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US12200933B2	3D and flash memory device A three-dimensional AND flash memory device includes a gate stack structure and a silt. The silt extends along a first direction and divides the gate stack structure into a plurality of sub-blocks. Each sub-block includes a plurality of rows, and each row includes a plurality of channel pillars, a plurality of charge storage structures, and a plurality of pairs of conductive pillars. The plurality of pairs of conductive pillars are arranged in the plurality of channel pillars and penetrate the gate stack structure, and are respectively connected to the plurality of channel pillars. Each pair of conductive pillars includes a first conductive pillar and a second conductive pillar separated from each other along a second direction. There is an acute angle between the second direction and the first direction.
US12200932B2	Three-dimensional memory device and method of making the same using differential thinning of vertical channels An alternating stack of insulating layers and spacer material layers is formed over a substrate. An insulating cap layer is formed thereupon. A memory opening is formed, which has a greater lateral dimension at a level of an upper insulating cap sublayer than at a level of a lower insulating cap sublayer. A memory film and a semiconductor channel material layer is formed in the memory opening. Ions of at least one dopant species is implanted into a top portion of the semiconductor channel material layer. An isotropic etch process etches an unimplanted portion of the semiconductor channel material layer at a higher etch rate than the implanted top portion of the semiconductor channel material layer to form a vertical semiconductor channel.
US12200931B2	Semiconductor memory device and production method thereof A method of producing a semiconductor memory device includes, when three directions crossing each other are set to first, second, and third directions, respectively, laminating a plurality of first laminates and a plurality of second laminates on a semiconductor substrate in the third direction. The method further includes forming ends of the plurality of first laminates in shapes of steps extending in the first direction, and forming ends of the plurality of second laminates in shapes of steps extending in both directions of the first direction and the second direction.
US12200927B2	Memory device including reference bit line for increasing read operation accuracy A memory device includes source-drain structure bodies and gate structure bodies arranged along a first direction, and global word lines. The source-drain structure body includes a bit line, and first to third semiconductor layers. The first and second semiconductor layers are of first conductivity type and the first semiconductor layer is connected to the bit line. The third semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type contacts the first and second semiconductor layers. The gate structure body includes a local word line and a charge storage film. A first source-drain structure body includes a bit line forming a first reference bit line. A first global word line connects to the local word lines in the gate structure bodies formed on both sides of the first reference bit line and to the local word lines formed in alternate gate structure bodies that are formed between the remaining plurality of source-drain structure bodies.
US12200925B2	Capacitors in memory devices Methods, systems and apparatus for managing capacitors in memory devices, e.g., three-dimensional (3D) memory devices are provided. In one aspect, a capacitor includes: a first terminal, a second terminal conductively insulated from the first terminal, and a capacitance structure that includes a plurality of layers sequentially stacked together. At least one layer includes: one or more first conductive parts and one or more second conductive parts that are conductively insulated in the layer, the one or more first conductive parts being conductively coupled to the first terminal, the one or more second conductive parts being conductively coupled to the second terminal. The at least one layer is configured such that at least one of the one or more second conductive parts forms at least one subordinate capacitor with at least one adjacent first conductive part.
US12200923B2	Method of fabricating semiconductor device having bit line comprising a plurality of pins extending toward the substrate The present disclosure relates to a method of fabricating a semiconductor device, the semiconductor device includes a substrate, a plurality of gate structures, a plurality of isolation fins, and at least one bit line. The gate structures are disposed in the substrate, with each of the gate structures being parallel with each other and extending along a first direction. The isolation fins are disposed on the substrate, with each of the isolation fins being parallel with each other and extending along the first direction, over each of the gate structures respectively. The at least one bit line is disposed on the substrate to extend along a second direction being perpendicular to the first direction. The at least one bit line comprises a plurality of pins extending toward the substrate, and each of the pins is alternately arranged with each of the isolation fins along the second direction.
US12200922B2	Semiconductor memory device and a method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor memory device includes a device isolation pattern on a substrate to define an active region, a word line in the substrate, to intersect the active region, a first dopant region in the active region as at a first side of the word line, a second dopant region in the active region at a second side of the word line, a bit line connected to the first dopant region and intersecting the word line, a bit line contact connecting the bit line to the first dopant region, a landing pad on the second dopant region, and a storage node contact connecting the landing pad to the second dopant region, the storage node contact including a first portion in contact with the second dopant region, the first portion including a single-crystal silicon, and a second portion on the first portion and including a poly-silicon.
US12200920B2	Integrated circuit devices including a power distribution network and methods of forming the same Integrated circuit devices and methods of forming the same are provided. The integrated circuit devices may include a static random access memory (SRAM) unit. The SRAM unit may include a first inverter on a substrate and a power distribution network (PDN) structure including a first power rail and a second power rail. The substrate may extend between the first inverter and the PDN structure. The first inverter may include a first upper transistor including a first upper source/drain region, a first lower transistor between the substrate and the first upper transistor and including a first lower source/drain region, a first power contact extending through the substrate and electrically connecting the first upper source/drain region to the first power rail, and a second power contact extending through the substrate and electrically connecting the first lower source/drain region to the second power rail.
US12200919B2	Laminate, coating member having same, and laminate manufacturing method A laminate in which a carbon nanotube layer is stably laminated; a coating member having the same; and a laminate manufacturing method are provided. This laminate includes: an insulating layer that mainly contains a resin composition; a cellulose fiber layer that is laminated on the insulating layer and mainly contains a microfibrous cellulose having a fiber width of 1000 nm or smaller; and a carbon nanotube layer that is laminated on the cellulose fiber layer and mainly contains carbon nanotubes.
US12200912B2	Hybrid liquid cooling system for a computing rack A rack mounted cooling system operable to cool a computing system is provided. The rack mounted cooling system includes a pump unit operable to pump fluid and a plurality of heat exchangers. The heat exchangers include an input heat exchanger and an outlet heat exchanger. The input heat exchanger is operable to receive the fluid from the pump unit, lower a temperature of the fluid, and provide the fluid to a liquid cooled computing unit. The outlet heat exchanger is operable to receive the fluid from the liquid cooled computing unit, lower the temperature of the fluid, and provide the fluid to the pump unit. The heat exchangers are operable to be coupled to a rack of the computing system such that the rack with the plurality of heat exchangers fits within a rack keep in area.
US12200910B2	Clamped pyrolytic graphite sheets for heat spreading A heat spreading element is provided. The heat spreading element includes compressible pyrolytic graphite sheets and rigid pyrolytic graphite sheets interleaved with the compressible pyrolytic graphite sheets.
US12200906B2	Liquid cooling distribution in a modular electronic system A network communications device includes a chassis, a plurality of modules removably inserted into a plurality of slots in the chassis. A coolant is delivered to a first group of the plurality of modules with a first flow control valve in a first cooling loop and the coolant is delivered to a second group of the plurality of modules with a second flow control valve in a second cooling loop. The network communication device further includes a plurality of sensors for monitoring a temperature in the first cooling loop and the second cooling loop and a control system for controlling delivery of the coolant to the first group and the second group, where the control system controls transmitting a signal to one of the first flow control valve and the second flow control valve to modify a flow of the coolant.
US12200900B2	Electronic device with heat-conductive cover An electronic device includes a circuit board, a package on package structure, a heat-conducting cover, and a heat-conducting fluid. The circuit board has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The package on package structure is disposed on the first surface. The package on package structure has at least one heat generating element. The heat-conducting cover is disposed on the second surface and is in thermal contact with the circuit board. The heat-conducting cover and the second surface form an enclosed space. The heat-conducting fluid is filled in the enclosed space.
US12200899B2	Electronic device An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a protective cover, an electronic module, and a heat exchanger. The protective cover has an opening. The electronic module is disposed below the protective cover. The heat exchanger is disposed between the protective cover and the electronic module. A sub-space is defined between the heat exchanger and the protective cover. The heat exchanger has a first flow path and a second flow path. The first flow path and the sub-space communicate. The second flow path and the opening communicate. The first flow path is isolated from the second flow path.
US12200898B2	System and method for managing component positioning and orientation in data processing systems Methods and systems for managing the operation of data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may include a computing device that may provide computer implemented services. To provide the computer implemented services, hardware components of the data processing system may need to operate in predetermined manners. To manage the operation of the hardware components, the data processing system may cool them when their temperatures fall outside of thermal operating ranges. To facilitate cooling, fans may be densely packed and arranged in a manner the occupies a majority of the space in a stack up. At least one side of the fans may be exposed and may not be covered.
US12200892B2	Structure for mounting storage device and computing device A structure for mounting a storage device to a server and providing a fast installation and removal of a storage device includes a carrier and a chassis. The carrier includes a rotatable handle with a cam on the axis of rotation and a frame. The cam is connected to the frame. The chassis includes an immovable limiting component. With the carrier mounted in the chassis, rotation of the handle clockwise or counterclockwise pushes the carrier to move, to lock or unlock the carrier because of the limiting component resting against the cam. The structure greatly improves the convenience of the installation and removal of the storage device. A computing device is also disclosed.
US12200890B2	Supplemental component mounting platform for equipment rack The present disclosure relates to a mounting platform for use in an equipment rack having a frame with a pair of spaced apart vertical frame elements. The mounting platform supports at least one external device adjacent a rear area of the equipment rack without interfering with use of internal device mounting locations within the equipment rack. The mounting platform makes use of a gate panel which is configured to support the external device thereon. At least one hinge is used to support the gate panel in a vertical orientation from one of the vertical frame elements. The gate panel is movable between a closed position and an open position. In the closed position the gate panel is positioned parallel to a line extending between the vertical frame elements and supports the external device adjacent to the rear area of the equipment rack. In the open position the gate panel is positioned substantially perpendicular to the line extending between the vertical frame elements, and does not impede access to the internal device mounting locations within the equipment rack.
US12200888B2	Customization of process variable transmitter with hermetically sealed electronics A process variable transmitter includes a process variable sensor, and an electromagnetic interference (EMI) protection circuit coupled to the process variable sensor. The process variable transmitter also includes a hermetic module enclosing the EMI protection circuit, and electrical connectors coupled to the EMI protection circuit within the hermetic module. The electrical connectors are configurable from outside the hermetic module to connect electronic components of the EMI protection circuit in a configuration that provides transient protection.
US12200885B2	Hinge for mobile electronic terminal having inward-foldable flexible screen A hinge for a mobile electronic terminal having an inward-foldable flexible screen is provided in the present invention. A support structure having a left rotation support plate and a right rotation support plate is provided in a middle housing; the support structure comprises a support part of the left rotation support plate and a support part of the right rotation support plate; the support part of the left rotation support plate and the support part of the right rotation support plate are rotatable parts; the support part of the left rotation support plate and the support part of the right rotation support plate rotate to form a cross structure, so as to support the left rotation support plate and the right rotation support plate when the electronic terminal having the inward-foldable flexible screen is flattened. By means of the X-shaped cross structure, the left and right rotation support plates in the middle can be stably supported when the terminal is flattened, the motion angle of the support structure is reduced, only a small motion space is needed, and a requirement of reducing the thickness of the terminal is met while it is ensured that the left and right rotation support plates are supported.
US12200884B2	Display device comprising rear shell, support plate, and display screen cooperating with each other A display device is provided. The display device includes a rear shell. The rear shell includes a first rear shell; a second rear shell; a third rear shell, wherein two ends of the third rear shell are respectively rotatably connected to the first rear shell and the second rear shell; a support plate including a first support plate, wherein the first support plate is disposed on the first rear shell, an end of the first support plate is rotatably connected to the third rear shell, and another end of the first support plate is slidingly connected to the first rear shell; a second support plate, wherein the second support plate is disposed on the second rear shell, an end of the second support plate is rotatably connected to the third rear shell, and another end of the second support plate is slidingly connected to the second rear shell.
US12200883B2	Device for accommodating a component A device for accommodating a component in an interior space has a housing comprising a housing wall delimiting the interior space of the housing, and a passage portion in the wall. The component comprises a sensing element with an actuating portion, and a holding portion mechanically connected to said actuating portion and has at least one latching hook with a latching lug. The component has a holder with a latching edge. When the component is accommodated in the interior space, the actuating portion, in a first state, is arranged in the passage portion, and, to reach a second state with the actuating portion in the interior space, is displaceable into the interior space so the latching lug of the latching hook engages over the latching edge. The latching connection so created prevents the actuating portion from being displaced in the direction of the passage portion, and enables damage-free removal.
US12200882B2	Display device A display device includes a display panel in which an image is displayed; a tape spring which is connected to the display panel to lift the display panel; a first roller on which the display panel is wound or unwound; a second roller on which the tape spring is wound or unwound; and a timing belt which rotates the second roller in the same direction as the first roller when the first roller is wound or unwound.
US12200881B2	Flexible support structure for a sliding flexible display A foldable support structure for a rolling display arrangement comprises a foldable sheet and a support arrangement comprising a plurality of support rods arranged to support the foldable sheet. The center axes of the support rods extend in parallel with each other and with the foldable sheet. The foldable sheet comprises a sheet material and a throughgoing slit pattern allowing the sheet material to fold around a folding axis parallel with the center axes. Each support rod is connected to the foldable sheet by means of a plurality of attachments.
US12200880B2	Arc resistant system and method for ventilation of electrical equipment A ventilation system for an electrical equipment enclosure is provided. The ventilation system includes a first vent disposed at an interior of the enclosure; a second vent disposed at an exterior of the enclosure and located away from the first vent along an air flow path, which may be circuitous; at least one inner shutter held in an open position with respect to the first vent; and at least one outer shutter held in an open position with respect to the second vent; the at least one inner shutter and the at least one outer shutter each being configured to automatically transition from an open position to a closed position in response to air pressure increase.
US12200879B2	Display device A display device according to the present technology includes: a plurality of linear portions that, when three directions orthogonal to each other are a first direction, a second direction, and a third direction, extends in the first direction and is positioned apart from each other in the second direction; and a connecting portion that connects respective parts of two linear portions adjacent to each other in the second direction. The linear portion and the connecting portion are integrally formed by injection molding, the linear portion has a base extending in the first direction and a pair of protrusions protruding in the third direction from both end portions of the base in the second direction, and both end portions of the connecting portion are continuous to respective tip portions of the protrusions of the two adjacent linear portions.
US12200873B2	Method of manufacturing a printed circuit board and printed circuit boards formed thereby A method of manufacturing a printed circuit board is provided, comprising: 1) imprinting an electrically conductive circuit pattern on a surface of a substrate; 2) applying a surface treatment composition to the surface of the substrate over the electrically conductive circuit pattern; and 3) allowing the surface treatment composition to form a self-assembled coating layer on the surface of the substrate in the form of a conformal coating. The surface treatment composition comprises: (a) a fluorine-containing polymer; (b) a solvent containing at least one C—F bond; and (c) a rheology modifying component. Also provided are electronic components of a circuit assembly and printed circuit boards, comprising a substrate and a self-assembled coating layer applied to at least one surface of the substrate. The coating layer is in the form of a conformal coating and is formed from the surface treatment composition described above.
US12200870B2	Component mounting system and component mounting method A component mounting system includes a component mounting device (15) configured to mount a component (E) on a board (S), a component storage (20) configured to store a component containing member (200) configured to contain a plurality of the components to be mounted on the board by the component mounting device, and a controller (22) configured to control an order in which the component containing member is unloaded from the component storage. The controller is configured to control the order in which the component containing member is unloaded based on an unloading priority when a plurality of the component containing members are scheduled to be unloaded.
US12200868B2	Inspection robots with a payload engagement device Inspection robots with a payload engagement device are described. An example inspection robot may have a housing, a drive module, having at least one wheel and a motor, where the drive module is operatively coupled to the housing. The example inspection robot may also have a payload coupled to the drive module, where the payload includes a sensor mounted to the payload, and a payload engagement device operationally coupled to the drive module and the payload, where the payload engagement device applies a selected downward force on the payload.
US12200863B2	Printed circuit board and wire arrangement method thereof The present disclosure provides a printed circuit board and a wire arrangement method thereof. The printed circuit board includes a packaged chip and at least two connectors, wires of the packaged chip that are connected to different connectors are distributed on different board layers; and when the packaged chip is connected to one of the connectors, a via is backdrilled to form a high-speed path from the packaged chip to the connector, and copper walls of board layers corresponding to other connectors are drilled out. The wires of the packaged chip that are connected to different connectors are distributed on different board layers. When the packaged chip is connected to one of the connectors, according to backdrilling of different depths, the via is backdrilled to form a high-speed path from the packaged chip to the connector, and copper walls of board layers corresponding to other connectors are drilled out.
US12200862B1	Panel molded electronic assemblies with integral terminals Encapsulated electronic modules having complex contact structures may be formed by encapsulating panels containing a substrate comprising pluralities of electronic modules delineated by cut lines and having conductive interconnects buried within terminal holes and other holes drilled in the panel within the boundaries of the cut lines. Slots may be cut in the panel along the cut lines. The interior of the holes, as well as surfaces within the slots and on the surfaces of the panel may be metallized, e.g. by a series of processes including plating. Terminals may be inserted into the terminal holes and connected to conductive features or plating within the holes. A conductive element may be provided on the substrate to connect to a terminal. Alternatively solder may be dispensed into the holes for surface mounting.
US12200861B2	Circuit board structure A circuit board structure includes a dielectric substrate, at least one embedded block, at least one electronic component, at least one first build-up circuit layer, at least one second build-up circuit layer, at least one conductive through hole, and a fine redistribution layer (RDL). The embedded block is fixed in a through cavity of the dielectric substrate. The electronic component is disposed in an opening of the embedded block. The first build-up circuit layer is disposed on a top surface of the dielectric substrate and electrically connected with the electronic component. The second build-up circuit layer is disposed on a bottom surface of the dielectric substrate and covers the embedded block. The conductive through hole is disposed in a via of the embedded block and electrically connects the first and the second build-up circuit layers. The fine RDL is disposed on and electrically connected to the first build-up circuit layer.
US12200855B2	Radio frequency front-end structures Disclosed herein are radio frequency (RF) front-end structures, as well as related methods and devices. In some embodiments, an RF front-end package may include an RF package substrate including an embedded passive circuit element. At least a portion of the embedded passive circuit element may be included in a metal layer of the RF package substrate. The RF package substrate may also include a ground plane in the metal layer.
US12200854B2	Electronic assembly having both chassis and module dual-flow connectors and associated methods An electronic assembly may include a chassis having electronic module mounting positions. Each mounting position may have associated therewith a chassis liquid dual-flow connector. A respective electronic module may be received in each electronic module mounting position and include a circuit board, a liquid cooling path associated with the circuit board, and a module liquid dual-flow connector coupled to the liquid cooling path and configured to be mateable with the chassis liquid dual-flow connector.
US12200852B1	Heat sinks for electronic circuits A heat sink apparatus is provided. The heat sink apparatus includes a metal plate that includes a through hole, one or more hollow openings on a first surface of the metal plate, and a recessed groove on the first surface and navigating around the one or more hollow openings. The through hole is used to apply a differential force.
US12200849B2	Microwave cooking appliance with user interface display A microwave cooking appliance for increasing visibility into the cooking cavity. The microwave cooking appliance may include a door. The door may include a conductive mesh layer. The door may include a frame supporting the conductive mesh layer. The door may include a conductive and/or sealing engagement between the conductive mesh layer and the frame. The door may include a leak detection device. The leak detection device may be adjacent the conductive and/or sealing engagement. The door may include a user interface display and/or a touch screen.
US12200846B2	High-frequency hardening apparatus This high-frequency hardening apparatus is provided with: an induction heating coil which has a U-shaped part that sandwiches a turbine blade, a pair of linear parts, and a connection part connecting the U-shaped part and the linear parts; a temperature detection unit which detects, in a non-contact manner, temperature around the induction heating coil; a moving mechanism which relatively moves the turbine blade and the induction heating coil in the direction of blade height; an electrical current supply unit which supplies a high-frequency electrical current to the induction heating coil; and a control device which has an electrical current control unit that, on the basis of a detection value provided by the temperature detection unit, controls the magnitude of the high-frequency electrical current supplied from the electrical current supply unit such that the detection value will not exceed a predetermined temperature.
US12200843B2	Sensor device for controlling an electrical device The invention provides a sensor device for controlling an electrical device, wherein the sensor device comprises a controller and a range sensor; wherein sensor device is configured to be mounted in an orientation relative to gravity; wherein the range sensor is configured to: obtain the orientation of the sensor device relative to gravity; operate in a first detection mode for detecting an object within a first predetermined distance range from the range sensor when the orientation is in a first predetermined orientation; wherein the controller is configured to output a control signal arranged for controlling the electrical device upon the range sensor detecting the object.
US12200839B2	LED filament and light bulb using LED filament This application relates to the field of lighting, and discloses an LED filament. The LED filament includes an LED chip unit, a light conversion layer, and an electrode. The light conversion layer covers the LED chip unit and part of the electrode, and a color of a light emitted by the LED filament after lighting is different from a color of the light conversion layer. This application has the characteristics of uniform light emission and good heat dissipation effect.
US12200838B2	LED driver for photoplethysmography application and current driver An LED driver includes an operational amplifier (OP), N current driving circuits, and a resistor circuit. The OP compares a reference voltage with a feedback voltage to generate a control voltage. Each current driving circuit is coupled with an LED, and includes: an NMOS transistor including a drain, a source, and a gate, and being turned on according to the control voltage in an enablement mode and turned off according to the voltage of a ground terminal in a disablement mode, wherein the drain is coupled with the LED and the voltage at the source is the feedback voltage; and a switch circuit coupling the OP with the gate in the enablement mode, and coupling the ground terminal with the gate in the disablement mode. The resistor circuit is coupled between the source and the ground terminal and controls the current passing through the N current driving circuits.
US12200836B2	Visual device for indicating value of environmental parameter via remote platform Traditionally, to obtain surf conditions, a person must visit a website, which can be time-consuming, inconvenient, and unartful, and may lead to distraction. Embodiments of a visual device are disclosed that indicates the value of an environmental parameter, representing a surf condition or other environmental condition, using light, according to a color scale that is mapped to enumeration values of the environmental parameter. The visual device may be functional art, capable of being hung on a wall like a painting, such that it can automatically, seamlessly, and artistically inform the user of the environmental condition. The visual device may comprise a controller that acquires the value of the environmental parameter, in the background, via a connection to a platform, and a local access point for easy configuration of the connection. The platform may enable configuration of the environmental parameter, collect environmental data, and calculate values of the environmental parameter.
US12200835B1	LED light source recognition method, device, apparatus and medium based on deep learning The disclosure provides an LED light source recognition method, device, apparatus, and medium based on deep learning, belonging to the field of indoor positioning and navigation technology. The method includes the following. In an LED lighting environment, a spline frame is obtained through a CMOS camera, in which the spline frame is an image having dark stripes. The spline frame is input to a target detection model, a dark stripe detection result output by the target detection model is obtained. The multiple rectangular boxes are preprocessed, and based on the predicted classification corresponding to each preprocessed rectangular box, an image feature encoding sequence of the spline frame is determined. The image feature encoding sequence is compared with a light source feature encoding sequence corresponding to each LED light source to determine the light source feature encoding sequence that best matches the spline frame.
US12200824B2	Modular heater assembly with interchangeable auxiliary sensing junctions A heater system is provided, which includes a plurality of heaters, a controller for supplying power to the plurality of heaters, a plurality sets of auxiliary wires extending from the plurality of heaters, and a wire harness for connecting the plurality sets of auxiliary wires to the controller. Each set of auxiliary wires includes three wires, two of the three wires being made of different materials and being joined to form a thermocouple junction, such that each of the plurality of heaters is operable to function as both a heater and a temperature sensor.
US12200822B2	Induction heating assembly for a vapour generating device An induction heating assembly for a vapour generating device includes an induction heating device and an electronic component having material able to act as a first susceptor, wherein the induction heating device is arranged to heat, in use, a second susceptor for a first period, and the electronic component is arranged to be activated for a second period, and wherein the first period and the second period are non-concurrent. This achieves reduced interference in the functionality of the electronic component.
US12200821B2	Method of making aerosol-generating system The method includes electrically connecting a first line and a second line to a first terminal and a second terminal, the first line and the second line being in parallel, first configuring an aerosol-generator and a first barrier element within the first line, and second configuring an identifying element and a second barrier element within the second line. The first barrier element and the second barrier element each have an asymmetric electrical conductance. The first and second configuring configures the aerosol-generating system so that a first electrical current applied through the first and second terminal in a first direction allows the first electrical current to pass through the identifying element without activating the aerosol-generator, and a second electrical current applied through the first and second terminal in a second direction allows the second electrical current to activate the aerosol-generator without the second electrical current passing through the identifying element.
US12200820B2	Data transmission method, device, and system The present invention provides a data transmission method, a device, and a system, and relates to the field of communications technologies, to resolve a problem that a base station cannot well identify specific remote UE from which data sent by relay UE comes. The method may include: receiving, by relay UE, data of remote UE, where the data includes a first identifier of the remote UE; determining, by the relay UE, a second identifier of the remote UE based on the first identifier; and sending the data of the remote UE and the second identifier of the remote UE to a base station.
US12200819B2	Gateway device, mobility management device, base station, communication method, control method, paging method, and computer-readable medium preliminary class The present disclosure is directed to providing a gateway device that can properly page a communication terminal managed by a control device even if the control device loses information on the communication terminal when the control device recovers from a failure that has occurred therein. A gateway device (10) according to the present disclosure includes a storage unit (11) configured to store temporarily allocated identification information temporarily allocated to a communication terminal and an eDRX parameter associated with the communication terminal, and a transceiver (12) configured to, in a case in which downlink data destined for a communication terminal managed by a mobility management device (20) is received after a failure has occurred in the mobility management device (20), transmit a notification message with the temporarily allocated identification information and the eDRX parameter set therein to the mobility management device (20) or another mobility management device (21).
US12200817B2	Device and method for providing UE radio capability to core network of mobile communication system The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates in a Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments, a network node in a wireless communication system may include: receiving, from an application function (AF) via a network exposure function (NEF), user equipment (UE) radio capability information on UE radio capability identifier (ID) and at least one UE radio capability mapping to the UE radio capability ID; receiving, from an access and mobility management function (AMF), a request for information on at least one UE radio capability mapping to a specific UE radio capability ID; and transmitting, to the AMF, the information on at least one UE radio capability mapping to the specific UE radio capability ID.
US12200816B2	Transmitting a complement of user parameters to a communications device Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented, in whole or in part, using one or more computing devices to obtain, from a communications device, an identifier of the communications device transmitted via a communications network. The communications network may transmit a request for one or more parameters unique to a subscriber of the communications network. The method may also include processing signals indicative of the requested one or more parameters in response to the subscriber entering the one or more parameters into a graphical user interface of the communications device. The method may further include transmitting, to the communications device, one or more signals to provide a complement of subscriber parameters.
US12200815B2	Subscriber identity module (SIM) remote update agent A subscriber identity module (SIM). The SIM comprises a processor, a non-transitory memory storing a configuration file, a wireless identity, a wireless access key, and a remote update agent stored in the non-transitory memory. When executed by the processor, the remote update agent determines that the SIM is communicatively coupled to a wireless communication network via a radio transceiver of a communication device with which the SIM is associated, in response to determining that the SIM is communicatively coupled to the wireless communication network, sends a provide local information (PLI) command to the mobile communication device to acquire network measurement results (NMR) based on the configuration file, transmits NMR data via the radio transceiver using a bearer independent protocol (BIP), receives SIM update information via the radio transceiver, and stores the SIM update information in the configuration file in the non-transitory memory.
US12200795B2	Failure processing method, handover method, terminal device, and network device This application provides failure processing methods, handover methods, terminal devices, and network devices. One method includes receiving a radio resource control (RRC) configuration of a secondary network device, if the RRC configuration of the secondary network device is from the secondary network device and the RRC configuration fails, sending, to a primary network device, first indication information for indicating a configuration failure of the RRC configuration.
US12200794B2	Handling re-establishment rejection A method by a network node is provided for handling a re-establishment request. The method includes receiving, from a wireless device, a first request for re-establishment of a connection with the network node in a first cell. The network node determines that a load on the network node exceeds a threshold amount. In response to determining that the load on the network node exceeds the threshold amount, the network node ignores the first request for re-establishment.
US12200793B2	Method and system for HPLMN-based traffic control when UE is registered on different PLMNs The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Embodiments herein provide a method for HPLMN-based traffic control in a wireless communication network when a UE 300 is registered on different PLMNs.
US12200788B1	Method and apparatus for relay UE adding source end UE for UE-to-UE relay communication in a wireless communication system A method and device for a target end UE are disclosed. In one embodiment, the target end UE establishes a PC5 connection with the relay UE for supporting UE-to-UE relay communication between a first source end UE and the target end UE via the relay UE. The target end UE also receives a request message from the relay UE for request of establishing another PC5 connection with the relay UE for supporting UE-to-UE relay communication with a second source end UE via the relay UE. Furthermore, the target end UE, in response to reception of the request message, sends a reject message to the relay UE if the PC5 connection exists.
US12200785B2	User equipment and base station, and method executed by user equipment and base station Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a user equipment and a base station that can be used in a wireless communication system, or a method executed by a user equipment and a base station. The user equipment in the embodiments of the present invention includes: a control unit, configured to acquire a multiple access signature, wherein the multiple access signature is determined, from a multiple access signature pool, according to activation information of the user equipment, and the activation information of the user equipment is related to the activation of the user equipment; and a sending unit, configured to use the multiple access signature to send data.
US12200777B2	Adaptive retransmission for a random access procedure Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine a configuration of a retransmission of a first message of a random access procedure based on a set of transmission configuration options transmitted by a base station. For example, the UE may transmit the first message but may reconfigure the first message for the retransmission based on the transmission configuration options. Additionally, the UE may configure a set of transmission configuration states based on the transmission configuration options for transmitting/retransmitting the first message. In some cases, the UE may determine to switch transmission configuration states based on a trigger signaled by the base station and/or a determination by the UE. Additionally, the UE may transmit an indication of a log of state transitions performed prior to a retransmission of the first message to facilitate combining of the retransmissions at the base station.
US12200775B2	Method for transmitting and receiving signal in wireless communication system and apparatus supporting same The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, more specifically to a method and an apparatus therefor, the method comprising switching an active bandwidth part (BWP) on the basis of BWP switching indication information, and transmitting an uplink on the basis of the results of a channel access procedure (CAP) in the switched active BWP, wherein the active BWP comprises N number of frequency units in which the CAP is carried out, N being an integer two or greater, and the uplink is transmitted in a resource determined on the basis of whether the CAP is successful in all or a part of the N number of unit frequencies.
US12200771B2	Determination of RNTI for performing RACH procedure at carrier frequencies above 52.6 GHz A user equipment (UE) configured for operation in a sixth generation (6G) network may perform a random access channel (RACH) procedure with a generation node B (gNB). The UE may encode a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble for transmission in a PRACH occasion (RO) For carrier frequencies above 52.6 GHz, the UE may determine a Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) (i.e., either a RA-RNTI or a MsgB-RNTI) based on an index of the PRACH occasion RO index. The UE may also decode a response from the gNB that includes the RNTI. The UE may determine the RNTI based on the RO index in a time domain and the RO index in a frequency domain.
US12200770B2	Uplink beam management method and apparatus A method includes: When user equipment is in an RRC idle mode or inactive mode, the user equipment sends a first random access preamble to an access network device on a PRACH resource, and sends first uplink data to the access network device on a PUSCH resource. The user equipment sends, by using at least two beams respectively, SRSs to the access network device on at least two SRS resources associated with the PUSCH resource. The user equipment receives a random access response from the access network device, where the random access response includes beam indication information, and the beam indication information is used to indicate an optimal beam in the at least two beams.
US12200764B2	Method and device for managing channel occupancy duration of unlicensed frequency band This application discloses a wireless communication method, including: receiving, by a network device, uplink transmission of a first terminal in first duration of channel occupancy duration of the first terminal, where the channel occupancy duration of the first terminal further includes second duration, and the second duration is later than the first duration; and performing, by the network device, downlink transmission in the second duration, where a sum of the first duration and the second duration is less than or equal to the channel occupancy duration of the first terminal. This application further discloses a network device and a terminal that correspond to the wireless communication method. By applying the method and devices, a resource obtained through contention by a terminal applied to an unlicensed frequency band can be properly used, to improve operating efficiency of the unlicensed frequency band.
US12200763B2	User equipments, base stations, and methods A UE which communicates with a base station is described. The UE may comprise receiving circuitry configured to monitor a PDCCH with a DCI format; transmitting circuitry configured to transmit a PUSCH subject to a channel access procedure, a starting position of initial symbol for PUSCH being adjusted by x; wherein the DCI format includes a 4-bit information field, the 4-bit information is characterized by at least one or more of following values.
US12200762B2	Method and apparatus for selecting resources based on partial sensing in NR V2X Provided are a method for performing wireless communication based on partial sensing by a first device, and an apparatus for supporting same. The method may comprise: selecting Y slots including a plurality of sidelink (SL) resources within a selection window; performing sensing for at least one slot related to the Y slots; and determining at least one first SL transmission resource based on a resource reservation period and the sensing for the at least one slot, wherein the first device is allowed to perform a re-evaluation procedure or a pre-emption procedure only for resources not later than a last resource among the plurality of SL resources initially selected within each period.
US12200759B2	Grant based physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission and configured grant based PUSCH transmission in new radio (NR) systems operating on unlicensed spectrum Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can operate on an unlicensed spectrum. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can perform a first listen-before-talk (LBT) operation of a LBT protocol in a first slot from among multiple slots to determine whether the unlicensed spectrum is unoccupied. Thereafter, these systems, methods, and apparatuses can transmit an uplink (UL) transmission in other slots from among the plurality of slots in response to the unlicensed spectrum being unoccupied. Otherwise, these systems, methods, and apparatuses can perform a second LBT operation in a second slot from among the plurality of slots in response to the unlicensed spectrum being occupied.
US12200754B2	Techniques for assisted message decoding Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a first random access preamble to a base station and may transmit a payload associated with the first random access preamble via a first random access message as part of a two-step random access procedure. The base station may receive the first random access message and attempt to detect the first random access preamble. The base station may identify multiple random access preamble indices based on a detected random access preamble and may perform multiple decoding attempts on the payload portion of the first random access message using the multiple random access preamble indices. The base station may perform the multiple decoding attempts sequentially until one decoding attempt is successful or may perform the multiple decoding attempts in parallel.
US12200749B2	Handling of measurement gap collisions Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) flexibly prioritize between communication resources and measurement gaps to resolve collisions between communication resources and measurement gaps. For collisions between a dynamically scheduled communication resources and a measurement gap, a UE may communicate using the scheduled communication resource based on at least one of a time between reception of the downlink control message and a start of the measurement gap satisfying a first threshold duration or a second period of time between reception of the downlink control message and a start of the communication resource satisfying a second threshold duration. For collisions between periodic communication resources and periodic measurement gaps, a UE may either perform a measurement during the measurement gap or communicate using the communication resource based on a priority scheme associated with the measurement gap and the periodically scheduled communication resource.
US12200735B2	Base station, terminal, and communication method A base station is disclosed that enables an efficient use of resources even when a TTI length is shortened. In this base station, a PDCCH section (103) generates one piece of downlink control information (DCI) containing control information for a plurality of first transmission time intervals (TTIs) each having a TTI length shorter than a second TTI, and a transmission section (107) transmits the DCI. Control information on retransmission processing for a data signal is configured for each of the plurality of first TTIs while control information other than the control information on the retransmission processing is configured in common among the plurality of first TTIs in the DCI.
US12200731B2	Uplink power control for full duplex communication Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive downlink control information (DCI) that schedules an uplink communication in an uplink frequency band. The UE may transmit, at an uplink frequency within the uplink frequency band, the uplink communication with a power that varies over the uplink frequency band based at least in part on a location of the uplink frequency relative to a downlink frequency band associated with the UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12200729B2	Radio terminal Configurations of a user equipment and an apparatus provided in a user equipment, and a method used in a user equipment, receive from a base station, for each bandwidth part of a plurality of bandwidth parts provided in a bandwidth of one carrier, information indicating a frequency location of the bandwidth part and information indicating a subcarrier spacing applied to the corresponding bandwidth part, receive from the base station, information indicating a use condition of a predetermined bandwidth part included in the plurality of bandwidth parts. In response to determining that the use condition is satisfied, the configurations and method use the predetermined bandwidth part.
US12200726B2	Method for transmitting and receiving signal in wireless communication system, and device supporting same Various embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus supporting the same.
US12200725B2	User equipment, base stations and signaling for enhanced uplink transmissions A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive signaling that comprises a configuration for a configured grant physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) or a grant-based PUSCH. The UE also includes a higher layer processor configured to determine whether to use multi-segment transmissions and mini-slot repetitions for the configured grant PUSCH or grant-based PUSCH. The UE further includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit the multi-segment transmissions and the mini-slot repetitions for the configured grant PUSCH or grant-based PUSCH.
US12200723B2	Sidelink data transmission method and apparatus and sidelink resource allocation method and apparatus A method, apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for sidelink data transmission are provided. The method may be applied to a user equipment. The user equipment may receive allocation information transmitted by a base station. The allocation information instructs user equipment to transmit a second service type of data on a second time-frequency resource and contains priority information of the second service type of data. The user equipment may determine whether to transmit a first service type of data on a first time-frequency resource or transmit the second service type of data on the first time-frequency resource according to a priority of the first service type of data and a priority of the second service type of data if the first time-frequency resource is the same as the second time-frequency resource.
US12200718B2	Techniques for scheduling communication resources Techniques for wireless communications are described. Control information used to preschedule communication resources may be received and communications may be performed based on the control information using a prescheduling technique. A scheduling type used for the control information may be determined using configuration information, an indication included in the control information, or both. A wireless device that is prescheduled communication resources may not start or not restart an inactivity timer based on the received control information. Also, a wireless device that is prescheduled communication resources may not start a retransmission timer based on the received control information. Additionally, a wireless device that is prescheduled communication resources may also refrain from transmitting a scheduling request based on a duration until a next instance of prescheduled communication resources is expected to occur.
US12200715B2	Industrial automation system communication As an aspect, there is provided an apparatus configured to: obtain, by an access node from a network control entity, at least one service flow configuration for a plurality of terminal devices in an industrial automation system, the configuration indicating an association between downlink and uplink message transmissions and a cycle time requirement with regard to communication between the network control entity and the plurality of terminal devices; allocate resources as a group of shared resources for the uplink message transmission for each of the plurality of terminal devices based on the association and according to the cycle time requirement, and transmit information on the allocation to the plurality of terminal devices, the information comprising a terminal device-specific resource indicator for each of the plurality of terminal devices for avoiding collision in the uplink message transmission.
US12200708B2	Timelines for uplink control information multiplexing over multiple slot transmissions A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided for wireless communication. The apparatus applies a processing timeline for multiplexing uplink control information (UCI) in at least one slot of a multiple slot physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission. The apparatus transmits the multiple slot PUSCH transmission with multiplexed UCI based on the processing timeline being satisfied.
US12200705B2	Latency reduction and coverage enhancement for extended reality Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify a resource for a joint uplink transmission comprising a sounding reference signal and a scheduling request. The UE may receive a grant of a set of resources for an uplink data transmission to a base station. The UE may perform the joint uplink transmission comprising the sounding reference signal and the scheduling request using the resource for the joint uplink transmission in connection with performing the uplink data transmission using the set of resources for the uplink data transmission.
US12200696B2	Signaling of multiple candidate cells for L1/L2-centric inter-cell mobility A scheduled entity receives a communication from a scheduling entity that facilitates a configuration on how to connect with a plurality of candidate cells. The scheduled entity then exchanges information about the plurality of candidate cells with the scheduling entity via Layer 1 (L1)/Layer 2 (L2) signaling, and connects with at least one of the plurality of candidate cells based on the L1/L2 signaling and the configuration. In another example, a scheduling entity transmits a communication to a scheduled entity to pre-configure the scheduled entity on how to connect with a plurality of candidate cells. The scheduling entity then receives information about the plurality of candidate cells from the scheduled entity via L1/L2 signaling, and dynamically selects via the L1/L2 signaling at least one of the plurality of candidate cells to serve the scheduled entity.
US12200694B2	Considerations for intra-UE multiplexing and simultaneous transmission Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE) are described. A UE may receive control signaling that indicates that the UE is scheduled to transmit a first uplink control channel message during first time domain resources and a first uplink shared channel message during second time domain resources, and the time domain resources may overlap. The UE may identify that the UE includes a UE capability to simultaneously transmit uplink control channel and uplink shared channel messages. The UE may transmit the first uplink control channel message the first component carrier during the first time domain resources and also the first uplink shared channel message during the second time domain resources.
US12200693B2	Method and device for repeatedly transmitting uplink channel in wireless communication system A method and a device for repeatedly transmitting an uplink channel in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method for repeatedly transmitting an uplink channel, according to one embodiment of the disclosure, can comprise the steps of: receiving configuration information related to the repeated transmission of N (N is a natural number) number of resource units (RUs) of an uplink channel; receiving downlink control information (DCI); and transmitting the uplink channel on the basis of the configuration information.
US12200692B2	Transmission method and terminal device A transmission method and a terminal device are provided in implementations of the present disclosure. The method includes the following. A terminal device determines a target uplink (UL) resource on a target carrier for transmitting a target UL channel. The terminal device transmits at least part of content in the target UL channel on at least part of the target UL resource according to a detection result of the target carrier.
US12200689B2	Methods and devices for scheduling transmission of control information This disclosure relates to methods and devices for scheduling transmission of control information in wireless communication systems. In one implementation, the method includes receiving, by a wireless network node, a first scheduling request for a radio channel to transmit a first set of information. The method may also include scheduling, by the wireless network node, a first radio channel during a first time slot as a first shared channel for transmitting the first set of information in response to the first scheduling request, the first shared channel being shared by control information and the first set of information. The method may further include detecting, by the wireless network node, a conflict related to the first shared channel, and resolving, by the wireless network node, the conflict related to the first shared channel.
US12200688B2	Transmission, retransmission, and HARQ process for preconfigured uplink resource in idle mode A user equipment (UE) in idle mode may use a preconfigured uplink resource for transmission, retransmission, and/or hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ). For example, the UE may store configuration data for a preconfigured uplink resource and a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) for idle mode communication. In idle mode, the UE generates an uplink transmission using the preconfigured uplink resource. After the uplink transmission, the UE starts a retransmission timer, and monitors physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) with the RNTI provided in the configuration data for HARQ acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK).
US12200686B2	User equipments, base stations and methods for a priority of uplink transmission(s) A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a downlink control information (DCI) format used for scheduling of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The UE further includes transmitting circuitry configured to perform hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) transmission which is identified as a high priority. The transmitting circuitry is further configured to perform HARQ-ACK transmission corresponding to the PDSCH scheduled by using a PDCCH for the DCI format which is detected in a common search space associated with a control resource set #0 (a CORESET #0).
US12200685B2	Mechanism for TB processing over multi-slot scheme The present disclosure proposes configuration for TB processing over multi-slot, particularly Transmission Block over multi-slot (TBoMS) transmission. Specifically, such configuration for TBoMS may relate to at least one of size determination for TBoMS, scheduling for TBoMS transmission, resources determination and allocation for TBoMS transmission, and so on, and corresponding information related to such configuration can be acquired, set or determined appropriately, so that the TB processing over multi-slot can be performed accordingly.
US12200681B2	System and method of modes for data transmission In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus obtain a signal from a remote wireless node. The apparatus may switch between a first mode and a second mode in response to the signal. The apparatus may sense the shared transmission medium and sense if an absence of traffic is detected. The apparatus may delay data transmission for a fixed time interval from detecting the absence of traffic. The apparatus may initiate the data transmission at the end of the fixed time interval if operating in the first mode or initiate the data transmission at the end of a random time interval following the fixed time interval if operation in the second mode.
US12200679B2	Communication method and related apparatus Example communication methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes sending one or more configuration indications by a first station. One configuration indication in the one or more configuration indications corresponds to one second station in one or more second stations. The configuration indication includes an identifier of the second station and a transmit beam indication, and the transmit beam indication is used to indicate a transmit beam used by the second station to send data. The second station receiving the configuration indication sends the data to the first station through the transmit beam indicated by the transmit beam indication. According to the embodiments of this application, the first station can control the second station to perform data transmission.
US12200676B2	Methods and apparatuses for flexible bandwidth utilisation Embodiments described herein relate to methods and apparatuses for configuring communication between a base station and at least one wireless device, the base station using an antenna array, wherein antenna ports in the antenna array are coupled to radio frequency branches. The method comprises determining a first radio frequency bandwidth for a first radio frequency branch based on one or more factors associated with traffic served by a plurality of radio frequency bandwidth parts, and configuring the first radio frequency branch to serve frequencies within the first radio frequency bandwidth.
US12200671B2	Configuring super slots for uplink and downlink Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a mobile station may receive, from a base station, an indication of a time domain resource allocation, wherein the indication is associated with a starting symbol and a length and includes symbols across at least two slots. Accordingly, the mobile station may communicate, with the base station, using the time domain resource allocation. In some aspects, a mobile station may receive, from a base station, an indication of at least two slots to be merged, wherein the at least two slots are associated with a periodicity. Accordingly, the mobile station may communicate, with the base station and within the at least two slots. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12200670B2	Bandwidth part allocation control A method for controlling bandwidth part (BWP) allocation for a plurality of wireless communication devices (WCDs) is disclosed. The WCDs are organized in one or more multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) groups, wherein each MIMO group comprises WCDs with a current BWP allocation that falls within a BWP region associated with the MIMO group. The method comprises selecting one of the plurality of WCDs as a candidate WCD for MIMO group switch, and determining a first orthogonality metric between the candidate WCD and WCDs of a candidate MIMO group, wherein the candidate WCD is not currently comprised in the candidate MIMO group. When the first orthogonality metric meets a first orthogonality criterion, the method comprises updating the BWP allocation for the candidate WCD, wherein the updated BWP allocation for the candidate WCD falls within the BWP region associated with the candidate MIMO group, and performing a MIMO group switch of the candidate WCD from its current MIMO group to the candidate MIMO group. Corresponding apparatus, network node and computer program product are also disclosed.
US12200666B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting or receiving centric frequency domain resource allocation Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit signaling that includes an indication of a resource block set configuration to one or more sidelink UE, the resource block set configuration based at least in part on a type of sidelink communications to be performed and from a set of available resource block set configurations that comprises at least a minimum overlapping frequency resource block set configuration. The UE may perform the sidelink communications with the one or more sidelink UE according to the resource block set configuration.
US12200664B2	Method of operating a wireless communication device in a disconnected operational mode, wireless communication device and base station A method of operating a wireless communication device (or, simply device) is provided. The wireless communication device is configured for communication with a wireless communications network in a disconnected operational mode. The method comprises: monitoring for at least one wake-up signal included in a beam-swept burst of multiple wake-up signals in the disconnected operational mode prior to a paging occasion included in a beam swept burst of multiple paging occasions, wherein the at least one wake-up signal enables the wireless communication device to synchronize with the wireless communications network, and wherein the at least one wake-up signal is indicative of at least one time-frequency resource element of the paging occasion allocated to a paging indication that is transmitted using the same downlink transmit beam as the at least one wake-up signal; and responsive to detection of the at least one wake-up signal, monitoring the at least one time-frequency resource element of the downlink transmit beam where the wake-up signal was detected for a paging indication based on the detected at least one wake-up signal, wherein the detected at least one wake-up signal enables the wireless communication device to receive the paging indication without first monitoring for a synchronization signal block.
US12200659B2	Method for transmitting and receiving uplink reference signal for positioning, and device therefor A method by which a terminal transmits, in a wireless communication system, a reference signal for positioning is disclosed. Particularly, the disclosure can comprise: receiving information related to a cell list including at least one cell; receiving one or more downlink signals from the at least one cell; determining the transmission power of the reference signal on the basis of the reception power of a specific downlink signal from among the one or more downlink signals; and transmitting the reference signal on the basis of the transmission power.
US12200658B2	Reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurement report enhancements for multi-timing error group (TEG) requests Disclosed are techniques for wireless positioning. In an aspect, a first network node receives a measurement request from a location server, the measurement request requesting the first network node to measure a positioning reference signal (PRS) resource from at least one second network node using a plurality of receive timing error groups (Rx TEGs) of the first network node, and transmits a measurement report to the location server, the measurement report including a plurality of positioning measurements based on the PRS resource, the plurality of positioning measurements corresponding to the plurality of Rx TEGs.
US12200652B2	Network attach method and user equipment Embodiments of this application provide a network attach method and user equipment. The method is applied to UE, and includes: sending a first network attach request message to a first target gateway according to the first information; where the first information is used to indicate load information of each of M gateways; the first target gateway is at least one gateway, to which the UE has never sent a network attach request message, in the M gateways; and the first network attach request message is used to request to attach to a 3GPP network through an untrusted Wi-Fi network, where M is a positive integer.
US12200650B2	Satellite tracking area update method and related apparatus User equipment receives at least one TAC that is broadcast by a network device, where the TAC includes geographical location information, and the geographical location information is used to indicate a geographical location of a preset location point in a TA corresponding to the TAC. The user equipment determines, based on the TAC and a tracking area list (TAL), whether the TAL needs to be updated. If it is determined that the TAL needs to be updated, the user equipment sends a tracking area update request to the network device. The user equipment receives a response message, of the tracking area update request, returned by the network device.
US12200649B2	Integrated access backhaul (IAB) nodes with negative propagation delay indication Embodiments include methods performed by an integrated access backhaul (JAB) node configured for operation in an IAB network. Such methods include receiving, from an upstream node in the IAB network, first timing offset information related to communications between the IAB node and the upstream node. Such methods include transmitting a downlink (DL) signal to one or more downstream nodes in the IAB network. The DL signal is transmitted according to a DL transmission timing determined from the following: the IAB node's DL reception timing of a DL signal received from the upstream node; and a second timing value determined based on a first function of the first timing offset information, when the first function of the first timing offset information is greater than a threshold. Other embodiments also include IAB nodes configured to perform such methods.
US12200642B2	Method and apparatus for communication based on frame structure The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). The method for operating a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes detecting a synchronization signal block, performing downlink synchronization process according to the detected synchronization signal block, and determining time-frequency resources of an anchor subband; acquiring random access configuration information according to the time-frequency resources of the anchor subband, performing a random access process according to the random access configuration information, and completing uplink synchronization; and acquiring control information in a control channel band, and performing data communication with a base station in the data transmission band according to the control information.
US12200640B2	Signaling and configuration of maximum transmit power using virtual ports Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, an indication of whether the UE is capable of using a virtual port to transmit uplink communications using a maximum transmit power according to a power class of the UE. The virtual port may be a combination of one or more antenna ports. The indication may be based at least in part on an operating mode of the UE. The UE may receive, from the base station, a sounding reference signal configuration based at least in part on the indication. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12200639B2	Electronic device for transmitting radio-frequency signal and method for operating same An electronic device may include: at least one communication processor, an RFIC, at least one power amplifier, and at least one converter and wherein the at least one communication processor is configured to: set a driving voltage, to be applied to a first power amplifier for amplifying a first RF signal provided from the RFIC among the at least one power amplifier, to be a first voltage, based on an APT mode, control at least part of the at least one converter to provide a first voltage, set based on the APT mode, to the first power amplifier during a transmission period of the first RF signal, and control at least part of the at least one converter to provide the first voltage to the first power amplifier during at least partial period of a remaining period in which no RF signal is transmitted, based on the occurrence of an event associated with audible noise.
US12200638B2	Methods, apparatus and device-readable mediums relating to wireless access in a network requiring a carrier-sense mechanism Methods, apparatus, and device-readable mediums are disclosed relating to wireless access in a network requiring a carrier-sense mechanism. One aspect provides a method performed by a transmitting device for transmitting to a receiving device in a wireless communications network. The transmitting device comprises a plurality of antenna elements. The method comprises: performing a directional carrier-sense assessment for one or more sub-bands configured for transmissions between the transmitting device and the receiving device, the directional carrier-sense assessment utilizing beamforming to detect a respective level of wireless activity on each of the sub-bands in a particular direction for transmissions to the receiving device; selecting a respective transmit power for each sub-band based on the determined level of wireless activity; and transmitting to the receiving device in the particular direction, using the respective selected transmit power for each sub-band.
US12200637B2	Communication device, communication control device, and communication method A communication device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit, a calculation unit, and a radio wave communication unit. The acquisition unit acquires a position of a reference point provided in a region related to a first wireless system and a limit value of an interference quantity at the reference point. The calculation unit calculates, on the basis of at least the position and the limit value, allowable power by which an interference quantity of a radio wave transmitted by beamforming at the reference point is equal to or less than the limit value. The radio wave communication unit that transmits a radio wave having a frequency within a second frequency band partially or entirely overlapping with a first frequency band allocated to the first wireless system by beamforming with power equal to or less than the allowable power.
US12200634B2	Techniques for uplink transmission power splitting Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may select an uplink transmission power sharing configuration to use for transmission of one or more uplink messages. The uplink transmission power sharing configuration may be based on a first uplink transmission power capability of a first radio frequency (RF) chain of the UE and on a second uplink transmission power capability of a second RF chain of the UE. The UE may transmit the one or more uplink messages to a network entity in accordance with the uplink transmission power sharing configuration. Specifically, the UE may transmit the one or more uplink messages via the first RF chain using a first transmission power, and may transmit the one or more uplink messages via the second RF chain using a second transmission power that is different from the first transmission power.
US12200633B2	Power control method and apparatus A first terminal device determines a transmit power of a data channel, wherein the transmit power of the data channel comprise a first data channel part and a transmit power of a second data channel part, where the first data channel part is a part of the data channel that has a same time domain resource with a control channel, and the second data channel part is another part of the data channel that has a different time domain resource with the control channel. The first terminal device sends data in the first data channel part at the transmit power of the first data channel part, and sends data in the second data channel part at the transmit power of the second data channel part. This application may be applied to internet of vehicles, for example, V2X, LTE-V, and V2V.
US12200631B2	Electronic device and method for controlling power of transmission signal in electronic device including multiple antennas According to various embodiments, an electronic device may comprise: a memory, a communication processor, at least one radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC), and a plurality of antennas each connected with the at least one RFIC. The communication processor may be configured to: identify a change in an antenna-related setting for the plurality of antennas, identify frequency band information corresponding to a signal being communicated through at least one antenna among the plurality of antennas, in response to the change in the antenna-related setting, identify, from the memory, a transmit power-related setting value set corresponding to the identified frequency band information and an event related to the communication processor, and control the electronic device to adjust a power of a transmission signal to be transmitted through at least one antenna among the plurality of antennas based on the identified transmit power-related setting value.
US12200627B2	Enhancements on group common downlink control information for sounding reference signal triggering Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes receiving a group-common downlink control information (GC-DCI) of a format that has multiple blocks that allow for triggering sounding reference signal (SRS) transmissions on one or more component carriers (CCs) with transmit power control (TPC) independent of TPC commands for SRS, determining, based on one of the blocks, one or more SRS parameters for transmitting SRS on at least a first CC, and transmitting SRS on at least the first CC in accordance with SRS parameters.
US12200623B2	Adaptive configured grant for power saving Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be receive a grant configuration including multiple set of parameters, and the UE may select a set of parameters from the configured grant based on a channel condition. In some examples, the UE may be configured to signal to a network (e.g., a base station) the selected set of parameters and their corresponding parameter values. For example, the UE may be configured to signal the selected set of parameters over semi-static signaling (e.g., radio resource control (RRC) messaging) or dynamic signaling (e.g., medium access control-control element (MAC-CE) messaging, uplink control information (UCI) messaging, or the like). By configuring the UE with multiple set of parameters, the UE may adapt to changing channel conditions, which may provide higher reliability and lower latency for wireless communications, as well as reduce power consumption for the UE.
US12200622B2	Power saving for user equipment through sidelink resource allocation A user equipment (UE) configured to determine a resource selection window which identifies a first set (e.g., a total set) of candidate resources. The UE may then remove one or more candidate resources from the first set of candidate resources in response to receiving sidelink control information (SCI) from a pedestrian UE with a reservation of the one or more first candidate resources. After removal of these candidate resources from the initial or first set based on their presumed unavailability, the result may be a second set of candidate resources, which may be a subset of the initial or first set for use in communicating with a third UE. The UE may also be configured to remove candidate resources based on a reference signal receive power (RSRP) threshold which can also be adjusted based on a maximum value or a highest priority of the pedestrian UE's data.
US12200621B2	Method for connecting a user terminal to a network slice A method for connecting a user terminal to a subset of a network dedicated to a service, termed network slice, implemented by the terminal. This method includes receiving at least one network slice identifier, originating from an access device associated with the at least one identified slice; selecting a network slice as a function of parameters included in the terminal, and of the at least one slice identifier received; and attaching to the access device associated with the selected network slice.
US12200619B2	Communication method and apparatus This application provides a communication method and apparatus. The communication method includes: detecting that a terminal in an inactive state is in an out-of-service state, and determining a target cell of the terminal.
US12200618B2	Enhancements for edge network acces for a ue Methods, apparatus, and systems are described for improved edge network access for a UE. According to some aspects, a UE may receive a first Data Network Name (DNN) from an application and determine, based on a Data Network Name (DNN) Replacement Rule, the first DNN is associated with a second Data Network Name (DNN), where the first DNN and the second DNN are different. The UE may determine, based on the DNN Replacement Rule, to associate traffic from the application with a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) Session, where the PDU Session may be used to send data from the application to a network and the PDU Session is associated with the second DNN.
US12200616B2	Edge computing Methods and apparatuses for edge services are disclosed. A network function entity receives from an application function entity a request relating to a data communication session, and can then determine, in response to the request, information of at least one local network exposure function entity for the application function entity. The application function entity is provided with the information of the at least one local network exposure function entity. The information can be used in connecting with a local network exposure function entity. The local network exposure function entity can then be used for the data communication session.
US12200613B2	Radio access technology searching in dual active mode Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may detect that a first subscription, of a plurality of subscriptions associated with the UE, is associated with an active service on a first cellular network. The UE may search, for a second subscription of the plurality of subscriptions, for radio access technologies (RATs) and frequency bands that are compatible with a dual active mode of the UE. In some aspects, the UE may detect that the active service on the first cellular network has ended. Accordingly, the UE may search, for the second subscription, for RATs and frequency bands that are compatible with the dual active mode of the UE and for RATs and frequency bands that are incompatible with the dual active mode, before expiry of a timer associated with a power saving state. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12200612B2	Methods and systems for conditional scanning Various methods and systems are provided for conditional scanning of a wireless network by a wireless monitoring system. The method for the wireless monitoring system comprises performing a scan of a wireless network in a first order to identify a plurality of access points (APs), reordering the plurality of APs to form a reordered group of APs based on a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of each AP of the plurality of APs, and scanning the reordered group in a second order different than the first order to identify a candidate AP of the reordered group to roam to.
US12200611B2	Techniques for preventing overloading of public land mobile network (PLMN) subject to disaster Certain aspects of the subject matter described in this disclosure can be implemented in a method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes registering with a first public land mobile network (PLMN) of a first network operator in response to detection of an interruption event associated with a second PLMN of a second network operator; determining that the interruption event has ended; and taking one or more actions to communicate with the second PLMN in response to the ending of the interruption event, wherein taking the one or more actions to communicate with the second PLMN is based on a constraint associated with access attempts to the second PLMN.
US12200610B2	PDCP duplication enhancements Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs, for selecting radio link control (RLC) entities to transmit packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) control protocol data unit (PDU). In one aspect, the method includes actions of accessing, by a device in a wireless communication system, data representing an index of RLC entities of a data radio bearer (DRB)/PDCP entity and RLC activation state information, the activation state information indicating whether one or more RLC entities of the DRB/PDCP entity in the index of RLC entities is activated or deactivated, selecting, by the device in the wireless communication system, a subset of the RLC entities of the DRB/PDCP entity based on an index position in the index and the activation state information for each of the RLC entities, and using the selected subset of RLC entities of the DRB/PDCP entity to transmit the PDCP Control PDU.
US12200609B2	Search scheduling for wireless communications Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE). The method includes selecting, for each of a plurality of periodic search opportunities, one receive beam of a plurality of receive beams for receiving at least one synchronization signal. The plurality of periodic search opportunities includes a plurality of regular search opportunities and a plurality of prioritized search opportunities. The plurality of receive beams includes at least one prioritized receive beam and at least one additional receive beam. The selecting includes selecting from the at least one prioritized receive beam for each of the plurality of prioritized search opportunities; and selecting from the plurality of receive beams for each of the plurality of regular search opportunities. The method further includes receiving, at each of the plurality of periodic search opportunities, the corresponding at least one synchronization signal using the corresponding selected receive beam.
US12200608B2	Communication method and related device Embodiments of this application provide example communication methods and example devices. One example method includes sending information to a first node, where the information includes at least one of information about a first group of logical channel identities (LCIDs) or information about a second group of LCIDs, the first group of LCIDs includes an LCID used for access traffic, and the second group of LCIDs includes an LCID used for backhaul traffic. Another information can then be sent to the first node, where the another information is used to configure a radio link control (RLC) bearer of the first node, the RLC bearer includes a RLC layer entity and a logical channel, and when an LCID corresponding to the logical channel belongs to the first group of LCIDs, an upper protocol layer of a RLC layer is a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer or an F1 interface protocol layer.
US12200604B2	UE capability for fast SCell activation A wireless device may transmit capability IE(s) indicating that the wireless device supports fast SCell activation. The wireless device may receive a command indicating activation of a reference signal for fast activation of a SCell. The wireless device may activate the SCell based on the command.
US12200602B2	Methods and apparatus to redirect internet clients for media monitoring Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to redirect internet clients for media monitoring. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes memory, instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to detect connections between client devices and a first WI-FI connection point, the client devices connected to the first WI-FI connection point via a second WI-FI connection point, when a first number of the connections is less than a second number of possible connections to the first WI-FI connection point, generate an additional connection to the first WI-FI connection point, the additional connection corresponding to at least one of the client devices, and route the client devices to the first WI-FI connection point via the first number of connections and the additional connection.
US12200599B2	Discovery of reconfigurable surfaces Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. During an operation for discovering reconfigurable surfaces, a sensing signal may be transmitted. Based on the sensing signal being transmitted, another signal may be detected at the device that transmitted the sensing signal, another device, or both. The device that detects the signal may combine the detected signal with a modulation sequence that is associated with a reconfigurable surface, where the reconfigurable surface may be assigned a set of unique modulation sequences and configured to apply a modulation sequence to received signals. Based on combining the detected signal with the modulation sequence, the device may determine whether the reconfigurable surface is present within a geographic region.
US12200598B2	Method and apparatus for supporting communication via a relay wireless device A method and apparatus for supporting communication buffer status reports (BSRs) are disclosed. A wireless device may transmit a first buffer status report (BSR) and a second BSR in a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) to a first base station. In an example, the first BSR may be associated with first data for transmission to the wireless device from at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). Also, the second BSR may be associated with second data for transmission to the first base station from the wireless device. Further, the wireless device may receive at least a portion of the first data from the at least one WTRU. Moreover, the wireless device may transmit at least a portion of the second data to the first base station. In a further example, the transmitting the first BSR and the second BSR may be based on a priority associated with the first BSR and a priority associated with the second BSR.
US12200594B2	Method and apparatus for reducing latency in a communication system by reconfiguring a communication device based on a received signaling message comprising an indication of a failure in a backhaul link The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: transmitting a signaling message to a first node on a backup backhaul route, the signaling message comprising an indication of a failure in a backhaul link including a second node different from the first node.
US12200593B2	Management apparatus, communication system, management method, and program A management apparatus is configured to determine whether or not distribution of status information representing a wireless communication status in a public wireless system including at least one wireless station that executes wireless communication with a wireless terminal is necessary. The distribution is a distribution to a mobile communication terminal via a mobile communication system that provides a mobile communication service to the mobile communication terminal. The management apparatus is configured to transmit, when it is determined that the distribution is necessary, a request to the mobile communication system to set a dedicated fixed channel in a public communication network used in the mobile communication system. The dedicated fixed channel is fixed exclusively for the public wireless system. The management apparatus is configured to transmit the status information to the mobile communication system to distribute the status information to the mobile communication terminal via the dedicated fixed channel.
US12200586B2	Telecommunications apparatus and methods A method of operating a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications network is described. The method comprised; receiving a system information block containing a list of a plurality of different values of a parameter used in the wireless telecommunication network; determining one or more parameter values in the list which is supported within the terminal device; and receiving a system information block associated with the one or more supported parameter values from one or more other system information blocks associated with non-supported parameter values.
US12200583B2	Providing route information to devices during a shared transport service A system and method of providing information about a transport service to user devices are described. The system arranges a transport service for a first user and a second user. The system determines first data corresponding to a first route from a location of a driver device of the driver to a first pickup location of the first user and second data corresponding to a second route from the first pickup location to a second pickup location of the second user. A combined route is determined based on the first data and the second data. The system transmits data associated with the first data without transmitting the data corresponding to the combined route to a first user device of the first user, and transmits data corresponding to the combined route to a second user device of the second user.
US12200582B2	Method and device for managing data, and computer program product A method (200) and device (500) for managing data and a computer program product, wherein the method (200) comprises: acquiring data related to a schedule of a user (101) at a mobile terminal device (102). The method (200) further comprises: identifying the data to obtain a travel time related to the user (101) and location information corresponding to the travel time. The method (200) further comprises: sending a transmission request related to the travel time and the location information to a server (103), so that the server (103) sends the travel time and the location information to a vehicle (104) related to an identification of user of the user (101), wherein the transmission request at least comprises the identification of user, the travel time and the location information.
US12200572B2	Environment dead zone determination based on UWB ranging In aspects of environment dead zone determination based on UWB ranging, a system includes ultra-wideband (UWB) radios associated with respective devices in an environment. An automation controller receives UWB ranging data from the UWB radios, and can monitor locations of the respective devices in the environment. The automation controller can detect a loss of coverage by a device connected in the environment, and determine a coverage dead zone within the environment at the location of the loss of coverage by the device based on the UWB ranging data. A computing device can implement the automation controller that receives the UWB ranging data from the UWB radios, and monitors the locations of the respective devices in the environment. The automation controller can detect the loss of coverage by the device, and determine the coverage dead zone within the environment at the location of the loss of coverage by the device.
US12200569B2	Guidance to a target location Architectures and techniques are presented that can leverage network equipment (e.g., broadband provider equipment, cellular provider equipment) in order to provide enhanced guidance to a target location. This enhanced guidance can supplement existing mapping or navigation equipment. Such can be advantageous for public safety answering point entities and first responder entities as well as, potentially, for service technicians or delivery. When an entity (e.g., first responder) is dispatched to a particular location, an associated residential gateway (RG) or other device can be identified, and an associated SSID determined. This SSID can be provided to the entity seeking that particular location so that SSID scans can operate similar to a transponder or homing beacon. The SSID might also be configured specially for this purpose. Additionally, the state of a device attached to the RG can be altered to further aid in locating, such as blinking porch lights or audible indicia.
US12200561B2	Systems and methods for dynamic handover threshold adjustment based on cell load in a wireless network A system described herein may receive respective measures of load associated with first and second cells of a wireless network. The system may receive a measures of utilization associated with the first and second cells, as determined by a User Equipment (“UE”) that is connected to the first cell. The system may determine whether the UE should be handed over from the first cell to the second cell, and further based on the measures of load associated with the first and second cells, the measures of utilization associated with the first and second cells, as determined by the UE. The system may cause the UE to be handed over from the first cell to the second cell based on the determining.
US12200559B2	Cellular network area optimizer The described technology is generally directed towards a cellular network area optimizer. The area optimizer observes cellular network conditions at multiple radio access network (RAN) nodes within a target area. Based on observed conditions, the area optimizer applies a set of parameter values at the multiple RAN nodes. The set of parameter values enhances the overall throughput, while maintaining or improving connection retainability and accessibility, of the multiple RAN nodes under the observed conditions. The area optimizer learns different sets of parameter values to apply in response to different observed conditions by making parameter value adjustments and observing the effect of the adjustments on overall throughput of the RAN nodes in the target area.
US12200558B2	Cell reselection control method and user equipment A cell reselection control method according to one embodiment is a method performed by a user equipment in an RRC idle state or an RRC inactive state in an unlicensed band. The cell reselection control method includes determining a congestion level individually for a plurality of candidates that are a plurality of carrier frequencies belonging to the unlicensed band or a plurality of cells, extracting, from among the plurality of candidates, a candidate satisfying a selection criterion required for the candidate to be used as a serving cell of the user equipment, and selecting, from among a plurality of the extracted candidates, a cell to be used as the serving cell. At least one of the extracting a candidate or the selecting a cell is based on the congestion level determined in the determining.
US12200557B2	Enhancement in NTN mobility Apparatuses, systems, and methods for enhancement in NTN mobility. A cellular base station may serve as a source base station of a handover procedure from the source base station to a target non-terrestrial network (NTN) base station. The cellular base station may configure a parameter associated with the target NTN base station in a handover command, the parameter being related to NTN mobility, and send the handover command to a wireless device for use by the wireless device during the handover procedure. The wireless device may receive the handover command from the cellular base station, and perform the handover procedure using the parameter associated with the target NTN base station.
US12200556B2	Modified handover procedures for earth fixed and earth mobile beams A user equipment (UE), next generation NodeB (gNB), or other network component can operate to configure a group configuration message that initiates a plurality of UEs in a coverage area of a non-terrestrial network (NTN) to concurrently transfer communication from a first beam of a first satellite to a second beam of a second satellite. The communications of one or more UEs can be re-directed to the second beam of the second satellite based on downlink control information of the group configuration message.
US12200552B2	Communication method and apparatus A method includes receiving a first message from a first master node. The first message includes an identifier of a first candidate primary secondary cell (PSCell) or an identifier of first configuration information of the first candidate PSCell. The first candidate PSCell is included in both a first PSCell list and a second PSCell list. Alternatively, the first message includes delta configuration information of a second candidate PSCell in the second PSCell list. The first configuration information of the first candidate PSCell includes an addition/change condition and a configuration of the first candidate PSCell. The first PSCell list includes one or more candidate PSCells configured by the first master node for a terminal. The second PSCell list includes one or more candidate PSCells configured by a second master node for the terminal. The method also includes adding a target PSCell or changing from an original PSCell to the target PSCell.
US12200548B2	Enhanced measurement report for conditional handover procedure Various example embodiments relate to signaling and execution of a handover based on an enhanced measurement report. A measurement report comprising an additional information element may be used by a network to make better and urgent decisions concerning handover procedures. Apparatuses, methods, and computer programs are disclosed.
US12200538B2	Methods and procedures for CRC aided encoding and BP decoding for polar codes Methods and apparatuses for relaxed polar coding, including cyclic redundancy check (CRC) aided encoding and belief propagation (BP) decoding for relaxed polar codes in wireless communications, are provided. For example, a method comprises determining: 1) a first set of encoding nodes used for creating CRC bits, 2) a first set of polarization branches, each associated with a respective encoding node of the first set of encoding nodes, and 3) a second set of polarization branches, each of the second set of polarization branches is at least one level higher than a respective polarization branch of the first set of polarization branches. The method also comprises performing polar encoding operation(s) for the second set of polarization branches including relaxation, generating a second set of encoding nodes based on the performed polar encoding operation(s) for the second set of polarization branches, and transmitting polar code bits using the generated second set of encoding nodes.
US12200534B2	Equal cost multipath and application quality of experience based on variable loss, latency, and bandwidth A method and a system for steering traffic in a wireless network. The method and system include an ingress point and an egress point of the wireless network with a plurality of paths between the two points. A plurality of hops are located along the plurality of paths. The plurality of paths may be bound as a single pipe at a logical level. The system may determine a quality of experience (QOE) score. Automated steering policies may be based on the QOE score. Traffic may be steered at each hop based on the automated steering policies. The QOE score may be determined by measuring bandwidth, loss, latency, and jitter at each hop. A customer may provide prioritization at an application level and the automated steering policies may also be based on the customer prioritization.
US12200530B2	Terminal and measurement method A terminal includes a receiving unit that receives a block and a reference signal that is for measuring a channel state, wherein the block includes a synchronization signal and system information; and a control unit that measures L1-SINR (Layer1 Signal to interference plus noise power ratio) based on the block including the synchronization signal and the system information, the reference signal for measuring the channel state, and measurement using a resource for measuring interference, wherein the control unit determines a period of measurement of the L1-SINR based on a configuration of the resource for measuring the interference.
US12200528B2	Technique for communicating a radio quality report A technique for receiving (306) a radio quality report over a secondary connection, which is different from the primary connection between a first device and a second device, to which the radio quality report relates, is described. As to a method aspect of the technique, a transmission (302), to the second device, of a control message indicative of configuring the second device with reporting a radio quality report over a secondary connection that is different from a primary connection between the first device and the second device is performed. A transmission (304), to the second device over the primary connection, of at least one reference signal, RS, is subsequently performed, followed by a reception (306), from the second device over the secondary connection, of the radio quality report that is indicative of a radio quality of the primary connection based on the at least one RS. Hereinafter, a transmission (308), based on the radio quality report, is performed of at least one of a second control message and data from the first device over the primary connection to the second device.
US12200525B2	RRM relaxation for stationary user equipment To more efficiently utilize resources, a UE may receive, from a base station, RRM measurement relaxation criteria for a stationary UE. The UE may skip one or more RRM measurements based on the RRM measurement relaxation criteria for the stationary UE.
US12200519B2	Multi-access point joint data transmission method and device, and computer-readable storage medium Provided are a transmission method and device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The transmission method includes: sending, by a first communication node, a notification frame, where the notification frame is used for instructing at least one second communication node to send a first physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU); and receiving, by the first communication node, the first PPDU sent by the at least one second communication node.
US12200518B2	Signal transmitting and receiving method in wireless communication system An embodiment relates to a method for performing an operation for a first terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: performing, by the first terminal, radio link monitoring of a second terminal; detecting a radio link failure (RLF) on the basis of the radio link monitoring; and after detecting the RLF, transmitting a signal to the second terminal, wherein the first terminal transmits, to a base station on the basis of the detection of the RLF, a sidelink measurement report including a measurement value of a radio link with the second terminal, and the signal is transmitted by applying a transmission parameter reconfigured on the basis of the sidelink measurement report.
US12200517B2	Methods of controlling adaptive UE beam measurement capability A method by a wireless device is provided for controlling adaptive beam measurement capability. The method includes identifying a type of serving carrier of a serving cell and allocating at least one resource for beam measurement based on the type that was identified.
US12200515B2	Verification of wireless network connection Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for verification of wireless network connection. A wireless local area network may comprise a client device and a gateway. A data connection, within the wireless local area network, between the client device and the gateway may be verified based on gateway identifiers provided to the client device via data communication channels internal and external the wireless local area network.
US12200507B2	Positioning reference signal transmission method and apparatus, device, and storage medium Provided are a positioning reference signal (PRS) transmission method and apparatus, and a storage medium. A PRS sending end presets PRS blocks having the same number as the number of shaped beams, a corresponding PRS sequence in each PRS block by using a preset sequence generation rule, and each PRS block containing the corresponding PRS sequence is sent according to a preset sending order of the PRS blocks in a polling manner through a shaped beam corresponding to the each PRS block. A PRS receiving end acquires a first PRS block sent by the PRS sending end; and when the first PRS block contains a block index, a sending index of a shaped beam corresponding to the first PRS block corresponding to the block index is determined according to preset correspondence; or when the first PRS block contains no block index, a sending index of a shaped beam corresponding to the first PRS block is determined according to a preset calculation rule. The sending index of the shaped beam is used for determining a time-domain position of the shaped beam.
US12200504B2	Audio stream identification by a wireless network controller An apparatus and method for transmitting audio with coexisting wireless networks. In one embodiment, a wireless device includes a first wireless network controller and a second wireless network controller. The first wireless network controller and the second wireless network controller are configured to access a wireless communication medium via a shared antenna, and to transmit, via the wireless communication medium, data received from a host device. The second wireless network controller includes an audio stream detector configured to determine, based on the contents of the data received from the host device, whether an audio stream is to be transmitted via the second wireless network controller, and to request that the second wireless network controller be given access priority to the antenna over the first wireless network controller, based on a determination that the audio stream is to be transmitted via the second wireless network controller.
US12200503B2	Time division duplex configuration selection for citizen band radio service operation with TDD configuration mismatch Time Division Duplex (TDD) Configuration Selection for CBRS operation with TDD Configuration Mismatch methods and apparatus are disclosed. The methods and apparatus allocate CBRS bandwidth and select TDD configurations in a manner that allows maximum cooperation between GAA and PAL CBSDs, and includes procedures that avoid forcing the procedures into a fallback mode whenever a TDD configuration mismatch occurs. The methods and apparatus allocate an appropriate TDD configuration across all of the CBSDs (BS/APs) in the CBRS network so that there is minimal interreference between the CBSDs and so that there is uniform usage of the bandwidth in terms of use cases across all of the CBSDs in a given CBRS network. The disclosed methods and apparatus determine how to select the correct TDD configurations for the CBSDs (or BS/APs) based on the constitution of the CBSDs, and taking the GAA and PAL CBSD requirements into account.
US12200502B2	Electronic device performing interference cancellation and operating method thereof The present disclosure provides an operating method of an electronic device supporting dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS). The method includes performing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a serving base station, receiving information for interference cancellation from the serving base station, receiving a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) from at least one adjacent base station that is different from the serving base station, and performing interference cancellation based on the CRS and the information for the interference cancellation.
US12200501B2	Resource reservation for sidelink communications in shared radio frequency spectrum Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a first user equipment (UE) may transmit a first communication to a second UE during a first channel occupancy time (COT). The first UE may reserve resources of one or more subsequent COTs for one or more repetitions of the first communication. The reserved resources may be identified based at least in part on a two stage resource reservation, in which reserved resources are identified relative to a timing of the one or more subsequent COTs. Such a UE may first determine a timing of a second COT and may then determine a timing of the reserved resources based on the timing of the second COT. The reserved resources may be identified based at least in part on one or more offsets from a starting time of the second COT.
US12200496B2	Profile transfer with secure intent Embodiments are described herein for transferring a subscriber identity module (SIM) or electronic SIM (eSIM) profile securely from a source device to a target device with verifiable signatures generated by secure hardware elements of the source device contingent on receipt of a secure intent gesture. Trustworthiness of the profile transfer is based on a mobile network operator (MNO) entitlement server releasing a transfer token after verification of a message signed by an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) of the source device. The eUICC signs the message only after verifying a message from a secure enclave processor (SEP) of the source device that signs the message based on receipt of the secure intent gesture via a secure interface. To validate communication between the SEP and the eUICC, an asymmetric cryptographic key pair generated by the SEP is bound to a unique eUICC identifier (EID) value of the eUICC.
US12200489B2	Method and apparatus for authenticating and authorizing network function in mobile communication system The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. Provided is a method by which a network function (NF) service consumer entity operates in a wireless communication system. The method by which the NF service consumer entity operates includes transmitting, to a service communication proxy (SCP) entity, a service request message including at least one of a client credentials assertion (CCA) credential of the NF service consumer entity, or information related to an NF service producer entity, receiving, from the SCP entity, a service response message, wherein the service response message generated by the NF service producer entity is forwarded by the SCP entity to the NF service consumer entity, and authenticating the NF service producer entity based on the service response message.
US12200483B2	Control apparatus, radio communication system, control method, and recording medium having recorded program In order to provide a control apparatus that enhances security of a radio communication system run by a user, the control apparatus including an acquisition section and a registration section, the acquisition section being configured to acquire subscriber information in which at least authentication information is encrypted, and the registration section being configured to register the acquired subscriber information in a database included in a core network. The control apparatus may further include an authentication section configured to decrypt the encrypted authentication information, and use the decrypted authentication information and authentication information included in a connection request from a terminal apparatus to the core network to authenticate the terminal apparatus.
US12200476B2	Managing mobile device voice over Wi-Fi handover The disclosed technology is directed towards preventing a handover of a Wi-Fi call to a Fifth Generation (5G) standalone cellular network. In one alternative, a 5G standalone usage setting is disabled on a mobile device when Wi-Fi calling is enabled on the mobile device. In another alternative, a 5G standalone usage setting is disabled on a mobile device when Wi-Fi calling is enabled on the mobile device and the mobile device is connected to a Wi-Fi network, which facilitates camping on a 5G standalone network when the mobile device is not connected to a Wi-Fi network. In yet another alternative, a 5G standalone usage setting is disabled on a mobile device when an evolved packet data gateway (ePDG) tunnel is set up on the mobile device, which similarly facilitates camping on a 5G standalone network when the ePDG tunnel is torn down.
US12200475B2	Network environment health monitoring Network environment health monitoring is provided by receiving an alert indicating that a first station (STA) is experiencing a connection with a first Access Point (AP) below a quality threshold; identifying a set of APs connected to a shared network with the first AP within one hop of the first AP; aggregating signal metrics for the first STA from the first AP and each AP of the set of APs; identifying a cause for the connection performing below the quality threshold based on the signal metrics as aggregated; and performing a remediation strategy based on the cause as identified.
US12200473B2	Methods, systems, and devices for federated blockchain-enabled handover authentication Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, authenticating, by a federated blockchain controller, a user equipment located within a cell coverage area of a network that includes heterogeneous cells. The federated blockchain controller can provide encryption data to the user equipment and corresponding authentication information to one or more multi-access edge computing (MEC) devices associated with the heterogeneous cells to enable secure and efficient handovers for the user equipment amongst the heterogeneous cells, without a need for additional handover reauthentication procedures. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12200471B2	Data processing method and data processing apparatus A data processing method and a data processing apparatus are described that simplify an operation procedure in which an access and mobility management function (AMF) entity delivers a quality of service (QoS) parameter to an access network device to which the terminal device requests to connect or a target access network device to which the terminal device requests to be handed over, and reduce signaling overheads. The described method includes an access and mobility management function AMF entity receiving a quality of service QoS parameter used for a ProSe communication 5 (PC5) interface communication of a terminal device. The AMF entity stores the QoS parameter. When a preset condition is satisfied, the AMF entity sends the stored QoS parameter to a first access network device.
US12200470B2	Methods and apparatus for supporting efficient multi-universal subscriber identify module (musim) user equipment (ue) operation using a multi-path proxy A communications system includes a non-MUSIM enhanced PLMN and a MUSIM enhanced PLMN. The MUSIM enhanced PLMN includes a novel Multi-Path (MP) Proxy node. The MP Proxy Node is controlled to switch between two alternative DL data flow paths to facilitate graceful path changeovers. Downlink (DL) data flow toward the non MUSIM enhanced network (e.g., PLMN-A) is based on the interaction between the MUSIM UE and the MUSIM enhanced network (e.g., PLMN-B) together with the novel MultiPath (MP) Proxy node.
US12200465B2	Spatial audio recording from home assistant devices The technology generally relates to spatial audio communication between devices. For example, a first device and a second device may be connected via a communication link. The first device may capture audio signals in an environment through two or more microphones. The first device may encode the captured audio with spatial configuration data. The first device may transmit the encoded audio via the communication link to the second device. The second device may decode the encoded audio into binaural or ambisonic audio to be output by one or more speakers of the second device. The binaural or ambisonic audio may be converted into spatial audio to be output. The second device may output the binaural or spatial audio to create an immersive listening experience.
US12200460B2	Active sounding device integrated into flat panel display An active sounding device integrated into a flat panel display includes a glass diaphragm having a first surface on which a light emitting array and a touch panel are formed, a plurality of planar voice coils arranged on the second surface of the glass diaphragm opposite to the first surface, and a magnet assembly arranged below the plurality of planar voice coils, wherein the plurality of planar voice coils are electromagnetically coupled to the magnet assembly for converting received electrical signals into vibration signals of the glass diaphragm and making the flat panel display emitting sound.
US12200458B1	Spatial headphone transparency Digital audio signal processing techniques used to provide an acoustic transparency function in a pair of headphones. A number of transparency filters can be computed at once, using optimization techniques or using a closed form solution, which are based on multiple re-seatings of the headphones and that are as a result robust for a population of wearers. In another embodiment, a transparency hearing filter of a headphone is computed by an adaptive system that takes into consideration the changing acoustic to electrical path between an earpiece speaker and an interior microphone of that headphone while worn by a user. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US12200453B2	Audio generation in a media playback system Example techniques relate to audio generation in a media playback system. Based on one or more first functions and first characteristics of an area, the system may generate first audio that includes a first audio signal and a second audio signal. The system provides the first audio signal to at least one first audio driver and the second audio signal to at least one second audio driver, thereby causing a first playback device and a second playback device to play back the first audio synchronously. The system receives second characteristics of the area and based on one or more second functions and the second characteristics, generates second audio comprising a third audio signal and a fourth audio signal. The system provides the third audio signal to the at least one first audio driver and the fourth audio signal to the at least one second audio driver.
US12200452B2	Proximity detection The invention relates to a method and system for detection of an object in proximity to an electronic device, which method comprises the steps of:—producing, via the processing unit using one or more parameters relating to a loudspeaker, a controlled audio signal; —amplifying using an amplifier at least said controlled audio signal, thereby producing an amplified audio signal at an amplifier output; wherein an amplitude of the controlled audio signal is such that the amplified audio signal is less than or equal to an amplitude determined to be safe for the loudspeaker in view of the one or more parameters, —analyzing at least one of said one or more parameters relating to the loudspeaker to detect a change in response of the loudspeaker; the change in response being caused by an object that is present in the acoustical path of the loudspeaker, —determining, based upon the analysis whether the object is located in close proximity to the electronic device.
US12200450B2	Shared speech processing network for multiple speech applications A device to process speech includes a speech processing network that includes an input configured to receive audio data. The speech processing network also includes one or more network layers configured to process the audio data to generate a network output. The speech processing network includes an output configured to be coupled to multiple speech application modules to enable the network output to be provided as a common input to each of the multiple speech application modules.
US12200449B1	User orientation estimation A system configured to perform user orientation estimation to determine a direction a user is facing using a deep neural network (DNN). As a directionality of human speech increases with frequency, the DNN may estimate the user orientation by comparing high-frequency components detected by each of the multiple devices. For example, a group of devices may individually generate feature data, which represents audio features and spatial information, and send the feature data to the other devices. Thus, each device in the group receives feature data generated by the other devices and processes this feature data using a DNN to determine an estimate of user orientation. In some examples, the DNN may also generate sound source localization (SSL) data and/or a confidence score associated with the user orientation estimate. A post-processing step may process the individual user orientation estimates generated by the individual devices and determine a final user orientation estimate.
US12200448B2	Audio device with microphone sensitivity compensator Audio device and method for operating an audio device is disclosed, the audio device. A processor is configured to: obtain a first microphone input signal and a second microphone input signal; process the first microphone input signal and the second microphone input signal for provision of an output signal; and output the output signal, then obtain a first microphone signal and a second microphone signal; determine a gain compensation scheme based on the first microphone signal and the second microphone signal; and compensate a gain of the microphone signals; wherein to determine the gain compensation scheme comprises to: apply a plurality of test compensation schemes to the first microphone signal and the second microphone signal; determine a performance parameter for each of the test compensation schemes; and select the gain compensation scheme based on the performance parameters.
US12200443B2	Sot module Sufficient sound pressure is obtained in the mid-low range, to provide a SoT module 100 which can be applied to a variety of applications. A SoT module 100 comprises a plate-shaped piezoelectric composite 105 for generating bending vibration by the impression of an AC voltage, a plurality of elastic bodies, one ends of which are bonded to the main surface of the piezoelectric composite 105, the elastic bodies 120a and 120b transmitting vibration of the piezoelectric composite 105 and a vibration plate 130 has a main surface which is bonded to the other ends of the elastic bodies 120a and 120b, wherein the piezoelectric composite 105 comprises piezoelectric elements 110a, 110b formed in a rectangular plate, and there is a position of the centroid of the piezoelectric composite 105 between the plurality of elastic bodies 120a and 120b.
US12200442B2	Apparatus An apparatus includes a display member configured to display an image, a front member at a front surface of the display member, a vibration apparatus at a rear surface of the display member, and an adhesive member between the display member and the front member, the adhesive member including a piezoelectric material.
US12200437B2	Sound outputting apparatus A sound outputting apparatus is provided. The sound outputting apparatus includes a base; a plurality of speakers configured to output sound; and a cover coupled to the base, the cover including a plurality of guide flow paths that respectively correspond to the plurality of speaker. Each of the plurality of guide flow paths includes an outer hole opened in a direction that extends away from the base from a respective one of the plurality of speakers, and further includes a groove that extends in a direction toward a center of the base from the respective one of the plurality of speakers. Each of the plurality of guide flow paths is configured to guide the output sound from the respective one of the plurality of speakers by dividing the output sound into the outer hole of the guide flow path and the groove of the guide flow path.
US12200436B2	Electronic device including sound module An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a sound module, a support member including an accommodation space to accommodate the sound module, a display module disposed above the support member, and a duct structure to deliver sound generated in the sound module to the outside, the duct structure including an inlet space formed to be at least partially surrounded by the support member and positioned between the sound module and the display module, a first conduit branched from the inlet space in a first direction and formed to extend through at least a part of the support member, a second conduit disposed side by side with the first conduit, branched from the inlet space in a second direction, and formed along between the display module and the support member, and an output space connected to the first conduit and the second conduit and disposed adjacent to an outlet of the sound.
US12200435B2	Sound reproduction device A sound reproduction device includes a cabinet and a loudspeaker disposed inside the cabinet, the cabinet includes a baffle including a plurality of through holes provided in a ring-shaped area, and the loudspeaker is disposed in an orientation in which sound is emitted toward the plurality of through holes.
US12200432B2	Open-ear earphone An open-ear earphone includes a housing, a chamber is provided inside the housing, a speaker is provided inside the chamber and divides the chamber into a front chamber and a rear chamber. The housing is provided with a first sound hole and a second sound hole. The front chamber is communicated to the outside through the first sound hole, and the rear chamber is communicated to the outside through the second sound hole. The rear chamber includes a first volume down chamber and a second volume down chamber communicated to the first volume down chamber, and the first volume down chamber is located between the speaker and the second volume down chamber. The sound wave in backward motion generated by the speaker is transmitted to the outside from the second sound hole after being reduced by the first volume down chamber and the second volume down chamber.
US12200431B2	Sound pickup device A sound pickup device includes a diaphragm that vibrates according to an acoustic pressure of input sound, an acoustic member having a sound channel formed to guide sound to the diaphragm, and a Helmholtz resonator having an opening formed in a wall surface surrounding the sound channel, in which the diaphragm is disposed inside a microphone in which a sound hole is formed, the acoustic member includes: a first substrate that has a through hole formed at the same position as the sound hole, and is attached to the microphone; and a second substrate that has the sound channel formed at a position corresponding to the through hole, and is attached to the first substrate.
US12200429B2	Manifold architecture for wind noise abatement An acoustic device with a manifold architecture is described. The acoustic device includes a primary waveguide and a manifold. The primary waveguide has a first end, coupled to an acoustic sensor, and a second end, a port open to a local area. The port receives airflow from the local area that includes sound pressure waves from a sound source and turbulent pressure waves. The sound pressure waves and a first portion of the turbulent pressure waves are detected by the acoustic sensor. The manifold includes a plurality of waveguides that are coupled to a portion of the primary waveguide between the first end and second end. The plurality of waveguides has openings to the local area. The manifold vents a second portion of the turbulent pressure waves through the openings, and the second portion of the turbulent pressure waves is larger than the first portion of the turbulent pressure waves.
US12200423B2	Wireless headset and control box used for wireless headset A control box includes a female connector part and a male connector part. The plug end is housed in the female connector part when the male connector part is connected to the female connector part. The plug end is configured to plug into a power supply device when the male connector part is detached from the female connector part.
US12200419B2	Acoustic tube and hearing device system including same Various embodiments of an acoustic tube and a hearing device system that includes an acoustic tube are disclosed. The acoustic tube includes a body, a lumen disposed within the body that extends along a lumen axis between a first end and a second end of the body, and a magnetic coupler disposed adjacent to the first end and adapted to connect the acoustic tube to a housing of a hearing device. The acoustic tube further includes an outlet disposed adjacent to the first end and acoustically connected to the lumen, where the outlet is adapted to be acoustically connected to a microphone of the hearing device; and an inlet disposed adjacent to the second end and acoustically connected to the lumen. The acoustic tube is adapted to direct acoustic energy received by the inlet through the lumen and the outlet to the microphone of the hearing device.
US12200417B2	Loudspeaker mesh cover and light-emitting loudspeaker having same A loudspeaker mesh cover and a light-emitting loudspeaker having same are provided, the loudspeaker mesh cover is installed outside a loudspeaker, so as to play a certain protective role on the loudspeaker, enrich the light-emitting way and save the internal space of the loudspeaker. In addition, a light-emitting member is more convenient to disassemble in relative to a way of fixing a light-emitting assembly inside the loudspeaker. The loudspeaker mesh cover provided by the present disclosure may transform non-light-emitting loudspeakers on the market into light-emitting loudspeakers, so as to meet the demands of consumers for loudspeakers.
US12200409B2	Authentic eye region capture through artificial reality headset In holographic calling, it is difficult to capture the eyes of a caller due to lighting effects on an artificial reality (XR) headset. However, it can be important to capture the eyes when rendering the caller as they can show emotion, gaze, physical characteristics, etc., that aid in natural communication. Thus, implementations can capture the eyes of the caller using an external image capture device by briefly turning off the lighting effects on the XR headset. Some implementations can trigger the image capture device to capture an image of the eyes by temporal multiplexing in which timers on both the image capture device and the XR headset are synchronized. In other implementations, the image capture device can be an event-based camera that is automatically triggered to capture an image of the eyes based on a detected pixel change caused by deactivation of the lighting effects on the XR headset.
US12200405B2	Surveillance sensor system A surveillance sensor system for a surveillance network configured to monitor an environment surrounding a device, and including a processing unit, a tridimensional sensor and a camera. The surveillance sensor system is providing to the surveillance network, a global tridimensional map, a plurality of features including associations of the features to the corresponding tridimensional data points in the global tridimensional map, and including properties determined for each feature. The surveillance sensor system is not providing the images from the camera to the surveillance network.
US12200398B2	Pixel blending for synthesizing video frames with occlusion and watermark handling An apparatus includes at least one processing device configured to obtain input frames from a video. The at least one processing device is also configured to generate a forward flow from a first input frame to a second input frame and a backward flow from the second input frame to the first input frame. The at least one processing device is further configured to generate an occlusion map at an interpolated frame coordinate using the forward flow and the backward flow. The at least one processing device is also configured to generate a consistency map at the interpolated frame coordinate using the forward flow and the backward flow. In addition, the at least one processing device is configured to perform blending using the occlusion map and the consistency map to generate an interpolated frame at the interpolated frame coordinate.
US12200397B2	Management of video playback speed based on objects of interest in the video data Systems, methods, and software described herein manage the playback speed of video data based on processing objects in the video data. In one example, a video processing service obtains video data from a video source and identifies objects of interest in the video data. The video processing service further determines complexity in frames of the video data related to the objects of interest and updates playback speeds for segments of the video data based on the complexity of the frames.
US12200394B2	Smart video conference environment Disclosed embodiments relate to a smart video conference environment. A live video of a conference participant can be segmented into a foreground, including the participant, and a background that excludes the participant. The background can be replaced by a virtual background determined based on one or more factors. The factors can include context data acquired from a calendar, content based on the context data, and transaction history. Further, interaction amongst conference participants can be monitored and utilized to update the background in one instance based on topics of conversation. Interactive content presented in the virtual background permits interaction by participants with the background. Furthermore, content can also be overlaid on the participant and the background in one instance.
US12200393B2	Image processing device, image processing method, and storage medium An image processing device that can facilitate setting related to layer information based on distance information is provided.The image processing device includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image including a subject through a lens unit, a distance information acquisition unit configured to acquire distance information indicating a distance to the subject, a layer information generation unit configured to generate layer information on a layer for each distance based on the distance information, and a setting unit configured to set a reference for generating the layer information and switch display of a setting value capable of being set in accordance with the lens information of the lens unit.
US12200392B2	Device pairing magnification tool An image magnification system is provided to facilitate display of images on a television screen by pairing a television with a mobile device for magnified viewing. The magnification system utilizes fine-tuning elements on both the mobile device and television to optimize output of images at the television screen. A coupling application of the mobile device communicates with an image display application of the television. A user launches the television image display application by interacting with controls at the mobile device. Digital images, such as photographs, video, etc., are transferred from the mobile device directly to the television where the images can be enhanced prior to display. The magnification system provides for enhanced casting by the television optimizing display settings and/or the image for improved display that is tailored to the viewing needs of the user.
US12200391B2	Corner detection method and corner detection device A corner detection method includes: acquiring a dynamic vision sensor (DVS) event frame, the DVS event frame including at least one event and being pre-divided into a plurality of areas; determining, of the at least one event, a number of events in each of the plurality of areas; detecting corners in each of the plurality of areas based on the number of events in each of the plurality of areas and a preset maximum number of corners; and obtaining a plurality of corners of the DVS event frame based on the detected corners.
US12200387B2	Receiving a reset signal during a rest period and a ramp signal during a sensing period through the control terminal of the reset transistor in an image sensor and image sensing method Disclosed are an image sensor and an image sensing method. The image sensor includes a first pixel circuit. The first pixel circuit includes a first driving transistor, a first selection transistor, a first transfer transistor, a first reset transistor and a first sensing unit. A control terminal of the first selection transistor is used for receiving a first selection signal. A control terminal of the first transmitting transistor is used for receiving a first transmitting signal. The image sensing method includes the following steps: receiving a first reset signal during a reset period through a control terminal of the first reset transistor; and receiving a first ramp signal during a sensing period through a control terminal of the first reset transistor.
US12200384B2	System, method, device and data structure for digital pixel sensors Some embodiments relate to an imaging system including an active pixel a comparator, a write control circuit, and an analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) memory. The active pixel may include a photodiode and a plurality of transistors. The comparator may be operative coupled to the active pixel and configured to receive an output of the active pixel. The write control circuit may be operative coupled to the comparator and configured to receive an output from the comparator. The ADC memory may be operatively coupled to the write control circuit. A data structure may be stored in the ADC memory, and may be configured to store at least a first data string, which may include a set of flag bits for identifying each ADC operation performed and a set of ADC data bits.
US12200380B2	Solid-state imaging device and electronic camera A solid-state imaging device includes a second image sensor having an organic photoelectric conversion film transmitting a specific light, and a first image sensor which is stacked in layers on a same semiconductor substrate as that of the second image sensor and which receives the specific light having transmitted the second image sensor, in which a pixel for focus detection is provided in the second image sensor or the first image sensor. Therefore, an AF method can be realized independently of a pixel for imaging.
US12200379B2	Signal processing device and solid-state imaging device There is provided an imaging device, comprising differential amplifier circuitry comprising a first amplification transistor and a second amplification transistor; and a plurality of pixels including a first pixel and a second pixel, wherein the first pixel includes a first photoelectric converter, a first reset transistor, and the first amplification transistor, and wherein the second pixel includes a second photoelectric converter, a second reset transistor, and the second amplification transistor, wherein the first reset transistor is coupled to a first reset voltage, and wherein the second reset transistor is coupled to a second reset voltage different than the first reset voltage.
US12200378B2	Lens shading correction to minimize data loss A method including receiving a raw image and a stored calibration, determining a lens shading correction (LSC) gain based on the stored calibration, factoring the LSC gain into a factored gain including a local tone mapping (LTM) gain and a factored LSC gain, and applying the factored gain to the raw image to generate a corrected image.
US12200375B2	Apparatuses, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products for off-axis illumination projection and use Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for improved projecting of aimer illumination utilizing an off-axis aimer alignment. Some embodiments reduce the negative impact of light reflectivity on components of an apparatus from an aimer illumination while simultaneously enhancing the intensity level of the aimer illumination at greater ranges from a target object. One example embodiment includes an integrated molded off-axis aimer lens including a light focusing lens having an input face and an output face, an axis redirecting lens having an angled front surface, where the axis redirecting lens is oriented along a first axis, where the axis redirecting lens is aligned with the output face of the light focusing lens, and an aimer light source aligned with the input face of the light focusing lens, where the aimer light source is oriented along a second axis that differs from the first axis.
US12200371B2	Image sensor and image processing system Disclosed is an image sensor including: a center pixel group including 2×2 pixels having different colors in a center area of a 6×6 unit pixel group; and first to fourth color pixel groups having the same color as one pixel of the center pixel group, disposed as units of 2×4 pixels or 4×2 pixels to have a shape surrounding the center pixel group, and having different colors.
US12200369B2	Method and system for mitigating image flicker from strobed lighting systems Aspects of the present invention relate to an image correction system (300) for mitigating image flicker from strobed lighting systems. The image correction system (300) comprises one or more controllers (120) comprising input means (122), processing means (121) and output means (122). The input means (122) is configured to receive, from a first imaging apparatus (111) comprising a first pixel array configured to operate with at least a first exposure time, first image data (141) indicative of an environment. The input means (122) are configured to receive, from a second imaging apparatus (112) comprising a second pixel array configured to operate with at least a second exposure time different to the first exposure time, second image data (142) indicative of at least a portion of the environment. The processing means (121) are configured to identify strobed lighting regions of the first image data (141) and strobed lighting regions of the second image data (142); and to determine corrected image data for mitigating image flicker of the strobed lighting regions of the first image data (141) in dependence on a correspondence between the strobed lighting regions of the first image data (141) and the strobed lighting regions of the second image data (142). The output means (122) is configured to output a signal indicative of the corrected image data.
US12200365B2	Sample image analyzer, sample image analyzing method, and control method for object stage of sample image analyzer Provided are a sample image analyzer and a corresponding method. The sample image analyzer includes: an object stage for supporting a sample carrier; an imaging device for capturing an image of an object in a sample on the sample carrier; a driving device for driving the object stage and the imaging device to move relative to each other; and a control device configured to control the driving device to deliver the sample carrier to a position below the imaging device, control the driving device to drive the object stage and the imaging device to move horizontally relative to each other, and to move vertically relative to each other, control the imaging device to capture, at least during the relative vertical movement, images of the object at different horizontal positions and at different vertical positions, and fuse the images of the object to obtain a target image of the object.
US12200364B2	Camera scope electronic variable prism A system, apparatus and methods for providing a scope having an imaging sensor which provides a two thousand pixel by two thousand pixel array of pixels. The imaging sensor allows for an angle of view to be changed within a field of view by selecting a one thousand pixel by one thousand pixel set within the two thousand pixel by two thousand pixel array of pixels containing imaging data that corresponds to a desired angle of view.
US12200360B1	Autonomous camera sensitivity adjustment based on threat level Security systems and methods. In one example, a method includes operating a camera in a first mode, based on detection of an alarm condition at a location of the camera, adjusting the camera from the first mode to a second mode, including increasing a sensitivity setting of at least one sensor of the camera, and disabling use of object detection within the camera.
US12200358B2	Solid-state imaging device, method for driving the same, and electronic device for improved auto-focusing accuracy The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device, a method for driving the solid-state imaging device, and an electronic device capable of improving auto-focusing accuracy by using a phase difference signal obtained by using a photoelectric conversion film. The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel including a photoelectric conversion portion having a structure where a photoelectric conversion film is interposed by an upper electrode on the photoelectric conversion film and a lower electrode under the photoelectric conversion film. The upper electrode is divided into a first upper electrode and a second upper electrode. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a solid-state imaging device or the like.
US12200357B2	Wake-up method for surveillance camera, surveillance camera, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium Provided are a wake-up method and device for a surveillance camera, a surveillance camera and a medium. The surveillance camera includes a detection sensor and an image sensor. The wake-up method for a surveillance camera includes: in response to the detection sensor detecting presence of an intrusion target in a surveilled region, controlling the image sensor to enter a first image acquisition mode; controlling the image sensor in the first image acquisition mode to acquire at least two frames of surveillance images; determining whether the intrusion target is a surveilled target according to the at least two frames of surveillance images; and in response to determining that the intrusion target is a surveilled target, switching the image sensor from the first image acquisition mode to a second image acquisition mode, and controlling the image sensor in the second image acquisition mode to acquire a surveillance image having the surveilled target.
US12200356B2	Virtual and augmented reality systems and methods using display system control information embedded in image data A virtual or augmented reality display system that controls power inputs to the display system as a function of image data. Image data itself is made of a plurality of image data frames, each with constituent color components of, and depth planes for displaying on, rendered content. Light sources or spatial light modulators to relay illumination from the light sources may receive signals from a display controller to adjust a power setting to the light source or spatial light modulator, and/or control depth of displayed image content, based on control information embedded in an image data frame.
US12200353B2	Electronic device and method for providing position and shooting information for recommending image capturing place An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication module, a display, and a processor, wherein the processor determines position information of the electronic device, controls the communication module to transmit the position information of the electronic device to a server, controls the communication module to acquire, from the server, at least one image identified based on the position information of the electronic device and position information associated with the at least one image, controls the display to display the at least one image acquired from the server, acquires an input for a first image among the at least one image, and according to the input, controls the display to display a path corresponding to position information corresponding to the first image and the position information of the electronic device.
US12200352B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium According to the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus (10) including: an obtainment unit (12) which obtains a reference image; an extraction unit (13) which extracts, from a storage unit (11) which stores a provision image generated by a plurality of provision-image generation cameras installed in a facility, the provision image including a person included in the reference image; and a display control unit (14) which causes a display to display the provision image extracted by the extraction unit (13).
US12200349B2	Video shooting method and electronic device A video shooting method and an electronic device to shoot a video in a dual-cam video recording scenario, thereby reducing difficulties in shooting videos. The electronic device displays a first screen. The electronic device displays a plurality of template options on the first screen in response to a first operation by a user on the first screen, each template option corresponds to an animation template for image processing. The electronic device displays a second screen in response to a second operation by the user on a first template option. In response to a third operation by the user on the second screen, the electronic device displays a third screen. In response to a fourth operation by a user on the third screen, recording of a video starts.
US12200343B2	Control apparatus, method of controlling control apparatus, control method, and storage medium A control apparatus that is capable of quickly and easily reducing the positional deviation of a gaze point, occurring whenever a photographer's eye is brought into contact with a viewfinder. A position corresponding to a gaze point of a user is estimated and corrected based on a position of an indicator displayed on a display section and the position corresponding to the gaze point of the user associated with the position of the indicator. In a first mode, the correction is performed based on positions of a first number of indicators, and in a second mode, the correction is performed based on a second number, smaller than the first number, of indicators.
US12200340B2	Image capturing apparatus, control method, and computer-readable storage medium A device, which complies with a predetermined standard and is mounted in an image capturing apparatus including a mounting part capable of attaching/detaching the device, comprises a storage capable of storing an image captured by the image capturing apparatus and a processing function for executing image analysis processing for image data based on the image. The device obtains, from the image capturing apparatus in accordance with the predetermined standard, the image data and a command used by the image capturing apparatus to output the image data to the device, and controls, based on whether a value associated with the image analysis processing is stored in the obtained command, whether to cause the processing function to execute the image analysis processing for the image data or cause the storage to store the image data without executing the image analysis processing.
US12200336B2	Portable electronic device, and image-capturing device and assembly method thereof A portable electronic device, and an image-capturing device and an assembly method thereof are provided. The image-capturing device includes a carrier substrate, an image sensing chip, a filter element and a lens assembly. The carrier substrate has a through opening and a recessed space. The image sensing chip is disposed on the bottom side of the carrier substrate. The filter element is disposed in the recessed space of the carrier substrate, so that all or a part of the filter element is accommodated in the through opening. When at least one microparticle with a maximum particle size between 5 μm and 25 μm is located on the filter element, a shortest distance between the filter element and the image sensing chip is between 30 μm and 200 μm, so that the image sensing chip cannot capture a light spot generated due to blocking of the microparticle.
US12200335B2	Camera actuator and camera device comprising same According to an embodiment of the present invention, disclosed is a camera device comprising: a housing; a lens assembly including at least one lens; a driving unit for moving the lens assembly; a main substrate on which an image sensor is provided; and a first substrate and a second substrate electrically connected to the driving unit and arranged on facing side surfaces of the housing to be spaced apart from each other, wherein the main substrate includes a first connection member connected to the first substrate and a second connection member connected to the second substrate.
US12200333B1	System, method and apparatus for frost detection and mitigation within a cargo container A system and method for frost detection and frost mitigation for an imaging device within a container interior. According to a first preferred embodiment, the system preferably may include an imaging device having one or more LED light sources for illuminating the container interior. According to a preferred embodiment, the system may preferably first receive digital images from the imaging device along with one or more detected sensor inputs. Thereafter, the system may preferably calculate the potential for frost on or around the imaging device based on one or more sensor inputs which may include the imaging device temperature in combination with a door open signal, a detected light level or the like. The system may then preferably analyze the digital images during times of likely frost events using a frost detection algorithm which detects the presence of frost based on image characteristics derived from previously captured images with known frost levels.
US12200329B2	Camera systems for scopes A camera system for mounting to a scope can include a camera portion and a mounting system rotationally coupled to the camera portion. The mounting system can include a first securing portion having a first securing member, where the first securing member is configured to abut against a first portion of an eyepiece of the scope. The mounting system can also include a second securing portion having a second securing member, where the second securing member is configured to abut against a second portion of the eyepiece of the scope. The mounting system can further include an adjustment mechanism that simultaneously moves the first securing portion and the second securing portion in opposing directions relative to each other.
US12200324B2	Imaging device, imaging method, and electronic device with color filter variably set to interpolate color acquired by another color filter The present technology relates to an imaging device, an imaging method, and an electronic device enabling to improve image quality.Two or more imaging units capable of imaging or sensing a same subject are included, in which at least one first imaging unit among the two or more imaging units includes a first filter configured to transmit a plurality of wavelength bands, and at least another one second imaging unit other than the first imaging unit among the two or more imaging units includes a second filter capable of varying a wavelength band. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a compound-eye camera module, an imaging device including a compound-eye camera module, a device that includes an imaging device and provides virtual reality or the like.
US12200322B2	Systems and methods for generating a video summary of a virtual event A video summary device may generate a textual summary of a transcription of a virtual event. The video summary device may generate a phonemic transcription of the textual summary and generate a text embedding based on the phonemic transcription. The video summary device may generate an audio embedding based on a target voice. The video summary device may generate an audio output of the phonemic transcription uttered by the target voice. The audio output may be generated based on the text embedding and the audio embedding. The video summary device may generate an image embedding based on video data of a target user. The image embedding may include information regarding images of facial movements of the target user. The video summary device may generate a video output of different facial movements of the target user uttering the phonemic transcription, based on the text embedding and the image embedding.
US12200319B2	Flexible commercial monitoring Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to implement flexible commercial monitoring for television audience measurement are disclosed. Example television audience measurement systems disclosed herein include a flexible commercial detector to detect whether a first watermark decoded from a television program broadcast signal is a bridge watermark that indicates a portion of the television broadcast signal including the bridge watermark is associated with a flexible commercial insertion event, the flexible commercial insertion event corresponding to insertion of a flexible commercial in the portion of the television broadcast signal. Disclosed example television audience measurement systems also include a commercial metric calculator to credit audience exposure associated with the portion of the television broadcast signal to a flexible commercial crediting metric in response to a determination that the first watermark is the bridge watermark.
US12200314B2	Network arrangement using SNDS and SLANS A network arrangement and method for using the same are described. In one embodiment, the network arrangement comprises: a plurality of access points that are part of one or more existing networks and communicate with each other to form a local area network (LAN) to transfer data between two or more of the plurality of access points using point-to-point links independent of their function in the one or more first existing networks, wherein each access point of the plurality of access points is associated with a cache to store content that may be forwarded to other access points in the plurality of access points, where at least one of the access points is responsive to a request from an application being run on a client device to provide the content stored in one or more caches of access points in the LAN to the client device, the content being sent by the at least one access point through a wireless connection.
US12200311B2	Systems and methods for generating recording instructions based on detected conditions of live events A method is shown. The method includes maintaining a plurality of player profiles corresponding to players consuming a service of the one or more processors, each of the plurality of player profiles associated with a respective one of the plurality of broadcast receiver devices. The method includes maintaining a plurality of live events to monitor. The method includes identifying a subset having one or more attributes that satisfy a content selection policy relating to a live event. The method includes determining from data identifying the live event accessed via a data feed, that the live event has started. The method includes transmitting instructions to the broadcast provider system that cause the broadcast provider system to communicate with each broadcast receiver device and cause the broadcast receiver device to i) display a notification indicating that the live event has started or ii) initiate recording of the live event.
US12200308B2	Methods and apparatus for communicating and displaying short message service (SMS) messages A SMS message is conditionally additionally directed toward an STB, located at the customer premises, to which the target phone number of the SMS message corresponds, and is displayed on a device, e.g., a TV, coupled to the STB, in addition to being directed to the phone corresponding to the target phone number. A new STB SMS server: i) determines whether an incoming SIP message including a SMS message is to be sent toward a STB for SMS display on a display device coupled to the STB, or is to be dropped, e.g., based on a SMS_DISPLAY_STB flag value in a subscriber profile corresponding to the target phone number, ii) determines, for a SIP message including a SMS message, a particular video endpoint, and iii) sends a SIP message including a SMS message to a determined video endpoint for SMS message delivery to a STB interfacing with the video endpoint.
US12200307B2	Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method An information processing apparatus including: a display processing part that causes a display unit to display content including at least one of a moving image of a competition or text indicating a situation in the competition; a request accepting part that accepts, from a supporter of the competition, a support request for selecting support goods to cheer on a player performing in the competition; and an information presenting part that presents, to at least one of the player or other supporters, any one of a plurality of plays in the competition and support information corresponding to the support goods in association with each other.
US12200301B2	Replacement of digital content in data streams Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for replacing digital content. An example embodiment operates by detecting a segment of a data stream to be output by a media device and generating a fingerprint of digital content corresponding to the segment using automatic content recognition (ACR). The example embodiment further operates by comparing the fingerprint with a plurality of fingerprints of a plurality of digital content, identifying a matched fingerprint of a matched digital content, and comparing metadata of the matched digital content with metadata of a restricted digital content. The example embodiment further operates by determining that the digital content corresponding to the segment is blocked from being output by the media stream and replacing the digital content with new digital content in the segment.
US12200300B2	Systems and methods for spatial and temporal experimentation on content effectiveness Systems and methods for organizing and controlling the display of content, then measuring the effectiveness of that content in modifying behavior, within a particular temporal and spatial dimension, so as to minimize or eliminate confounding effects.
US12200297B2	Intelligent automated assistant for TV user interactions Systems and processes are disclosed for controlling television user interactions using a virtual assistant. In an example process, a virtual assistant can interact with a television set-top box to control content shown on a television display. Speech input for the virtual assistant can be received from a device with a microphone. The speech input can comprise a query associated with content shown on the television display. A user intent of the query can be determined based on one or more of the content shown on the television display and a viewing history of media content. A result of the query can be caused to be displayed based on the determined user intent.
US12200296B2	Systems and methods to handle queries comprising a media quote Systems and methods for handling a query comprising a media quote are provided. One example method includes receiving, at a computing device, an input comprising a query. A media quote is identified based on the query. A media asset is identified based on the identified media quote. An action is performed at the computing device, the action based on the identified media asset.
US12200293B2	Facilitating streaming in a local network with a client-server architecture Methods, methods, and non-transitory, machine-readable media to facilitate streaming in a local network with a client-server architecture are disclosed. A primary media device may be configured to: operate as a server in a local network, receive first audio/video (A/V) content via an Internet connection, and receive second A/V content via a satellite network connection. Each secondary media device of a set of one or more secondary media devices may be configured to: operate as a client with respect to the primary media device in the local network, receive the first A/V content from the primary media device, receive the second A/V content from the primary media device, and provide the first A/V content and the second A/V content to at least one television of a set of one or more televisions.
US12200292B2	Using picture-in-picture window to play content when needed According to principles of the disclosure, audio/video programs are dynamically and concurrently displayed to a user in a first window and a second window (“picture-in-picture display”) based on the user's identified demographic characteristics. At least one of the audio/video programs is previously transmitted and saved to a memory of a set-top box and is loaded for display on demand. By storing a plurality of content with relevance to the user locally, the system may rapidly respond to breaks in an audio/video program the user is watching by initiating picture-in-picture display. The audio/video programs displayed in the first window and second window may be advertisements or any other audio/video program suitable for display.
US12200290B2	Information processing system and information processing method An information processing system for obtaining an audio content file for video data providing video content representing a sport event, including: a receiver configured to receive a data stream including the video data; a preference data obtainer configured to obtain preference data, wherein the preference data indicate a selected competitor participating in the sport event; a category identifier obtainer configured to obtain a category identifier from a machine learning algorithm into which the video data is input, wherein the machine learning algorithm is trained to classify a scene represented in the video content into a category of a predetermined set of categories associated with the sport event, wherein the category identifier indicates the category into which the scene is classified; an audio content file obtainer configured to obtain, based on the obtained category identifier and the obtained preference data, the audio content file from a prestored set of audio content files, wherein the audio content file provides audio content associated with the category of the scene and the preference data; and a synchronizer configured to synchronize the audio content and the video content for synchronized play back of the scene by a media player configured to play back the video content and the audio content file.
US12200287B2	Remote control device and method for operating same An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a remote control device including a user input interface including a wheel button, a memory including a key buffer, a wireless communication interface, and a processor configured to receive a wheel input signal for the wheel button, generate a wheel input control signal corresponding to the wheel input signal, output the generated wheel input control signal through the wireless communication interface, store a wheel repeat control signal in the key buffer when the wheel input signal is continuously input, and output the wheel repeat control signal stored in the key buffer through the wireless communication interface at each predetermined period.
US12200285B2	Technologies for managing collaborative and multiplatform media content playlists Techniques are described herein for creating, managing, and playing back a collaborative playlist. A platform server receives a request from a first of multiple users to insert a first media content item to the collaborative playlist. The first media content item is provided by a first media content service of multiple heterogeneous media content services. The platform server receives a request from a second of multiple users to insert a second media content item to the collaborative playlist. The second media content item is provided by a second media content service. The platform server generates a first entry and a second entry, each corresponding to the first and second media content items, respectively. The platform server inserts the first and second entries to the collaborative playlist.
US12200280B2	Platform, system and method of generating, distributing, and interacting with layered media The present application describes platform containing a dynamic multilayered media structure which is generated by aggregation of media pieces into a plurality of media layers. The platform allows users to interact with media layers of the dynamic multilayered media structure independently of one another. The platform further provides for a dynamic, customized media channel lineup and a user account that allows individual media pieces within the dynamic multilayered media structure to play across separate devices that are linked to the account. The user account allows for inputs including real-time controls over the media, interaction, preferences, adding additional media content, editing media into a condensed form, and curation options with the dynamic multilayered media structure.
US12200279B2	Content protection Devices, servers, systems and methods for content protection are provided. Disclosed embodiments improve temporal granularity of controlling access to the protected content and increase resilience against attacks attempting to prevent re-evaluation of conditions of access. Enforcement of re-evaluation may be based on the receipt and/or verification of tokens. In some embodiments, re-evaluation is enforced by periodically rendering content keys required for content decryption unuseable and/or clearing content keys already in use.
US12200277B2	Multiple protocol prediction and in-session adaptation in video streaming In some embodiments, a method sends a set of first requests for a set of first segments of a video in a playback session. A first protocol from a plurality of protocols is specified in at least one of the set of first requests. The set of first segments is received. The method determines whether to switch from using the first protocol to a second protocol in the playback session based on receiving the set of first segments. When switching to the second protocol, the method sends a second request in the playback session, wherein the second request indicates the second protocol is to be used to send a second segment of the video.
US12200276B2	Delivery and playback of content An encoder may determine one or more encoding characteristics associated with a content segment of a content asset. The one or more encoding characteristics may comprise an estimated bitrate required for transmission of the content segment over a network. The one or more encoding characteristics associated with the content segment may be inserted into a portion of an other content segment, such as into a header of the other content segment. The content segment and the other content segment may be configured for linear transmission, such as using adaptive bitrate streaming. When the other content segment is received at a playback device prior to the content segment, the playback device may use the one or more encoding characteristics of the content segment embedded in the header of the other content segment to determine one or more playback characteristics of the content segment.
US12200273B2	Live streaming picture processing method and apparatus based on video chat live streaming, and electronic device Provided are a method and device for processing a live streaming image based on co-hosting live streaming, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining at least two live streaming videos for the co-hosting live streaming, and performing a face orientation recognition on at least one of the live streaming videos to determine a face orientation of a host character in the live streaming video; calculating a deviation angle between the face orientation and a preset indicating orientation; flipping the live streaming video to obtain a flipped live streaming video, in a case that the deviation angle reaches a preset angle threshold; and merging by using the flipped live streaming video to obtain a streaming video for the co-hosting live streaming.
US12200271B1	Signal reshaping for high dynamic range signals In a method to improve backwards compatibility when decoding high-dynamic range images coded in a wide color gamut (WCG) space which may not be compatible with legacy color spaces, hue and/or saturation values of images in an image database are computed for both a legacy color space (say, YCbCr-gamma) and a preferred WCG color space (say, IPT-PQ). Based on a cost function, a reshaped color space is computed so that the distance between the hue values in the legacy color space and rotated hue values in the preferred color space is minimized. HDR images are coded in the reshaped color space. Legacy devices can still decode standard dynamic range images assuming they are coded in the legacy color space, while updated devices can use color reshaping information to decode HDR images in the preferred color space at full dynamic range.
US12200269B2	Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus A dependency indication is signaled within the beginning of a packet, that is, within the adjacent of a slice header to be parsed or a parameter set. This is achieved, for example, by including the dependency indication at the beginning of the slice header, preferably after a syntax element identifying the parameter set and before the slice address, by including the dependency indication before the slice address, by providing the dependency indication to a NALU header using a separate message, or by using a special NALU type for NALUs carrying dependent slices.
US12200267B2	Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for signaling DPB parameter, and computer-readable recording medium storing bitstream An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for signaling a VPS and a recording medium storing a bitstream are provided. An image decoding method may comprise obtaining first information indicating whether each output layer set (OLS) specified by a video parameter set (VPS) includes only one layer, obtaining second information indicating the number of decoded picture buffer (DPB) parameter syntax structures in the VPS, based on the first information, obtaining the DPB parameter syntax structures in the VPS based on the second information, and managing a DPB based on the DPB parameter syntax structures.
US12200265B2	Output process disable indicator A decoder can receive a bitstream. The bitstream can include at least one output process syntax element for configuring an output process. The decoder can determine that the output process is disabled. The decoder can decode a current picture from the bitstream. The decoder can, responsive to determining that the output process is disabled, output the current picture as an output picture.
US12200257B2	Transform in intra prediction-based image coding An image decoding method according to the present document comprises the steps of: acquiring prediction-related information and residual-related information for a current block; deriving transform coefficients for the current block on the basis of the residual-related information; and generating residual samples of the current block on the basis of the transform coefficients, wherein the residual-related information includes low-frequency non-separable transform (LFNST) index information indicating information relating to non-separable transform for a low-frequency transform coefficient of the current block on the basis of a matrix-based intra prediction (MIP) flag.
US12200256B2	Delivery apparatus and delivery method Provided is a delivery apparatus including a viewpoint information acquisition unit to acquire viewpoint information of a user in real-time, a rendering unit to perform rendering processing on three-dimensional spatial data in real-time on the basis of the viewpoint information to generate two-dimensional video data corresponding to a field of view of the user, a parameter generation unit to generate an encoding parameter on the basis of a parameter regarding the rendering processing, an encoding unit to perform encoding processing on the two-dimensional video data in real-time on a basis of the encoding parameter to generate delivering data, and a delivery unit to deliver the delivering data to a client.
US12200253B2	Palette coding for screen content coding Video data may be palette decoded. Data defining a palette table may be received. The palette table may comprise index values corresponding to respective colors. Palette index prediction data may be received and may comprise data indicating index values for at least a portion of a palette index map mapping pixels of the video data to color indices in the palette table. The palette index prediction data may comprise run value data associating run values with index values for at least a portion of a palette index map. A run value may be associated with an escape color index. The palette index map may be generated from the palette index prediction data at least in part by determining whether to adjust an index value of the palette index prediction data based on a last index value. The video data may be reconstructed in accordance with the palette index map.
US12200252B2	Intra prediction method of chrominance block using luminance sample, and apparatus using same Disclosed are an intra prediction method of a chrominance block using a luminance sample and an apparatus using the same. An image decoding method comprises the steps of: calculating an intra prediction mode of a chrominance block on the basis of an LM mapping table when the chrominance block uses an LM; and generating a prediction block for the chrominance block on the basis of the calculated intra prediction mode of the chrominance block. When intra prediction mode information of chrominance blocks are decoded, mutually different tables are used depending on whether or not an LM is used, so that encoding and decoding can be performed without an unnecessary waste of bits.
US12200251B2	Method and apparatus for processing video signal by generating prediction samples using reference samples in different groups A method for decoding an image according to the present invention comprises the steps of: deriving an intra prediction mode of a current block; and changing the intra prediction mode to a wide angle intra prediction mode when the intra prediction mode is less than or equal to a threshold value and the current block is a non-square having a width greater than a height.
US12200250B2	Method and apparatus for video coding Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for video encoding/decoding. In a method, prediction information for a current block is encoded. The prediction information indicates a secondary transform index, based on which a secondary transform core is determined. A first primary transform coefficient block is generated based on a primary transform core of the current block. A size of the first primary transform coefficient block is less than a size of the secondary transform core. A second primary transform coefficient block is generated based on the first primary transform coefficient block. A size of the second primary transform coefficient block equals the size of the secondary transform core. A secondary transform coefficient block is determined based on the second primary transform coefficient block and the secondary transform core. The current block is encoded based on the secondary transform coefficient block.
US12200243B2	Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method An encoder includes: circuitry; and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: derives a base motion vector to be used in predicting a current block to be encoded; derives a first motion vector different from the base motion vector; derives a motion vector difference based on a difference between the base motion vector and the first motion vector; determines whether the motion vector difference is greater than a threshold; modifies the first motion vector when the motion vector difference is determined to be greater than the threshold, and does not modify the first motion vector when the motion vector difference is determined not to be greater than the threshold; and encodes the current block using the first motion vector modified or the first motion vector not modified.
US12200241B2	DC down-scaled weighted cost function for image/video coding A method, apparatus, and computer program product provide for improving parameter selection decisions in hybrid video and image codecs. In the context of a method, the method generates a block of difference samples based on a difference between a first block of samples and a second block of samples. The method also generates a block of transform coefficients by applying a transformation process to the block of difference samples. The method also determines an absolute value for each transform coefficient in the block of transform coefficients and determines a weighted sum value for all absolute values of the transform coefficients within the block of transform coefficients. The method also applies the weighted sum value as a criterion for a selection decision.
US12200239B2	Image decoding device using differential coding A video decoding method is configured to reconstruct a current block that is encoded using an intra prediction. The method includes decoding, from a bitstream, direction information indicating a direction of differential coding applied to a residual block of the current block, generating the residual block from residual signals by reconstructing and using the information on the residual signals from the bitstream and using the direction information, inversely quantizing the modified residual block, generating a prediction block for the current block through intra prediction, and reconstructing the current block by adding the prediction block and the inverse quantized residual block.
US12200237B2	Image decoding method and apparatus using same The present invention includes an image information decoding method which comprises: a step of receiving a bitstream that includes a network abstraction layer (NAL) unit including information related to an encoded image; and a step of parsing an NAL unit header of the NAL unit. The NAL unit header includes layer information including reserved_one_5 bits for identifying an extended layer in an extended bitstream and temporal_id for identifying a temporal layer of a bitstream. The reserved_one_5 bits of the layer information is received prior to the temporal_id of the layer information. Thus, a method for describing scalability information in a hierarchical bitstream is provided.
US12200235B2	Optimizing encoding operations when generating encoded versions of a media title In various embodiments, a sequence-based encoding application partitions a set of shot sequences associated with a media title into multiple clusters based on at least one feature that characterizes media content and/or encoded media content associated with the media title. The clusters include at least a first cluster and a second cluster. The sequence-based encoding application encodes a first shot sequence using a first operating point to generate a first encoded shot sequence. The first shot sequence and the first operating point are associated with the first cluster. By contrast, the sequence-based encoding application encodes a second shot sequence using a second operating point to generate a second encoded shot sequence. The second shot sequence and the second operating point are associated with the second cluster. Subsequently, the sequence-based encoding application generates an encoded media sequence based on the first encoded shot sequence and the second encoded shot sequence.
US12200234B2	Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method An encoder which encodes a video including a plurality of pictures includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry performs: encoding a first picture among the plurality of pictures; and performing (i) a first operation for encoding a parameter set for a second picture which follows the first picture in coding order among the plurality of pictures after encoding the first picture, and encoding the second picture after encoding the parameter set, or (ii) a second operation for encoding the second picture without encoding the parameter set after encoding the first picture. The circuitry performs the first operation when the second picture is a determined picture, in the performing of the first operation or the second operation.
US12200233B2	Limited rate context based eye gaze encoding A system and method for limited rate context-based eye gaze encoding includes generating, based on an outward looking camera situated in a vehicle, a first video stream of a surrounding environment to a controller. The controller generates a scene description based on the first video stream and selects a corresponding scene from a predefined list of known scenes. Further, the controller, based on the selected corresponding scene, selects a codebook of encoding and decoding parameters from a plurality of predefined codebooks. Based on an inward looking camera situated in the vehicle, a second video stream of a face of a driver to an eye tracker controller is generated, where the eye tracker controller estimates a gaze direction of the driver. Encoded data comprising the estimated gaze direction of the driver is transmitted over a bandwidth limited channel to a decoder, based on the selected codebook, the encoded data.
US12200232B2	Constrained position dependent intra prediction combination (PDPC) A second level intra prediction mode can be combined with one or more of sixty-seven JVET intra prediction modes during encoding of a coding unit in a video bitstream. Embodiments include making a position dependent intra prediction combination (PDPC) mode available as the second level intra prediction mode. In embodiments, when a PDPC (position dependent intra prediction combination) mode is enabled, the second level intra prediction is combined with one of the 67 selected intra predictor modes. In embodiments, the PDPC mode is only enabled or available for a predetermined subset of intra prediction modes (out of 67 possible modes), in order to reduce encoder complexity and potentially improve coding efficiency. The PDPC mode may be identifies as enabled or available by a list of modes or signaling in the video bitstream.
US12200231B2	Nearest neighbor search method, apparatus, device, and storage medium Described is a nearest neighbor search method. The method is applicable in a device and comprises: acquiring a Morton code set of point cloud data to be searched; stratifying the point cloud data on the basis of the Morton code set and of a first distance threshold to produce current stratum data; shifting to the right by a first preset digit Morton codes of prediction data other than the stratified data in the point cloud data to produce a corresponding first parent node set; determining, on the basis of Morton codes of the current stratum data, a neighbor area satisfying a criterion in the first parent node set; and determining a nearest neighboring point set of the current stratum data in the neighboring area. Also provided in an exemplary embodiment of the present application are a device and a computer storage medium.
US12200228B2	Method and a device for picture encoding and decoding A method includes decoding a first portion of video data consisting of an information set consisting of information representative of a plurality of candidate sets of sample adaptive offset filter parameters. A set of sample adaptive offset parameters comprises information representative of an offset to be added to a sample value of a current block. A first syntax element representing an index that identifies a first candidate set of the plurality of candidate sets of sample adaptive offset filter parameters is decoded from the video data for the current block. The current block is decoded from a second portion of the video data different from the first portion. The decoded current block is filtered with the first candidate set identified by the index. The first portion is signaled with syntax elements at a level of a block of a group of blocks comprising the current block decoded first in decoding order.
US12200226B2	Picture header prediction A method for decoding a plurality of pictures from a bitstream is provided where the bitstream includes a first segment header and a second segment header. The method includes decoding a first picture from the bitstream using first parameter values decoded from the first segment header. The method includes decoding a second picture from the bitstream using second parameter values from the second segment header, wherein at least one second parameter value of the second parameter values from the second segment header is derived from a first parameter value of the first parameter values decoded from the first segment header.
US12200225B2	Signaling size and position of target picture-in-picture region A method of processing media data. The method includes determining, for a conversion between the media data and a media data file, whether a size and a position of a target picture-in-picture region in a main video are present in the media data file, wherein a supplementary video appears to be overlaid on the target picture-in-picture region when the main video is displayed; and performing the conversion between the media data and the media data file based on the size and the position determined. A corresponding video coding apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium are also disclosed.
US12200223B2	Systems and methods for signaling buffering period information in video coding A method of decoding video data includes: receiving a buffering period message; parsing a first syntax element in the buffering period message, wherein the first syntax element plus one specifies a maximum number (M) of temporal sublayers for which coded picture buffer removal delay and coded picture buffer removal offset are indicated in the buffering period message; and parsing a second syntax element in the buffering period message, in a case that a value of the first syntax element is greater than a threshold value, wherein the second syntax element specifies whether decoded picture buffer output time offsets are present for temporal sublayer representations.
US12200220B2	Geometric partition mode with motion vector refinement Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums are provided for decoding a video block in geometry partition mode (GPM). The method may include partitioning the video block into first and second geometric partitions. The method may include obtaining a first motion vector refinement (MVR) for the first geometric partition. The method may include obtaining a second MVR for the second geometric partition. The method may include obtaining a candidate list that comprises a plurality of motion vectors (MVs). The method may include obtaining a first MV from the candidate list for the first geometric partition. The method may include obtaining a second MV from the candidate list for the second geometric partition. The method may include calculating a third MV by adding the first MV with the first MVR for the first geometric partition. The method may include calculating a fourth MV. The method may include obtaining prediction samples.
US12200219B2	Adaptive bilateral matching for decoder side motion vector refinement for video coding An example method of encoding or decoding video data includes determining a motion vector for a block of video data using a decoder side motion vector derivation process that includes performing an iterative search process, wherein performing the iterative search process includes: determining a minimum cost through a previous search iteration; updating an overall minimum cost through a current search iteration; and terminating the iterative search process early based on a comparison of the minimum cost through the previous search iteration and the overall minimum cost through the current search iteration; and encoding or decoding the block of video data using the motion vector.
US12200218B2	Single-line cross component linear model prediction mode Devices, systems, and methods for digital video coding that include cross-component prediction are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video coding includes receiving a bitstream representation of a current block of video data comprising a luma component and a chroma component, determining parameters of a linear model based on a first set of samples that are generated by down-sampling a second set of samples of the luma component, and processing, based on the parameters of the linear model, the bitstream representation to generate the current block.
US12200210B2	Encoding method, decoding method, encoding/decoding system, encoder, and decoder An encoding, a decoding method, a system for encoding and decoding, an encoder, and a decoder are provided. The encoding method includes the following. In a palette mode, if colors of pixels of a coding unit block are all represented by one or more major colors of the coding unit block, a flag is set as a first state value, and if the color of at least one pixel of the coding unit block is not represented by the one or more major colors of the coding unit block, the flag is set as a second state value. The encoding method further includes establishing a palette table corresponding to the coding unit block according to a state value of the flag and the one or more major colors.
US12200207B2	Signaled adaptive loop filter with multiple classifiers in video coding A video decoder is configured to determine, for a current block of video data, a classifier from a plurality of available classifiers for the current block, wherein each classifier of the plurality of available classifiers defines a process for calculating a class index; determine a class index based on the classifier and one or more sample values of the current block; select a filter from a set of filters based on the class index; and apply the filter to the current block.
US12200205B2	Intra prediction-based image coding method and device using MPM list An image decoding method according to the present document derives a left mode, which is a candidate intra prediction mode for a left peripheral block of a current block, derives an upper mode, which is a candidate intra prediction mode for an upper peripheral block of the current block, constructs an MPM list on the basis of the left mode and the upper mode, derives an intra prediction mode of the current block on the basis of the MPM list, generates prediction samples of the current block on the basis of the intra prediction mode, generates a restoration picture of the current block on the basis of the prediction samples, and derives the left mode or the upper mode as one from among candidate intra prediction modes of the MPM list, on the basis of when the left mode and the upper mode are not the same and the left mode and the upper mode are respectively a planar mode and a DC mode.
US12200204B2	On intra mode propagation Coded information of (i) a current block of a picture and (ii) a reconstructed area of the picture is received. A matching area of the current block in the reconstructed area of the picture is determined. A first corresponding position of the current block is determined inside the current block. The first corresponding position includes a first coordinate value on a first axis and a second coordinate value on a second axis relative to a first reference point on the current block. A corresponding block of the current block is determined in the matching area. The corresponding block includes a second corresponding position that has the first coordinate value on the first axis and the second coordinate value on the second axis relative to a second reference point on the matching area. An intra prediction mode of the current block is determined based on the corresponding block.
US12200203B2	Image encoding/decoding method and device, and recording medium using intra prediction based on reference samples of reference sample line An image encoding/decoding method is disclosed. An image decoding method of the present invention may comprise deriving an intra-prediction mode of a current block by using an intra-prediction mode of a neighbor block adjacent to the current block, configuring a reference sample of the current block, and performing intra-prediction on the current block by using the intra-prediction mode and the reference sample, wherein when the intra-prediction mode of the neighbor block is unavailable, the intra-prediction mode of the neighbor block may be replaced with a planar mode.
US12200201B2	Encoder, decoder and corresponding methods for intra prediction Devices and methods for Intra prediction are provided. The method includes: parsing a bitstream, wherein the bitstream includes indication information to indicate whether a closest neighboring reference line to the current block is used for an intra prediction; determining an intra prediction mode of the current block is not Planar mode when the closest neighboring reference line to the current block is not used for the intra prediction; and obtaining an index indicating which intra prediction mode in a set of most probable modes is used for the intra prediction mode of the current block when the intra prediction mode of the current block is not Planar mode. The method can improve the efficiency to determine the intra prediction mode of the current block.
US12200198B2	Video coding using cross-component linear model A method and a computing device are provided for video coding. The method may include deriving parameter α and parameter β for a CCLM mode by using a predetermined number of neighboring reconstructed luma samples and chroma samples in a CU; and generating a final chroma predictor for the chroma samples of the CU by using the parameter α and the parameter β.
US12200197B2	Virtual temporal affine candidates A video encoder or decoder processes portions of video using virtual temporal affine motion candidates. Under the general aspects, virtual temporal affine candidates are created using only the classical temporal motion buffer information, avoiding the storage of additional affine parameters in a temporal motion buffer. A motion field for encoding or decoding a video block is generated based on the virtual temporal affine candidates. In one embodiment, collocated motion candidates are rescaled by adjusting the picture order count of the determined motion field. In another embodiment, resolution adaptation is performed to enable a current motion buffer to correspond to a reference motion buffer.
US12200195B2	Multiple lists for block based weighting factors The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for coding video. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a video bitstream including a current coding block of a current image frame and determining that the current coding block is to be predicted in a weighted bi-prediction (WBP) mode. The method further includes in response to the current coding block being predicted in the WBP mode, determining that the current coding block is associated with two bi-prediction blocks and identifying a plurality of distinct weighting factor lists including at least a first list of positive weighting factors and a second list of mixed weighting factors. The method further includes selecting one of the weighing factor lists, identifying a first weighting factor from the weighing factor lists, and reconstructing the current image frame, including determining the current coding block by combining the two bi-prediction blocks based on the first weighting factor.
US12200193B2	TMVP derivation A video processing method includes deriving multiple temporal motion vector prediction (TMVP) candidates for a video block in a current picture based on multiple blocks associated with a second block in one or more pictures that are temporally co-located with the current picture, wherein the current picture is excluded from the one or more pictures, and the second block is temporally collocated with the video block, wherein the second block has a same size as the video block, and wherein a relative position of the second block to a top-left corner of a second picture of the one or more pictures is same as that of the video block to a top-left corner of the current picture; adding the multiple TMVP candidates to a motion candidate list associated with the video block; and performing a conversion between the video block and a bitstream.
US12200191B2	On geometric partition mode with intra and inter prediction Coded information of a coding unit (CU) is received. The CU is partitioned into a first partition and a second partition based on a partition index. The partition index indicates a geometric partition mode (GPM) in which the CU is partitioned into the first partition and the second partition by a straight partition line. Based on a location of the straight partition line in the CU, (i) whether a first prediction mode of the first partition of the CU is one of an intra mode and an inter mode and (ii) whether a second prediction mode of the second partition of the CU is one of the intra mode and the inter mode are determined. The first partition of the CU is reconstructed based on the determined first prediction mode and the second partition of the CU is reconstructed based on the determined second prediction mode.
US12200175B2	Image forming apparatus for performing image forming operation based on detected value from detector and at least one of first information that is not acquired based on the detected value or second information acquired outside the image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording medium, including: a detector that detects a physical property of the recording medium and obtains a detection value; and a hardware processor that controls an operation of the image forming apparatus based on: the detection value detected by the detector, and at least one of: first information that relates to the recording medium and does not include the detection value or a physical property value calculated based on the detection value, and second information that does not relate to the recording medium and is acquired from outside of the image forming apparatus.
US12200172B1	Conferencing and meeting implementations with advanced features Meeting and conferencing systems and methods are implemented in a variety of manners. Consistent with one example embodiment, an audio conference system includes communications circuitry and a caller interface, each associated with setting up or managing the audio conference. Menu options may be provided to validate or authenticate incoming telephony calls. In response to a selection of the menu options, an incoming telephony call may be prompted to select a callback number, and then the system monitors for a trigger event. A participant is contacted in response to detecting the trigger event, and the contacted participant is then placed into the audio conference.
US12200169B2	AI based hold messaging The present disclosure relates generally to facilitating two-way communications. One example involves receiving a hold indication associated with a hold status for the two-way voice communication session, and executing a hold bot for the communication session. Hold bot functionality is communicated as part of the two-way voice communication session, and when the hold bot functionality message is received by the user computer device, the user computing device generates a voice message. The system receives and processes processing the voice message using a voice-to-text system of the hold bot to generate a voice-to-text message, and transmits the voice-to-text message during the hold status so that the agent device receives the voice-to-text message during the hold status.
US12200159B2	Security system for inmate wireless devices A layered security suite is disclosed wherein multiple security barriers that prevent the unsanctioned use of a mobile device issued by a controlled-environment facility. The security barriers are implemented along multiple points within the communication path between the mobile device with outside networks, including on the mobile device, on wireless access points that serve data traffic for the mobile device, and a firewall device that monitors all data coming to and from the wireless access points. The barriers on the mobile device prevent the user from performing unsanctioned application and settings changes, including both software and hardware components, while the barrier on the wireless access point detects and prevents unauthorized connections between mobile devices and unsanctioned wireless access points. The firewall device discards packets with unsanctioned internet addresses. The layers work in concert to prevent all manner of tampering with the mobile device by members of the controlled-environment facility.
US12200158B2	Portable radio mounting apparatus Embodiments of the instant disclosure relate to portable radio mounting apparatus (PRMA). The PRMA includes a main body, landing pad, antenna element(s), RF connector conductively coupled to the antenna element, retaining element and has “open” and “closed” states. Landing pad laterally extends from the main body and includes the antenna element(s) and a first end pivotably coupled to main body. RF connector is conductively coupled to the antenna element. In the open state, the landing pad is pivoted away from the main body and thereby exposes the retaining element; the retaining element receives a portable radio and thereby demountably secures the portable radio to the main body; and the RF connector demountably and conductively couples to the portable radio. In the close state, landing pad is pivoted towards the main body and wrapped around the portable; and is demountably coupled to the main body.
US12200155B2	Telecommunications enclosure Provided herein are a telecommunications enclosure (1) and a method for coupling a cable (6) to a cable port (15) of the telecommunications enclosure (1). The base (10) comprises an outer structure (11) having an inner opening (12), and an inner assembly (130) comprising an inner structure (13), adapted to be removably inserted within the inner opening (12), and a plurality of sealing modules (14), each comprising a first part (14a) and a second part (14b). The outer structure (11) comprises a plurality of receiving portions (16) each having a recess (161) adapted to receive at least said first part (14a) of a respective sealing module (14) of the plurality of sealing modules (14). The base (10) is commutable between an assembled condition and a disassembled condition.
US12200152B2	Electronic device having antennas Provided is a mobile terminal changing in size according to one embodiment. The mobile terminal comprises: a slide metal part; a front metal part formed to be coupled to the slide metal part; and a coupling link formed to couple the slide metal part and the front metal part in a folded state or an extended state. A plurality of antennas are disposed on the left surface, the right surface and the lower surface of the slide metal part, and at least one surface of the slide metal part is ground-connected to a PCB, which is accommodated in the slide metal part, at a plurality of points, and thus a difference in the lengths of ground paths is reduced in accordance with a relative movement to reduce a change in antenna performance of the plurality of antennas due to the relative movement.
US12200149B2	Blockchain data forgetability To write forgettable data to a blockchain, the forgettable data is transmitted to a server, from which encrypted data corresponding to the forgettable data are received. A hash of the forgettable data is generated. A data block including the encrypted data and control data including the hash is added to the blockchain.
US12200148B2	Method and apparatus for noise injection for PUF generator characterization Disclosed is a physical unclonable function generator circuit and method. In one embodiment, physical unclonable function (PUF) generator includes: a PUF cell array that comprises a plurality of bit cells, wherein each of the plurality of bit cells comprises at least two access transistors, at least one enable transistor, and at least two storage nodes, wherein the at least two storage nodes are pre-configured with substantially the same voltages allowing each of the plurality of bit cells having a first metastable logical state; a PUF control circuit coupled to the PUF cell array, wherein the PUF control circuit is configured to access the plurality of bit cells to determine second logical states by turning on the at least one enable transistor and turning off the at least two access transistors of each of the plurality of bit cells, and based on the second logical states of the plurality of bit cells, to generate a PUF output; and a noise injector coupled to the PUF control circuit and the PUF cell array, wherein the noise injector is configured to create stressed operation conditions to evaluate stability of the plurality of bit cells.
US12200146B2	Blockchain-based data processing method and apparatus, computer device, computer-readable storage medium, and computer program product A blockchain-based data processing method and apparatus, a computer device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a data authorization request transmitted by an authorization terminal, the data authorization request including a data authorization certificate associated with an authorizer; performing authorization verification on the authorizer according to the data authorization request to obtain a first verification result; signing the data authorization certificate according to a private key of a first blockchain in a case that the first verification result is a valid result to obtain a first certificate signature, determining the first certificate signature as a to-be-uploaded signature, and performing uploading on the data authorization certificate carrying the to-be-uploaded signature; and transmitting the data authorization certificate to a second blockchain, and providing a query permission to a query terminal in a case that signature verification on the to-be-uploaded signature by the second blockchain succeeds.
US12200143B2	Deterministic certificate expiration in dissaggregated environments Methods and systems for certificate management in a distributed system are disclosed. The distributed system may include data processing systems that utilize certificates issued by a certificate issuer. The data processing systems may be intermittently connected to the certificate issuer. The certificate issuer may, at any point in time, revoke any issued certificate. The certificate issuer may not notify other entities of the revocation. To determine whether a certificate should be treated as being valid, the data processing systems may apply a set of rules to the certificate that compensate for intermittent connectivity to the certificate issuer that may prevent determining whether a certificate has been revoked, while limiting risk due to the potential for a certificate to have been revoked but the revocation not being known.
US12200142B2	Time-based digital signature A method includes receiving an event, the event associated with a digital signature in a first time-based message comprising a first trusted time stamp token generated using a first hash of digitally signed content from a trusted timing authority; generating a first block on a distributed ledger; generating a second hash of the first trusted time stamp token; receiving a second trusted time stamp token from the trusted timing authority in response to transmitting the second hash to the trusted timing authority; and generating a second block on the distributed ledger; wherein verification of data integrity of the digitally signed content is provided via the first hash of the digitally signed content and second hash of the first trusted time stamp token and via the hash of the first block and a hash of the second block.
US12200141B2	Systems and methods for conducting remote attestation Disclosed embodiments may include a system that may receive a document associated with an entity and may generate a first hash associated with the document. The system may prompt a first user to provide a first signature of the document and may generate a second hash associated with the first signature. The system may prompt the first user to provide authentication information and may determine whether received authentication information matches stored authentication information. In response to determining the authentication information matches the stored authentication information, the system may prompt a second user to provide a second signature of the document, may generate a third hash associated with the second signature, may generate a fourth hash associated with a verified record of the first, second, and third hashes, may generate a block comprising the first, second, third, and fourth hashes, and may publish the block to a blockchain.
US12200140B2	Data management system In a blockchain, contents of communication of electronic data are basically made public, and a malicious person can find system vulnerability of the blockchain. Leak of secret information or the like to an unintended third party through unauthorized access or the like by exploiting the vulnerability and cause is actually possible. Thus, it cannot be said that sufficient security measures are taken. In the present invention, a colony server stores partial data containing data of a predetermined size from a beginning of data to be managed received from a terminal, and a center server stores body data containing data of the predetermined size +1 and thereafter. Thus, the data to be managed is managed in a divided manner. Also, even if the body data is leaked from the colony server through unauthorized access or the like, the body data is merely part of the data to be managed, and has no value on its own. Thus, the present invention provides a system and the like for achieving robust security against unauthorized access.
US12200139B1	Circuit optimization for digital currency mining system and method of operation An electronic system for calculating and mining digital currency using circuit layout optimized for power consumption, performance level, and integrated circuit surface area. A circuit simulation system simulates and evaluates circuit layouts retrieved from a circuit database to identify circuit parameters to compare against threshold values. The circuit simulation varies operational parameters of the circuits simulated to evaluate the active circuit parameters. The operational parameters include voltage levels, clock frequencies, thermal characteristics, and layout characteristics of dedicated components and sub-modules. The active circuit parameters include the effective hash rate, power, performance, and surface area.
US12200138B2	System and method of establishing a trusted relationship in a distributed system A node in a distributed network computes a hash of content for a service received in a data packet. The node verifies the data packet by comparing the hash of the content of a service received from a neighboring node to a hash of the content computed by the node. An amount of content of the service having a same identification is accumulated in a trusted execution environment (TEE) of the node, and a signature based on code stored in a TEE of the node is generated. The node then sends the data packet to the next neighboring node, where the service-related information includes the service ID, a hash of the service content and the signature. The service records with the accumulated amount of service content, accumulated hash values, and nodes' signatures are sent to the validation nodes to reach consensus for the service provided.
US12200137B2	Interpreting packet communications A machine and a method of making and of using the machine. Illustratively, the machine includes, in a digital network, a node intermediate a miner client and a mining pool, the node representing the miner client to the pool, the node representing the mining pool to the miner client, the node implementing logic that: receives packet communications of a mining protocol from the miner client; interprets the packet communications to produce interpreted packet communications; routes new packet communications to the mining pool based on the interpreted packet communications; receives other packet communications of the mining protocol from the mining pool; interprets the other communications to produce other interpreted packet communications; and routes other new packet communications to the miner client based on the other interpreted packet communications.
US12200129B2	Zero-knowledge interaction processing system and method A user device generates an initiate interaction request message comprising a state commitment. The user device provides the initiate interaction request message to a first server computer, which creates a verify state request message comprising an interaction index, an interaction index commitment, and a first commitment signature formed from the state commitment and the interaction index commitment. The user device receives the verify state request message, then generates a modified verify state request message comprising a user device public key, the state commitment, the interaction index commitment, and the first commitment signature. The user device provides the modified verify state request message to a second server computer. The second server computer verifies the state commitment, verifies the first commitment signature, and creates a second commitment signature formed from the state commitment and the interaction index commitment. The user device receives a verify state response message comprising the second commitment signature.
US12200128B2	System and method for securely transmitting non-PKI encrypted messages An embodiment of an automatic key delivery system is described, An automatic key delivery system comprises the following operations. Herein, a first token is generated and provided to a first network device. Thereafter, a first key value pair, including the first token and a first key segment of a cryptographic key, is received by a first relay server and a second key value pair, including the first token and a second key segment of the cryptographic key, is received from a second relay server. In response, a second token to be provided to the first relay server and the second relay server. Thereafter, the first and second key segment are returned from the first and second relay servers based on usage of the second token as a lookup in order to recover the cryptographic key for decryption of an encrypted content from the first network device.
US12200121B2	Enhanced security for multi-link wireless operations This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to security for multi-link operations. A multi-link device (MLD) may establish a first communication link between a first device of the MLD and a first device of a second MLD, and a second communication link between a second device of the MLD and a second device of the second MLD. The MLD may generate a group-addressed message. The MLD may protect the group-addressed message using a first key or a first integrity key. The MLD may protect the group-addressed message using a second key or a second integrity key. The MLD may send, using the first communication link, the group-addressed message protected using the first key or the first integrity key, and may send, using the second communication link, the group-addressed message protected using the second key or the second integrity key.
US12200118B1	Application programming interface to generate data key pairs A computer-implemented method for providing cryptographic services, including providing key pairs. A key management service receives a web service application programming interface or other such request to generate a key pair. To respond to the request, the key management service obtains a pregenerated key pair that is securely stored and provides the key pair in response to the request.
US12200117B2	Credential generation and distribution method and system for a blockchain network Methods and devices that manage the secure distribution of credentials from a group of autonomous specialized nodes to a requesting node. The secure distribution of credentials may uses secret share and a group private key that none of the nodes reconstructs or possesses. The credentials include an identifier for the requesting node and a secret point that the node assembles from portions of the secret point provided by each of a plurality of the specialized nodes, where the secret point is based on the group private key and a map-to-point hash of the requesting node's identifier.
US12200114B1	Systems and methods for mobile quantum key distribution Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for mobile quantum key distribution (MQKD). An example method includes establishing a first connection between a MQKD device and a first device. The example method further includes generating a pair of entangled particles and injecting quantum data that is based on a first particle of the pair of entangled particles into the first device. The example method further includes establishing a second connection between the MQKD device and a host device and injecting quantum data that is based on a second particle of the pair of entangled particles into the host device to facilitate secure communication between the host device and the first device based at least on the pair of entangled particles.
US12200113B2	Consensus-based online authentication Methods and systems for consensus-based online authentication are provided. An encryption device may be authenticated based on an authentication cryptogram generated by the encryption device. The encryption device may transmit a request for security assessment to one or more support devices. The support devices may individually assess the encryption device, other security devices, and contextual information. The support devices may choose to participate in a multi-party computation with the encryption device based on the security assessments. Support devices that choose to participate may transmit one or more secret shares or partial computations to the encryption device. The encryption device may use the secret shares or partial computations to generate an authentication cryptogram. The authentication cryptogram may be transmitted to a decryption device, which may decrypt the authentication cryptogram, evaluate its contents, and authenticate the encryption device based on its contents.
US12200112B2	Key rotation service A system for security key rotation in a cloud computing environment is disclosed. The system performs steps to at least initiate, at a predetermined interval, a call to determine whether to initiate generation of a public-private key pair for a client application. The system determines whether to initiate generation of the public-private key pair for the client application and based on determining to initiate generation of the public-private key pair for the client application, transmits a control signal requesting generation of the public-private key pair The system generates the public-private key pair and transmits a private key associated with the public-private key pair to a secure storage location for later retrieval by the client application and transmits a public key associated with the public-private key pair to a public key service for later retrieval by a client associated with the client application.
US12200111B2	Automatic generation and update of connectivity association keys for media access control security protocol A first network device may identify a MACsec session between the first network device and a second network device that utilizes a CAK, may determine, using a KDF and one or more KDF input parameters, an additional CAK, may encrypt the one or more KDF input parameters and/or KDF identification information that identifies the KDF and the one or more KDF input parameters to generate encrypted KDF input information, and may send, to the second network device, a first message that includes the encrypted KDF input information. The first network device may receive, from the second network device, based on sending the first message, a second message that includes a checksum value, may determine, based on the checksum value, that the second network device has determined the additional CAK, and may communicate, with the second network device, to cause the MACsec session to utilize the additional CAK.
US12200107B1	Post-quantum cryptography side chain A computing entity accesses one or more blocks of a blockchain, encrypts the content of the one or more blocks using a first cryptographic technique to generate one or more first encrypted block values, and writes a first side chain block comprising the one or more first encrypted block values and a first signature to a first side chain. The computing entity accesses at least one of (a) at least one block of a particular second set of one or more second sets of the plurality of blocks or (b) one or more first side chain blocks corresponding to blocks of the second set, encrypts the content of the accessed block(s) using a second cryptographic technique to generate at least one second encrypted block value, and writes a second side chain block comprising the at least one second encrypted block value and a second signature to a second side chain.
US12200104B2	Method and apparatus for neural network model encryption and decryption A method for neural network model encryption and decryption includes a first apparatus stores a neural network model and obtains hardware configuration information of the first apparatus, and obtains an encryption key accordingly; encrypts the neural network model by a predetermined encryption algorithm; a second apparatus obtains the encrypted neural network model from the first apparatus, transmits a decryption request to the first apparatus, obtains the hardware configuration information from the first apparatus, obtains a decryption key based on the hardware configuration information; and decrypts the encrypted neural network model by a predetermined decryption algorithm.
US12200103B2	System for simplifying executable instructions for optimised verifiable computation The invention relates to distributed ledger technologies such as consensus-based blockchains. Computer-implemented methods for reducing arithmetic circuits derived from smart contracts are described. The invention is implemented using a blockchain network, which may be, for example, a Bitcoin blockchain. A set of conditions encoded in a first programming language is obtained. The set of conditions is converted into a programmatic set of conditions encoded in a second programming language. The programmatic set of conditions is precompiled into precompiled program code. The precompiled program code is transformed into an arithmetic circuit. The arithmetic circuit is reduced to form a reduced arithmetic circuit, and the reduced arithmetic circuit is stored.
US12200101B2	Semi-custom accelerator device for bootstrappable fully homomorphic encryption An FPGA-based accelerator for bootstrappable fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) employs (1) acceleration of scalar arithmetic operations using a multi-word approach for efficient utilization of standard-width components (multipliers/adders) on custom-width operands; (2) a performant, shift-based modular reduction technique that avoids the need for expensive multipliers; (3) an improved datapath for an expensive Key Switch operation; and (4) an efficient organization of on-chip memory for storing custom-width operands and supplying them at high bandwidth to computation units.
US12200099B2	Multi-party cryptographic systems and methods This disclosure relates to systems and methods for performing cryptographic operations in connection with the management of electronic content using multiple license services. In some circumstances, a content service may not wish to share unencrypted content keys with a single license service for a variety of security reasons. Embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods may use multi-party cryptographic methods in connection with the management of protected content keys and/or associated licenses and/or the distribution of content keys and/or licenses to authorized users and/or devices. In various embodiments, a content service may split a content key into a plurality of key shares and may transmit the key shares to a plurality of different license services. The license services may coordinate operations to generate a protected content key without revealing unencrypted content key to any of the participating license services.
US12200098B2	Power supplying device, method and secure system A power supply device is used to provide power to an encryption and decryption device of a security system, including a safety power supply device, which is used to supply the supply voltage according to the system voltage; a regulated voltage source, which is used to provide a regulated voltage; and a voltage selection device, which is electrically connected with the safety power supply device, the stable voltage source and the encryption and decryption device. During the startup period of the security system, or, after the startup period of the security system and the encryption/decryption device performs encryption/decryption, only the supply voltage is selected as the driving voltage of the encryption/decryption device. After the startup period of the security system and the encryption and decryption device does not perform encryption and decryption, the voltage only the regulated voltage is selected as the driving voltage of the encryption and decryption device.
US12200097B2	Secondary phase compensation assist for PLL IO delay A line card of a network box receives a SYNC input signal and generates a first time stamp based on receipt of the SYNC input signal. The line card generates a system clock signal in a phase-locked loop and generates a SYNC output signal by dividing the system clock signal in a divider circuit. The SYNC output signal is fed back to an input terminal as a SYNC feedback signal. A time stamp is generated based on receipt of the SYNC feedback signal. The line card determines a time between the SYNC input signal and the SYNC feedback signal based on the first time stamp and the second time stamp. The timing of the SYNC output signal is adjusted based on the time difference using a coarse time adjustment by adjusting a divide ratio of the divider circuit and using a fine time adjustment in the phase-locked loop based on a residue of a remainder of the time difference not accounted for by the coarse time adjustment.
US12200092B2	Synchronous control apparatus A synchronization control device receives a trigger signal as input, outputs a first output signal for presenting a specific sensing target of a first sensor at a first time point corresponding to an input time point of the trigger signal, to a first device that presents the specific sensing target of the first sensor, and outputs a second output signal that instructs start of sensing in a second sensor different from the first sensor at a second time point corresponding to the input time point of the trigger signal, to the second sensor.
US12200089B2	Bi-directional buffer with circuit protection time synchronization Examples described herein are used in timing synchronization systems. A timing synchronization system provides circuits that support bi-directional half-duplex voltage signals (transmit or receive) but protect against incorrect input/output configuration whereby a transmit signal media is connected to a receive port or a receive signal media is connected to a transmit port. The system provides configurable signal propagation by use of parallel connection of two or more buffer in series with a resistor. Various isolation circuitry and resistors can be used to protect against signal transmission during receive mode.
US12200087B2	Dynamic data conversion for network computer systems A computing node for a computing system includes a processor, conversion circuitry, and routing circuitry. The processor generates a data signal based on a function of an application executed by the computing system. The data signal has a first precision format and a first sparse representation. The conversion circuitry receives the data signal from the processor and generate a converted data signal by at least one of converting the first precision format to a second precision format and converting the first sparse representation to a second sparse representation. The routing circuitry transmits the converted data signal to switch circuitry of the computing system.
US12200086B2	Method for compressing can-bus data A method for compressing a flow of CAN-bus messages, which comprises: (A) during a training stage: (a) determining at least one series-type pattern; (b) defining a compressed series-type command for each of said patterns, each command comprising parameters of: (b.1) a timestamp of a first message; (b.2) a message-ID; (b.3) a type of pattern; (b.4) an indication of a field within the messages; (b.5) a parameter value at the first message; (b.6) period between messages; and (b.7) number of messages; (B) during a compression stage: (c) dividing a record of CAN-bus messages into groups of a same message-ID; (d) within each group, finding messages of a same pattern; (e) for each series, forming a compressed command in a form as defined with values for at least several parameters; and (C) during a decompression stage: (f) using the series-type compressed commands to reconstruct the content of the series of messages.
US12200085B2	Method and apparatus for adjusting application context relocation in edge computing system The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for fusing a 5G communication system with IoT technology to support a higher data rate than a 4G system, and a system thereof. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail, security and safety related services, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, provided is a method of a first server in a wireless communication system. The method of the first server is characterized by comprising the steps of: receiving first information on whether a relocation procedure of an application context can be started from at least one of a terminal and an application server; confirming second information related to the relocation procedure of the application context on the basis of the first information; transmitting the second information to the terminal and the application server; and when it is confirmed that the relocation procedure of the application context is being performed, transmitting an indicator indicating that the relocation procedure of the application context is in progress to the terminal and the application server.
US12200080B2	Next gen zero trust network access (ZTNA) and virtual private network (VPN) including cloud secure access service edge (SASE) Techniques for leveraging the MASQUE protocol to provide remote clients with full application access to private enterprise resources are described herein. One or more network nodes may be configured to execute a MASQUE proxy service to provide a remote client device with full access to an enterprise/private application resource executing on an application node and hosted in an enterprise/application network, behind the MASQUE proxy service. In some examples, the MASQUE proxy service may execute on a single proxy node hosted at an edge of a cloud network or at an edge of an enterprise network. Additionally, or alternatively, a first instance of the MASQUE proxy service may execute on a first proxy node hosted at an edge of a cloud network (e.g., an ingress proxy node) and a second instance of the MASQUE proxy service may execute on a second proxy node hosted at an edge of the enterprise network.
US12200078B1	Methods and systems for configuring a user device Systems and methods are described for modifying a setting of a second user device based on derived contextual information or outputting a recommendation of media content based on the contextual information. A modification of a setting of a first user device is determined. Contextual information relating to the modification is derived.
US12200077B2	Addressing previous client device technology in online platforms The subject technology receives, in a request, information related to a version of a web browser of a client device. The subject technology determines, using the information related to the version of the web browser, a version of a tracking tag to provide to the client device. The subject technology selects the version of the tracking tag from among different versions of the tracking tag, each version of the tracking tag comprising different code from code of other versions of the tracking tag. The subject technology receives the version of the tracking tag from cloud storage. The subject technology sends the version of the tracking tag to the client device.
US12200075B2	Method for assessment of human attention A method to assess a human subject's attention while experiencing dynamic media. An attention-predictive response (e.g. time course of gaze position, or pupil size, or heart-rate, etc.) is monitored while the subject watches the media. Similarity of the time course of this response to the time course of a predicted response provides a quantitative measure of the subject's attention to the media.
US12200066B2	Virtual private network connection management Virtual private network (VPN) service provider infrastructure (SPI) receives a request to access a VPN from a client device. The VPN SPI selects an Internet Protocol (IP) address for access to the VPN by the client device from a pool of IP addresses. The VPN SPI provides access to the VPN for the client device via the IP address. The VPN SPI receives one or more handshake notifications from the client device. The VPN SPI determines that a threshold time period has passed since a latest-in-time handshake notification of the one or more handshake notifications. The VPN SPI disconnects the client device from the VPN in response to determining that the threshold time period has passed. The VPN SPI adds the IP address to the pool of IP addresses in response to disconnecting the client device from the VPN.
US12200062B1	IoT contextually-aware digital twin with enhanced discovery IoT devices within a commercial real-estate or residential building environment may be connected through networks, such as a Building Automation and Control network (BACnet). Systems and methods according to this disclosure provide automatic discovery of IoT devices and relationships in commercial real-estate and residential buildings and integration of the BACnet devices into the digital twin of the building. In some implementations, an IoT gateway is configured to translate the communication received from the BACnet to an IoT cloud platform and configured to normalize the data across the different security platforms into a consistent format which enables integration and interoperability of the different building system platforms that may otherwise be operating in isolation from each other. Systems and methods according to the present disclosure provide edge based analytics and control of IoT BACnet devices based on defining conditions and rules, and provide integration of multiple building systems in the context of commercial real-estate and residential buildings.
US12200059B1	Distributed sensing processing systems A smart sensor can include a plurality of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) configured to receive analog signals from a sensor module, and a plurality of channel modules. Each channel module can be connected to a respective ADC and each channel module can include a limited data processing module configured to provide initial processing. The sensor can include a data control module operatively connected to each of the plurality of channel modules and configured to select a selected channel of the plurality of channels to receive initially processed data from the limited data processing module of the selected channel. The data control module can be configured to interface with external memory to store data to the external memory and/or to read data from the external memory. The sensor can include a batch processing module operatively connected to the data control module and configured to receive the initially processed data of the selected channel from the data control module to provide further processing of the initially processed data.
US12200055B2	System and method for determining insights from sensing inputs A system and method extracting insights from sensed data are provided. The method includes receiving at least one data packet from at least one IoT tag, extracting at least one parameter from the at least one received data packet, where the parameter is a measure of the at least one IoT tag, identifying patterns from the at least one extracted parameter, and determining an insight based on the identified patterns.
US12200052B1	Adapting unreliable data sink to reliable stream According to at least one embodiment, a method, a computer system, and a computer program product for handling an unreliable data sink is provided. The present invention may include reading, continuously, via a stream processor, a batch of data entering the stream processor via a reliable input stream, the stream processor comprising a daisy chain of sink nodes, wherein a first sink node is a primary sink node and a subsequent plurality of sink nodes in the daisy chain are fallback sink nodes; outputting processed data to a non-streaming target system; upon completion of the processed data to the non-streaming target system, invoking an asynchronous callback function listing successful and failed record IDs of the processed data; and passing the failed records to a first fallback sink within the daisy chain, while the primary sink node concurrently continues submitting new batches of data to the non-streaming target system.
US12200051B2	Peer-to-peer network scheduling method and system Embodiments of this application provides a peer-to-peer network scheduling method. The method includes: obtaining a fragment file list, where the fragment file list includes information about a plurality of fragment files, each fragment file includes one or more segments, and each segment corresponds to one segment number; downloading one or more target segments corresponding to one or more target segment numbers from a CDN server based on the fragment file list and the one or more target segment numbers, where the one or more target segment numbers are located in a target segment list; adjusting the target segment list based on information about data obtained from and/or sent to another client device, to obtain an adjusted target segment list; and downloading one or more target segments corresponding to one or more target segment numbers in the adjusted target segment list from the CDN server.
US12200045B2	Information processing apparatus, method of controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium An information processing apparatus that communicates with a virtual machine functioning as a cloud browser, the information processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the virtual machine, analysis information obtained by analyzing HTML data by the virtual machine; a determination unit configured to determine a user operation on a screen of the information processing apparatus using the analysis information; and a drawing unit configured to, when determined that the user operation is a predetermined user operation, execute a drawing process corresponding to an event corresponding to the user operation without acquiring information regarding the drawing process corresponding to the user operation from the virtual machine.
US12200040B2	Communication management between mesh-networked mobile nodes The nodes of a squad of nodes include a coordinating node and a set of worker nodes for sharing computational resources to perform resource intensive tasks. A requesting worker node may send work requests to the coordinating node of a squad of nodes. In response to a work request, the requesting worker node receives from the coordinating node a list of worker nodes to assign one or more tasks associated with the work request. The list of worker nodes is selected based on a report of resources and current utilization of each node within the squad. Upon receiving the list of workers, the requesting worker node divides the tasks associated with the work request into multiple buckets, assigns each bucket to a worker node form the list of worker nodes, and sends a request to process tasks from each of the buckets to the corresponding worker node.
US12200039B2	HTTP-based message broker architectures for communications between a cloud-based controller and network devices of a wireless communications network and related methods An application of a cloud-based controller forwards a message to a message broker of the cloud-based controller. The message is then transmitted to a network device of a wireless communications network over a persistent hypertext transfer protocol (“HTTP”) connection. Thereafter, an acknowledgment is received in response to transmitting the message at a gRPC proxy for the message broker.
US12200036B2	Apparatus and method for providing media streaming A method for providing a media stream to a user equipment (UE) by a server apparatus may include: receiving, from a content provider, the media stream to be provided to the UE, and storing the same; rendering an image of the stored media stream; generating, as a frame, the rendered image and instruction information relating to the rendered image; and encoding the generated frame to transmit the same to the UE through a network, wherein the instruction information instructs at least one of storage, reuse, and a report request of the transmitted image, an update of a pre-stored image, and deletion of the pre-registered image.
US12200035B1	Routing of full motion video (FMV) streams in one-way transfer systems using out-of-band routing tables Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods relating to full motion video (FMV) routing in one-way transfer (OWT) systems. The present technology reserves a particular channel for transmission of a video stream, and then transmits the video stream from a low-trust computing environment to a high-trust computing environment along a data path defined by the channel. When the video stream is received on the high-trust side, the channel, on which the video stream is received, is determined and used to query a routing table that returns destination addresses of destination devices to which the video stream is to be transmitted. The video stream is then delivered to the destination devices having the corresponding addresses.
US12200029B2	Method of automatically processing cross-type communication for multiple connections with a single account In a method of automatically processing cross-type communication for multiple connections with a single account, a user only needs a single account to receive multiple connection requests, thereby connecting and communicating with multiple parties. In addition, the method can perform cross-type switching operation between different types of communication. For example, the method helps a user switch from in a voice-type communication mode to in a video-type communication mode. Furthermore, the method can also automatically execute some processing procedures according to parameters preset by the user and the current communication state of the user to provide the user with the convenience of communication before setting up a communication connection or switching the communication connection.
US12200027B2	Selective channel live production system and method Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting and processing communication channels in a live production environment. In one aspect, a conversation status of each of a plurality of communication channels is determined. Channels belonging to a first group status are grouped into a first set, and channels belonging to a second group status are grouped into a second set. Display data is generated to indicate the respective groupings, and audio and text is selectively displayed on user devices according to the groupings.
US12200020B2	Merging communication sessions and communication channels System, apparatus, and methods are described for monitoring communication sessions and determining to merge two or more of the communication sessions sharing a common ground into a common communication session. A common communication channel may be determined for the common communication session. The two or more communication sessions may be merged to generate the common communication session using the common communication channel.
US12200019B2	Method for establishing communication connection and electronic apparatus capable of establishing communication connection A method for establishing a communication connection includes sending a first packet data network (PDN) connection request message to a network side for internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) registration; repeatedly sending the first PDN connection request message for the IMS registration when the IMS registration fails; and sending a second PDN connection request message to the network side for the IMS registration when a number of times the IMS registration fails reaches a predetermined number. The second PDN connection request message and the first PDN connection request message include different PDN types.
US12200017B2	Techniques for automated capture and reporting of user-verification metric data Techniques are disclosed relating to the automated capture and reporting of user-verification metric data. In various embodiments, a server system may maintain a set of user-verification rules usable to verify an identity of a user requesting to perform operations via a service provided by the server system. In response to receiving an updated rule definition for a particular user-verification rule, the server system may automatically generate an updated schema for the particular user-verification rule, where the updated schema specifies a structure of event messages used to documents uses of the particular user-verification rule by a user-verification service. The server system may then receive information corresponding to a particular use of the particular user-verification rule and, using the updated schema, generate an event message to document the particular use of the particular user-verification rule.
US12200016B2	Security platform with external inline processing of assembled selected traffic Techniques for a security platform with external inline processing of assembled selected traffic are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/method/computer program product for providing a security platform with external inline processing of assembled selected traffic includes monitoring network traffic of a session at a security platform; selecting a subset of the monitored network traffic associated with the session to send to a cloud-based security service for analysis based on a security policy, wherein the selected subset of the monitored network traffic is proxied to the cloud-based security service; and receiving, from the cloud-based security service, results of the analysis based on the security policy, and performing a responsive action based on the results of the analysis based on the security policy.
US12200014B2	Lifelong learning based intelligent, diverse, agile, and robust system for network attack detection A lifelong learning intrusion detection system and methods are provided. The system may capture network data directed to a host node. The host node may include a honeypot. The honeypot may emulate operation of a physical or virtual device to attract malicious activity. The system may classify, based on a supervised machine learning model, the network data as being not malicious or not malicious. The system may classify, based on an unsupervised machine learning model, the network data as being anomalous or not anomalous. The system may alter operation of the honeypot to induce malicious activity. The system may determine, after operation of the honeypot is altered, the honeypot is accessed. The system may retrain the supervised machine learning model and/or unsupervised machine learning model based the network data.
US12200012B2	Systems and methods for tracking and identifying phishing website authors A method of tracking phishing activity is disclosed. A request to download a webpage hosted as part of a legitimate website on a server is initiated. The request includes identification data pertaining to at least one user computing device. The identification data is extracted from the request. A unique identifier corresponding to the extracted identification data is generated.Fingerprint data is generated using at least a subset of the extracted identification data. The unique identifier, the extracted identification data and the fingerprint data is stored. The fingerprint data is encoded into a program and/or data associated with the webpage to generate a modified webpage. The modified webpage is transmitted from the server to the user computing device in response to the request.
US12200010B2	Document retention and generation at the edge Methods for reducing storage demands at a centralized database and for reducing probability of a security breach such as an interception attack and a man-in-the-middle attack. Methods may include obtaining a document at the edge computing device. Methods may further include storing the document at the edge computing device. Methods may include executing, using a processor, on the edge computing device, a hashing algorithm on the document. Methods may include outputting, using the processor, a hash-value that is an outcome of the hashing algorithm, where the hash-value corresponds to the document. Methods may include transmitting, using the processor, the hash-value to the centralized database over a low bandwidth communication line while maintaining a storage of the hash-value at the edge computing device. Methods may include storing the hash-value at the centralized database. The hash-value may provide a condensed representation of the document.
US12200008B2	Security aware load balancing for a global server load balancing system The method of some embodiments assigns a client to a particular datacenter from among multiple datacenters. The method is performed at a first datacenter, starting when it receives security data associated with a second datacenter. Then the method receives a DNS request from the client. Based on the received security data, the method sends a DNS reply assigning the client to the particular datacenter instead of the second datacenter. The receiving and sending is performed by a DNS cluster of the datacenter in some embodiments. The particular datacenter includes a set of servers implementing an application for the client in some embodiments. The datacenter to which the client gets assigned can be the first datacenter or a third datacenter.
US12200006B2	Systems and methods for cybersecurity risk mitigation and management A cybersecurity risk management method may include recommending, for each of a plurality of affiliates of an entity, a respective cybersecurity criticality tier selected from a set of cybersecurity criticality tiers; receiving user input adjusting and/or adopting the recommended cybersecurity criticality tier for each of the affiliates; assigning each of the affiliates to the respective adjusted or adopted cybersecurity criticality tier; obtaining respective security scores for the affiliates; and displaying a user interface component configured to show a visualization of a cybersecurity risk management plan of the entity with respect to the plurality of affiliates, wherein the risk management plan partitions the affiliates into a plurality of affiliate sets based on the security scores and the assigned cybersecurity criticality tiers of the affiliates and specifies, for each of the affiliate sets, an action to be taken by the entity with respect to the affiliates in the affiliate set.
US12200005B2	Secure and repeatable deployment to an air-gapped system Systems, programs, and methods for providing secure and repeatable processes of deploying networked software applications to an air-gapped system while maintaining security are described. A deployment bundle may be generated on a cloud-based platform utilizing cloud-based development tools and infrastructure as a service. In some embodiments, an on-site or hybrid cloud/on-site system may be used. The deployment bundle may be stored on a portable storage device. The portable storage device may be connected to the air-gapped system. The deployment bundle may be deployed in the air-gapped system providing the networked software application together with any local or network service dependencies into the air-gapped system.
US12200004B2	Privacy-enhanced common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) detection Disclosed are systems and methods for scanning a client codebase for vulnerabilities without exposing the client information. An example method includes receiving, from a client computing device, a scan request to scan a set of encrypted client information to identify vulnerabilities applicable to the client information. The method also includes responsive to the scan request, analyzing, by a processing device, the encrypted client information to generate scan results that identify vulnerabilities applicable to the client information, wherein the analyzing is performed without decrypting the client information. The method also includes returning the scan results to the client, wherein the scan results are in encrypted form when the scan results are generated.
US12200003B2	Network security techniques comparing observed distributions to baseline distributions A method described herein involves various operations directed toward network security. The operations include accessing a traffic attribute describing a feature of network traffic. The operations further include determining a baseline distribution for the traffic attribute of a baseline set of transactions involving an online system over a baseline period and, additionally, determining an observed distribution for the traffic attribute of an observed set of transactions involving the online system over an observed period. Using the observed distribution and the baseline distribution, an attribute risk value for the traffic attribute is computed. The operations further include detecting that an anomaly exists in the traffic attribute of the observed set of transactions, based on the attribute risk value. Responsive to detecting the anomaly, an access control is implemented for access to the online system by additional transactions having a particular value in the traffic attribute meeting a pattern of the anomaly.
US12199996B1	Confidence scoring for detectors used to detect anomalous behavior A computer-implemented method of determining whether to configure a detection comprised within a query is disclosed. The method includes analyzing a query to determine clauses within the query that identify logs relevant to the detection comprised within the query. The method further includes determining a statistical distribution for modeling a likely hit rate of the detection. Additionally, the method includes updating the statistical distribution with information associated with an observed hit rate. Also, the method includes determining a hit rate for the detection using the updated statistical distribution and live telemetry data and computing a confidence score for the detection. Responsive to a determination that the confidence score for the detection is above a predetermined threshold, the method includes maintaining the detection online.
US12199991B2	Systems and methods for multi-factor authentication by a commerce platform using a cloud services provider A method and apparatus for performing multi-factor authentication of a merchant system by a commerce platform are described. The method may include authenticating the commerce platform to a cloud services provider, the cloud services provider providing a private communications network for use by the commerce platform and the merchant system. The method may also include receiving, by the commerce platform, an authentication request from the merchant system, wherein the request received from the merchant system originates from the private communications network provided by the cloud services provider, and wherein the authentication request uses an encryption key. Furthermore, the method may include determining, by the commerce platform, validity of the encryption key used in the authentication request for the merchant system, and in response to origination of the authentication request occurring from within the private communications network and determining validity of the API key, authenticating the merchant system as an authorized system for performing an operation requested by the authentication request using the commerce platform.
US12199985B2	Multi-modal user authorization in group-based communication systems Method, apparatus and computer program product for multi-modal user authorization are described herein. For example, the apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one non-transitory memory including program code. The at least one non-transitory memory and the program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, receive a request to enable a first client device associated with a first user profile to access a group-based communication system; determine a first access privilege status for the first user profile; in response to determining that the first access privilege status is a general access privilege status, transmit, to the first client device, first user interface data associated with a general access user interface; and in response to determining that the first access privilege status is a limited access privilege status, transmit, to the first client device, second user interface data associated with a limited access user interface.
US12199976B2	Authentication bypass infrastructure Due to the proliferation of protected services that are secured by password wall, a user frequently has to remember multiple complex passwords. There is a need to reduce the number of passwords and maintain adequate security of the protected services. Systems described herein may autogenerate dynamic passwords for those apps that require a password. Protected services may allow user access based on the autogenerated dynamic password. The system may include an API for interacting with multiple apps that each provide protected services. The API may provide dynamic passwords that authenticate a user to access any of the protected services provided by any of the multiple apps.
US12199974B2	Secured platform for managing transportation logistics A platform for creating secured connections between motor carriers and intermediaries by requiring physical identity verification of users and authentication of association with regulated entities. The platform may also offer security through distinguishing between authorized motor carrier personnel and third party dispatcher services.
US12199971B2	System and method for transferring device identifying information Disclosed are various examples for transferring device identifying information during authentication. An enrollment request is received from a management component executed by a client device. A management service generates a unique device identifier for the client device and embeds it within a certificate to generate a device-identifying certificate. The management service instructs a certificate authority service to generate a public key that includes the unique device identifier and a private key for the client device, and provides the device-identifying certificate and the private key to the client device.
US12199966B2	Secure authentication based on physically unclonable functions The invention relates to an electronic device, and more particularly, to systems, devices and methods of authenticating the electronic device using a challenge-response process that is based on a physically unclonable function (PUF). The electronic device comprises a PUF element, a processor and a communication interface. The PUF element generates an input signal based on at least one PUF that has unique physical features affected by manufacturing variability. A challenge-response database, comprising a plurality of challenges and a plurality of corresponding responses, is set forth by the processor based on the PUF-based input and further provided to a trusted entity. During the trusted transaction, the processor generates a response in response to a challenge sent by the trusted entity based on the PUF-based input, and thereby, the trusted entity authenticates the electronic device by comparing the response with the challenge-response database.
US12199965B2	Quantum block-chained authentication system and methods for data transmission passing through P2P networks A quantum block-chained authentication solution with quantum authentication processes for data transmissions passing through a peer-to-peer (P2P) network including a plurality of agent nodes comprises a system that is capable of not only performing a smart contract on a block-chained virtual-machine mechanism for transmitting a data from an agent node to another agent node passing through a plurality of paths in a secure way implemented via proprietary quantum authentication processes, but also detecting and reacting to a malicious behavior within a transmission in time.
US12199963B2	Upstream approach for secure cryptography key dist A Software-Defined Networking (SDN)-based “upstream” approach is a controller-based solution that provides secure key distribution and management for multi-site data centers. The approach uses an SDN Multi-Site Controller (MSC) that acts as an intermediary between SDN controllers at sites in a multi-site data center and manages the distribution of keys to sites. The approach is not dependent upon any particular routing protocol, such as the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and is well suited for multicast stream encryption by allowing the same key to be used for all replicated packets sent to downstream sites from an upstream source site. The approach distributes keys in a secure manner, ensures that data transferred between sites is done in a secure manner, and supports re-keying with error handling.
US12199962B2	Technologies for providing secure utilization of tenant keys Technologies for providing secure utilization of tenant keys include a compute device. The compute device includes circuitry configured to obtain a tenant key. The circuitry is also configured to receive encrypted data associated with a tenant. The encrypted data defines an encrypted image that is executable by the compute device to perform a workload on behalf of the tenant in a virtualized environment. Further, the circuitry is configured to utilize the tenant key to decrypt the encrypted data and execute the workload without exposing the tenant key to a memory that is accessible to another workload associated with another tenant.
US12199960B2	Systems and methods for software telemetry pipeline agent A non-transitory computer readable medium stores instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive, from one or more processing nodes, data representative of usage and inventory of one or more software assets by one or more industrial automation devices of an industrial automation system that are communicatively coupled to the one or more processing nodes, determining a data delta for the industrial automation system that represents differences between the software asset data and a previous iteration of the software asset data, encrypt the data delta for the industrial automation system, and transmit the encrypted data delta for the industrial automation system to a remote server.
US12199952B2	Data protection component scaling in a cloud- based data storage system Systems described herein may dynamically add one or more proxy data protection agents to a cloud data storage system to process a data protection job. Upon completion of the job or at some other appropriate interval, the system can power down and decommission the proxy data protection agents and/or the virtual machines on which the data protection proxies reside according to a cleanup schedule (e.g., at hourly or minute intervals). In order to improve the allocation of computing resources, the system takes into account currently existing proxies or virtual machines when processing a backup request to determine the need for new proxies to service the backup request. In this manner the system can save costs and computing resources through efficient virtual machine deployment and retirement.
US12199950B2	Security for computer systems Filesystem driver software can receive a file access request indicating that an application process is requesting to access a target file in a filesystem, Network filter driver software can receive a connection establishment request indicating that the application process running on the processing apparatus is requesting to establish a connection over a network with a target endpoint. According to the present disclosure, one or both of: a) the filesystem driver software is configured to grant or deny the file access request in dependence on state information from the network filter driver software, and/or b) the network filter driver software is configured to grant or deny the connection establishment request in dependence on state information from the filesystem driver software.
US12199946B2	Generation of a unique device identifier for a client device in a wireless network To improve the network experience in a network, a unique device identifier (UDID) can be generated by a UDID generation module of a client device. The UDID generation module utilizes one or more device parameters as well as a service set identifier (SSID) as input(s) to the UDID generation module. The UDID can be reported to an access point device of the network so that the access point device can track, monitor, control, etc. the client device within the network, for example, when media access control randomization (rMAC) is utilized by the network to protect the privacy of the client device or a user of the client device. The same UDID is generated each time the client device joins the network so that the client device need not store the UDID.
US12199945B2	Kubeflow network protocol compatibility implementation Kubeflow network protocol compatibility is implemented by modifying a manifest of a first component in a Kubeflow manifest bundle to replace an alphanumeric address within each service discovery specification with a domain name, modifying a manifest of a second component in the Kubeflow manifest bundle to replace a first network protocol identity within each application network binding specification with a second network protocol identity, and applying the manifest of the first component and the manifest of the second component within a network operating in accordance with a second network protocol.
US12199944B2	Transparently proxying connections based on hostnames Disclosed are various embodiments for providing split-tunneled network connectivity on a per-application basis. A DNS query is received from a locally hosted DNS resolver. A first recursive DNS query is sent to an external DNS server and a second recursive DNS query is sent to an internal DNS server. A first recursive DNS response is then received from the external DNS server and a second recursive DNS response is received from the external DNS server. A response is then provided to the DNS query.
US12199942B1	NAT route distribution based on tag information in an SDWAN overlay network A process can include determining a plurality of Network Address Translation (NAT) routes associated with respective edge routers included in a same virtual private network (VPN) for communicating with a software-defined wide area network (SDWAN). A process can include identifying a first subset of the plurality of NAT routes as mapped to a first public NAT address included in a NAT pool associated with the VPN. A process can include tagging each NAT route of the first subset with a tag value indicative of a preferred router for receiving return traffic of the respective NAT route. A process can include routing traffic on a respective NAT route of the plurality of NAT routes based on applying, at an SDWAN controller, a corresponding control policy matching the tag value of the respective NAT route.
US12199940B1	Address resolution protocol based deployment One or more computer processors receive an address resolution protocol (ARP) request in response to a client connecting to a compute resource. The one or more computer processors identify an internet protocol (IP) address associated with the ARP request and the compute resource. The one or more computer processors determine the compute resource is unavailable or not ready for a connection with the client utilizing the identified IP address. The one or more computer processors, responsive to determining that the compute resource is unavailable, provision and deploy a new compute resource, wherein the new compute resource is available to the client under the identified IP address.
US12199932B2	System and method for displaying and filtering media content in a messaging client In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: receiving a set of messages; filtering the set of messages to identify a set of newsletters in response to a selection of a newsletter control within a messaging application; rendering a newsletter view within the messaging application, the newsletter view displaying a plurality of tiles corresponding to the set of newsletters; receiving a section of a given tile in the plurality of tiles from a user; and rendering a newsletter reader view, the newsletter reader view including a subject and body of a selected newsletter corresponding to the given tile.
US12199927B2	Single local oscillator in a multi-band frequency division duplex transceiver Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to multi-band FDD transceivers. An example transceiver includes a LO, configured to generate a LO signal to be shared between a receiver and a transmitter of the transceiver. Both the receiver and the transmitter use quadrature signal processing and are configured to multi-band operation. Sharing a single LO to perform frequency conversion of different frequency bands of received and transmitted signals advantageously allows reducing the number of LOs used in a multi-band FDD transceiver.
US12199926B2	Dynamic resource allocation among different OFDM numerology schemes The present disclosure relates to a resource allocation procedure for allocating time-frequency radio resources by a scheduler in a mobile communication system. A plurality of numerology schemes are defined, each partitioning a plurality of radio resources of the mobile communication system into resource scheduling units in a different manner. A reference resource set is defined per numerology scheme, each being associated to a set of radio resources usable for being allocated according to the respective numerology scheme. The reference resource set of at least one numerology scheme overlaps with the reference resource set of at least another numerology scheme in the frequency and/or time domain. The resource allocation procedure is performed for allocating radio resources to one or more user terminals according to the numerology schemes. The resource allocation procedure is performed for each numerology scheme based on a scheduling time interval defined for the respective numerology scheme.
US12199924B2	Reference coordinates for two-step RACH resource configuration A random access configuration information based on a reference SCS may allow for a unified coordinate system used by the base station and UEs that describes the time-frequency resource configuration for a two-step RACH procedure. The apparatus receives, from a base station, random access configuration information for the base station. The apparatus determines a first time duration for a preamble of a first random access message based on the random access configuration information received from the base station and a reference SCS associated with an uplink BWP configured for the first random access message. The apparatus determines a second time duration for a payload of the first random access message based on the random access configuration information received from the base station and the reference SCS. The apparatus transmits the first message to the base station to initiate a random access procedure.
US12199922B2	Channel quality indicator reporting across multiple subbands Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a wireless communications system may support group channel quality indicator (CQI) reporting. For example, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, signaling indicating a group of component carriers (CCs) and one or more subbands within the group of CCs. The UE may receive one or more reference signals within the one or more subbands and determine a group CQI index corresponding to the group of CCs based at least in part on the one or more reference signals. The UE may then transmit a report to the base station indicating the group CQI index and the base station may determine a CQI index for each of the one or more subbands based on the group CQI index.
US12199921B2	User equipments, base stations and methods for CSI request The UE includes reception circuitry configured to receive first information, second information, a first downlink control information (DCI) on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), and a second DCI on a PDCCH. The UE also includes transmission circuitry configured to transmit a channel state information (CSI) report on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). A CSI request field in the first DCI is configured by the first information. A CSI request field in the second DCI is configured by the second information. The first information includes trigger states for aperiodic CSI reporting for the first DCI. The CSI request field in the second DCI is configured by the second information.
US12199920B2	Communication method, terminal device, and network device This application provides a communication method, a terminal device, and a network device, to improve accuracy of CSI measurement. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, first indication information from a network device, where the first indication information is used to determine a first transmission scheme assumed for the terminal device to perform interference measurement; and sending, by the terminal device, channel state information (CSI), where the CSI is obtained by performing CSI measurement based on at least the first transmission scheme and a second transmission scheme, and the second transmission scheme is a transmission scheme assumed for the terminal device to perform channel measurement.
US12199919B2	Feedback information transmission method and communication device A method is provided to improve resource utilization efficiency of an uplink control channel carrying feedback information, including: a terminal device receives one or more downlink channels carried in one or more first time units, which belong to a time unit set; determines a second time unit for carrying feedback information corresponding to the downlink channels according to a first association relationship between the time unit set and the second time unit; and sends uplink control information including a determined first codebook in the second time unit. When a downlink channel is received in first time units that belong to a subset of the time unit set, and there is a second association relationship between the subset of the time unit set and the second time unit, the first codebook includes only feedback information corresponding to the downlink channel carried in the first time units in the subset.
US12199917B2	Feedback techniques in wireless communications Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) may provide a feedback message to a base station that includes a feedback report that indicates successful or unsuccessful receipt of multiple downlink transmissions, and also includes an indication of a number of unsuccessful receipts that are due to unsuccessful receipt of data channel communications. The indication of the number of unsuccessful receipts of data channel transmissions may be provided as a binary representation of the total number, or may be provided as a quantized value in which each quantized point is associated with a certain number of unsuccessfully received data channel transmissions.
US12199912B2	Technologies for synchronization signal block multiplexing with downlink and uplink transmissions The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods of scheduling transmission of synchronization signal blocks (SSB) at a first subcarrier spacing (SCS) with uplink and downlink transmissions at a second SCS that is higher than the first SCS.
US12199906B2	Method for transmitting and receiving sounding reference signal in wireless communication system and device therefor Systems and techniques or transmitting and receiving a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a wireless communication system. In some implementations, a method for transmitting, by a terminal, an SRS in a wireless communication system includes: receiving configuration information for transmission of the SRS from a base station; and transmitting the SRS to the base station by using one or more SRS resources for transmission of the SRS, the configuration information including the one or more SRS resources and information relating to usage of the one or more SRS resources, wherein a guard period relating to the one or more SRS resources is configured, and when the transmissions of the guard period and a particular uplink channel configured for the terminal overlap each other, the priority between the guard period and the particular uplink channel is configured to be the same as that between the SRS and the particular uplink channel.
US12199904B2	Signal sending method, signal receiving method, and apparatus A signal sending method and apparatus, to improve channel estimation performance are provided. A reference signal is sent on one or more consecutive symbols, and modulation data is sent on an adjacent symbol previous to the one or more consecutive symbols in time domain and an adjacent symbol next to the one or more consecutive symbols in time domain. A sum of the modulation data carried in the symbol previous to the one or more consecutive symbols and the modulation data carried in the symbol next to the one or more consecutive symbols is zero or the modulation data is the same. According to the application, after time-domain filtering, the reference signal is not interfered with by the adjacent modulation data, so that channel estimation performance can be ensured.
US12199901B2	Terminal capable of handling high frequency band A terminal can use a high frequency band having a higher frequency than a certain frequency band including one or more frequency ranges. When using the high frequency band, the terminal extends a range of SSB than that when using the certain frequency band and receives the SSB of which the SSB has been extended.
US12199899B2	Measurements for on-demand positioning reference signal transmission Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for configuring and/or transmitting positioning reference signals (PRS) are provided. One method may include providing, to a user equipment, configuration information (306) for determining reference points for positioning measurements (308) or for user equipment assistance measurements. The assistance information indicates a grouping of downlink reference signals for measurements and reporting.
US12199898B2	Data transmission method and device The present application describes a data transmission method and device, which are used to better support non-orthogonal multiple access data transmission in an uplink grant-free scenario. The data transmission method includes determining a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) orthogonal port pattern of an uplink data channel, there being more than 12 DMRS orthogonal ports; and using the DMRS orthogonal port pattern to carry out data transmission.
US12199897B2	Discovery reference signal transmission in unlicensed band Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive information indicating a timing configuration for candidate positions of a discovery reference signal (DRS) window, wherein the DRS window is within an unlicensed millimeter wave (mmW) band, and wherein the timing configuration provides for repetition of a synchronization signal block (SSB) within the DRS window based at least in part on a wraparound scheme; and scan for the SSB in accordance with the timing configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12199896B2	Technique for configuring preamble in wireless communication system According to various embodiments, a reception STA may receive a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) including a first signal field, a second signal field, and a data field. The PPDU may be configured to be transmitted to a single user. The second signal field may consist of one content channel, and the one content channel may be duplicated in a first bandwidth in units of a second bandwidth.
US12199895B2	Configuring a plurality of user equipments Methods and apparatus are provided for configuring a plurality of User Equipments (UEs) to communicate with a base station. In one example, a method includes determining, for each UE, a respective bandwidth based on an indication of channel quality between the UE and the base station, and configuring at least a subset of the plurality of UEs to communicate with the base station based on the respective bandwidths.
US12199892B2	Method for transmitting uplink channel in wireless communication system, and device therefor A method by which a terminal transmits an uplink channel in a wireless communication system comprises steps of: receiving, from a base station, first information, which is information related to a time division duplex (TDD) configuration; and repeatedly transmitting, to the base station, an uplink channel on a resource determined on the basis of the first information.
US12199890B2	Method and device in nodes used for wireless communication The present disclosure provides a method and device in a node for wireless communications. A node receives first information, the first information is used to determine a target time-frequency resource set, an earliest multicarrier symbol comprised in the target time-frequency resource set in time domain is a first multicarrier symbol, frequency-domain resources comprised in the target time-frequency resource set belong to a first frequency-domain resource pool; transmits a first signal, frequency-domain resources occupied by the first signal belong to a second frequency-domain resource pool, a frequency-domain relation between the first frequency-domain resource pool and the second frequency-domain resource pool is used to determine a reference delay; receives a second signal, a length of a time interval between a start time of a second multicarrier symbol and an end time for receiving the second signal is equal to the reference delay. The application ensures the correct reception of the feedback.
US12199889B2	Unidirectional gateway mediated delivery of data messages A method includes transmitting, by a first interface card in a trusted domain, data. A second interface card in an untrusted domain receives the data. The second interface card stores the data to a first memory location in the untrusted domain, and verifies integrity of the data. The second interface card writes a result of the verifying in a second memory location in the untrusted domain. The first interface card in the trusted domain retrieves the result of the verifying from the second memory location in the untrusted domain. The first interface card in the trusted domain determines if the data in the transmitting was received by the second interface card based on the result.
US12199888B2	Reliable transport offloaded to network devices Examples described herein relate to offload reliable transport management to a network interface device and store packets to be resent, based on received packet receipt acknowledgements (ACKs), into one or more kernel space queues that are also accessible in user space.
US12199883B2	Stateful service processing method and apparatus A stateful service processing method and apparatus are provided, related to the field of communication technologies. The method includes: preprocessing a received first packet to obtain a coalescing message of the first packet; coalescing the first packet into a first queue based on the coalescing message of the first packet, where the first queue is used to coalesce packets of a first connection to which the first packet belongs, and the first connection is a connection in which a stateful service is located; when a preset condition is met, processing, based on a context of the first connection, a plurality of packets coalesced in the first queue to obtain a second packet, where the context of the first connection is an updated context obtained after a previous second packet of the first connection is obtained; and transmitting the second packet to the host.
US12199882B2	Information processing apparatus, communication apparatus, information processing method and program An information processing device in a communication apparatus performs a management process of traffic flow management information for transfer of data including a plurality of frames from a transmission source terminal to a transmission destination terminal. Where new traffic flow management information of a traffic flow associated with a data frame identified by an identification unit on the basis of identification information included in the received data frame is recorded in the communication apparatus, a recording unit determines whether the number of pieces of traffic flow management information already recorded is equal to or more than a threshold value, and calculates and records a scheduled release time of the traffic flow management information according to a determination result.
US12199878B2	Controlling storage arraydata transmissions An aspect of the present disclosure relates to using at least one service-level objective (SLO) to control data communications between two or more devices over a network. In embodiments, a notification is received by a source device. The notification can include status information of at least one of a plurality of communication paths between the source device and a target device. A communications control technique can be performed based on the indicated status. The communications control technique can include prioritizing one or more data packets based on a data payload corresponding to each packet. The technique can also include controlling the transmission of one or more data packets based on each data packet's priority.
US12199875B2	Communication device, transmission method, and computer program In a relay device, a control unit detects simultaneous transmission of a plurality of data through a first communication bus. When the number of times of detection of the simultaneous transmission within a predetermined time by the control unit is less than the predetermined number of times, a CAN communication unit starts transmission of data through the first communication bus. When the number of times of detection of the simultaneous transmission within the predetermined time by the control unit is equal to or greater than the predetermined number of times, an Ethernet communication unit transmits data through a first communication line.
US12199863B2	Ghost routing Ghost routing is a network verification technique that uses a portion of a production network itself to verify the impact of potential network changes. Ghost routing logically partitions the production network into a main network and a ghost network. The main network handles live traffic while the ghost network handles traffic generated for diagnostic purposes. The ghost network may have a network topology identical to the production network and may use the same hardware and software as the production network. An operator may implement a network configuration change on the ghost network and then use verification tools to verify that the network configuration change on the ghost network does not result in bugs. Verifying on the ghost network may not affect the main network. If the network operator verifies the network configuration change on the ghost network, the network operator may implement the network configuration change on the main network.
US12199861B2	Method and system for determining packet forwarding path, and network node A method includes obtaining, by a first network node, a first segment identifier advertisement message, where the first segment identifier advertisement message includes a first segment identifier and a first flag bit, and the first segment identifier is corresponding to a second network node; determining, by the first network node, that the first flag bit indicates that a packet needs to be forwarded through the second network node; and generating, by the first network node, a first packet forwarding path, where the first packet forwarding path includes the second network node.
US12199860B2	Dynamic configuration of the scheduling of transmission of streams in deterministic networks A fast and dynamic configuration method for scheduling the transmission of flows in deterministic networks is provided. This method allows, when a new flow appears within the network, a decision to be made concerning a new schedule for transmitting flows, and allows it to be deployed in the network so as to assume this new flow without compromising the QoS of the other flows already present in the network.
US12199857B2	Techniques for detecting bursty traffic pattern detection and scheduling multipath data traffic A data traffic analyzer is configured for detecting bursty data traffic on a data path. The data traffic analyzer measures data traffic parameters of the data path and analyzes the data traffic parameters of the data path to detect a bursty traffic pattern based on comparing the data traffic parameters to a time interval threshold TLimit which defines gaps between bursty data traffic. The measured traffic parameters include: i) a data traffic volume and/or a protocol data unit (PDU) count transmitted on the data path; and ii) a time stamp TLPU characterizing the last path usage (LPU) of the data path.
US12199856B2	Vehicle data communication A communications system for providing data communication to a vehicle (10), the communications system comprising: a mobile transport layer proxy (150) located on the vehicle; a parent transport layer proxy (170) located remote from the vehicle; the mobile transport layer proxy being configured to: accept a transport layer connection with a host device (32, 33), the transport layer connection being addressed to a remote server (160); and communicate with the parent transport layer proxy via multiple paths using a multipath transport layer protocol to communicate on behalf of the host device whilst identifying as the mobile transport layer proxy; and the parent transport layer proxy being configured to: communicate with the mobile transport layer proxy using the multipath transport layer protocol; and communicate with the remote server whilst identifying as the parent transport layer proxy to communicate on behalf of the mobile transport layer proxy to permit the host device to communicate with the remote server.
US12199851B2	Method, device, and storage medium for NDN based data transfer in multi-path networking environments Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of a burst-based route discovery process. The method includes sending a probing interest packet to an NDN network; when one NDN forwarder receives the probing interest packet from a corresponding face, sending the probing interest packet to neighboring NDN forwarders; after anyone NDN forwarder receives the probing interest packet, sending back a burst of K probing data packets; as the burst of K probing data packets being received by an NDN forwarder, evaluating gaps between arrival times of the burst of K probing data packets; determining an available network throughput level of a face of the NDN forwarder; and if determined available network throughput level indicates a predefined increase in network throughput, setting the face of the NDN forwarder as a face for forwarding interest packets; and sending the burst of K probing data packets to neighboring NDN forwarders.
US12199850B2	Communication system, master device, slave device and communication method A master device transmits a first control signal including TS0(S) to a slave device and transmits a first data signal including TS0(M) to the master, the slave sets a point in time in the slave to T0(S) in time when the first control signal is received and transmits a second data signal including TS1(S) to the master, the master receives the second data signal and subtract TS1(S) from TS2(S) to calculate a round-trip delay time RTTs, and receives the first data signal and subtract TS0(M) from TS1(M) to calculate a round-trip delay time RTTm, the master transmits a data signal to the slave at a point in time that is obtained by TA−RTTm, and the slave puts the slave in a data receivable state at a point in time that is obtained by TA−RTTs.
US12199849B2	Methods and devices for adaptive rate based latency tolerance reporting A wireless communication device including one or more processors configured to determine a device state; determine a data rate of a signal; determine a latency tolerance value based on the data rate and the device state; and generate a message comprising the latency tolerance value. The wireless communication device may further be configured to determined if the latency tolerance value is a duration associated with a device reception or transmission.
US12199848B2	Identifying network communication performance outlier endpoints in a computer network A computer-implemented method includes selecting, by a host endpoint device within a subnet, a test endpoint device, of a plurality of test endpoint devices within the subnet, with which to perform a connectivity performance quality test; determining, by the host endpoint device, a payload size for a test file to be used for performing a network throughput test as part of the connectivity performance quality test; performing, by the host endpoint device, the connectivity performance quality test with the test endpoint device, wherein performing the connectivity performance quality test comprises performing a plurality of network throughput tests using the test file having the payload size that was determined; and providing, by the host endpoint device, results data from the connectivity performance quality test to a central network administration device, whereby the central network administration device executes a computer-based instruction based on the results data from the connectivity performance quality test.
US12199842B2	Systems and methods for managing service level agreements of support tickets using a chat session Systems and methods of the present disclosure facilitate managing information technology service level agreements. In some embodiments, the system includes a server that accesses a database storing a support ticket in memory. The support ticket can include a creation time and a service level agreement. The service level agreement can include a maximum response time. The server initiates, via the computer network, responsive to input from a computing device, a chat session associated with the computing device and the support ticket. The initiating can be associated with a time stamp. The server can be configured to determine a compliance with the service level agreement. The compliance can be computed as a difference between the time stamp and the creation time being less than the maximum response time. The server can be configured to generate a notification of the compliance with the service level agreement.
US12199836B2	Personalized tailored air interface Methods and devices utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) for customization of a device specific air interface configuration in a wireless communication network are provided. An over the air information exchange to facilitate the training of one or more AI/ML modules involves the exchange of AI/ML capability information identifying whether a device supports AI/ML for optimization of the air interface.
US12199835B2	Centralized management of distributed data sources Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a central management plane (CMP) of one or more processors for regulating streams of data from each of a number of network nodes of a distributed network. The one or more processors can train and deploy machine learning models across the network nodes, and the CMP can generate policies for each network node. The generated policies specify how a network node is to transmit data to the platform for further training or retraining of the deployed machine learning models. The CMP generates the policies using metric data characterizing each network node and respective streams of input data, and are generated based on a number of objectives, including model output quality of the deployed models, and operational cost to transmit and process streams of data across the distributed network.
US12199834B2	Systems and methods for generating computing network infrastructure from natural-language descriptions Described herein are systems and methods for generating a computing network from natural language descriptions of the computing network are provided. In one or more examples, the systems and methods described below can be used harvest publically available (or even privately available) natural language descriptions of a computing network, and convert those descriptions into an operational replica of the described computing network. By harvesting both publically available data, as well as other resources, the systems and methods described herein can allow for an analyst tasked with analyzing a given computing network to generate a fully operational replica of the computing network without having to have direct access to the network. In one or more examples, the analyst can recreate a fully-functional replica of the network to be analyzed based on partial descriptions of the computing network, thereby greatly improving the level of analysis capable of being performed.
US12199833B2	Network controller as a service (NCaaS) to define network policies for third-party container clusters Some embodiments provide a method for using a first SDN controller as a Network Controller as a Service (NCaaS). The first SDN controller receives a first set of network attributes regarding network elements in a first container cluster configured by a second SDN controller, and a second set of network attributes regarding network elements in a second container cluster configured by a third SDN controller. These container clusters do not have a controller for defining particular network policies. Based on the sets of network attributes, the first SDN controller defines the particular network policies to control forwarding data messages between the first and second container clusters. The first SDN controller distributes at least a subset of the particular network policies to the first container cluster in order for network elements at the first container cluster to enforce on data messages exchanged between the first and second container clusters.
US12199830B2	Method and system for providing virtual interface by using star network A method and system for providing virtual interface by using star network are provided in which a multi-link for continuously connecting peers up to a maximum number of connectable peers N after scanning all peers around a dongle is formed, and when a peer exceeding the maximum number of connectable peers N among the all peers exists, a extending connection is formed such that a virtual multi-link with a new peer is formed using the dongle and an already connected peer.
US12199829B2	Network management based on assessment of topological robustness and criticality of assets A system and method of managing a network that includes assets are described. The method includes modeling the network as a directed graph with each of the assets represented as a node and determining alternative paths to each node from each available corresponding source of the node. The method also includes computing upstream robustness of each node, computing upstream robustness of the network, and computing downstream criticality of each node. Managing the network and each asset of the network is based on the upstream robustness and the downstream criticality of each node.
US12199828B2	Network topology monitoring Embodiments are disclosed for a method. The method includes, for each of multiple vertices, generating a vertex weighting representative of a relative importance of a vertex within the network topology. The method also includes, for each of the one or more edges, generating an edge weighting representative of a relative importance of an edge within the network topology. Further, the method includes generating the abstract graph of the network topology based on a plurality of vertex weightings and one or more edge weightings.
US12199827B1	Donor base stations supporting wireless backhaul for rapid infrastructure deployment Techniques for configuring a network system including base stations that support wireless backhaul are discussed herein. To provide network coverage for a new rural area with low network capacity requirements, a service provider may initially deploy a limited network configured with wired base stations that uses fiber links as backhaul. The limited network may have large coverage gap due to the time and cost associated with deploying fiber cables. In such low traffic areas, the system may reserve a portion of available frequency bands to use as wireless backhaul and configure wireless nodes to use the backhaul provided by the reserved frequency bands. The system may configure the existing wired base stations to serve as donor nodes to provide network link for the wireless nodes. The system may deploy a network of these wireless nodes to rapidly fill in coverage gaps.
US12199824B2	System, method, and apparatus to execute vehicle communications using a zonal architecture An example system including a vehicle having a multi-zone network comprising a plurality of network zones, each one of the network zones comprising at least one zone manager; and a service management controller, including a service registration circuit structured to maintain a service register; a service publication circuit structured to expose at least one service; a service subscription circuit structured to enroll a requestor source; a network management controller, including a zone implementation circuit structured to interpret a zoned architecture communication scheme; a zone manager command circuit structured to interpret a zone manager command description; and a zone execution circuit structured to provide the corresponding zone manager command description to each of the at least one zone managers; and wherein each of the at least one zone managers is responsive to the corresponding zone manager command description and the service register to control communications.
US12199818B2	Cloud infrastructure for isolation and run-time behavioral tuning through configuration externalization Embodiments generally relate to a cloud computing infrastructure and method of operating the same including at least: receiving a configuration file from a configuration repository; receiving a request from a first device to configure an application rule set of one or more nodes based on the configuration file; transmitting the request to a receiver node selected from the one or more nodes; generating a notification alerting the one or more nodes that the request is stored on a database; distributing the configuration file to a subset of the one or more nodes based on receipt of an access request from the one or more nodes; and updating the application rule set of the subset of the one or more nodes based on the configuration file.
US12199814B1	Augmented reality environment for providing instructions for repairing a PON device Techniques for augmenting repair of a network failure in a Passive Optical Network (PON) include receiving sensor data at a client device indicating a current environment that includes an optical network terminal (ONT) in a PON. The PON includes an optical line terminal (OLT) optically connected to the ONT via one or more optical fibers. The client device analyzes the current environment to detect a cause of a network failure corresponding to the ONT, and generates a set of instructions for repairing the ONT based on the detected cause of the network failure. Then the client device provides the set of instructions for a user to follow to repair the ONT. The set of instructions are provided as the user repairs the ONT.
US12199813B2	Framework for automated application-to-network root cause analysis A computing system comprising a memory and processing circuitry may perform the techniques. The memory may store time series data comprising measurements of one or more performance indicators. The processing circuitry may determine, based on the time series data, an anomaly in the performance of the network system, and create, based on the time series data, a knowledge graph. The processing circuitry may determine, in response to detecting the anomaly, and based on the knowledge graph and a machine learning (ML) model trained with previous time series data, a causality graph. The processing circuitry may determine a weighting for each edge in the causality graph, determine, based on the edges in the causality graph, a candidate root cause associated with the anomalies, and determine a ranking of the candidate root cause based on the weighting. The analysis framework system may output at least a portion of the ranking.
US12199807B2	Wireless transceiver having in-phase quadrature-phase calibration function A wireless transceiver having an in-phase quadrature-phase (IQ) calibration function includes a transmitter, a receiver, a signal generator, and a switch circuit. The switch circuit includes a first and a second switch circuits. The first switch circuit is turned on in a receiver-end calibration process, and outputs a predetermined signal from the signal generator to the transmitter. The second switch circuit is turned on in the receiver calibration process and outputs a derivative signal of the predetermined signal from the transmitter to the receiver to let the receiver performs a receiver-end IQ calibration accordingly. The first switch circuit is turned off and the second switch circuit is turned on in a transmitter-end calibration process; the second switch circuit outputs a radio-frequency signal from the transmitter to the receiver to let the receiver generates a calibration reference accordingly; and the transmitter performs a transmitter-end IQ calibration according to the calibration reference.
US12199803B2	Apparatus and method To provide a mechanism capable of appropriately notifying the reception side of the resource setting for GFDM modulation on the transmission side.An apparatus including: a processing unit configured to variably set at least any of bandwidth of a subcarrier or time length of a subsymbol in a first resource, and store information indicating setting content of the first resource in a second resource in which predetermined values are set for the bandwidth of the subcarrier and the time length of the subsymbol.
US12199802B2	Method and device for scheduling request in NB IoT systems A method and device for reporting scheduling request are provided. The method includes the operations of acquiring a dedicated physical resource of a random access channel (RACH) configured to report a scheduling request, when the scheduling request is triggered, transmitting the RACH on the dedicated physical resource. The dedicated physical resource includes a plurality of periodic physical resources. Through this dedicated physical resource, the user equipment (UE) can report scheduling request in a contention-free random access way, and the capacity of a preamble sequence is improved and inter-cell interference is reduced.
US12199801B2	Overlap extensions and weighting functions for communications with guard intervals Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitting device may add a first extension before modulated symbols of a communication, the first extension including data from an end portion of the modulated symbols. The transmitting device may add a second extension after the modulated symbols, the second extension including data from a beginning portion of the modulated symbols. The transmitting device may apply a first weighting function that overlaps the first extension and the beginning portion of the modulated symbols. The transmitting device may apply a second weighting function that overlaps the end portion of the modulated symbols and the second extension. The transmitting device may add one or more of a header before the first extension or a tail after the second extension. The transmitting device may transmit the communication. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12199798B2	Transmission/reception method and device for isolated communication A transmission/reception method and device for isolated communication is proposed. The transmission/reception method includes performing transmission, wherein bit streams are extracted from data and two or more predetermined number of bits are modulated into one DC balanced symbol so as to generate a signal in which a plurality of symbols are listed, thereby transmitting the signal through an isolated communication circuit, and performing reception, wherein the signal is received through the isolated communication circuit and the plurality of symbols included in the signal are demodulated into the two or more predetermined number of bits so as to generate the bit streams and organize the bit streams into the data. The transmission/reception method and device may reduce power consumption at the same communication speed because a plurality of bits is represented by the one DC balanced symbol.
US12199787B2	Wireless communication device [Object] To improve the reliability by using an acknowledgement response while using radio resources efficiently in multicast transmission over wireless transmission.[Solution] A plurality of wireless communication devices included in a multicast group, when receiving a data frame, transmit simultaneously an acknowledgement response of multicast using spatial multiplexing in response to an acknowledgement request from a transmission source. On the other hand, a wireless communication device of the transmission source decomposes the acknowledgement responses simultaneously received into the original individual acknowledgement responses and restores them using signal processing based on information on a channel with each wireless communication device of a transmission destination.
US12199782B2	Method, apparatus, and system for generating HARQ-ACK codebook in wireless communication system One aspect of the present invention discloses a terminal of a wireless communication system. The terminal comprises a communication module and a processor for controlling the communication module, wherein the processor generates a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-ACK codebook including one or more bits indicating whether reception of a channel or signal is successful, and transmits the HARQ-ACK codebook to a base station of the wireless communication system, wherein the HARQ-ACK codebook is generated on the basis of a slot corresponding to a value of an HARQ-ACK feedback timing parameter (K1) set in a sub-slot level, and each of bits configuring the HARQ-ACK codebook corresponds to at least one sub-slot form among a plurality of sub-slots included in the slot.
US12199781B2	Nested sub-pools for physical sidelink feedback channel The apparatus may be a UE configured to select, from a plurality of PSFCH resource sub-pools of a PSFCH resource pool for receiving HARQ feedback, a particular PSFCH resource sub-pool for receiving HARQ feedback associated with a particular SL transmission; transmit, to at least one UE, a PSRI identifying the particular PSFCH resource sub-pool; and receive, from the at least one UE, HARQ feedback regarding the particular SL transmission, the HARQ feedback being received via resources in the PSFCH resource sub-pool indicated by the PSRI. The apparatus may be a base station in a Mode 1 resource allocation that may select, from a plurality of PSFCH resource sub-pools of a PSFCH resource pool for receiving HARQ feedback, a particular PSFCH resource sub-pool for receiving HARQ feedback associated with the particular SL transmission and transmit, to a UE, a PSRI identifying the particular PSFCH resource sub-pool.
US12199780B2	Feedback for single-downlink control information to multi-cell scheduling Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicate over multiple component carriers (CCs). The UE may receive control signaling indicating a joint feedback codebook configuration for jointly reporting feedback for a first CC, a second CC, and a virtual CC that may be mapped to a third CC and a fourth CC. The CE may then receive downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a first downlink transmission via the first CC and a second downlink transmission on the second CC, or both downlink transmissions may be scheduled via the virtual CC. The UE may transmit a joint feedback message for the first CC, the second CC, and the virtual CC based on the joint codebook configuration.
US12199778B2	Method and apparatus for downlink transmission in NTN A user equipment (UE) and a method for wireless communication are provided. The method includes: receiving a radio resource control (RRC) configuration from a base station (BS); determining whether a first parameter is configured in the RRC configuration; receiving first downlink control information (DCI) from the BS, the first DCI including a first field indicating a first Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARD) process identifier (ID); determining that a number of bits in the first field is a default number in a case that the first parameter is not configured in the RRC configuration; and determining that the number of bits in the first field is a specific number greater than the default number in a case that the first parameter is configured in the RRC configuration.
US12199774B2	Method for feedback information transmission, terminal device, and network device A method for feedback information transmission, a terminal device, and network device are provided. The method includes the following. A terminal device receives downlink control information (DCI) transmitted by a network device for scheduling target data. The terminal device receives the target data transmitted by the network device. The terminal device determines a feedback parameter of a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook according to the DCI. The HARQ-ACK codebook includes HARQ-ACK information of the target data, the feedback parameter includes a feedback mode of the HARQ-ACK codebook and/or a feedback resource for transmitting the HARQ-ACK codebook, and the feedback mode of the HARQ-ACK codebook includes a semi-static feedback mode or a dynamic feedback mode. The terminal device transmits the HARQ-ACK codebook to the network device according to the feedback parameter.
US12199765B2	Wireless network and selected bandwidth repeat A network environment includes a wireless base station and a repeater wireless station. The repeater wireless station receives first wireless communications and second wireless communications transmitted from a wireless base station. The repeater wireless station also receives schedule information notifying the repeater wireless station to retransmit at least the first wireless communications. In accordance with the schedule information, the repeater wireless station controls retransmission of the first wireless communications and the second wireless communications.
US12199759B2	Asynchronous input dependency resolution mechanism Described herein is a graphics processor configured to perform asynchronous input dependency resolution among a group of interdependent workloads. The graphics processor can dynamically resolve input dependencies among the workloads according to a dependency relationship defined for the workloads. Dependency resolution be performed via a deferred submission mode which resolves input dependencies prior to thread dispatch to the processing resources or via immediate submission mode which resolves input dependencies at the processing resources.
US12199758B2	Passive optical network (PON) frame design A method comprises generating a PON frame comprising a plurality of FEC codewords, the FEC codewords comprise a first codeword, and the first codeword comprises a PSB; and transmitting the PON frame. A method comprises receiving a PON frame comprising a plurality of FEC codewords, the FEC codewords comprise a first codeword, and the first codeword comprises a PSB; and processing the PON frame.
US12199757B1	Optimized code-split symbol constellations Various arrangements for improving performance of code split communications are presented herein. A second portion of a first codeword and a third portion of a second codeword can be transmitted using symbols such that each transmitted symbol includes bits from the second portion of the first codeword and bits from the third portion of the second codeword. At a receiver, decoder inputs can be generated for the third portion of the second codeword based on an optimized constellation and the second portion of the first codeword. The second portion of the first codeword is used to identify a label group of the optimized constellation and eliminate all other label groups of the plurality of label groups. Within each label group, symbol labels are Gray labeled. However, at least a first symbol label is not Gray labeled with an adjacent second symbol label of a different label group.
US12199754B2	Transmission device, reception device, transmission method, and reception method The present invention improves the reliability of a transmission channel. A transmission terminal according to the present invention is equipped with: a control circuit that, on the basis of a time resource quantity used to determine the transmission size of a first channel in one time segment of either a first time segment in which the first channel and a second channel are disposed or a second time segment in which the first channel is disposed, determines the transmission size in the other time segment; and a transmission circuit that, on the basis of the determined transmission size, performs a transmission process for the first channel in the first time segment and the second time segment.
US12199750B2	Multiple modulation scheme signalling in a single resource allocation A infrastructure equipment is provided. The infrastructure equipment forms part of a wireless communications network configured to receive data from a communications device via a communications channel between the infrastructure equipment and the communications device. The infrastructure equipment comprises transceiver circuitry to transmit signals to and to receive signals from the communications device, and controller circuitry. The controller circuitry is configured in combination with the transceiver circuitry to receive first control signalling from the communications device, the first control signalling requesting a resource allocation within which the communications device is to transmit data to the infrastructure equipment, to determine a resource allocation of the communications channel for the communications device to transmit the data to the infrastructure equipment, and to transmit second control signalling to the communications device, the second control signalling comprising an indication of the resource allocation.
US12199744B2	Physical medium dependent (PMD) module with burst prediction A method includes obtaining information about a next upstream burst transmission. The method also includes determining a set of settings based on the information. The method includes adjusting a physical medium dependent (PMD) module based on the set of settings prior to receiving the next upstream burst transmission.
US12199742B2	Communication system and method for ultra-flexible and ultra-reliable laser beam based wireless communication A communication system that includes a master communication device at a first location in a defined indoor area, a service communication device at a second location in the defined indoor area, and passive optical routing devices at a plurality of locations in the defined indoor area. The master communication device obtains first signal from data source or modem and directs first laser beam carrying the first signal in a downstream path to the service communication device directly or via the plurality of passive optical routing devices. The master communication device receives Laser Beam Network Control instructions from a cloud server, and dynamically changes a laser beam-based communication route from the master communication device to the service communication device by changing a path of laser communication from first set of passive optical routing devices to second set of passive optical routing devices to reach to the service communication device.
US12199740B2	Frame generation method and frame generation device A frame generation method includes: demodulating a digital broadcast signal that is based on a received digital broadcast wave; generating a packet including content information obtained in the demodulating; and generating a transmission frame including appended information and the packet. The appended information includes received information that is obtained in the demodulating. The received information is information other than the content information.
US12199737B2	Multi-pathway satellite communication systems and methods Systems and methods for controlling satellites are provided. In one example embodiment, a computing system can obtain a request for image data. The request can be associated with a priority for acquiring the image data. The computing system can determine an availability of a plurality of satellites to acquire the image data based at least in part on the request. The computing system can select from among a plurality of communication pathways to transmit an image acquisition command to a satellite based at least in part on the request priority. The plurality of communication pathways can include a communication pathway via which the image acquisition command is indirectly communicated to the satellite via a geostationary satellite. The computing system can send the image acquisition command to the selected satellite via the selected communication pathway. Data from the satellite can be relayed to ground-based stations via one or more relay satellites.
US12199736B2	Ephemeris information-based serving cell reselection method and apparatus, and storage medium A method for cell reselection based on ephemeris information includes: acquiring satellite ephemeris information, and determining at least one neighboring cell of a current serving cell based on the satellite ephemeris information; and selecting, in response to determining that the cell reselection needs to be performed, a target serving cell from the at least one neighboring cell for the cell reselection.
US12199732B2	Beam failure detection and recovery for sidelink user equipments Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a receiving (Rx) user equipment (UE) may receive, from a transmitting (Tx) UE, sidelink control information (SCI). The Rx UE may determine an Rx-side block error rate (BLER) based at least in part on the SCI. The Rx UE may perform a beam failure recovery based at least in part on the Rx-side BLER satisfying a threshold. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12199731B2	Method of beam state determination A wireless communication method for use in a wireless terminal is disclosed. The wireless communication method comprises receiving, from a wireless network node, first command information comprising a first beam state, determining at least one of a second beam state or a second reference signal based on the first beam state, and communicating, with the wireless network node, a target signal by applying at least one of the second beam state or the second reference signal.
US12199730B2	Multiplexing of PUCCH for beam failure recovery and other signals Apparatuses, systems, and methods for multiplexing of PUCCH for beam failure recovery and other signals. A UE may determine a transmission dropping rule and a transmission power scaling rule for a PUCCH which is dedicatedly configured for secondary BFR transmission, such as a PUCCH-BFR, when it is multiplexed with BFR multiplexed with at least one other signal. The PUCCH-BFR and the at least one other signal may be multiplexed in a CC or in multiple CCs. The UE may determine a transmission dropping rule, e.g., so that UE can transmit an uplink signal with higher priority and drop the other uplink signal with lower priority to avoid beam collisions. The UE may determine a transmission power scaling rule, e.g., so the UE may scale transmission power within a CC and/or across CCs. The UE may multiplex the PUCCH-BFR with the at least one other signal according to the rules.
US12199728B2	Resource management for beam failure recovery procedures Wireless communications are described. A wireless device and/or a base station may provide improved resource management. A base station may configure and/or transmit a beam failure recovery medium access control control element (BFR MAC CE) to a wireless device to activate one or more beam failure reference signal resources for beam failure of a downlink bandwidth part (BWP) of a cell. The wireless device may assess, based on receiving the BFR MAC CE, a radio link quality of one or more reference signals for beam failure detection of the downlink BWP of the cell.
US12199727B2	Multi-user beam alignment in presence of multi-path A method for transmitting data is provided. The method includes sending a probing packet using a scanning beam selected from a set of probing beams. The method further includes receiving feedback about the probing packet. The method also includes determining a data transmission beam based on the set of probing beams and the received feedback. The method additionally includes transmitting data using a multi-element antenna that is configured according to the determined data transmission beam.
US12199724B2	System and method for time-delay based hybrid beamforming A method includes determining one or more delay values and one or more phase shift values for generation of multiple desired frequency-dependent analog beams. The method also includes configuring one or more true-time delay (TTD) elements and one or more phase shifters of a transceiver based on the one or more delay values and the one or more phase shift values, the transceiver having one or more radio-frequency (RF) chains connected to multiple antennas via the one or more TTD elements and the one or more phase shifters. The method also includes operating the transceiver to generate the multiple desired frequency-dependent analog beams.
US12199723B2	Channel state information (CSI) omission procedure for rel. 16 type II CSI A user equipment (UE) in communication with a base station (BS) is disclosed that includes a receiver that receives Channel State Information (CSI)-Reference Signals (RSs) from the BS, a processor that generates CSI based on the CSI-RS and performs CSI omission, and a transmitter that transmits, to the BS, CSI reports including the CSI where one or more linear combination (LC) coefficients are omitted based on the CSI omission. Further, in the CSI omission, the processor prioritizes LC coefficients based on a predetermined priority rule and the processor also determines the omitted one or more LC coefficients based on the prioritized LC coefficients. In other aspects, a method for a UE and a wireless communication system are disclosed.
US12199722B2	Interferer identification using null resource pattern A second base station may allocate a set of downlink resources for a downlink transmission. The set of downlink resources may include a subset of null resources, which may serve as a signature for the second base station. The second base station may transmit downlink data or reference signals on the set of downlink resources including the subset of null resources. A first UE may experience the downlink transmission from the second base station as interference. The first UE may identify the set of downlink resources. The first UE may identify the subset of null resources. The first UE may transmit, to a first base station, an indication of the subset of null resources. The first base station may identify the second base station based on the indication of the subset of null resources. The first base station may transmit, to the second base station, an interference coordination message.
US12199721B2	Unified feedback for OFDMA WLAN An access point (AP) may transmit a null data packet announcement (NDPA) with an indication of a resource unit of a bandwidth that feedback is requested. The AP may transmit a null data packet (NDP) for measurement of a channel quality for a resource unit of a bandwidth. The AP may transmit, based on a response, another feedback request for resource units of the bandwidth.
US12199716B2	Performing channel occupancy time sensing Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for performing channel occupancy time sensing. One method includes receiving information configuring a single channel occupancy time for multi-beam transmission in an unlicensed channel. The method includes performing sensing for the single channel occupancy time. The sensing includes: omni-directional sensing at a beginning of the single channel occupancy time; directional sensing on a plurality of beams at the beginning of the single channel occupancy time; directional sensing on the plurality of beams in a time domain multiplexing manner before each transmission based on a time gap between transmissions; or some combination thereof.
US12199714B2	Communication system and communication method using reconfigurable intelligent surface and reconfigurable intelligent surface device An aspect of the disclosure includes a communication system and a communication method using reconfigurable intelligent surface and a reconfigurable intelligent surface device. The communication system includes at least one base station, a reconfigurable intelligent surface device, and a control at one least device. The at least one base station respectively transmits at least one beam. The reconfigurable intelligent surface device is coupled to the at least one base station, and measures the at least one beam of the at least one base station to obtain signal measurement results associated with each of the at least one base station. The control device is coupled to the at least one base station. The control device groups the at least one base station and the reconfigurable intelligent surface device into at least one group according to the signal measurement results associated with each of the at least one base station.
US12199710B2	Wireless communication method and wireless communication system A wireless communication method in a wireless communication system which includes a radio transmitting station apparatus having a plurality of antennas and a radio receiving station apparatus having an antenna and which performs transmission and reception of a radio signal with a single carrier. The wireless communication method includes: estimating a communication path matrix based on a training signal; transforming the estimated communication path matrix into a frequency domain, transforming a complex conjugate transposed matrix of each of a unitary matrix and an adjoint matrix obtained by performing singular value decomposition for each frequency with respect to the transformed frequency domain communication path matrix into a time domain, and adopting each as a reception weight matrix and a transmission weight matrix; performing transmission beam formation based on the transmission weight matrix; and performing reception beam formation based on the reception weight matrix.
US12199709B2	Control plane of a layer-1 millimeter wave repeater Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may receive, via a first interface of a repeater, information associated with a second interface of the repeater. The base station may determine a configuration for the second interface of the repeater based at least in part on the information associated with the second interface, and may communicate the configuration for the second interface of the repeater via the first interface. In some aspects, a repeater may transmit, to a base station via a first interface, information associated with a second interface of the repeater. The repeater may receive, via the first interface, a configuration for the second interface, and may configure the second interface based at least in part on the configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12199706B2	Method for control signaling for multi-beam PUSCH repetition transmission A method is provided for a base station (BS) in communication with a user equipment (UE). The UE is configured with codebook based transmission or non-codebook based transmission for multi-beam physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) repetition. Various options are provided for the UE to derive uplink precoders for the multi-beam PUSCH repetition.
US12199704B2	Sparse antenna array calibration A system for communications may include an antenna array, where an inter-element spacing of antennas of the antenna array may be different across the antenna array; antenna managers that are coupled with respective antennas and configured to transmit and receive ranging signals used to measure parameters representative of distances between a respective antenna and the other antennas; a calibration unit that determines positions of the antennas based on the measured parameters and positions of reference antennas; and a communications manager that communicates with a terminal according to beam coefficients determined for the antenna array based on the determined positions of the antennas.
US12199702B2	Multi-transmission and receipt point (multi-TRP) enhancement In an example method, a user equipment (UE) device determines one or more component carriers available to the UE device for at least one of transmitting or receiving data over a wireless network. The UE device transmits, to the wireless network, for each component carrier, an indication whether the component carrier supports at least one of transmitting or receiving data according to a multi-transmission and receiving points (multi-TRP) communication protocol.
US12199700B2	Wireless power transmission systems and methods with selective signal damping at periodic active mode windows A method for operating a wireless power transmission system includes providing a driving signal for driving a transmission antenna of the wireless power transmission system, the driving signal based, at least, on an operating frequency for the wireless power transmission system. The method further includes inverting, by the at least one transistor, a direct current (DC) input power signal to generate an AC wireless signal at the operating frequency, based on provided driving signals. The method includes receiving, at a damping circuit, damping signals configured for switching the damping transistor to one of an active mode and an inactive mode to control signal damping, wherein the damping signals switch to the active mode periodically. The method further includes selectively damping, by the damping circuit, the AC wireless signals, during transmission of the wireless data signals if the damping signals set the damping circuit to the active mode.
US12199695B2	Wireless power transfer system with mode switching using selective quality factor alteration A wireless power transmission system includes a transmitter antenna, a transmission controller, an amplifier, and a variable resistor. The transmission controller is configured to (i) provide a driving signal for driving the transmitter antenna based on an operating frequency for the wireless power transfer system and (ii) perform one or more of encoding the wireless data signals, decoding the wireless data signals, receiving the wireless data signals, or transmitting the wireless data signals. The variable resistor is in electrical connection with the transmitter antenna and configured to alter a quality factor (Q) of the transmitter antenna, wherein alterations in the Q by the variable resistor change an operating mode of the wireless power transmission system.
US12199693B2	Electronic device performing high-speed power line communication and operating method thereof An electronic device includes a power line communication circuit configured to perform power line communication with an external device, the power line communication circuit including: a power line switch provided between a regulator output node and a POGO output node; and a pull-up resistance provided between the POGO output node and a power supply voltage; and a processor configured to control the power line communication circuit, wherein the processor is further configured to: based on receiving a start signal instructing an initiation of high-speed communication, turn off the power line switch to block an electrical coupling between the regulator output node and the POGO output node, and perform the high-speed communication with the external device by connecting coupling the POGO output node to the power supply voltage through the pull-up resistance or connecting coupling the POGO output node to a ground voltage, based on according to output data.
US12199687B2	Method for adapting a communication channel for URLLC services The present invention relates to a communications channel adaptation method for URLLC services which is configured for ensuring reliability when implementing said URLLC services and executed in a communications system with at least one transmitter node (eNode) and a receiver or mobile terminal, wherein the receiver or mobile terminal measures the desired signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) from the reference signal received in instant t=i−1 and saves this SIR value (SIRi-1) in a memory; wherein based on this SIR value in instant t=i−1 (SIRi-1), a CQI value (CQIi-1) is determined and sent to the transmitter node (eNode), which selects the modulation and coding format in the subsequent transmission (MCSi) in the downlink according to that CQI measured in instant t=i-1 (CQIi-1); and wherein upon receiving in instant t=i the data packet sent by the transmitter node (eNode), the receiver terminal measures the SIR (SIRi) and saves it in a memory.
US12199686B2	Fast, low-power receive signal strength indicator (RSSI) circuit and method therefor A receive signal strength indicator circuit includes a low-noise amplifier, an envelope detector, and a selection circuit. The low-noise amplifier has a plurality of serially-coupled amplifier stages each providing an amplified signal, wherein a first amplifier stage receives an input signal whose signal strength is to be measured, and a last amplifier stage provides an amplified output signal. The envelope detector stage includes a plurality of envelope detector circuits, each having an input receiving the amplified signal of a corresponding one of the plurality of serially-coupled amplifier stages, and an output for providing a receive signal strength indicator component. The selection circuit is coupled to the outputs of the plurality of envelope detector circuits, and provides the receive signal strength indicator component of one of the plurality of envelope detector circuits having a desired linear range as a detected RSSI signal.
US12199685B2	Low complexity angle of arrival (AOA) array calibration A Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) device comprises an array of multiple antennas and a circuitry configured to receive, using the array of multiple antennas, a plurality of calibration signals from a plurality of proximate wireless MIMO devices, calibrate the wireless MIMO device based on the received calibration signals and based on known directions from the wireless MIMO device to each of the proximate wireless MIMO devices, and drive the array of multiple antennas to emit a beam-formed calibration signal to each of the proximate wireless devices in order to enable each of the proximate wireless MIMO devices to calibrate itself.
US12199682B2	Method and apparatus for nonlinearly calibrating linear frequency modulation of optical signal, and medium and device thereof This disclosure provides a method for nonlinearly calibrating linear frequency modulation of an optical signal, an apparatus for nonlinearly calibrating linear frequency modulation of an optical signal, a computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: in an ith frequency modulation cycle, obtaining a relationship between a modulation voltage signal Vi(t) input into a light source and an actual frequency signal fi(t) of an optical signal output by the light source, to obtain an actual association relationship fi(V) corresponding to the ith frequency modulation cycle, where i is a positive integer; based on a target frequency modulation signal fg(t) and the actual association relationship fi(V), determining a modulation voltage signal Vj(t) corresponding to a jth frequency modulation cycle, where j is i+1; and inputting a modulation voltage signal Vj(t) into the light source, to implement frequency modulation of the optical signal in the jth frequency modulation cycle.
US12199681B2	Electro-photonic transmitter and receiver integrated circuits (chiplets) for co-packaged optics and methods of operation Electro-photonic integrated circuits comprising optical transmitters and receivers are disclosed, wherein a monolithically integrated electro-absorption modulated laser (EML) is operable bidirectionally, in a transmitter mode and in a receiver mode. Vertically stacked waveguides are provided for a laser and an electro-absorption modulator (EAM). The laser and EAM are optically coupled using a laterally tapered vertical optical coupler. The EML comprises monolithically integrated electronic circuitry, e.g., driver and control electronics for the driving the laser and EAM as an EML, in transmitter mode. The electronic circuitry comprises a transimpedance amplifier (TIA). The EAM has first and second parts that can be independently biased. In receiver mode, the laser current is reduced to close to the threshold, and a first part of the EAM is biased to absorb residual laser light, and the second part of the EAM acts as a photodiode receiver to provide a photocurrent to the TIA.
US12199680B2	Photonic integrated chip and ultra wide band radio frequency photonic transceiver The photonic integrated chip includes a laser light source configured to generate an optical carrier, a first optical splitter configured to split the optical carrier into a first optical carrier and a second optical carrier, an optical local oscillation generation unit, and a photonic frequency conversion unit. The first optical splitter sends the first optical carrier and the second optical carrier to the photonic frequency conversion unit and the optical local oscillation generation unit. The optical local oscillation generation unit generates an optical local oscillation signal and send the optical local oscillation signal to the photonic frequency conversion unit. The photonic frequency conversion unit converts a first intermediate frequency signal into a first radio frequency signal through photonic up-conversion. The photonic frequency conversion unit converts a second radio frequency signal into a second intermediate frequency signal through photonic down-conversion.
US12199675B2	Device for multipole phase division demultiplexing/multiplexing and spatial division telecommunications system thereof It is disclosed a device for multipole phase division multiplexing and demultiplexing and a spatial division telecommunications system comprising the multiplexing and demultiplexing devices. The multipole phase demultiplexing device comprises a cascade of a beam transformer and a phase corrector, wherein the beam transformer performs a circular-sector transformation of a plurality of multipole phase electromagnetic beams. The multipole phase multiplexing device comprises a cascade of a beam transformer and a phase corrector, wherein the beam transformer performs a combination of \|m \| circular-sector transformations of a plurality of tilted electromagnetic beams.
US12199670B2	Optimal operation method of high-frequency phase dithering technique for compensating for interference noise in analog-optical transmission-based mobile fronthaul network, and transmitter using same Proposed are an optimal operation method of a high-frequency dithering technique for compensating for interference noise in an analog optical transmission-based mobile fronthaul network, and a transmitter using same. An interference noise compensation method using high-frequency phase dithering performed in an analog optical transmission-based mobile fronthaul network may include the steps in which: a frequency-multiplexed wireless signal is converted in an optical transmitter to an intensity-modulated optical signal; and the phase of the optical signal intensity-modulated in the optical transmitter is dithered with an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal.
US12199669B2	Converter and transmission system Embodiments of this application disclose a converter and a transmission system that are configured to effectively ensure successful signal transmission between a network device and a terminal device. The converter is configured to connect to a first cable, the first cable is a photoelectric composite cable, and the first cable includes an optical fiber configured to transmit an optical signal with a passive optical network PON protocol format and a first transmission line configured to transmit a first power supply current. The first transmission line is connected to a conversion unit, the conversion unit is further configured to connect to a data interface, and the data interface is configured to transmit an electrical signal with a target protocol format.
US12199668B2	Receiving system for high speed and large coverage optical wireless communication To satisfy the application requirement to meet a high data rate and obtain a large coverage in an optical wireless communication system, an optical front-end subsystem (100) is disclosed in the present invention. The optical front-end subsystem (100) comprises a first photodiode (110) with a first active surface area and a second photodiode (120) with a second active surface area, wherein the second active surface area is larger than the first active surface area. Depending on the received signal strength, either the branch with the first photodiode (110) or the branch with the second photodiode (120) is selected to provide an output signal of the optical front-end subsystem (100). Receiver diversity is achieved by making use of the first photodiode to support high speed communication and the second photodiode to support large coverage communication.
US12199666B1	Optical antenna apparatus for free-space optical communication An optical antenna apparatus for free-space optical communication, includes an input end having a lens positioned to receive one or more incoming optical signals, where the one or more incoming optical signals are received from one or more optical fibers connected at the input end. The optical antenna apparatus further includes an output end having a prism positioned at a defined distance from the lens. The one or more incoming optical signals of the one or more optical fibers passes through the lens and then the prism to form one or more free-space optical beams for a bi-directional free-space optical communication with a remote optical node.
US12199665B2	Optical monitor device For an optical monitor device that detects the intensity of light propagating through an optical fiber, a reduction in size and cost of the optical monitor device are to be achieved.The present disclosure provides an optical monitor device including: an optical component that branches an incoming light at a specific branching ratio and outputs the majority thereof in a specific direction and the rest thereof in another specific direction; a plurality of incoming-side optical fibers through which light is to propagate and that are two-dimensionally arranged to cause the light to enter the optical component; a plurality of outgoing-side optical fibers through which light is to propagate and that are arranged to receive the most outgoing light from the optical component; a light-receiving element located to receive a partial outgoing light from the optical component; an incoming-side lens located between the optical component and the incoming-side optical fibers and that causes the incoming light into the optical component to be a parallel light; and an outgoing-side lens located between the optical component and the outgoing-side optical fibers and that efficiently couples the outgoing light from the optical component to the outgoing-side optical fibers.
US12199664B2	Light leakage confirmation method, light leakage confirmation apparatus and program A light leakage confirmation method comprising: an excitation light incident step in which an excitation light output unit connected to a first end of a first optical transmission line outputs an excitation light and makes the excitation light incident on the first optical transmission line; a reflection step in which an excitation light reflection unit connected to a second end of the first optical transmission line reflects the excitation light which has been incident in the excitation light incident step; a reflected light incident step of making a reflected light which has been reflected in the reflection step incident on the first optical transmission line; a reflected light measurement step in which the excitation light output unit measures an intensity of the reflected light; and a leakage determination step of determining whether or not the excitation light is leaked on a basis of the intensity of the excitation light and the intensity of the reflected light which has been measured in the reflected light measurement step.
US12199661B2	Pairing multiple devices into a designated group for a communication session Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for pairing multiple devices into a designated group for a communication session are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes processing, via at least a portion of multiple processing devices, information associated with a network in connection with one or more device pairing requests from one or more of the processing devices; implementing, via at least one the multiple processing devices, a pairing algorithm, wherein the pairing algorithm comprises searching for one or more of the processing devices, in accordance with one or more temporal values associated with the at least one processing device and at least one of the one or more device pairing requests corresponding thereto, and one or more pairing parameters; and automatically pairing, via the network and based on the pairing algorithm, the at least one processing device to one or more of the processing devices.
US12199660B2	Pseudo channel hopping using scan dwell times in mesh networks without time synchronization A method for pseudo channel hopping in a node of a wireless mesh network is provided that includes scanning each channel of a plurality of channels used for packet transmission by the node, wherein each channel is scanned for a scan dwell time associated with the channel, updating statistics for each channel based on packets received by the node during the scanning of the channel, and changing scan dwell times of the plurality of channels periodically based on the statistics.
US12199659B2	Transmission device, reception device, communication system, control circuit, storage medium, transmission method, and reception method A transmission device that wirelessly communicates with a reception device includes an FSK modulation unit that performs frequency shift keying modulation on an input information bit sequence to generate a frequency shift keying symbol, a direct-sequence spreading unit that spreads the frequency shift keying symbol by direct-sequence spreading using a chirp sequence, and an FSK carrier spacing control unit that controls a signal to be transmitted to the reception device in such a manner as to prevent a delayed-wave component in multipath propagation from appearing in a frequency shift keying candidate carrier in one symbol of two consecutive symbols, in a frequency spectrum of a signal obtained by despreading in the reception device.
US12199658B2	Communication circuit and communication device Disclosed are a communication circuit and a communication device. The communication circuit comprises a signal reception multiplexing circuit comprising a multiplexing antenna, a signal separation module connected to the multiplexing antenna, and a first signal demodulation module and a second signal demodulation module respectively connected to the signal separation module. The multiplexing antenna is configured to receive a first signal and a second signal of the same frequency band and to send the signals received to the signal separation module. The signal separation module is configured to separate the first signal and the second signal from the signals received, to send the first signal separated to the first signal demodulation module for demodulation processing, and to send the second signal separated to the second signal demodulation module for demodulation processing.
US12199656B2	Electronic device, screen assembly, and screen protection member and manufacturing method thereof A screen protection member includes a protection film and a frame. The protection film includes a bonding surface. The frame is fastened to a peripheral region of the bonding surface by surrounding the peripheral region. The frame has at least one notch group. A single notch group includes two notches that are disposed opposite to each other. The at least one notch group divides the frame into at least two frame parts that are spaced apart from each other.
US12199655B2	Device for charging and mounting electronic devices An electronic device includes a base portion, a male connector on the base portion, a body portion connected to the base portion by a hinge portion, and a battery electrically connected to the male connector. The body portion rotates with respect to the base portion via the hinge portion. The male connector connects to a second electronic device disposed on the base portion.
US12199654B2	Antenna and electronic device comprising the same An antenna and an electronic device including the same are provided. The electronic device includes a first housing including a first conductive portion through a portion of a side surface and including a first space, a second housing slidable along a first direction from the first housing, a flexible display including at least a partially variable display area when transitioning from a slide-in state to a slide-out state, and a wireless communication circuit disposed in the first space and configured to transmit or receive a wireless signal in a frequency band through the first conductive portion. The first conductive portion includes a first portion having a first length along the first direction, a second portion spaced apart from the first portion at a predetermined interval and having a second length in the first direction, and a third portion connecting to a first end of the first portion and a first end of the second portion. The frequency band is determined based on a third length extending from the first portion, through the third portion, to the second portion.
US12199653B2	Hybridized wideband notch-filter topologies and methods Radio frequency (RF) acoustic wave resonator (AWR) filter circuits and methods. Embodiments essentially de-couple the stopband or notch characteristics of an RF filter from the passband characteristics. Accordingly, the de-coupled parameters can be individually designed to meet the specifications of a particular application. Partially-hybridized or fully-hybridized series-arm and parallel-arm AWR filter building blocks enable “de-coupled” RF filters having (1) wideband and low insertion loss passbands and (2) wideband deep notches (stopbands) with a specifically placed notch center frequency, without compromising the passband characteristics. The AWR filter building blocks include an inductance L that matches (resonates with) the electrostatic capacitance CO of the corresponding AWR within a desired passband. The resonance and anti-resonance frequencies of the building block AWRs are selected to be spaced apart from the specified passband in order to provide independent stopband or notch characteristics without substantially affecting the passband characteristics.
US12199649B2	Signal generating device and floor noise reduction method therefor The signal generating device includes a signal generator that generates a signal of a predetermined frequency, a high-pass filter bank that removes a signal of a frequency lower than or equal to a first frequency lower than a predetermined frequency from the signal generated by the signal generator, a YTF that removes a signal outside a predetermined frequency band from the signal output by the high-pass filter bank, a splitter that distributes the signal output by the YTF into a plurality of signals, two amplifiers that adjust levels of the signals distributed by the splitter, respectively, and two low-pass filter banks that remove signals of frequencies equal to or higher than a second frequency which is higher than the predetermined frequency from each of the signals output by the amplifiers.
US12199648B2	Wireless radio system optimization by persistent spectrum analysis Apparatuses and methods for simultaneously operating as a wireless radio and monitoring the local frequency spectrum. For example, described herein are wireless radio devices that use a secondary receiver to monitor frequencies within the operating band and prevent or avoid interferers, including in particular half-IF interferers. The systems, devices, and methods described herein may adjust the intermediate frequency in a superheterodyne receiver to select an intermediate frequency that minimizes interference. In particular, described herein are apparatuses and methods that use a second receiver which is independent of the first receiver and may be connected to the same receiving antenna to monitor the geographically local frequency spectrum and may detect spurious interferers, allowing the primary receiver to adjust the intermediate frequency and avoid spurious interferes.
US12199643B1	Controllable lossy compression system using joint learning A system and method for controllable lossy data compression employing a joint learning framework to efficiently compress and reconstruct input data while balancing compression ratio and reconstruction quality. The system comprises an encoding system, a temporal modeling system, and a decoding system, which are jointly optimized to minimize a combined loss function. The encoding system, such as a Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder (VQ-VAE) compresses the input data into a compact representation, while introducing a controllable degree of lossy compression based on adjustable compression parameters. The temporal modeling system, such as a Multilayer Perceptron Long Short-Term Memory captures temporal dependencies in the compressed representation. The decoding system, such as a VQ-VAE decoder, reconstructs the input data from the compressed representation. By providing control over the trade-off between compression ratio and reconstruction quality, the system offers flexibility for diverse applications.
US12199636B2	Low gate-count and high throughput Reed-Solomon decoding A method of operation for a Reed-Solomon decoder includes receiving partial input data of symbols of a Reed-Solomon codeword; updating Reed-Solomon syndromes and error location polynomial coefficients based on the partial input data; maintaining the Reed-Solomon syndromes and the error location polynomial coefficients in a memory prior to starting activation of Reed-Solomon decoding; and inputting the Reed-Solomon syndromes and the error location polynomial coefficients to a first activation of Reed-Solomon decoding including calculating an initial error evaluator polynomial as a first error evaluator polynomial, performing error detection based on the first error evaluator polynomial to determine presence and location of errors in an input Reed-Solomon codeword, and updating the error location polynomial when errors are found in the input Reed-Solomon codeword. The error location polynomial coefficients in the memory are updated during each activation of Reed-Solomon decoding when at least one error is identified in the Reed-Solomon codeword.
US12199628B2	Calibration system and method for SAR ADCs In accordance with an embodiment, a method for operating a successive approximation ADC comprising a first capacitor array includes measuring a first weight of an MSB-ath bit of the ADC by applying a first reference voltage to first terminals of capacitors of the first capacitor array corresponding to the MSB-ath bit, applying a second reference voltage to first terminals of capacitors of the first capacitor array corresponding to significant bits lower than the MSB-ath bit, applying the first reference voltage to first terminals of a first set of capacitors of the first capacitor array corresponding to significant bits higher than the MSB-ath bit, and applying the second reference voltage to first terminals of a second set of capacitors of the first capacitor array corresponding to the significant bits higher than the MSB-ath bit; subsequently, a weight of a capacitance of the capacitors corresponding to the MSB-ath bit is successively approximated.
US12199627B2	Multi-purpose compensation circuits for high-speed receivers A device includes a first compensation circuit configured to adjust an analog front end (AFE) output to generate a first adjusted AFE output, a first data slicer configured to output a first voltage based on the first adjusted AFE output. The first compensation circuit includes a first path between a voltage source and a ground, including a first transistor, a first adjustable current source, a first input voltage node configured to receive the AFE output, and a first output voltage node coupled to the first data slicer, a second path between the voltage source and the ground, including a second transistor, a second adjustable current source, a second input voltage node configured to receive the AFE output, and a second output voltage node coupled to the second data slicer, and a configurable resistance resistor and a configurable capacitance capacitor coupled in parallel across the first path and the second path.
US12199626B2	Dynamic high-resolution analog to digital converter and operating method thereof A dynamic high-resolution ADC according to an example embodiment may include a dynamic amplifier configured to amplify, by as much as a first gain, the sampled-and-held analog signal received from the sample and hold circuit; DAC configured to convert a digital signal input from a decoder into an analog signal; a residue signal amplifier connected to the dynamic amplifier and the DAC and configured to calculate a difference between an output signal of the dynamic amplifier and an output signal of the DAC and amplify the difference by as much as a second gain; an ADC connected to the residue signal amplifier and configured to convert an output signal of the residue signal amplifier into a digital signal; and a decoder connected to the ADC and configured to decode, into digital data, an output signal of the ADC input by the ADC.
US12199623B2	Apparatus and method to calibrate clock phase mismatches A digital phase spacing detector with programmable delay lines is described. Each programmable delay line receives a clock. The output of the programmable delay lines is compared by a logic and then passed through a glitch detector. Each of the clocks pass through the programmable delay lines that are tuned to a point where the clock edges at the output of the delay lines are aligned and glitches start appearing at the output of the logic. A calibration scheme uses replica cells (replica of VCO cells) in the measurement path. The calibration scheme calculates the average of clock phase differences through a digital control replica buffer, and this average clock phase difference is applied to the VCO delay stage cells. The PLL is then allowed to relock with the calibrated VCO delay stage cells. This process can be repeated several times to reduce the phase errors between the clock phases.
US12199620B2	Clock data recovery circuit A clock data recovery circuit is provided. The clock data recovery circuit includes a charge pump circuit, a voltage controlled delay line circuit, a charge pump current generator, a phase-frequency detector and a frequency detector. The charge pump circuit generates a control voltage according to a first control signal, a second control signal and a charge pump current. The voltage controlled delay line circuit generates a data clock signal according to the control voltage and a reference clock signal. The charge pump current generator generates the charge pump current to the charge pump circuit according to the control voltage. The phase-frequency detector generates the first control signal according to a feedback clock signal and the reference clock signal. The frequency detector generates the second control signal according to the feedback clock signal and the reference clock signal.
US12199619B1	Cascaded phase interpolator topology for quadrature-rate multilevel pulse amplitude modulation data sampling A receiver includes a multi-phase clock generator to generate phases of a clock signal and a global phase interpolator (PI) circuit coupled to the multi-phase clock generator and to clock and data recovery (CDR) circuitry. The global PI circuit generates initial-adjusted phases from the phases of the clock signal based on a control signal received from the CDR circuitry. A first local PI receives the initial-adjusted phases of the clock signal and applies a first fixed phase shift to the initial-adjusted phases to generate first final-adjusted phases of the clock signal that are useable to sample a first level of multiple levels of a pulse-amplitude-modulated (PAM) data stream.
US12199614B2	Level shift circuit, integrated circuit, electronic device The present application provides a level shift circuit, an integrated circuit, and an electronic device. The level shift circuit comprises: an input module, configured to output a first control signal according to a first power supply voltage signal, first and second input voltages, inverted voltages of the first and second input voltages that received; a control voltage generation module, configured to receive the first control signal, and generate a plurality of node voltages according to the first control signal and a second power supply voltage signal; and output control modules, configured to generate first to fourth output signals according to the node voltages and the first power supply voltage signal, or generate fifth to eighth output signals according to the second power supply voltage signal and the node voltages.
US12199613B2	Semiconductor circuit including latch circuit for error correction A semiconductor circuit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a nonvolatile latch circuit that stores k-bit data, and m-bit error correction data for the k-bit data.
US12199610B2	Mosfet duty cycle controller In an embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed that includes a duty cycle controller. The duty cycle controller includes a tuning circuit comprising a first field-effect transistor. The first field-effect transistor is configured to implement a capacitor. The duty cycle controller further includes an edge delay circuit. The edge delay circuit includes a second field-effect transistor that, when activated by an input clock signal of the duty cycle controller, is configured to connect a voltage source to an output clock signal of the duty cycle controller. The edge delay circuit further includes a third field-effect transistor that, when activated, is configured to connect the first field-effect transistor of the tuning circuit to the output clock signal.
US12199598B2	Circuit for preventing latch-up and integrated circuit Disclosed is an circuit for preventing latch-up, comprising a first transistor, a second transistor of a type opposite to that of the first transistor, and a control circuit, wherein a control terminal of the first transistor receives a first control voltage and a first terminal of the first transistor receives a first supply voltage; a control terminal of the second transistor receives a second control voltage, and is connected to a second terminal of the first transistor; a first terminal of the second transistor is connected to the control terminal of the first transistor, and a second terminal of the second transistor receives a second supply voltage. The control circuit is coupled on a path formed by the first transistor and the second transistor between the first supply voltage and the second supply voltage for disconnecting the path when the first control voltage and/or the second control voltage is out of a predetermined range. The circuit for preventing latch-up provided by the present invention, by introducing the control circuit on the path formed by the first transistor and the second transistor between the first supply voltage and the second supply voltage, can disconnect the path when the first control voltage and/or the second control voltage is out of the predetermined range, so that a latch-up effect is prevented from occurring during power-on phase.
US12199596B2	MOSFET-based RF switch with charge reduction An RF switch device includes transistors coupled in series to form a current path; a drain-source resistive bias network coupled to a drain and a source of each transistor; and a discharge switch coupled between a gate of at least one transistor and the drain-source resistive bias network, wherein the discharge switch establishes a current path between the gate of the at least one transistor and the drain-source resistive bias network only during a switching transient of the RF switch device.
US12199594B2	Switching time reduction of an RF switch A switching component and switch assembly. The switching component comprises a first control node, a common node, a plurality of intermediate nodes, a second control node, and a capacitive node; a plurality of transistors connected in series between the control node and the common node, one of the plurality of intermediate nodes being defined between each series connected pair of transistors, each transistor of the plurality of transistors having a gate coupled to the second control node; and a plurality of capacitive components, one capacitive component being coupled between each intermediate node and the capacitive node, a voltage at the capacitive node being configured to be varied with a voltage at the second control node such that, at each intermediate node, the capacitive component is configured to accrue an opposite charge to the transistors.
US12199591B2	Filter device, multiplexer, radio frequency front-end circuit, and communication device A filter device includes a filter circuit including first and second terminals and series arm resonators along a series arm connecting the first terminal and the second terminal, and an additional circuit connected in parallel at least some of the series arm resonators. The additional circuit includes first, second, and third interdigital transducer electrodes. The first interdigital transducer electrode is connected to a first node at one end portion of a series arm resonator having a lowest anti-resonant frequency of the series arm resonators, the second interdigital transducer electrode is connected to a second node having a potential different from a potential of the first node, the third interdigital transducer electrode is connected to a third node having a potential different from the potentials of the first and second nodes, and the first and second nodes are closer to the first terminal than the third node.
US12199587B2	Surface acoustic wave device and manufacturing method thereof A surface acoustic wave (SAW) device according to the present invention includes: a substrate; an intermediate layer formed on an upper surface of the substrate; a piezoelectric layer formed on an upper surface of the intermediate layer; and an inter-digital transducer (IDT) electrode formed on an upper surface of the piezoelectric layer to generate a SAW, wherein an upper portion of the substrate is deformed by a predetermined thickness by ion implantation to form an ion trap layer and the intermediate layer is formed on an upper surface of the ion trap layer.
US12199582B2	Digital communication systems and associated methods A digital communication station includes a coupled inductor, driver circuitry, and a digital transceiver. The coupled inductor includes (1) a first winding connected between a first digital communication node and a first power node, (2) a second winding connected between a second digital communication node and a second power node, and (3) a third winding. The driver circuitry is configured to drive the third winding to increase respective inductance values of the first and second windings, and the digital transceiver is communicatively coupled to the first digital communication node and the second digital communication node.
US12199581B2	Equalizer for envelope power supply circuitry Equalizer circuitry includes a differential target voltage input, an equalizer output, a first operational amplifier, and a second operational amplifier. The differential target voltage input includes a target voltage input node and an inverted target voltage input node. The first operational amplifier and the second operational amplifier are coupled in series between the differential target voltage input and the equalizer output. The first operational amplifier is configured to receive a target voltage signal and provide an intermediate signal based on the target voltage input signal. The second operational amplifier is configured to receive the intermediate signal and an inverted target voltage signal and provide an output signal to the equalizer output. The first operational amplifier and the second operational amplifier are interconnected with one or more passive components such that a transfer function between the differential target voltage input and the equalizer output is a second-order complex-zero function.
US12199575B2	Super source follower In accordance with an embodiment, a circuit includes: a first super source follower; a compensation circuit having a compensating node configured to provide a voltage of opposite phase of a voltage of an internal node of the first super source follower; and a first compensation capacitor coupled between an input of the first super source follower and the compensating node of the compensation circuit.
US12199574B2	Power amplifiers A broadband power amplifier circuit is disclosed for providing load modulation, and includes an active element for receiving an impedance matched signal and for amplifying the impedance matched signal to supply an amplified signal, and an output matching network having a load impedance and coupled to the active element for receiving the amplified signal, the output matching network matches the load impedance to an optimum load impedance of the active element.
US12199572B2	High-frequency amplifier A high-frequency amplifier includes a driver amplifier, a Doherty amplifier including carrier and peak which amplify the driver amplifier output, a second substrate laminated on a first substrate, and a base member mounted with the first and second substrates. The driver amplifier is mounted on the second substrate, and the carrier and peak amplifiers are mounted on the first substrate. A front surface of the driver amplifier opposes the first substrate, and a back surface of the driver amplifier is separated from the first substrate. Back surfaces of the carrier and peak amplifiers contact the base member, and the back surface of the driver amplifier connects to an interconnect layer disposed on the second substrate and connected to one end of a via penetrating the second and first substrates, and the other end of the via connects to the base member.
US12199571B2	Hybrid Doherty power amplifier module Example embodiments relate to hybrid Doherty power amplifier modules. One embodiment includes a printed circuit board having an input RF terminal and an output RF terminal, and on which printed circuit board a primary Doherty amplifier is integrated. The primary Doherty amplifier includes a primary Doherty splitter arranged on the printed circuit board and configured for splitting an input RF signal received at the input RF terminal into a plurality of RF signal components. The primary Doherty amplifier also includes a plurality of amplifying paths, each amplifying path being partially integrated on a semiconductor die of a first kind mounted on the printed circuit board and partially integrated on a semiconductor die of a second kind mounted on the printed circuit board. Further, the primary Doherty amplifier includes a primary Doherty combiner arranged on the printed circuit board.
US12199568B2	Oscillator with biased cross-coupled transistors, a current source, a tail resistor and a tail capacitor Embodiments disclosed herein relate to oscillators including methods of operating the same, for example for use in radio frequency circuits. In an embodiment, an oscillator has cross-coupled transistors connected between a resonant circuit and a tail circuit. The resonant circuit and tail circuit have respective supply connections for powering the oscillator with an external power supply and the cross-coupled transistors have a bias circuit coupled to respective gates of the cross-coupled transistors and arranged to bias said transistors in an active region of operation. The tail circuit has a current source, a tail capacitor and a tail resistor coupled between a common node of the cross-coupled transistors and the supply connection of the tail circuit.
US12199563B2	Photovoltaic shutdown circuit and photovoltaic system Disclosed are a photovoltaic shutdown circuit and a photovoltaic system. The photovoltaic shutdown circuit comprises a shutdown power line, a signal receiving module, a signal processing module, and a controllable switch module. The signal processing module comprises a signal modulation unit and a threshold comparison unit. A switch end of the controllable switch module is connected in series to the shutdown power line. The signal receiving module is connected to the shutdown power line for receiving a first signal with a controlling signal; the signal modulation unit is for reverting the controlling signal; the threshold comparison unit is connected to the signal modulation unit to receive the reverted controlling signal and compare the reverted controlling signal with a set threshold to output a driving signal. The controllable switch module is connected to the threshold comparison unit to receive the driving signal and control an on/off of the controllable switch module.
US12199562B2	Solar power generation system A solar power generation system includes a string, an inverter, a first shutoff device, and a second shutoff device. The string includes a plurality of solar cell module groups. The first shutoff device cuts off connections between the plurality of solar cell module groups connected to a first electric path, in response to a first control signal. The second shutoff device cuts off connections between the plurality of solar cell module groups connected to a second electric path, in response to a second control signal output from the first shutoff device by a communication system different from power line communication. A first switching unit of the first shutoff device includes a first open and close unit and a first semiconductor switching device connected in parallel with the first open and close unit. The first semiconductor switching device is turned ON before the first open and close unit is operated.
US12199561B2	Heat dissipation for a photovoltaic junction box An apparatus of a junction box component housed in a junction box and designed to be coupled to a power generator. The junction box component may include one or more bypass mechanisms configured to bypass one or more substrings of the power generator in a case of malfunction or mismatch between the substring and the remainder of the power generators. The one or more bypass mechanisms may generate heat which may be transferred out of the junction box. The junction box component may be designed to conduct the heat towards the base of the junction box and/or the cover of the junction box. A heat dissipation mechanism may be mounted on the base and/or the cover. A bypass mechanism may bypass the entire power generator.
US12199558B2	Solar panels on transparent substrates A solar panel array includes at least one solar panel including a transparent substrate on which are mounted photovoltaic cells. A battery is electrically connected to the at least one solar panel, and a light is electrically connected to the at least one solar panel.
US12199557B2	Adaptor for spring-based PV module fastener Mounting systems for solar panel assemblies and related methods are generally described. In some embodiments, a clamp adapter may be used to mount a conventional panel support structure of a solar panel assembly to a conventional bracket of a base assembly without the use of bolts in at least some embodiments. The clamp adapter may include a rail slot for receiving the structure, a lower flange for receiving a lower surface of a mounting lip of the bracket, and a lateral flange for receiving an upper surface of the mounting lip. The lower flange may be angled to accommodate a variety of mounting lip angles. In some embodiments, the mounting system may also include a connector configured to mechanically connect the bracket and structure.
US12199555B2	Synchronous driving device and photovoltaic tracking bracket system for photovoltaic tracking linkage rotation A synchronous driving device includes a driving source and a driving drive mechanism. The driving drive mechanism includes a first housing and a driving transmission assembly arranged in the first housing and engaged in transmission. The driving transmission assembly includes an input shaft, a first output shaft, a second output shaft, a third output shaft and a fourth output shaft. A driving end of the driving source is connected with the input shaft. Both the third output shaft and the fourth output shaft are perpendicular to the first output shaft and the second output shaft. The first output shaft, the second output shaft, the third output shaft and the fourth output shaft are configured to be driven by the driving source to rotate synchronously. A photovoltaic tracking bracket system having the synchronous driving device is also disclosed.
US12199546B2	Motor control device and motor control method A motor control device controls a motor, which is driven by three-phase alternating currents and to which a magnetic pole position sensor measuring a magnetic pole position of a rotor is attached, using a detection value of a rotation angle of the motor based on a measurement result of the magnetic pole position by the magnetic pole position sensor, compares a peak-current-time rotation angle representing the detection value of the rotation angle at a peak of a current value of a target phase and a reference rotation angle representing the rotation angle at a peak of a predetermined current waveform of the target phase using any one phase of the three-phase alternating currents during a three-phase short circuit of the motor as the target phase, and corrects the detection value of the rotation angle based on a result of the comparison.
US12199543B2	Motor driving method, apparatus, and system The disclosure discloses a motor driving method, an apparatus, and a system, and relate to the chip field. The solution may include: When a motor control apparatus determines that a motor needs to rotate at a maximum torque, the motor control apparatus controls a driver to output a first current to drive the motor to rotate. The first current is greater than a rated peak current of the driver and is less than or equal to a maximum load current of the driver. This method can resolve a problem that a waste of costs is caused because a through-current capability improved by a redundancy design of a switching transistor of a motor driver cannot be fully utilized for most customers and application scenarios.
US12199540B2	Motor driving apparatus A motor driving apparatus of driving a motor including a plurality of windings respectively corresponding to a plurality of phases is disclosed. The motor driving apparatus include a first inverter including a plurality of first switching elements and connected to a first end of each of the windings, a second inverter including a plurality of second switching elements and connected to a second end of each of the windings, and a controller configured for controlling ON/OFF states of the first switching elements and the second switching elements based on a required output of the motor, wherein the first inverter may be connected to a first voltage source, the second inverter may be connected to a second voltage source, and the first voltage source and the second voltage source may have different grounds.
US12199539B2	Motor control device, electric vehicle, and motor control method An object of the present invention is to sufficiently suppress a vibration and noise generated in a motor. A motor control device includes a first inverter circuit and a second inverter circuit of a redundant system, the first inverter circuit and the second inverter circuit controlling a motor, and a control unit that controls the first inverter circuit and the second inverter circuit. The first inverter circuit converts the DC power into the AC power based on a PWM signal generated by using a first carrier signal. The second inverter circuit converts the DC power into the AC power based on a PWM signal generated by using a second carrier signal. The control unit shifts phases of the first carrier signal and the second carrier signal by using, as a reference, pulsation of an electromagnetic force caused by a magnetic circuit of the motor.
US12199538B2	Motor and energy conversion device thereof The disclosure provides a motor and an energy conversion device. The motor includes a motor coil having x sets of windings. A number of phases of the x sets of windings is mx. In each of the x sets of windings, each phase winding includes nx coil branches. A first end of each of the nx coil branches is connected with a first end of a coil branch separated from the coil branch by an electrical angle of 360 degrees, to form mx phase endpoints. A second end of each of the nx coil branches of each phase winding is connected with a second end of a coil branch separated from the coil branch by an electrical angle of P(360k1+360/mx) degrees to form nx neutral points, nx≥mx≥2, nx≥3, p=±1, 1≤k1≤(nx−1), and mx, nx, and k1 are integers.
US12199536B2	Motor driving system and method for controlling same A motor driving system includes an energy storage device storing direct current power for driving a motor, an inverter including a plurality of switching elements to transform the direct current power stored in the energy storage device into alternating current power and to provide the alternating current power to the motor, and a controller performing pulse width modulation control on the plurality of switching elements of the inverter. The controller generates a voltage command of the motor based on a difference between a current command of the motor and a motor current actually provided to the motor, changes the voltage command within an operation region when the generated voltage command deviates from a preset operation region, and performs flux weakening control for generating the current command such that a difference between the voltage command before the change and the voltage command after the change becomes minimum.
US12199533B2	Power conversion device A power conversion device includes: an inverter that converts a DC voltage into an AC voltage and drives a synchronous motor; and a magnetic pole position correction unit that corrects an error in a magnetic pole position of a rotor from a rotation angle sensor of the synchronous motor. The magnetic pole position correction unit includes an actual current phase calculation unit that calculates a current phase from a current when three-phase lines are short-circuited during rotation of the synchronous motor and an ideal current phase calculation unit that calculates an ideal current phase based on a rotational speed of the rotor and a temperature of a stator, and corrects the magnetic pole position from a difference between outputs of the actual current phase calculation unit and the ideal current phase calculation unit.
US12199531B2	Predictive deadbeat control of motor phase currents with model mismatch compensation and adjustable control dynamics The invention relates to a motor control device for controlling a motor current, with a predictive deadbeat control unit configured to, based on a motor current error input signal, use a model predictive control scheme for providing an output signal for controlling the motor current according to a deadbeat control scheme, where the deadbeat control scheme is characterized by minimizing the motor current error input signal within a preset time period; an interface unit configured to allow adjusting the preset time period by a user input; and an integrator unit configured to, based on the motor current error input signal, provide an integrator output that is added to the output signal for controlling the motor current with controlling a motor current, with the advantages of a predictive deadbeat control scheme while avoiding the problems present in the conventional predictive deadbeat approaches. The invention also relates to a corresponding method.
US12199528B2	Artificial muscles including closing aid, artificial muscle assemblies, and methods of using same An artificial muscle including a housing, an electrode pair positioned in an electrode region of the housing, the electrode pair including a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode and the second electrode each including a pair of tab portions and a bridge portion interconnecting the pair of tab portions, and a first closing aid provided exteriorly of the housing opposite the electrode pair and applying a force in a direction toward the electrode region of the housing, wherein the electrode pair is actuatable between a non-actuated state and an actuated state such that actuation from the non-actuated state to the actuated state results in attraction of the first electrode and the second electrode.
US12199527B2	Artificial muscles, artificial muscle assemblies, and methods of using same An artificial muscle including a housing, an electrode pair positioned in an electrode region of the housing, the electrode pair including a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode and the second electrode each including a pair of tab portions and a bridge portion, the pair of tab portions extending parallel to one another to define a gap portion between the pair of tab portions, the gap portion having a constant gap width extending along a tab length of the pair of tab portions, the bridge portion interconnecting the pair of tab portions, and a dielectric fluid housed within the housing, wherein the electrode pair is actuatable between a non-actuated state and an actuated state such that actuation from the non-actuated state to the actuated state directs the dielectric fluid into an expandable fluid region of the housing.
US12199525B2	Inverter having capacitor bus plates connecting to power modules In an inverter that includes a smoothing capacitor and a plurality of power modules, the smoothing capacitor includes a plurality of columnar unit capacitors each having electrodes at both ends thereof, a one-end-side bus plate connected to the electrode at one end of each unit capacitor, and an other-end-side bus plate connected to the electrode at the other end of the unit capacitor. The unit capacitors are arranged, with axes thereof parallel to each other, side by side in a direction perpendicular to the axes. The plurality of power modules is arranged, with respect to the smoothing capacitor, side by side in a direction perpendicular to the axes of the unit capacitors.

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