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US12176604B2	Base station antennas having an active antenna module and related devices and methods Base station antennas include an externally accessible active antenna module releasably coupled to a recessed segment that is over a chamber in the base station antenna and that is longitudinally and laterally extending along and across a rear of a base station antenna housing. The base station antenna housing has a passive antenna assembly that cooperates with the active antenna module.
US12176599B2	Glazing comprising an antenna and method of manufacturing the same and use of the same A glazing comprises a ply of glazing material; an antenna at least partly disposed on the ply of glazing material comprising a feed point at one end thereof for connecting to an external circuit; an electronic device positioned on or near the glazing for emitting a frequency; and an anti-antenna for at least partly cancelling the frequency connected to the antenna by a bridge and extending back towards the feed point parallel with the antenna to an end.
US12176598B1	Assembly for mounting mobile radio antenna systems An assembly for installing mobile radio antenna systems that do not cause any passive intermodulation interferences. The assembly includes brackets for clamping around conduits, support bars, support plates, arms, frame, and the like for coupling different components of the mobile radio antenna system. The brackets, threaded rods, threaded bolts, hex nuts, and the like of the assembly are made from plastic to avoid generating interferences.
US12176596B2	Building antenna Techniques for transceiving radio frequency (RF) signals through a window of a building are disclosed, the window having a first surface facing an interior of the building. An antenna arrangement is attached to a building structure adjacent the first surface and the antenna arrangement includes one or more radiating elements configured to transceive the RF signals through the window. In some embodiments, the building structure is mullion. In some embodiments a window surface includes an electrochromic and/or low emissivity coating that is excluded from a region proximate to the radiating elements.
US12176593B2	Superconducting vortex-based microwave circulator A circulator includes a central circuit having a first superconducting island, a second superconducting island, a third superconducting island, and a central island, each in electrical communication with each other via a plurality of Josephson junctions.
US12176590B2	Flow battery cleansing cycle to maintain electrolyte health and system performance A method of cleansing a redox flow battery system may include operating the redox flow battery system in a charge, discharge, or idle mode, and responsive to a redox flow battery capacity being less than a threshold battery capacity, mixing the positive electrolyte with the negative electrolyte. In this way, battery capacity degradation following cyclic charging and discharging of the redox flow battery system can be substantially reduced.
US12176589B2	Hydrogen/oxygen fuel cell method A method for making an improved fuel cell using a porosity gradient design for gas diffusion layers in a hydrogen fuel cell, a gas diffusion layer made by the method and a fuel cell containing the gas diffusion layer.
US12176584B2	Gas diffusion layer for fuel cell, method of manufacturing the same, and unit cell for fuel cell including the same One embodiment provides a gas diffusion layer for a fuel cell constituting a unit cell of the fuel cell. The gas diffusion layer includes a base layer that includes short carbon fibers and has a reinforcing portion formed in a predetermined area thereof in a thickness direction with continuous carbon fibers oriented in the reinforcing portion. The reinforcing portion is formed adjacent to a first surface of the base layer. A micro porous layer is formed on the first surface of the base layer.
US12176583B2	Protective film assembly and energy storage device The present disclosure discloses a protective film assembly, applied to an electrode assembly of an energy storage device, and including an insulation sheet for wrapping the electrode assembly and arranged between a housing of the energy storage device and the electrode assembly. The first side surface covering region includes a first covering sub-region and a second covering sub-region which can overlap each other; the second side surface covering region includes a third covering sub-region and a fourth covering sub-region which can overlap each other; the maximum sizes of the first covering sub-region and the second covering sub-region in a thickness direction and height direction of the electrode assembly are equal, so that the first covering sub-region and the second covering sub-region have a high matching degree and a large bonding area. The present disclosure further discloses an energy storage device.
US12176582B2	Battery cell, battery, electrical device, and method and device for manufacturing battery cell A battery cell, a battery, an electrical device, and a method and device for manufacturing the battery cell. In some embodiments, the battery cell comprises a battery core, a shell, an end cover, and a first insulating component. The battery core comprises a main body part and electrode tabs protruding from the main body part. The shell has a first opening and is configured to accommodate the battery core. The end cover is configured to cover the first opening. The first insulating component comprises an insulating main body and an insulating part, wherein the insulating main body is located on a side, facing the electrode tabs, of the end cover, and the insulating main body is configured to isolate the battery core from the end cover.
US12176578B2	Bus bar having excellent insulation and heat dissipation performance and battery module including the same An aluminum bus bar includes an insulation portion having an oxide film insulation layer, and electric conduction portions having electric conductivity and disposed with the insulation portion being interposed therebetween. Also, a battery module includes the aluminum bus bar; a cell assembly having battery cells; an electric component electrically connected to the cell assembly by means of the aluminum bus bar; and a heatsink disposed at one side of the cell assembly to exchange heat with the cell assembly, and the insulation portion of the aluminum bus bar is disposed in contact with one surface of the heatsink.
US12176577B2	Method for interconnecting cell stacks of a battery module in a high-voltage battery A method for interconnecting cell stacks of a battery module in a battery. In the battery module, the cell stacks are arranged in a battery module housing. In each case two cell stacks are arranged next to one another and form a cell stack group, and the two cell stack groups are arranged behind one another. The two cell stacks of the first cell stack group are inserted into the battery module housing. The two cell stacks of the first cell stack group are electrically interconnected via at least one opening arranged in a wall of the battery module housing. The two cell stacks of the second cell stack group are inserted into the battery module housing. Electrically interconnecting the two cell stacks of the second cell stack group to each one of the two cell stacks of the first cell stack group.
US12176574B2	Porous carrier and electrochemical device separator A porous carrier including a cellulose substrate and a functional layer is provided. The functional layer is located on at least one surface of the cellulose substrate, wherein the functional layer includes an organic polymer elastic filler and a polymer binder. An electrochemical device separator including the porous carrier is also provided.
US12176573B2	Battery separator coating material, preparation method therefor and use thereof Provided is a method for preparing a battery separator coating material, the method comprising: dissolving PVDF and a covalent organic backbone material in an organic solvent and stirring same until uniform. The mass ratio of the PVDF to the covalent organic backbone material to N-methylpyrrolidone is 20:(70-85):(5-10). When the material is applied to preparation of a lithium ion battery separator, the problem of metal dissolution when a transition metal oxide is used as a positive electrode material can be effectively solved. The prepared separator can effectively adsorb metal ions and prevent the metal ions from being deposited on a negative electrode during charging and discharging processes, such that the cycle performance of a transition metal oxide positive electrode material is improved.
US12176569B2	Battery module, and battery rack and power storage device comprising battery module A battery module includes battery cells; a module case configured to accommodate the battery cells and having an internal cooling channel provided at both sides of the plurality of battery cells; a venting opening provided at both side surfaces of the module case; a sheet member mounted to both side surfaces of the module case to cover the venting opening and melted over a predetermined temperature to open the venting opening; and a blocking bracket spaced apart from the sheet member by a predetermined distance and mounted to inner walls at both sides of the module case.
US12176568B2	Cylindrical lithium ion secondary battery An embodiment of the present invention relates to a cylindrical lithium ion secondary battery. The technical problem to be solved is to provide a cylindrical lithium ion secondary battery which is designed such that a safety vent is formed and at the same time or afterwards excess metal can be guided to a curved portion adjacent to the safety vent, thereby enhancing the flatness of a can floor and reducing damage to the safety vent. To this end, the present invention provides a cylindrical lithium ion secondary battery comprising: a cylindrical can; an electrode assembly accommodated in the cylindrical can; and a cap assembly for sealing the cylindrical can, wherein the cylindrical can comprises a circular floor portion, a curved portion curved from the floor portion towards the electrode assembly, and a safety vent formed on the curved portion.
US12176561B2	Light weight thermal runaway and explosion resistant aerospace battery An aerospace battery may include a housing and a battery pack core. The housing may include a thin dual layer casing. The battery pack core is disposed in the housing and may include at least one cell district that includes a plurality of pouch cell batteries. A ceramic material may surround the at least one cell district and a closed cell foam may fill open space between the ceramic material and the housing.
US12176553B2	Sealing device and method for secondary battery A sealing device for a secondary battery, the sealing device configured to seal a sealing part of a pouch through which an electrode lead extends according to the present invention comprises: a lower sealing tool configured to receive the sealing part of the pouch seated thereon; and an upper sealing tool configured to press and seal the sealing part of the pouch, wherein the lower sealing tool comprises: a lower fixed block configured to receive the sealing part of the pouch seated on a top surface thereof; and one or more lower detachable blocks detachably coupled to the lower fixed block and configured to support a portion of the sealing part through which the electrode lead does not extend.
US12176548B2	Fuel cell catalyst composition and fuel cell containing same Provided is a fuel cell catalyst composition comprising a C12A7:X− inorganic material having a structure in which oxygen anions of C12A7 are replaced by halogen (X) anions, or comprising a C12A7:X−-based inorganic material which is a C12A7:X− partially converted to electride. A fuel cell comprising the fuel cell catalyst composition in a catalyst layer is also provided. Also provided is a method of producing a fuel cell catalyst composition, comprising a step of heat-treating C12A7:X− at temperature of 1000-1300° C. for at least 20 hours under a nitrogen atmosphere.
US12176544B2	Negative electrode and secondary battery including the negative electrode A negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer including a negative electrode active material, wherein the negative electrode active material includes a core and a coating layer disposed on the core. The core includes natural graphite and an amorphous carbon layer on the natural graphite, wherein the natural graphite has an average particle diameter, D50, of 10 μm to 14 μm.ONH The negative electrode active material includes 1,500 ppm wt % to 2,000 ppm wt % of oxygen, 200 ppm wt % to 300 ppm wt % of nitrogen, and 200 ppm wt % to 300 ppm wt % of hydrogen as measured by an ONH analysis, and the coating layer includes carbon nanofibers.
US12176541B2	Electroactive materials for secondary batteries An electrochemical cell includes an anode that includes silicon, a conductive carbon, a lithium titanate, lithium metal, or a combination of any two or more thereof; a separator; a cathode having a cathode active material and a redox active species either mixed into the cathode or coated onto the cathode; and an electrolyte that includes a salt; and an aprotic solvent comprising a fluorinated ether solvent, a carbonate solvent, or a mixture thereof, with the proviso that the redox active species has substantially no solubility in the electrolyte. The redox active species may be a redox active organic compound or polymer.
US12176540B2	Negative active material and rechargeable lithium battery including same A negative active material for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery that includes the negative active material. The negative active material includes a first active material, which includes tertiary particles of natural graphite in which secondary particles are agglomerated. Primary particles are agglomerated and spheroidized in the secondary particles. Artificial graphite is positioned on a surface of the primary particles and a surface of the secondary particles. An amorphous carbon coating layer surrounds the tertiary particles of natural graphite. Further, the negative active material includes a second active material, which includes a carbon-based material having an aspect ratio of about 2 to about 100.
US12176535B2	Positive electrode active material for secondary battery, method of preparing the same, and lithium secondary battery including the positive electrode active material A positive electrode active material for a secondary battery includes a lithium composite transition metal oxide including nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), and manganese (Mn), and a glassy coating layer formed on surfaces of particles of the lithium composite transition metal oxide, wherein, in the lithium composite transition metal oxide, an amount of the nickel (Ni) in a total amount of transition metals is 60 mol % or more, and an amount of the manganese (Mn) is greater than an amount of the cobalt (Co), and the glassy coating layer includes a glassy compound represented by Formula 1. LiaM1bOc [Formula 1] wherein, M1 is at least one selected from the group consisting of boron (B), aluminum (Al), silicon (Si), titanium (Ti), and phosphorus (P), and 1≤a≤4, 1≤b≤8, and 1≤c≤20.
US12176530B2	Electrode plate and method for manufacturing same, and secondary battery and method for manufacturing same A positive electrode plate that has a positive electrode active material layer formed on a positive electrode core, wherein the positive electrode core has, on an edge side, a thick portion which has a thickness that is greater than the thickness of a portion of the positive electrode core that has the positive electrode active material layer formed on both sides, and the positive electrode plate has a first region that extends into the thick portion from the portion of the positive electrode core that has the positive electrode active material layer formed on both sides and a second region that is positioned outside the first region in the thick portion. The average maximum diameter of the metal crystal grains that compose the first region is smaller than those of the second region.
US12176528B2	Anode for lithium metal battery, and electrochemical device comprising same A negative electrode for a lithium metal battery which includes: a current collector; a negative electrode active material layer formed on the surface of a current collector; a heat conductive layer formed on a surface of the negative electrode active material layer wherein the heat conductive layer comprises a heat conductive material having a heat conductivity of 25 W/m·K to 500 W/m·K; and a protective layer formed on a surface of the heat conductive layer, wherein the protective layer includes at least one of a porous polymer layer and a ceramic layer. An electrochemical device including the negative electrode for a lithium metal battery. The negative electrode for a lithium metal battery includes a heat conductive layer and a protective layer, and can inhibit growth of lithium dendrite in a negative electrode for a lithium metal battery and improve the cycle life of an electrochemical device.
US12176526B2	Compositionally modified silicon coatings for use in a lithium ion battery anode Provided herein are nanostructures for lithium ion battery electrodes and methods of fabrication. In some embodiments, a nanostructure template coated with a silicon-based coating is provided. The silicon coating may include a non-conformal, more porous silicon-rich SiEx layer and a conformal, denser SiEx layer on the non-conformal, more porous layer. In some embodiments, two different deposition processes are used: a PECVD layer to deposit the non-conformal, silicon-rich SiEx layer and a thermal CVD process to deposit the conformal layer. The silicon-rich SiEx material prevents silicon crystalline domain growth, limits macroscopic swelling, increases lithium diffusion rate and enhances significantly battery life during lithium ion battery cycle of charge and discharge.
US12176521B2	Electroactive materials for metal-ion batteries This invention relates to particulate electroactive materials comprising a plurality of composite particles, wherein the composite particles comprise: (a) a porous carbon framework including micropores and/or mesopores having a total volume of at least 0.7 cm3/g, wherein at least half of the micropore/mesopore volume is in the form of pores having a diameter of no more than 5 nm; and (b) silicon located within the micropores and/or mesopores of the porous carbon framework in a defined amount relative to the volume of the micropores and/or mesopores.
US12176520B2	Positive electrode active material, method for producing positive electrode active material, positive electrode, and secondary battery The invention discloses a positive electrode active material for a magnesium secondary battery or lithium ion secondary battery, including: a particle including a nucleus and a crystal of vanadium oxide grown from the nucleus as a starting point and having a maximum length of 5 μm or less in the major axis direction.
US12176519B2	Continuous and semi-continuous methods of semi-solid electrode and battery manufacturing Embodiments described herein relate generally to systems and methods for continuously and/or semi-continuously manufacturing semi-solid electrodes and batteries incorporating semi-solid electrodes. In some embodiments, the process of manufacturing a semi-solid electrode includes continuously dispensing a semi-solid electrode slurry onto a current collector, separating the semi-solid electrode slurry into discrete portions, and cutting the current collector to form a finished electrode.
US12176516B2	Secondary battery A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer including a lithium-cobalt composite oxide. The lithium-cobalt composite oxide has a layered rock-salt crystal structure. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material layer including graphite. When the secondary battery is charged and discharged with an upper limit of a closed circuit voltage being set to 4.42 V or higher, a unit capacity (mAh/g) satisfies a condition represented by 168 mAh/g≤unit capacity (mAh/g)≤(−0.28×area rate (%)+178) mAh/g.
US12176515B2	Positive electrode composition for lithium ion secondary batteries, positive electrode for lithium ion secondary batteries, and lithium ion secondary battery According to various aspects of the present invention, a positive electrode composition for a lithium-ion secondary battery includes an active material capable of inserting and extracting lithium ions, and a conductor, wherein the active material is a lithium-nickel-cobalt-manganese complex oxide; the conductor is a carbon black and carbon nanotubes; the carbon black has a BET specific surface area of 100 to 400 m2/g, and a DBP absorption of 210 to 380 ml/100 g; and the carbon nanotubes have an average diameter of 7 to 15 nm.
US12176509B2	Battery, apparatus, and preparation method and preparation apparatus of battery This application provides a battery, an apparatus, a preparation method of battery, and a preparation apparatus of battery. The battery includes a first battery cell, a second battery cell, and a first thermal insulation member. The second battery cell is disposed adjacent to the first battery cell, an energy density of the second battery cell is less than that of the first battery cell, and the first thermal insulation member is disposed between the first battery cell and the second battery cell.
US12176504B2	Battery module housing having easily reusable recyclable, and reworkable adhesion structure and battery module comprising same A battery module housing includes a top plate and a bottom plate forming an upper wall and a lower wall, respectively, and a first side plate and a second side plate forming side walls, respectively, the battery module housing having a rectangular tube shape provided to accommodate battery cells in an inner space thereof, wherein the battery module housing has four bonding portions each including an adhesive along a longitudinal direction, the bonding portions located at two sites between opposing side edges of the top plate and top surfaces of the first side plate and second side plate, respectively, and at two sites between opposing side edges of the bottom plate and bottom surfaces of the first side plate and second side plate, respectively.
US12176499B2	Non-destructive battery fire suppression Provided herein are methods and systems for preventing and/or suppressing fire in a rechargeable battery.
US12176498B2	Switch activated battery swell detection A portable electronic device may include a battery assembly, a battery swell detection unit in proximity to the battery assembly, the battery swell detection unit includes a circuit, a switch positioned to be moved by swelling of a battery cell, a processor, and memory having programmed instructions that cause the processor, when executed, to detect battery swelling based on a position of the switch.
US12176496B2	Battery module and battery pack including the same The present disclosure relates to a battery module and a battery pack including the same, and more particularly, to a battery module including an improved sensing connection member. The battery module includes a battery cell stack in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked, a lower frame covering a bottom surface and both side surfaces of the battery cell stack, an upper frame covering an upper surface of the battery cell stack, a busbar frame formed on each of front and rear surfaces of the battery cell stack, and a connection unit that connects the bus-bar frame, wherein the connection unit is formed of a flexible flat cable (FFC) and is located between the upper frame and the battery cell stack.
US12176491B2	Electrolyte and electrochemical apparatus using same An electrolyte includes a compound of formula 1: formula 1. R1 and R2 are each independently selected from H, halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-10 alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C3-10 cycloalkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C2-10 alkenyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C2-10 alkynyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-10 alkoxy group, a substituted or unsubstituted C6-10 aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C3-10 heteroaryl group, or any combination thereof. R is selected from a substituted or unsubstituted C1-10 alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C3-10 cycloalkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C2-10 alkenyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C2-10 alkynyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-10 alkoxy group, a substituted or unsubstituted C6-10 aryl group or a substituted or unsubstituted C3-10 heteroaryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C3-10 heterocycloalkyl group, a butyrolactam group, or any combination thereof.
US12176486B2	Electrolyte and electrochemical device An electrolyte including a dinitrile compound, a trinitrile compound, and propyl propionate. Based on the total weight of the electrolyte, the weight percentage of the dinitrile compound is X, the weight percentage of the trinitrile compound is Y, and the weight percentage of the propyl propionate is Z, wherein, about 2 wt %≤(X+Y)≤about 11 wt %, about 1≤(X/Y)≤about 6, about 40 wt %≤Z≤about 50 wt %, and about 0.01<(Y/Z)≤about 0.3; wherein the trinitrile compound comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of 1,3,5-pentanetricarbonitrile; 1,2,3-propanetrinitrile, 1,3,6-hexanetricarbonitrile; 1,2,6-hexanetricarbonitrile, 1,2,3-tris(2-cyanoethoxy)propane; 1,2,4-tris(2-cyanoethoxy)butane, 1,1,1-tris(cyanoethoxymethylene)ethane, 1,1,1-tris(cyanoethoxymethylene)propane, 3-methyl-1,3,5-tris(cyanoethoxy)pentane, 1,2,7-tris(cyanoethoxy)heptane, 1,2,6-tris(cyanoethoxy)hexane, and 1,2,5-tris(cyanoethoxy)pentane.
US12176485B2	Secondary battery A gel electrolyte and a separator are provided between the positive electrode current collector and the negative electrode current collector. The plurality of positive electrode current collectors and the plurality of negative electrode current collectors are stacked such that surfaces of negative electrodes with which active material layers are not coated or surfaces of positive electrodes with which active material layers are not coated are in contact with each other.
US12176484B2	Organic electrolyte, and secondary battery comprising same The present invention relates to an organic electrolyte including at least one cyclic nitrile-based compound; and at least one chain type nitrile-based compound, and a secondary battery including the same.
US12176482B1	Solid electrolyte membrane, method for manufacturing the same, and all-solid-state battery comprising the same Disclosed is a solid electrolyte membrane, a method for manufacturing the same, and an all-solid-state battery containing the same. More specifically, the solid electrolyte membrane includes a first solid electrolyte layer and a second solid electrolyte layer stacked adjacent to each other, and the first solid electrolyte layer has a structure in which particulate binders are dispersed, and the second solid electrolyte layer has a structure in which fibrous binders are entangled or connected to each other, and thus the strength may be improved without lowering the ionic conductivity of the solid electrolyte membrane. The solid electrolyte membrane may be substantially free of solvent.
US12176473B1	LED packaging structure The present disclosure discloses a light-emitting diode (LED) packaging structure, including a bracket, wherein at least two rectifier chips are mounted on the bracket; an internal circuit and a voltage reduction resistor are mounted on the bracket; at least one light-emitting chip is also mounted on the bracket; the light-emitting chip is connected in parallel or series with the rectifier chips through metal wires to form an internal rectifier circuit; and the internal rectifier circuit is formed into a complete internal circuit through voltage reduction or current-limiting protection of the voltage reduction resistor. The LED packaging structure of the present disclosure can make an LED to emit light when driven directly by alternating current power, so that the LED packaging structure can be better used in fields such as product assembling, product application, and product cost, and more resources can be saved.
US12176469B2	μ-LED, μ-LED device, display and method for the same The invention relates to various aspects of a μ-LED or a μ-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The μ-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few μm.
US12176467B2	Electromagnetic radiation emitting device and method of applying a converter layer to an electromagnetic radiation emitting device An electromagnetic radiation emitting device and a method for applying a converter layer to an electromagnetic radiation emitting device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes applying converter elements to a surface of a carrier, applying the converter elements to an electromagnetic radiation emitting device by applying the carrier to the electromagnetic radiation emitting device such that the surface of the carrier with the applied converter elements faces the electromagnetic radiation emitting device and forming a converter layer on the electromagnetic radiation emitting device by depositing a plurality of thin layers on the converter elements using an atomic layer deposition process.
US12176466B2	LED device and bracket thereof An LED device and a bracket thereof. The bracket includes a first photo-etched metal part, composed of a first electrode and a chip placement layer stacked thereon, wherein an area of the chip placement layer is greater than an area of the first electrode; a second photo-etched metal part, composed of a second electrode and a connection layer stacked thereon; wherein a first insulation trench is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a second insulation trench is provided between the chip placement layer and the connection layer. The LED device and the bracket thereof can increase the placement area for placing LED chips, thereby improving the luminance of the LED device.
US12176463B2	Semiconductor chip integrated device manufacturing method, semiconductor chip integrated device, semiconductor chip integrated device assembly, semiconductor chip ink, and semiconductor chip ink ejection device A liquid-droplet-like semiconductor chip ink 200 contains a liquid 50 and semiconductor chips 40, each of which has a first electrode and a second electrod on the upper surface and the lower surface and is configured such that the second electrode side is more strongly attracted to a magnetic field. The semiconductor chip ink 200 is supplied to a chip joining part on a lower electrode 420 which is formed on a mounting substrate 400, the second electrode side of the semiconductor chips 40 in the semiconductor chip ink 200 are attracted by a magnetic force by an external magnetic field so as to make contact with the chip joining part, and thereafter is electrically and mechanically joined to the chip joining part by using soldering and the like. Thereafter an upper electrode in which a plurality of branch line parts or a single branch line part are extended from a main line part so as to cover the chip joining part is formed, and the semiconductor chips 40 are connected between the lower electrode 420 and an upper electrode, whereby a semiconductor chip integrated device is manufactured.
US12176457B2	Light emitting device including covering member and external connection electrodes A light emitting device includes: a first light emitting element that comprises a pair of first electrodes; a second light emitting element that comprises a pair of second electrodes; a covering member that integrally covers the first and second light emitting elements such that lower surfaces of the pair of first electrodes and lower surfaces of the pair of second electrodes are exposed from a lower surface of the covering member; a pair of first external connection electrodes, each comprising: a first portion that covers the lower surface of a respective first electrode, and a second portion that covers a portion of the lower surface of the covering member; and a pair of second external connection electrodes, each comprising: a first portion that covers the lower surface of a respective second electrode, and a second portion that covers a portion of the lower surface of the covering member.
US12176454B1	Optically controlled semiconductor devices Described herein is a semiconductor structure, comprising: a drain region; a drift region comprised of a wide band gap material disposed over the drain region; and a channel structure disposed over the drift region. In some embodiments, the channel structure comprises: an optically active material disposed over the drift region, wherein the optically active material generates charge carriers in response to an optical signal; and a source region disposed over the optically active material, wherein in an off state charge carriers in the optically active material are depleted to turn off the semiconductor structure, and in an on state charge carriers in the optically active material conduct a current in the semiconductor structure when an electric field is applied across the source region and drain region, causing the current to substantially flow directly between the source region and the drain region.
US12176451B2	Momentum-matching and band-alignment van der waals (vdW) infrared photodetector and fabrication method thereof The present disclosure provides a momentum-matching and band-alignment van der Waals (vdW) infrared photodetector and a fabrication method thereof. The photodetector includes a substrate, a dielectric layer, a Bi2O2Se layer, a black phosphorus (BP) layer, a metal source and a metal drain. The fabrication method includes: transferring, in a wet manner, the Bi2O2Se layer grown on the mica substrate onto the substrate having the dielectric layer, transferring the mechanically exfoliated BP layer through a micro-region fixed-point transfer device onto the Bi2O2Se layer, and separately fabricating the metal source and the metal drain on the Bi2O2Se layer and the BP layer by processes such as electron beam exposure and electron beam evaporation, thereby forming the momentum-matching and band-alignment vdW infrared photodetector having a vertical structure.
US12176448B2	Photovoltaic cell and photovoltaic module A photovoltaic cell is provided, including a substrate, a doped layer, a tunneling dielectric layer, doped conductive layers, first electrodes, and conductive transport layers. A doping concentration of the doped layer is greater than that of the substrate. The doped layer includes first doped regions, second doped regions and third doped regions. A doping concentration of each first doped region is less than that of each second doped region and that of each third doped region. The tunneling dielectric layer is disposed on the first and second doped regions. Each doped conductive layer is aligned with a first doped region and is disposed on a tunneling dielectric layer. Each first electrode is disposed on and electrically connected to the doped conductive layer. Each conductive transport layer is aligned with a second doped region and is disposed on the tunneling dielectric layer.
US12176446B2	Solar cell, photovoltaic module, and method for preparing the solar cell The present disclosure provides a solar cell. The solar cell includes a substrate, where the substrate has a front surface and a rear surface, the rear surface includes a textured region and a flat region, a doped surface field is formed in the textured region of the substrate; a tunneling dielectric layer, where the tunneling dielectric layer is located on the flat region; a doped conductive layer, where the doped conductive layer is located on the tunnelling dielectric layer, the doped conductive layer has doping elements, and the doped conductive layer has the same type of the doping elements with the doped surface field; a rear electrode, where a part of a bottom portion of the rear electrode is located in the doped conductive layer and the part of the bottom portion of the rear electrode is in contact with the doped surface field.
US12176444B2	Optoelectronic component and method for producing same The invention relates to an optoelectronic component comprising a carrier, an optoelectronic semiconductor chip arranged on the upper side of the carrier, and a frame which is arranged on the upper side of the carrier and which frames the optoelectronic semiconductor chip. An underside of the frame, which faces the upper side of the carrier, has at least one recess. In a spatial area framed by the frame on the upper side of the carrier, there is arranged a potting material which is in contact with the frame and at least partly fills the recess in the frame.
US12176443B2	Electronic sensor devices and methods of manufacturing electronic sensor devices In one example, an electronic device includes: an electronic component comprising a sensor and an electrical interconnect; a substrate comprising an electrically conductive material and a translucent mold compound, wherein the electrically conductive material is coupled to the translucent mold compound and wherein the electrical interconnect of the electronic component is coupled to the electrically conductive material of the substrate; and a translucent underfill contacting the electrical interconnect and between the translucent mold compound and the sensor. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein.
US12176435B2	Method for forming fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device structure with conductive layer between gate and gate contact A method for forming a FinFET device structure is provided. The method includes forming a gate dielectric layer over a fin structure. The method also includes forming a gate electrode layer over the gate dielectric layer. The method further includes forming a first dielectric layer formed over the gate dielectric layer. In addition, the method includes forming a first conductive layer on the gate dielectric layer. A bottom surface of the first conductive layer is in direct contact a top surface of the gate electrode layer, a sidewall of the first conductive layer is in direct contact the first dielectric layer and spaced apart from the gate dielectric layer.
US12176433B2	Polarization enhancement structure for enlarging memory window The present disclosure relates a ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFET) device. The FeFET device includes a ferroelectric structure having a first side and a second side. A gate structure is disposed along the first side of the ferroelectric structure, and an oxide semiconductor is disposed along the second side of the ferroelectric structure. The oxide semiconductor has a first semiconductor type. A source region and a drain region are disposed on the oxide semiconductor. The gate structure is laterally between the source region and the drain region. A polarization enhancement structure is arranged on the oxide semiconductor between the source region and the drain region. The polarization enhancement structure includes a semiconductor material or an oxide semiconductor material having a second semiconductor type that is different than the first semiconductor type.
US12176432B2	Trench-type MOSFET and method for manufacturing the same Disclosed is a trench-type MOSFET and a method for manufacturing the same. The method comprises: forming a trench in a semiconductor substrate; forming a first insulating layer and a shielding conductor in the trench; forming an opening on two sides of the shielding conductor in the trench, wherein the opening is separated from the shielding conductor by the first insulating layer; forming a gate dielectric layer and a gate conductor in the opening, wherein the trench extends from an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate into the semiconductor substrate, the first insulating layer covers a sidewall and a bottom of the trench and separates the shielding conductor from the semiconductor substrate, the gate dielectric layer at least covers a sidewall of the opening. The method simplifies the process steps of forming the trench-type MOSFET compared with the prior art, and reduces process errors.
US12176431B2	Electronic device employing two-dimensional electron gas with reduced leakage current A semiconductor device comprises an insulating region surrounding an active area having a channel direction and a transverse direction that is transverse to the channel direction. A source region and a drain region are disposed in the active area, and are spaced apart along the channel direction. A channel is disposed in the active area and is interposed between the source region and the drain region. The channel comprises a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). A gate line is oriented along the transverse direction and is disposed on the channel and has a gate width in the channel direction. The gate line comprises gate material. A gate line terminus is disposed at each end of the gate line. Each gate line terminus comprises the gate material. Each gate line terminus has a width in the channel direction that is at least 1.2 time the gate width.
US12176430B2	Semiconductor structure and semiconductor device A semiconductor structure and a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor includes a substrate, a seed layer on the substrate, a buffer layer on the seed layer, a back barrier layer with a V-group element polarity on the buffer layer, a channel layer on the back barrier layer, and a front barrier layer on the channel layer.
US12176429B2	Wrap-around contact structures for semiconductor nanowires and nanoribbons Wrap-around contact structures for semiconductor nanowires and nanoribbons, and methods of fabricating wrap-around contact structures for semiconductor nanowires and nanoribbons, are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor nanowire above a first portion of a semiconductor sub-fin. A gate structure surrounds a channel portion of the semiconductor nanowire. A source or drain region is at a first side of the gate structure, the source or drain region including an epitaxial structure on a second portion of the semiconductor sub-fin, the epitaxial structure having substantially vertical sidewalls in alignment with the second portion of the semiconductor sub-fin. A conductive contact structure is along sidewalls of the second portion of the semiconductor sub-fin and along the substantially vertical sidewalls of the epitaxial structure.
US12176425B2	Semiconductor device and forming method thereof A method of forming a semiconductor device including forming a fin structure having a stack of alternating first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers over a substrate, the first semiconductor layers and the second semiconductor layers having different compositions, forming a dummy gate structure across the fin structure, forming gate spacers on opposite sidewalls of the dummy gate structure, respectively, removing the dummy gate structure to form a gate trench between the gate spacers, etching the first semiconductor layers in the gate trench, such that the second semiconductor layers are suspended in the gate trench to serve as nanosheets, forming a work function metal layer surrounding each of the nanosheets, and depositing a fill metal layer over the work function metal layer without using a fluorine-containing precursor.
US12176424B2	FinFET device comprising plurality of dummy protruding features A method includes forming a first active fin structure and a second active fin structure on a substrate. A dummy fin structure is formed on the substrate, the dummy fin structure being interposed between the first active fin structure and the second active fin structure. The dummy fin structure is removed to expose a first portion of the substrate, the first portion of the substrate being disposed directly below the dummy fin structure. A plurality of protruding features is formed on the first portion of the substrate. A shallow trench isolation (STI) region is formed over the first portion of the substrate, the STI region covering the plurality of protruding features, at least a portion of the first active fin structure and at least a portion of the second active fin structure extending above a topmost surface of the STI region.
US12176422B2	Controlling fin-thinning through feedback A method includes forming isolation regions extending into a semiconductor substrate. A semiconductor strip is between the isolation regions. The method further includes recessing the isolation regions so that a top portion of the semiconductor strip protrudes higher than top surfaces of the isolation regions to form a semiconductor fin, measuring a fin width of the semiconductor fin, generating an etch recipe based on the fin width, and performing a thinning process on the semiconductor fin using the etching recipe.
US12176417B2	Semiconductor devices A semiconductor device including a substrate including first and second regions, a first transistor on the first region and including a first semiconductor pattern protruding from the first region; a first gate structure covering an upper surface and sidewall of the first semiconductor pattern; first source/drain layers on the first semiconductor pattern at opposite sides of the first gate structure, upper surfaces of the first source/drain layers being closer to the substrate than an uppermost surface of the first gate structure; and a second transistor on the second region and including a second semiconductor pattern protruding from the second region; a second gate structure covering a sidewall of the second semiconductor pattern; and a second source/drain layer under the second semiconductor pattern; and a third source/drain layer on the second semiconductor pattern, wherein the upper surface of the first region is lower than the upper surface of the second region.
US12176416B2	Stacked nanosheet transistor with defect free channel Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and resulting structures for nanosheet devices having defect free channels. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, a nanosheet stack is formed over a substrate. The nanosheet stack includes alternating first sacrificial layers and second sacrificial layers. One layer of the first sacrificial layers has a greater thickness than the remaining first sacrificial layers. The first sacrificial layers are removed and semiconductor layers are formed on surfaces of the second sacrificial layers. The semiconductor layers include a first set and a second set of semiconductor layers. The second sacrificial layers are removed and an isolation dielectric is formed between the first set and the second set of semiconductor layers.
US12176408B2	Localized spacer for nanowire transistors and methods of fabrication A transistor includes a first channel layer over a second channel layer, an epitaxial source structure coupled to a first end of the first and second channel layers and an epitaxial drain structure coupled to a second end of the first and second channel layers. The transistor includes a gate between the epitaxial source structure and the epitaxial drain structure, where the gate is above the first channel layer and between the first channel layer and the second channel layer. The transistor includes a first spacer of a first material, between the first and second channel layers includes. The first spacer has at least one convex sidewall that is between the gate and the epitaxial source structure and between the gate and the epitaxial drain structure. The transistor also includes a second spacer of a second material having substantially vertical sidewalls above the first channel layer.
US12176406B2	Trench MOSFET and method for manufacturing the same A trench MOSFET can include: a semiconductor layer having a first doping type; a trench extending from an upper surface of the semiconductor layer to internal portion of the semiconductor layer; insulating layers and electrode conductors located in the trench; a body region having a second doping type in an upper region of the semiconductor layer adjacent to the trench; and a floating region having the first doping type located in a predetermined position of the semiconductor layer adjacent to both sides of the trench, where the floating region is located below the body region and is separated from the body region.
US12176405B1	Field-effect transistors with airgap spacers Structures for a field-effect transistor and methods of forming a structure for a field-effect transistor. The structure comprises a semiconductor layer, a first raised source/drain region on the semiconductor layer, a second raised source/drain region on the semiconductor layer, a gate electrode laterally between the first raised source/drain region and the second raised source/drain region, a first airgap laterally between the first raised source/drain region and the gate electrode, and a second airgap laterally between the second raised source/drain region and the gate electrode. The gate electrode includes a first section and a second section between the first section and the semiconductor layer, the first section of the gate electrode has a first width, the second section of the gate electrode has a second width, and the first width is greater than the second width.
US12176403B2	High electron mobility transistor device A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) device including the following components is provided. A gate electrode is located on a barrier layer. A source electrode is located on the first side of the gate electrode. A drain electrode is located on the second side of the gate. A source field plate is connected to the source electrode. The source field plate includes first, second, and third field plate portions. The first field plate portion is connected to the source electrode and is located on the first side of the gate electrode. The second field plate portion is located on the second side of the gate electrode. The third field plate portion is connected to the end of the first field plate portion and the end of the second field plate portion. The source field plate has a first opening located directly above the gate electrode.
US12176400B2	Backside contact with air spacer A semiconductor structure includes an active region including a source/drain feature, a contact protruding from a bottom surface of the source/drain feature, a first dielectric layer disposed directly below the active region and surrounding the contact, an air gap disposed between the contact and the first dielectric layer, and a seal disposed between the contact and the first dielectric layer, such that the air gap is disposed between the seal and the source/drain feature.
US12176398B2	Semiconductor device, semiconductor device manufacturing method, inverter circuit, drive device, vehicle, and elevator A semiconductor device of embodiments includes: a silicon carbide layer having a first face having an off angle equal to or more than 0° and equal to or less than 8° with respect to a {0001} face and a second face facing the first face and having a 4H-SiC crystal structure; a gate electrode extending in a first direction parallel to the first face; a silicon oxide layer between the silicon carbide layer and the gate electrode; and a region disposed between the silicon carbide layer and the silicon oxide layer and having a nitrogen concentration equal to or more than 1×1021 cm−3. Assuming that a first reference length in the first direction is 0.5 μm, a surface roughness of a surface of the silicon carbide layer in a range of the first reference length is equal to or less than 1 nm.
US12176397B2	Super barrier rectifier with shielded gate electrode and multiple stepped epitaxial structure The present invention introduces a new shielded gate trench SBR (Super Barrier Rectifier) wherein an epitaxial layer having special MSE (multiple stepped epitaxial) layers with different doping concentrations decreasing in a direction from a substrate to a top surface of the epitaxial layer, wherein each of the MSE layers has an uniform doping concentration as grown. Forward voltage Vf is significantly reduced with the special MSE layers. An integrated circuit comprising a SGT MOSFET and a SBR formed on a single chip obtains benefits of low on-resistance, low reverse recovery time and high avalanche capability from the special MSE layers.
US12176396B2	Semiconductor device including current spread region A semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide semiconductor body. A first shielding region of a first conductivity type is connected to a first contact at a first surface of the silicon carbide semiconductor body. A current spread region of a second conductivity type is connected to a second contact at a second surface of the silicon carbide semiconductor body. A doping concentration profile of the current spread region includes peaks along a vertical direction perpendicular to the first surface. A doping concentration of one peak or one peak-group of the peaks is at least 50% higher than a doping concentration of any other peak of the current spread region. A vertical distance between the one peak or the one peak-group of the current spread region and the first surface is larger than a second vertical distance between the first surface and a maximum doping peak of the first shielding region.
US12176387B2	Trench capacitor profile to decrease substrate warpage Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an integrated chip including a capacitor over a substrate. The capacitor includes a plurality of conductive layers and a plurality of dielectric layers. The plurality of conductive layers and dielectric layers define a base structure and a first protrusion structure extending downward from the base structure towards a bottom surface of the substrate. The first protrusion structure comprises one or more surfaces defining a first cavity. A top of the first cavity is disposed below the base structure.
US12176385B2	Semiconductor device for enhancing quality factor of inductor and method of forming the same A semiconductor device may include a compound substrate and a 3-dimensional inductor structure. The compound substrate may include a front surface and a back surface. The 3-dimensional inductor structure may include a front conductive stack, a back conductive layer, and at least one through-hole structure. At least one portion of the front conductive stack may include a first conductive layer disposed on the front surface of the compound substrate, and a second conductive layer disposed on the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer has a thickness ranging between 30 micrometers and 400 micrometers. The back conductive layer is disposed on the back surface of the compound substrate. The at least one through-hole structure penetrates through the compound substrate, and electrically connects the front conductive stack to the back conductive layer.
US12176383B2	Display device and splice display device A display device and a splice display device are provided by the present application. The display device of the present application includes a main-display region and a sub-display region surrounding the main-display region. The display device includes a display panel including a main-pixel region positioned in the main-display region and a sub-pixel region positioned in the sub-display region. An optical element disposed on the display panel and covering the sub-display region.
US12176380B2	Optoelectronic semiconductor device with a plurality of image elements and separating elements, and method for producing the optoelectronic semiconductor device An optoelectronic semiconductor device may include a plurality of picture elements, each of which include a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type arranged one above the other to form a semiconductor layer stack. The optoelectronic semiconductor device further includes separating elements arranged between adjacent picture elements and extend in a horizontal direction along a boundary of the adjacent picture element, adjoin the first and the second semiconductor layers, respectively, and extend in the vertical direction through the first and the second semiconductor layers, respectively.
US12176378B2	LED display panel and led display apparatus having the same A display panel including a circuit board having pads thereon, and a plurality of pixel regions arranged on the circuit board, each of the pixel regions including a first LED stack disposed on the circuit board, a first bonding layer disposed between the first LED stack and the circuit board, a second LED stack disposed on the first LED stack, a third LED stack disposed on the second LED stack, first through-vias passing through the first LED stack and the first bonding layer, second through-vias passing through the second LED stack, and third through-vias passing through the third LED stack, in which the first through-vias pass through the first LED stack and the first bonding layer, and are connected to the pads of the circuit board.
US12176376B2	Image sensor An image sensor includes a substrate including a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface, a first photodiode located in a first region of the substrate and generating photocharges from light incident on the first region, a second photodiode located in a second region of the substrate and generating photocharges from light incident on the second region, and an isolation structure defining the first region in which the first photodiode is located and the second region in which the second photodiode is located, and extending between the first photodiode and the second photodiode. An area of the second region is smaller than an area of the first region, a first end of the isolation structure is coplanar with the second surface, and the isolation structure extends in a vertical direction from the second surface of the substrate toward the first surface of the substrate.
US12176375B2	Image sensor structure including nanowire structure and manufacturing method thereof An image sensor structure including a substrate, a nanowire structure, a first conductive line, a second conductive line, and a third conductive line is provided. The nanowire structure includes a first doped layer, a second doped layer, a third doped layer, and a fourth doped layer sequentially stacked on the substrate. The first doped layer and the third doped layer have a first conductive type. The second doped layer and the fourth doped layer have a second conductive type. The first conductive line is connected to a sidewall of the second doped layer. The second conductive line is connected to a sidewall of the third doped layer. The third conductive line is connected to the fourth doped layer.
US12176373B2	Light receiving element, ranging module, and electronic apparatus Disclosed is a light receiving element including an on-chip lens, a wiring layer, and a semiconductor layer disposed between the on-chip lens and the wiring layer. The semiconductor layer includes a photodiode, a first transfer transistor that transfers electric charge generated in the photodiode to a first charge storage portion, a second transfer transistor that transfers electric charge generated in the photodiode to a second charge storage portion, and an interpixel separation portion that separates the semiconductor layers of adjacent pixels from each other, for at least part of the semiconductor layer in the depth direction. The wiring layer has at least one layer including a light blocking member. The light blocking member is disposed to overlap with the photodiode in a plan view.
US12176371B2	Current assisted photonic demodulator (CAPD) indirect time of flight (ToF) light-receiving element Distance measurement accuracy is improved. A light-receiving element according to an embodiment includes a semiconductor substrate, and lattice-shaped pixel separating parts that divide the semiconductor substrate into a plurality of pixel regions arranged in a matrix form, wherein each of the pixel regions includes: a first semiconductor region disposed on a first surface side in the semiconductor substrate; a second semiconductor region disposed on the first surface side in the semiconductor substrate separately from the first semiconductor region; and a first blocking region disposed between the first semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region on the first surface side in the semiconductor substrate and having a dielectric constant different from that of the semiconductor substrate.
US12176368B2	Photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, and moving body A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a first substrate having a first semiconductor device layer including a plurality of photoelectric conversion units and a well, and a second substrate having a second semiconductor device layer including a circuit configured to process signals obtained by the plurality of photoelectric conversion units, wherein the first and second substrates are laminated together, wherein the first semiconductor device layer includes an effective pixel region, an optical black pixel region, and an outer periphery region, wherein, in a planar view, a light-blocking region formed by a light-blocking layer overlaps the optical black pixel region, and the light-blocking region does not overlap the outer periphery region, wherein the outer periphery region has a charge draining region including a semiconductor region of the same conductivity type as a signal charge, and wherein a fixed potential is supplied to the charge draining region.
US12176365B2	Light detection device A light detection device includes a sensor array and a readout circuit. The sensor array includes a compound semiconductor substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, a plurality of photodetectors arranged two-dimensionally on the first main surface, and an insulating film disposed on the second main surface. The readout circuit includes a silicon substrate having a third main surface connected to the first main surface of the compound semiconductor substrate. The insulating film contains an insulating material having a lower thermal expansion coefficient than a compound semiconductor contained in the compound semiconductor substrate. The insulating film includes at least one first portion having a first thickness and a second portion having a second thickness larger than the first thickness.
US12176355B2	Display panel and manufacturing method thereof Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, which includes a plurality of first electrode plates and a plurality of second electrode plates, and one of the second electrodes plate is disposed corresponding to one of the first electrode plates; each of the second electrode plates includes a first additional conductive sublayer, a first semiconductor sublayer, and a first metal sublayer stacked, and the first metal sublayer is electrically connected with the first additional conductive sublayer.
US12176354B2	Display substrate and display panel The disclosure provides display substrate and display panel, and belongs to field of display technology. The display substrate includes base substrate; and gate lines, data lines and sub-pixels on base substrate. Sub-pixels form first pixel groups arranged side by side along first direction and second pixel groups arranged side by side along second direction; first region is between any two adjacent first pixel groups, and second region is between any two adjacent second pixel groups; common electrode line is in at least a portion of the first regions, and common electrode line and data line are in different first regions; and common electrode line includes common electrode line segments and protrusions each coupled between two common electrode line segments, a width of protrusion in any direction is larger than that of common electrode line segment in first direction; and protrusion is in the second region.
US12176349B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacture A semiconductor device and method of manufacture are provided. In embodiments a dielectric fin is formed in order to help isolate adjacent semiconductor fins. The dielectric fin is formed using a deposition process in which deposition times and temperatures are utilized to increase the resistance of the dielectric fin to subsequent etching processes.
US12176343B2	Nitride-based semiconductor bidirectional switching device and method for manufacturing the same The present disclosure provides a nitride-based bidirectional switching device with substrate potential management capability. The device has a control node, a first power/load node, a second power/load node and a main substrate, and comprises: a nitride-based bilateral transistor and a substrate potential management circuit configured for managing a potential of the main substrate. By implementing the substrate potential management circuit, the substrate potential can be stabilized to a lower one of the potentials of the first source/drain and the second source/drain of the bilateral transistor no matter in which directions the bidirectional switching device is operated. Therefore, the bilateral transistor can be operated with a stable substrate potential for conducting current in both directions.
US12176342B2	Method for fabricating semiconductor device with guard ring The present disclosure provides a method for fabricating a semiconductor device including: forming an isolation layer in a substrate to define a first surrounding area surrounding a center area and a second surrounding area surrounding the first surrounding area in a top-view perspective; forming a first guard ring in the first surrounding area; forming a second guard ring in the second surrounding area; and forming a programmable unit in the center area. Forming the programmable unit includes: forming a middle insulating layer in the center area and including a U-shaped cross-sectional profile; forming a first electrode including a common layer on two sides of the middle insulating layer, and forming a connection layer including a U-shaped cross-sectional profile on the two sides and the bottom surface of the middle insulating layer; and forming a second electrode layer on an inner surface of the middle insulating layer.
US12176341B2	Electrostatic discharge (ESD) array with back end of line (BEOL) connection in a carrier wafer An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection apparatus and method for fabricating the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the ESD protection apparatus, comprises: an internal circuit patterned in a device wafer and electrically coupled between a first node and a second node, an array of electrostatic discharge (ESD) circuits patterned in a carrier wafer, where the ESD circuits are electrically coupled between a first node and a second node and configured to protect the internal circuit from transient ESD events, and where the device wafer is bonded to the carrier wafer.
US12176339B2	Electronic device and charge pump circuit An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes: a first doped region of a first doping type arranged in a first semiconductor layer of a second doping type complementary to the first doping type; an insulation layer formed on top of the first semiconductor layer and adjoining the first doped region; at least two active device regions arranged in a second semiconductor layer formed on top of the insulation layer; and an electrical connection between one of the at least two active device regions and the first doped region. Each of the at least two active device regions is arranged adjacent to the first doped region and separated from the first doped region by the insulation layer.
US12176335B2	Semiconductor device and method using tape attachment A semiconductor device has a first semiconductor package including a substrate and an encapsulant deposited over the substrate. An adhesive tape is disposed on the encapsulant. A conductive via is formed by trench cutting through the adhesive tape and encapsulant to expose the substrate. A second semiconductor package is disposed over the adhesive tape opposite the first semiconductor package. The first semiconductor package and second semiconductor package are bonded together by the adhesive tape.
US12176325B2	Stretchable display panel, preparation method therefor, and display apparatus A stretchable display panel, a preparation method therefor, and a display apparatus, relating to the technical field of display. Wherein the stretchable display panel includes an island region (01) disposed with a display apparatus (A), a bridge region (02) disposed with wiring (B), and a hole-region (03). A separation region (10) is disposed at an edge of the island region (01) and/or an edge of the bridge region (02). The separation region (10) includes a slope layer (11) and a plurality of isolation columns (12) disposed along a slope plane of the slope layer (11).
US12176324B2	Light emitting apparatus using semiconductor light-emitting device A light emitting apparatus includes a plurality of wiring electrodes, a plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices connected between two of the plurality of wiring electrodes, and a reflection layer of metal disposed under the plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices, wherein the plurality of wiring electrodes are connected in series with each other by the plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices, and at least one of the plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices is connected between two consecutive wiring electrodes among the plurality of wiring electrodes.
US12176320B2	Semiconductor structure and methods for bonding tested wafers and testing pre-bonded wafers A method for bonding tested wafers is provided. The method includes the following operations. A first wafer having a first surface is received, and the first wafer includes a test pad and a conductive pad at the first surface of the first wafer and the test pad has a recess caused by a test probe and the conductive pad is electrically connected to the test pad. The first surface of the first wafer is planarized. A first hybrid bonding layer is formed over the first surface of the first wafer. The first wafer and a second wafer are bonded to connect the first hybrid bonding layer and a second hybrid bonding layer on the second water. A semiconductor structure and a method for testing pre-bonded wafers are also provided.
US12176315B2	Electrical connection member, electrical connection structure, and method for manufacturing electrical connection member An electrical connection member (1, 301, 401, 501, 601) includes a clad material (10, 110, 610) including at least both a first Cu layer (12) made of a Cu material and a low thermal expansion layer (11) made of an Fe material or Ni material having an average thermal expansion coefficient from room temperature to 300° C. smaller than that of the first Cu layer, the first Cu layer and the low thermal expansion layer being bonded to each other.
US12176305B2	Semiconductor package with integrated voltage regulator device and separate bridge die An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a first electronic component and a power regulating structure configured to provide a first power to the first electronic component. The power regulating structure includes a first component and a second component at least partially overlapped with the first component from a top view.
US12176303B2	Wafer-level bonding of obstructive elements A bonded structure is disclosed. The bonded structure can include a semiconductor element comprising active circuitry. The bonded structure can include an obstructive element bonded to the semiconductor element along a bond interface, the obstructive element including an obstructive material disposed over the active circuitry, the obstructive material configured to obstruct external access to the active circuitry. The bonded element can include an artifact structure indicative of a wafer-level bond in which the semiconductor element and the obstructive element formed part of respective wafers directly bonded prior to singulation.
US12176302B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a lead frame, a conductive member, a resin composition and a sealing resin. The semiconductor element has an element front surface and an element back surface facing away in a first direction. The semiconductor element is mounted on the lead frame. The conductive member is bonded to the lead frame, electrically connecting the semiconductor element and the lead frame. The resin composition covers a bonded region where the conductive member and lead frame are bonded while exposing part of the element front surface. The sealing resin covers part of the lead frame, the semiconductor element, and the resin composition. The resin composition has a greater bonding strength with the lead frame than a bonding strength between the sealing resin and lead frame and a greater bonding strength with the conductive member than a bonding strength between the sealing resin and conductive member.
US12176298B2	Floating die package A floating die package including a cavity formed through sublimation of a sacrificial die encapsulant and sublimation or separation of die attach materials after molding assembly. A pinhole vent in the molding structure is provided as a sublimation path to allow gases to escape, whereby the die or die stack is released from the substrate and suspended in the cavity by the bond wires only.
US12176296B2	Semiconductor package and electronic device including the same A semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip, each including first signal pads, and second signal pads disposed in a region different from that of the first signal pads. The first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip are mounted on a package substrate. The package substrate includes first signal lines connected to the first signal pads and second signal lines connected to the second signal pads. The first signal lines and the second signal lines are disposed in a same layer.
US12176290B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes an active region extending in a first direction on a substrate; a gate structure extending in a second direction on the substrate, intersecting the active region, and including a gate electrode, source/drain region disposed on the active region on at least one side of the gate structure, a first contact structure connected to the source/drain region; a first gate contact structure disposed on and connected to the gate electrode; a second contact structure disposed on and connected to the first contact structure; and a second gate contact structure disposed on and connected to the first gate contact structure. The second contact structure and/or the second gate contact structure may include an upper metal layer and a metal liner covering a lower surface and side surfaces of the upper metal layer. An external surface of the metal liner may have surface roughness.
US12176289B2	Semiconductor device design mitigating latch-up Apparatus for mitigating latch-up within semiconductor devices. A semiconductor device includes a first conductor, a second conductor, and a first gate conductor. The first conductor extends in a first direction, receives a first power supply signal, and is connected to a first electrode. The second conductor extends in the first direction, receives a second power supply signal different from the first power supply signal, and is connected to a second electrode. The first conductor is offset from the second conductor in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction in a top-down view to mitigate formation of parasitic devices within the semiconductor device electrically connecting the first conductor with the second conductor. The first gate conductor is disposed adjacent to the first conductor and the second conductor, is disposed on the first electrode and the second electrode, and receives an input signal.
US12176285B2	Transformer guard trace An electronic device includes first leads along a first side, second leads along a second side, first and second dies, and a magnetic assembly with a multilevel lamination structure with first and second windings and a conductive guard trace. The lamination structure includes the first winding in a first level, and the second winding in a different level. The guard trace is between the first patterned conductive feature and the second side of the package structure. A first set of electrical connections couple the first die, the first winding, and one of the first conductive leads in a first circuit, and a second set of electrical connections couple the second die, the second winding, the guard trace and one of the second conductive leads in an isolated second circuit.
US12176282B2	Manufacturing method of semiconductor package A manufacturing method of a semiconductor package includes the following steps. A supporting layer is formed over a redistribution structure. A first planarization process is performed over the supporting layer. A lower dielectric layer is formed over the supporting layer, wherein the lower dielectric layer includes a concave exposing a device mounting region of the supporting layer. A first sacrificial layer is formed over the supporting layer, wherein the sacrificial layer filling the concave. A second planarization process is performed over the lower dielectric layer and the first sacrificial layer. A transition waveguide provided over the lower dielectric layer. The first sacrificial layer is removed. A semiconductor device is mounted over the device mounting region, wherein the semiconductor device includes a device waveguide is optically coupled to the transition waveguide.
US12176278B2	3D chip package based on vertical-through-via connector A connector may include: a first substrate having a top surface, a bottom surface opposite to the top surface of the top substrate and a side surface joining an edge of the top surface of the first substrate and joining an edge of the bottom surface of the first substrate; a second substrate having a top surface, a bottom surface opposite to the top surface of the second substrate and a side surface joining an edge of the top surface of the second substrate and joining an edge of the bottom surface of the second substrate, wherein the side surface of the second substrate faces the side surface of the first substrate, wherein the top surfaces of the first and second substrates are coplanar with each other at a top of the connector and the bottom surfaces of the first and second substrates are coplanar with each other at a bottom of the connector; and a plurality of metal traces between, in a first horizontal direction, the side surfaces of the first and second substrates, wherein each of the plurality of metal traces has a top end at the top of the connector and a bottom end at the bottom of the connector.
US12176277B2	Package substrate and package structure A package substrate including a first redistribution structure, a first bonding layer, a core, a second bonding layer and a second redistribution structure in a sequential order is provided. The first redistribution structure has a first redistribution surface and a first bonding pad disposed on the first redistribution surface. The second redistribution structure has a second redistribution surface and a second bonding pad disposed on the second redistribution surface. The core has a first core pad disposed on a first core surface, and a second core pad disposed on a second core surface opposite to the first core surface. The first core pad is directly bonded to first bonding pad and offset from first bonding pad. The first bonding pad and the first core pad are embedded in the first bonding layer. The second core pad is contacting the second bonding pad through a conductive portion of the second bonding layer. A package structure is also provided.
US12176266B2	Through-substrate via formation to enlarge electrochemical plating window In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip (IC). The IC includes a conductive structure disposed within a dielectric structure along a first side of a semiconductor substrate. An insulating structure is disposed along inner sidewalls of the semiconductor substrate. The inner sidewalls of the semiconductor substrate extend through the semiconductor substrate. A blocking layer is disposed along inner sidewalls of the insulating structure. A through-substrate via (TSV) includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion extends from a second side of the semiconductor substrate to a horizontally-extending surface of the insulating structure that protrudes outward from the inner sidewalls of the insulating structure. The second portion extends from the first portion to the conductive structure and has a maximum width less than that of the first portion.
US12176260B2	Passive thermal-control system of an electronic speaker device and associated electronic speaker devices This document describes a passive thermal-control system that can be integrated into an electronic speaker device and associated electronic speaker devices. The passive thermal-control system uses an architecture that combines heat spreaders and thermal interface materials to transfer heat from heat-generating electronic devices of the electronic speaker device to a housing component of the electronic speaker device. The housing component dissipates the heat to prevent a thermal runaway condition.
US12176258B2	Semiconductor package and method manufacturing the same A semiconductor package including an insulating encapsulation, an integrated circuit component, and conductive elements is provided. The integrated circuit component is encapsulated in the insulating encapsulation, wherein the integrated circuit component has at least one through silicon via protruding from the integrated circuit component. The conductive elements are located on the insulating encapsulation, wherein one of the conductive elements is connected to the at least one through silicon via, and the integrated circuit component is electrically connected to the one of the conductive elements through the at least one through silicon via.
US12176253B2	Deposition system and method A deposition system provides a feature that may reduce costs of the sputtering process by increasing a target change interval. The deposition system provides an array of magnet members which generate a magnetic field and redirect the magnetic field based on target thickness measurement data. To adjust or redirect the magnetic field, at least one of the magnet members in the array tilts to focus on an area of the target where more target material remains than other areas. As a result, more ion, e.g., argon ion bombardment occurs on the area, creating more uniform erosion on the target surface.
US12176246B2	Dielectric capping structure overlying a conductive structure to increase stability Some embodiments relate to an integrated chip include a conductive structure disposed within a dielectric structure. A first dielectric layer overlies the dielectric structure. A dielectric capping layer on the conductive structure. Opposing sidewalls of the dielectric capping layer are aligned with opposing sidewalls of the conductive structure. A second dielectric layer overlies the first dielectric layer and the dielectric capping layer, wherein the second dielectric layer directly contacts the opposing sidewalls of the dielectric capping layer, the opposing sidewalls of the conductive structure, and a top surface of the first dielectric layer.
US12176242B2	Rotatable thermal processing chamber The present disclosure relates to heating a substrate in a rapid thermal processing (RTP) chamber. The chamber may contain a rotatable assembly configured to accommodate and rotate the substrate while a heat source inside the RTP chamber applies heat to the substrate. The rotatable assembly is partially disposed outside the RTP chamber. A seal may formed around the rotatable assembly and maintain a vacuum inside the RTP chamber while the rotatable assembly rotates. The rotatable assembly may configured to accommodate various-sized substrates.
US12176241B2	Support structure for thermal processing systems Support plates and support structures for thermal processing systems to heat workpieces are provided. In one example, a thermal processing apparatus is provided that includes a plurality of heat sources, a rotatable support plate, and a support structure having a flexibility in the radial direction of the rotatable support plate that is greater than a flexibility in the azimuthal direction of the rotatable support plate. Also provided are support plates for supporting a workpiece in a thermal processing apparatus. The support plate can include a base defining a radial direction and an azimuthal direction and at least one support structure extending from the base having a flexibility in the radial direction of the base that is greater than a flexibility in the azimuthal direction of the base.
US12176240B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor package structure and clamp apparatus A method for manufacturing a semiconductor package structure and a clamp apparatus are provided. The method includes: (a) providing a package body disposed on a chuck, wherein the package body includes at least one semiconductor element encapsulated in an encapsulant; (b) moving a pressing tool transversely to above the package body; and (c) pressing the package body on the chuck through the pressing tool.
US12176239B2	Parallel assembly of discrete components onto a substrate A method includes transferring multiple discrete components from a first substrate to a second substrate, including illuminating multiple regions on a top surface of a dynamic release layer, the dynamic release layer adhering the multiple discrete components to the first substrate, each of the irradiated regions being aligned with a corresponding one of the discrete components. The illuminating induces a plastic deformation in each of the irradiated regions of the dynamic release layer. The plastic deformation causes at least some of the discrete components to be concurrently released from the first substrate.
US12176236B2	Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and method for manufacturing semiconductor device A semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a chamber; a holder provided in the chamber and capable of adsorbing a substrate, the holder including a recess on a surface, a first hole provided in the recess, and a second hole provided in the recess; a first gas passage connected to the first hole; a second gas passage connected to the second hole; a first valve provided in the first gas passage; a second valve provided in the second gas passage; a first gas supply pipe for supplying a first gas to the recess; and a gas discharge pipe for discharging a gas from the recess. The first gas passage and the second gas passage are connected to the first gas supply pipe, or the first gas passage and the second gas passage are connected to the gas discharge pipe.
US12176234B2	Assembly and method for transferring substrate A substrate transfer assembly that transfers a substrate includes a robot arm configured to transfer the substrate, a laser disposed at the robot arm and emitting one or more rays of light, an image sensor disposed at the robot arm and generating a photographed picture or video including an image of a front object by the one or more emitted rays of light, and a control circuit configured to control transfer of the substrate based on the image present in the photographed picture or video.
US12176227B2	State determination device, state determination method, and computer-readable recording medium A state determination device determines the state of a drive mechanism configured to operate while holding a substrate in a substrate processing apparatus. The state determination part includes: an acquisition part configured to acquire operation data for the drive mechanism; a model generation part configured to generate a monitoring model for the drive mechanism by executing machine learning using an auto-encoder based on normal operation data that is derived from the operation data acquired by the acquisition part when the drive mechanism is operating normally; and a first determination part configured to determine the state of the drive mechanism based on first output data obtained by inputting, to the monitoring model, evaluation data that is derived from the operation data acquired by the acquisition part when the drive mechanism is being evaluated.
US12176224B2	Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method A substrate processing apparatus includes: a substrate rotator configured to hold and rotate a substrate; an outer cup configured to annularly cover a periphery of the substrate held by the substrate rotator; an inner cup disposed inside the outer cup and under the substrate held by the substrate rotator; an annular drain formed between the outer cup and the inner cup to discharge a processing liquid supplied to the substrate outward; and an exhaust passage formed inside the inner cup, wherein the inner cup has an exhaust hole through which a liquid reception space, which is formed by the inner cup and the outer cup, and the exhaust passage are in communication with each other, and the exhaust hole is formed obliquely downward from an outer surface to an inner surface of the inner cup.
US12176223B2	Integrated circuit package supports Disclosed herein are integrated circuit (IC) package supports and related apparatuses and methods. For example, in some embodiments, a method for forming an IC package support may include forming a first dielectric material having a surface; forming a first conductive via in the first dielectric material, wherein the first conductive via has tapered sidewalls with an angle that is equal to or less than 80 degrees relative to the surface of the first dielectric material; forming a second dielectric material, having a surface, on the first dielectric material; and forming a second conductive via in the second dielectric material, wherein the second conductive via is electrically coupled to the first conductive via, has tapered sidewalls with an angle that is greater than 80 degrees relative to the surface of the second dielectric material, and a maximum diameter between 2 microns and 20 microns.
US12176222B2	Semiconductor package with metal posts from structured leadframe A method of forming a semiconductor package includes providing a metal baseplate having a base section and a plurality of metal posts, the base section being a planar pad of substantially uniform thickness, the plurality of metal posts each extending up from a planar upper surface of the base section, mounting a semiconductor die on the upper surface of the metal baseplate, forming an encapsulant body of electrically insulating mold compound on the upper surface of the base section, electrically connecting terminals of the semiconductor die to the metal posts, and removing the base section so as to form package contacts from the metal posts at a first surface of the encapsulant body.
US12176219B2	Semiconductor device forming method and substrate processing apparatus A semiconductor device forming method that includes a step for forming a coating layer and a step for performing etching. In the step for forming a coating layer, the coating layer is formed. The coating layer selectively covers a portion of a recess provided in a stacked structure supported by a base member. The portion of the recess is located on a front surface side of the recess. In the step for performing etching, a deep portion, which is deeper than the coating layer, of the recess is etched with a chemical liquid so as to widen a diameter of the deep portion.
US12176214B2	Selective metal removal for conductive interconnects in integrated circuitry Techniques for selectively removing a metal or conductive material during processing of a semiconductor die for high-voltage applications are provided. In some embodiments, the techniques treat a metallized semiconductor die to transfer a feature from a patterned photoresist layer deposited on the metallized semiconductor die. In addition, the patterned metallized semiconductor die can be subjected to an etch process to remove an amount of metal according to the feature in the pattern, resulting in a treated metallized semiconductor die that defines an opening adjacent to at least a pair of neighboring metal interconnects in the die. The treated metallized semiconductor die can be further treated to backfill the opening with a dielectric material, resulting in a metallized semiconductor die having a backfilled dielectric member. Such a metallized semiconductor die can be further processed according to a process of record until metallization, after which additional selective removal of another amount of metal can be implemented. Semiconductor dies having neighboring metal interconnects separated by backfilled dielectric regions also are provided.
US12176212B2	Mandrel structures and methods of fabricating the same in semiconductor devices A method includes forming a semiconductor substrate, forming hard mask layers (HMs) over the semiconductor substrate, forming first mandrels over the HMs, forming second mandrels along sidewalls of the first mandrels, forming a protective layer over the first mandrels and the second mandrels, removing a portion of the protective layer to expose portions of the first and the second mandrels, removing the exposed portions of the second mandrels with respect to the exposed portions of the first mandrels, removing remaining portions of the protective layer to expose remaining portions of the first and second mandrels, where the exposed portions of the first mandrels and the remaining portions of the first and second mandrels form a mandrel structure, patterning the HMs using the mandrel structure as an etching mask, and patterning the semiconductor substrate to form a fin structure using the patterned HMs as an etching mask.
US12176208B2	Wafer process, apparatus and method of manufacturing an article An apparatus is provided. The apparatus has a chuck having a first side configured to retain a superstrate or a template and a second side, an array of image sensors disposed at the second side of the chuck and spaced from the chuck, and an array of light sources disposed between the transparent chuck and the array of image sensors.
US12176207B2	Method for manufacturing a silicon carbide device A method of forming a semiconductor structure, the method comprises: providing a non-planar surface in the manufacturing of a silicon carbide (SiC) device; depositing a reflowable dielectric material on said non-planar surface; and heating said reflowable dielectric material to a temperature and for a time sufficient to cause reflowing of said reflowable dielectric material and thereby provide a dielectric layer comprising a substantially planar surface, wherein said dielectric layer is substantially free of voids.
US12176206B2	Varying temperature anneal for film and structures formed thereby Semiconductor device structures having dielectric features and methods of forming dielectric features are described herein. In some examples, the dielectric features are formed by an ALD process followed by a varying temperature anneal process. The dielectric features can have high density, low carbon concentration, and lower k-value. The dielectric features formed according to the present disclosure has improved resistance against etching chemistry, plasma damage, and physical bombardment in subsequent processes while maintaining a lower k-value for target capacitance efficiency.
US12176203B2	Methods and apparatuses for forming semiconductor devices containing tungsten layers using a tungsten growth suppressant A method of depositing a metal includes providing a structure a process chamber, and providing a metal fluoride gas and a growth-suppressant gas into the process chamber to deposit the metal over the structure. The metal may comprise a word line or another conductor of a three-dimensional memory device.
US12176201B2	Plasma light engine A plasma light with at least one non-rotating light bulb is disclosed. The light includes a conducting cavity structure with a radiation source input port and a light bulb. The geometry of the cavity is designed to generate electrical fields with time-dependent geometrical designed orientation within parts of the light bulb, while the direction of the radiation fields from the radiation source port caused by a microwave generator to the input port fields is stationary.
US12176200B2	Laser-driven light source with electrodeless ignition An electrodeless laser-driven light source includes a laser that generates a CW sustaining light. A pump laser generates pump light. A Q-switched laser crystal receives the pump light generated by the pump laser and generates pulsed laser light at an output in response to the generated pump light. A first optical element projects the pulsed laser light along a first axis to a breakdown region in a gas-filled bulb comprising an ionizing gas. A second optical element projects the CW sustaining light along a second axis to a CW plasma region in the gas-filled bulb comprising the ionizing gas. A detector detects plasma light generated by a CW plasma and generates a detection signal at an output. A controller generates control signals that control the pump light to the Q-switched laser crystal so as to extinguish the pulsed laser light within a time delay after the detection signal exceeds a threshold level.
US12176197B2	Information management device for mass spectrometer An imager 13 takes an image of a sample-placement surface of a sample plate 5. A plate identifier 103 decodes a barcode on the image to acquire a plate ID, recognizes the well arrangement, and retrieves a template having a cell arrangement corresponding to the well arrangement from a plate information storage section 101. A sample presence identifier 104 identifies, from the image, a well on which a sample is placed. A plate correspondence information input assistant 105 creates a template image in which the background color of the cells is changed depending on the presence of the sample, and displays it on a display unit 12. An analysis operator inputs information into each cell by a direct character-input operation or a drag-and-drop operation from a previously created sample list. The inputted information is associated with the corresponding well number and stored in a registration information storage section 107.
US12176195B2	Systems and methods of ion population regulation in mass spectrometry A method of performing mass spectrometry includes obtaining, based on a series of mass spectra of detected ions derived from components eluting from a chromatography column, a plurality of extracted ion chromatograms (XICs), each XIC comprising a plurality of detection points representing detected intensity for a distinct selected m/z as a function of time; detecting, based on the series of mass spectra, precursor ions of each distinct selected m/z of the plurality of XICs; and determining, for each XIC based on a set of detection points of the XIC, a predicted next detection point to be obtained based on a next mass spectrum to be acquired.
US12176193B2	System and method for residual gas analysis The present disclosure provides embodiments of a system and method for detecting processing chamber condition. The embodiments include performing a wafer-less processing step in a processing chamber to determine the condition of the chamber walls. Based on an analysis of the residual gas resulting from the wafer-less processing step, an operator or a process controller can determine whether the chamber walls have deteriorated to such an extent as to be cleaned.
US12176189B2	Early warning systems and methods for determining capacitor failures Early warning systems and methods for determining capacitor failures are described. One of the methods includes controlling a motor to further control a variable capacitor that is coupled to the motor to facilitate achieving a hard stop position or a home position of the variable capacitor for multiple times. Each time the motor is controlled to facilitate achieving the home position or the hard stop position, a number of steps that are taken by the motor are recorded. The numbers of steps are compared with each other to determine whether the variable capacitor has failed.
US12176188B2	Optical spectrum sensor wafer or robot for chamber condition monitoring Embodiments disclosed herein include a diagnostic substrate. In an embodiment, the diagnostic substrate comprises a substrate, a circuit board on the substrate, and a spectrometer coupled to the circuit board. In an embodiment, the diagnostic substrate further comprises a processor on the circuit board and communicatively coupled to the spectrometer.
US12176187B2	Cleaning method and plasma processing apparatus A plasma processing apparatus includes: a plasma processing chamber; a substrate support disposed in the plasma processing chamber; an edge ring disposed on the substrate support to surround a substrate on the substrate support; an actuator configured to vertically move the edge ring; a gas supply configured to supply a cleaning gas into the plasma processing chamber; a power source configured to supply a power to the substrate support; and a controller configured to: (a) maintain the edge ring at a first position spaced apart from the substrate support; and (b) supply a power to the substrate support while supplying the cleaning gas into the plasma processing chamber to generate a local plasma in a gap between the edge ring maintained at the first position and the substrate support, thereby cleaning the edge ring and the substrate support.
US12176183B2	RF voltage and current (V-I) sensors and measurement methods A radio frequency sensor assembly includes a sensor casing disposed around a central hole, the sensor casing including a first conductive cover and a second conductive cover. The assembly includes a cavity disposed around the central hole and includes a dielectric material, the cavity being bounded by a first major outer surface and a second major outer surface along a radial direction from a center of the central hole, where the first conductive cover is electrically coupled to the second conductive cover through a coupling region beyond the second major outer surface of the cavity, and electrically insulated from the second conductive cover by the cavity and the central hole. The assembly includes a current sensor electrically insulated from the sensor casing and including a current pickup disposed symmetrically around the central hole, the current pickup being disposed within the cavity and being insulated from the sensor casing.
US12176176B2	Rotating x-ray anode A rotating X-ray anode for generating X-radiation has an annular main body made of carbon-based material, an annular focal track covering, which is arranged on a focal track side of the main body, and a metal connection component, which is arranged radially inside relative to the main body. A radially outer portion of the connection component is formed by a tubular metal adapter. The radial outside surface of the adapter is at least partly joined, face to face and integrally, to at least a portion of the radial inside surface of the main body. An integral joining zone between the main body and the adapter extends over at least 75 percent of the area of the radial inside surface of the main body.
US12176175B2	Electron beam generation source, electron beam emission device, and x-ray emission device Disclosed is an electron beam generation source including: an electron discharge part extending on a desired axis and configured to discharge electrons; a movable part connected to one end of the electron discharge part; a support part configured to support the movable part to be movable along the axis; and a tension holding part configured to hold tension of the electron discharge part by applying a pressing force or a tensile force to the movable part. The movable part and the tension holding part are disposed on the axis.
US12176174B2	Photoelectron multiplying and collecting tube and imaging device using same An electron tube includes a housing that is internally held in a vacuum and has a window transmitting an electromagnetic wave, an electron emitting unit that is disposed in the housing and has a meta-surface emitting electrons in response to incidence of the electromagnetic wave, an electron multiplying unit that is disposed in the housing and multiplies the electrons emitted from the electron emitting unit, and an electron collecting unit that is disposed in the housing and collects the electrons multiplied by the electron multiplying unit. The window contains at least one selected from quartz, silicon, germanium, sapphire, zinc selenide, zinc sulfide, magnesium fluoride, lithium fluoride, barium fluoride, calcium fluoride, magnesium oxide, and calcium carbonate.
US12176172B2	Power relay circuit A power conversion circuit includes a high-side switch and a low-side switch connected in series with one another and configured to control a load current flowing through a load, wherein at least one of the high-side switch and the low-side switch comprise a power relay circuit for switching the load current, and wherein the power relay circuit comprises a micro-electro-mechanical system switch, and a semiconductor power switch, wherein the MEMS switch and the semiconductor power switch are connected in series with the load.
US12176171B2	Single passive gate-driver for series connected power devices in DC circuit breaker applications Gate control of power semiconductor devices using reduced gate drivers is disclosed. A circuit breaker may include a multitude of transistors, such as insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs), connected in series with one another. Each transistor may be connected to a respective gate resistor. Diodes may be connected between various gate resistors. One or more resistor-capacitor (RC) snubber circuits may be provided in parallel with one or more of the transistors. Likewise, one or more metal-oxide varistors (MOVs) may be connected in parallel to one or more of the transistors. A gate driver (e.g., a single gate drive) may be connected to the one or more diodes and an emitter of at least one of transistors.
US12176167B2	Protective element A protective element includes: a fuse element cuttable by energization in a first direction; a slider made of an insulating material, including: a plate-shaped portion extending in the first direction; a shielding portion erected in a second direction on the plate-shaped portion, having a shielding-portion through hole penetrating the shielding portion; and a case made of an insulating material, including a housing portion which houses a slider and a portion of the fuse element. The housing portion includes: a shielding-portion housing space which houses the shielding portion such that the shielding portion is movable in the second direction; and a plate-shaped-portion moving space which houses the plate-shaped portion such that the plate-shaped portion is movable in the second direction Prior to the fuse element being cut, the slider and the fuse element are housed such that the fuse element is inserted into the shielding-portion through hole.
US12176162B2	Gas-insulated electrical apparatus comprising carbon dioxide, heptafluoroisobutyronitrile and a high content of oxygen The present application concerns a medium- or high-voltage equipment including a leaktight enclosure in which there are located electrical components and a gas mixture for providing electrical insulation and/or for extinguishing electric arcs that are likely to occur in the enclosure, the gas mixture including heptafluoroisobutyronitrile, carbon dioxide, and a high content of oxygen.
US12176160B2	External switch coupler for pad-mounted transformers An external switch actuator includes: a guide tube having a first end and a second end, the first end configured to be attached to a door of a compartment in substantial alignment with both a hole in the door and a switch actuator within the compartment, and the second end configured to be disposed within an interior of the compartment and separated from the switch actuator by a gap when the door is closed; a coupling shaft configured to be operably placed within the guide tube, the coupling shaft having an electrical insulator disposed between an actuator side adapter and a switch side adapter, and a length equal to or greater than a distance between the switch actuator and the hole in the door when the door is closed.
US12176158B2	Illumination system and method for maintaining a common illumination value on a release command sent from a keypad An illumination system and method are disclosed for maintaining a consistent change in illumination value among a group of illumination devices whenever a change command is manually sent from a keypad to those illumination devices. The consistent change results from maintaining a common start illumination value among not only the group, but also the keypad which controls the group. From the start illumination value, the keypad can then compute an end illumination value depending upon the amount of time that an increase or decrease in illumination value button is depressed and held. Since the change command can arrive at different illumination devices within the group depending upon where each illumination device is geographically located, a masking time is reserved after the button is released so that enough time is allocated for each of the illumination devices within that group to arrive at a common end illumination value.
US12176157B2	Electrolytic capacitor and method for producing the same A method for producing an electrolytic capacitor, the method including steps of: preparing an electrode foil; preparing a first conductive polymer dispersion containing a first conductive polymer component and a first dispersion medium; forming a first conductive polymer layer containing the first conductive polymer component, by applying the first conductive polymer dispersion to a surface of the electrode foil by a coating method, and then at least partially removing the first dispersion medium; and fabricating a capacitor element, using the electrode foil having the first conductive polymer layer.
US12176156B2	Electrolytic capacitor for high withstand voltage To provide an electrolytic capacitor having a configuration that achieves a low impedance by increasing the content of water, satisfies a withstand voltage of 400 V or more, and is capable of enhancing the long-term reliability. Provided as a solution is an electrolytic capacitor (1) including an electrolytic solution (2e) containing ethylene glycol, 10 to 30% by mass of water, and 1 to 12% by mass of an amine salt of a carboxylic acid, having added thereto 0.01 to 2% by mass of one or more kind of ammonium hypophosphite, an amine salt of hypophosphorous acid, and hypophosphorous acid, the carboxylic acid being a polycarboxylic acid having a chain hydrocarbon skeleton and a molecular weight of 140 to 500.
US12176150B2	Double-sided copper-clad laminate A double-sided copper-clad laminate that includes an adhesive layer and a copper foil in order on each of both surfaces of a resin film, the resin film is in a cured state at 25° C., and each of the copper foils has a maximum peak height Sp of 0.05 μm or more and 3.3 μm or less as measured in accordance with ISO 25178 on a surface on a side being in contact with the adhesive layer.
US12176147B2	Three-dimensional capacitors with double metal electrodes Disclosed herein are IC structures with three-dimensional capacitors with double metal electrodes provided in a support structure (e.g., a substrate, a die, a wafer, or a chip). An example three-dimensional capacitor includes first and second capacitor electrodes and a capacitor insulator between them. Each capacitor electrode includes a planar portion extending across the support structure and one or more via portions extending into one or more via openings in the support structure. The capacitor insulator also includes a planar portion and a via portion extending into the via opening(s). The planar portion of the capacitor electrodes are thicker than the via portions. Each capacitor electrode may be deposited using two deposition processes, such as a conformal deposition process for depositing the via portion of the electrode, and a sputter process for depositing the planar portion of the electrode.
US12176142B2	Magnetic attachment device A magnetic attachment system including a magnetic attachment base and an item to be retained having engagement means, the base including a first and a second retaining means which are capable of moving back and forth between a locked position and an unlocked position, in the locked position the retaining means being capable of being received in the engagement means, where the first retaining means includes a first motion magnet (140), and the second retaining means includes a second motion magnet, the item to be retained includes two contact magnets, the contact magnets exert a force on the motion magnets, which holds the first retaining means and the second retaining means in the engagement means in the locked position.
US12176141B2	Magnet unit and method for manufacturing the same The present invention relates to a magnet unit including: a tubular holder having a central axis; and a magnet formed inner region of one end side of the tubular holder, in which the magnet includes a protruding portion at a corner portion where an end surface of the magnet in a central axis direction intersects with an outer peripheral surface of the magnet, which is provided along an inner peripheral surface of the tubular holder, and the protruding portion protrudes in the central axial direction.
US12176140B2	Method for carrying out a switchover of an on-load tap changer using a drive system, and drive system for an on-load tap changer A method carries out a switchover of an on-load tap-changer using a drive system. The drive system includes at least one motor which acts on a drive shaft, a control device and an encoder system which is directly or indirectly coupled to the drive shaft. The method includes receiving a signal for switching the on-load tap-changer from the control device; determining by the control device whether switching to a current tap was performed from an upward or downward direction, and whether switching will be performed to a next tap in the upward or downward direction; selecting, on the basis of the determination, one of a plurality of travel profiles for the drive system of the on-load tap-changer, on the basis of which the switchover is carried out; and carrying out and monitoring the switchover by the drive system according to the selected travel profile.
US12176139B2	Magnetic film A magnetic film includes iron and copper distributed between opposing first and second major surfaces of the magnetic film. The copper has a first atomic concentration C1 at a first depth d1 from the first major surface and a peak second atomic concentration C2 at a second depth d2 from the first major surface, d2>d1, C2/C1≥5.
US12176135B2	Coil component, circuit board, and electronic device A coil component includes a base body containing metal magnetic particles and a binder binding together the metal magnetic particles and having a first surface extending along a coil axis and a second surface opposing the first surface, a first external electrode, a second external electrode, and a coil conductor electrically connected to the first and second external electrodes. In one embodiment, the coil conductor has a winding portion, the winding portion has first conductor portions and one or more second conductor portions smaller in number than the first conductor portions. The first and second conductor portions alternate with and are connected to each other. A first dimension of the base body representing a dimension between the first surface and the second surface is greater than a second dimension of the base body representing a dimension of the base body between the third and fourth surface.
US12176130B2	Systems and resistors for dynamic braking A resistor includes an elongated cylindrical body having nodes and elongated members. The elongated members interconnect the nodes to form openings between the nodes and the elongated members for the flow therethrough of a cooling fluid. The body is configured to receive electric current from a powered system and to conduct and provide electric resistance to the electric current to dissipate at least part of the electric current as heat from the body. The body may be coupled with at least one other resistor of the powered system in one or more of a parallel or series arrangement in an electric circuit.
US12176128B2	Submarine power cable A submarine power cable is provided having stranded conductor(s) and an insulation system, each individual stranded conductor, at given intervals, being compressed across an area to form a plurality of watertight partitions along a length of the of the submarine power cable. A method provides a plurality of watertight partitions along a length of the submarine power cable. The method includes, at a given point, arranging a compression tool around an outer circumference of the stranded conductor, using the compression tool to compress the stranded conductor, releasing the compression tool from the stranded conductor, and repeating the compression at a number of different points and using the compression tool to compress the stranded conductor at each of these points, thereby forming a plurality of watertight partitions along the length of the submarine power cable.
US12176127B2	Feedthrough for a medical device The present disclosure can provide an implantable feedthrough device including a feedthrough member formed of insulating material having opposing first and second surfaces. A series of conductors can extend through the feedthrough member between the first and second surfaces. The series of conductors can be arranged in a pattern that has an inner portion vacant of conductors for facilitating access for bonding wires to the conductors on at least one of the first and second surfaces of the feedthrough member.
US12176126B2	Pass-through element protector A pass-through element protector includes a metal casting, an opening, a plate, and a plurality of teeth. The metal casting is formed as a partial enclosure around a central axis with an inner surface facing the central axis and an outer surface facing away from the central axis. The opening is provided in the partial enclosure from the inner surface to the outer surface. The plate at least partially closes the partial enclosure at one end along the central axis. The teeth are provided on the plate facing the partial enclosure to fasten the pass-through element protector to a support structure.
US12176123B2	Methods and compositions for minimizing x-ray scattering artifacts Disclosed are methods for minimizing x-ray scattering artifacts, the method comprising: contacting an object with an x-ray scattering mitigation material. The contacting can comprise coating the x-ray scattering material on the object, including spraying a solution of suspension of an x-ray scattering mitigation material onto the object or dry powder coating the object with a x-ray scattering mitigation material. Alternatively, the contacting can comprise immersing the object in a fluid comprising the x-ray scattering material. The fluid can be a gas, a liquid, or a gel. The disclosed x-ray scattering mitigation material can be optimized for mitigating Compton radiation scattering or for mitigating Rayleigh radiation scattering. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.
US12176118B2	Organic iodine trapping apparatus There is provided an organic iodine trapping apparatus that can efficiently trap an organic iodine without using complicated or large equipment. An organic iodine trapping apparatus 30 is an apparatus that traps an organic iodine, including: a trapping vessel 1 through which gas containing an organic iodine is passed; an organic iodine remover 2 (Example: trihexyl (tetradecyl) phosphonium chloride, or the like) that is disposed in or injected into the trapping vessel 1 and decomposes the organic iodine; and a trapping material 3 that is disposed in or injected into the trapping vessel 1 and traps iodine ions generated by decomposition of the organic iodine, in which the trapping material 3 is a metal (Example: silver or the like) or a metal compound (Example: silver chloride, silver oxide, or the like).
US12176114B2	High efficiency foam compacts for TRISO fuels A nuclear fuel element is provided. The nuclear fuel element includes a porous support. The porous support includes a ligament and defines a pore adjacent to the ligament. The ligament has an interior surface spaced from the pore. The interior surface defines a void. The porous support includes silicon carbide. The nuclear fuel element includes a nuclear fuel material disposed in the pore. The nuclear fuel material includes a moderator and tri-structural isotropic (TRISO) particles. Another nuclear fuel element is provided. The nuclear fuel element includes a porous support. The porous support includes a ligament and defines a pore adjacent to the ligament. The ligament has an interior surface spaced from the pore. The interior surface defines a void. The ligament includes the nuclear fuel material. The nuclear fuel element includes a facesheet overlying the porous support and defines a hole. The hole is in fluid communication with the void. The nuclear fuel material includes a nuclear fuel.
US12176113B1	Moderated nuclear reactor A heat pipe cooled nuclear reactor core (“reactor core”) includes an array of fuel, an array of primary heat rejection heat pipes, and an array of moderator cooling heat pipes or thermosiphons. Each moderator cooling heat pipe in the array of moderator cooling heat pipes is surrounded by metal hydride moderator materials, slowing neutrons from a fission energy range to a lower energy range in the reactor core.
US12176111B2	Systems and methods for machine learning approaches to management of healthcare populations A method for providing treatment recommendations for a patient to a physician is disclosed. The method includes receiving health information associated with the patient, determining a first risk score for the patient based on the health information using a trained predictor model, determining a second risk score for the patient based on the health information and at least one artificially closed care gap included in the health information using the predictor model, determining a predicted risk reduction score based on the first risk score and the second risk score, determining a patient classification based on the predicted risk reduction score, and outputting a report based on at least one of the first risk score, the second risk score, or the predicted risk reduction score.
US12176110B2	Learning support system and learning support method A learning support system includes a storage configured to store an endoscope image and an annotation image generated in a first network, a processor acquiring the annotation image from the storage, using the annotation image to perform machine learning, and generating a trained model, and a server system performing communications with the processor, and being uploaded with a trained model. The storage and the processor each serve as a node constituting the first network, which is an intra-hospital network. The server system serves as a node constituting a second network, which is an extra-hospital network.
US12176109B2	Machine learning framework for detection of chronic health conditions A system and method are disclosed for detecting chronic health conditions based on data collected by a wearable device such as an activity tracker or a smart watch. Deep learning algorithms are configured to process the monitored parameter data collected by the wearable device as well as additional embedding data obtained from health records corresponding to a user account registered to the wearable device. In some examples, the input vector can also include embedding data related to social determinants data and/or demographic data. The output of the deep learning algorithms provides predictions that represent probabilities that the user of the wearable device has an underlying health condition. If any underlying health condition is detected, then the user can be notified directly, via the wearable device or an associated application or technology, or indirectly, via a primary care provider associated with the user.
US12176101B2	Wireless service technology for patient support apparatuses A patient support apparatus and a portable service tool are adapted to communicate with each other in order to allow a user of the service tool to wirelessly update software executed by the patient support apparatus. In some embodiments, the patient support apparatus displays a coded message that encodes network credentials (e.g. SSID, password, etc.) and the software tool is adapted to capture an image of the coded message, decode the message, and then set up a wireless network having the decoded network credentials. The patient support apparatus then automatically joins the network and receives one or more wireless software updates. The service tool may alternatively or additionally connect to a healthcare facility network and upload software to a server thereon, which then downloads the software to the patient support apparatus over the healthcare facility computer network.
US12176094B2	Systems and methods for processing electronic images A noninvasive patient-specific method is provided to aid in the analysis, diagnosis, prediction or treatment of hemodynamics of the cardiovascular system of a patient. Coronary blood flow and pressure can be predicted using a 3-D patient image-based model that is implicitly coupled with a model of at least a portion of the remaining cardiovascular system. The 3-D patient image-based model includes at least a portion of the thoracic aorta and epicardial coronaries of the patient. The shape of one or more velocity profiles at the interface of the models is enforced to control complex flow features of recirculating or retrograde flow thereby minimizing model instabilities and resulting in patient-specific predictions of coronary flow rate and pressure. The invention allows for patient-specific predictions of the effect of different or varying physiological states and hemodynamic benefits of coronary medical interventions, percutaneous coronary interventions and surgical therapies.
US12176093B1	Decision support for managing mental health conditions Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for managing health status of persons with a chronic condition including providing dynamic, adaptive monitoring, detection, and prediction of suicide risk to a person at risk for suicide related to mental health. In an embodiment, a patient-assessment application is used to obtain information periodically on a patient's mental health status. Based on this information, a logistic regression model is employed to determine a patient's probability of attempting suicide. The probability is evaluated against a default threshold to determine if the patient's status has changed significantly, and if the threshold is exceeded, an action is evoked. In one embodiment, the action includes providing notice to the patient's care provider, caregiver, or case manager.
US12176089B2	System and method for using AI ML and telemedicine for cardio-oncologic rehabilitation via an electromechanical machine A computer-implemented system includes one or more processing devices configured to receive attribute data associated with a user, generate, based on a cardio-oncologic condition of the user, a selected set of the attribute data, determine, based on the selected set of the attribute data, a first probability of improving a cardio-oncologic condition of the user subsequent to at least one of a cardio-oncologic procedure and a cardio-oncologic treatment being performed on the user, and generate, based on the first probability, a treatment plan that includes one or more exercises directed to modifying the first probability, and a treatment apparatus configured for implementation of the treatment plan.
US12176084B2	Measuring representational motions in a medical context A method includes receiving data representing graphomotor motion during a succession of executions of graphomotor diagnostic tasks performed in a medical context by a subject, processing the received data using a computer, including determining a first set of quantitative features from a first execution of a task by the subject, and determining a second set of quantitative features from a second execution of a task by the subject, determining one or more metrics based on a comparison to the successive executions, including using at least the first set of quantitative features and the second set of quantitative features to determine said metrics, and providing a diagnostic report associated with neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the subject's execution of the tasks based on the determined metrics.
US12176081B2	Customized exceptions for intelligent protocoling Systems/techniques that facilitate customized exceptions for intelligent protocoling are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a data candidate associated with a medical patient. In various aspects, the system can execute a trained machine learning model on the data candidate, thereby identifying a first medical imaging protocol to be performed by a medical imaging scanner on the medical patient. In various instances, the system can determine whether the data candidate triggers a conditional protocol exception, wherein the conditional protocol exception identifies a second medical imaging protocol that is to be implemented when a condition is satisfied by the data candidate. In various cases, the system can, in response to determining that the data candidate satisfies the condition, select the second medical imaging protocol to be performed by the medical imaging scanner on the medical patient instead of selecting the first medical imaging protocol.
US12176079B2	Method, system, and device for providing assistance to patients with communication and memory impairment A method, system, and device for providing assistance to patients with communication and memory impairment is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes creating a database comprising a plurality of information elements structured as a dependency tree, based on a first set of information corresponding to a plurality of events associated with a patient. The method further includes acquiring a second set of information associated with the patient in real time, matching the second set of information with each of the plurality of events in the database and with at least one information element associated with the at least one matching event, comparing the second set of information with the set of matching information elements to identify at least one discrepancy, and prompting the patient to perform at least one predetermined action in response to identifying the at least one discrepancy.
US12176078B2	System and method for communicating health data in a healthcare environment A system for communicating health data in a healthcare environment (1) comprises a communication network (4) for communicating health data in the healthcare environment (1), a reporting device (2) for transferring health data via the communication network (4), and a consuming device (3) for receiving health data from the reporting device (2) via a communication channel (41) of the communication network (4). Herein, the consuming device (3), for receiving health data from the reporting device (2), is constituted to send a subscription request message (A1) containing a subscription request to the reporting device (2), and that the reporting device (2) is constituted, upon receiving the subscription request message (A1), to validate the subscription request and to establish the communication channel (41) to transfer health data to the consuming device (3). In this way a system is provided which may allow for an easy connection of a consuming device to a network with the possibility to reduce the data load and to improve a backup handling.
US12176073B2	Modeling ribosome dynamics to optimize heterologous protein production The presently disclosed subject matter provides a free-energy based model of translation elongation to predict and optimize heterologous gene expression. The model and software allow for the prediction and optimization of genes for increased or decreased protein yield and for increased or decreased protein aggregation.
US12176071B2	Systems and methods for ultra-fast identification and abundance estimates of microorganisms using a kmer-depth based approach and privacy-preserving protocols The present disclosure relates to the use of next generation technologies and analysis using a k-mer based approach which is depth-informed to classify microorganism and estimate abundance in single or mixed microorganismal populations in a rapid manner. The disclosure relates to methods for identifying taxa from environmentally or patient collected samples and processing these samples in a privacy-preserving manner.
US12176066B2	Target-associated molecules for characterization associated with biological targets Embodiments of a method and/or system for facilitating characterization of one or more conditions can include: generating a set of target-associated molecules; generating a reference-associated set of molecule; facilitating generation of at least one spike-in mixture; determining one or more abundance metrics based on an analysis of the at least one spike-in mixture; and facilitating the characterization of the one or more conditions based on the one or more abundance metrics.
US12176062B2	Memory device A memory device includes a memory array, a first latch and a first logic element. The memory array is configured to operate according to a first global write signal. The first latch is configured to generate a first latch write data based on a clock signal. The first logic element is configured to generate the first global write signal based on the clock signal and the first latch write data.
US12176056B2	Semiconductor device configured to store parity data and method of operating the semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a memory cell array and a plurality of read and write circuits. The memory cell array includes a plurality of planes. Any one of the read and write circuits generates parity data based on data sequentially received from a controller through a channel.
US12176054B2	Memory bank and memory The present disclosure provides a memory bank and a memory, relating to the technical field of semiconductors. The memory bank includes: multiple memory arrays arranged along a first direction, configured to store data and check codes, and each of the memory arrays being divided into at least two array units; multiple read-write control circuits, in one-to-one correspondence to the memory arrays, and the read-write control circuit being configured to write the data and the check codes to a corresponding memory array or read the data and the check codes from the corresponding memory array; the read-write control circuit being electrically connected to the array units through different data signal lines, and the read-write control circuit being configured to access only one of the array units in the corresponding memory array at a time; and multiple error checking and correcting units, electrically connected to the multiple read-write control circuits.
US12176053B2	Wordline system architecture supporting erase operation and I-V characterization The present disclosure relates to integrated circuits, and more particularly, to a wordline system architecture supporting an erase operation and current-voltage (I-V) characterization and methods of manufacture and operation. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a structure including: a twin cell circuit which is connected to a wordline of a memory array; a sourceline driver which is connected to a sourceline of the memory array for providing a cell level current-voltage (I-V) access of the twin cell circuit; and an integrated analog multiplexor which is connected to the twin cell circuit.
US12176046B2	Operation method of memory device and operation method of memory system including the same Disclosed is an operation method of a memory device that includes a plurality of memory cells stacked in a direction perpendicular to a substrate. The method includes performing first to (n−1)-th program loops on selected memory cells connected to a selected word line from among the plurality of memory cells, based on a first program parameter, and after the (n−1)-th program loop is performed, performing n-th to k-th program loops on the selected memory cells, based on a second program parameter different from the first program parameter. Herein, n is an integer greater than 1 and k is an integer greater than or equal to n. The first and second program parameters include information about at least two of a program voltage increment, a 2-step verify range, and a bit line forcing voltage used in the first to k-th program loops.
US12176043B2	Three-dimensional memory device programming with reduced disturbance A three-dimensional (3D) memory device includes a first set of word lines coupled to first memory cells, a second set of word lines coupled to second memory cells, an interface dummy word line between the first and send sets of word lines, and a peripheral circuit coupled to the first and send memory cells. The peripheral circuit is configured to apply a first voltage to the interface dummy word line in a first pre-charge period when programming a first selected memory cell in the first memory cells, and apply a second voltage lower than the first voltage to the interface dummy word line in a second pre-charge period when programming a second selected memory cell in the second memory cells. Programing the first selected memory cell is earlier than the second selected memory cell.
US12176035B2	Memory arrays comprising strings of memory cells and methods used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells A memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises laterally-spaced memory blocks individually comprising a vertical stack comprising alternating insulative tiers and conductive tiers directly above a conductor tier. Strings of memory cells comprise channel-material strings that extend through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers. The channel-material strings directly electrically couple with conductor material of the conductor tier. A through-array-via (TAV) region comprises TAVs that individually extend through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers into the conductor tier. Individual of the TAVs comprises an upper portion directly above and joined with a lower portion. The individual TAVs in a vertical cross-section comprises at least one external upper jog surface. The individual TAVs comprise at least one external lower jog surface in the conductor tier in the vertical cross-section and that is below the upper jog surface. Other embodiments, including method, are disclosed.
US12176026B2	Static random access memory with a supplementary driver circuit and method of controlling the same A static random access memory includes a first and second memory cell array, a first word line, a bit line, a bit line bar, a primary driver circuit, and a first and second supplementary driver circuit. The first supplementary driver circuit is configured to pull a voltage of a first signal of the bit line or a second signal of the bit line bar to a first voltage level during a write operation in response to a supplementary driver circuit enable signal. The second supplementary driver circuit is configured to sense the voltage of the first or second signal. The second supplementary driver circuit includes a first pass-gate transistor. A first terminal of the first pass-gate transistor is coupled to a reference voltage supply. A second terminal of the first pass-gate transistor is electrically floating. A third terminal of the first pass-gate transistor is coupled to a first node.
US12176024B2	Memory device comprising an electrically floating body transistor A memory cell comprising includes a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, an electrically floating body transistor fabricated on the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, and a charge injector region. The floating body transistor is configured to have more than one stable state through an application of a bias on the charge injector region.
US12176018B2	Semiconductor memory, method for refreshing, method for controlling and electronic device A semiconductor memory includes a main memory area and a tag memory area. A plurality of memory groups are set in the main memory area and a plurality of flag bits are set in the tag memory area. Each of the plurality of memory groups has a corresponding relationship with one of the plurality of flag bit. The flag bit is at least configured to indicate whether at least one memory cell in the memory group has a specific state. The specific state includes an occupied state.
US12176016B2	Memory device having bitline segmented into bitline segments and related method for operating memory device A memory device includes a plurality of circuit layers, a plurality of first conductive through via structures and a plurality of bitlines. The circuit layers are disposed one above another, and each circuit layer includes one or more memory cell arrays. The first conductive through via structures penetrates though the circuit layers. Each of the bitlines includes a plurality of bitline segments disposed on the circuit layers respectively. The bitline segments are electrically connected through one of the first conductive through via structures. Each bitline segment is coupled to a plurality of memory cells of a memory cell array of a circuit layer where the bitline segment is disposed.
US12176014B2	Servo pattern recording device, magnetic tape, magnetic tape cartridge, magnetic tape drive, magnetic tape system, detection device, servo pattern recording method, and manufacturing method of magnetic tape A first straight line region and a second straight line region of the straight line region pair are inclined in opposite directions with respect to a first imaginary straight line. The first straight line region has a steeper inclined angle with respect to the first imaginary straight line than the second straight line region. Positions of both ends of the first straight line region and positions of both ends of the second straight line region are aligned in a direction corresponding to a width direction of a magnetic tape. A plurality of gap patterns deviate from each other by a predetermined interval in a direction corresponding to a longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape, between the gap patterns adjacent to each other along the direction corresponding to the width direction of the magnetic tape. A substrate is inclined with respect to the first imaginary straight line.
US12176012B2	Manufacturing method of disk-drive suspension and manufacturing apparatus of disk-drive suspension An adhesive reactive to ultraviolet rays is applied to an actuator mounting portion of a suspension. An electrical conducting material is applied to a conductor and the like of the actuator mounting portion. When the adhesive is irradiated with ultraviolet rays, the viscosity of the adhesive is increased. A piezoelectric element is placed on the adhesive the viscosity of which is increased. Thereafter, the adhesive and the electrical conducting material are heated, whereby the adhesive and the electrical conducting material are cured.
US12176011B1	Data storage device with accelerated post-emergency-power-off recovery process Illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, comprising disks, an actuator mechanism configured to position heads proximate to the disks, and processing devices, including a memory. The processing devices are configured to: receive data with an indicated address for writing the data to a selected disk; read, from the selected disk, a data sector from a location that comprises the indicated address; integrate the received data with a subset of the sector read from the selected disk, thereby generating a new sector that comprises the received data positioned in the new sector in accordance with the indicated address; detect, while the new sector is in the memory and not yet written to the selected disk, a loss of nominal electrical power to the data storage device; and write, in response to detecting the loss of nominal electrical power, the new sector from the memory to a non-volatile cache.
US12176010B1	Systems for and methods for improved laser mode hop detection for hard disk drive applications A solution for providing laser mode hop detection in hard disk drives can include a first circuit to provide a signal having a step voltage whose amplitude is adjustable according to a first control signal. The solution can include a second circuit causing the signal to be delayed by a time period to produce a delayed signal, the time period adjustable according to a second control signal. The solution can include a filter to receive the delayed signal as input and provide as output an offset signal corresponding to a frequency response a sensor. The system can subtract the offset signal from a sensor signal of a sensor to provide an output.
US12176009B2	Systems and methods for synchronizing workout equipment with video files A method for synchronizing exercise equipment with workout video files to reduce latency may include executing a workout video file to display a workout video on a display; retrieving a configuration change command and a configuration change criterion from the workout video file; generating a message comprising the configuration change command and the configuration change criterion; and transmitting, over a communications network, the message to the workout device. The workout device may aggregate the configuration change command and the configuration change criterion into a queue of one or more configuration change commands that is stored in a memory of the workout device; and change operation according to the configuration change command in response to determining the configuration change criterion is satisfied.
US12176007B1	Automated video generation Disclosed systems and methods convert user-supplied textual content into animated videos. Textual input is received and processed to identify narrative elements such as characters, settings, and events. These elements are then transformed into visual scene components. Still images generated based on these components are subsequently animated in line with the narrative context. The system can automatically implement storytelling techniques adapted to incorporate neuroscience principles. The system also synthesizes speech for dialogues or narrations using voice synthesis technology that considers emotional markers, tone, and pace. Generated media and metadata are stored in a data storage system that maintains data integrity and enables efficient retrieval. Users can interact with an export interface to choose video resolution, format, and sharing options. A feedback system employing machine learning algorithms collects and analyzes user feedback for real-time adjustments to the generated animated video.
US12175998B2	Speech analysis devices and methods for identifying migraine attacks Speech analysis devices and methods for identifying migraine attacks are provided. Migraine sufferers can experience changes in speech patterns both during a migraine attack and in a pre-attack phase (e.g., a time period before the migraine attack can be recognized by the migraine sufferer). Embodiments identify or predict migraine attacks during the pre-attack phase and/or the attack phase (such as early stages of a migraine attack) by comparing speech features from one or more speech samples provided by a user against baseline data. The speech features are indicative and/or predictive of migraine onset, and can be personalized to a user and/or based on normative data.
US12175995B2	Method and a server for generating a waveform There is provided servers and methods of generating a waveform based on a spectrogram and a noise input. The method includes acquiring a trained flow-based vocoder including invertible blocks, and an untrained feed-forward vocoder including non-invertible blocks, which form a student-teacher network. The method includes executing a training process in the student-teacher network during which the server generates (i) a teacher waveform by the trained flow-based vocoder using a first spectrogram and a first noise input, (ii) a student waveform by the untrained feed-forward vocoder using the first spectrogram and the first noise input, and (iii) a loss value for the given training iteration using the teacher waveform and the student waveform. The server then trains the untrained feed-forward vocoder to generate the waveform. The trained feed-forward vocoder in then used lieu of the trained flow-based vocoder for generating waveforms based on spectrograms and noise inputs.
US12175990B2	Parametric reconstruction of audio signals An encoding system encodes an N-channel audio signal (X), wherein N≥3, as a single-channel downmix signal (Y) together with dry and wet upmix parameters ({tilde over (C)}, {tilde over (P)}). In a decoding system, a decorrelating section outputs, based on the downmix signal, an (N−1)-channel decorrelated signal (Z); a dry upmix section maps the downmix signal linearly in accordance with dry upmix coefficients (C) determined based on the dry upmix parameters; a wet upmix section populates an intermediate matrix based on the wet upmix parameters and knowing that the intermediate matrix belongs to a predefined matrix class, obtains wet upmix coefficients (P) by multiplying the intermediate matrix by a predefined matrix, and maps the decorrelated signal linearly in accordance with the wet upmix coefficients; and a combining section combines outputs from the upmix sections to obtain a reconstructed signal ({circumflex over (X)}) corresponding to the signal to be reconstructed.
US12175986B2	Audio collection system and method for sound capture, broadcast, analysis, and presentation At least a system or a method is provided for remote delivery or collection of a device such as an audio collection device. For example, a device comprising an aperture collection and retrieval pin is provided. An apparatus is provided having an aperture receiver, an aperture drive gear and a drive motor. The drive motor is configured to drive the aperture drive gear to open or close the aperture receiver of the apparatus for retrieving or releasing the device comprising the aperture collection pin.
US12175971B2	Monitoring assistance and control of a theranostic medical laser system by voice Various example embodiments relate to guiding a user of a medical laser device by voice based on monitored treatment data. In addition, a voice control procedure for operating the medical laser device with improved safety is provided. Improved usage of the medical laser device is enabled also in situations where there is a limited visual and physical access to control the device. An apparatus, a method, a theranostic system and a computer program are disclosed.
US12175968B1	Skill selection for responding to natural language inputs Techniques for selecting a skill to execute in response to a natural language input are described. A system may receive a natural language input, determine profile data associated with the natural language input, and determine the profile data indicates a locale and at least first language and second languages. The system determines first and second sets of skills corresponding to the locale/first language and locale/second language, respectively. The system determines a first group of skill candidates corresponding to a portion of the first set of skills, and determines a second group of skill candidates corresponding to a portion of the second set of skills. The system performs ranking processing across the first and second groups of skills to determine a best skill for responding to the natural language input. Thus, in some situations, the skill invoked may not correspond to the same language represented in the natural language input.
US12175967B2	Touch-free, voice-assistant, and/or tracking systems and methods for automating inventory generation and tracking of childcare products Touch-free, voice-assistant, and/or tracking systems and methods are described for automating inventory generation and tracking of childcare products. In various aspects, the touch-free, voice-assistant, and/or tracking systems and methods comprise receiving, by one or more processors, one or more name values corresponding to one or more children of a childcare program associated with at least one physical childcare location. A childcare product inventory, comprising a childcare product of at least one product type, is generated based on a count of the one or more name values. Child event data is received comprising information related to use of the childcare product. The child event data is based on audible input of a user as received via a voice command interface of a voice-assistant application (app) as implemented on a voice assistance device. The childcare product inventory may be updated based on the child event data.
US12175965B2	Method and apparatus for normalizing features extracted from audio data for signal recognition or modification A feature vector may be extracted from each frame of input digitized microphone audio data. The feature vector may include a power value for each frequency band of a plurality of frequency bands. A feature history data structure, including a plurality of feature vectors, may be formed. A normalized feature set that includes a normalized feature data structure may be produced by determining normalized power values for a plurality of frequency bands of each feature vector of the feature history data structure. A signal recognition or modification process may be based, at least in part, on the normalized feature data structure.
US12175964B2	Deriving acoustic features and linguistic features from received speech audio A computer-implemented method is provided. The method including receiving speech audio of dictation associated with a user ID, deriving acoustic features from the speech audio, storing the derived acoustic features in a user profile associated with the user ID, receiving a request for acoustic features through an application programming interface (API), the request including the user ID, and sending the derived acoustic features through the API.
US12175963B2	Synthesis of speech from text in a voice of a target speaker using neural networks Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech synthesis. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining an audio representation of speech of a target speaker, obtaining input text for which speech is to be synthesized in a voice of the target speaker, generating a speaker vector by providing the audio representation to a speaker encoder engine that is trained to distinguish speakers from one another, generating an audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker by providing the input text and the speaker vector to a spectrogram generation engine that is trained using voices of reference speakers to generate audio representations, and providing the audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker for output.
US12175961B2	Method and apparatus for noise canceling A method of canceling road noise includes: receiving a first signal from an acceleration sensor disposed at a vehicle and a second signal from a microphone disposed at the vehicle; monitoring, based on the first and second signals, whether an abnormal event has occurred; determining, based on a result from monitoring whether the abnormal event has occurred, a plurality of parameter values for performing adaptive filtering; and performing, based on the determined parameter values, adaptive filtering to generating an output signal for noise canceling.
US12175959B1	Joint audio de-noise and de-reverberation for videoconferencing One disclosed example method includes a device receiving an audio signal recorded in a physical environment and applying a de-noise and de-reverberation model onto the audio signal to generate a cleaned audio signal. The de-noise and de-reverberation model is configured to remove noise and reverberation from the audio signal and is trained via a training process. The training process includes training the de-noise and de-reverberation model based on a trained de-noise teacher model and a trained de-reverberation teacher model. The training includes adjusting a portion of parameters of the de-noise and de-reverberation model based on values generated by the de-noise teacher model and the de-reverberation teacher model and then adjusting the parameters of the de-noise and de-reverberation model independently of the de-noise teacher model and the de-reverberation teacher model.
US12175956B2	Musical sound signal generation device, musical sound signal generation method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium A musical sound signal generation device continuously connects any one of a connected zeroth delay unit and a connected second delay unit to a fractional delay block and connects at least any one of a new zeroth delay unit and a new second delay unit to at least any one of the fractional delay block other than the fractional delay block connected to a new first delay unit in response to setting any one of the connected zeroth delay unit and the connected second delay unit as the new first delay unit, setting a delay unit in a preceding stage of the new first delay unit as the new zeroth delay unit, and setting a delay unit in a subsequent stage of the new first delay unit as the new second delay unit in accordance with a change in a designated tone pitch.
US12175954B1	Multi-guitar stand An article of manufacture for providing an improved multi-guitar stand according to the present invention in which the multi-guitar stand includes a body, a guitar neck support coupled to the top surface of the body, a set of feet coupled to the bottom surface of the body to raise the body above a floor, a first and second guitar base rests coupled to each of the pair of side surface of the body, a first and second pair of guitar base supports coupled to each of the pair of side surface of the body about the bottom surface and below the first and second guitar base rests, each of the guitar base supports extend outward, a storage cavity within the body, a first opening to the storage cavity within the front surface of the body, a second opening to the storage cavity within the front surface of the body, and a set of electronic controls coupled to the front surface of the body above the smaller detachable cover over the first opening. The body has a top surface, a bottom surface, a pair of side surfaces, a front surface and a back surface. The guitar neck support comprises a pair of U-shaped supports extending outward from the guitar neck support towards one of the two side surfaces of the body. The first opening being covered by a smaller detachable cover. The first opening being covered by a larger detachable cover. The set of electronic controls being electrically coupled to electronic circuitry within the storage cavity.
US12175953B2	String instrument A string instrument contains: a string holding member that holds the end portions of strings; and a body reinforcement member that is inside a body portion and has a joining surface adhered to a front panel, a rear panel, and a side panel. A facing surface of a string holding section of the string holding member has a joining surface fixedly adhered to the front panel, the side panel, and the body reinforcement member. A portion of the front panel and the body reinforcement member is cut out, and the string holding member is disposed as fixedly adhered to the body reinforcement member.
US12175948B2	Data driving circuit and display device A data driving circuit and a display device are provided in the present application. In the present application, a comparison module of a charge sharing unit module is connected to a latch module for comparing a digital video data stored in a corresponding pair of data driving units, a switching transistor is connected output terminals of the corresponding pair of the data driving units, an output terminal of the comparison module is connected to an control terminal of the switching transistor for turning on the switching transistor while a grayscale value of the digital video data being greater than a default grayscale value, so that the output terminals of the corresponding pair of the data driving units are connected for charge sharing.
US12175942B2	Probe module for inspecting display panel, panel inspection apparatus including the same, and panel correction method of panel inspection apparatus Provided are a probe module for inspecting a display panel, a panel inspection apparatus including the same, and a panel correction method of the panel inspection apparatus, which are provided to correct a display panel selected as a defective display panel during manufacturing of the display panel, thereby improving manufacturing yield of the display panel.
US12175940B2	Light emitting display device A light emitting display device in which odd scan stages receive odd first and second scan clocks alternately, and even scan stages receive an even scan clock, in a multi-frequency mode in which a first region is driven at a higher frequency than a second region, an odd first scan clock is provided to a n+5-th scan stage at a begin of the second region, an even scan clock is provided to a n+4-th scan stage at an end of the first region, and an odd second scan clock is provided to a n+3-th scan stage of the first region, and in the multi-frequency mode, during a driving frame of refreshing the first region and refresh-skipping the second region, the odd first scan clock does not have an i+2-th clock pulse corresponding to a scan pulse of the n+4-th first scan line.
US12175938B2	Pixel circuit, pixel driving method, display substrate and display device The present disclosure provides a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, an energy storage circuit, a driving circuit, a data writing-in circuit, a compensation control circuit, an initialization circuit and a light emitting control circuit. The compensation control circuit is configured to control to connect the control terminal of the driving circuit and the first terminal of the driving circuit under the control of a first control signal. The driving circuit is configured to generate a driving current for driving the light emitting element to emit light under the control of a potential of the control terminal of the driving circuit.
US12175937B2	Pixel, display device reducing static power consumption and driving method thereof Provided is a pixel driving circuit capable of reducing power consumed for pixel driving by reducing the number of times a capacitor is charged. The pixel driving circuit includes: a video memory configured to store video data related to driving of a plurality of light-emitting devices; a plurality of sub-pixel driving units, respectively corresponding to the plurality of light-emitting devices, configured to supply power to the plurality of light-emitting devices according to the video data stored in the video memory, each of the plurality of sub-pixel driving units having a capacitor unit for charging power required for driving each of the plurality of light-emitting devices; a charge control memory configured to store data related to charging of the capacitor unit; and a charge controller configured to control whether the capacitor unit is charged according to charge control data stored in the charge control memory.
US12175934B2	Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus An electro-optical device includes a scanning line, a data line intersecting with each other, a pixel circuit which is provided corresponding to the intersection thereof, and a wire. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, one transistor which controls a current flowing to the light emitting element, and the other transistor of which conduction state is controlled according to a scanning signal which is supplied to the scanning line between a gate node of the one transistor and the data line. The wire is provided between the data line and the one transistor.
US12175933B2	Pixel circuit and display device including the same A display device includes a light-emitting element; a capacitor connected to and disposed between a first node and a second node; a first transistor including a first electrode connected to a reference voltage supply line and a second electrode connected to the first node, and supplying a reference voltage to the first node in response to a light-emission control signal of an n-th pixel row; a second transistor including a first electrode connected to the reference voltage supply line and a second electrode connected to the second node, and supplying the reference voltage to the second node in response to a first scan signal of an (n−1)-th pixel row; and a driving transistor including a gate electrode connected to the second node, a first electrode receiving a high-potential driving voltage, and a second electrode connected to a third node. Thus, for example, occurrence of a reference voltage related short-circuit in the light-emitting element of the display device is suppressed to prevent occurrence of defective image display in each pixel and to improve reliability thereof.
US12175932B2	Emissive display device A display device includes: a light emitting diode; a driving transistor outputting current to the light emitting diode, the driving transistor being p-type and comprising a gate electrode, a first electrode, and a second electrode; a second transistor that is p-type and comprising a gate electrode, a first electrode, and a second electrode; a third transistor that is n-type and comprising a gate electrode, a first electrode, and a second electrode; a storage capacitor comprising a first electrode and a second electrode; and a hold capacitor, the second electrode of the third transistor being connected to the first electrode of the driving transistor, the first electrode of the second transistor being configured to receive a data voltage, and the second electrode of the second transistor being connected to the first electrode of the third transistor, the first electrode of the storage capacitor, and the second electrode of the hold capacitor.
US12175931B2	Pixel circuit, drive method thereof, display substrate, and display apparatus The invention relates to a pixel circuit, a driving method thereof, a display substrate and a display apparatus. The pixel circuit includes a first node control sub-circuit, a second node control sub-circuit, a light emitting control sub-circuit and a drive sub-circuit. The first node control sub-circuit is configured to supply a signal of the initial signal terminal to the first node and the fourth node under the control of the first reset signal terminal and the second scan signal terminal, and supply a signal of the second node to the first node under the control of the third scan signal terminal. The second node control sub-circuit is configured to supply a signal of the reference signal terminal to the second node and a signal of the data signal terminal to the third node under the control of the second reset signal terminal and the first scan signal terminal.
US12175927B2	Pixel arrangement structure for organic light emitting diode display A pixel arrangement structure of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display is provided. The pixel arrangement structure includes: a first pixel having a center coinciding with a center of a virtual square; a second pixel separated from the first pixel and having a center at a first vertex of the virtual square; and a third pixel separated from the first pixel and the second pixel, and having a center at a second vertex neighboring the first vertex of the virtual square. The first pixel, the second pixel, and the third pixel have polygonal shapes.
US12175920B2	Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display capable of increasing the number of brightness adjustable levels The present application discloses a driving circuit, a display panel and an electronic device. The driving circuit includes a voltage output module, a light-emitting device connected between the voltage output module and a second voltage terminal, and a brightness adjusting module connected between the light-emitting device and the voltage output module. In a light-emitting phase, the brightness adjusting module controls a frequency a first voltage signal outputted by the voltage output module applies to the light-emitting device such that the light-emitting device is changed between a light-emitting state and a non-light-emitting state.
US12175907B2	Display with a transmitter under an active area A light emitter that operates through a display may cause display artifacts, even when the light emitter operates using non-visible wavelengths. To mitigate artifacts caused by a light emitter operating through a display, the display may have a higher density of thin-film transistor sub-pixels than emissive sub-pixels. This allows for a region in the display to include emissive sub-pixels but be free of thin-film transistor sub-pixels. The light emitter may operate through this region in the display. Additionally, to reduce the amount of space occupied in the inactive area of a display by gate driver circuitry, at least a portion of the gate driver circuitry may be positioned in the active area of the display. To accommodate the gate driver circuitry, emissive sub-pixels may be laterally shifted relative to corresponding thin-film transistor sub-pixels.
US12175906B1	Display device and driving method thereof A display device and a driving method thereof are provided. In the display device, a display panel has multiple first pixel rows and multiple second pixel rows arranged alternately. In a first time interval, a first gate driver sequentially drives the first pixel rows using a first driving method. In a second time interval, a second gate driver sequentially drives the second pixel rows using the first driving method. In a third time interval, a third gate driver sequentially drives the first pixel rows using a second driving method. In a fourth time interval, a fourth gate driver sequentially drives the second pixel rows using the second driving method. One of the first driving method and the second driving method is a pulse amplitude modulation driving method, and the other of the first driving method and the second driving method is a pulse width modulation driving method.
US12175903B2	Electronic device including display and method for measuring movement distance of display Disclosed is an electronic device that may include: a housing formed to surround a first surface facing a first direction, a second surface facing a second direction that is the opposite direction of the first direction, and at least part of the space between the first surface and the second surface; a PCB disposed in the space of the housing; a display extending in a third direction, which is different from the first direction and the second direction, and displaying a screen; and at least one processor, wherein the PCB includes a plurality of detection units, a detection target to be detected by least one of the plurality of detection units is disposed within a specific distance in the second direction of the display, and the processor may be set to calculate movement information including at least one among the movement start position of the display, the movement end position of the display, and the movement distance of the display on the basis of at least sensing data received from the plurality of detection units.
US12175896B2	LED arc display An LED arc display includes at least one LED matrix array module. Each LED matrix array module is composed of a plurality of LED matrix units arranged regularly. Each LED matrix unit includes a display surface, and the display surface has an outer contour. The outer contour is a non-quadrilateral. Therefore, a non-smooth visual experience caused by assembly tolerances of the plurality of LED matrix units can be improved by using non-quadrilateral outer contours of each LED matrix unit.
US12175895B2	Substrate for display A display substrate according to the embodiment includes a base material containing chromium and iron, wherein the base material includes a surface portion and a central portion, the surface portion is defined as a depth region from a surface of the base material to a depth of 5 nm in a thickness direction of the base material, and a ratio of chromium atoms to iron atoms (Cr/Fe) of the surface portion is greater than that of the central portion.
US12175888B2	Computerized method and apparatus for determining accuracy of written characters and stroke order and compliance with rules and providing visual and audio feedback A computerized method and apparatus are disclosed for determining the accuracy of written characters input by a user and whether the characters were formed with the correct strokes and complied with applicable rules and providing visual and audio feedback to the user. A computing device comprises a character comparison engine, rules engine, stroke engine, art rendering engine music engine, and vocalization engine and has access to a character library, rules library, stroke library, art library, and audio library. The computing device shows the user the appropriate way to write a character, allows the user to then write the character, assesses the quality of the character, and provides audio and/or visual feedback to the user in response to the quality of the user's work to provide positive feedback. The visual feedback can include step-by-step instruction on how to paint using the traditional Chinese outline or no-outline painting techniques.
US12175886B2	Fake blood for use in simulated surgical procedures Artificial blood compositions for use in simulated surgery, and kits including the compositions, are disclosed. sues, organs, and organ blocks which include dissolvable clots are also disclosed. Further disclosed are methods for carrying out simulated surgical procedures using the compositions, tissues, organs, organ blocks, and kits described herein.
US12175884B2	Cardiopulmonary resuscitation training apparatus for infants A cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training apparatus for infants is disclosed. The CPR training apparatus for infants includes a body portion, a head portion including a head frame rotatably connected to the body portion, a tunnel portion including a tunnel frame installed on a neck of the body portion, and a lower catching protrusion extending from a lower side of the tunnel frame to an upper side of the tunnel frame, an airway portion including an airway tube installed to be in communication with a mouth of the head portion, and a neutral closure portion connected to an outside of the airway tube so as to be positioned above the lower catching protrusion, and a tube portion configured to connect the airway tube and an artificial lung to each other by passing through the tunnel portion between the lower catching protrusion and the neutral closure portion. The neutral closure portion may be in contact with the lower catching protrusion to close the tube portion when the head portion is in a neutral state with respect to the body portion, and the neutral closure portion may be spaced apart from the lower catching protrusion to open the tube portion when the head portion is tilted at a predetermined angle or more with respect to the body portion.
US12175881B2	Braille display device Disclosed is a braille display that is impact resistant and that employs a modular construction. The impact resistance is achieved, in part, by molded and resilient end caps. Each end cap includes a centrally positioned slit that functions in absorbing lateral impacts to the display. The impact resistance is further achieved by an over molded housing that is positioned about an associated USB connector. The modularity of the display is achieved by way of a subassembly that is releasably secured within the interior of a main housing. The subassembly, in turn, includes a series of cell compartments that are arranged in groups. Each group of cell compartments is controlled by an individual shift register. This allows a grouping cell compartments to be removed and replaced as needed without disturbing the remaining cell components.
US12175878B2	User interaction with an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle A technique for user interaction with an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is described. In an example embodiment, perception inputs from one or more sensor devices are processed to build a shared virtual environment that is representative of a physical environment. The sensor devices used to generate perception inputs can include image capture devices onboard an autonomous aerial vehicle that is in flight through the physical environment. The shared virtual environment can provide a continually updated representation of the physical environment which is accessible to multiple network-connected devices, including multiple UAVs and multiple mobile computing devices. The shared virtual environment can be used, for example, to display visual augmentations at network-connected user devices and guide autonomous navigation by the UAV.
US12175875B2	Machine learning system for maximum sound pressure level prediction A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for predicting a maximum sound pressure level generated by an aircraft. A flight path over a location is identified. The maximum sound pressure level generated by an aircraft for the identified flight path over the location is predicted using a machine learning model trained using a training dataset comprising historical aircraft sensor data for selected parameters, historical atmospheric data, and historical sound data recorded by a microphone system for flight paths over the location.
US12175872B2	Intelligent altitude and velocity smoothing for aircraft paths and terrain-following altitude profile generation for route planning Technology identifies a flight path, where the flight path includes a plurality of segments that each include a waypoint, identifies a flight profile that includes one or more of desired velocities or desired altitudes and calculates a first distance from a beginning of the flight path to reach the one or more of the desired velocities or the desired altitudes to comply with a constraint. The technology further identifies a first waypoint from the plurality of waypoints based on the first distance and adjusts the first waypoint to reach the one or more of the desired velocities or the desired altitudes.
US12175868B2	Vehicle control device and vehicle control system There is disclosed a vehicle control device and method, wherein a vehicle and other vehicles within a certain range around the present vehicle exchange one of respective vehicle dimension information and vehicle model information as well as vehicle motion information, and the vehicle controls a motion of the vehicle according to information of the vehicle and information of other vehicles received. There is also disclosed a vehicle control system and method, wherein each vehicle transmits one of its respective vehicle dimension information and vehicle model information as well as vehicle motion information to a server, wherein the server calculates a travel scheme for each vehicle according to the information received.
US12175863B2	Method of identifying vehicle turning movements at intersections from trajectory data and reallocating green time therefor A method of generating an output movement layout for a traffic intersection, includes receiving intersection geographical data, establishing a center point for the intersection, receiving connected vehicle (CV) data from vehicles approaching and within the traffic intersection based on a predetermined distance from the center point, establishing an area of interest for the intersection based on the received CV data, establishing entry and exit headings for each vehicle based on the CV data, generating directional groups based on the entry and exit headings of each vehicle, and generating an output movement layout for the intersection based on the generated directional groups.
US12175858B2	Reactive device location detection and configuration A computing system receives data indicating signal strength of signals transmitted between a plurality of beacons and a mobile device. The system determines a location of the mobile device within a vehicle coordinate system, wherein the beacons have known locations within the coordinate system, the determination being based in part on the signal strength. The system also determines that the location of the mobile device is proximate to a predefined vehicle element location and instructs issuance of an alert responsive to the proximity.
US12175854B2	Synchronizing data between fire panels and the mass notification system A computer-implemented method and system for synchronizing a mass notification. A method includes detecting an update in a configuration at a control panel over a first communication channel, and generating an update notification message based at least in part on the detection. The method can also include transmitting the update notification message over a second communication channel to synchronize an MNS with the update in the configuration at the control panel.
US12175853B2	Adaptive severity functions for alerts Methods, systems and apparatuses are described herein to provide adaptive severity functions for alerts, particularly security alerts. The adaptive severity functions may be aligned with an existing global security situation to upgrade or downgrade the severity of new and existing alerts. By taking into consideration the time factor along with other parameters, the alerts may be prioritized or reprioritized appropriately. The modification of the severity level for the alerts may be made based on rules and/or one or more triggering events or by using severity functions with or without the aid of artificial intelligence based on best-practice preferences.
US12175852B2	Remote distress monitor A remote distress monitor includes a steerable microphone array, a memory, and a control system. The steerable microphone array is configured to detect audio data and generate sound data. The memory stores machine-readable instructions. The control system includes one or more processors configured to execute the machine-readable instructions. The generated sound data from the steerable microphone array is analyzed. Based at least in part on the analysis, a token associated with the audio data detected by the steerable microphone array is generated. The audio data is representative of one or more sounds associated with a distress event. The generated token is transmitted, via a communications network, to an electronic device to cause a distress response action to occur. The distress response action is associated with the distress event.
US12175844B2	Facility surveillance systems and methods Systems and methods for surveillance of a facility including facility elements. The system includes a central computing unit providing a digital model of the facility providing topological or logical or functional relationships of the facility elements, surveillance sensors adapted for surveillance of a plurality of the facility elements and for generation of surveillance data, communication means for transmitting data from the surveillance sensors to the central computing unit, and state derivation means configured to analyse the surveillance data and derive a state of a respective facility element. The central computing unit is configured to record a state pattern by combining states of at least one facility element based on at least one relationship of the facility element provided by the facility model, provide a state pattern critical-noncritical classification model which considers relationships provided by the facility model, and perform a criticality-classification based on the relationship.
US12175841B2	Bonus round for video keno game A bonus round of a video keno game may consist of a series of bonus game instances. During a bonus game instance, a game controller may identify a set of bonus game pieces and select a set of bonus outcome identifiers from a bonus outcome pool. A win amount may be determined based on the number of matches between the set of bonus outcome identifiers and the set of bonus game pieces. The bonus outcome identifiers may include persistent identifiers and non-persistent identifiers. Persistent identifiers may be removed from the bonus outcome pool for subsequent bonus game instances in the series. Additionally or alternatively, the bonus game pieces corresponding to the persistent identifiers may continue to be matches for the subsequent bonus game instances in the series.
US12175840B2	Table game system In a table game system provided by the present invention, a card shoe used in a table game can be used to calculate periods associated with the progress of the game handled by a dealer, particularly periods from the time when a card is drawn from a card accommodating section to the time when a result of the game is displayed, such as a game play period, and other periods excluding the play period which includes a bet period and a bet settlement period.
US12175838B2	Game platform using player token NFTs and methods for use therewith A game system operates by receiving a start game request for game corresponding to a game application having a player token NFT associated therewith; generating launch metadata; sending the launch metadata to a wallet associated with a user of a client device, the wallet containing a private key associated with the player token NFT; receiving, from the wallet, a launch response that is generated based on the private key; generating, based on the launch response, ownership check data; sending the ownership check data to a blockchain system that stores the player token NFT; receiving, from the blockchain system, an ownership validation response; enabling, via the game application, play of a game associated with the game application when the ownership validation response indicates ownership of the player token NFT is verified; and preventing, via the game application, the play of the game when the ownership validation response indicates the ownership of the player token NFT is not verified.
US12175836B2	Systems and methods for facilitating hand count transfers in electronic gaming environments Systems and methods are provided for movement of hand counts between gaming devices. A gaming device can generate a plurality of outcomes of a wagering game. The gaming device can increment a hand count value for each of the plurality of outcomes. The gaming device can decrease the hand count value based on a payout of the wagering game and the multiple of the hand count value. The gaming device can print a ticket for the hand count value including an identifier.
US12175833B2	Marketplace of odds A system for a user to choose from a number of odds offered by multiple wagering networks. The user can select one of the odds options. In an embodiment, the user has a GUI process (such as a scroll) to select the option of the odds. A user is provided two or more odds for a bet on one or more platforms. The user can select one of the odds options. In an additional embodiment, the user can receive one or more odds for a bet of one or more platforms and the user has the ability to respond to the one or more bets by offering an alternative odds for the bet. If a platform is accepted, then the bet will be concluded between the user and the platform.
US12175832B2	Gaming systems and methods using dynamic modifiers A gaming system includes a gaming machine and game-logic circuitry. The gaming machine includes a display device configured to display (i) a symbol array comprising a plurality of symbols and (ii) a modifier array comprising a plurality of modifiers. The game-logic circuitry is configured to select, for a plurality of rounds of populating the symbol array with symbols, a subarray of the modifier array. The selected subarray is displayed by the display device. The game-logic circuitry is further configured to generate, using a random-number generator, one or more random numbers to determine an outcome of a round of the plurality of rounds, modify the subarray in response to the outcome of the round including a selection symbol, and apply, in response to a trigger round of the plurality of rounds, the modifiers of the subarray to an outcome associated with the trigger round.
US12175830B2	Digital shoe for video display programmable playing cards The present disclosure relates generally to a gaming table system and method that identifies a shuffle event based on one or more of a position of a next eligible virtual card in a plurality of virtual playing cards, a position in the plurality of virtual cards of a shuffle card relative to the position of the next eligible virtual card, a counter value indicating a number of ineligible virtual cards, and a counter value indicating a number of remaining eligible virtual cards and in response to identifying a shuffle event, shuffles the plurality of virtual playing cards to form a shuffled plurality of virtual playing cards for assignment to a plurality of physical playing cards, each physical playing card comprising an on-board power source, microprocessor, memory, and digital display to receive and render a value of a corresponding assigned virtual playing card.
US12175828B2	Gaming machine A gaming machine according to the first invention comprises a housing, an operation button for a gaming machine provided in a front position opposite a game player in the housing and a display device disposed at a position adjacent to the operation button for the gaming machine in the housing. The push button 20 includes a base 21, a key top 22, an LED 30, and a light guide plate 31. The key top 22 is supported by the base 21 in a state of being operable by a player, has a front surface 22a that is visible to the player and a back surface 22b on the opposite side thereof, and transmits light. The LED 30 is provided on the back surface 22b side of the key top 22 and emits light in a desired direction. The light guide plate 31 has a lower surface 31a that is provided on the back surface 22b side of the key top 22 and on which the light emitted from the LED 30 is incident, and an upper surface 31b that emits light toward the key top 22 side.
US12175823B2	Arrangement for access security to a physical unit of an apparatus for handling value documents An arrangement for securing access to a modular unit arranged outside a safe of a device for handling notes of value comprises a security element, which is fastened to a door of the safe, and an indicator for recording tampering with the security element connected to the safe door. The security element restricts access to the modular unit when the safe door is closed and does not restrict access when the safe door is open.
US12175819B2	Device and method for user authentication using security card Disclosed are a device and a method for user authentication using a security card. The device for user authentication comprises: a card reader which, when a card is recognized, acquires a face image stored in the card; an infrared light source which emits infrared rays toward a user; an infrared camera which acquires an infrared image including the facial region of the user; a color camera which acquires a color image including the facial region of the user; and a control unit which determines a result of user authentication on the basis of at least one of the infrared image, the color image, and the face image, and generates a control signal according to the result of user authentication. The control unit performs a liveness test on the basis of the infrared image, and when it is determined that the result of the liveness test is successful, determines a result of face authentication on the basis of information about the facial region shown in at least one of the color image and the infrared image and on the basis of the face image acquired from the card.
US12175818B2	Condition-enabling quick entry to enclosed structures and methods of use thereof A method of receiving, by an access controlling server, a danger-related communication for an inclement danger condition. The access controlling server is in operational communication with a locking mechanism, controlling an opening and closing condition of a door of the enclosed structure. The access controlling server enables, based on the danger-related communication, an entry allowance setting of the locking mechanism of the door of the enclosed structure. The access controlling server adjusts the security restriction associated with the security-protected machine or the enclosed structure. The access controlling server transmits a push notification, informing a user in the area that the entry allowance setting of the locking mechanism of the access controlling server of the door of the enclosed structure is enabled. When the inclement danger condition has passed, the access controlling server instructs to re-adjust the entry allowance setting of the locking mechanism of the door of the enclosed structure.
US12175815B2	Accident information recording device An accident information recording device mounted on a vehicle that includes a storage device that stores vehicle identification information includes a non-volatile recording device and a recording control device. The recording control device is configured to record the vehicle identification information, which is acquired from the storage device when the vehicle is shipped from a factory, in a first recording region of the recording device. The recording control device is configured to record information about the vehicle at the time of an accident in the recording device, and to record the vehicle identification information, which is acquired from the storage device, in a second recording region of the recording device during a period since the recording control device is activated until the recording control device records the information about the vehicle at the time of the accident.
US12175814B2	Method and system for displaying PIDs based on a PID filter list An example method includes determining identifying information for a vehicle to be serviced. The method further includes receiving at least one symptom identifier for the vehicle. The method further includes sending a request over a communication network to a remote server for a PID filter list for the vehicle, the request comprising the identifying information for the vehicle and the at least one symptom identifier for the vehicle. The method additionally includes receiving a response to the request over the communication network from the remote server, the response comprising the PID filter list for the vehicle. The method further includes determining, based on the PID filter list for the vehicle, a symptom-based subset of PIDs for the vehicle from a set of available PIDs. The method additionally includes displaying, on a display interface, the symptom-based subset of PIDs for the vehicle.
US12175813B2	Fault isolation using on-board diagnostic (OBD) capability data A system is configured to store a relationship data set of a plurality of diagnostic estimators and a plurality of failure modes, each failure mode represents a type of failure that can occur with a sensor or a vehicle component of a vehicle system, each diagnostic estimator is associated with a respective subset of the failure modes, each subset defines a control space within the vehicle system that contains at least one of (i) one or more sensors or (ii) one or more vehicle components. The system is configured to store a healthy diagnostic vector regarding nominal operational parameters of the vehicle system; acquire diagnostic information regarding current operational parameters of the vehicle system to generate an error diagnostic vector; apply the error diagnostic vector to the healthy diagnostic vector to generate a ratio diagnostic vector; and apply the ratio diagnostic vector to generate a value for each failure mode.
US12175802B2	Generation and management of notifications providing data associated with activity determinations pertaining to a vehicle The present disclosure that relates to automatic generation of activity determinations of a vehicle and generation and provision of notifications thereof. As an example, a trained model is applied that is adapted to execute a contextual analysis of signal data, including activity signal data retrieved from analysis of signals provided by a mobile computing device onboard a vehicle, and generate activity determinations therefrom. Exemplary graphical user interface (GUI) notifications can be automatically generated pertaining to activity determinations of a vehicle (vehicle activity determinations), where the GUI notifications can be automatically provided to one or more users. For instance, a GUI notification is automatically provided to an emergency contact of a driver in real-time (or near real-time) when it is detected that a vehicle has stopped (e.g., on a specific road such as a highway). Additional examples of the present disclosure pertain to an improved GUI for a driving safety application/service.
US12175801B1	System of and method for predicting and/or casting a vote via brain activity Described herein relates to a system of and method for predicting and/or casting votes via a brain-computer interface. The voting system may be configured to allow at least one user to input and/or cast a vote using their brain activity. Additionally, the voting system uses a machine learning and/or classifying algorithm for classification of the brain data and prediction of the vote of the user. The voting system is also configured to synchronize brain activity to the at least one user, such that each vote may be correctly tallied to the at least one user, eliminating fraudulent voting via false identification, or the like. The voting system may also allow at least one user having a motor disability to vote without requiring any movement and/or physical assistance, such that the at least one user with a motor disability may maintain voting privacy.
US12175800B2	System comprising an on-board unit for telematic traffic services A system comprising an on-board unit (OBU) for a telematic traffic service, for example an automatic toll collection service, and a software application which can be executed by an external user device, for example a smartphone, is described. The OBU comprises both a radiofrequency communication module for communicating with the road-side units (RSU) of the telematic traffic service and a proximity communications module (for example Bluetooth) for communicating with the external user device. The data processing unit of the OBU executes software applications which support the telematic traffic service and additional services. The software application executed by the external user device provides the user, via the user interface of the external user device and the proximity communications module of the OBU, with access to the telematic traffic service and to the additional services supported by the OBU.
US12175798B2	Information processing device An information processing device according to the present invention includes: a storage means that stores reference attribute information representing an attribute of a person corresponding to a target place; an extraction means that extracts person attribute information representing an attribute of a person in a captured image obtained by capturing an image of the target place; and a detection means that detects a predetermined person in the captured image based on the reference attribute information and the person attribute information.
US12175796B2	Assisted expressions A method includes displaying, via a display, an environment that includes a representation of a person associated with the device. The representation includes a virtual face with virtual facial features corresponding to respective physical facial features of the person associated with the device. The method includes detecting, via a sensor, a change in a physical facial feature of the person associated with the device. The physical facial feature indicates a physical facial expression of the person. In response to determining that the physical facial expression breaches a criterion, modifying one or more virtual facial features of the virtual face so that the virtual face indicates a virtual facial expression that satisfies the criterion.
US12175794B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program This invention can readily, reliably perform identity verification and input of user information when opening an account from a terminal. An information processing apparatus includes a first feature extractor extracting a first feature from a face image of a user included in a moving image, a second feature extractor extracting a second feature from a face image of an identity verification document for authenticating the user included in the moving image, a collator collating whether the first feature and the second feature match each other, a determiner instructing the user to perform a predetermined action, and determining whether an action of the user included in the moving image corresponds to the instructed predetermined action, and a verifier verifying that the user is the person himself or herself, when the first feature and the second feature match each other and the action of the user corresponds to the instructed predetermined action.
US12175793B2	Collation system A collation system of the present invention includes an imaging means for acquiring a captured image of a pre-passage side area with respect to a gate, a collation means for performing a collation process between a previously registered target and a target in the captured image, and a determination means for determining propriety of passage of the target with respect to the gate, on the basis of a result of the collation process. The collation means initiates the collation process on the basis of a condition, set to each area of the captured image, for the target located in the area.
US12175790B2	Adaptive fingerprint-enrollment to finger characteristics using local under-display fingerprint sensor in an electronic device This document describes methods and systems of adaptive fingerprint-enrollment to finger characteristics using local under-display fingerprint sensors, UDFPS, in an electronic device. The electronic device includes an adaptive-enrollment module that determines characteristics of a fingerprint based on information corresponding to a touch input detected by a touch-display device, including size and shape of an area of the touch input. Based on the fingerprint characteristics, a number and location of enrollment touches used for completing enrollment of the fingerprint are adjusted to minimize the number of enrollment touches required to complete the enrollment, minimize the amount of time needed to complete the enrollment, and maximize coverage of the fingerprint. The adaptive-enrollment module also provides visual guidance to guide the user to touch the adjusted locations of the enrollment touches and, if needed, feedback to instruct the user to adjust the location of their finger to align with the visual guidance.
US12175789B2	Module integrated with optical sensor, display panel, and display apparatus A module integrated with an optical sensor, a display panel, and a display apparatus. A light guide plate and the optical sensor are arranged in a thickness direction. A first part of the light guide plate at least partially overlaps the optical sensor in the thickness direction, and a second part does not overlap the optical sensor. A surface that is of the first part and that is away from the optical sensor is a first protrusion structure, and an included angle between at least a partial side edge of the second part and the thickness direction is greater than 0°. In the embodiments of this application, the second part that protrudes from the optical sensor may receive an optical signal around the optical sensor, and enable the optical signal to be totally reflected inside the light guide plate.
US12175786B2	Systems, methods, and devices for automatically converting explanation of benefits (EOB) printable documents into electronic format using artificial intelligence techniques Embodiments for automatically converting printed documents into electronic format using artificial intelligence techniques disclosed herein include: (i) receiving a plurality of images of documents; (ii) for each received image, using an image classification algorithm to classify the image as one of (a) an image of a first type of document, or (b) an image of a second type of document; (iii) for each image classified as an image of the first type of document, using an object localization algorithm to identity an area of interest in the image; (iv) for an identified area of interest, using an optical character recognition algorithm to extract text from the identified area of interest; and (v) populating a record associated with the document with the extracted text.
US12175783B2	Camera parameter estimation using semantic labels A device obtains a point cloud of a scene including a plurality of points. Each point has three-dimensional coordinates in a three-dimensional coordinate system. A first cluster of points has a first semantic label. The device obtains a two-dimensional image of the scene with a camera with an intrinsic parameter. The device detects, in the two-dimensional image, a representation of a first object corresponding to the first semantic label. The device determines two-dimensional coordinates in a two-dimensional coordinate system of the two-dimensional image corresponding to the first object. The device determines, from the first cluster of points, three-dimensional coordinates in the three-dimensional coordinate system of the scene corresponding to the two-dimensional coordinates in the two-dimensional coordinate system of the two-dimensional image of the scene. The device estimates the intrinsic parameter based on the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional coordinates.
US12175782B2	Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to label text on images Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus are disclosed to label text on images. An example apparatus includes colorizer circuitry to apply color to text boxes corresponding to optical character recognition (OCR) data associated with an image, OCR manager circuitry to render an OCR text prompt associated with the OCR data, the OCR text prompt to be rendered proximate to respective ones of the text boxes, the OCR text prompt to display a text portion of the OCR data, and edit circuitry to (a) render an interface in response to selection of the OCR text prompt, the interface populated with the text portion of the OCR data, and (b) in response to an overwrite input to the interface, update the text portion of the OCR data in a memory corresponding to the image.
US12175776B2	Head-mounted display, display control method, and program A head-mounted display, a display control method, and a program that facilitate a user to understand proximity between the user and an object around the user are provided. A display block (36) is arranged in front of the eyes of the user wearing a HMD (12). In accordance with proximity between the user and an object around the user, the HMD (12) controls the display block (36) so as to have the user visually recognize a forward direction of the display block (36).
US12175773B1	Event analysis and review tool Techniques are presented to provide an event review dashboard. One method relates to a user interface (UI) for the event review dashboard that provides customers with a comprehensive view of their event engagement over time. The UI includes interactive elements, information fields, and filters to assist in the analysis and review of customer actions in response to behavioral events detected in vehicles. These actions may include coaching or dismissal. The UI provides filters for date range selection, customer selection, dismissal rate visualization, and minimum event thresholds, enabling customers to assess the relevance and effectiveness of specific event types and their coaching program performance. Additionally, the UI also includes a table and panel for detailed analysis of event dismissal by type and direct access to dismissed event details. The UI is designed for ease of use and efficient analysis, with feedback mechanisms to improve the AI model learning process.
US12175772B2	Method and system for data object identification in vehicles A method at a computing device for finding an association between data objects in a structure, the method including selecting a coordinate location from a grid, the grid defining locations within the structure; finding whether a data object having a data object type is located at the coordinate location; when the data object is located at the coordinate location, associating the data object with other data objects at the coordinate location; and when the data object is not located at the coordinate location: determining through an explicit association that the data object at a second location services the first location; and associating the data object with the coordinate location.
US12175769B2	Target vehicle recognition apparatus and processing method of the target vehicle recognition apparatus A target vehicle recognition apparatus for recognizing a target vehicle as a target to be avoided by steering control of a host vehicle detects a stopped vehicle located in front of the host vehicle, determines whether the stopped vehicle is in a forward-facing state to the host vehicle or a rearward-facing state to the host vehicle, determines whether the stopped vehicle is in a right boundary line deviation state crossing a right boundary line of a travel lane of the host vehicle, a left boundary line deviation state crossing a left boundary line of the travel lane, and recognizes the target vehicle for steering control based on a captured image captured by a front camera of the host vehicle and each of the determination results.
US12175766B2	Information processing apparatus, vehicle, and storage medium An information processing apparatus includes a processing unit configured to execute an inference operation in an execution cycle. The inference operation is executed by inputting input data including time series data to a neural network. An interval of acquiring constituting data of the time series data to be input in a single time of the inference operation is longer than the execution cycle.
US12175760B2	Image analysis system, image analysis method, and image analysis program There is provided an image analysis system having an image analysis server which analyzes an input image of a monitoring area and detects a state of a specific monitored object. The image analysis server is configured to divide, in the input image of the monitoring area, a portion of an area in which the monitored object is expected to be present into a plurality of grids, generate a trained model trained by associating “1” with an image of a grid in which the monitored object is present and “0” with an image of a grid in which the monitored object is not present for each grid, calculate, for the input image, a confidence of a presence of the monitored object for each grid using the trained model, determine a presence or absence of the monitored object in the monitoring area based on confidences of the plurality of grids, and detect an abnormality when a confidence value in at least one of the grids is inconsistent with the determination result.
US12175757B2	Methods for action localization, electronic device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium A method for action localization is disclosed. The method includes dividing a video comprising a first number of frames into a second number of clips, each of the clips comprising at least one of the frames; processing the clips to obtain a first clip descriptor for the each of the clips and feature maps for each of the frames; obtaining a representation of the video based on the first clip descriptor for the each of the clips; predicting an action classification of the video based on the representation of the video; calculating an importance weight for each of the feature maps based on a gradient of the action classification; and obtaining a localization map for the each of the frames based on importance weights of corresponding feature maps.
US12175753B2	Non-transitory computer readable recording medium, information processing method and information processing apparatus A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium has stored therein a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process including acquiring movie data including a plurality of consecutive frames calculating first likelihood of a class of the movie data by inputting the acquired movie data to a trained model, calculating an optical flow indicating movement of an area included in the movie data, based on the movie data generating occluded movie data by setting an occluded area in each of the frames included in the movie data, based on the optical flow, calculating second likelihood of a class of the occluded movie data by inputting the occluded movie data to the model identifying an area that affects identification of the class among areas in the movie data, based on the first likelihood and the second likelihood and displaying the identified area that affects identification of the class.
US12175752B2	Group classifier training using video object tracker Systems, methods, and data storage devices for improved classifier training using a video object tracker to determine video data samples are described. A group classifier may be trained using machine learning to classify image objects, based on a set of machine learning parameters, and assign them a group identifier. A retraining data set may be determined based on video data that was assigned that group identifier based on an object tracker. The group classifier may be retrained using the retraining data set to determine an updated set of machine learning parameters and the group classifier may be updated with those parameters.
US12175750B1	Unique label recognition and notification for streaming video Techniques for unique label recognition and notification for streaming video. A video stream from a camera-equipped electronic device is received via the API endpoint of a stream processing service in a provider network. A request for unique label recognition and notification is received via an API endpoint of a computer vision service in the provider network. The computer vision service analyzes a video fragment of the video stream. If a unique label is recognized in the video fragment, then a notification service in the provider network sends a notification that the unique label was recognized in video captured by the camera-equipped electronic device.
US12175739B2	Performing non-maximum suppression in parallel Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform non-maximum suppression (NMS) in parallel to remove redundant bounding boxes. In at least one embodiment, two or more parallel circuits to perform two or more portions of a NMS algorithm in parallel to remove one or more redundant bounding boxes corresponding to one or more objects within one or more digital images.
US12175736B2	System and method for facilitating autonomous control of an imaging system The present disclosure pertains to autonomous control of an imaging system. In some embodiments, training information including at least a plurality of images and action information are received. The plurality of images and action information are provided to a prediction model to train the prediction model. Further, an image capturing device is controlled to capture an image of a portion of a living organism, the image is processed, via the prediction model, to determine an action to be taken with respect to the image, and the determined action is taken with respect to the image.
US12175735B2	Embedded semantic division network apparatus optimized for MMA that classifies pixels in vehicle images Provided is an embedded semantic division network including a communication module configured to receive an image captured by a camera, a memory configured to store a semantic division network (MMANet)-based program for extracting a context of the captured image, and a processor extracts the context of the captured image by selecting a convolutional neural network (CNN) processing module or a depth-wise separable convolution (DSC) processing module according to a size of a activation map in each layer of the semantic division network that includes an encoder unit and a decoder unit including at least one of the CNN processing module and the DSC processing module that are connected from an upper layer to a lower layer and reduce features of an input image.
US12175732B2	Computationally efficient unsupervised DNN pretraining A system comprises a computer including a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions such that the processor is programmed to determine a pairwise region of interest feature similarity based on features extracted from a first cropped image portion and corresponding point cloud data and features extracted from a second cropped image portion and corresponding point cloud data. The processor is also programmed to determine a loss using a loss function based on the pairwise region of interest feature similarity, wherein the loss function corresponds to at least one a first deep neural network or a second deep neural network. The processor is also programmed to update at least one weight of the at least one of the first deep neural network or the second deep neural network based on the loss.
US12175728B2	Labeling system, activity recognition system, and teaching material generating system A label is attached to data corresponding to an activity included in time series data. A labeling system includes a processor and a machine learning model from which, in response to an input of time series data, a high-level label indicating a high-level activity included in the time series data and low-level labels indicating a plurality of low-level activities included in the high-level activity are outputted. The processor is configured to output a high-level label and a low-level label by using the machine learning model and cause the high-level label and the low-level label to be displayed, accept an input regarding a high-level label included in the time series data, train the machine learning model assuming that a high-level activity corresponding to the accepted high-level label is included in the time series data, and output a high-level label and a low-level label by using the trained machine learning model.
US12175725B2	Image processing device, image viewing system, image processing program, and image processing method An image processing device assists searching for image data in an image viewing service, and includes: a recognizer that recognizes a part representing a target object from the image data; an extractor that extracts a color used in pixels in the part recognized; a determiner that determines a color that is not extracted from the part but is likely to be used in searching by a service user, based on a search tendency in searching by the service user; and an adder that creates a first tag indicating the color extracted by the extractor and a second tag indicating the color determined by the determiner and adds the first tag and the second tag as search tags to the image data.
US12175724B2	Hardware acceleration method and system based on scale-invariant feature transform algorithm A hardware acceleration method and system based on a scale-invariant feature transform algorithm in the field of hardware acceleration design of algorithms is disclosed. The architecture mainly includes two parts: keypoint detection and descriptor generation. Four buffers between these two parts are ping-ponged to increase the system processing speed. In the keypoint detection part, firstly, multi-layer Gaussian pyramid and Gaussian difference pyramid are calculated in parallel; through parallel calculation, the keypoints and gradient magnitudes and orientations are obtained. In the descriptor generation part, a keypoint region division strategy based on the circular keypoint region is provided, and the parallel calculation of a main orientation calculation module and a descriptor generation module are implemented. Finally, the output is obtained through descriptor rearrangement and dimensionality reduction module.
US12175716B2	Predictive coding for point cloud compression A system receives encoded data regarding a points in a point cloud. The data includes a prediction tree having a nodes generated based on spatial information regarding the points and properties of a sensor system that obtained the spatial information. A value of each node represents first spatial coordinates of a respective one of the points according to a first coordinate system, and the value of at least a first node in the prediction tree is determined based on ancestor nodes of the first node and the properties of the sensor system. The system decodes the data to determine first data, including the first spatial coordinates of at least some of the points, and quantization parameters associated with the first spatial coordinates. The system determines second data based on the first data, including second spatial coordinates of at least some of the points according to a second coordinate system.
US12175713B2	Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus based on wavelet transform The present disclosure provides an image decoding method based on a wavelet transform. The method includes: performing entropy decoding on the compressed bitstream to obtain a reconstructed wavelet coefficient; dequantizing the reconstructed wavelet coefficient to obtain a dequantized wavelet coefficient; and performing N inverse wavelet transforms on the dequantized wavelet coefficient based on the wavelet transform model to obtain a reconstructed image, where the wavelet transform model is implemented based on a convolutional neural network (CNN).
US12175712B2	Adaptive compression for radar data Systems, methods and circuitries are disclosed for compressing radar data. In one example, a radar sender unit includes adaptive compression circuitry configured to determine tuning data, wherein the tuning data is based on one or more operating conditions; compress radar data based on the tuning data; and transmit the compressed radar data to a radar control unit for further processing.
US12175709B2	Laser marked calibration standards for on-line inspection camera qualification and methods of use Durable calibration standards are described herein for inspection systems for manufactured vials, such as glass pharmaceutical vials, and methods of using the same. A grayscale calibration standard is provided for calibration of camera settings of imaging components in an inspection system. The grayscale calibration standard comprises a vial having a laser etched gradient image on a portion of the vial. A region of interest (ROI) calibration standard is provided for calibration of spatial difference of imaging components and to align imaging components in an inspection system to capture desired regions of interest. The ROI calibration standard comprises a vial comprising laser etchings on one or more portions of the vial, wherein the laser etchings comprise laser markings formed in a geometric pattern. By providing laser-marked calibration standards, the calibration standards may be used in many different modes of metrology.
US12175704B2	Quantitative analysis method and system for attention based on line-of-sight estimation neural network Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a quantitative method and system for attention based on a line-of-sight estimation neural network, which improves the stability and training efficiency of the line-of-sight estimation neural network. A few-sample learning method is applied to training of the line-of-sight estimation neural network, which improves generalization performance of the line-of-sight estimation neural network. A nonlinear division method for small intervals of angles of the line of sight is provided, which reduces an estimation error of the line-of-sight estimation neural network. Eye opening and closing detection is added to avoid the line-of-sight estimation error caused by an eye closing state. A method for solving a landing point of the line of sight is provided, which has high environmental adaptability and can be quickly used in actual deployment.
US12175701B2	Method and assembly for creating a landmark map According to the present invention there is provide a method of creating a landmark map comprising the steps of: capturing a plurality of frame using a camera, each frame comprising an image; assigning an image number which denotes the order in which each frame was taken; extracting features from all the images in the captured frames; assigning a distinct identifier to each respective feature which was extracted from the image belonging to the frame which was first captured; for each image belonging to the respective frames which was captured after the first frame was captured, carrying out the following steps: (i) computing a distance between, the location of each respective extracted feature in that image, and the location of each respective feature extracted from image belonging to a previously captured frame; and (ii) determining if said computed distance is less than, a predefined threshold distance; and if the computed distance is not less than said predefined threshold distance then assign that extracted feature the same identifier as is assigned to the extracted feature in the image belonging to the previously captured frame; if the computed distance is greater than the predefined threshold distance, then assign a new identifier to the extracted feature; providing a list of features which comprises image numbers which denotes each of the captured frames; for each respective image number the identifiers which denote the features which were extracted from the image belonging to that frame; and for each identifier the coordinates which represent the location of the extracted feature in that image; carrying out structure-from-motion followed by repeated landmark representation merging and bundle adjustment, using the list of features, so as to create a landmark map. There is further provided an assembly having a processor which is configured to carry out said method of creating a landmark map.
US12175696B2	Method and apparatus with object information estimation and virtual object generation An electronic device for estimating object information and generating a virtual object and a method of operating the electronic device are disclosed. The method includes obtaining an image, obtaining a class feature, a pose feature, and a relationship feature of an object included in the image, correcting each of the class feature, the pose feature, and the relationship feature using any combination of any two or more of the class feature, the pose feature, and the relationship feature of the object, and obtaining class information, pose information, and relationship information of the object based on the corrected class feature, the corrected pose feature, and the corrected relationship feature, respectively.
US12175692B2	Method and system for localization A localization method includes scanning a surrounding space by using laser outputted from a reference region; processing spatial information about the surrounding space based on a reflection signal of the laser; extracting feature vectors to which the spatial information has been reflected by using a deep learning network which uses space vectors including the spatial information as input data; and comparing the feature vectors with preset reference map data, and thus estimating location information about the reference region.
US12175691B1	Method and device for mapping three-dimensional (3D) point cloud model based on deep learning A method for mapping a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud model based on deep learning includes: extracting features of image data by using a convolutional neural network; extracting features of point cloud data by using a PointNet point cloud processing network, and constructing a 3D model of the point cloud data by using a triangular mesh; aligning the 3D model and an image spatially and temporally; performing projection mapping on the aligned 3D model and image, and superimposing location information in the point cloud data onto texture information of the image to obtain a first fused image; fusing the features of the point cloud data and the features of the image data to obtain a second fused image with a fused feature; and superimposing the first fused image onto the second fused image, and obtaining a superimposition weight by using the convolutional neural network, to generate a mapped 3D model.
US12175689B2	Medical image registration method based on progressive images A two-stage medical image registration method based on progressive images (PIs) to solve the technical problem of low registration accuracy of traditional image registration methods includes: merging a reference image with a floating image to generate multiple intermediate PIs; registering, by a speeded-up robust features (SURF) algorithm and an affine transformation, the floating image with the intermediate PIs to acquire coarse registration results; registering, by the SURF algorithm and the affine transformation, the reference image with the coarse registration results to acquire fine registration results; and comparing the fine registration results of the intermediate PIs, which are acquired by iteration, and selecting an optimal registration result as a final registration image. The method can achieve multimodal registration for brain imaging with MI, NCC, MSD, and NMI superior to those of the existing registration algorithms. The method effectively improves the registration accuracy through the progressive medical image registration strategy.
US12175688B2	Techniques for accurate pose estimation The described technology regards an augmented reality system and method for estimating a position of a location of interest relative to the position and orientation of a display, including receiving and selectively filtering a plurality of measurement vectors from a rate-gyroscope. Systems of the described technology include including a plurality of sensors, a processing module or other computation means, and a database. Methods of the described technology use data from the sensor package useful to accurately render graphical user interface information on a display.
US12175687B2	Information processing apparatus, control method, and program An information processing apparatus (2000) includes a first analyzing unit (2020), a second analyzing unit (2040), and an estimating unit (2060). The first analyzing unit (2020) calculates a flow of a crowd in a capturing range of a fixed camera (10) using a first surveillance image (12). The second analyzing unit (2040) calculates a distribution of an attribute of objects in a capturing range of a moving camera (20) using a second surveillance image (22). The estimating unit (2060) estimates an attribute distribution for a range that is not included in the capturing range of the moving camera (20).
US12175682B2	Counting method, counting device, and recording medium There is provided a counting method for counting a moving bonded body by exerting an external force in a predetermined direction, on a sample capable of containing the bonded body in which a target substance and a moving substance moving in response to exertion of the external force are bonded, the counting method including: obtaining a captured image of an object in the sample captured in a period from a first time point to a second time point later than the first time point during which the external force is exerted; determining a moving direction of the object from a locus, in the image, formed by the object; and counting the object as the bonded body in a case where a degree of coincidence between the predetermined direction and the moving direction is greater than a first threshold.
US12175679B2	3D segmentation of lesions in CT images using self-supervised pretraining with augmentation A method or system for training a convolutional neural network (CNN) for medical imaging analysis. The system pre-trains the CNN's encoder using a dataset of unlabeled 3D medical images. Each 3D image includes an annotated slice delineating a boundary of a lesion and multiple non-annotated 2D slices above and below the annotated slice. The system then fine-tunes the pre-trained encoder using an annotated 2D image dataset. The annotated 2D image dataset includes multiple 2D slices of lesions, each including an annotation that delineates a boundary of a corresponding lesion.
US12175672B2	Multi-chamber lighting controller for aquaculture Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for a lighting controller for sea lice detection. In some implementations, fish are contained within an elliptical tank filled with water. An imaging station located on the elliptical tank is used to capture an image of a fish from which image analysis can be performed to detect sea lice or other skin features, including lesions, on the fish. Pairs of imaging assemblies coordinate pulsing light of at least a first and a second color and capturing images of the fish while the fish is illuminated by at least the first and the second color. By using the captured images with different color light, computers can detect features on the body of a fish including sea lice, skin lesions, shortened operculum or other physical deformities and skin features. Detection results can aid in mitigation techniques or be stored for analytics. For example, sea lice detection results can inform targeted treatments comprised of lasers, fluids, or mechanical devices such as a brush or suction.
US12175671B2	Method for hospital visit guidance for medical treatment for active thyroid eye disease, and system for performing same According to the present application, a computer-implemented method of predicting thyroid eye disease is disclosed. The method comprising: preparing a conjunctival hyperemia prediction model, a conjunctival edema prediction model, a lacrimal edema prediction model, an eyelid redness prediction model, and an eyelid edema prediction model, obtaining a facial image of an object, obtaining a first processed image and a second processed image from the facial image, wherein the first processed image is different from the second processed image, obtaining predicted values for each of a conjunctival hyperemia, a conjunctival edema and a lacrimal edema by applying the first processed image to the conjunctival hyperemia prediction model, the conjunctival edema prediction model, and the lacrimal edema prediction model, and obtaining predicted values for each of an eyelid redness and an eyelid edema by applying the second processed image to the eyelid redness prediction model and the eyelid edema prediction model.
US12175668B2	Cardio AI smart assistant for semantic image analysis of medical imaging studies Systems and methods for determining a semantic image understanding of medical imaging studies are provided. A plurality of medical imaging studies associated with a plurality of medical imaging modalities is provided. Metadata associated with each of the plurality of medical imaging studies is generated by performing a plurality of semantic image analysis tasks using one or more machine learning based networks. The metadata associated with each of the plurality of medical imaging studies is output.
US12175666B2	Systems and methods for classifying biomedical image data using a graph neural network Techniques for classifying biomedical image data using a graph neural network are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for classifying biomedical image data comprising generating an annotated representation of biomedical image data; identifying a plurality of pixel clusters based on the biomedical image data; constructing a graph based on the plurality of pixel clusters; determining at least one biomedical feature for at least one node of the graph based on the annotated representation of the biomedical image data; and processing a graph neural network to classify the biomedical image data based on the at least one biomedical feature.
US12175665B2	Computer system for trabecular connectivity recovery of skeletal images reconstructed by artificial neural network through node-link graph-based bone microstructure representation, and method thereof Various embodiments relate to a computer apparatus for the bone microstructure connectivity recovery of a skeletal image reconstructed through an artificial neural network using the representations of a node-link graph-based bone microstructure and a method thereof. The computer apparatus and the method may be configured to represent a node-link graph from a bone microstructure of an input skeletal image, reinforce a connectivity of the bone microstructure in the node-link graph, and change the node-link graph into a skeletal image.
US12175664B2	Image recording apparatus, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor acquires a medical image, identifies the acquired medical image and acquires an identification result, analyzes a motion relating to interpretation of the medical image by a user to acquire a motion analysis result, and compares the identification result and the motion analysis result and acquires a comparison result relating to coincidence or noncoincidence of the identification result and the motion analysis result.
US12175663B2	Device and method for producing a digital video classifier The present invention concerns a device for producing a “digital video classifier” configured to determine the quality of cleanliness of one or more segments of the digestive tube in a video capsule endoscopy (VCE) of a subject, comprising: a VCE allowing the acquisition of videos of segments of the digestive tube, video storage means, coupled with the VCE, an “image database” with images extracted from VCE exams, a “video database” with videos extracted from VCE exams, calculating means connected to the video storage means, and to the databases, and configured for performing a statistical learning for the generation of a “digital image classifier” from the “image database” and which classifies the images in adequate cleanliness or non-adequate cleanliness; generating the “digital video classifier” capable of classifying a video of a subject as being of adequate cleanliness or of non-adequate cleanliness of one or more segments of the digestive tube.
US12175662B2	Methods for extracting and quantifying diagnostic biomarkers from ultrasound microvessel images The present disclosure addresses a quantitative analysis of tumor vascularity patterns, with the goal of identifying biomarkers correlated with malignancy. Herein, we identify new types of quantitative ultrasound biomarkers of microvessel morphology that correlate with the state of the disease in question. We propose a novel method to automatically extract quantitative features related to the morphology and distribution of the vascular networks reconstructed from contrast-free ultrasound data. For instance, spatial vascularity pattern, bifurcation angle, Murray's deviation, fractal dimension and closet vessel distance were clearly depicted.
US12175656B2	Gray level ratio inspection A method for gray level ratio inspection comprising: obtaining an electron image that comprises region of interest (ROI) pixels of a ROI of the sample and reference pixels of a reference region of the sample, where the ROI pixels are obtained by illuminating the ROI with the electron beam and the reference pixels are obtained without illuminating the reference region with an electron beam; calculating a reference dark level value based on values of at least some of the reference pixels; calculating, responsive to the reference dark level value, a gray level ratio between a first gray level value related to a first sub-set of the ROI pixels and a second gray level value related to a second sub-set of the ROI pixels; determining whether the gray level ratio is indicative of a defect; and generating defect information following a determination that the gray level ratio is indicative of the defect.
US12175655B2	Substrate inspection method and device A substrate inspection method includes: (i) acquiring a plurality of defect of interest (DOI) images of a substrate having a DOI, under a corresponding plurality of different optical conditions, (ii) acquiring a plurality of DOI difference images from differences between the plurality of DOI images and a reference image, and (iii) acquiring a plurality of DOI difference-of-difference (DOD) images from differences between the plurality of DOI difference images. The method also includes setting two optical conditions corresponding to a DOI DOD image having the highest signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) among the plurality of DOI DOD images, as a first optical condition and a second optical condition, and acquiring a first image of the substrate under the first optical condition and a second image of the substrate under the second optical condition. A first difference image is also acquired, which is a difference between the first image and the reference image, and a second difference image is acquired, which is a difference between the second image and the reference image. A DOD image is acquired that is a difference between the first difference image and the second difference image. A low-SNR defect candidate region is then detected from the first difference image, the second difference image, and the DOD image.
US12175653B2	Defect position determination system, appearance inspection method and program A first imaging unit 71 generates a first image a first image by taking an object to be inspected. A guide display unit 72 determines the object to be inspected from the first image by using a model for determining an object to be inspected from an image, and displays an illustration representing the object to be inspected as a guide. A second imaging unit 73 generates a second image by superimposing on the guide, and taking the object to be inspected with a recognizable marker regardless of color of an appearance of an object to be inspected, attached in a vicinity of a defect. A defect position determination unit 74 determines a position of the defect included in the object to be inspected based on a positional relationship between the illustration and the marker included in the second image. An information collecting unit 75 collects defect information associated with a type of the object to be inspected and the position of the defect.
US12175652B2	System and non-transitory computer-readable medium for identifying cause of manufacturing defects A system, method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for identifying a cause of manufacturing defects are provided. The system includes a processing unit and an image capture unit electrically coupled to the processing unit. The system is configured to capture, by the image capture unit, a number N of images covering different portions of a semiconductor wafer, wherein each of the number N of images comprises a number M of geometric features. The system is further configured to specify a number M of serial numbers, each associated with one of the number M of geometric features. The system is further configured to calculate, by the processing unit, a geometric center for each of the geometric features of the number N of images. The system is further configured to calculate, based on the number N of images, a number M of average geometric centers associated with the number M of serial numbers. The system is further configured to calculate a shift amount for each geometric feature of the number N of images.
US12175650B2	Processing image data sets A method includes obtaining an image data set that depicts semiconductor components, and applying a hierarchical bricking to the image data set. In this case, the bricking includes a plurality of bricks on a plurality of hierarchical levels. The bricks on different hierarchical levels have different image element sizes of corresponding image elements.
US12175647B1	Advanced lens system for assessing property damage An advanced lens system includes an advanced lens configured to be worn by an individual. The advanced lens system includes a camera configured to obtain one or more images of a property. The advanced lens system includes one or more processors communicatively coupled to the advanced lens and the camera, the one or more processors being configured to receive the one or more images of the property and process the one or more images to identify primary damage to the property. The one or more processors are also configured to predict, based on the primary damage and previous damage data stored in a database, secondary damage that is likely to be present with the primary damage. The one or more processors are further configured to provide an output indicative of the secondary damage that is likely to be present with the primary damage via a display of the advanced lens.
US12175646B2	Abnormality detection apparatus, control method, and program An abnormality detection apparatus (100) includes an acquisition unit (110) that acquires input data, an abnormality degree computation unit (120) that has a discriminative model for computing an abnormality degree of input data, inputs the acquired input data to the discriminative model, and thereby computes an abnormality degree of the input data, a normality degree computation unit (130) that has a normality model for computing a normality degree of input data, inputs the input data to the normality model, and thereby computes a normality degree of the input data, a determination unit (140) that has a determination model for performing determination relating to an abnormality level of input data, inputs the abnormality degree and the normality degree to the determination model, and thereby performs determination relating to an abnormality level of the input data, and an output unit (150) that outputs output information based on a result of the determination.
US12175644B2	Compensation for deformation in head mounted display systems The systems and methods described can include approaches to calibrate head-mounted displays for improved viewing experiences. Some methods include receiving data of a first target image associated with an undeformed state of a first eyepiece of a head-mounted display device; receiving data of a first captured image associated with deformed state of the first eyepiece of the head-mounted display device; determining a first transformation that maps the first captured image to the image; and applying the first transformation to a subsequent image for viewing on the first eyepiece of the head-mounted display device.
US12175639B2	Method and apparatus for enhancing video quality based on machine learning A video quality improvement method may comprise: inputting a structure feature map converted from current target frame by first convolution layer to first multi-task unit and second multi-task unit, which is connected to an output side of first multi-task unit, among the plurality of multi-task units; inputting a main input obtained by adding the structure feature map to a feature space, which is converted by second convolution layer from those obtained by concatenating, in channel dimension, a previous target frame and a correction frame of the previous frame to first multi-task unit; and inputting current target frame to Nth multi-task unit connected to an end of output side of second multi-task unit, wherein Nth multi-task unit outputs a correction frame of current target frame, and machine learning of the video quality improvement model is performed using an objective function calculated through the correction frame of current target frame.
US12175637B2	Images for perception modules of autonomous vehicles Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for processing an image. In one aspect a method includes receiving an image from a sensor array including an x-y array of pixels, each pixel in the x-y array of pixels having a value selected from one of three primary colors, based on a corresponding x-y value in a mask pattern. The method may further include generating a preprocessed image by performing preprocessing on the image. The method may further include performing perception on the preprocessed image to determine one or more outlines of physical objects.
US12175636B2	Reconstruction with user-defined characteristic strength For reconstruction in medical imaging, user control of a characteristic (e.g., noise level) of the reconstructed image is provided. A machine-learned model alters the reconstructed image to enhance or reduce the characteristic. The user selected level of characteristic is then provided by combining the reconstructed image with the altered image based on the input level of the characteristic. Personalized or more controllable impression for medical imaging reconstruction is provided without requiring different reconstructions.
US12175635B2	Temporal metrics for denoising depth image data Examples are disclosed relating to performing signal processing on time-of-flight sensor data using pixelwise temporal metrics. One example provides a computing system comprising a logic machine, and a storage machine holding instructions executable by the logic machine to obtain temporal phase data for a plurality of pixels as acquired by a time-of-flight image sensor, the temporal phase data comprising phase data for a plurality of light modulation frequencies, determine temporal active brightness data for the pixel, and, for each pixel of the plurality of pixels, determine a statistical metric for the temporal active brightness data. The instructions are further executable to perform phase unwrapping on the temporal phase data for the plurality of pixels to obtain a depth image, based on the statistical metric for the temporal active brightness data, perform a denoising operation on at least some pixels of the depth image, and output the depth image.
US12175634B2	Mirror assembly A mirror assembly (100) comprising: a reflective portion (110) configured to reflect incident light; a display unit (120) arranged to overlap the reflective portion, wherein the display unit is configured to display at least one of a visual element and a blurred effect element; and a control unit (130). The control unit (130) is configured to: receive instruction to display a visual element or instruction to display a blurred effect element; determine, based on the received instruction, a blur region for the visual element or a motion trajectory of the blurred effect element, wherein the blur region or the blurred effect element is larger than a display resolution of the display unit; and control the display unit to display the visual element with the determined blur region or to display the blurred effect element in the determined motion trajectory in a field of view of a user.
US12175630B2	Digital image optimization for ophthalmic surgery The present disclosure provides a digital image optimization system including a camera that includes at least one sensor that detects light reflected off an eye and sends a signal corresponding to the detected light to a processor. The system further includes an image processing system including the processor and that executes instructions to produce a digital image of the eye. The image processing system also executes instructions to apply a digital image optimization algorithm including a trained machine-learning model to the digital image of the eye to generate an optimized digital image of the eye. The system further includes a digital display that displays the optimized digital image of the eye.
US12175624B2	Signal processing apparatus and signal processing method A pixel is appropriately interpolated regarding a histogram image in which a distance histogram is allocated to each pixel position. A signal processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a histogram generation unit that inputs a histogram image in which a distance histogram indicating results of a plurality of times of distance measurement as frequency information for each distance is allocated to each pixel position and generates a distance histogram of an interpolation target position in the histogram image on the basis of distance histograms of a plurality of pixel positions near the interpolation target position.
US12175621B2	Unsupervised deformable image registration method using cycle-consistent neural network and apparatus therefor Disclosed are an unsupervised learning-based image registration method using a neural network with cycle consistency and an apparatus therefor. An image registration method includes receiving a first image and a second image for image registration, outputting a deformation field for the first image and the second image using an unsupervised learning-based neural network with cycle consistency for the deformation field, and generating a registration image for the first image and the second image based on a spatial deformation function using the output deformation field. The outputting of the deformation field includes outputting the deformation field for the first image for registering the first image to the second image may be output, when the first image is a moving image and the second image is a fixed image, and the generating of the registration image includes generating the registration image by applying the deformation field for the first image to the first image using the spatial deformation function.
US12175620B1	Systems and methods for arranging and displaying clothing patterns A method and a user device for arranging clothing patterns may be provided. A first user instruction may be received. The first user instruction may be used for selecting a first target location from a two-dimensional (2D) clothing pattern and allocating the 2D clothing pattern to a second target location on a three-dimensional (3D) avatar. In response to the first user instruction, the 2D clothing pattern may be represented as a 3D clothing pattern that warps around the 3D avatar at the second target location.
US12175619B2	Generating and visualizing planar surfaces within a three-dimensional space for modifying objects in a two-dimensional editing interface The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify two-dimensional images via scene-based editing using three-dimensional representations of the two-dimensional images. For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize three-dimensional representations of two-dimensional images to generate and modify shadows in the two-dimensional images according to various shadow maps. Additionally, the disclosed systems utilize three-dimensional representations of two-dimensional images to modify humans in the two-dimensional images. The disclosed systems also utilize three-dimensional representations of two-dimensional images to provide scene scale estimation via scale fields of the two-dimensional images. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems utilizes three-dimensional representations of two-dimensional images to generate and visualize 3D planar surfaces for modifying objects in two-dimensional images. The disclosed systems further use three-dimensional representations of two-dimensional images to customize focal points for the two-dimensional images.
US12175617B2	Information processing system and method for judging whether to allow a mobile medium to move within a virtual space An information processing system comprises processing circuitry configured to render a virtual space; render each mobile medium associated with each user, each mobile medium being able to move within the virtual space; associate designated movement authority information to a first mobile medium, the first mobile medium being associated with a first user based on a first input from the first user; switch the designated movement authority information from association with the first mobile medium to association with a second mobile medium, the second mobile medium being associated with a second user different from the first user and based on a second input from the first user; and judge, based on the designated movement authority information, whether to allow one mobile medium to move toward a designated position within the virtual space.
US12175615B2	Procedurally generating augmented reality content generators The subject technology determines at least one primitive shape based on at least one graphical element in an augmented reality (AR) facial pattern. The subject technology generates a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) file using at least one primitive shape. The subject technology generates internal facial makeup format (IFM) data using the JSON file.
US12175614B2	Recording the complete physical and extended reality environments of a user Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media including instructions for presenting information in a first display region having predefined boundaries, the information manipulatable via a user interface presentable in the first display region; presenting, via a wearable extended reality appliance, a second display region beyond the predefined boundaries of the first display region, wherein the second display region is visible via the wearable extended reality appliance; providing a control for altering a location of the user interface, wherein in a first mode, the user interface is presented in the first display region while the information is presented in the first display region and in a second mode, the user interface is presented in the second display region outside the predefined boundaries of the first display region while the information is presented in the first display region; and enabling toggling between the first mode and the second mode via the control.
US12175612B2	Mixed reality environment display using surface reconstruction mesh and live video overlay The disclosure herein describes enabling a user of a remote mixed reality (MR) device to observe an environment of a local MR device combined with 3D surface reconstruction (SR) mesh data and live video data. Optical data of a surface of an environment is obtained and a 3D surface reconstruction mesh of the surface is generated from the obtained optical data using photogrammetry. The generated 3D surface reconstruction mesh is provided for display by a remote device. A live video feed of a window region of the environment is obtained and the live video feed of the window region is provided for display on the generated 3D surface reconstruction mesh by the remote device. Further, a remote user is enabled to provide feedback to a user of the local MR device, including audio feedback such as speech and virtual artifacts that are displayed to the local user.
US12175611B2	Augmented reality (AR) measurement display Aspects of the present disclosure relate to augmented reality (AR) measurement display. A measurement of a quantity in an environment of a user currently using an AR device can be received. A preferred unit of measurement (UoM) for the measurement of the quantity can be selected based on an analysis of historical data of the user. The measurement of the quantity can be conceptualized by obtaining a virtual object associated with the measurement of the quantity. A command to display, on the AR device, the measurement of the quantity within the preferred UoM and the virtual object associated with the measurement of the quantity can be issued.
US12175609B2	Live room presentation method and apparatus This application provides techniques for a live room presentation. The techniques comprise: receiving a live room entry instruction by an audience client computing device associated with a user; determining target avatar information associated with the user and a target live room based on the instruction; establishing a transmission connection between the audience client computing device and the target live room in a server to facilitate subsequent transmission of live data; obtaining virtual scene information and virtual audience information associated with the target live room; determining location information of each avatar corresponding to each user associated with the target live room in a virtual scene based on the target avatar information and the virtual audience information; and rendering and presenting the target live room based on the location information of each avatar in the virtual scene and the virtual scene information.
US12175608B2	Character and costume assignment for co-located users Multi-player co-located AR experiences are augmented by assigning characters and costumes to respective participants (a.k.a. “users” of AR-enabled mobile devices) in multi-player AR sessions for storytelling, play acting, and the like. Body tracking technology and augmented reality (AR) software are used to decorate the bodies of the co-located participants with virtual costumes within the context of the multi-player co-located AR experiences. Tracked bodies are distinguished to determine which body belongs to which user and hence which virtual costume belongs to which tracked body so that corresponding costumes may be assigned for display in augmented reality. A host-guest mechanism is used for networked assignment of characters and corresponding costumes in the co-located multi-player AR session. Body tracking technology is used to move the costume with the body as movement of the assigned body is detected.
US12175606B2	Method and apparatus for providing multi-user-involved augmented reality content for diorama application The present disclosure includes a diorama space generation and construction module configured to construct an AR map by using a user camera image or image data received through a sensor, a diorama environment tracking and location optimization module configured to load the constructed AR map onto an AR device and track a location of the AR device in a diorama space in real time based on image data received in real time, and a multi-user association and event synchronization module including a user interaction module configured to perform user interaction processing, user event information processing and management, and AR content playback configured to perform interaction synchronization processing, content synchronization processing, and user information synchronization processing.
US12175600B2	Data management system for spatial phase imaging In a general aspect, a data management system for spatial phase imaging is described. A data management system for spatial phase imaging includes: a storage engine configured to receive and store input data in a record format, the input data including: pixel-level first-order primitives generated based on electromagnetic (EM) radiation received from an object located in a field-of-view of an image sensor device; and pixel-level second-order primitives generated based on the first-order primitives. The data management system further includes: an analytics engine configured to determine a plurality of features of the object based on the pixel-level first-order primitives and the pixel-level second-order primitives; and an access engine configured to provide a user access to the plurality of features of the object determined by the analytics engine and to the input data stored by the storage engine.
US12175596B2	Indoor structure segmentation method based on laser measurement point cloud The present disclosure discloses an indoor structure segmentation method based on a laser measurement point cloud. The method includes the following steps: inputting an indoor three-dimensional point cloud, and performing supervoxel segmentation of the point cloud using a toward better boundary preserved supervoxel (TBBPS) segmentation method based on a given initial resolution r to extract a plane supervoxel unit; extracting surface point units in surface supervoxels by means of curvatures and normal vector changes; fitting an indoor plane model based on plane supervoxels; fitting an indoor surface model using a cylindrical simplex based on surface points; and based on an α-expansion optimization algorithm, allocating the extracted supervoxel units and surface point units to an optimal model, so as to realize unit classification and segmentation.
US12175594B2	Reduced order model for computing blood flow dynamics A computer-implemented method can include generating centerlines of a patient's cardiovascular network, determining geometric features of the cardiovascular network based on the centerlines and a three-dimensional (3D) computer model of the cardiovascular network, constructing a lumped parameter network (LPN) of resistors corresponding to the cardiovascular network, and solving a system of equations corresponding to flow and pressure for the LPN model.
US12175593B2	Display device, display method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium having program stored therein A display device (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a detection unit (11) that detects, in a three-dimensional space including measurement point group data measured by a three-dimensional optical sensor, intermediate point group data of an intermediate region from a viewpoint for two-dimensionally displaying the measurement point group data to target point group data within the measurement point group data; a setting unit (12) that sets, based on the detected intermediate point group data, a display aspect of the measurement point group data or the target point group data in such a way that the target point group data become visually recognizable from the viewpoint; and a display unit (13) that two-dimensionally displays the measurement point group data and the target point group data according to the set display aspect.
US12175592B2	Length scale dimension in spatial coordinate systems Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for determining and storing a length scale dimension in spatial coordinate systems. A mapping of three-dimensional (3D) grid locations (x,y,z) relative to a continuous surface of the Earth is determined. The 3D grid locations have a grid point spacing in an (x,y) space defining map view coordinates of the continuous surface independent of an elevation z. A length scale (l) is determined for each 3D location. The length scale defines a 3D distance between 3D grid locations, and also defines a structural or geometrical length scale at the 3D location relevant to a given task. Then, (x,y,z,l) information is stored for each 3D grid location. The (x,y,z,l) information defines, for each (x,y) coordinate, a z-coordinate defining an elevation of the continuous surface at the (x,y) coordinate and the local length scale at the (x,y,z) coordinate.
US12175589B2	Apparatus and method for cross-instance front-to-back traversal for ray tracing heavily-instanced scenes Apparatus and method for programmable ray tracing with hardware acceleration on a graphics processor. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processor comprises shader execution circuitry to execute a plurality of programmable ray tracing shaders. The shader execution circuitry includes a plurality of single instruction multiple data (SIMD) execution units. Sorting circuitry regroups data associated with one or more of the programmable ray tracing shaders to increase occupancy for SIMD operations performed by the SIMD execution units; and fixed-function intersection circuitry coupled to the shader execution circuitry detects intersections between rays and bounding volume hierarchies (BVHs) and/or objects contained therein and to provide results indicating the intersections to the sorting circuitry.
US12175587B2	Apparatus and method with graphics processing An apparatus with graphics processing includes: a memory configured to store therein acceleration structure data and primitive data for performing three-dimensional (3D) rendering; and a first processor implemented in the memory and configured to receive ray information, determine a first spatial box by performing a traversal on an acceleration structure in which scene objects are spatially partitioned based on the acceleration structure data and the ray information, and determine a first intersection point for performing the 3D rendering based on the primitive data, the ray information, and the first spatial box.
US12175585B2	Performing geometry analysis before multi-GPU rendering of geometry A method including rendering graphics for an application using graphics processing units (GPUs). The method including dividing responsibility for processing pieces of geometry of an image frame during an analysis pre-pass phase of rendering between the plurality of GPUs, wherein each of the pieces of geometry is assigned to a corresponding GPU. The method including determining in the analysis pre-pass phase overlap of each of the pieces of geometry with each screen regions. The method including generating information at the GPUs regarding the pieces of geometry and their relations to the screen regions based on the overlap of each of the pieces of geometry with each of the screen regions. The method including assigning the screen regions to the GPUs based on the information for purposes of rendering the pieces of geometry during a subsequent phase of rendering.
US12175584B2	Method and apparatus for animation rendering, electronic device, and storage medium Provided is a method and apparatus for animation rendering, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method for animation rendering includes: in a vertex animation mode, acquiring vertex position information and normal information from a same first texture file, wherein the vertex position information occupies a part of an R channel, a part of a G channel and a part of a B channel, and the normal information occupies another part of the R channel, another part of the G channel, another part of the B channel, and an A channel; and performing animation rendering according to the vertex position information and the normal information.
US12175582B2	Animation processing method and apparatus, computer storage medium, and electronic device An animation processing method is performed by an electronic device. The method including: obtaining state information and task information that correspond to a virtual character in a virtual environment at a current moment in an animation segment and a terrain feature of the virtual environment; performing feature extraction on the terrain feature, the state information, and the task information using an animation processing model, to obtain joint action information corresponding to the virtual character at a next moment; obtaining gesture adjustment information corresponding to the virtual character from the current moment to the next moment based on the joint action information; and updating the animation segment according to the gesture adjustment information.
US12175578B1	Dynamic roadway scene re-creation using video analytics, metadata and interpolation A system comprising a database and a processor. The database may be configured to communicate with a plurality of capture devices, store metadata received from the plurality of capture devices and track characteristics of objects in the metadata received over time. The processor may be configured to determine animation details for the objects in response to the characteristics tracked over time in the metadata, re-create a scene in response to the animation details and an absolute location of objects in the metadata at a particular time range and generate an animation based on the scene. The metadata may be communicated by the capture devices without captured video. The animation may provide a visualization similar to the captured video using only the metadata.
US12175577B1	Roadway scene re-creation using video analytics and metadata A system comprising a capture device and a database. The capture device may be configured to capture video, perform video analysis on the captured video to identify characteristics about objects in the captured video and determine an absolute location of the objects, store metadata separate from the captured video in response to the video analysis and communicate with a wireless communication device. The database may be configured to communicate with the wireless communication device, store the metadata received from the wireless communication device, re-create a scene in response to the characteristics and absolute location of the objects in the metadata and generate an animation based on the scene using the metadata received over time. The metadata may be communicated without the captured video. The animation may provide a visualization similar to the captured video using only the metadata.
US12175576B2	Method, apparatus, device and media for publishing video Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, devices, and media for publishing video. In one exemplary method, acquiring an image and music; presenting the image on a canvas; determining a color of the canvas based on a color in the image; and generating the video for publishing by compositing the image, the canvas, and the music, wherein the video has the music as a soundtrack and statically presents the image on the canvas. In this way, users can freely edit an image and generate a high-quality video according to the edited image, which is beneficial to increase the user's enthusiasm for participating in short video creation and improve the user's viscosity.
US12175571B2	Method for securing synthetic video conference feeds One variation of a method for securing synthetic video conference feeds includes, during a setup period: accessing a target image depicting a face of a user; generating a face model based on a target set of facial features detected in the target image; and linking the face model to a target set of facial biometric values of the user. The method also includes, during an operating period succeeding the setup period: accessing a frame; deriving characteristics of a set of facial features detected in the frame; extracting a set of facial biometric values from the frame; in response to alignment between the target set of facial biometric values and the set of facial biometric values, generating a synthetic face image based on characteristics of the set of facial features, the face model, and a synthetic face generator; and rendering the synthetic face image in place of the frame.
US12175569B2	Terminal device and RF power supply device There is provided a terminal device for displaying status information of a plurality of RF generators. On a display screen, numerical values of a specific item of the status information are displayed as figures having different lengths, and values of another item different from the specific item are displayed in at least one of color tones, patterns, or shapes of the figures, and when the specific item is a frequency and the another item is a phase, output powers of the plurality of RF generators are displayed as figures of bar graphs over the frequency, and phases of the RF generators are displayed in at least one of color tones, patterns, or shapes of the corresponding figures.
US12175568B2	Systems and methods for visualizing and manipulating graph databases Systems and methods for visualizing and manipulating graph databases in accordance embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a graph database manipulation device including a processor and a memory configured to store a graph database manipulation application, wherein the graph database manipulation application configures the processor to obtain a graph database, wherein the graph database includes a set of nodes and a set of edges, identify a region of interest within a graph described by the graph database, construct a feature space from the region of interest, and extract explanatory variables from the feature space.
US12175565B2	Methods and systems for contrast-to-noise evaluation of computed tomography systems Methods and systems are provided for contrast-to-noise evaluation in medical imaging systems. In one embodiment, a method includes positioning a phantom having a variable width cross-section within a gantry of a computed tomography (CT) system so that the variable width cross-section is perpendicular to a central axis of the CT system, adjusting the phantom within the gantry of the CT system to a first imaging configuration having a first position and a first translation within the gantry, acquiring a first set of measurements from the phantom in the first imaging configuration, and calculating a contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) of the CT system based on at least the first set of measurements and a first material density of an imaged slice of the phantom in the first imaging configuration.
US12175563B2	Multi-slice magnetic resonance imaging method and device based on long-distance attention model reconstruction The invention provides a multi-slice magnetic resonance imaging method and device based on long-distance attention model reconstruction. The method includes that: a deep learning reconstruction model is constructed; data preprocessing is performed on multiple slices of simultaneously acquired signals, and multiple slices of magnetic resonance images or K-space data is used as data input; learnable positional embedding and imaging parameter embedding are acquired; the preprocessed input data, the positional embedding and the imaging parameter embedding are input into the deep learning reconstruction model; and the deep learning reconstruction model outputs a result of the magnetic resonance reconstruction image. The invention further provides a device for implementing the method. The invention may improve the quality of the magnetic resonance image, improve the diagnosis accuracy of a doctor, increase the imaging speed, and improve the utilization rate of a magnetic resonance machine.
US12175561B2	Medical information processing apparatus A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquires one or more first images that are images of parts obtained by classifying a subject appearing in a medical image into each part, generates, from the acquired one or more first images, a second image that is an image of the subject spatially continuous according to an anatomical criterion, and synthesizes the generated second image with a background to generate a third image.
US12175560B2	Touring circuitry for an immersive tour through a touring theater Touring circuitry for managing an immersion tour as a vehicle traverses a path through a touring theatre receives location information and provides control signals to an augmented-reality system based on a location of the vehicle in the touring theater. The control signals cause the augmented-reality system to stimulate at least two sensory inputs of a passenger.
US12175559B2	Data processing method and data processing system A data processing method includes the following steps. An input image is received, the input image has a plurality of pixels, and each of the pixels has a pixel position. An valid region is defined in the input image, a plurality of valid pixels among the pixels are located in the valid region, and each valid pixel has a valid data. The valid data is written to the target address of the memory correspondingly according to a starting write address of the memory and a valid width of the input image, or according to the starting write address, the starting offset of the input image and the accumulation address of the memory.
US12175553B2	Autonomous system terminus assistance techniques Various systems and methods for providing assistance at the end of an autonomous system journey are provided. A system can include an autonomous system configured to transport the user, a first sensor coupled to the autonomous system and configured to provide a sensor stream of an environment between the autonomous system and a terminus, and a terminus assistance processor mechanically coupled to the autonomous system. In an example, the terminus assistance processor can receive and process the sensor stream, detect and can track the user in the environment in response to the sensor stream, and can provide status information to a first mobile device based on the sensor stream.
US12175551B2	Systems and methods for inducing behavior change Generally, described herein are computer-implemented systems and methods for self-guided education in various aspects of health care. The described systems and methods effect behavior change through a functional relationship between the content of educational case packages comprising a plurality of displays, each of which has one or more completion conditions which must be completed by the user in accordance with a health care procedure to be practiced. The performance of the case by the user habituates behavior change through practice of a health care procedure.
US12175550B2	Enhanced teaching method and security protocol in testing students A secure education system including a secure education application, an education content database and a student profile database having a plurality of student profiles that include identification data that identifies a person associated with the student profile and evaluation data that valuates an academic proficiency of the person. The application both providing and dynamically adjusting the educational content based on an associated student profile of a user as well as securely determining the identity of the user in order to validate interactions of the user with the educational content. The verified identity and academic proficiency of a person can be compiled into an academic profile and submitted to academic institutions to support the user as a candidate for admissions.
US12175545B2	Gifting application The disclosure features a method which includes receiving, through one or more graphical user interface(s) (GUI(s)), input including one or more gift contact information chosen from information including name, email address, mailing address, age, gender, and personality of the gift contact, and one or more categories and subcategories of interests of the gift contact, determining, through one or more processor(s), one or more gift suggestion(s) for the gift contact based on the received gift contact information and/or categories and subcategories, and outputting the one or more gift suggestion(s). Also featured are one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media having instructions for performing the method, and a computer or computer system capable of performing the method.
US12175544B2	Online information validation A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product provide visual verification of electronic data. A computer system accesses an electronic document. The computer system parses the electronic document to identify an assertion about a person. The computer system identifies an organization that maintains records capable of sustaining the assertion. The computer system sends a request to the organization to search for information about the person that substantiates the assertion. In response to receiving a reply that substantiates the assertion, the computer system generates a verification badge in the context of the organization. The computer system transforms the electronic document to display a verified document that associates the verification badge with the assertion. The computer system displays the verified document, including the verification badge in association with the assertion.
US12175543B2	Systems and methods for receiving, sending and managing electronic approvals and receipts A system of managing electronic receipts is described herein. The system includes a point-of-sale system, a unique identifier detection mechanism, and a server. The point-of-sale system is configured to register a plurality of goods and/or services, comprising a transaction receipt. The unique identifier detection mechanism detects a first unique identifier and a second unique identifier. The server is in communication with the point-of-sale system and includes a processor configured to register the payment of the transaction receipt as a function of the first unique identifier and a memory device is configured to store a database with a plurality of receipt-data storage locations. In response to the approval the payment, the point-of-sale system forwards the second unique identifier and the transaction receipt to the server and stores the transaction receipt within the receipt-data storage location associated with the second unique identifier.
US12175541B2	Reward system related to a vehicle-to-vehicle communication system System, apparatus, and methods are disclosed for determining, through vehicle-to-vehicle communication, a drafting characteristic of a drafting relationship using vehicle operational data, where the drafting characteristic may include one or more of a vehicle spacing between a first vehicle and a second vehicle, vehicle speed, and vehicle type. Vehicle driving data and other information may be used to calculate an autonomous droning reward amount. In addition, vehicle involved in a drafting relationship in addition to, or apart from, an autonomous droning relationship may be financially rewarded. Moreover, aspects of the disclosure related to determining ruminative rewards and/or aspects of vehicle insurance procurement/underwriting.
US12175538B2	Early notification of non-autonomous area The disclosure provides an early notification system to alert a driver of an approaching unsafe autonomous or semi-autonomous driving zone so that a driver may switch vehicle to a non-autonomous driving mode and navigate safely through the identified location. In response, to a determination of an upcoming unsafe autonomous or semi-autonomous driving zone, the driver or system may take appropriate actions in response to the early notification.
US12175535B2	Plant provenance and data products from computer object recognition driven tracking This disclosure sets forth systems and techniques that trace plant provenance and determine a likelihood of plant spoilage within a plant growth operation. Particularly, a plant health monitoring system may monitor and record plant growth data of one or more individual plants during a plant life cycle from germination through to harvest. The plant growth data may include data relating to environmental conditions that surround the individual plants, and plant-specific data drawn from time-lapse images captured during the plant life cycle. A plant grower may use the time-lapse image data to identify changes in plant structure that indicate the degree of health of an individual plant, or the encompassing batch of plants. Further, a plant grower may use the plant growth data to generate one or more financial instruments that may be distributed to one or more financial institutions as support for securing capital to fund the plant growth operation.
US12175530B2	Systems and methods for geo mapping Geographical mapping and linking of security and risk indicator data. Cross-references are created between location indicators and geo-spatial areas based on a statistical algorithm, in accordance with geo-spatial data. The cross-references are stored in a first data table. A credit risk indicator (CRI) is generated for each geo-spatial area based on other data, forming CRI data that is stored in second data table. A security associated with one of the location indicators is identified among security data. A first link is created between the security and a geo-spatial area based on the cross-references in the first data table. Based on the first link, a second link is created between an indicator among the CRI data in the second data table and the security. The second link is used to form instrument-level data for the security that includes the indicator. The instrument-level data is stored in a third data table.
US12175525B2	Method, computer program product, and system for accounting for variable dimensions of content items when positioning content items in a user interface having slots for displaying content items An online concierge system includes sponsored content items in an interface including different slots for displaying content items. A sponsored content item may be displayed in a single slot or in multiple adjacent slots. The online concierge system determines a content score for various sponsored content items indicating a likelihood of a user interacting with a sponsored content item and a position bias for slots in the interface indicating a likelihood of the user interacting with a slot independent of content in the slot. Position biases are different dependent on a number of slots in which a content item is displayed. The online concierge system generates a graph identifying potential placements of sponsored content items in slots by selecting content items in an order according to their content scores. Sponsored content items are positioned in slots according to a path through the graph that has the highest overall expected value.
US12175524B2	Onboarding platform for performing dynamic mitigation analysis Aspects of the disclosure relate to computing platforms that utilize improved mitigation analysis and policy management techniques to improve onboarding security. A computing platform may determine that a predetermined period of time has elapsed since finalizing an onboarding process. The computing platform may receive spot check verification inputs indicative of a user identity and may direct a mitigation analysis and output generation platform to analyze the spot check verification inputs. The computing platform may receive an indication of a correlation between the spot check verification inputs and expected spot check verification inputs. In response to determining that the correlation exceeds a predetermined threshold, the computing platform may determine that an additional verification test should be conducted, and may direct the mobile device to display an interface that prompts for additional onboarding verification inputs.
US12175523B2	System and method for content integrated product purchasing In a system and method for providing augmented content, embodiments disclose a communication module that receives a product identifier for a product and content including an object. The embodiments also disclose an overlay creation module that creates a user interface with a first actuatable element, the first actuatable element being configured to send product purchase instructions to a merchant server when actuated. The embodiments also disclose a product matching module that matches the object to the product identifier and an augmentation module that, in response to the product matching module matching the object to the product identifier, creates an augmented content which includes the content and a second actuatable element, the second actuatable element being configured to display the user interface as an overlay over the content on a user device when actuated. The embodiments also disclose a displaying module that instructs a user device to display the augmented content.
US12175522B1	Dynamic bucketization based on real-time access patterns Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for dynamic bucketization based on real-time access patterns are disclosed. Item identifiers corresponding to items in a data store are distributed among of buckets based at least in part on one or more bucket parameters. The item identifiers are divided into access windows within the buckets. Items corresponding to item identifiers in one or more access windows are loaded from the data store. Based at least in part on one or more access requests from a client with respect to the loaded items, one or more item identifiers are moved between access windows. The updated access windows with different sets of items are stored back to the data store.
US12175521B2	Automatic selection of dynamic data entries for multiple dynamic databases An online system may receive, from a user device, a request to view, at a graphical user interface, available entries of a third-party system. The third-party system may operate multiple physical locations. The operation of each physical location is documented by a time-sensitive dataset which includes multiple dynamic item entries. The online system may retrieve a geographical location associated with the user device and determine a subset of physical locations operated by the third-party system that are eligible for further selection based on distances of the physical locations from the geographical location associated with the user device. The online system may determine a metric measuring a size of the dynamic item entries available in the time-sensitive dataset and select one of the physical locations based on the metric. The online system may cause for display the dynamic item entries in the time-sensitive dataset associated with the selected physical location.
US12175519B2	Method, electronic device, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for providing information on item A method of providing information on or regarding a product in an electronic device according to various example embodiments of the present disclosure may include identifying detailed information on a first product in response to a request on a first page for the first product, identifying, when the first product is included in a specific category, at least one second product corresponding to the specific category, identifying at least one attribute list corresponding to the specific category, and, providing the first page, wherein the first page includes detailed information on the first product displayed in a first portion, first attribute information of the first product corresponding to the attribute list and displayed in a second portion, and second attribute information of the at least one second product corresponding to the attribute list and displayed in a third portion corresponding to the second portion.
US12175508B2	Method and apparatus for managing fabric supplier terminals and fabric buyer terminals using a plurality of neural network Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for managing fabric supplier terminals and fabric buyer terminals using a plurality of neural networks. According to an embodiment, the server may manage the fabric supplier terminals and fabric buyer terminals by using a plurality of neural networks. For example, the server may determine a plurality of supplier groups matched with a fabric buyer terminal through a matching model using a plurality of neural networks based on estimate information, information about fabric suppliers, and information about fabrics. For example, the server may group and match fabric suppliers capable of supplying corresponding fabrics in consideration of a country or region.
US12175505B2	Methods and apparatus for anomaly detections This application relates to apparatus and methods for identifying anomalies within data, such as pricing data. In some examples, a computing device receives data updates and selects a machine learning model to apply to the data update. The computing device may train the machine learning model with features generated based on historical purchase order data. An anomaly score is generated based on application of the machine learning model. Based on the anomaly score, the data update is either allowed, or denied. In some examples, the computing device re-trains the machine learning model with detected anomalies. In some embodiments, the computing device prioritizes detected anomalies for further investigation. In some embodiments, the computing device identifies the cause of the anomalies by identifying at least one feature that is causing the anomaly.
US12175504B2	Unsupervised embeddings disentanglement using a gan for merchant recommendations Embodiments for training a recommendation system to provide merchant recommendations comprise receiving, by a processor, raw merchant embeddings and raw user embeddings generated from payment transaction records, wherein the raw merchant embeddings include a plurality of embedded features. A generative adversarial network (GAN) is trained to generate modified merchant embeddings from the raw merchant embeddings, where the modified embeddings remove a location feature. Subsequent to training and responsive to receiving a request for merchant recommendations in the target location for the target user, the GAN and a trained preference model are used to generate a list of merchant rankings based on a new set of modified merchant embeddings, past preferences of a target user, and the target location to recommend merchants in the target location.
US12175502B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing system, terminal device, terminal-device control method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes a use-condition acquiring unit, an image acquiring unit, a reservation-information acquiring unit, and a selecting unit. The use-condition acquiring unit acquires a use condition of the store. The image acquiring unit acquires an image obtained by capturing an inside of the store. The reservation-information acquiring unit acquires reservation information of the store. The selecting unit selects a store estimated to be usable on a date and time indicated in the use condition based on the acquired image of the store and the reservation information of the store.
US12175501B2	AI to AI communication A method includes collecting, by a first AI application of a first AI computer, data to include in a dataset. The first AI application of the first AI computer can include an offer for the dataset into an offering platform. The first AI application of the first AI computer can then receive a response to the offer from a second AI application of a second AI computer. The first AI application of the first AI computer can determine whether or not to provide the dataset to the second AI application of the second AI computer. The first AI application of the first AI computer can, based on the determination, provide the dataset to the second AI application of the second AI computer.
US12175499B2	Dynamic promotional layout management and distribution rules Systems, methods and computer readable products are provided for enabling dynamic loading of one or more digital image branding functions associated with one or more distribution rules. A distribution rule is used to target a group of end users that are selected from a dataset mapping a plurality of end-users according to one or more distribution rules. Instructions are forwarded to present an indication the digital image branding function to each member of the end users group.
US12175495B2	User-managed content and advertising delivery based on similarity cohorts A computer-based content delivery method includes receiving from a first user a request for content; based on said request, delivering particular content to said first user, wherein said particular content was selected based on information associated with a second user distinct from said first user. The first second users are members of a similarity group, and the second user is a leader of said group and said first user is a follower in said group.
US12175492B2	Systems and methods to recommend benefit types of benefit items to offer within a membership platform Systems and methods are provided for recommending benefit types of benefit items to offer within a membership platform. Exemplary implementations may: obtain benefit information for content creators of a membership platform; obtain creator profile information for content creators of a membership platform, the creator profile information including individual creator types of individual content creators; obtain benefit information for the content creators, the benefit information including descriptions of benefit items offered by the content creators to subscribers of the membership platform in exchange for consideration, the benefit items being characterized by benefit types; generate, based on the creator profile information and the benefit information, recommendations for the benefit types of the benefit items the content creators of a given creator type should offer; effectuate presentation of the recommendations on a user interface displayed on computing platforms of the content creators; and/or perform other operations.
US12175487B2	Adjusting demand for order fulfillment during various time intervals for order fulfillment by an online concierge system An online concierge system allows users to order items within discrete time intervals later than a time when an order was received or for short-term fulfillment when the order was received. To account for a number of shoppers available to fulfill orders during different discrete time intervals and numbers of orders for fulfillment during different discrete time intervals, the online concierge system specifies a target rate for orders fulfilled later than a specified discrete time interval and a threshold from the target rate. A trained machine learning model periodically predicts a percentage of orders being fulfilled late, with an order associated with a predicted percentage when the order was received. The online concierge system increases a price of orders associated with predicted percentages greater than the threshold from the target rate. The increased price of an order is determined from a price elasticity curve and the predicted percentage.
US12175485B1	Interactive map interface incorporating customizable geospatial data A data distribution system configured to receive market data from one or more market data sources, associated location data from one or more location data sources, and polygons from one or more polygon sources. The system may normalize the location data and the polygons such that a format of the normalized location data matches a format of the normalized polygons. Upon receiving, via an interactive graphical user interface (GUI), user input comprising a data request, the interactive GUI may determine that the data request comprises at least a portion of the normalized location data. The interactive GUI may augment the normalized location data with one or more normalized polygons, generate an augmented presentation package comprising the one or more normalized polygons, and display the augmented presentation package, such that the one or more normalized polygons are presented on an interactive map interface.
US12175484B2	Methods for personalized marketing and advertising Methods for personalized marketing and advertising to a person at a location, such as a retail store. Generally, the methods are for monitoring and analyzing consumer and their purchasing behavior in real-time to drive sales by creating personalized marketing and advertising directed to the consumer.
US12175483B2	Discovery of new business openings using web content analysis In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for identifying a new business based on programmatically analyzing content received from online sources and, as a result, discovering one or more references to the business. In embodiments, the system stores historical data representing previously identified new businesses and then uses attributes of those businesses in search queries to receive related content. Additionally or alternatively, the system stores data representing online sources that historically provided content containing references to new businesses and then continues to access those sources for additional content. In embodiments, the system performs content analysis on structured and/or unstructured content. In some embodiments, analysis of content received from a particular online source includes a source-specific algorithm that takes a source-specific representation of the content as input and produces a result indicating the likelihood that the content includes a new business reference.
US12175478B2	Internet data usage control system A method for seamlessly and automatically granting tailored permission for use and transference of Internet data between databases with comprehensive consent is described. The method employs a graph language such as JSON-LD to integrate and employ cryptographically signed Information Sharing Agreements (ISA) between parties. Data is serialized to be easily transferred between databases when appropriate permission is obtained. Granular data exchange under usage control contacts can be automated among any number of parties on the Internet. As such, the method provides a means by which users may control not only what may be done with their data, but to what entity or entities the data may be transferred. Advertisements may then be served to the user according to his or her preferences as defined within a web or desktop app, which is then applied to all related ad publishers publishing to the domains visited by the user.
US12175477B1	Systems and methods for titles and title insurance for non-fungible tokens A non-fungible token (NFT) representing title to property may be received. A search of the title to the property may be conducted. A title confidence may be determined based on the search of the title to the property. A premium may be determined based on the title confidence. The premium may be redetermined based on changes to the title confidence.
US12175470B2	Relying party risk-adjusted indicator system and method Provided is a method including receiving, by a user device, a request from an identity service to approve communicating a user proof-of-identity to a relying party. A user of the user device is prompted to request a one-time transaction identifier based on the request. Based on a first input from the user, the user device requests the one one-time transaction identifier from the identity service. In response to the request for the one-time transaction identifier, the user device receives the one-time transaction identifier from the identity server and displays the one-time transaction identifier on a first user device screen. The user inputs the one-time transaction identifier on a second user device screen and the user device communicates the one-time transaction identifier to the identity service. In response to receiving the at least one inputted one-time transaction identifier, the relying party determines whether to approve or deny a transaction.
US12175465B2	Customer information registration apparatus A customer information registration apparatus includes: a matching unit configured to match face data of a customer based on image data acquired by a camera in a shop against face data stored in a storage unit; a storing unit configured to store face data which is not stored in the storage unit into the storage unit in a case where the matching by the matching unit fails; a behavior information acquisition unit configured to acquire behavior information according to a behavior in the shop of the customer; a condition determination unit configured to determine whether or not to delete the face data stored in the storage unit based on the behavior information acquired by the behavior information acquisition unit; and a deletion unit configured to delete the face data stored in the storage unit based on a result of the determination by the condition determination unit are provided.
US12175464B2	Blockchain agnostic token network A blockchain agnostic token network is described. In an example, a request to purchase a non-fungible token (NFT) minted on a blockchain from a seller is received. Based at least in part on context data associated with at least one of the user, the seller, or a digital asset associated with the NFT, a plurality of available blockchains is determined for holding the NFT. Information associated with the plurality of blockchains is surfaced and one of the plurality of blockchains is determined for holding the NFT. Based at least in part on the determined blockchain, the NFT is transferred to the determined blockchain and associated with a user account for subsequent viewing.
US12175462B2	Resolution of conflicting data An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a resolver node, asset data to be recorded on a blockchain, executing, by the resolver node, a smart contract to apply an asset data validation format to the asset data, rejecting, by the resolver node, non-conforming asset data from being stored on the blockchain based on the execution of the smart contract, and accepting the asset data validated by the smart contract.
US12175458B2	Method and system for recording point to point transaction processing A method for providing a multi-service platform to entities includes the storage of profiles for a plurality of entities involved in services with other entities, including point to point and business to business transactions, including entities not registered, that can be claimed by each entity, where each entity can provide for roles and hierarchies of authorized users of the platform for that entity, and where the platform is configured to provide, among other services, registration of procurement status for purchase orders in a digital ledger that provides for auditability and immutability.
US12175456B2	Carbon coin trading system and method thereof Disclosed are a carbon coin trading system and a method thereof. The system includes at least one authentication device connected to a piece of equipment, at least one physical carbon coin, and a trading management host device. The authentication device includes a detection module that detects energy consumption data of the equipment, so that a carbon computation module of the physical carbon coin calculates, according to the energy consumption data, a first carbon emission that is uploaded to the trading management host device. The trading management host device acquires, by means of a declaration calculation module, a declaration of alternatives, so that the declaration calculation module calculates, according to the declaration of alternatives, a second carbon emission and further determined, through calculation, a valuable digital token to be granted and also, a carbon coin trading event is generated and recorded.
US12175455B2	Method and system for enabling merchants to share tokens One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a system and associated processes for sharing cardholder data (CHD) between a merchant that utilizes tokenization and a second merchant that may or may not utilize tokenization. In one embodiment, the merchant, or an employee of the merchant, can use the system and associated processes to reacquire CHD from a tokenization provider system. In one embodiment, the merchant identifies to the tokenization provider system a desire to share CHD, which is associated with a token, with a second merchant. The merchant and/or the tokenization provider system can then invite the second merchant to register with the tokenization provider system. Once registered with the tokenization provider system, the second merchant can access any CHD that the merchant associated with the second merchant.
US12175454B1	Protecting tokenized structures using a protection architecture Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media to protect non-fungible tokens (NFTs) using a protection architecture. One method includes receiving an NFT, authenticating the NFT including authenticating or verifying the NFT using a key and authenticating the link of the NFT, and protecting the NFT including generating a public-private key pair, encapsulating the NFT within a control structure, updating an NFT account in an overlay ledger, generating and storing a cold storage object in a cold storage ledger, and broadcasting the NFT to a blockchain storage.
US12175449B2	Method for initiating performing a payment transaction and a system for implementing thereof The invention relates to the field of technical infrastructures that provide for performing financial transactions between economic entities, in particular to payment systems that provide for, on the one hand, convenience and simplicity of a payment process, and on the other hand its security.The claimed invention is a method for initiating performing a payment transaction and a system for implementing thereof, implementation of which ensures the achievement of a technical result, which consists in simplifying the process of installation, adjustment, debugging and maintenance of the system, reducing the likelihood of the occurrence of errors, failures and faults in its operation, allowing to accurately determine which of the users' mobile devices is closer to the payment terminal device than the rest in the conditions when the users queue up, as well as optimizing the set of software and hardware used for the task of initiating performing a payment transaction without having to pick up the mobile device.
US12175444B2	Wireless data communication interface In some embodiments, the rendering a financial transaction record in a second format includes converting a tokenized first item of financial transaction information to an account-specific item of financial transaction information using an account identifier associated with the tokenized first item in a registry stored in a secured account data vault. In some embodiments, the system includes a transaction execution module for transmitting in the second format the first item of financial transaction information for payment processing by the first external financial party, wherein the second format includes the financial transaction information using the account identifier associated with the tokenized first item in a registry stored in a secured account data vault, and transmitting in the third format the second item of financial transaction information for payment processing by the second external financial party.
US12175441B2	Method of executing conventional purchase transactions using cryptocurrency A method of using cryptocurrency to transact fiat currency purchases using conventional POS apparatus includes funding by a user of a cryptocurrency account that requires withdrawal transactions to be signed by both the user and a payment platform. Upon purchase initiation, a platform-issued authorization number is entered into a merchant's POS apparatus and transmitted to the platform. Upon verification of sufficient cryptocurrency, the platform transmits payment information to the user, and upon approval thereof by the user, the user transmits a user-signed cryptocurrency transaction to the platform, and the platform remits fiat currency to the merchant. As purchases continue during an aggregation period, each user-signed transaction is sufficient to fund the aggregated purchases. Upon termination of the aggregation period, the most recent user-signed transaction is executed to withdraw cryptocurrency from the user's account. The user can display the authorization number on a mobile device for scanning by the POS apparatus.
US12175439B1	Image processing An image of a check may be presented for payment in a banking system in place of the physical paper check. The check to be deposited can be collected from a depositor using a scanner. A web site, accessed through a depositor's web browser, can be used to drive the process of collecting the check, but in some contexts (e.g., in less popular computing environments, such as those that do not run the most popular operating systems), it is economically infeasible to obtain the certificates that would be used to allow a program executing in the web browser to control the scanner. Thus, a depositor can be instructed to capture and upload images of the check in the form of files, where the image files are then presented for payment through a banking system.
US12175436B1	Blockchain based transaction management Techniques are described for managing a transaction, such as a purchase of a vehicle or other product, using one or more blockchains. The completion of a transaction may be facilitated by providing an information portal, such as one or more application user interfaces, to enable the buyer, seller, or other parties to readily access blockchain-stored information that is relevant to the transaction. In some examples, where the product to be purchased is a vehicle (e.g., car, truck, motorcycle, boat, etc.), the blockchain-stored information may include information regarding the loan, title, insurance, driver's license or other identification verification, vehicle ownership history, inspection history, repair history, lien information, and so forth. The portal also enables a point of contact to be maintained between the buyer and a lender during the process of purchasing the product.
US12175428B1	System and method for agentless application inventory detection A system and method for agentless generation of a software bill of materials (SBOM) in a cloud computing environment is disclosed. The method includes: accessing a plurality of workloads in a cloud computing environment; detecting in each workload of the plurality of workloads a software component; generating for each workload an SBOM based on the detected software component; and storing each SBOM in a database.
US12175423B2	Redistributing product inventory Techniques for generating recommendations for redistributing product inventories are disclosed. A product redistribution system applies hierarchal prioritization of product locations to generate a plan for redistributing products among the product locations. A system identified product repositories organized into clusters. A product redistribution plan first redistributes products among repositories within a cluster. Then the system redistributes products between different clusters. A system predicts whether repositories have excess products or product shortages by applying product excess windows and product shortage windows to inventory data. The system predicts supply and demand of a product over a period of time including the product supply window and the product shortage window. The system generates the product redistribution plan based on the predicted product excess predictions and product shortage predictions.
US12175419B2	Computerized systems and methods for product categorization using artificial intelligence Systems and methods are provided for categorizing products using AI. One method comprises retrieving initial training data including products associated with one or more categories; pre-processing the initial training data to generate synthesized training data; generating a hierarchical model using the synthesized training data, the hierarchical model containing at least two layers of nodes below a root node; receiving information associated with a first uncategorized product; and receiving a request to predict a set of N categories with the highest N total probability scores. The method may further comprise predicting, using the hierarchical model, N categories of the first uncategorized product, by calculating total probability scores, and determining the N categories with the highest N total probability scores; sorting the first uncategorized product into the N categories associated with the nodes from the first and second layers having the highest total probability scores; and displaying the sorted first uncategorized product and its associated N categories on a user device associated with a user.
US12175411B2	Systems, methods, and computer program products for processing a package for shipping with a common carrier on a wireless computing device Various embodiments of present invention provide systems, methods, and computer-program products containing executable code for processing a package for shipping with a common carrier. Various embodiments include a wireless computing device that may be one of several types of devices such as smartphones, mobile telephones, mobile computers, portable digital assistants, laptop computers, gaming devices, electronic tablets, or other types of similar devices that may be used to facilitate the shipping and expedited tracking of objects having a tracking number via multimedia capture and processing.
US12175409B2	Intelligent reusable packaging amelioration for cognitive shipments An embodiment for ameliorating reusable packaging for cognitive commerce shipments is provided. The embodiment may include receiving information relating to a product to be shipped in a reusable package and historical sensor data obtained from a knowledge corpus. The embodiment may also include predicting a size of the reusable package in which to ship the product. The embodiment may further include identifying a required level of inflation of an array of balloons in the reusable package. The embodiment may also include inflating a plurality of balloons in the array of balloons consistent with the required level of inflation. The embodiment may further include in response to determining the product does not require additional protection, deflating each inflated balloon in the array of balloons upon delivery of the product to the final destination.
US12175404B2	System and methods to derive knowledge base article relevancy score Coaching systems and methods, and non-transitory computer readable media, include analyzing an agent's interactions to identify knowledge gaps and specific topics where an agent has difficulties. An algorithm uses bootstrap sampling to verify that an agent's scores are significantly different from other agents' scores. The algorithm further uses a mutual information score to find topics that are associated with interactions having a high knowledge gap score.
US12175403B2	Defining a graphical visualization along a time-based graph lane using key performance indicators derived from machine data A service monitoring system receives receiving, via a user interface, an identification of a service of an information technology environment, and causes display of a plurality of key performance indicators (KPIs) in the user interface. Each KPI of the plurality of KPIs indicates a measure of performance for the service. The service monitoring system receives, via the user interface, an identification of a time period, and an identification of one or more visual characteristics for KPI graph lanes. Each of the KPI graph lanes is indicative of one or more KPI values of a respective KPI of the plurality of KPIs, the one or more KPI values are obtained from execution of a search query associated with the respective KPI, and the search query uses the time period to obtain the one or more KPI values. The service monitoring system causes display of a plurality of KPI graph lanes based on the one or more visual characteristics. Each graph lane provides a graphical visualization of the one or more KPI values of the respective KPI, and the display of the plurality of KPI graph lanes allows for visual correlation among the plurality of KPIs over the time period.
US12175401B2	Segmenting processes into stand-alone services In various examples disclosed herein, provided is a method for segmenting processes into stand-alone services. The method can include receiving a file that includes information relating to a plurality of components. The method can also include determining a first resource cost associated with deploying each component in a respective service and a second resource cost associated with deploying each component in a single service. The method can also include determining a segmentation plan that segments the plurality of components into groups of one or more components that can be executed by respective services, where a third resource cost associated with the segmentation plan is lower than the first resource cost and the second resource cost. The method can also include generating instructions to deploy the respective services on the one or more computing devices.
US12175397B2	Method and apparatus for using pedestrian probe data for ridesharing services An approach is provided for using pedestrian probe data for ridesharing. The approach involves, for example, receiving pedestrian probe data from a search zone associated with a designated location. The pedestrian probe data is collected, for instance, from one or more location sensors of at least one device associated with at least one pedestrian. The approach also involves processing the pedestrian probe data to determine one or more pedestrian paths terminating at the designated location. The approach further involves identifying at least one common origin, at least one common destination, or a combination thereof of the one or more pedestrian paths and providing the least one common origin, the at least one common destination, or a combination thereof as an output.
US12175396B2	Systems and methods for facilitating aerial vehicle services Systems and methods for facilitating aerial vehicle services are provided. A service entity system can obtain multi-modal transportation services data indicative of a plurality of anticipated aerial transportation service. The service entity system can obtain vehicle attributes associated vehicle(s) of an aerial vehicle provider and determine an expected performance of the vehicle(s) based on the vehicle attributes and the anticipated aerial transportation services. The service entity system can generate an aerial vehicle service request that requests access to the vehicle(s) for providing aerial transportation services for the service entity based on the expected performance of the vehicle(s). A vehicle provider system can obtain a number of different aerial vehicle service requests from a number of different service entities. The vehicle provider system can select portions of the different aerial vehicle service requests to accept and provide access to vehicle(s) of the vehicle provider based on the selected portions.
US12175395B2	Systems and methods for enhancing and facilitating access to specialized data A novel approach to facilitating access to valuable actionable content from a multi-tenant database involves system generated ranking of connection content with associated data retrieval methods and systems, utilizing “connector” scores to rank responsive content. The system “learns” how to optimize retrieving and ranking high value actionable content with experience; and applies optimized scoring parameters to enhance future operations. The computer platform is greatly improved by delivering actionable content that is immediately translated into critical operations and tasks recommended by the system to support transactions for the User.
US12175394B2	Systems and methods for computerized interactive skill training The present invention is directed to interactive training, and in particular, to methods and systems for computerized interactive skill training. An example embodiment provides a method and system for providing skill training using a computerized system. The computerized system receives a selection of a first training subject. Several related training components can be invoked, such as reading, watching, performing, and/or reviewing components. In addition, a scored challenge session is provided, wherein a training challenge is provided to a user via a terminal, optionally in video form.
US12175392B2	Methods, systems, and vehicles for determining a wait time at a point of interest A method of determining a wait time at a point of interest includes obtaining a current occupancy signal of a parking establishment associated with one or more points of interest, obtaining a historic occupancy signal of the parking establishment, determining, with one or more processors, a predicted wait time for the one or more points of interest associated with the parking establishment based on the current occupancy signal and the historic occupancy signal, and communicating the predicted wait time to a user with a user interface device.
US12175385B2	Adapting a virtual reality experience for a user based on a mood improvement score A virtual reality application adaptively generates a virtual reality experience intended to improve a user's mood. A plurality of digital assets is stored together with associated scores. A score for a digital asset represents a predicted amount of mood improvement occurring in a cohort of users having similar profiles to a target user in response to virtual reality experiences including the digital asset. A customized virtual reality experience is generated for the target user based at least in part of the user profile data on the scores. The user's change in mood is detected through survey and/or biometric data. Scores for the digital assets may then be updated in order to further learn their respective effects on the cohort of users.
US12175384B2	Neural-symbolic action transformers for video question answering Mechanisms are provided for performing artificial intelligence-based video question answering. A video parser parses an input video data sequence to generate situation data structure(s), each situation data structure comprising data elements corresponding to entities, and first relationships between entities, identified by the video parser as present in images of the input video data sequence. First machine learning computer model(s) operate on the situation data structure(s) to predict second relationship(s) between the situation data structure(s). Second machine learning computer model(s) execute on a received input question to predict an executable program to execute to answer the received question. The program is executed on the situation data structure(s) and predicted second relationship(s). An answer to the question is output based on results of executing the program.
US12175377B2	Joint execution of decision tree nodes for accelerating inferences An approach of accelerating inferences based on decision trees based on accessing one or more decision trees, wherein each decision tree of the decision trees accessed comprises decision tree nodes, including nodes grouped into one or more supersets of nodes designed for joint execution. For each decision tree of the decision trees accessed, the nodes are executed to obtain an outcome for the one or more decision trees, respectively. For each superset of the one or more supersets of said each decision tree, the nodes of each superset are jointly executed by: loading attributes of the nodes of each superset in a respective cache line of the cache memory processing said attributes from the respective cache line until an inference result is returned based on the one or more outcomes.
US12175372B1	Integration of machine learning models with dialectical logic frameworks This disclosure relates to techniques for executing dialectical analyses using large language models and/or other types of deep learning models. A dialectic logic engine can execute various programmatic processes or functions associated with applying dialectic analyses to input strings. The programmatic processes executed by the dialectic logic engine can initiate communication exchanges with one or more generative language models to derive parameters for performing dialectic analyses and/or to derive outputs based on the parameters. The dialectic logic engine also can execute functions for enforcing constraint conditions and/or eliminating bias from responses generated by the one or more generative language models to improve the accuracy, precision, and quality of the parameters and/or outputs derived from the parameters. In some embodiments, a dialectic training system can be configured to execute a training procedure that trains or fine-tunes a language model to extend the capabilities of the language model to dialectic domains.
US12175370B2	Artificial neural network According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising memory configured to store convolutional artificial neural network information comprising at least one filter definition, and at least one processing core configured to generate, from a preceding layer, a convolutional result of a succeeding layer of the artificial neural network in accordance with the at least one filter definition, and generate, from the convolutional result, an activation result of the succeeding layer by using an activation function, the activation function taking three arguments, the three arguments being derived from the convolutional result.
US12175369B2	Electronic device for key frame analysis and control method thereof An electronic device and a method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes: a memory and a processor configured to: acquire feature data of a plurality of images in a video using a first artificial neural network of a first artificial intelligence model; acquire a plurality of key frames of the video based on the feature data of the plurality of images using a second artificial neural network of the first artificial intelligence model; acquire first feature data of remaining key frames excluding at least one of the plurality of key frames using a first artificial neural network of a second artificial intelligence model; acquire second feature data including information about relationships between the remaining key frames based on the first feature data using a second artificial neural network of the second artificial intelligence model; and acquire texts for the plurality of key frames based on the second feature data.
US12175363B2	Regression neural network for identifying threshold voltages to be used in reads of flash memory devices A method and apparatus for reading a flash memory device are disclosed. A Regression Neural Network (RNN) inference model is stored on a flash controller. The RNN inference model is configured for identifying at least one Threshold-Voltage-Shift Read-Error (TVS-RE) curve that identifies a number of errors as a function of Threshold Voltage Shift Offset (TVSO) values. The operation of a flash memory device is monitored to identify usage characteristic values. A neural network operation of the RNN inference model is performed to generate a TVS-RE curve corresponding to the usage characteristic values. The input for the neural network operation includes the usage characteristic values. A TVSO value is identified corresponding to a minimum value of the TVS-RE curve. A read of the flash memory device is performed using a threshold-voltage-shift read at the TVSO value.
US12175362B2	Electronic apparatus and method of controlling thereof An electronic apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a communicator, a memory configured to store a neural network model, an activation function generating module that generates activation function information used in the neural network model, first activation function information, second activation function information, and third activation function information generated based on the first activation function information and the second activation function information, and a processor configured to receive fourth activation function information from an external device through the communicator, based on type information on the fourth activation function information corresponding to the second activation function information, input the first activation function information and the fourth activation function information to the activation function generating module to generate fifth activation function information, and control the neural network model to change the activation function information used in the neural network model from the third activation function information to the fifth activation function information.
US12175361B2	Electronic device, image processing method of electronic device, and computer-readable medium The present disclosure relates to an artificial intelligence (AI) system that utilizes a machine learning algorithm, and applications therefore. Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device comprises: a storage unit which stores therein an artificial intelligence model trained to determine parameters for a plurality of filters used for image processing on the basis of a deep neural network (DNN); and a processor for determining, through the artificial intelligence mode, parameters for each of the plurality of filters used for image processing for an input image, and performing, through the plurality of filters, filtering of the input image on the basis of the determined parameters so as to perform image processing for the input image.
US12175359B2	Machine learning hardware having reduced precision parameter components for efficient parameter update An apparatus for training and inferencing a neural network includes circuitry that is configured to generate a first weight having a first format including a first number of bits based at least in part on a second weight having a second format including a second number of bits and a residual having a third format including a third number of bits. The second number of bits and the third number of bits are each less than the first number of bits. The circuitry is further configured to update the second weight based at least in part on the first weight and to update the residual based at least in part on the updated second weight and the first weight. The circuitry is further configured to update the first weight based at least in part on the updated second weight and the updated residual.
US12175358B2	Neuromorphic architecture The present disclosure relates to a routing circuit for routing signals between neuron circuits of an artificial neural network, the routing circuit comprising: a first memory cell (302) having an input coupled to a first input line (304) of the routing circuit and an output coupled to a first column line (308); a second memory cell (302) having an input coupled to a second input line (304) of the routing circuit and an output coupled to the first column line (308); and a first comparator circuit (310) configured to compare a signal (IREAD1) on the first column line (308) with a reference level, and to selectively assert a signal (VOUT1) on a first output line (312) of the routing circuit based on the comparison.
US12175356B2	Arithmetic device An arithmetic device includes a first register that stores input data as values of a plurality of input neurons, a plurality of ports, and a plurality of processing element groups that correspond to the plurality of ports, respectively, and can access the first register through the respective corresponding ports. Each processing element group includes a plurality of processing elements. Each processing element is associated with at least one of a plurality of output neurons and performs a multiply-and-accumulate computation in which a value of at least one input neuron connected to a corresponding output neuron is multiplied by a weight coefficient and results of multiplication are accumulated.
US12175355B1	System, network and method for selective activation of a computing network Embodiments of the present disclosure implement a stochastic neural network (SNN) where a subset of the nodes in the network are selectively activated based on sampling a plurality of computational paths traversing the network and based on different minimum thresholds for activation. In various embodiments, an output of the stochastic neural network is a sequence of the sampled plurality of computational paths with a corresponding sequence of output values that represent approximations of the output of the stochastic neural network. The nodes can include at least one input node, at least one output node and at least two hidden nodes, wherein the hidden nodes are positioned between the input node and the output node, and wherein sampling the plurality of computational paths involves initiating each of the plurality of computational paths from a first of the hidden nodes, wherein the first of the hidden nodes has been activated by a previous computational path.
US12175354B1	Apparatus and method for training a tunable data structure to predict internal ribosome entry site (IRES) activity An apparatus for training a tunable data structure to predict internal ribosome entry site (IRES) activity includes at least a processor and a memory containing instructions configuring the at least a processor to assemble a training set including a plurality of nucleotide sequence data examples IRES sequences and a plurality of correlated observed IRES activity, partition the training set into at least a first section and a second section, train, using the first section at least an activity data structure to generate probable IRES activity using nucleotide sequence data, and iteratively retrain the at least an activity data structure using the second section, wherein each iteration of the iterative retraining includes generating a predicted IRES activity value using the at least an activity neural network and a nucleotide sequence data example, evaluating an error function, and tuning the activity data structure.
US12175348B2	Method and apparatus for managing vehicle's resource in autonomous driving system A method for managing a vehicle's resource includes: executing at least one application requiring a resource in a first mode, the at least one application associated with autonomous driving process of the vehicle, obtaining driving route information, obtaining, from a position data generation device disposed at the vehicle, location information providing a current location of the vehicle, predicting resource utilization expected to be required in the first mode by using the driving route information and the location information, and switching from the first mode executing the at least one application to a second mode, wherein the at least one application is executed in the second mode requiring less resources than being executed in the first mode based on the predicted resource utilization exceeding a first threshold.
US12175345B2	Online machine learning system that continuously learns from data and human input An Online Machine Learning System (OMLS) includes an Online Machine Learning Engine (OMLE) for incorporating and utilizing one or more machine learning algorithms or models utilizing features to generate a result, and capable of incorporating and utilizing multiple different machine learning algorithms; wherein the OMLS is configured to perform continuous online machine learning, the continuous online machine learning comprising: continuous online machine learning from streaming data including an instance comprising a vector of inputs, the vector of inputs comprising a plurality of continuous or categorical features; and continuous online machine learning from periodically provided expert feedback.
US12175343B2	Virtual intelligence and optimization through multi-source, real-time, and context-aware real-world data A system and method for providing machine learning algorithms with multi-source, real-time, and context-aware real-world data use in artificial intelligence applications include providing a server and a plurality of elements connected to the server and to each other via a network, each connected element including one or more sensory mechanisms. The server includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores a persistent virtual world system including virtual replicas of real world entities created and edited via a replica editor and updated via multi-source sensory data captured by the sensory mechanisms. Each virtual replica includes data and instructions including multi-source sensory data. The processor is configured to perform data preparation thereby generating machine learning data sets, and to perform machine learning algorithms on the data sets, generating trained machine learning models for holistically inferring new data and optimizing a system composed of real world entities.
US12175342B2	Quantum reinforcement learning agent Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products that can facilitate applying a reinforcement learning policy to available actions are described. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a state encoder that maps, based on one or more encoding parameters, a state of an environment on to one or more qubits of a quantum device. The system can further comprise a variational component that combines a reinforcement learning policy with a sampling of the one or more qubits, resulting, based on one or more variational parameters, in a probability distribution of a plurality of available actions at the state of the environment.
US12175341B2	Apparatus and a method for higher-order growth modeling An apparatus for higher-order growth modeling is disclosed. The apparatus comprises at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. The memory instructs the processor to receive a growth constraint profile from a user, to generate a plurality of strategy data as a function of the growth constraint profile, wherein the strategy data comprises a first strategy datum and a second strategy datum, to apply the plurality of strategy data to the growth constraint profile using a growth simulation, to predict growth data as a function of the application of the plurality of strategy data to the growth constraint profile, to identify second-order data as a function of the growth data, and to display the second-order data using a display device.
US12175339B2	Computer system and method for detecting anomalies in multivariate data A data analytics platform may be configured to construct an inferential model for a multivariate observation vector using inferential modeling in combination with component analysis, which may enable the data analytics platform to evaluate only a subset of the variables in the observation vector and then output a predicted version of the multivariate observation vector that includes predicted values for the full set of variables that was originally included in the observation vector. In turn, the data analytics platform may use the predicted version of the multivariate observation vector output by the inferential model to determine whether an anomaly has occurred.
US12175338B2	Byzantine-robust federated learning A federated learning method comprises creating a log of previously provided gradients from a plurality of workers, receiving updated gradients from the plurality of workers, calculating a vulnerability weight for each layer of a global machine learning model using the updated gradients, calculating an aggregated gradient using the vulnerability weight and the updated gradients, and updating the global machine learning model using the aggregated gradient. Some embodiments may also determine whether a Byzantine attack is occurring based upon the calculated aggregated gradient. An apparatus and computer program product may be used to implement the method.
US12175336B2	System and method for utilizing perturbation in a multimodal environment A computer-implemented method for training a machine learning network. The method may include receiving an input data, selecting one or more batch samples from the input data, applying a perturbation object onto the one or more batch samples to create a perturbed sample, running the perturbed sample through the machine learning network, updating the perturbation object in response to the function in response to running the perturbed sample, and outputting the perturbation object in response to exceeding a convergence threshold.
US12175334B2	Method for processing frequency control signal of qubit and superconducting quantum chip A method for processing a frequency control signal includes providing a square wave pulse to a target qubit, and controlling, after a first time elapses from an end time of the square wave pulse, the target qubit to rotate around a Y axis by a first target distance. The first time has a value that is variable. The method includes performing, after a second time elapses from the first time, a QST measurement on the target qubit and reconstructing a density matrix of the target qubit based on the QST measurement to obtain a phase parameter value of the target qubit associated with the value of the first time. Further, the method includes varying the first time and repeating the QST measurement in response to values of the first time to obtain phase parameter values associated with the values of the first time; and adjusting the frequency control signal accordingly.
US12175333B2	Optically heralded entanglement of superconducting systems in quantum networks The typical approach to transfer quantum information between two superconducting quantum computers is to transduce the quantum information into the optical regime at the first superconducting quantum computer, transmit the quantum information in the optical regime to the second superconducting quantum computer, and then transduce the quantum information back into the microwave regime at the second superconducting quantum computer. However, direct microwave-to-optical and optical-to-microwave transduction have low fidelity due to the low microwave-optical coupling rates and added noise. These problems compound in consecutive microwave-to-optical and optical-to-microwave transduction steps. We break this rate-fidelity trade-off by heralding end-to-end entanglement with one detected photon and teleportation. In contrast to cascaded direct transduction, our technology absorbs the low optical-microwave coupling efficiency into the entanglement heralding step. Our approach unifies and simplifies entanglement generation between superconducting devices and other physical modalities in quantum networks.
US12175331B2	Deterministic generation of quantum resource states A method is provided for deterministically generating a photonic resource state for computational quantum computing. The method includes producing a sequence of emitted photonic qubits. The sequence of emitted photonic qubits is directed to an optical circulator of a passive entanglement component. The passive entanglement component includes the optical circulator, a delay line, and a Controlled-Z (CZ) gate. Each photon in the sequence of emitted photonic qubits is reflected at the end of the first delay line to generate a sequence of reflected photonic qubits after a predetermined time delay. The CZ gate entangles the sequence of emitted photonic qubits with the sequence of reflected photonic qubits. The optical circulator directs a resource state generated from the sequence of reflected photonic qubits entangled with the sequence of emitted photonic qubits to an output of the passive component. The resource state is emitted as a sequence of entangled photonic qubits.
US12175329B2	Apparatus and method for optimization An optimization apparatus finds the ground state of an Ising model that represents a target problem by running a simulation of state changes of the Ising model that occur upon reduction in a magnetic field applied to the Ising model. In doing so, the optimization apparatus adds a value corresponding to noise to some of coefficients used in the simulation. Then, the optimization apparatus performs a first process of real time propagation of reducing strength of the magnetic field as time in the simulation progresses and a second process of reducing energy of the Ising model based on an imaginary time propagation method.
US12175326B2	Display method, apparatus, electronic device, and readable storage medium A display method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided. The display method includes: in the case that a graphic code is displayed in a first display region, receiving a first input; in response to the first input, intercepting a target portion of the graphic code, the size of the target portion of the graphic code matching the size of a second display region, and the second display region being located in a side edge screen of the electronic device; and displaying the target portion of the graphic code in the second display region.
US12175325B2	Two-dimensional barcodes for greater storage capacity A method includes a first computer encoding input data into a sequence of two-dimensional barcodes, the first computer displaying an image of each of the two-dimensional barcodes on a display screen in sequential order, a second computer using an imaging device to capture each of the displayed images to obtain the sequence of two-dimensional barcodes, and the second computer decoding each of the two-dimensional barcodes to obtain the input data. Separately, a first computer may divide input data into a sequence of data segments, receiving a personal value from a second computer, and perform an iterated mathematical function that uses the personal value and the sequence of data segments to generate a sequence of parameter values. The first computer may then transmit the iterated function and the initial segment to the second computer through a first channel and transmit the parameter values to the second computer through a second channel.
US12175322B2	Method for reading machine-readable marks on racks and receptacles A method of reading machine-readable marks on a movable support and object of a sample instrument. The method includes capturing a first image of the moveable support as the moveable support moves from a first position to a second position using an image capture device; determining whether a first fiducial machine-readable mark on the moveable support is in the first image; determining, when the first fiducial machine-readable mark is in the first image, whether a first machine-readable mark on a first object coupled to the moveable support is in the first image at a predetermined position relative to the first fiducial machine-readable mark; and associating information decoded from the first machine-readable mark on the first object with a first location on the moveable support associated with the first fiducial machine-readable mark.
US12175320B2	Foreign matter detection device, card reader, foreign matter detection method and recording medium preliminary A foreign matter detection device which detects a foreign matter in an inside of a card reader. The foreign matter detection device includes a control part which performs control for causing an imaging device provided in the inside of the card reader to image a space in the inside of the card reader, and a detection part which detects the foreign matter in the space by image analysis based on a captured image obtained by the imaging device.
US12175318B2	Transaction card including expanded identification chip Provided are transaction cards including an expanded identification ship. In some approaches, a transaction card may include a body having a first main side opposite a second main side, wherein the body defines an outer perimeter including a first end perimeter opposite a second end perimeter, and a first side perimeter opposite a second side perimeter. The transaction card may further include an identification chip having a plurality of contacts, wherein a first contact of the plurality of contacts extends to at least one of the following: the first end perimeter, the second end perimeter, the first side perimeter, and the second side perimeter.
US12175314B2	Contactless system and method for reducing electromagnetic disturbances of said contactless system Provided is a contactless electronic system configured for contactless communications with a reader over an electromagnetic field and comprising a power supply, a current monitor, a processing system comprising a hardware processor configured for performing operations, a dynamic extra current loader and a clock generator, wherein the power supply includes a clamp circuit, and wherein, continuously until the end of an execution phase of said hardware processor. The current monitor is configured for determining the maximal current Imax that can be provided by the power supply to the processing system from the electromagnetic field by comparing a current into the clamp circuit to at least one predetermined threshold. Other embodiments disclosed.
US12175306B2	Serverless function materialization through strongly typed API contracts A method includes identifying a plurality of queries from an application, the plurality of queries associated with an application programming interface (API) and determining an API schema coverage map associated with the plurality of queries. The method further includes generating transformation metadata in view of the API schema coverage map and generating a serverless architecture configuration associated with the application in view of the transformation metadata.
US12175305B2	Systems and methods for deterministically linking mobile applications A mobile computer application may (1) access a financial institution mobile application to determine if there is an account that is eligible for provisioning to the mobile computer application; (2) initiate a secure session with the financial institution backend in response to a determination that there is an account eligible for provisioning to the mobile computer application; (3) request an identification of an account that is eligible for provisioning to the mobile computer application from the financial institution backend; (4) receive a pointer to an account that is eligible for provisioning to the mobile computer application from the financial institution backend; (5) display an icon for the eligible account; (6) receive a selection of the icon; (7) return the pointer to the financial institution backend; (8) receive a provisioning payload for the eligible account from the financial institution backend; and (9) initiate in-application provisioning of the eligible account.
US12175304B2	Determining when to release a lock from a first task holding the lock to grant to a second task waiting for the lock Provided are a computer program product, system, and method to determine whether a holding of a lock to the resource by a first task satisfies a condition and whether the lock is swappable. The lock is released from the first task and granted to a second task waiting in a queue for the lock in response to determining that the holding of the lock satisfies the condition and that the lock is swappable. The first task is indicated in the queue waiting for the lock in response to granting the lock to the second task.
US12175303B2	Adaptively reallocating resources of resource-constrained devices Implementations are disclosed for adaptively reallocating computing resources of resource-constrained devices between tasks performed in situ by those resource-constrained devices. In various implementations, while the resource-constrained device is transported through an agricultural area, computing resource usage of the resource-constrained device ma may be monitored. Additionally, phenotypic output generated by one or more phenotypic tasks performed onboard the resource-constrained device may be monitored. Based on the monitored computing resource usage and the monitored phenotypic output, a state may be generated and processed based on a policy model to generate a probability distribution over a plurality of candidate reallocation actions. Based on the probability distribution, candidate reallocation action(s) may be selected and performed to reallocate at least some computing resources between a first phenotypic task of the one or more phenotypic tasks and a different task while the resource-constrained device is transported through the agricultural area.
US12175300B2	Software control techniques for graphics hardware that supports logical slots and reservation of graphics hardware based on a priority threshold Disclosed embodiments relate to software control of graphics hardware that supports logical slots. In some embodiments, a GPU includes circuitry that implements a plurality of logical slots and a set of graphics processor sub-units that each implement multiple distributed hardware slots. Control circuitry may determine mappings between logical slots and distributed hardware slots for different sets of graphics work. Various mapping aspects may be software-controlled. For example, software may specify one or more of the following: priority information for a set of graphics work, to retain the mapping after completion of the work, a distribution rule, a target group of sub-units, a sub-unit mask, a scheduling policy, to reclaim hardware slots from another logical slot, etc. Software may also query status of the work.
US12175298B1	Dynamic consolidation of virtual machines A method and apparatus are disclosed of monitoring a number of virtual machines operating in an enterprise network. One example method of operation may include identifying a number of virtual machines currently operating in an enterprise network and determining performance metrics for each of the virtual machines. The method may also include identifying at least one candidate virtual machine from the virtual machines to optimize its active application load and modifying the candidate virtual machine to change its active application load.
US12175292B2	Job target aliasing in disaggregated computing systems Deployment of arrangements of physical computing components coupled over a communication fabric are presented herein. In one example, a method includes presenting, to a workload manager, a target machine capable of receiving execution jobs from the workload manager. The target machine has a network state and comprises a selection of computing components. The method also includes receiving a job issued by the workload manager that is directed to the target machine. Based on properties of the job, the method includes determining resource requirements for handling the job, forming a composed machine comprising physical computing components that support the resource requirements of the job, transferring the network state of the target machine to the composed machine and indicating the network state of the composed machine to the workload manager, and initiating execution of the job on the composed machine.
US12175290B2	Optimized memory tiering Disclosed are various embodiments for optimized memory tiering. An ideal tier size for a first memory and an ideal tier size for a second memory can be determined for a process. Then, a host computing device can be identified that can accommodate the ideal tier size for the first memory and the second memory. Subsequently, the process can be assigned to the host computing device.
US12175287B2	Processor instruction dispatch configuration A processor comprises a computational array of computational elements and an instruction dispatch circuit. The computational elements receive data operands via data lanes extending along a first dimension, and processes the operands based upon instructions received from the instruction dispatch circuit via instruction lanes extending along a second dimension. The instruction dispatch circuit receives raw instructions, and comprises an instruction dispatch unit (IDU) processor that processes a set of raw instructions to generate processed instructions for dispatch to the computational elements, where the number of processed instructions is not equal to the number of instructions of the set of raw instructions. The processed instructions are dispatched to columns of the computational array via a plurality of instruction queues, wherein an instruction vector of instructions is shifted between adjacent instruction queues in a first direction, and dispatches instructions to the computational elements in a second direction.
US12175286B2	Application priority recommendation and adjustment based on linear regression and machine learning A system includes a computing infrastructure and an application prioritization system. The computing infrastructure includes a plurality of computing devices configured to implement computing applications. The application prioritization system receives application data associated with the computing applications. A request is received for a priority of a first computing application of the computing applications compared to a second computing application of the computing applications. The application prioritization system determines, using a feedback-based machine learning model, a first priority of the first computing application and a second priority of the second computing application and an explanation of the first and second priorities. A response is provided with an indication of the larger of the first priority and second priority and the explanation.
US12175284B2	Method of creating high availability for single point network gateway using containers Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure may be used in environments where multiple different virtual sets of program instructions are executed by shared computing resources when different processes are performed in a virtual computing environment. Methods consistent with the present disclosure may be used to provide a form of redundancy that does not require two physically distinct computers. Such methods may use a set of physical hardware components and two or more sets of synchronized virtual gateway software. Architectural features of physical hardware components included in an apparatus consistent with the present disclosure may be abstracted from sets of virtual program code when one virtual software process backs up another virtual software process at the apparatus.
US12175282B2	System, method, and apparatus for selecting a CPU or an accelerator to preprocess data based on monitored information The disclosed systems and methods for intelligent heterogeneous computation directed to receiving monitoring data and a set of training data, wherein the monitoring data includes an occupancy rate of a preprocessed data queue and a utilization factor of accelerating devices, generating a resource computation job list in accordance with the monitoring data, forwarding jobs, in the resource computation job list to be executed on a central processing unit (CPU), to a CPU worker queue, forwarding control messages to the CPU worker queue, wherein the control messages are associated with jobs in the resource computation job list to be executed on the accelerating devices, and executing, by the accelerating devices, jobs in the resource computation job list to be executed on the accelerating devices.
US12175277B2	Resource manager integration in cloud computing environments In one embodiment, a system includes first host machines implementing a public-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the first host machines includes a resource manager that provides a public-cloud resource interface through which one or more public-cloud clients interact with one or more virtual machines, and second host machines implementing a private-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the second host machines includes one or more private-cloud virtual machines, wherein at least one of the first host machines further includes a private-cloud VM resource provider through which the resource manager interacts with the private-cloud virtual machines, wherein the VM resource provider translates requests to perform virtual machine operations from a public-cloud-resource interface to a private-cloud virtual machine interface, and the private-cloud virtual machines perform the requested virtual machine operations in response to receiving the translated requests from the VM resource provider.
US12175276B2	Exchanging runtime state information between datacenters with a gateway using a controller bridge In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for dynamically exchanging runtime state data between datacenters with a gateway using a controller bridge is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method comprises: receiving one or more first runtime state data from one or more logical sharding central control planes (“CCPs”) controlling one or more logical sharding hosts; receiving one or more second runtime state data from a gateway that is controlled by a CCP that also controls one or more physical sharding hosts; aggregating to aggregated runtime state data, the one or more first runtime state data received from the one or more logical sharding CCPs and the one or more second runtime state data received from the gateway; determining updated runtime state data based on the aggregated runtime state data, the one or more first runtime state data, and the one or more second runtime state data; and transmitting the updated runtime state data to at least one of the one or more logical sharding CCPs and the gateway.
US12175266B1	Virtual provisioning with implementation resource boundary awareness Virtual resources may be provisioned in a manner that is aware of, and respects, underlying implementation resource boundaries. A customer of the virtual resource provider may specify that particular virtual resources are to be implemented with implementation resources that are dedicated to the customer. Dedicating an implementation resource to a particular customer of a virtual resource provider may establish one or more information barriers between the particular customer and other customers of the virtual resource provider. Implementation resources may require transition procedures, including custom transition procedures, to enter and exit dedicated implementation resource pools. Costs corresponding to active and inactive implementation resources in a dedicated pools associated with a particular customer may be accounted for, and presented to, the customer in a variety of ways including explicit, adjusted per customer and adjusted per type of virtual resource and/or implementation resource.
US12175264B2	Presentation systems and methods Described herein is a computer implemented method. The method includes a client application generating a document request and communicating the document request to a server system. The client application receives: document data including page data in respect of a plurality of pages of the document; recorded interaction data defining one or more interactive events that occurred during a recording of a presentation associated with the document; and media data including audio and/or video data recorded during the recording of the presentation. The client application replays the presentation by using the recorded interaction data to synchronise display of the pages with playback of the media data.
US12175261B1	Configuration of end user devices A layout description file and a parameter description file are received. The layout description file specifies a configuration page for configuring settings of an application installed on an end user device, and includes parameter page elements. Each parameter page element is used for rendering a user interface (UI) element for that page element, and each parameter page element includes include a parameter identifier that references a set of one or more configuration parameters in the parameter description file. A configuration visualization is dynamically built using the layout description file and the parameter description file, and rendered on a web browser. Through the configuration visualization, at least one change to a configuration setting for the application is received. The configuration setting change is transmitted to a centralized management system for deployment of the configuration to the end user devices.
US12175258B2	Comparative sessions benchmarking tool for characterizing end user experience in differently configured enterprise computer systems A method for comparatively evaluating end user experiences (EUX's) for different configurations of an enterprise computer system includes: setting the enterprise computer system to have different first and second configurations; for each of the configurations defining a number of artificial end users and instantiating the artificial end users as each driving a corresponding workstation with a respective copy of a predefined workload for stressing the given configuration of the enterprise computer system with imposition by the instantiated artificial end users of their respective copies of the predefined workload; while the instantiated artificial end users drive their corresponding workstations with the respective copies of the predefined workload, measuring time durations for task performance attributes for each of the driving artificial end users; and comparing normalized time duration measurements of the first configuration with the normalized time duration measurements of the second configuration.
US12175255B2	Selective switching of an active partition in an electronic device An electronic device (such as an access point) that selectively changes to an alternative or different partition is described. During operation, when the electronic device is in a first power state (such as a lower power state), an integrated circuit in the electronic device may detect or receive an error state or a change instruction. In response, the integrated circuit may change an active partition in the electronic device from a first partition to a second partition. Next, the integrated circuit may transition the electronic device to a second power state (such as a higher power state). Furthermore, a processor in the electronic device (which may be the same as or different from the integrated circuit) may install and execute an operating system of the electronic device in the second partition.
US12175254B2	Mobile service applications Techniques for improved mobile application architectures and service communication protocols are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a mobile device configured for providing a mobile application including multiple service applications. The service applications may execute asynchronously and in separate containers, providing service orientated architecture (SOA)-like services with respect to other portions of the mobile application, or even external applications. The separation of a monolithic mobile application into separate service applications provide advantages in terms of application performance, development, and maintenance. For example, a subset of all service applications may be started up, and executed on demand to improve device resource utilization efficiency.
US12175253B2	Calculating device According to one embodiment, a calculating device includes a first memory, a second memory, a third memory, a first arithmetic module, a second arithmetic module, a first conductive line electrically connecting a first output terminal of the first memory and a first input terminal of the first arithmetic module, a second conductive line electrically connecting a second output terminal of the first memory and a first input terminal of the second arithmetic module, a third conductive line electrically connecting a first output terminal of the second memory and a second input terminal of the second arithmetic module, a fourth conductive line electrically connecting a first output terminal of the third memory and a third input terminal of the second arithmetic module, and a fifth conductive line electrically connecting a first output terminal of the second arithmetic module and a second input terminal of the first arithmetic module.
US12175252B2	Concurrent multi-datatype execution within a processing resource One embodiment provides for a graphics processing unit (GPU) to accelerate machine learning operations, the GPU comprising an instruction cache to store a first instruction and a second instruction, the first instruction to cause the GPU to perform a floating-point operation, including a multi-dimensional floating-point operation, and the second instruction to cause the GPU to perform an integer operation; and a general-purpose graphics compute unit having a single instruction, multiple thread architecture, the general-purpose graphics compute unit to concurrently execute the first instruction and the second instruction.
US12175249B2	System, device and/or method for processing signal streams Example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, in connection with processing signal streams. In one application, multiple compute nodes may be configured to process data items transported in signal streams from multiple sources.
US12175248B2	Re-use of speculative load instruction results from wrong path Disclosed techniques relate to re-use of speculative results from an incorrect execution path. In some embodiments, when a control transfer instruction is mispredicted, a load instruction may have been executed on the wrong path. In disclosed embodiments, result storage circuitry records information that indicates destination registers of speculatively-executed load instructions including a first load instruction. Control flow tracker circuitry may store information indicating a reconvergence point for the control transfer instruction. Re-use control circuitry may track registers written by instructions prior to the reconvergence point, determine that the first load instruction does not depend on data from any instruction between the control transfer instruction and the reconvergence point, and use, as a result of the first load instruction, a value from a recorded destination register that was written based on speculative execution of the first load, notwithstanding the misprediction of the control transfer instruction.
US12175244B2	Nested loop control A nested loop controller includes a first register having a first value initialized to an initial first value, a second register having a second value initialized to an initial second value, and a third register configured as a predicate FIFO, initialized to have a third value. The second value is advanced in response to a tick instruction during execution of a loop. In response to the second value reaching a second threshold, the second register is reset to the initial second value. The nested loop controller further includes a comparator coupled to the second register and to the predicate FIFO and configured to provide an outer loop indicator value as input to the predicate FIFO when the second value is equal to the second threshold, and provide an inner loop indicator value as input to the predicate FIFO when the second value is not equal to the second threshold.
US12175235B2	Smart software update system A system for smart updates includes smart update software that predicts an update window by monitoring activity at the device so that the update is performed when there is little or no activity, indicating that a user/users of the device are not relying on the device to perform work and/or there is little or no active remote access to the device. Such activity is determined by inputs from human input devices, network traffic, storage system I/O, audio inputs, camera inputs, etc.
US12175234B2	Method and system for implementing safe deployment of features A method of and system for implementing a safe deployment of a first feature in a computing environment is carried out by receiving registration information for the first feature, the registration information including a second feature on which the first feature depends or a feature type on which the first feature depends. Based on the second feature or the feature type, a target build version that meets dependency requirements of the second feature or the feature type is then identified before obtaining a list of build versions for a plurality of computing devices in the computing environment. From among the plurality of computing devices, one or more computing devices that have build versions that meet the target build version are then identified before marking the identified computing devices as being available for deployment of the feature and advancing deployment of the feature to those computing devices.
US12175233B2	Vehicle control apparatus including RXSWIN information and vehicle control system including the same A vehicle control apparatus and a vehicle control system including the same are provided. The vehicle control apparatus includes an electronic control unit and a gateway. The electronic control unit is configured to store software identification management information associated with the electronic control unit. The gateway is configured to store a master list of the software identification management information, which includes the software identification management information received from the electronic control unit, deliver update information related to software associated with vehicle type approval (VTA) to the electronic control unit corresponding to the update information, as the update information is received, and update the software identification management information associated with the electronic control unit in the master list as an update of the software of the electronic control unit is completed.
US12175229B2	Knowledge base for predicting success of cluster scaling An information handling system may receive a request from a particular remote cluster regarding a cluster scaling event; receive first information from a plurality of other remote clusters indicative of a success or a failure of a corresponding cluster expansion event that was performed at such other remote clusters; receive second information from the plurality of other remote clusters indicative of scores for such other remote clusters in a plurality of metrics; determine, based on the first and second information, a ranking of the metrics based on their criticality to the cluster scaling event; receive third information from the particular remote cluster indicative of scores for the particular remote cluster in the plurality of metrics; and determine a likelihood of success for the cluster scaling event based on the determined ranking of the metrics and the scores for the particular remote cluster in the plurality of metrics.
US12175228B2	Notification based software management via connected devices An information handling system includes a memory that stores a registry with a multiple fields for applications executed in the information handling system. A processor receives an update for a monitored application of the applications. In response to the update being received, the processor updates one of the fields of the registry to indicate that the update is available for the first application. Based on the one of the fields being updated, the processor determines an idle time of the information handling system. During the idle time, the processor provides an update request to a trusted device and determines whether an update request confirmation has been received from the trusted device. In response to the update request confirmation being received, the processor performs the update for each application that requires an update.
US12175226B2	Provisioning bare metal machines with a complex software product Provisioning bare metal machines with a complex software product is disclosed. A request to install a software product is received. Based on information contained in the request, a subset of computing devices from a set of computing devices are identified. An operating system is caused to be installed on a first computing device of the subset of computing devices. Boot information on a second computing device and a third computing device of the subset of computing devices is modified to cause the second computing device and the third computing device to, upon being booted, request an operating system from the first computing device. A software product installer configured to install the software product is caused to be installed on the first computing device.
US12175224B2	Software systems and methods for multiple TALP family enhancement and management Software systems and methods convert algorithms and software codes into time affecting linear pathways (TALPs) via decomposition and convert paired Input/Output (I/O) datasets into TALPs via Value Complexity polynomials. Generated TALPs can be enhanced through merging with other TALPs. TALPs can be grouped by matching the outputs of the TALP-associated prediction polynomials with some set of given criteria into families and cross-families that are useful in a new type of software optimization that allows for output values of grouped TALPs to be modeled, pooled, discretized and optimized to enhance goals or meet user goals.
US12175223B2	Building a unified machine learning (ML)/ artificial intelligence (AI) acceleration framework across heterogeneous AI accelerators Disclosed is a system for converting a high-level runtime model to a low-level runtime model where the high-level runtime model runs on a client computer system, and the low-level runtime model runs on a server computer system. The server system has installed thereon a pool of hardware accelerators, and the low-level runtime model is targeted to the pool of accelerators. Outputs of the low-level runtime model are returned to the high-level runtime model as if the high-level runtime model computed the outputs.
US12175222B1	Converting quasi-affine expressions to matrix operations A computer-implemented method includes generating, based on a representation of a tensor mapping between an input tensor and an output tensor, a list of mappings from elements of the input tensor to elements of the output tensor, and generating groups of mappings from the list of mappings, where each of the groups of mappings corresponds to a respective set of matrix multiplications, a matrix transpose, or both. The computer-implemented method also includes generating a respective expression for each of the groups of mappings and generating code for summing results of the respective expressions, where each respective expression includes the respective set of matrix multiplications, the matrix transpose, or both.
US12175220B2	Code insertion completion A code insertion engine predicts one or more statements of a programming language to be inserted at an insertion point in between existing source code statements of a source code program being edited. The code insertion engine extracts the surrounding context of the insertion point which includes the source code immediately preceding and the source code immediately following the insertion point. The code insertion engine uses a neural expansion model and a neural selector model to predict the one or more statements most likely to be inserted into the insertion point that are syntactically and semantically consistent with the surrounding context of the existing program.
US12175217B2	Integrated testing tool for data replication Techniques for implementing an integrated testing tool for data replication are disclosed. In some embodiments, a software tool performs operations comprising: causing a first set of user interface elements to be displayed on a computing device; receiving, via the first set of user interface elements, a data replication configuration identifying an adapter, a source database, and a target database; storing the data replication configuration in an embedded database; causing a second set of user interface elements to be displayed on the computing device; receiving, via the second set of user interface elements, a data generation configuration identifying a table in the source database; generating random data in the table based on the data generation configuration; instructing the adapter to replicate the source data from the source database onto the target database based on the data replication configuration; and causing a log of events to be displayed on the computing device.
US12175215B2	Program generation apparatus, program generation method and program The possibility of a desired program being automatically generated is increased by a program generation device including: a search unit configured to search for a first program that corresponds to a specification written in natural language similar to natural language that describes a specification of a program to be generated, from a set of pairs each constituted by natural language that describes a specification of a program and the program that satisfies syntax of a programing language; and a change unit configured to change the first program to generate a second program that satisfies at least one pair of an input value and an output value.
US12175210B2	Assistance tool A design assistance tool, which assists a design of at least two processes includes a database and a display, and is configured to: define a metamodel using one or more metaclass in each of the at least two processes; and perform a design of each process using the corresponding metamodel. The metamodel in one process has a derivation relationship and a different relationship with the metamodel in another process, the database stores the metamodel in one process and the metamodel in another process in associated manner according to the derivation relationship and the different relationship. In the derivation relationship, which is used as trace information, the one or more metaclass in one process is defined based on content of the one or more metaclass in another process. A design result of the process and the derivation relationship used as trace information are displayed in a view of the display.
US12175209B2	Process for performing floating point multiply-accumulate operations with precision based on exponent differences for saving power A process for a floating point multiplier-accumulator (MAC) is operative on N pairs of floating point values using N MAC processes operating concurrently, each MAC process operating on a pair of values comprising an input value and a coefficient value. Each MAC process simultaneously generates an integer form fraction accompanied by a sign bit and an exponent difference computed by subtracting an exponent sum from a maximum exponent sum of all exponent sums. A range estimating process determines a possible range of values from the exponent differences and determines an adder precision. A summing process adds all of the integer form fractions using the determined adder precision, and converts the sum to a floating point value using the maximum exponent sum, sign bit of the summed integer form fractions, and optionally performs a 2's complement of the summed integer form fraction if the sign bit is negative.
US12175207B2	Multi-input multi-output first-in first-out buffer circuit that reads out multiple data flits at once, and electronic circuits having same Disclosed is a MIMO FIFO buffer circuit that reads out data flits at once as many as an internal pointer increment value. The MIMO FIFO buffer circuit includes a MIMO FIFO storage array including ‘Y’ storage blocks, and an internal pointer generator that generates an internal pointer based on an internal pointer increment value indicating the number of data flits to read out at once from among ‘K×X’ data flits stored in K storage blocks out of the ‘Y’ storage blocks. Each of the ‘Y’ and the ‘K’ is a natural number, and the ‘K’ is equal to or less than the ‘Y’, and each of the ‘K’ storage blocks stores ‘X’ data flits.
US12175206B2	Method and apparatus for machine reading comprehension, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium A method and an apparatus for machine reading comprehension, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium are provided. In the method, a paragraph-question pair is obtained, and subword vectors corresponding to subwords in the paragraph-question pair are generated. Then, for each subword, relative positions of the subword with respect to the other subwords are determined based on distances, and self-attention information of the subword in a first part and mutual attention information of the subword in a second part are calculated by using the relative positions and the subword vector. Then, a fusion vector of the subword is generated based on the self-attention information and the mutual attention information. Then, the fusion vectors of the subwords are input to a decoder of a machine reading comprehension model so as to obtain an answer predicted by the decoder.
US12175202B2	Enhanced attention mechanisms A method includes receiving a sequence of audio features characterizing an utterance and processing, using an encoder neural network, the sequence of audio features to generate a sequence of encodings. At each of a plurality of output steps, the method also includes determining a corresponding hard monotonic attention output to select an encoding from the sequence of encodings, identifying a proper subset of the sequence of encodings based on a position of the selected encoding in the sequence of encodings, and performing soft attention over the proper subset of the sequence of encodings to generate a context vector at the corresponding output step. The method also includes processing, using a decoder neural network, the context vector generated at the corresponding output step to predict a probability distribution over possible output labels at the corresponding output step.
US12175201B2	Computer implemented method for the automated analysis or use of data A computer implemented method for the automated analysis or use of data is implemented by a voice assistant. The method comprises the steps of:(a) storing in a memory a structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable language (‘machine representation’); the machine representation including representations of user speech or text input to a human/machine interface; and (b) automatically processing the machine representations to analyse the user speech or text input.
US12175199B2	System and method for determining and representing a lineage of business terms and associated business rules within a software application A system and method for identifying the paths or connections (i.e., term lineage) through which the values of business terms move or flow through a single software application. The term lineage identification system and method identifies the business terms from a data model extracted from source code, and then generates an enriched architecture diagram therefrom. The operator then selects one or more business terms that form part of a term lineage project, and then the system, based on the selection, generates or creates a term lineage diagram so as to discover and view the term lineage of the selected business terms.
US12175198B2	Document processing A method of document processing is provided. An implementation solution is: obtaining target text information and target layout information of a target document, the target text information includes target text included in the target document and character position information of the target text, and the target layout information is used to characterize the region where text in the target document is located; fusing the target text information and the target layout information to obtain first multimodal information of the target document; and inputting the first multimodal information into an intelligent document comprehension model, and obtaining at least one target word in the target document and at least one feature vector corresponding to the at least one target word output by the intelligent document comprehension model, each target word is related to semantics of the target document.
US12175197B2	Automatic identification of fact check factors Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, that facilitate automatic identification of a set of fact-check factors from digital documents. Digital documents can be identified from a plurality of sources. For each digital document, a set of fact check factors are identified using a trained sequence tagging model. Based on the sequence tagging model, a confidence value representing a likelihood that the set of fact check factors identified from the digital document are an actual set of fact check factors for the digital document is determined. The set of fact check factors is stored in association with the digital document. A request for fact check factors for a particular digital document among the digital documents is received from a fact checking entity. In response, the set of fact check factors identified from the particular digital document are provided to the fact checking entity.
US12175193B2	System and method for lookup source segmentation scoring in a natural language understanding (NLU) framework A natural language understanding (NLU) framework includes a lookup source system having one or more lookup sources. Each lookup source includes a respective source data representation that is compiled from respective source data. Once compiled, a user utterance can be submitted to the lookup source system, which generates segmentations of the user utterance. Each segmentation generally includes a collection of non-overlapping segments, and each segment generally describes how tokens of the user utterance can be grouped together and matched to the states of the source data representations. During lookup source inference, matches can be made to produced states or using fuzzy matchers that have corresponding of scoring adjustments. These scoring adjustments may be used by a segmentation scoring subsystem, potentially in combination with one or more additional segmentation scoring plugins, to score and rank the segmentations determined by the lookup source system for the user utterance.
US12175190B2	Method for partially publishing edits to a document A method for partially publishing edits to a document is described. A first document including a first cell and a second cell is displayed on first user account on a first computing device and on a second user account. A second document including a linked version of the first cell and a linked version of the second cell is displayed. An edit of the first cell is received from the first user account and an edit of the second cell is received. In response to receiving an indication from the first user account that the edit of the first cell is to be published, the edit of the first cell is made to the linked version of the first cell, while the linked version of the second cell is unchanged so that the content of the linked version of the second cell no longer matches that of the second cell.
US12175183B2	Device dependent rendering of PDF content including multiple articles and a table of contents The technology disclosed relates to systems and methods for device-dependent display of an article from a PDF file that has multiple articles and a table of contents to the articles. The system can use a library to render the article from the PDF file. The rendering can include bounding boxes positioned at on-page coordinates that can include one or more images and multiple text blocks of glyphs. The system can detect at least one table in the PDF file that includes pages numbers and multiple columns. The system includes logic to partition a contiguous sequence of text representing the table into text blocks of entries and columns. The system includes logic to merge multiple text blocks that align horizontally with a single page number into a single text block. Table of contents is displayed in a device-dependent format including the entries from the merged text blocks.
US12175179B2	Assessing performance of a hardware design using formal evaluation logic A hardware monitor arranged to assess performance of a hardware design for an integrated circuit to complete a task. The hardware monitor includes monitoring and counting logic configured to count a number of cycles between start and completion of the symbolic task in the hardware design; and property evaluation logic configured to evaluate one or more formal properties related to the counted number of cycles to assess the performance of the hardware design in completing the symbolic task. The hardware monitor may be used by a formal verification tool to exhaustively verify that the hardware design meets a desired performance goal and/or to exhaustively identify a performance metric (e.g. best case and/or worst case performance) with respect to completion of the task.
US12175175B2	Systems and methods for generating synthesizable netlists from register transfer level designs Methods, systems, and computer program products are described for generating synthesizable netlists from register transfer level (RTL) designs to aid with semiconductor device design. These netlists provide RTL design information corresponding to a portion of a semiconductor device. A configuration tracer generates behavior information associated with the RTL design. A register compiler compiles a set of semiconductor devices based on one or more technologies and power, performance, and area (PPA) information related to the semiconductor device. Semiconductor devices generated by the register compiler that meet predefined power, performance, and area conditions are identified. Structural information for aligning the input/output ports of the semiconductor device is generated. A set of one or more synthesizable semiconductor device configurations is created based on user defined parameters such that one of the synthesizable semiconductor device designs may by selected to generate a design netlist with structure-synthesizable input/output boundary compatible semiconductor device modules.
US12175170B2	Simulation method, simulation device, and storage device In order to provide an efficient and favorable simulation method for obtaining the disappearance of a number of air bubbles in one entire shot or the like, for example, there is provided a simulation method for simulating a film forming process of forming a film by coating an upper part of a substrate with a curable composition in a form of a plurality of droplets and bringing a mold into contact therewith. The simulation method includes a first step of computing a size of each air bubble at a time when air bubbles become trapped due to the mold brought into contact therewith and a time of becoming trapped, and a second step of obtaining a disappearing process of each of the air bubbles on the basis of information of the size of each of the air bubbles and the time.
US12175164B2	Path correction for end effector control A system for performing interactions within a physical environment including a robot base that undergoes movement relative to the environment, a robot arm mounted to the robot base, the robot arm including an end effector mounted thereon and a tracking system that measures a robot base position indicative of a position of the robot base relative to the environment. A control system acquires an indication of an end effector destination, determines a reference robot base position, calculates an end effector path extending to the end effector destination and repeatedly determines a current robot base position using signals from the tracking system, calculates a correction based on the current robot base position, the correction being indicative of a path modification, and controls the robot arm in accordance with the correction to move the end effector towards the end effector destination.
US12175163B1	Systems and methods for creating and presenting planning, real estate, and infrastructure projects Embodiments include systems and methods for presenting digital infrastructure planning in a three-dimensional topographical format including presenting a Fiber Specification used to create a Fiber configuration, and in response to a selection in the Fiber Specification for a condition, presenting an Element Editor interface for the Fiber configuration which is specific to the selection for the condition in the Fiber Specification. Further, in response to a selection in the Element Editor for a Fiber configuration which is specific to the selection for the condition in the Fiber Specification, presenting configuration options for a conduit in the Element Editor, in response to a selection for a configuration option for the conduit, presenting configuration options for the innerduct in the Element Editor, and in response to a selection from the configuration options for the innerduct, presenting options for the cable in the Element Editor.
US12175162B2	Object relationship estimation from a 3D semantic mesh Implementations disclosed herein provide systems and methods that determine relationships between objects based on an original semantic mesh of vertices and faces that represent the 3D geometry of a physical environment. Such an original semantic mesh may be generated and used to provide input to a machine learning model that estimates relationships between the objects in the physical environment. For example, the machine learning model may output a graph of nodes and edges indicating that a vase is on top of a table or that a particular instance of a vase, V1, is on top of a particular instance of a table, T1.
US12175160B2	Group coordinator selection A first playback device is configured to (1) determine, based on a group configuration of a synchrony group including the first playback device and a second playback device, that the first playback device, and not the second playback device, is to operate as a group coordinator for the synchrony group, wherein the group coordinator transmits audio content and playback timing information, (2) begin to operate as the group coordinator, (3) while operating as the group coordinator, determine respective battery state variable values for the first and second playback devices, (4) based on the respective battery state variable values, determine that a computing device other than the first playback device is to operate as the group coordinator, and (5) based on the determining, (i) discontinue operating as the group coordinator and (ii) cause the computing device to operate as the group coordinator instead of the first playback device.
US12175158B2	Method and system for tagging and navigating through performers and other information on time-synchronized content In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for navigating a content item is disclosed. The method includes presenting, via a user interface of a media player, the content item and time-synchronized text pertaining to the content item, receiving a voice command to play a portion of the content item performed by a performer, based on the voice command, using the media player (i) to initiate playback of the content item such that the content item is played at a timestamp associated with the portion of the content item performed by the performer and (ii) to present the time-synchronized text associated with the portion.
US12175156B2	Wireless handheld audio capture device and multi-vocalist method for audiovisual media application Embodiments described herein relate generally to systems comprising a display device, a display device-coupled computing platform, a mobile device in communication with the computing platform, and a content server in which methods and techniques of capture and/or processing of audiovisual performances are described and, in particular, description of techniques suitable for use in connection with display device connected computing platforms for rendering vocal performance captured by a handheld computing device.
US12175155B2	Wireless transmission system and method thereof Disclosed is a wireless transmission system, including a mobile electronic device with first screen information, a computer with second screen information, and a docking station coupled to the computer. When accommodating the mobile electronic device, the docking station transmits an electrical signal to the mobile electronic device, wherein the computer confirms that the mobile electronic device is located on the docking station according to a Bluetooth Low Energy signal sent by the mobile electronic device, the computer transmits Wi-Fi service set identification information to the mobile electronic device through a Bluetooth Low Energy protocol, the computer and the mobile electronic device are connected to the same Wi-Fi access point, and the mobile electronic device sends the first screen information back to the computer. Accordingly, the problem that the computer and the mobile electronic device cannot transmit data or screen information to each other through a transmission line is solved.
US12175153B2	Vehicle infotainment system A vehicle infotainment system is provided. The vehicle infotainment system includes a repositionable display, a sensing arrangement, and a controller. The repositionable display is attached to a vehicle and slidable along a defined path between a first position and a second position within the vehicle. The sensing arrangement detects a position of the repositionable display. The controller is operatively connected to the repositionable display and to the sensing arrangement. The controller controls provision of content to the repositionable display, and is configured to control the content provided to the repositionable display in dependence on signals received from the sensing arrangement.
US12175149B2	Terminal apparatus, image forming apparatus, and system A terminal apparatus includes: a communicator that communicates with an image forming apparatus that generates an individual folder for storing transmitted data for each transmission source of the data; a controller; and a storage. The controller acquires linkage information, and transmits data stored in the storage, with a first individual folder set as a transmission destination, the first individual folder being identified on a basis of the linkage information.

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