being connected to the conveyor; and a controller for controlling the conveyer to perform at least one of collection processing and replenishment processing, the collection processing being processing of conveying the medium from the internal storage to the external storage via the temporary storage, the replenishment processing being processing of conveying the medium from the external storage to the internal storage via the temporary storage.
US12169990B2	Gate apparatus, gate apparatus control method, and storage medium A gate apparatus includes a determination unit, a fingerprint authentication unit, and a gate control unit. The determination unit determines a nationality of an examination target user. The fingerprint authentication unit obtains a fingerprint of the examination target user if the nationality of the examination target user is a first country and performs fingerprint authentication using the obtained fingerprint. The gate control unit controls a gate to allow the examination target user of the first nationality to pass through if the fingerprint authentication of the examination target user is successful.
US12169988B2	Modular control apparatus for vehicle A modular control apparatus for a vehicle comprises: a base block mounted on the vehicle to provide an interface with apparatuses within the vehicle; and an upgrade block detachably mounted on the base block. The base block detects whether or not the upgrade block is valid. The upgrade block includes a checking circuit for physically detecting whether or not the upgrade block is a valid upgrade block. The upgrade block periodically transmits a checking message indicating whether or not the upgrade block is the valid upgrade block.
US12169986B2	Vehicle data storage activation A computer is programmed to receive a plurality of first values for a respective plurality of variables transmitted over a communications network of a vehicle; determine a similarity measure between the first values and a plurality of second values of the variables; determine whether to transmit a collection of data transmitted over the communications network based on the similarity measure; and, upon so determining, transmit the collection of data to a server remote from the vehicle. The second values are a most similar set of values from an activation surface for a feature of the vehicle. The activation surface is a surface in a space defined by the variables dividing the space into regions in which activation of the feature is more or less likely than not, respectively, to have occurred when the variables have values in that region.
US12169985B1	Systems and methods for determining direction of vehicle path through intersection Techniques for determining a direction that a vehicle turned through an intersection using vehicle telematics data associated with the vehicle are provided. A first simplified line representative of the vehicle trip may be generated using the telematics data and may be compared to a boundary of a region associated with the intersection to identify spatial data points and times associated with the vehicle's entrance to and exit from the region associated with the intersection. A second simplified line representative of the portion of the vehicle trip through the intersection may be generated based on the identified spatial data points and times, and the second simplified line may be substringed into two segments. Angles associated with the first (entrance) segment and second (exit) segment may be measured, and a direction associated with the vehicle's turn through the intersection during the vehicle trip may be identified based on the angles.
US12169978B2	Print recognition module and display apparatus Provided in the present disclosure are a print recognition module and a display apparatus. The print recognition module includes: a base substrate; a driving circuit layer located on one side of the base substrate and including a plurality of driving transistors arranged in an array; a first insulating layer located on the side of the driving circuit layer that is away from the base substrate and including a plurality of first via holes running through the thickness thereof; a connecting electrode layer located on the side of the first insulating layer that is away from the driving circuit layer and including a plurality of connecting electrodes which are in one-to-one correspondence with first electrodes of the driving transistors; and a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions located on the side of the connecting electrode layer that is away from the first insulating layer.
US12169977B2	Under-display ultrasonic fingerprint sensors for foldable displays An apparatus may include an ultrasonic sensor stack, a foldable display stack and a transmission enhancement layer. The foldable display stack may include a display stiffener and display stack layers. The display stack layers may form one or more display stack resonators configured to enhance ultrasonic waves transmitted by the ultrasonic sensor stack in a first ultrasonic frequency range. In some implementations, a transmission enhancement resonator may include the display stiffener and the transmission enhancement layer. In some examples, the transmission enhancement resonator may include at least a portion of the ultrasonic sensor stack. The transmission enhancement resonator may be configured to enhance the ultrasonic waves transmitted by the ultrasonic sensor stack in the first ultrasonic frequency range.
US12169973B2	Vehicular trailering assist system A vehicular trailering assist system includes a rear backup camera disposed at a vehicle and viewing at least rearward of the vehicle and at least a portion of a trailer hitched to the vehicle. The camera captures frames of image data that include image data representative of at least a portion of the trailer hitched to the vehicle. Frames of image data captured by the camera are processed at an electronic control unit during a calibration maneuver by the vehicle to determine a trailer collision angle. The vehicular trailering assist system, after completion of the calibration maneuver, determines a current trailer angle of the trailer relative to a longitudinal axis of the vehicle as the vehicle is driven along the road. The vehicular trailering assist system determines whether the current trailer angle is within a threshold amount of the determined trailer collision angle.
US12169961B2	Method and system for unique, procedurally generated digital objects via few-shot model Disclosed herein is digital object generator that makes uses a one-way function to generate unique digital objects based on the user specific input. Features of the input are first extracted via a few-shot convolutional neural network model, then evaluated weight and integrated fit. The resulting digital object includes a user decipherable output such as a visual representation, an audio representation, or a multimedia representation that includes recognizable elements from the user specific input.
US12169959B2	Filtering of keypoint descriptors based on orientation angle Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to selecting a subset of keypoint descriptors of two images for match operation based on their orientation angles indicated in headers of the keypoint descriptors. The keypoint descriptors in the two images are matched by first comparing their headers and then performing vector distance determination. During the header comparison operation, a header of a descriptor of a first image is compared only with headers of keypoint descriptors of a second image in a discrete orientation angle range corresponding to an orientation angle indicated by the header of the first image descriptor or keypoint descriptors of the second image in adjacent discrete orientation angle ranges. After the headers of the keypoint descriptors satisfying one or more matching criteria are determined, distance determination operations are performed between the keypoint descriptors while the remaining keypoint descriptors are discarded without determining their distances.
US12169957B2	Image processing device, image processing method, and program An image processing device comprises pixel group setting part that sets plurality of pixel groups including first and second pixel groups, which are not connected to each other, based on image data of first image which shows target object including linear portion; pair setting part that performs setting pair of first and second pixel groups including pixel within predetermined range from first pixel group to calculate connecting degree of second pixel group with respect to first pixel group; and calculation part that calculates connecting degree of pair, wherein predetermined range is search range set based on first distance between first and second pixel groups, or search range set on based on first angle formed between first line segment corresponding to first pixel group and second line segment corresponding to second pixel group, and calculation part calculates first distance or first angle using first distance or first angle.
US12169947B2	Generating pose information for a person in a physical environment Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for generating body pose information for a person in a physical environment. In various implementations, a device includes an environmental sensor, a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the environmental sensor and the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining, via the environmental sensor, spatial data corresponding to a physical environment. The physical environment includes a person and a fixed spatial point. The method includes identifying a portion of the spatial data that corresponds to a body portion of the person. In some implementations, the method includes determining a position of the body portion relative to the fixed spatial point based on the portion of the spatial data. In some implementations, the method includes generating pose information for the person based on the position of body portion in relation to the fixed spatial point.
US12169944B2	Image reconstruction for virtual 3D Methods, systems, devices and computer software/program code products enable reconstruction of synthetic images of a scene from the perspective of a virtual camera having a selected virtual camera position, based on images of the scene captured by a number of actual, physical cameras.
US12169941B1	System and method for determining a position an object crosses a target plane A system and method for determining a position an object moving along a trajectory crosses a target plane, by obtaining a plurality of images of an object moving along a trajectory in an environment, the plurality of images capturing the object at different positions along the trajectory, obtaining a plurality of images of an object moving along a trajectory in an environment, the plurality of images capturing the object at different positions along the trajectory, the plurality of images being obtained from two or more cameras positioned at different positions in the environment, each of the two or more cameras having a field of view (FOV) that includes the trajectory of the moving object and a target plane, the target plane being a plane that the moving object crosses during movement along the trajectory, each of the two or more cameras obtaining the images at a different timing.
US12169940B2	Methods and apparatus for motion detection In one example, a method of motion detection includes producing a first image based on a plurality of previous images, the first image including pixels having intensity values that approximate a difference in intensity values between a pair of pixels within the previous images, and the pair of pixels being one pixel from each of first and second previous images and present at the same locations within their respective images, generating a second image by applying a threshold to the first image, the second image including one or more pixels with intensity values above the threshold, the threshold being derived from intensity values of pixels within the first image and a number of pixels in the first image with a respective intensity value, and determining a region of the second image indicating motion based on a location of the one or more pixels in the second image.
US12169937B2	Automatic image segmentation methods and analysis The invention provides methods and apparatus for image processing that perform image segmentation on data sets in two- and/or three-dimensions so as to resolve structures that have the same or similar grey values (and that would otherwise render with the same or similar intensity values) and that, thereby, facilitate visualization and processing of those data sets.
US12169934B2	Real-time, artificial intelligence-enabled analysis device and method for use in nuclear medicine imaging A system, device and method of imaging using a real-time, AI-enabled analysis device coupled to an imaging device during an image scan of a subject includes: receiving data corresponding to a plurality of image frames from the imaging device and user input identifying a region of interest (ROI) in a first image frame; providing data corresponding to the first image frame, including the identified ROI and data corresponding to the remaining image frames to the AI-enabled data processing system; accepting a plurality of valid image frames from the plurality of image frames based on a predefined set of computer vision rules and a minimum accepted frame threshold; calculating, frame by frame, an ROI function value of the plurality of valid image frames; determining whether a predetermined ROI function value has been reached; and alerting an operator of the imaging device that the predetermined ROI function value has been reached.
US12169933B2	Severity quantification and lesion localization method of infectious disease on CXR using vision transformer and apparatus therefor Disclosed is a method and apparatus for quantifying severity of infectious disease based on a vision transformer using a chest X-ray (CXR) image. Here, a method of quantifying severity of infectious disease based on a vision transformer includes receiving an input CXR image; extracting a feature map from the received input CXR image using a pretrained neural network; classifying a lesion in the input CXR image using the vision transformer based on the extracted feature map; and quantifying severity of the input CXR image based on the extracted feature map and the classified lesion.
US12169932B2	Information processing device, program, trained model, diagnostic support device, learning device, and prediction model generation method Provided are an information processing device, a program, a trained model, a diagnostic support device, a learning device, and a prediction model generation method that can perform prediction with high accuracy using images. An information processing device includes: an information acquisition unit that receives an input of image data and non-image data related to a target matter; and a prediction unit that predicts an aspect related to the matter at a time different from a time when the image data is captured on the basis of the image data and the non-image data input through the information acquisition unit. The prediction unit performs weighting calculation by a calculation method, which outputs a combination of products of elements of a first feature amount calculated from the image data and a second feature amount calculated from the non-image data, to calculate a third feature amount in which the first feature amount and the second feature amount are fused and performs the prediction on the basis of the third feature amount.
US12169930B2	Medical information processing apparatus, medical information processing method, and storage medium A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain medical images taken at a plurality of points in time. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain structures of a plurality of tissues, from medical images taken at a first point in time and at a second point in time different from the first point in time among the plurality of points in time. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate a measurement value related to a contact part between the plurality of tissues at the first point in time, on the basis of the obtained structures of the plurality of tissues at the second point in time and the obtained structures of the plurality of tissues at the first point in time.
US12169923B2	Method of detecting an abnormality and abnormality detection device A method of detecting an abnormality includes: acquiring an image of an inspection target as a captured image; generating a restored image by inputting the captured image into a first learning model, wherein the first learning model has learned with a normal image, wherein the normal image obtained by capturing a normal inspection target; generating a difference image between the captured image and the restored image; generating a restored difference image by inputting the generated difference image into a second learning model, wherein the second learning model has learned with a normal difference image; and detecting abnormality of the inspection target using the difference image and the restored difference image.
US12169922B2	Synthetic image generation using artificial intelligence Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for generating synthetic images, include: obtaining a captured image of a symbol that encodes data; producing a synthetic image from the captured image using a trained machine learning model, wherein the trained machine learning model has been trained using first images and second images of examples of symbols, wherein the second images have a second image quality that is different than a first image quality of first images, and wherein parameters of the machine learning model have been adjusted responsive to image features to tradeoff content loss versus style loss using measurements of information content correlation between third images produced during training and each of the first images and the second images, the measurements being from a comparison metric; and providing the synthetic image for use by a program configured to identify information in images of symbols.
US12169919B2	Imaging method with improved image quality A vessel image, which maps a vessel structure, and a device image, which maps a device, are created. A processor, depending on the device image and the vessel image, creates an overlaying image. At least one filter algorithm is applied to the device image, creating a filtered device image. The overlaying image is created by overlaying of the vessel image with the filtered device image.
US12169918B2	Method and apparatus for calibrating augmented reality headsets An AR calibration system for correcting AR headset distortions. A calibration image is provided to a screen and viewable through a headset reflector, and an inverse of the calibration image is provided to a headset display, reflected off the reflector and observed by a camera of the system while it is simultaneously observing the calibration image on the screen. One or more cameras are located to represent a user's point of view and aligned to observe the inverse calibration image projected onto the reflector. A distortion mapping transform is created using an algorithm to search through projection positions of the inverse calibration image until the inverse image observed by the camera(s) cancels out an acceptable portion of the calibration image provided to the screen as observed through the reflector by the camera, and the transform is used by the headset, to compensate for distortions.
US12169915B2	Systems and methods to process electronic images to provide blur robustness A computer-implemented method for processing electronic medical images, the method including receiving a plurality of electronic medical images of a medical specimen. Each of the plurality of electronic medical images may be divided into a plurality of tiles. A plurality of sets of matching tiles may be determined, the tiles within each set corresponding to a given region of a plurality of regions of the medical specimen. For each tile of the plurality of sets of matching tiles, a blur score may be determined corresponding to a level of image blur of the tile. For each set of matching tiles, a tile may be determined with the blur score indicating the lowest level of blur. A composite electronic medical image, comprising a plurality of tiles from each set of matching tiles with the blur score indicating the lowest level of blur, may be determined and provided for display.
US12169910B2	Image processing method and image processing apparatus An image processing method includes receiving an input image and a guide image corresponding to the input image, extracting informative features from the input image and the guide image to enhance the input image, selectively obtaining a first feature for the input image from among the informative features, and processing the input image based on the first feature.
US12169909B2	Many-to-many splatting-based digital image synthesis Digital synthesis techniques are described to synthesize a digital image at a target time between a first digital image and a second digital image. To begin, an optical flow generation module is employed to generate optical flows. The digital images and optical flows are then received as an input by a motion refinement system. The motion refinement system is configured to generate data describing many-to-many relationships mapped for pixels in the plurality of digital images and reliability scores of the many-to-many relationships. The reliability scores are then used to resolve overlaps of pixels that are mapped to a same location by a synthesis module to generate a synthesized digital image.
US12169903B2	Planet-scale positioning of augmented reality content Cell-based augmented reality (AR) content positioning systems may include a reference grid of cells, each of which includes a 32-bit intracellular coordinate system based on a respective reference point of the cell. Cell topology is selected such that the intracellular coordinate systems may utilize single-precision floating point numbers while retaining the ability to define content positions with, e.g., millimeter-level precision. Accordingly, rendering of AR content may be performed at a high precision using 32-bit devices and methods.
US12169899B2	Cloth modeling using quad render meshes Embodiments provide for three-dimensional cloth modeling are provided. A first mesh comprising a plurality of faces defined by a plurality of edges is accessed, and a render mesh is generated using quadrangulated tessellation of the first mesh, where the render mesh comprises quad faces. One or more attributes of the plurality of faces of the first mesh are transferred to one or more of the quad faces of the render mesh using a stochastic transfer operation. The render mesh is displayed via a graphical user interface (GUI).
US12169898B1	Resource allocation for mesh shader outputs Techniques are disclosed relating to object and mesh shaders executed by a graphics processor. In some embodiments, a device includes buffer circuitry and shader circuitry configured to execute graphics programs. Control circuitry may: generate object shader work and mesh shader work for the shader circuitry, receive output information generated by a mesh shader that indicates a number of vertices and primitives to be output by the mesh shader, allocate, based on the output information and after execution of at least a portion of the mesh shader, a region of the buffer circuitry for storage of the vertices to be output by the mesh shader, and store the vertices output by the mesh shader in the allocated region. Disclosed techniques may advantageously provide efficient use of limited buffer resources.
US12169895B2	Generating shadows for digital objects within digital images utilizing a height map The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that generate a height map for a digital object portrayed in a digital image and further utilizes the height map to generate a shadow for the digital object. Indeed, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems generate (e.g., utilizing a neural network) a height map that indicates the pixels heights for pixels of a digital object portrayed in a digital image. The disclosed systems utilize the pixel heights, along with lighting information for the digital image, to determine how the pixels of the digital image project to create a shadow for the digital object. Further, in some implementations, the disclosed systems utilize the determined shadow projections to generate (e.g., utilizing another neural network) a soft shadow for the digital object. Accordingly, in some cases, the disclosed systems modify the digital image to include the shadow.
US12169893B2	Layered, object space, programmable and asynchronous surface property generation system A method of generating an intermediate layer comprises generating local surface properties for a graphics object from parameter image maps, generating a first object image surface layer based on the local surface properties, storing intermediate surface results as an object image layer from the object local surface properties, and rendering a second object image surface layer based on the stored intermediate surface results.
US12169892B2	Time-dependent client inactivity indicia in a multi-user animation environment A method for managing a multi-user animation platform is disclosed. A three-dimensional space within a computer memory is modeled. An avatar of a client is located within the three-dimensional space, the avatar being graphically represented by a three-dimensional figure within the three-dimensional space. The avatar is responsive to client input commands, and the three-dimensional figure includes a graphical representation of client activity. The client input commands are monitored to determine client activity. The graphical representation of client activity is then altered according to an inactivity scheme when client input commands are not detected. Following a predetermined period of client inactivity, the inactivity scheme varies non-repetitively with time.
US12169889B2	Enhanced system for generation of facial models and animation Systems and methods are provided for enhanced animation generation based on generative modeling. An example method includes training models based on faces and information associated with persons, each face being defined based on location information associated with facial features, and identity information for each person. The modeling system being trained to reconstruct expressions, textures, and models of persons.
US12169884B2	Image processing apparatus for generating a highly visible three-dimensional image from two medical images An image processing apparatus that generates a three-dimensional image as a subtraction image from a first medical image and a second medical image which are three-dimensional images obtained by imaging a subject, the image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire the first medical image and the second medical image, a determination unit configured to determine a resolution of the subtraction image, and, a subtraction image generation unit configured to generate the subtraction image having the resolution determined by the determination unit, wherein the determination unit determines a resolution of at least one axial direction among three axial directions configuring the resolution of the subtraction image, based on a resolution of the first medical image and a predetermined first resolution.
US12169875B2	Model training method and apparatus for image recognition, network device, and storage medium A model training method and apparatus for image recognition, and a non-transitory storage medium are provided. The model training method includes: obtaining a multi-label image training set including a plurality of training images each annotated with a plurality of sample labels; selecting target training images from the multi-label image training set for training a current model; performing label prediction on each target training image using the current model, to obtain a plurality of predicted labels of the each target training image; obtaining a cross-entropy loss function corresponding to the plurality of sample labels of the each target training image, a positive label loss being greater than a negative label loss and having a weight greater than 1; converging the predicted labels and the sample labels of the each target training image according to the cross-entropy loss function, and updating parameters of the current model, to obtain a trained model.
US12169874B2	High definition camera and image recognition system for criminal identification A system for high definition (HD) image recognition of criminals is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of cameras, an image recognition server, investigator user devices, a computing device, a database, and a network. At least one processor of the image recognition server is configured to receive a plurality of photographs of a first individual, perform image processing of the plurality of photographs to extract a first set of physical features, store feature data regarding the first set of physical features in the database, receive suspect data regarding a suspected individual from a first investigator user device, match the suspect data with the feature data stored in the database, and transmit an alert to the computing device in the prison, wherein the alert activates a mobile application on each investigator user device to display match data identifying the suspected individual as the first individual based on the feature data.
US12169870B2	Automatic data-driven optimization of a target outcome using machine learning Methods and apparatuses are described for automatic data-driven optimization of a target outcome using machine learning. A server generates a first feature dataset and applies a trained outcome prediction model to the first feature dataset as input to generate a second feature data set and a first predicted value for a target outcome. The server displays the first predicted value on a client device. The server receives input corresponding to one or more preferences or constraints from the client device and adjusts the trained outcome prediction model based upon the received input to incorporate the one or more preferences or constraints. The server applies the adjusted outcome prediction to the second feature dataset as input to generate a third feature data set a second predicted value for the target outcome. The server displays the second predicted value on the client device.
US12169867B1	Account vulnerability alerts Systems and methods are provided for assessing an account takeover risk for one or more accounts of an individual. The account security procedures for each of a number of services with which the user has an account may be analyzed. Publicly accessible information regarding the user may also be collected and analyzed. The collected information and security procedures may be compared in order to determine one or more vulnerabilities to hostile account takeover of one or more of the analyzed accounts. An alert may be generated regarding a determined takeover risk, which may include suggested actions for remedying the risk.
US12169866B1	Systems and methods for onboarding customers through a short-range communication channel Systems, methods, and apparatuses for enrolling a user with a product of an institution are provided. One or more processors of a user device perform operations including: establishing a short-range communication channel with a computing device associated with an institution based on a tap exchange; providing information to the computing device over the short-range communication channel, the information associated with an enrollment of a user with a product of the institution; and automatically ceasing the short-range communication channel based on at least one of a predetermined time period or a location of the user device.
US12169862B2	Online ordering for in-shop service Systems and related methods providing for online ordering of menu items from a merchant are discussed herein. Circuitry may be configured to generate an online menu based on menu information stored in a menu database. The menu information may be also configured to facilitate point-of-sale functionality at the merchant, such as by a point-of-sale device. The online menu may be provided to a consumer device. An online order may be received from the consumer device. The circuitry may be configured to process the online order, such as by facilitating a reservation, order preparation, and payment.
US12169859B1	Real-time interactive outfit recommendation Techniques are generally described for displaying outfit recommendations using a recurrent neural network. In various examples, a computing device may receive a first state vector representing an outfit comprising at least one fashion item. First image data depicting a second fashion item of a first item category may be received. A recurrent neural network may generate a first output feature vector based on the first state vector, the first image data, a first attribute vector, and the first item category. The first output feature vector may be compared to other feature vectors representing other fashion items in the first category to determine distances between the first output feature vector and the other feature vectors. A set of fashion items may be recommended and displayed based on the distances between the first output feature vector and the other feature vectors.
US12169857B2	Methods for sample presentation using autonomous vehicles A method and a system to present samples of products to customers by transporting the samples to the customer's location with an autonomous vehicle. The sample can be a product, a component of a product, a material or a device to gather information in defining the product. The autonomous vehicle is adapted for off road travel and may enter buildings, it can be carried to a nearby location by a street adapted vehicle. Information may be transmitted electronically but physical presence is essential. The customer or the customer's agent receives a presentation of the product definer and a selection of a final product is made. In other cases the autonomous vehicle delivery separate or installed technical equipment to examine the presentation location and assist in the final product selection. For example, photographs from multiple locations can measure a room for installation of carpets or draperies, etc.
US12169853B2	Proximity triggered transaction based donation The present invention teaches a system, method and computer program for enabling local or regional merchants to participate in an automated cause marketing (ACM) program using mobile devices. The ACM program that may provide benefits to several parties involved in fundraising for one or more supported organizations, including one or more supported organizations, advertising providers, merchants, and individuals. Merchants are able to access enhanced analytics regarding their transactions with members and non-members of the ACM program and can use these enhanced analytics to realize an increased number of or revenue from transactions with members. The present invention also teaches a system and method for enabling advertising providers to acquire and analyze data associated with consumers-merchant transactions. The present invention provides the above features optimally using mobile devices. Furthermore, the present invention, may enable a member to disseminate its charitable preferences and contribution notifications to members of its electronic social networks.
US12169851B2	Inducing actions in consumer entities A system is provided for providing action inducers to target consumer entities. The system accesses transactions relating to actions involving a consumer entity and a provider entity. The system generates training data based on the transactions. The training data includes a feature vector for each consumer entity that includes values for features derived from the transactions involving that consumer entity and a provider entity. Each feature vector is labeled with an outcome that indicates whether a previously provided action inducer induced the consumer entity to take an action. The system trains a classifier based on the training data, generates a target feature vector for a target consumer entity, applies the classifier to the target feature vector to generate a predicted outcome for the target action inducer, and when the predicted outcome satisfies an inducement criterion, provides the target action inducer to the target consumer entity.
US12169848B2	Generating a pool of risk with option pricing Systems and methods of predicting future interactions with devices. For example, the system may receive search criteria and determine one or more values, including an interaction value of the search criteria and a cost per views value of the search criteria. When the cost per views value exceeds a threshold value, the system may increase a dynamic cashback amount associated with the search criteria and transmit an electronic communication that includes the dynamic cashback amount, a predetermined period of time to initiate a transaction for the product, and an identifier associated with the product. When the identifier associated with the product is received in association with the transaction of the product within the predetermined of time, the system may transfer the dynamic cashback amount from the aggregation revenue pool of funds to a digital wallet of the consumer user.
US12169847B2	Data processing system with machine learning engine to provide output generation functions Methods, computer-readable media, systems, and/or apparatuses are provided for providing offer and insight generation functions. User input requesting an offer or insight may be received and an image of a photographic identification of a user may be requested. The image of the photographic identification may be captured and stored. A self-captured image of the user may be captured (e.g., via an image capture device of the computing device) and compared to an image of a user from the photographic identification. Responsive to determining that the images match, displaying an instruction to capture a vehicle identification number. The vehicle identification number may be captured. Data, including location data, may be extracted and an archive including the extracted data may be generated and the data may be transmitted to an entity computing system for processing. The entity computing system may evaluate the data and generate one or more insights and/or outputs.
US12169845B2	Real-time assessment of initiated data exchanges based on structured messaging data The disclosed exemplary embodiments include computer-implemented processes that assess initiated data exchanges in real-time based on structured messaging data. In some examples, an apparatus may receive a message associated with an exchange of data involving a first counterparty and a second counterparty and characterizing a real-time payment requested from the second counterparty by the first counterparty. The apparatus may determine a first identifier of the first counterparty based on elements of the message data disposed within corresponding message fields, and transmit notification data to a device operable by the second counterparty, which may present portions of the notification data within a digital interface. The apparatus may receive review data indicative of a review associated with the data exchange from the device, and store the first identifier and the review data in a data repository.
US12169844B2	Methods and systems for identifying breakpoints in variable impact on model results Techniques described herein relate to a method for identifying breakpoints. The method may include obtaining, by a breakpoint identification device, an entity group data set corresponding to an entity group; generating, using the entity group data set, an enhanced entity group data set comprising the entity group data set and a derived data item; performing a clustering analysis using at least a portion of the enhanced entity group data set to obtain a plurality of entity clusters; training a machine learning (ML) model using the enhanced entity group data set to obtain a trained ML model; using the trained ML model and a set of simulated entities to perform a breakpoint analysis; generating a breakpoint graph based on the breakpoint analysis; and providing recommendations to an interested entity based on a breakpoint identified using the breakpoint graph.
US12169843B1	Systems and methods for cross-channel communication management Disclosed herein are systems and methods capable of establishing a communication session between a user and an analyst. The contents of the communication session are analyzed to make recommendations of goods and services to the user. Otherwise, the communication session may be redirected from one channel, for example, chatting to another channel, for example, voice call, to another analyst. The user's information and the communication session details are retained, and provided to another analyst before the user is redirected. Such systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products use real-time machine learning scoring algorithm to determine which analyst the users should be transferred to, and thereby saving a lot of time for both the analysts and the users, and significantly reduce misroutes by eliminating human errors.
US12169840B2	Refunding real-time payment transaction via payment card network messaging and settlement Methods and systems for providing a refund amount to a customer account for a payment transaction that occurred using a real-time payment network. In an embodiment, a supplemental payment services computer receives a refund request including a transaction reference and a token concerning a payment transaction between a merchant and a customer, determines that the payment transaction was effected in a real-time payment network, determines an issuer financial institution (FI) computer of an issuer FI maintaining a customer account represented by the token, transmits the refund request to the issuer FI computer, receives a favorable authorization response and transmits the authorization response to an acquirer FI computer associated with the merchant. The supplemental payment services computer also transmits a payment card network funds transfer credit message directing the issuer FI to credit the refund amount to the customer account and transmits a payment card network funds transfer debit message directing the acquirer FI to debit the refund amount from an account of the merchant to the acquirer FI computer. Next, the refund amount from the acquirer FI computer to the issuer FI computer is settled via a payment card account network settlement system computer.
US12169831B1	Systems and methods for distributed management of negative certificates for blockchain-based value exchange transactions A system and methods include a negative certificate authority for distributed management of negative certificates. An authorization restriction is associated with an untrusted user. A negative certificate generated for the untrusted user includes a public key associated with the untrusted user and an authorization restriction. The authorization restriction includes at least one global restriction, which is applicable to each consortium member that subscribes to the negative certificate. The authorization restriction includes at least one local restriction, which allows individual consortium members to further define their own locally applicable restrictions using the negative certificate authority. The negative certificate is accessible to each member of the consortium to enforce the authorization restriction against a transaction request. A secure contributor record including a unique cryptographically generated address is generated for each contributor. In some embodiments, the transaction request is a blockchain-based value exchange transaction, such as a payment transaction using fiat or math-based currency.
US12169830B2	Creating and managing artificially intelligent entities represented by non-fungible tokens on a blockchain Some examples of the present disclosure relate to generating artificially intelligent entities represented on a blockchain using a non-fungible token (NFT). In one such example, a system can generate an NFT on a blockchain. The NFT can represent an artificially intelligent entity. The system can also generate a personality dataset on the blockchain, the personality dataset describing personality characteristics of the artificially intelligent entity. The system can then correlate the NFT to the personality dataset, thereby assigning the personality characteristics to the artificially intelligent entity. Once generated, the artificially intelligent entity may reside in a virtual ecosystem in which it can perform tasks and learn over time.
US12169827B2	Apparatus and method for enabling asset sharing A node is provided that is configured to interact with one or more other nodes to implement a distributed authentication protocol. The node is configured to receive data that is indicative of use of a physical asset, generate a usage fee to be assigned to one or more owners of the physical asset in dependence on the use data and record that usage fee in a data corpus authenticated by the distributed authentication protocol.
US12169825B2	Apparatus and method for generating a non-fungible token The present disclosure is generally directed to an apparatus for generating a non-fungible token (NFT), the apparatus may include at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least processor, wherein the memory containing instructions configuring the at least processor to receive user data and classify the user data to a plurality of interest categories. The processor may be configured to generate a recommendation for an NFT as a function of the plurality of interest categories, where generating the recommendation further may include identifying a value function as a function of the plurality of interest categories. The processor may be configured to optimize the value function, generate the recommendation as a function of the optimization, and mint the NFT as a function of the recommendation.
US12169817B1	Systems and methods for managing a financial account in a low-cash mode A system for managing a financial account in a low cash mode. The system may include a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include providing an interface; providing a notification to a user when a balance in the first account is deemed to be in low cash mode; presenting, when the first account balance is deemed to be in low cash mode, an option for a transfer request; receiving, a selection of the option for the transfer request to connect the first account with a second account; transferring funds from the second account to the first account; notifying the user that funds have been transferred from the second account to the first account; and further notifying the user that the balance in the first account is greater than the threshold value.
US12169813B2	Methods and systems for facilitating sharing of tokens in blockchain transactions Methods and systems are presented for providing a framework for facilitating token sharing with contract issuers based on processing of smart contract transactions. The framework provides a mechanism for allowing one or more computer nodes within a blockchain network to opt-in to a token sharing agreement with a contract issuer and a mechanism for an opted-in computer node to share tokens with the contract issuer in a decentralized manner. When a computer node has opted-in to the token sharing agreement, the computer node, by executing a smart contract, performs a set of computer procedures that is non-productive to the processing of the smart contract transaction. The execution of the set of non-productive computer procedures provides an additional amount of processing fee based on the processing of the smart contract transaction. The computer node then transfers a portion of the additional amount of processing fee to an account of the contract issuer as part of the processing of the smart contract.
US12169810B2	Monitoring configuration of an inventory of devices using captured images of the devices The technologies described herein are generally directed to monitoring the configuration of an inventory of devices using captured images of a site. For example, a method described herein can include identifying a group of equipment installed at locations within a site. The method can further include, based on an image captured at the site by image capture equipment, detecting configuration activity at the site. Further, the method includes, based on analysis of the image, associating, by the tracking equipment, the configuration activity with equipment of the group of equipment.
US12169809B2	Vehicles and transportation systems employing blockchain-based monitoring A vehicle for use with a blockchain-based transportation system for automated assessment of transportation of goods, the vehicle comprising: a goods storage region configured to carry one or more goods packages, each package having a package tag, the package tag comprising an electronic identification system including a package blockchain defined by package blockchain data comprising a package block, the package block comprising package data including at least a package identifier; a vehicle blockchain defined by vehicle blockchain data comprising a vehicle block, the vehicle block comprising vehicle data including at least a vehicle identifier; and a controller configured to communicate with the electronic identification system of each package to retrieve the package blockchain data and to generate updated blockchain data using the vehicle blockchain data and the retrieved package data of each package; wherein the updated blockchain data is available for assessment of transportation of the goods packages.
US12169805B2	Vehicle driver safety performance based on relativity Systems, methods, and techniques for determining optimal safe driving behaviors and optimal safety thresholds of the various parameters for particular routes are disclosed. Historical driver data for a plurality of drivers operating vehicles over various routes during different contextual situations and/or different combinations of conditions along the routes is analyzed to determine respective, relative weightings/contributions of various parameters towards driving safety. Data indicative of a particular driver's behavior along a particular route during a particular set of conditions or contexts is obtained and compared to the analysis results to thereby determine or assess the driver's safety performance. The driver's safety performance may be evaluated in real-time, e.g., based on up-to-the-minute or currently obtained drivers' data, so as to provide the driver with evaluation results, provide the driver with suggestions for improving driving safety, and/or automatically adjust an operation of the vehicle while the vehicle is traversing the particular route.
US12169801B2	Flexible work breakdown structure Improved software technology and techniques for enabling creation and management of a customized work breakdown structure (“WBS”) for a specific project may comprise various phases. For instance, a first phase may involve defining an organization-level WBS comprising a first set of customized, multi-dimensional WBS codes that serve as a starting point for the WBS codes to use for projects being handled by the organization, a second phase may involve defining a project-level WBS comprising a second set of customized, multi-dimensional WBS codes to use for a particular project being handled by the organization, and a third phase may involve using the defined project-level WBS to manage certain aspects of the particular project. Further, access to customize WBS variables may be regulated based on user access permissions information indicated by an organization and/or project-level WBS.
US12169799B2	Rental vehicle system optimization Techniques are described for optimizing various aspects of rental vehicle systems. According to an embodiment, a system is described for optimizing fleet utilization of a battery electric vehicle (BEV) rental system based on predicted charge levels. The system comprises a memory that stores computer executable components, and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. These computer executable components comprise a charge prediction component that determines forecasted charge levels of BEVs in association with usage of the BEVs in a vehicle sharing operation wherein the BEVs are available for renting for varying durations of time. The computer executable components further comprise a booking component that controls the renting of the BEVs based on the forecasted charge levels.
US12169796B2	System and method for activating deep raffinate injection based on leach analytic data The method may comprise receiving historical data (e.g., mineralogy data, irrigation data, raffinate data, heat data, lift height data, geographic data on ore placement and/or blower data); training a predictive model using the historical data to create a trained predictive model; adding future assumption data to the trained predictive model; running the forecast engine for a plurality of parameters to obtain forecast data for a mining production target; comparing the forecast data for the mining production target to the actual data for the mining production target; determining deviations between the forecast data and the actual data, based on the comparing; and changing each of the plurality of parameters from the forecast data to the actual data to determine a contribution to the deviations for each of the plurality of parameters.
US12169789B2	Selection of machine learning algorithms Systems and methods of selecting machine learning models/algorithms for a candidate dataset are disclosed. A computer system may access historical data of a set of algorithms applied to a set of benchmark datasets; select a first algorithm of the set of algorithms; apply the first algorithm to an input dataset to create a model of the input dataset; evaluate and store results of the applying; and add the first algorithm to a set of tried algorithms. The computer system may select a next algorithm of the algorithm set via submodular optimization based on the historical data and the set of tried algorithms; apply the next algorithm to the input dataset; capture a next result based on the applying; add the next result to update the set of tried algorithms; and repeat the submodular optimization. The procedure may continue until a termination condition is reached.
US12169785B2	Cognitive recommendation of computing environment attributes An embodiment includes parsing an input dataset associated with a first node of a decision tree, where the input dataset includes a set of profile values for a set of projected usage parameters for a computing environment. The embodiment identifies a structure of the dataset using a recursive neural network that predicts a question sequence in a hierarchical tree format. The embodiment calculates a first deviation from the predicted question sequence and determines whether the deviation exceeds a threshold value. The embodiment generates a modified input dataset using a disambiguation rule and calculates a second deviation of the modified structure from the predicted question sequence and determines whether the deviation exceeds the threshold value. The embodiment assembles a customized hierarchical path using a generative model and assembles the customized hierarchical path by performing iterations of generating a series of candidate questions until a leaf node is reached.
US12169782B2	Dynamic precision scaling at epoch granularity in neural networks A processor determines losses of samples within an input volume that is provided to a neural network during a first epoch, groups the samples into subsets based on losses, and assigns the subsets to operands in the neural network that represent the samples at different precisions. Each subset is associated with a different precision. The processor then processes the subsets in the neural network at the different precisions during the first epoch. In some cases, the samples in the subsets are used in a forward pass and a backward pass through the neural network. A memory configured to store information representing the samples in the subsets at the different precisions. In some cases, the processor stores information representing model parameters of the neural network in the memory at the different precisions of the subsets of the corresponding samples.
US12169773B2	Optoelectronic synaptic memristor An optoelectronic synaptic memristor includes: a bottom electrode layer, a porous structure layer modified with quantum dots, a two-dimensional material layer, a transparent top electrode layer, and a waveguide layer, which are arranged in sequence from top to bottom, wherein the waveguide is ridge shaped for light conduction, comprising a wedge-shaped output terminal, wherein: through the wedge-shaped output terminal of the waveguide, light is vertically injected into the two-dimensional material layer and the porous structure layer modified with the quantum dots. By integrating the waveguide and the optoelectronic memristor, the present invention obtains the highly controlled characteristics with high alignment and confinement for light effect on the device and has advantages in realizing optoelectronic synergy in the optoelectronic synaptic memristors. The present invention has strong controllability and excellent performance and can be widely used in high-density integration of storage and computing, artificial synapses, artificial intelligence, etc.
US12169772B1	Apparatus and methods for automated mentorship using machine-learning processes An apparatus and method for automated mentorship using machine-learning is disclosed. The apparatus comprises at least a processor configured to receive a user profile from a user with at least an object enablement datum, convert the profile to a digital model by applying at least one classifier descriptor data tag, generate a programmed outline for the at least an object enablement datum with a plurality of action data based on the digital model using machine-learning processes, determine at least an action datum from the plurality of action data within the programmed outline using a heuristic model, direct the user to a plurality of appropriate resources, and display the programmed outline and the plurality of object enablement datum resources for the user.
US12169771B2	Basic wavelet filtering for accelerated deep learning Techniques in wavelet filtering for advanced deep learning provide improvements in one or more of accuracy, performance, and energy efficiency. An array of processing elements comprising a portion of a neural network accelerator performs flow-based computations on wavelets of data. Each processing element comprises a compute element to execute programmed instructions using the data and a router to route the wavelets in accordance with virtual channel specifiers. Each processing element is enabled to perform local filtering of wavelets received at the processing element, selectively, conditionally, and/or optionally discarding zero or more of the received wavelets, thereby preventing further processing of the discarded wavelets. The wavelet filtering is performed by one or more configurable wavelet filters operable in various modes, such as counter, sparse, and range modes.
US12169761B2	Control system for a state of a quantum harmonic oscillator Control system (1) for a state of a quantum harmonic oscillator, comprising: —a harmonic oscillator (3) in a Schrödinger's cat type state, —a stabilisation device (10) with a predetermined parity of a number of bosons of the state, which device is configured to use first and second frequency combs each comprising at least as many rays as a mean number of bosons in the state, and —a multiphonic dissipation device (20) which is suitable for removing at least one pair of bosons simultaneously from the oscillator, the dissipation device being activated only between two successive time peaks of the frequency combs over a time period greater than the inverse of the product of the mean number and the inverse of the characteristic time of the multiphonic dissipation, a time period separating two activation periods being less than a characteristic loss time of a boson.
US12169752B1	Enhanced RFID tag authentication An authentication method includes RFID tags authenticating RFID readers. A tag sends a tag identifier and a reader challenge to a reader in response to one or more commands from the reader. The reader then either derives a response to the reader challenge itself or has a verification authority derive the response. The response may be derived from parameter(s) in the reader challenge, and may be derived using a cryptographic key. The reader then sends the response to the tag along with one or more commands. The tag verifies the response before executing action(s) associated with the command(s).
US12169748B2	Optical articles and systems interacting with the same The present disclosure includes in one instance an optical article comprising a data rich plurality of retroreflective elements that are configured in a spatially defined arrangement, where the plurality of retroreflective elements comprise retroreflective elements having at least two different retroreflective properties, and where data rich means information that is readily machine interpretable. The present disclosure also includes a system comprising the previously mentioned optical article, an optical system, and an inference engine for interpreting and classifying the plurality of retroreflective elements wherein the optical system feeds data to the inference engine.
US12169746B2	High-speed printer video interface using a high-definition media interface (HDMI) A system uses GPU accessible, high-speed memory to store compressed or raw video printer data. The system transmits this video data over one or more frames of an HDMI interface and a circuit reconstructs the video data for a page from one or more HDMI frames for communication to a printer.
US12169743B2	Single device independent backend interface to a frontend interface of a microservice An Application Programming Interface (API) is provided for interaction between a User Interface (UI) of a device and microservices provided from a cloud processing environment. The API provides a single device-type independent backend to the frontends of the microservices. The UI defines the data types and specific data that it needs for processing from a given microservice. The backend calls the appropriate microservice through the corresponding frontend of the microservice. The microservice may engage other microservices resulting in output being returned to the backend. The backend provides only the output associated with the data types and the specific data back to the UI.
US12169741B2	Shared memory allocator with child process A method and apparatus of a network device that allocates a shared memory buffer for an object is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the network device receives an allocation request for the shared memory buffer for the object. In addition, the network device allocates the shared memory buffer from shared memory of a network device, where the shared memory buffer is accessible by a writer and a plurality of readers. The network device further returns a writer pointer to the writer, where the writer pointer references a base address of the shared memory buffer. Furthermore, the network device stores the object in the shared memory buffer, wherein the writer accesses the shared memory using the writer pointer. The network device further shares the writer pointer with at least a first reader of the plurality of readers. The network device additionally translates the base address of the shared memory buffer to a reader pointer, where the reader pointer is expressed in a memory space of the first reader.
US12169737B1	Task orchestration system in a trustless computing environment An example computer-implemented method is provided that includes: determining a remote computing system associated with a task queue comprising a plurality of processing tasks, wherein the remote computing system updates, based on a hidden schedule, prerequisites for the plurality of processing tasks; initiating the plurality of processing tasks according to a test task schedule constructed to probe the hidden schedule of the remote computing system; receiving a plurality of responses respectively for the plurality of processing tasks, wherein a respective response corresponds to at least one of a success indicator or a failure indicator; estimating, based on the plurality of responses, a prerequisite processing time of the hidden schedule; and generating, based on the estimated prerequisite processing time, a main task schedule for the task queue.
US12169736B2	Management and orchestration of microservices Techniques are provided for microservices management and orchestration. A chart package is selectively retrieved from a chart repository based upon the chart package corresponding to a set of services to host within a cluster and dependencies amongst the set of services. A set of container images may be retrieved from a container repository based upon the set of container images corresponding to the set of services. A cluster may be created within a computing environment. The set of services may be deployed as resources of the computing environment within the cluster and the dependencies may be configured using the chart package and the set of container images.
US12169726B2	Apparatus and method for generating user guidance on a decentralized platform An apparatus and method for generating user guidance on a decentralized platform are described. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the at least a processor. The memory includes instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive a user profile comprising user data and user interaction data associated with a user, determine at least one user specific deficiency based on the user profile and the user interaction data indicating user's interaction with decentralized platform, generate at least one user guidance based on the at least one user specific deficiency, and output the at least one user guidance.
US12169718B2	Systems, methods and apparatus for speculative elimination of load instruction An apparatus comprises decoder circuitry to decode an instruction that includes an opcode to indicate a protected load operation, a source field for source memory address information, and a destination field to identify a destination register. The apparatus also comprises memory to store an allocate load-protect (LP) data structure with an entry for the identified destination register. The entry comprises an IP field and a status field. The apparatus also comprises load elision circuitry to (a) use the allocate LP data structure to determine whether the identified destination register has active status for the IP; (b) in response to determining that the identified destination register has active status for the IP, cause the instruction to be elided; and (c) in response to determining that the identified destination register does not have active status for the IP, cause the instruction to be executed. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US12169717B2	Minimization method, computer-readable storage medium, and minimization apparatus A minimization method for minimizing the size of a file is provided, the minimization method including preparing an absolute value length that is equal to or larger than the largest data length among the data lengths of the data of a plurally of coordinates, and a plurality of relative value lengths equal to or less than the absolute value length, and identifying a relative value length causing minimization of the size among a plurality of relative value lengths.
US12169713B2	Managing artifact information including finding a searched artifact information item A computer-implemented method for an improved management of artifact information is provided, particularly for facilitating finding a searched artifact information item in a plurality of artifact documents. The method includes receiving a user's input corresponding to searching a searched artifact information item; determining a document identifier of the artifact document; determining a closest lower snapshot preceding or corresponding to the revision of interest; determining a searched snapshot by appending to the closest lower snapshot; determining the respective document identifier of the respective artifact document including a latest version of the respective searched artifact information item at the revision of interest by intersecting the determined respective document identifier of the respective artifact document with the determined searched snapshot; and displaying information relating to the searched artifact information item at the revision of interest using the respective artifact document corresponding to the determined respective document identifier to the user.
US12169709B2	Contextually cognitive edge server manager A method includes: predicting a jeopardy associated with an edge server included in the server cluster that communicates with a central server; responsive to predicting the jeopardy, detaching the edge server from the server cluster; determining a patch based on the jeopardy; pushing the patch to the edge server; validating the patch by performing regression testing; and responsive to validating the patch, inducting the edge server into the server cluster.
US12169707B2	Computer system, deployment plan generation method, and deployment control system A computer system is coupled to infrastructure systems each configured to implement an environment for providing resources to each of instances forming an application. The computer system is configured to: receive a deployment plan generation request for the application which includes a serverless instance for which, as an activation method, any one of a warm start and a cold start is selectable; generate, based on a resource amount required for the each of instances, an allocation pattern which is a combination of an environment of a deployment destination of the each of instances; generate an activation pattern which is a combination of the activation method for the each of instances; plan an activation timing of the serverless instance for the activation pattern; generate a plurality of deployment plans by combining the allocation pattern, the activation pattern, and the activation timing.
US12169701B2	Multiplier circuit A multiplier circuit includes a first circuit comprising a first transistor, a second transistor, a first capacitor, and a second capacitor. It further includes a second circuit comprising a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a third capacitor, and a fourth capacitor.
US12169700B2	Method and apparatus for use in the design and manufacture of integrated circuits A method and apparatus are provided for manufacturing integrated circuits performing invariant integer division x/d. A desired rounding mode is provided and an integer triple (a,b,k) for this rounding mode is derived. Furthermore, a set of conditions for the rounding mode is derived. An RTL representation is then derived using the integer triple. From this a hardware layout can be derived and an integrated circuit manufactured with the derived hardware layout. When the integer triple is derived a minimum value of k for the desired rounding mode and set of conditions is also derived.
US12169699B2	Machine-learning-based techniques for predictive monitoring of a software application framework Systems and methods provide techniques for more effective and efficient predictive monitoring of a software application framework. In response, embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, and/or the like that are configured to enable effective and efficient predictive monitoring of a software application framework using incident signatures for the software application that are generated by using a natural language processing machine learning framework, a structured data processing machine learning model, a feature combination machine learning model, and a clustering machine learning model.
US12169685B2	Computer-implemented method of preparing a training dataset for a natural language processing or natural language understanding machine learning algorithm Described and claimed is a computer-implemented method of preparing a training dataset for a natural language processing, NLP, or natural language understanding, NLU, machine learning algorithm from an original text dataset, the method comprising the steps of selecting one or more sentences from the original text dataset as selected sentences, determining for each selected sentence one or more grammatical elements of the selected sentence that can be negated as negatable elements, determining for one or more negatable words in each negatable element one or more antonyms, based on each determined antonym creating a negated sentence by replacing the respective negatable element in the selected sentence for which the negatable element was determined with the determined antonym, and adding the negated sentences to the training dataset. Further, a computer-implemented method of training a word embedding or an NLP or NLU machine learning algorithm, a system and a computer program product are described and claimed.
US12169677B2	Standard cell layout generation with applied artificial intelligence A genetic algorithm is utilized to generate routing candidates to which a reinforcement learning model is applied to correct the design rule constraint violations incrementally. A design rule checker provides feedback on the violations to the reinforcement learning model and the model learns how to fix the violations. A layout device placer based upon a simulated annealing method may also be utilized.
US12169676B2	PUF cell array, system and method of manufacturing same A physically unclonable function (PUF) cell array includes a first PUF cell in a first column in a first direction, a second PUF cell in a second column, and a first power rail. The first PUF cell includes a first set of conductive structures that include a first conductive structure extending in the second direction and a second conductive structure extending in the first direction. The second PUF cell includes a second set of conductive structures that include a third conductive structure extending in the second direction and a fourth conductive structure extending in the first direction. The first power rail overlapping a first boundary of the first and second PUF cell. At least the first and third conductive structure, or the second and the fourth conductive structure are symmetric to each other with respect to a central line of at least the first or second PUF cell.
US12169673B2	Toffoli gate preparation for a quantum hardware system comprising hybrid acoustic-electrical qubits A Toffoli magic state to be injected in preparation of a Toffoli gate may be prepared using a bottom-up approach. In the bottom-up approach, computational basis states are prepared in a fault tolerant manner using a STOP algorithm. The computational basis states are further used to prepare the Toffoli magic state. The STOP algorithm tracks syndrome outcomes and can be used to determine when to stop repeating syndrome measurements such that faults are guaranteed to be below a threshold level. Also, the STOP algorithm may be used in growing repetition code from a first code distance to a second code distance, such as for use in the computational basis states.
US12169672B2	Optimization techniques for quantum computing device simulation Computer systems and methods are provided for increasing a rate of simulation for quantum computing devices. A quantum computing device includes a plurality of gates, each of which is coupled to one or more modes. In the provided computer systems and methods, a device definition and state information for the quantum computing device are received. The state information includes a plurality of input patterns, each of which indicates a number of input bosons that correspond to a respective mode of the quantum computing device, and an amplitude that corresponds to each input pattern. The device definition includes a plurality of sets of gate values that indicate modification by a respective gate of an input pattern probability. A first group of input patterns is generated for a first gate. The first group of input patterns includes a subset of the plurality of input patterns that meet grouping criteria.
US12169670B2	Systems and methods for designing a module semiconductor product Implementations of a method of designing a module semiconductor product may include receiving a selection of a module type, one or more die, a placement of one or more wires, clips, or pins; and generating, using a processor, a module configuration file. The method may include generating a module bonding diagram using a build diagram system module; selecting one or more SPICE models corresponding with the die; and generating a product SPICE model and a three dimensional model for the module semiconductor product. The method may include generating one or more datasheet characteristics of the module semiconductor product with at least the product SPICE model and the product simulation module, generating a product datasheet for the module semiconductor product using the datasheet formation module, and providing access to at least the module bonding diagram, the product SPICE model, the three dimensional model, and the product datasheet to the user.
US12169669B2	Computer system for simulating physical process using lattice Boltzmann based scalar transport enforcing Galilean invariance for scalar transport Disclosed are techniques for scalar solvers in flow simulations that include simulating using a scalar lattice velocity set in a computing system, movement of scalar particles representing a scalar quantity in a volume of fluid, with the scalar particles carried by flow particles of the volume of fluid, and with the movement of the scalar particles causing collisions among the scalar particles; and evaluating, a non-equilibrium post-collide scalar distribution function of a specified order that is representative of the scalar collision.
US12169661B2	System and method for universal microphone module A microphone module system comprising a microphone module with memory. The microphone module is connected to an original factory installed microphone of a vehicle and connected to an aftermarket radio to allow the original factory installed microphone to be compatible with an aftermarket radio. The microphone module includes a computer program that calibrates the factory installed microphone with the aftermarket radio that is originally embedded in the module memory. A method to remotely flash the module comprises steps of transferring a computer program to the microphone module, installing the microphone module in the vehicle, and calibrating the microphone module with the original factory microphone. The computer program may be specific to a make/model of a vehicle or universally applicable to all vehicles.
US12169658B2	Systems and methods for remotely monitoring electronic displays Systems and methods for remotely monitoring digital signage. Display assemblies are provided, each having an electronic display, an additional component for operating the display assembly, a sensor for monitoring conditions at the display assembly, a local controller, and a network connection device. Remote server(s) execute software which establishes a data connection with each of the display assemblies, receives and stores data measurements made by the sensors of the display assemblies in a sensor specific and a display assembly specific manner, receives user data requests, and for each of the user data requests, generates data output displays including a user specified subset of the data measurements associated with a user specified subset of the sensors and a user specified subset of the display assemblies indicated in the respective user data request.
US12169655B2	Image forming apparatus remotely operating to achieve a balance between convenience and security, control method thereof, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium An image forming apparatus comprises: a connection unit configured to connect with an information processing apparatus in order to allow execution of a remote operation of the image forming apparatus by the information processing apparatus; a detection unit configured to detect an event that has occurred in the image forming apparatus; and a disconnection unit configured to, in a case where occurrence of a predetermined event corresponding to a state of use of the image forming apparatus is detected by the detection unit while connected with the information processing apparatus by the connection unit, disconnect the connection with the information processing apparatus.
US12169653B2	Liquid discharge system A first acquisition section that acquires first information unique to the liquid discharge head and second information related to the liquid discharge device is included. A determination section that determines whether or not correspondence relationship between the first information and the second information is stored in the server in advance is included in the server. A second transmission section that transmits third information related to a determination result of the determination section from the server is included. A second reception section that receives the third information is included. A first notification section that makes, based on the third information, a first notification to outside is included.
US12169651B2	Low latency virtual memory management Disclosed are various approaches for decreasing the latency involved in reading pages from swap devices. These approaches can include setting a first queue in the plurality of queues as a highest priority queue and a second queue in the plurality of queues as a low priority queue. Then, an input/output (I/O) request for an address in memory can be received. The type of the I/O request can be determined, and then the I/O request can be assigned to the first queue or the second queue of the swap device based at least in part on the type of the I/O request.
US12169650B1	System and method for multiplexing multi-drive passthrough commands A system may include one or more processors configured to receive a frame comprising a quantity of commands, a quantity of storage devices, and a buffer map. In response to the frame, the one or more processors may read, using the buffer map and from a memory, (1) input data for each of one or more storage devices corresponding to the quantity of storage devices and (2) an identifier of each of the one or more storage devices. The one or more processors may send, to the one or more storage devices, a plurality of commands corresponding to the quantity of commands, based at least on the input data for each storage device and the identifier of each storage device.
US12169648B2	Caching for multiple-level memory device Methods, systems, and devices for caching for a multiple-level memory device are described. First data may be received for writing to a memory device that include multiple-level cells that are programmable using multiple programming modes. Based on receiving the first data, the first data may be written to first multiple-level cells using a first programming mode. Based on writing the first data to the first multiple-level cells, the first data may be transferred from the first multiple-level cells to second multiple-level cells using a third programming mode. Later, second data writing to the memory device may be received. Based on receiving the second data, a determination of whether to write the second data to third multiple-level cells using the first programming mode or a second programming mode may be made based on available multiple-level cells that are ready for programming.
US12169644B2	Memory system A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory, a controller configured to control the nonvolatile memory, a connector that is capable of electrically connecting the controller and a host, a first rigid substrate on which the nonvolatile memory and the controller are mounted, a second rigid substrate on which the connector is mounted, and a flexible substrate that is flexible and electrically connects the first rigid substrate and the second rigid substrate, wherein a thickness of the first rigid substrate is less than a thickness of the second rigid substrate.
US12169641B2	System and method for NAND multi-plane and multi-die status signaling A method for status signaling in a non-volatile memory including a plurality of logical units (LUNs), each of the plurality of LUNs having a status terminal coupled to a common status terminal of the non-volatile memory and a data bus coupled to a common data bus of the non-volatile memory. The method including performing, by a first LUN of the plurality of LUNs, a first set of one or more operations; completing, by the first LUN of the plurality of LUNs, the first set of one or more operations; and sending, by the first LUN via the common terminal, a pulse to a controller responsive to completing the first set of one or more operations.
US12169637B2	Read access during clone volume split operation Techniques are provided for processing read operations while splitting a clone volume from a parent volume whose data is stored within objects of an object store. A transfer map is created to track mappings of child object identifiers to parent object identifiers of the parent objects to copy as child objects having the child object identifiers. The transfer map for the object store is traversed to copy the parent objects as the child objects for the split clone operation. The child objects are verified as being successfully created with valid data. In response to determining that the parent object has been copied as the child object, a context check is performed using the reverse map to verify a block within the child object. In response a successful context check, the read operation is processed using the block of the child object.
US12169628B2	Display apparatus for performing function of user selected menu item on a user interface and method for controlling display apparatus A display apparatus includes a display, a single physical button and a processor configured to control the display to display a guide user interface (UI), a selection UI and a plurality of menu items, based on a user input received via the single physical button being identified as a short click input, move the selection UI from one menu item among the plurality of menu items to another menu item among the plurality of menu items, based on the user input being identified as a long press input, select the one menu item and execute a control function corresponding to the selected one menu item, and based on an execution of the control function, control the display to display a setting UI indicating a current setting value of the control function.
US12169619B2	System and methods to denote unshared content to be shared Methods and systems are described for identifying and marking content items that have or have not been shared to social media or content hosting services. The methods and systems use a marking engine to access a content item in a content library and identify the content hosts or social media sites to which the content item was previously transmitted. A marking engine may create a user interface, generate a thumbnail of each content item, and generate a graphical indicator for each identified content host. A marking engine may generate for display thumbnail representations of each content item with graphical indicators of each of the identified content hosts. A marking engine may sort thumbnails by metadata associated with the corresponding content items, such as creation time and date, location, share status, and other classifications and filters, to indicate which content items are ready to be shared to a content host.
US12169614B2	Sensitivity region of interest processing (ROIP) for input/output (I/O) operative touch sensor device (TSD) A touch sensor device (TSD) includes TSD electrodes associated with a surface of the TSD. Also, an overlay that includes marker electrode(s) is also associated with a region of the surface of the TSD. The TSD also includes drive-sense circuits (DSCs) operably coupled to the plurality of TSD electrodes. A DSC is configured to provide a TSD electrode signal to a TSD electrode and simultaneously to sense a change of the TSD electrode signal based on a change of impedance of the TSD electrode caused by capacitive coupling between the TSD electrode and the marker electrode(s) of the overlay. Processing module(s) is configured to process a digital signal generated by the DSC and other digital signals generated by other DSCs determine the region of the surface of the TSD that is associated with the overlay and to adapt sensitivity of the TSD within that region.
US12169612B2	Touch display device with color filter between data link lines and touch link lines Embodiments of the present disclosure are related to a touch display device, as implementing a portion of a touch link line by using a metal disposed on a layer different from a layer where a data link line is disposed and disposing a color filter layer between the touch link line and the data link line, a plurality of link lines can be disposed effectively and a parasitic capacitance between the touch link line and the data link line can be reduced. Furthermore, as blocking a light of specific wavelength band by the color filter layer, a light-leakage due to an abnormal driving of a display according to a driving of the touch link line on an area where the touch link line is disposed can be prevented or at least reduced.
US12169611B2	Position detection system and touch sensor A position detection system includes a display device that displays image data by driving pixel electrodes, and a touch panel including a sensor electrode and a touch sensor. An active pen communicates with the touch sensor using a frequency included in a frequency band. The display device suppresses a frequency component in the frequency band in capacitive noise that occurs in the sensor electrode due to a voltage vibration in an interconnect in the display device caused by driving of the pixel electrodes. The display device selectively operates in either of a first operation mode in which driving of the pixel electrodes suppresses the frequency component included in the capacitive noise that occurs in the sensor electrode, and a second operation mode in which driving of the pixel electrodes does not suppress the frequency component included in the capacitive noise that occurs in the sensor electrode.
US12169607B2	Display device including touch sensor and driving method thereof A display device including a touch sensor and a driving method thereof, and more particularly, a curved display device including a touch sensor and a driving method thereof, are presented. The display device includes: a touch sensor unit including a plurality of touch sensors; and at least one touch surface curved to along a first direction, wherein the touch surface includes a center region and edge regions positioned at both sides of the center region along the first direction, and wherein a sensitivity of the touch sensor in the center region is higher than a sensitivity of the touch sensors in the edge regions.
US12169606B2	Electronic device including flexible display, and display method using same According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, an electronic device includes: a housing; a touch circuit including a plurality of TX electrodes, and a plurality of RX electrodes arranged to cross over the plurality of TX electrode; a flexible display which includes the touch circuit, and which can be withdrawn from the inner space of the housing; a touch controller; and a processor operatively connected to the touch circuit, the flexible display and the touch controller, wherein the touch controller applies a driving signal by using the plurality of TX electrodes of the touch circuit, acquires the driving signal by using the plurality of RX electrodes, confirms a capacitance value on the basis of the acquired driving signal, and confirms information about a folded area of the flexible display on the basis of the capacitance value, and the processor can set an activation area for an unfolded area of the flexible display on the basis of the folded area of the flexible display. Various embodiments, in addition to various embodiments disclosed in the present document, are also possible.

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