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| US12199482B2 |
Power distribution within an electric machine
An electric machine includes a stator and a rotor energizable by magnetic fields produced by the stator when receiving a stator current to produce relative motion between the rotor and the stator. A controller is configured to send the stator current through the stator at a current angle measured from the closest one of a pole of the rotor, determine a desired operational output of the electric machine, and determine a desired rotor motion corresponding to the desired operational output of the electric machine. The controller is further configured to calculate a vector control modulation applied to the stator that elicits the desired rotor motion, and adjust the current angle of the stator current based on the vector control modulation to cause the rotor to perform the desired rotor motion and achieve the desired operational output of the electric machine. |
| US12199476B2 |
Grease-isolating storage structure for circuit board, and solar actuator
Disclosed is a grease-isolating structure for storing a circuit board, the structure being disposed in an outer tube of a solar actuator, in the outer tube being further provided the circuit board, a through-hole running axially through the outer tube being provided for the outer tube, wherein a cavity for storing the circuit board is provided on a wall of the outer tube, the cavity and the through-hole being isolated from each other. Further disclosed is a solar actuator in which the circuit board storage structure is provided. |
| US12199471B2 |
Oil-cooled motor
An oil-cooled motor includes a casing, a rotor, and a stator. The casing is internally provided with an accommodating cavity. The rotor and the stator are accommodated in the accommodating cavity. The stator includes a stator core coaxially surrounding an outer side of the rotor. The stator core includes a first oil cooling channel, a second oil cooling channel, and a first end and a second end in an axial direction of the rotor. The first oil cooling channel penetrates the stator core from the first end to the second end, forming a first oil inlet in the first end and forming a first oil outlet in the second end. The second oil cooling channel penetrates the stator core from the first end to the second end, forming a second oil inlet in the second end and forming a second oil outlet in the first end. |
| US12199463B2 |
System and method for recharging a battery
A method includes detecting a voltage of the battery, detecting a current of the battery, determining a depth of discharge of the battery based on the voltage and the current of the battery, and controlling terminating charging of the battery responsive to the determined depth of discharge of the battery reaching a depth of discharge threshold. A system includes a battery gauge circuit and a processor coupled to the battery gauge circuit. The battery gauge circuit has a voltage sense input and a current sense input and is configured to determine a depth of discharge of a battery based on a battery voltage at the voltage sense input and a battery current at the current sense input. The processor is configured to control terminating charging of the battery responsive to the determined depth of discharge reaching a depth of discharge threshold. |
| US12199462B2 |
Multifunctional interface conversion device and multifunctional interface conversion system
This disclosure provides a multifunctional interface conversion device and a multifunctional interface conversion system. The multifunctional interface conversion device includes a power adapter module and an interface conversion module. The power adapter module includes an AC-to-DC conversion unit, a first DC-to-DC conversion unit, and a power output terminal. The interface conversion module includes a first power management unit and a first interface. This disclosure combines the power adapter module and the interface conversion module to obtain the multifunctional interface conversion device. The AC-to-DC conversion unit and the first DC-to-DC conversion unit convert an input alternating current into a stable second direct current, and the second direct current is output to the interface conversion module through the power output terminal and the first power management unit, realizing supplying power to an external terminal or charging an external battery without a power adapter and improving relay capability of the external terminal. |
| US12199461B2 |
Context-based battery charging apparatus and method
Software and/or hardware to monitor system usage including how long system ran on a battery or with AC adapter power. The software and/or hardware judges whether fast charging is needed and/or how much charge is needed, and optimizes battery charging settings. |
| US12199458B2 |
Multi-output switched-mode power supply for multi-cell-in-series battery charging
Methods and apparatus for converting power using a multi-output switched-mode power supply (SMPS) coupled to a multi-cell-in-series battery, such as charging a two-cell-in-series (2S) battery using a dual-output three-level buck converter coupled thereto, or using a multi-input SMPS circuit receiving power from a multi-cell-in-series battery. One example power supply circuit generally includes a switched-mode power supply circuit having an input node and an output node, a battery comprising multiple cells connected in series, a charge pump circuit having a first terminal and a second terminal, the second terminal of the charge pump circuit being coupled to the battery, a first switch coupled between the output node of the switched-mode power supply circuit and the first terminal of the charge pump circuit, and a second switch coupled between the output node of the switched-mode power supply circuit and the second terminal of the charge pump circuit. |
| US12199457B2 |
Battery management circuit and energy storage device
A battery management circuit is a battery management circuit that manages an energy storage device including battery cells and capacitors, and includes: a first switching circuit that connects a first capacitor among the capacitors and a first battery cell among the battery cells in parallel; a second switching circuit that connects the first capacitor and two or more series-connected battery cells other than the first battery cell among the battery cells in parallel; and a control circuit that performs a first control of repeatedly switching between the connection by the first switching circuit and the connection by the second switching circuit. |
| US12199451B2 |
Method for detecting foreign material, and apparatus and system therefor
A power reception method for a wireless power receiver, the power reception method including storing information on a reference quality factor and a reference peak frequency; generating a foreign object detection (FOD) status packet including the information on the reference quality factor and the reference peak frequency and a packet having a length of eight bits; transmitting the FOD status packet to a wireless power transmitter; receiving a foreign object detection indicator indicating whether a foreign object is present in a charging area of the wireless power transmitter in response to the FOD status packet; performing differential bi-phase encoding for binary data of the packet having a length of eight bits; performing byte encoding for binary data of the differential bi-phase encoded packet; and transmitting the byte encoded packet to the wireless power transmitter, wherein the byte encoding is inserting a start bit, a stop bit, and a parity bit into binary bit stream of the differential bi-phase encoded packet. |
| US12199444B2 |
Photovoltaic device, photovoltaic inverter, system, and power limit control method
This application discloses a photovoltaic device, a photovoltaic inverter, a system, and a power limit control method. The device includes a DC-DC converter circuit, an inverter circuit, and a controller. An input end of the DC-DC converter circuit is connected to a photovoltaic array, and an output end of the DC-DC converter circuit is connected to an input end of the inverter circuit. The controller is configured to: receive a power scheduling instruction, where the power scheduling instruction carries a power reference value; and when the power reference value is less than a power at a maximum power point, reduce an input current of the DC-DC converter circuit; or when an input voltage of the DC-DC converter circuit is greater than or equal to a preset voltage, increase an input current of the DC-DC converter circuit until an output power of an inverter becomes consistent with the power reference value. |
| US12199442B2 |
Method for quantification of flexibility requirements and coordinated optimization of a hydro-wind-solar multi-energy complementary systems
The present invention belongs to the field of power system operations and provides a method for quantifying the flexibility demand and coordinating optimization of a hydro-wind-solar multi-energy complementary system. Firstly, the flexibility demand quantification method considering the uncertainty of wind and solar power output is constructed, and the wind and solar power output interval is divided by using quantile points to generate a set of output scenarios, and then the flexibility demand under each scenario is calculated. Based on the quantitative index of flexibility demand, an optimal operation model of hydro-wind-solar complementary system considering the minimum expectation of system flexibility deficiency is constructed to realize the optimal calculation of hydro-wind-solar complementary. By utilizing an actual wind-hydro complementary system of the Yunnan Power Grid, the model is validated for different new energy access ratios. The results show that the method of the present invention can give a complementary operation and scheduling scheme for multiple types of power sources under different conditions, effectively meet the flexibility demand of the system, reduce the abandoned power and improve the level of clean energy integration. |
| US12199441B2 |
Apparatus and method for controlling one or more inverters
An example apparatus for controlling one or more inverters is provided herein. In some embodiments, the apparatus for controlling one or more inverters may include one or more controllers. In some embodiments, each of the one or more inverters is associated with at least one power source. In some embodiments, each of the one or more controllers may configured to provide droop control, voltage magnitude control, phase control, frequency control and inertia control for an associated inverter of the one or more inverters. In some embodiments, each of the one or more controllers comprises a voltage control loop, a virtual inertia control loop, and a droop control loop enabling the power supplies to sync with a power grid and/or other power supplies when the power supply is disconnected from the power grid and/or other power supplies and/or connected to a power supply to the power grid and/or other power supplies. |
| US12199439B2 |
Robust and cybersecure coordinated unintentional island detection for microgrids
Unintentional islanding (UI) of a circuit of distributed energy resources (DERs) may leave area electrical power systems (EPS), external to the DER circuit, energized. Thus, UI detection methods have been developed to detect unintentional islanding and trigger a UI response. However, individual UI detection methods have various deficiencies. Thus, a consensus-based UI detection process is disclosed that builds a consensus from multiple UI detection sources, optionally implementing different UI detection methods. The redundancy in this consensus-based UI detection process provides robust, sensitive, selective, and cybersecure UI detection for the entire DER circuit. For example, the consensus-based UI detection process may eliminate or reduce non-detection zones, avoid false positives, thwart cyber-attacks, and/or the like. |
| US12199437B2 |
Dual mode turbine collects energy during low wind conditions
This disclosure describes many innovations including but not limited to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for controlling an energy generator. A system for controlling an energy generator includes a detector for sensing an indicator of electrical energy generated by the generator; an energy storage component configured, in a first mode of operation, to store energy generated during operation at a sub-threshold level insufficient for real-time supply to an electrical energy sink; an energy converter configured, in a second mode of operation, to provide energy generated during operation above the threshold level for real-time supply of energy to the electrical energy sink; and a controllable switch, electrically associated with the detector, and configured to alternately toggle between the first mode of operation and the second mode of operation based on the indicator to thereby permit energy generated at the sub-threshold level to be collected and intermittently used. |
| US12199423B2 |
Asymmetric overvoltage protection apparatus, DC circuit arrangement and DC network
An asymmetric surge protection device for a DC circuit (16) has a negative side (32) which can be connected to a current output (28) of the DC circuit (16), a positive side (30) which can be connected to a current input (26) of the DC circuit (16), and an asymmetric neutral section (34). The asymmetric neutral section (34) has a positive protection level (Vp) for a positive voltage (V) between the positive side (30) and the negative side (32), and a negative protection level (Vn) for a negative voltage (V) between the positive side (30) and the negative side (32), the positive protection level (Vp) being different from the negative protection level (Vn).Furthermore, a DC circuit arrangement (14) and a DC network (10) are shown. |
| US12199418B2 |
System and method for improved mechanical and electrical connection of high voltage wiring harness
A system and method for connecting a high voltage wiring harness assembly to a vehicle. The system includes a tubing configured to provide an enclosure for the high voltage wiring harness assembly. The material used to form the tubing includes polytetrafluoroethylene to protect the high voltage wiring harness assembly from abrasion and to insulate the high voltage wiring harness assembly from substantial temperature fluctuations. The system may include an adapter plate configured to provide a mechanical and electrical grounding connection to the vehicle. The system may include a coupling assembly configured to couple the tubing and the adapter plate. The coupling provides a water tight seal between the tubing and the adapter plate. The high voltage wiring harness assembly includes a grounding braid. The coupling assembly is further configured to couple the grounding braid to the adapter plate for completing an electrical circuit between the grounding braid and the vehicle. |
| US12199415B2 |
Line puller systems and devices
The disclosed technology includes a line pulling system that may include an engagement assembly, which may include an engagement cable configured to be pushed or pulled. The assembly may also include a cable mounting assembly connected to the support member and the engagement cable, a hinged linkage connected to the support member and the engagement cable and configured to partially rotate in response to a push or pull from the engagement cable, an engagement arm connected to the hinged linkage and configured to move according to the rotation motion of hinged linkage, a coupling ring connected to the engagement arm and configured to transition between an engaged position and a disengaged position in response to movement from the engagement arm. |
| US12199413B2 |
Gas insulation apparatus
A gas insulation apparatus has a sealed container, an insulation gas, a high-voltage portion, and a removal material. The insulation gas has CO2 and O2 filling the sealed container as main components. The high-voltage portion is stored in the sealed container. The removal material reduces concentrations of HF, CO, and O3 in the insulation gas. |
| US12199411B2 |
Silicon-assisted packaging of high power integrated SOA array
A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) assembly comprising a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) array and a U-turn chip. The SOA array includes an input SOA and a plurality of SOAs. The input SOA and the plurality of SOAs are arranged parallel to one another. The U-turn chip includes an optical splitter and a waveguide assembly. The optical splitter is configured to receive amplified input light propagating in a first direction from the input SOA, and divide the amplified light into beams. The waveguide assembly guides the beams to a corresponding SOA of the plurality of SOAs, and adjusts a direction of prorogation of each of the guided beams to be substantially parallel to a second direction that is substantially opposite the first direction. |
| US12199410B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for producing the same
An insulating film (10) having an opening (11) is formed on a contact layer (7). A shape stabilization layer (8) having an inclined surface (9) is formed on the contact layer (7) in a peripheral portion of the opening (11). An underlying metal (12) covers an upper surface of the contact layer (7) exposed through the opening (11) and the inclined surface (9). A plating (13) is formed on the underlying metal (12). |
| US12199404B2 |
Semiconductor optical amplifier light combiner
Disclosed is a coherent optical combining photonic integrated circuit that can detect and align light amplified by a scalable quantity of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs). The light can be split into beams and amplified by individual SOAs in a PIC and combined via couplers in the PIC. The combined light can be measured using a photodetector and the light beams can be adjusted based the photodetector measurement to coherently combine the light to achieve high optical power from the photonic integrated circuit. |
| US12199403B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a substrate, a semiconductor unit, a wall, and a light-transmitting member. The semiconductor unit is mounted on the substrate. The wall is disposed on the substrate and surrounds the semiconductor unit. The wall includes two exterior wall components and two interior wall components. The two exterior wall components are spaced apart from each other, so that two gaps are formed between the two exterior wall components. The two gaps are in spatial communication with an installation area that is surrounded by the two exterior wall components. The two interior wall components are arranged in the installation area and spaced apart from each other. The two interior wall components correspond in position to the two gaps and respectively shade parts of the two gaps. The light-transmitting member is disposed on the wall and covered on the semiconductor unit. |
| US12199402B2 |
Light emitting device and projector
A light emitting device includes a laminated structure having a plurality of columnar parts, wherein the columnar part includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer different in conductivity type from the first semiconductor layer, and a third semiconductor layer disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, the third semiconductor layer includes a light emitting layer, and the second semiconductor layer includes a first portion, and a second portion which surrounds the first portion in a plan view from a laminating direction of the first semiconductor layer and the light emitting layer, and is lower in impurity concentration than the first portion. |
| US12199401B1 |
LIDAR sensor system for vehicles including integrated LIDAR chip
A LIDAR sensor system for a vehicle includes a silicon photonics substrate. The silicon photonics substrate includes: a semiconductor wafer; one or more surface features on a first surface of the semiconductor wafer; and a photoresist layer formed on the first surface of the semiconductor wafer, wherein the photoresist layer includes a laminated dry film. The silicon photonics substrate can be manufactured by obtaining a semiconductor wafer having one or more surface features; applying a dry film photoresist layer to a first surface of the semiconductor wafer; performing an adhesion bake process on the semiconductor wafer; developing the dry film photoresist layer to produce one or more developed regions in the dry film photoresist layer; and forming one or more solder bumps in the one or more developed regions. |
| US12199397B2 |
Optical parametric device based on random phase matching in polycrystalline medium
An optical parametric device (OPD), which is selected from an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) or optical parametric generator (OPG), is configured with a nonlinear optical element (NOE) which converts an incoupled pump radiation at first frequency into output signal and idler radiations at one second frequency or different second frequencies, which is/are lower than the first frequency, by utilizing nonlinear interaction via a random quasi-phase matching process (RQPM-NOE). The NOE is made from a nonlinear optical material selected from optical ceramics, polycrystals, micro and nanocrystals, colloids of micro and nanocrystals, and composites of micro and nanocrystals in polymer or glassy matrices. The nonlinear optical material is prepared by modifying a microstructure of the initial sample of the NOE such that an average grain size is of the order of a coherence length of the three-wave interaction which enables the highest parametric gain achievable via the RQPM process. |
| US12199396B2 |
Converging thermal lenses, and optical systems, kits, and methods for formation and use thereof
A converging thermal lens is transiently formed by directing a shaped pulsed light beam having at least a first wavelength to a thermo-optic material, whereby the thermo-optic material absorbs the light beam and experiences local heating in response thereto. The heating induces a refractive index profile in the thermo-optic material that temporarily forms the converging thermal lens. In some embodiments, the refractive index of the thermo-optic material has a negative temperature dependence, and the pulsed light beam is shaped to have an inverted light pattern with a maximum intensity in an outer region of the beam cross-section. Alternatively, in some embodiments, the refractive index of the thermo-optic material has a positive temperature dependence, and the pulsed light beam is shaped to have a radially-varying light pattern with a maximum intensity in a central region of the beam cross-section. |
| US12199393B2 |
Method of assembling waterproof structure
A method of assembling a waterproof structure includes the following operations. Connect a first input/output connector of a circuit board to a first positioning fixture. A first elastic adhesive is combined with a first rigid board. An end of the first positioning fixture away from the first input/output connector is passed out of the first rigid board, and the first input/output connector and the first elastic adhesive are separated on two sides of the first rigid board. The circuit board is arranged in the casing, wherein the first positioning fixture is inserted from the first input/output opening on the first wall inside the casing, so that the first elastic adhesive adheres the first rigid board to the first wall of the casing, and the first elastic adhesive fills a spacing between the first positioning fixture and the first input/output opening. |
| US12199386B2 |
Lossy material for improved signal integrity
An electrical contact for an electrical connector includes a contact body and a lossy material located on the contact body. An electrical connector includes contacts with a lossy material located on the contact body. A method of applying a lossy material to a contact for an electrical connector includes providing a contact and applying the lossy material to the contact. |
| US12199381B2 |
Connector assembly
A connector assembly is provided and includes a shielding cage, a receptacle connector and a light guiding member. The shielding cage has a plurality of walls, a receiving space defined together by the plurality of walls, a front end opening communicated to the receiving space and an aperture communicated to the receiving space. The receptacle connector is received in a rear segment of the receiving space of the shielding cage. The light guiding member has at least two light guiding pipes, each light guiding pipe has a first segment positioned to the front and a second segment positioned to the rear. The first segments of the two light guiding pipes are positioned outside the shielding cage and the second segments of the two light guiding pipes pass through the aperture and enter into the rear segment of the receiving space of the shielding cage. |
| US12199379B2 |
Female connector including wave-absorbing material in a spatial scope covered by a high-frequency radiation area
The present application provides a female connector and a connector assembly. The female connector is used to connect to a PCB board internally provided with a signal layer and a drilling hole penetrating the signal layer, the female connector including: a female terminal having two ends, one end being a connecting end for mating with a male connector or a gold finger circuit board, and the other end forming a crimping pin to be inserted into a drilling hole and connected with the signal layer; a high-frequency radiation area being formed in the vicinity of a connection between the crimping pin and the drilling hole when the connecting end is mated with the male connector or the gold finger circuit board; and a wave-absorbing material is disposed in a spatial scope covered by the high-frequency radiation area. By selectively disposing a wave-absorbing material in an area where a high-frequency radiation is easily generated during the use of the connector, crosstalk signals are absorbed, while normally transmitted electrical signals are kept, and an overall weight of the connector is light. |
| US12199376B2 |
Electrical connector with hybrid connection for conductive terminals
An electrical connector includes an insulating body, a number of first conductive terminals, a number of second conductive terminals, an adapter circuit board, and cables. The first conductive terminals include a number of first high-speed signal terminals and a number of first non-high-speed signal terminals. Each first high-speed signal terminal includes a first connecting portion. Each first non-high-speed signal terminal includes a first elastic mounting arm. The second conductive terminals include a number of second high-speed signal terminals and a number of second non-high-speed signal terminals. Each second high-speed signal terminal includes a second connecting portion. Each second non-high-speed signal terminal includes a second elastic mounting arm. The adapter circuit board is located between the first elastic mounting arms and the second elastic mounting arms. The cables include first cables electrically connected to the first connecting portions and second cables electrically connected to the second connecting portions. |
| US12199375B2 |
Electrical connector body with a relief slot in communication with a terminal limiting slot
An electrical connector includes an insulating body and a number of conductive terminals. The insulating body includes a mating slot. Each conductive terminal includes an elastic mating portion protruding into the mating slot and an end portion extending from the elastic mating portion. The insulating body is provided with a number of limiting blocks for limiting the conductive terminals and a terminal limiting slot located between two adjacent limiting blocks. At least one limiting block includes a limiting protrusion protruding into the terminal limiting slot for limiting a side surface of the end portion of the conductive terminal. The insulating body also includes a relief slot in communication with the terminal limiting slot. When the conductive terminal needs to be deformed, the end portion of the conductive terminal can move unimpeded in the relief slot. |
| US12199374B2 |
Connector and mounting structure
There are provided a connector and a mounting structure, the connector including: a terminal fitting; an electric wire connected to the terminal fitting; a housing that includes a fitting portion having a shape protruding in a fitting direction with a mating part and accommodating the terminal fitting, an outer wall portion defining an internal space in which the electric wire is routed, and a hollow convex portion formed by a part of the outer wall portion protruding outward to have a convex shape in the fitting direction; and a fuse that includes a fused portion accommodated in a hollow portion of the convex portion and is connected to the electric wire. |
| US12199371B2 |
Electrical connector and method of manufacturing the same
A method of manufacturing an electrical connector includes: providing a metal plate, and cutting the metal plate to form multiple base portions and pre-soldering areas; providing multiple conductive members, and soldering the conductive members to the pre-soldering areas; cutting and forming multiple elastic arms correspondingly according to locations of the conductive members in the pre-soldering areas as references, where a conductive terminal includes a base portion, at least one elastic arm and at least one conductive member; forming an insulating body on the conductive terminals by insert-molding, where the elastic arms and the conductive members are exposed from the insulating body; and forming the conductive terminals by cutting, where at least some of the conductive terminals are separated from each other and are not in contact with each other. The first electronic component and the second electronic component abut the elastic arms and the conductive members to deform and move. |
| US12199369B2 |
Pin connector and display panel
A pin connector and a display panel are provided in the present application. The pin connector includes a plurality of pins arranged along a first direction, wherein the pins include a first pin for transmitting a first voltage, a second pin for transmitting a second voltage, and the first voltage is lower than the second voltage, wherein in the first direction, a space between the first pin and the second pin is not smaller than a size of three of the pins. |
| US12199368B2 |
Wireless communication backplane
An apparatus for wireless communications between communication modules, the apparatus including a main transmission line which has a plurality of coupling points, wherein the apparatus comprises a plurality of main antennas, and wherein each main antenna is linked to a coupling area for a directional coupling between the main antenna and the main transmission line at a coupling point and each main antenna is adapted to communicate with an auxiliary antenna linked to a communication module. |
| US12199365B2 |
Wideband antenna and antenna module including the same
Provided is an antenna module including a plurality of conductive layers stacked in a first direction, the antenna module including a first patch antenna including at least one radiator provided in at least one conductive layer, and an electromagnetic band gap (EBG) structure including a plurality of pillars spaced apart from the at least one radiator in a direction perpendicular to the first direction, the plurality of pillars surrounding the at least one radiator, wherein each of the plurality of pillars includes two or more plates provided parallel with each other in two or more conductive layers, respectively, and at least one via connecting the two or more plates. |
| US12199356B2 |
Tunable antenna
A tunable or dual-band antenna includes a ground plane, top plane, a cage structure, first and second half-loops, and a hybrid phase shifter. The cage structure is attached to the ground plane and the top plane that includes four leg structures in electrically-conductive contact with the top plane. The top plane is one of a cross-element with four equilateral elements, a cross-element with eight equilateral elements, or a disc element. The first and second half-loops are independent from each other, located diagonally to each other within the cage structure, and support transmitting and receiving an electromagnetic field orthogonal to each other. The hybrid phase shifter shifts a frequency of the first and second half-loops to 90° from each other. The ground plane has an inner ground plane with two or more capacitors embedded therein. |
| US12199348B2 |
Communication system with rotatable tracker
A communication system according to one embodiment comprises: a communication device including a tracking unit which rotates with respect to a first axis, a second axis, and a third axis that are orthogonal to each other and which performs radio-wave communication with a moving object moving within the field of view; and a controller for controlling the communication device so that the tracking unit rotates with respect to the first axis and the second axis in the range of a first trajectory angle of the moving body and rotates with respect to the second axis and the third axis in the range of a second trajectory angle of the moving object. |
| US12199345B2 |
Base station antennas having compact dual-polarized box dipole radiating elements therein that support high band cloaking
A box dipole radiating element uses a compact quad arrangement of substantially coplanar radiating arms to support slant-polarized radiation, in response to differential-mode currents generated along four sides thereof and in response to common-mode currents, which may be generated in substantially the same plane as the differential-mode currents. A feed signal routing network is provided, which includes a feed signal routing substrate on portions of the radiating arms, first through fourth signal traces on a forward face of the substrate, and first through fourth ground plane segments on a rear face of the substrate. These first through fourth ground plane segments are capacitively coupled to the radiating arms. Each of the signal traces receives a corresponding feed signal, and spans a corresponding air gap between a pair of the radiating arms. |
| US12199343B2 |
All-metal vivaldi antenna having band notch and operation frequency tunable characteristics and array antenna including the same
An all-metal vivaldi antenna includes a ground plate, an antenna conductor that includes two radiators positioned on the ground plate and facing each other, a resonator that is formed by removing a portion of a connection part between the antenna conductor and the ground plate and shares one side with the ground plate, a tuning post that is formed in a column structure extending from the ground plate toward an inside of the resonator, and a tuning cap in a form extending therefrom. |
| US12199341B2 |
Antenna device
An antenna device includes a differential antenna and a first balun. The differential antenna includes a first radiator, a first antenna port and a second antenna port connected to a first surface of the first radiator. Orthographic projections of the first antenna port and the second antenna port projected to the first radiator are symmetrical to a midpoint of the first radiator. The first balun is located on one side of the first surface of the first radiator, and its orthographic projection on the first plane where the first surface is located overlaps the first surface. The first balun includes a first port, a first wiring, a first coupling structure electrically connected to the first antenna port, and a second coupling structure electrically connected to the second antenna port. Neither the first coupling structure nor the second coupling structure directly contacts the first wiring. |
| US12199340B2 |
Terminal device
The disclosure relates to a terminal device. The terminal device includes a rear cover, a display screen, a first radiator and a second radiator, where the first radiator is arranged in the terminal device and faces the rear cover to radiate a first signal outwards through the rear cover, the second radiator is arranged in the terminal device and faces the display screen to radiate a second signal outwards through the display screen. |
| US12199339B2 |
Antenna for motor vehicles
An antenna for a motor vehicle, comprising: a mounting base made of electrically conductive material and suitable for being connected to a mounting surface of the motor vehicle; a cover suitable for being connected to and delimit, together with the mounting base, a housing space; a plurality of radiating elements suitable for transceiving signals and being housed, at least partially, in the housing space. The plurality of radiating elements comprises a group of waveguides configured to transceive millimeter-wave signals. |
| US12199338B2 |
Continuously steering phased array and headlight radars
Examples disclosed herein relate to a radar system for use in millimeter wave applications. The radar system includes a lighting device, such as a light bulb or an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs). The radar system further includes an array of transmit elements to transmit at least one transmit signal, where at least one transmit signal reflects off of at least one object to generate at least one receive signal. The array of transmit elements is configured around at least a first portion of a perimeter of the lighting device. Also, the radar system includes an array of receive elements to receive at least one receive signal, where the array of receive elements is configured around at least a second portion of the perimeter of the lighting device. |
| US12199327B2 |
Power divider and base station antenna
A power divider includes: a dielectric substrate; a transmission line circuit on a first surface of the dielectric substrate, the transmission line circuit including an input trace, a first output trace and a second output trace. The transmission line circuit is configured to split a signal received at the input trace into a first sub-component that is output on the first output trace and a second sub-component that is output on the second output trace; and a reference potential layer, set on a second surface opposite the first surface of the dielectric substrate, where the reference potential layer is provided with a decoupling window that exposes a part of the dielectric substrate to reduce coupling in the transmission line circuit. |
| US12199324B2 |
Composite electrolyte membrane, electrolyte membrane having catalyst layer attached thereto, membrane-electrode composite, solid polymer-type fuel cell, and method for producing composite electrolyte membrane
A composite electrolyte membrane having a composite layer that is a composite of a hydrocarbon polymer electrolyte and a fluorine-containing polymer porous substrate, wherein a fractal dimension D exhibiting the distribution of the hydrocarbon polymer electrolyte and the fluorine-containing polymer porous substrate in the composite layer is 1.7 or more. An object of the present invention is to enable a composite electrolyte membrane composed of a hydrocarbon polymer electrolyte and a fluorine-containing polymer porous substrate to achieve high proton conduction ability and high mechanical durability. |
| US12199319B2 |
Compositions for bipolar plates and methods for preparing same
The invention relates to a method for producing a composition comprising the steps of: melt-blending a fluorinated polymer, preferably a polyvinylidene fluoride polymer, with a first conductive filler so as to obtain a conductive fluorinated polymer; grinding to powder said conductive fluorinated polymer; mixing the powder of conductive fluorinated polymer with a second conductive filler. The invention also relates to a composition comprising a second conductive filler and particles of conductive fluorinated polymer, wherein the particles of conductive fluorinated polymer comprise a fluorinated polymer matrix in which a first conductive filler is dispersed The invention also relates to a method for producing a bipolar plate and to a bipolar plate. |
| US12199318B2 |
Orderly differentiated recycling and processing apparatus for waste batteries
Disclosed is an orderly differentiated recycling and processing apparatus for waste batteries, including an apparatus housing, where several crushing cavities are arranged inside the apparatus housing along a length direction, crushing modules are provided inside each of the crushing cavities, servo cavities are provided inside the apparatus housing at both sides of the crushing cavities, several cutting modules are symmetrically arranged inside the servo cavities facing the crushing cavities, and a screen assembly is provided inside the apparatus housing below the crushing module. |
| US12199312B2 |
Battery and manufacturing method for battery
A method for manufacturing a battery, includes: preparing a case having an opening at one end portion of the case and a bottom portion at another end portion of the case; preparing an electrode group including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a current collecting lead electrically connected to the first electrode; housing the electrode group in the case; and joining the current collecting lead to an inner surface of the case. The joining of the current collecting lead includes: pressing a pressing device having a tubular shape against the current collecting lead to cause the current collecting lead to contact the inner surface of the case; and welding the current collecting lead to the case while an inside of a tube of the pressing device is sucked by a suction device. |
| US12199308B2 |
Bus bar plate
Each plate unit is disposed corresponding to one battery or to an assembly of several batteries and has terminal openings, through which output terminals provided on corresponding battery are exposed, and coupling mechanism that couples adjacent plate units to each other. Coupling mechanism is made up of male part disposed on one of two adjacent plate units, and female part that is disposed on the other and to which male part is fitted. Male part and female part are fitted to each other across a gap that allows a predetermined amount of displacement of two coupled plate units in stacking direction of batteries. |
| US12199306B2 |
Separator for electrochemical device and electrochemical device comprising same
A method for manufacturing a separator for an electrochemical device which uses polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) as a dispersing agent, and provides high dispersibility of particles and prevents aggregation of particles, even when inorganic particles having a small particle diameter is used in slurry for forming a porous coating layer. Therefore, the inorganic particles are distributed homogeneously in the porous coating layer of a finished separator. In addition, since PVP is used with a fluorinated binder resin, the separator shows improved peel strength and adhesion to an electrode. Further, a non-solvent ingredient for the fluorinated binder resin is used as a solvent for PVP, and a non-solvent ingredient for PVP is used as a solvent for the fluorinated binder resin. |
| US12199303B2 |
Control system and charge and discharge control system
Embodiments of this application relate to the field of power source control technologies, and disclose a control system and a charging and discharging control system. The control system includes a control circuit and an intermediate computer, where the control circuit includes a pressure sensor, a piezoelectric valve, and a controller; the pressure sensor is configured to collect pressure information; the controller is configured to receive the pressure information collected by the pressure sensor and transmit the pressure information to an intermediate computer; the intermediate computer is configured to transmit the pressure information to an upper computer, receive a preset pressure value generated by the upper computer based on the pressure information, and transmit the preset pressure value to the controller; and the controller is further configured to control the piezoelectric valve based on the preset pressure value. |
| US12199302B2 |
Pressure relief valve for battery pack
A pressure relief valve for a battery pack is attached to a port formed in a pack case of a battery pack. The pressure relief valve has a casing including a discharge hole and a valve mechanism configured to open and close the discharge hole. The discharge hole is connected to the port when the pressure relief valve is attached to the port. The pressure relief valve includes a cover attached to the casing. A passage is formed between the cover and the casing to release gas that is discharged from the discharge hole. The valve mechanism includes a valve member configured to close the discharge hole and a biasing portion that biases the valve member to a closed position where the valve member closes the discharge hole. |
| US12199300B2 |
Battery module, module combination, battery pack, and electric apparatus
This application provides a battery module, a module combination, a battery pack, and an electric apparatus, where the battery module includes a battery module body and a frame for fastening the battery module body. The frame includes a first side plate, a second side plate, a first end plate, and a second end plate, where the first side plate and the second side plate are disposed opposite each other and located on two sides of the battery module body respectively, and the side plates both extend from the battery module body. The first end plate and the second end plate are disposed opposite each other and located at two ends of the battery module body respectively, and an end portion of the end plate has an overlapping platform and a splicing portion protruding from the overlapping platform. |
| US12199297B2 |
Battery module and vehicle
A battery module and a vehicle. The battery module includes: a unit battery; an end plate located at an end of the battery module along a length direction; and an output pole base including a mounting part and a matching part which are fixedly connected, where the matching part is made of metal material and is fixedly connected to the end plate to limit the freedom degree of movement of the output pole base relative to the end plate along the height direction, the width direction and the length direction. The plastic structure of the output pole base is added a matching part made of metal material therein and is fixedly connected to the end plate by the matching part. |
| US12199292B2 |
Battery with improved heat dissipation
A battery includes an electrode group, and a rectangular exterior casing that houses the electrode group and includes a tubular side wall, a bottom connected to a lower end of the side wall in a Z direction, and an opening provided at an upper end. An inner surface of the bottom of the exterior casing has a slope inclined with respect to a plane orthogonal to the Z direction. The electrode group is in thermal contact with the slope. The bottom may have a protrusion protruding inward in the Z direction of the exterior casing, and the slope may be formed on the protrusion. |
| US12199288B2 |
Anode including multiple current collectors juxtaposed in parallel, and secondary battery comprising same
The present invention relates to an anode including multiple current collectors juxtaposed in parallel, and a secondary battery comprising same, wherein the anode enables providing a high-capacity secondary battery while suppressing volume changes due to a silicone component-containing active material employed therein. |
| US12199283B2 |
Method for directly preparing nickel sulfate from low nickel matte, nickel sulfate and application thereof
The present invention provides a method for directly preparing nickel sulfate from low nickel matte, a nickel sulfate and an application thereof, the method comprising the following steps: a) pre-treating a low nickel matte to obtain ferronickel powder; b) mixing the ferronickel powder with a sulfuric acid solution, stirring, dissolving, and then evaporating, to obtain a supersaturated sulfate solution; c) cooling the supersaturated sulfate solution to −5° C.-0° C., and performing suction filtration to obtain an insoluble solid; d) washing the insoluble solid with water, and removing impurities from the filtrate to obtain a nickel hydroxide precipitate; impurity removal comprising successively removing iron, and removing calcium and magnesium; e) washing the nickel hydroxide precipitate with water, acid-dissolving and evaporating to obtain nickel sulfate. The present invention increases the amount of nickel recovered, the purity of nickel sulfate being 18.10%-19.24% nickel, and the recovery rate being 94.8%-97.1%. |
| US12199280B2 |
Non-aqueous secondary battery and non-aqueous electrolyte
Provided is a non-aqueous secondary battery that includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes LiNixCoyMnzO2 (0.7 |
| US12199278B2 |
Compounds for the application of thick coating layer in Li metal battery and solid electrolyte in all-solid-state lithium batteries
Lithium antimony sulfide compounds having crystal structure of a space group selected from P4/mmm, P21, P212121, Pmma, P2/c and Pnma and having a lithium ion conductivity of at least 10−5 S/cm are described. The materials are useful as coatings of lithium metal anodes to prevent dendrite formation and to provide solid-state lithium batteries having high energy density. |
| US12199277B2 |
Negative electrode active material, negative electrode, and battery
Provided is a negative electrode active material which is excellent in capacity, capacity retention ratio, and a coulombic efficiency when charging/discharging is repeated. The chemical composition of the alloy particles of the negative electrode active material of the present disclosure includes 0.50 to 3.00 mass % of oxygen, and alloy elements containing Sn: 13.0 to 40.0 at % and Si: 6.0 to 40.0 at %, with the balance being Cu and impurities. The structure of the alloy particles includes: one or more types selected from the group consisting of a phase having a D03 structure, and a δ phase; one or more types selected from the group consisting of an ε phase and an η′ phase; and a SiOx phase (x=0.50 to 1.70). The SiOx phase (x=0.50 to 1.70) has a volume fraction of 5.0 to 60.0% and the η′ phase has a volume fraction of 0 to 60.0%. |
| US12199274B2 |
Secondary battery and power consumption apparatus including the same preliminary class
The present disclosure provides a secondary battery including a negative electrode sheet. The negative electrode sheet includes: a negative electrode current collector; a first negative film layer provided on at least one surface of the negative electrode current collector; and a second negative film layer provided on a surface of the first negative film layer. The first negative film layer includes a first negative active material and a first conductive agent, and the first negative active material includes a silicon-based material. A mass proportion of the silicon-based material in the first negative film layer is greater than or equal to 30%, and a mass proportion of the first conductive agent in the first negative film layer is greater than or equal to 25%. The secondary battery of the present disclosure does not easily expand and has good cycle performance. |
| US12199271B2 |
Porous silicon-containing composite, carbon composite using the same, and electrode, lithium battery and electronic device each including the same
A porous silicon-containing composite includes: a porous core including a porous silicon composite secondary particle; and a shell on at least one surface of the porous core, the shell including a first graphene, wherein the porous silicon composite secondary particle includes an aggregate of a first primary particle including silicon, a second primary particle including a structure and second graphene on at least one surface of the first primary particle and the second primary particle, and wherein at least one of a shape and a degree of oxidation of the first primary particle and the second primary particle are different. Also an electrode including the porous silicon-containing composite, a lithium battery including the electrode, and a device including the porous silicon-containing composite or the carbon composite. |
| US12199268B2 |
Non-aqueous lithium power storage element
A non-aqueous lithium power storage element that includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, the positive electrode having a positive electrode collector and a positive electrode active material layer that includes active carbon, and the non-aqueous lithium power storage element having configuration (1) and/or (2). (1) The negative electrode includes a negative electrode collector and a negative electrode active material layer (2) The non-aqueous electrolyte contains (A) LiPF6 and/or LiBF4, (B) an imide lithium salt, and (C) an oxalate-complex lithium salt, the ratio of the mass of component (C) to the total mass of components (A) and (B) being 1.0-10.0 mass %. |
| US12199264B2 |
Method of manufacturing formed body for electrode
The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a formed body for an electrode including: a step of preparing an electrode material containing an electrode active material; a step of forming at least two projecting portions containing the electrode material and placed side by side on a support in a width direction of the support by supplying the electrode material onto the support; and a step of leveling the projecting portions on the support. |
| US12199263B2 |
Method of manufacturing formed body for electrode
A method of manufacturing a formed body for an electrode includes a first step of dropping an electrode material containing an electrode active material into a gap between a pair of transport belts and introducing the electrode material between transport surfaces of the pair of transport belts; a second step of belt-transporting and pressurizing the introduced electrode material with the pair of transport belts; and a third step of transferring the electrode material after the belt transporting and the pressurization, on a deposition belt, in which a transport direction in a transport, passage through which the electrode material is transported, of the deposition belt intersects a transport direction in a transport passage, through which the electrode material is transported, of the pair of transport belts. |
| US12199259B1 |
Housing as added outer layers with medium circulation
An enclosure system, device and methodology includes one or a plurality of containers, jointed by construction means for hermetically or not hermetically jointing single or plural numbers of said container, to form at least an enclosure with at least a layer of space on one face between applied numbers of said container, with or without a part or a layer that is expendable to increase the contained space inside the enclosure when filled. Said enclosure system, device and methodology is equipped with one or a plurality of medium-circulation-generation means for circulating a medium inside any of applied said container and/or any said space, with the emphasis of medium-circulation-facilitation means for strategically facilitating medium circulations inside any of applied said container and/or any said space. |
| US12199254B2 |
Systems and methods for mitigating thermal propagation in battery-based energy storage systems
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems to manage thermal runaway issues in energy storage systems. Exemplary embodiments include methods and systems having a compressible thermal barrier. The compressible thermal barrier is tailored in size (e.g., thickness, volume, etc.) to prevent thermal propagation between adjacent cells, modules and/or packs when a portion of an energy source has experienced a thermal event. The methods and systems mitigate thermal propagation such that a cell adjacent to a compromised cell (e.g., actively combusting cell) does not experience thermal runaway as it is shielded from dissipating heat and does not surpass a critical temperature. The present disclosure further relates to a battery module or pack with one or more battery cells and the compressible thermal barrier placed between adjacent cells. |
| US12199253B2 |
Laminated thermal barrier for anisotropic heat transfer
A heat transfer system includes first and second battery cells, a heat sink, and a plurality of sheets of a thermally conductive material arranged in a stack. The first and second battery cells are arranged adjacent to each other. The heat sink is arranged adjacent to the first and second battery cells. A first portion of the stack is disposed between the first and second battery cells. A second portion of the stack is disposed adjacent to and in thermal communication with the heat sink. The first portion of the stack conducts heat from the first battery cell while limiting heat conducted to the second battery cell. The second portion of the stack transfers the heat to the heat sink. |
| US12199250B2 |
Battery module
The present application provides a battery module, which includes a plurality of batteries, an electrical connecting piece, a circuit board and a sampling connecting member. The plurality of batteries are arranged in a longitudinal direction; the electrical connecting piece is electrically connected to the corresponding battery; the circuit board is located above the corresponding battery in a height direction; the sampling connecting member is connected to the electrical connecting piece and the circuit board; the sampling connecting member includes a fixing portion and a contact portion, the fixing portion being fixed on the circuit board, the contact portion being connected to the fixing portion, and the contact portion pressing against the electrical connecting piece and keeping in contact with the electrical connecting piece. |
| US12199249B2 |
Secondary battery including cap surrounding end of electrode assembly and having hole for tab bundle
A secondary battery includes a unit cell including an electrode assembly provided with a tab bundle and having a round portion, and a cap member in the vicinity of the round portion of the electrode assembly. The cap member includes a pair of first surfaces which are parallel to an upper surface and a lower surface of the electrode assembly, a pair of second surfaces which are parallel to both side surfaces of the electrode assembly, one third surface which connects the pair of first surfaces and the pair of second surfaces, and a contact member provided in an internal space formed by the pair of first surfaces, the pair of second surfaces, and the one third surface and in contact with the round portion of the electrode assembly. The third surface is provided with a through hole through which the tab bundle passes. |
| US12199244B2 |
Lithium-ion battery, battery module, battery pack and powered device
The present application discloses a lithium-ion battery, which has a positive electrode sheet, a negative electrode sheet, a separator, and an electrolyte solution comprising a lithium salt and a solvent, wherein based on the total weight of the electrolyte solution, the percentage by mass of the lithium salt in the electrolyte solution is a %, and the lithium ion battery satisfies 5≤a≤10; and the load on single side of the negative electrode sheet is W grams per 1540.25 mm2, and a and W satisfy 25≤a/W≤50; and the solvent comprises dimethyl carbonate. The lithium ion battery has good safety and high-temperature cycling performance, and also has good kinetic performance. |
| US12199241B2 |
Electrolyte solution for nonaqueous electrolyte batteries, and nonaqueous electrolyte battery using same
An electrolyte solution for a nonaqueous electrolyte battery according to the present invention includes the following components: (I) a nonaqueous organic solvent; (II) an ionic salt as a solute; (III) at least one additive compound represented by the general formula (1); and (IV) at least one additive compound represented by the general formula (2), wherein the concentration of the component (IV) is 0.05 to 25.0 mass % with respect to 100 mass % of the component (III) where R1 are each independently a substituent group having at least one kind selected from unsaturated bond and aromatic ring. |
| US12199239B2 |
Sulfonimide salts for battery applications
A class of sulfonimide salts for solid-state electrolytes can be synthesized based on successive SNAr reactions of fluorinated phenyl sulfonimides: Fluorinated Aryl Sulfonimide Tags (FAST). The chemical and electrochemical oxidative stability of these FAST salts as well as other properties like solubility, Lewis basicity, and conductivity can be tuned by introducing different numbers and types of nucleophilic functional groups to the FAST salt scaffold. |
| US12199235B2 |
Lithium ion secondary battery
A lithium ion secondary battery is provided. The lithium ion secondary battery includes an electrolytic tank having an accommodating space, a positive electrode disposed in the accommodating space, a negative electrode disposed in the accommodating space and spaced apart from the positive electrode, and an isolation film disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. In the X-ray diffraction spectrum of a first surface of the electrolytic copper foil, a ratio of the diffraction peak intensity I(200) of the (200) crystal face of the first surface relative to the diffraction peak intensity I(111) of the (111) crystal face of the first surface is between 0.5 and 2.0. A ratio of the diffraction peak intensity I(200) of the (200) crystal face of a second surface relative to the diffraction peak intensity I(111) of the (111) crystal face of the second surface is between 0.5 and 2.0. |
| US12199229B2 |
Pixel, display device having same and production method therefor
A pixel may include first and second areas sectioned from each other in a first direction; 1-1-th to 4-1-th electrodes successively arranged in the first area in a second direction intersecting the first direction; 1-2-th to 4-2-th electrodes successively arranged in the second area in the second direction; light emitting elements disposed between two adjacent electrodes of the 1-1-th to 4-1-th electrodes of the first area; light emitting elements disposed between two adjacent electrodes of the 1-2-th to 4-2-th electrodes of the second area; a first conductive pattern disposed in the first area, and electrically connecting the 2-1-th and 3-1-th electrodes; a second conductive pattern disposed over the first and second areas, and electrically connecting the 4-1-th electrode of the first area with the 1-2-th electrode of the second area; and a third conductive pattern disposed in the second area and electrically connecting the 2-2-th and 3-2-th electrodes. |
| US12199228B2 |
Display panel, manufacturing method thereof, and bonding structure
A display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a bonding structure are provided. The display panel includes a first body electrode and a second body electrode disposed on a same layer on a substrate and disposed oppositely. A first conductive electrode is disposed on the first body electrode. A light-emitting device includes a first lead and a second lead disposed opposite to each other. The first lead is disposed to contact the first body electrode and the first conductive electrode. The second lead contacts the second body electrode. |
| US12199223B2 |
μ-LED, μ-LED device, display and method for the same
The invention relates to various aspects of a μ-LED or a μ-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The μ-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few μm. |
| US12199219B2 |
μ-LED, μ-LED device, display and method for the same
The invention relates to various aspects of a μ-LED or a μ-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The μ-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few μm. |
| US12199218B2 |
Optoelectronic semiconductor component and method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor component
In an embodiment an optoelectronic semiconductor component includes an optoelectronic semiconductor chip having a radiation exit surface and side surfaces running transversely with respect to the radiation exit surface, the optoelectronic semiconductor chip configured to emit primary radiation through the radiation exit surface, a conversion element arranged on the radiation exit surface, the conversion element configured to convert at least part of the primary radiation into secondary radiation and including a stack of at least two conversion layers and a reflective element laterally surrounding the optoelectronic semiconductor chip, wherein a lateral extent of the conversion layers decreases from a layer which is closest to the radiation exit surface to a layer which is most distant from the radiation exit surface, wherein the conversion element includes a part laterally extending beyond the radiation exit surface and being concavely curved, wherein the conversion element is partly arranged on the reflective element, and wherein the conversion element is arranged on a concavely curved surface of the reflective element. |
| US12199214B2 |
Light emitting diode with high efficiency
A light emitting diode including a substrate having a first area and a second area defined by an isolation groove line, a semiconductor stack disposed on the substrate and including a lower semiconductor layer, an upper semiconductor layer, an active layer, a first electrode pad electrically connected to the lower semiconductor layer, a second electrode pad electrically connected to the upper semiconductor layer, and a connecting portion electrically connecting the semiconductor stack disposed in the first and second areas to each other, and including a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion extending from a second distal end of the first portion, in which the isolation groove line is disposed between the first and second electrode pads and exposes the substrate, the first portion extends along a first direction substantially parallel to an extending direction of the isolation groove line, and the second and third portions extend in a second direction crossing the first direction. |
| US12199213B2 |
Image display device
An image display device includes a drive circuit substrate, micro LED elements, and a wavelength conversion layer that converts excitation light emitted from the micro LED elements and that emits converted long-wavelength light to a side opposite to the drive circuit substrate, the micro LED elements and the wavelength conversion layer being sequentially stacked on the drive circuit substrate. The micro LED elements include a first multilayer film that reflects the long-wavelength light converted by the wavelength conversion layer. |
| US12199211B2 |
Process for fabricating a detecting device the getter of which is better protected
A process for fabricating a detecting device includes producing a getter pad based on amorphous carbon resting on a mineral sacrificial layer that covers a thermal detector and producing a thin encapsulating layer that rests on the mineral sacrificial layer and that covers an upper face and sidewalls of the getter pad. The mineral sacrificial layer is removed via a first chemical etch, and a protective segment of the getter pad is removed via a second chemical etch. |
| US12199209B2 |
Optical sensor and detector for an optical detection
Described herein is an optical sensor, a detector including the optical sensor for an optical detection of at least one object, a method for manufacturing the optical sensor and various uses of the optical detector.The optical sensor can be supplied as a non-bulky hermetic package which provides an increased degree of protection against possible degradation by humidity and/or oxygen over long terms. Further, the optical sensor may be easily manufactured and integrated on a circuit carrier device. |
| US12199208B1 |
Method for welding cell strings and series welding machine
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for welding cell strings and a series welding machine. The method includes: forming an arrangement of a plurality of solar cells; inspecting the arrangement of the plurality of solar cells; providing a plurality of initial welding strips including first initial welding strips and second initial welding strips, the first initial welding strips interleave with the second initial welding strips in a first direction; cutting each of the first initial welding strips at first cutting positions, and cutting each of the second initial welding strips at second cutting positions, to obtain a plurality of welding strips; moving each welding strip in a second direction to form a set of welding strips; transferring the set of welding strips onto the arrangement of the plurality of solar cells; and welding the plurality of welding strips to corresponding solar cells to form a cell string. |
| US12199205B2 |
Power distribution and cell storage apparatus
An apparatus and method for the localized capture, storage and specialized use of power generated from natural sources, such as solar power or hydropower. The apparatus can be used, for example, on a deck or a side of a marine vessel, or on a land-based structure, where there is a requirement for power generation and storage. |
| US12199192B1 |
Trench Schottky barrier rectifier and method for fabricating same
A semiconductor rectifier device includes: an epitaxial layer, having a top surface and a bottom surface; a first doped region having a first conductivity type, located in the epitaxial layer; a first trench structure, located in the first doped region; a second trench structure adjacent to the first trench structure, located in the first doped region; a second doped region having a second conductivity type, located in the epitaxial layer between the first trench structure and the second trench structure, wherein a depth of the second doped region is less than a depth of the first trench structure; and a metal layer, located on the top surface of the epitaxial layer, covering the first trench structure, the second trench structure, and the second doped region, wherein the metal layer is in contact with the top surface, forming a Schottky interface. |
| US12199190B2 |
Silicon channel tempering
A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a fin structure over a substrate, a vertical stack of silicon nanostructures disposed over the fin structure, an isolation structure disposed around the fin structure, a germanium-containing interfacial layer wrapping around each of the vertical stack of silicon nanostructures, a gate dielectric layer wrapping around the germanium-containing interfacial layer, and a gate electrode layer wrapping around the gate dielectric layer. |
| US12199188B2 |
Thin film transistor including a compositionally-modulated active region and methods for forming the same
A stack including an active layer, a gate dielectric, and a gate electrode is formed in a forward or in a reverse order, over a substrate. The active layer includes a front channel layer, a bulk semiconductor layer, and a back channel layer. The front channel layer is formed by depositing a layer stack that include at least one post-transition metal oxide layer, a zinc oxide layer, and at least one acceptor-type oxide layer. The zinc oxide layer or at least one post transition metal oxide layer contacts the gate dielectric, and the at least one acceptor-type oxide layer is most distal from the gate dielectric. The front channel layer provides enhanced channel conductivity, while the back channel layer provides suppressed channel conductivity. |
| US12199186B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device
A semiconductor device with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. A semiconductor device with stable electrical characteristics is provided.The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer, and a first conductive layer. The first insulating layer is provided over the semiconductor layer. The first conductive layer is provided over the first insulating layer. The semiconductor layer includes a first region that overlaps with the first conductive layer and the first insulating layer, a second region that does not overlap with the first conductive layer and overlaps with the first insulating layer, and a third region that overlaps with neither the first conductive layer nor the first insulating layer. The semiconductor layer contains a metal oxide. The second region and the third region contain a first element. The first element is one or more elements selected from boron, phosphorus, aluminum, and magnesium. The first element exists in a state of being bonded to oxygen. |
| US12199184B2 |
Semiconductor devices having a multi-oxide semiconductor channel layer and methods of manufacturing the semiconductor devices
A semiconductor device include a substrate having a gate area and a contact area, a buried insulating layer formed over the substrate, a fin-type insulating pattern formed over the buried insulating layer and extending in a first horizontal direction, a lower metal layer covering an upper surface and side surfaces of the fin-type insulating pattern in the contact pattern, a channel layer covering an upper surface and side surfaces of the lower metal layer in the contact area and covering the upper surface and the side surfaces of the fin-type insulating pattern in the gate area, a gate pattern disposed over the channel layer in the gate area and extending in a second direction, and a source/drain contact pattern disposed over the channel layer in the contact area. The lower metal layer includes a Ti-based metal. The channel layer includes an oxide semiconductor material. |
| US12199180B2 |
Semiconductor device including a superlattice and an asymmetric channel and related methods
A semiconductor device may include a substrate and spaced apart first and second doped regions in the substrate. The first doped region may be larger than the second doped region to define an asymmetric channel therebetween. The semiconductor device may further include a superlattice extending between the first and second doped regions to constrain dopant therein. The superlattice may include a plurality of stacked groups of layers, with each group of layers comprising a plurality of stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base semiconductor portion, and at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base semiconductor portions. A gate may overly the asymmetric channel. |
| US12199177B1 |
High-electron-mobility transistors with inactive gate blocks
Structures for a high-electron-mobility transistor and methods of forming such structures. The structure comprises a device structure including a gate and an ohmic contact, and one or more inactive blocks laterally positioned between the gate and the ohmic contact. |
| US12199169B2 |
Structure and formation method of semiconductor device structure with nanowires
Structures and formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a plurality of nanostructures over a substrate, and a gate electrode surrounding the nanostructures. The semiconductor device structure includes a source/drain portion adjacent to the gate electrode, and a semiconductor layer between the gate electrode and the source/drain portion. |
| US12199165B2 |
Semiconductor device and electronic apparatus including the semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a first source/drain structure including a first semiconductor region and a first electrode in electrical contact with the first semiconductor region; a second source/drain structure including a second semiconductor region and a second electrode in electrical contact with the second semiconductor region; a channel between the first semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region; and a gate structure including a gate insulating film covering the channel and a gate electrode covering the gate insulating film. The first source/drain structure further includes a silicide film between the first semiconductor region and the first electrode and a conductive barrier between the silicide film and the first electrode. The conductive barrier includes a conductive two-dimensional material. |
| US12199161B2 |
Contact over active gate structures with tapered gate or trench contact for advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication
Contact over active gate (COAG) structures with a tapered gate or trench contact are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a plurality of gate structures above a substrate, wherein individual ones of the plurality gate of structures have thereon a conductive cap between sidewall spacers. A plurality of conductive trench contact structures is alternating with the plurality of gate structures, wherein individual ones of the plurality of conductive trench contact structures have thereon a conductive cap between sidewall spacers. A conductive structure is in direct contact with the conductive cap and sidewall spacers on one of the plurality of gate structures or with the conductive cap and sidewall spacers on one of the plurality of conductive trench contact structures. |
| US12199156B2 |
Contact formation with reduced dopant loss and increased dimensions
A method includes forming a source/drain region, forming a dielectric layer over the source/drain region, and etching the dielectric layer to form a contact opening. The source/drain region is exposed to the contact opening. The method further includes depositing a dielectric spacer layer extending into the contact opening, etching the dielectric spacer layer to form a contact spacer in the contact opening, implanting a dopant into the source/drain region through the contact opening after the dielectric spacer layer is deposited, and forming a contact plug to fill the contact opening. |
| US12199145B2 |
Epitaxial structure and transistor including the same
An epitaxial structure includes a composite base unit and an emitter unit. The composite base unit includes a first base layer and a second base layer formed on the first base layer. The first base layer is made of a material of InxGa(1-x)As(1-y)Ny, in which 0 |
| US12199143B2 |
Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having removed substrate
Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having a removed substrate, and methods of fabricating gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having a removed substrate, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires. A gate stack surrounds a channel region of the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires. A pair of non-discrete epitaxial source or drain structures is at first and second ends of the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires. A pair of dielectric spacers is between the pair of non-discrete epitaxial source or drain structures and the gate stack. The pair of dielectric spacers and the gate stack have co-planar top surfaces. The pair of dielectric spacers, the gate stack and the pair of non-discrete epitaxial source or drain structures have co-planar bottom surfaces. |
| US12199140B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device includes a lower electrode; a supporter supporting an outer wall of the lower electrode; a dielectric layer formed on the lower electrode and the supporter; an upper electrode on the dielectric layer; a first interfacial layer disposed between the lower electrode and the dielectric layer and selectively formed on a surface of the lower electrode among the lower electrode and the supporter; and a second interfacial layer disposed between the dielectric layer and the upper electrode, wherein the first interfacial layer is a stack of a metal oxide contacting the lower electrode and a metal nitride contacting the dielectric layer. |
| US12199139B2 |
Trench capacitor film scheme to reduce substrate warpage
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards an integrated chip (IC). The IC comprises a trench capacitor overlying a substrate. The trench capacitor comprises a plurality of capacitor electrode structures, a plurality of warping reduction structures, and a plurality of capacitor dielectric structures. The plurality of capacitor electrode structures, the plurality of warping reduction structures, and the plurality of capacitor dielectric structures are alternatingly stacked and define a trench segment that extends vertically into the substrate. The plurality of capacitor electrode structures comprise a metal component and a nitrogen component. The plurality of warping reduction structures comprise the metal component, the nitrogen component, and an oxygen component. |
| US12199138B2 |
Semiconductor device including capacitor structure and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device of the disclosure may include a substrate, a gate structure on the substrate, a capacitor contact structure connected to the substrate, a lower electrode connected to the capacitor contact structure, a supporter supporting a sidewall of the lower electrode, an interfacial layer covering the lower electrode and including a halogen material, a capacitor insulating layer covering the interfacial layer and the supporter, and an upper electrode covering the capacitor insulating layer. The interfacial layer may include a first surface contacting the lower electrode, and a second surface contacting the capacitor insulating layer. The halogen material of the interfacial layer may be closer to the first surface than to the second surface. |
| US12199137B2 |
Integrated circuit devices and methods of manufacturing the same
An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a lower electrode including a first metal, a dielectric film on the lower electrode, and a conductive interface layer between the lower electrode and the dielectric film. The conductive interface layer includes a metal oxide film including at least one metal element. An upper electrode including a second metal is opposite the lower electrode, with the conductive interface layer and the dielectric film therebetween. To manufacture an IC device, an electrode including a metal is formed adjacent to an insulating pattern on a substrate. A conductive interface layer including a metal oxide film including at least one metal element is selectively formed on a surface of the electrode. A dielectric film is formed to be in contact with the conductive interface layer and the insulating pattern. |
| US12199131B2 |
Back-side illuminated image sensor
Image sensors and methods of manufacturing image sensors are provided. One such method includes forming a structure that includes a semiconductor layer extending from a front side to a back side, and a capacitive insulation wall extending through the semiconductor layer. The capacitive insulation wall includes first and second insulating walls separated by a region of a conductor or a semiconductor material. Portions of the semiconductor layer and the region of the conductor or semiconductor material are selectively etched, and the first and second insulating walls have portions protruding outwardly beyond a back side of the semiconductor layer and of the region of the conductor or semiconductor material. A dielectric passivation layer is deposited on the back side of the structure, and portions of the dielectric passivation layer are locally removed on a back side of the protruding portions of the first and second insulating walls. |
| US12199127B2 |
Image sensor
An image sensor includes a first substrate. A photoelectric conversion region is in the first substrate. A first interlayer insulating layer is on the first substrate. A transistor includes a bonding insulating layer on the first interlayer insulating layer, a semiconductor layer on the bonding insulating layer, and a first gate on the semiconductor layer. A bias pad is spaced apart from the semiconductor layer by the bonding insulating layer. The bias pad overlaps the first gate in a planar view. A second interlayer insulating layer covers the transistor. |
| US12199125B2 |
Pixel structure to improve BSI global shutter efficiency
There is provided a structure to improve BSI global shutter efficiency. In a sensor pixel circuit, at least one strong electric field is formed at the position of a floating diffusion region to accordingly have the effect of shielding the floating diffusion region. Or, the semiconductor material from the floating diffusion node toward a light incident direction is removed in the manufacturing process such that a depletion region cannot be formed in this direction. Or, a reflection layer or a photoresist layer is formed in the light incident direction to block the light. In these ways, charges generated by the undesired noises are reduced, and noise charges are difficult to reach the floating diffusion region thereby improving the shutter efficiency. |
| US12199120B2 |
Image sensor scheme for optical and electrical improvement
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an image sensor integrated chip. The image sensor integrated chip includes a substrate having a pixel region arranged between one or more trenches formed by sidewalls of the substrate. One or more dielectric materials are arranged along the sidewalls of the substrate forming the one or more trenches. A conductive material is disposed within the one or more trenches. The conductive material is electrically coupled to an interconnect disposed within a dielectric arranged on the substrate. |
| US12199116B2 |
Diode array, arrangement, and system
A diode array with at least two image elements. The diode array includes a distribution transistor as well as a feed line for receiving a reference current and a first supply terminal coupled to the distribution transistor for supplying the distribution transistor. A diode and an input transistor are provided for each image element, each of which is coupled to the diode for supplying the diode. The distribution transistor forms a distribution current mirror with the respective input transistor of at least two image elements. |
| US12199114B2 |
Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus
The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device and an electronic apparatus capable of improving the accuracy of phase difference detection while suppressing degradation of a picked-up image. There is provided a solid-state imaging device including: a pixel array unit, a plurality of pixels being two-dimensionally arranged in the pixel array unit, a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices being formed with respect to one on-chip lens in each of the plurality of pixels, a part of at least one of an inter-pixel separation unit formed between the plurality of pixels and an inter-pixel light blocking unit formed between the plurality of pixels protruding toward a center of the corresponding pixel in a projecting shape to form a projection portion. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a CMOS image sensor including a pixel for detecting the phase difference. |
| US12199108B2 |
Display panel and display device
The present disclosure discloses a display panel and a display device. The display panel comprises a driving chip and fan-out wires. Fan-out wires in a first fan-out wire group are electrically connected to corresponding output terminals through a second side of an adjacent driving chip; each of the fan-out wires in the first fan-out wire group comprises a first fan-out section and a second fan-out section that are connected and located on different layers. The present disclosure adopts a wire-changing jumper design to prevent signal disorder caused by inconsistent orders of the output terminals and the fan-out wires. |
| US12199104B2 |
Analog circuit and semiconductor device
An object is to obtain a semiconductor device having a high sensitivity in detecting signals and a wide dynamic range, using a thin film transistor in which an oxide semiconductor layer is used. An analog circuit is formed with the use of a thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor which has a function as a channel formation layer, has a hydrogen concentration of 5×1019 atoms/cm3 or lower, and substantially functions as an insulator in the state where no electric field is generated. Thus, a semiconductor device having a high sensitivity in detecting signals and a wide dynamic range can be obtained. |
| US12199102B2 |
Isolation structure for separating different transistor regions on the same semiconductor die
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; an epitaxial layer or layer stack on the semiconductor substrate; a plurality of transistor cells of a first type formed in a first region of the epitaxial layer or layer stack and electrically coupled in parallel to form a vertical power transistor; a plurality of transistor cells of a second type different than the first type and formed in a second region of the epitaxial layer or layer stack; and an isolation structure that laterally and vertically delimits the second region of the epitaxial layer or layer stack. Sidewalls and a bottom of the isolation structure include a dielectric material that electrically isolates the plurality of transistor cells of the second type from the plurality of transistor cells of the first type in the epitaxial layer or layer stack. Methods of producing the semiconductor device are also described. |
| US12199101B2 |
Self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architecture having gate contacts
Self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architectures having gate contacts, and methods of fabricating SAGE architectures having gate contacts, are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a gate structure over a semiconductor fin. A gate endcap isolation structure is laterally adjacent to and in contact with the gate structure. A trench contact structure is over the semiconductor fin, where the gate endcap isolation structure is laterally adjacent to and in contact with the trench contact structure. A local gate-to-contact interconnect is electrically connecting the gate structure to the trench contact structure. |
| US12199100B2 |
Multi-gate device integration with separated fin-like field effect transistor cells and gate-all-around transistor cells
Integrated circuit having an integration layout and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed herein. An exemplary integrated circuit (IC) comprises a first cell including one or more first type gate-all-around (GAA) transistors located in a first region of the integrated circuit; a second cell including one or more second type GAA transistors located in the first region of the integrated circuit, wherein the second cell is disposed adjacently to the first cell, wherein the first type GAA transistors are one of nanosheet transistors or nanowire transistors and the second type GAA transistors are the other one of nanosheet transistors or nanowire transistors; and a third cell including one or more fin-like field effect transistors (FinFETs) located in a second region of the integrated circuit, wherein the second region is disposed a distance from the first region of the integrated circuit. |
| US12199099B2 |
Semiconductor devices and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device includes a first transistor in a first region of a substrate and a second transistor in a second region of the substrate. The first transistor includes multiple first semiconductor patterns; a first gate electrode; a first gate dielectric layer; a first source/drain region; and an inner-insulating spacer. The second transistor includes multiple second semiconductor patterns; a second gate electrode; a second gate dielectric layer; and a second source/drain region. The second gate dielectric layer extends between the second gate electrode and the second source/drain region and is in contact with the second source/drain region. The first source/drain region is not in contact with the first gate dielectric layer. |
| US12199098B2 |
Fin doping and integrated circuit structures resulting therefrom
Fin doping, and integrated circuit structures resulting therefrom, are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor fin. A lower portion of the semiconductor fin includes a region having both N-type dopants and P-type dopants with a net excess of the P-type dopants of at least 2E18 atoms/cm3. A gate stack is over and conformal with an upper portion of the semiconductor fin. A first source or drain region is at a first side of the gate stack, and a second source or drain region is at a second side of the gate stack opposite the first side of the gate stack. |
| US12199095B2 |
Fin field effect transistors having vertically stacked nano-sheet
The present disclosure describes a structure including a fin field effect transistor (finFET) and a nano-sheet transistor on a substrate and a method of forming the structure. The method can include forming first and second vertical structures over a substrate, where each of the first and the second vertical structures can include a buffer region and a first channel layer formed over the buffer region. The method can further include disposing a masking layer over the first channel layer of the first and second vertical structures, removing a portion of the first vertical structure to form a first recess, forming a second channel layer in the first recess, forming a second recess in the second channel layer, and disposing an insulating layer in the second recess. |
| US12199090B2 |
Method of manufacturing nickel silicide in bipolar complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (BiCMOS)
A bipolar complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (BiCMOS) device includes a MOS transistor including CMOS nickel silicided regions in a CMOS region, and a bipolar transistor in a bipolar region. The bipolar transistor includes a nickel silicided emitter, a collector, and a base including an intrinsic base, a link base, and a nickel silicided extrinsic base. The intrinsic base is situated between the nickel silicided emitter and the collector. A dielectric spacer separates the link base from the nickel silicided emitter. The nickel silicided extrinsic base provides an electrical connection to the link base and the intrinsic base. A nickel silicided collector sinker provides an electrical connection to the collector. The CMOS nickel silicided regions, nickel silicided emitter, nickel silicided extrinsic base, and nickel silicided collector sinker can include an additive of molybdenum (Mo) and/or platinum (Pt). A low temperature rapid thermal anneal can be performed so as to prevent deactivation of dopants. |
| US12199079B2 |
Configurations, methods, and devices for improved visual performance of a light-emitting element display and/or a camera recording an image from the display
The invention relates to a light source display, comprising a plurality of light-emitting elements (LEEs), such as for example LEDs, being arranged on a horizontal and vertical grid resulting in an array or a matrix of LEEs or LEDs forming a LEE or LED board. More particularly, the invention relates to a display with a drive circuit configuration comprising at least two drive circuits, wherein at least one of the LEEs or LEDs driven by a first driver of a first drive circuit is residing physically with a second drive circuit. Herewith, improved visual performance of the display can be achieved, as well as improved interplay of the display with a camera recording an image from the display, or else the display can be enhanced for 3D application. |
| US12199076B2 |
Method for manufacturing an optoelectronic device with axial-type electroluminescent diodes
A light-emitting diode manufacturing method including the forming of three-dimensional semiconductor elements, extending along parallel axes, made of a III-V compound, each having a lower portion and a flared upper portion inscribed within a frustum of half apical angle α. The method further comprises, for each semiconductor element, the forming of an active area covering the top of the upper portion and the forming of at least one semiconductor layer of the III-V compound covering the active area by vapor deposition at a pressure lower than 10 mPa, by using a flux of the group-III element along a direction inclined by an angle θIII and a flux of the group-V element along a direction inclined by an angle θV with respect to the vertical axis, angles θIII and θV being smaller than angle α. |
| US12199072B2 |
Array substrate, method of manufacturing the same, and display device
An array substrate, a method of manufacturing the array substrate, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes: a transparent rigid base; light-emitting chips on the transparent rigid base, each light-emitting chip including a chip body and a pin coupled to the chip body, a light-exiting surface of the chip body facing towards the transparent rigid base, and the pin being on a side of the chip body facing away from the transparent rigid base; a driving wire layer on a side of the pin facing away from the transparent rigid base; and a driving chip structure on a side of the driving wire layer facing away from the transparent rigid base. The driving chip structure is coupled to pins of the plurality of light-emitting chips through the driving wire layer, and is used for provide driving signals for the light-emitting chips. |
| US12199070B2 |
3D NAND memory device devices and related electronic systems
A microelectronic device comprises a memory array region, a control logic region, and an additional control logic region. The memory array region comprises a stack structure comprising vertically alternating conductive structures and insulating structures, and vertically extending strings of memory cells within the stack structure. The control logic region underlies the stack structure and comprises control logic devices configured to effectuate a portion of control operations for the vertically extending strings of memory cells. The additional control logic region overlies the stack structure and comprises additional control logic devices configured to effectuate an additional portion of the control operations for the vertically extending strings of memory cells. Methods of forming a microelectronic device, and additional microelectronic devices and electronic systems are also described. |
| US12199069B2 |
Heterogeneous annealing method and device
A method of integrating a first substrate having a first surface with a first insulating material and a first contact structure with a second substrate having a second surface with a second insulating material and a second contact structure. The first insulating material is directly bonded to the second insulating material. A portion of the first substrate is removed to leave a remaining portion. A third substrate having a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) substantially the same as a CTE of the first substrate is bonded to the remaining portion. The bonded substrates are heated to facilitate electrical contact between the first and second contact structures. The third substrate is removed after heating to provided a bonded structure with reliable electrical contacts. |
| US12199067B2 |
Scalable embedded silicon bridge via pillars in lithographically defined vias, and methods of making same
An embedded silicon bridge system including tall interconnect via pillars is part of a system in package device. The tall via pillars may span a Z-height distance to a subsequent bond pad from a bond pad that is part of an organic substrate that houses the embedded silicon bridge. |
| US12199065B2 |
Multi-die package structures including redistribution layers
A semiconductor device and a method of making the same are provided. A first die and a second die are placed over a carrier substrate. A first molding material is formed adjacent to the first die and the second die. A first redistribution layer is formed overlying the first molding material. A through via is formed over the first redistribution layer. A package component is on the first redistribution layer next to the copper pillar. The package component includes a second redistribution layer. The package component is positioned so that it overlies both the first die and the second die in part. A second molding material is formed adjacent to the package component and the first copper pillar. A third redistribution layer is formed overlying the second molding material. The second redistribution layer is placed on a substrate and bonded to the substrate. |
| US12199058B2 |
Selective micro device transfer to receiver substrate
A method of selectively transferring micro devices from a donor substrate to contact pads on a receiver substrate. Micro devices being attached to a donor substrate with a donor force. The donor substrate and receiver substrate are aligned and brought together so that selected micro devices meet corresponding contact pads. A receiver force is generated to hold selected micro devices to the contact pads on the receiver substrate. The donor force is weakened and the substrates are moved apart leaving selected micro devices on the receiver substrate. Several methods of generating the receiver force are disclosed, including adhesive, mechanical and electrostatic techniques. |
| US12199056B2 |
Semiconductor device, semiconductor package and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor chip having a first substrate, a first insulating layer on the first substrate, and a plurality of first bonding pads on the first insulating layer, and having a flat upper surface by an upper surface of the first insulating layer and upper surfaces of the plurality of first bonding pads; and a second semiconductor chip on the upper surface of the first semiconductor chip and having a second substrate, a second insulating layer below the second substrate and in contact with the first insulating layer, and a plurality of second bonding pads on the second insulating layer and in contact with the first bonding pads, respectively, wherein the first insulating layer includes an insulating interfacial layer in contact with the second insulating layer, embedded in the first insulating layer, and spaced apart from the plurality of first bonding pads. |
| US12199053B2 |
Electronic device and semiconductor device
The wiring board has a first region overlapping a first semiconductor device and a second region not overlapping each of the first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. A first signal wiring of the wiring board has a first portion in the first region and a second portion in the second region. In a thickness direction of the wiring board, the second portion is between two ground patterns to which a reference potential is supplied, while the first portion has a portion not positioned between two ground patterns to which a reference potential is supplied. The first portion has a first wide portion having a larger width than a width of the second portion. |
| US12199049B2 |
Advanced seal ring structure and method of making the same
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate having a seal ring region and a circuit region, a dielectric interlayer over the substrate, one or more dielectric layers disposed over the dielectric interlayer, a connection structure disposed in the one or more dielectric layers in the seal ring region, and a metal plug disposed below the connection structure and disposed at least partially in the dielectric interlayer in the seal ring region. The connection structure includes a stack of metal layers and metal vias connecting the stack of metal layers. |
| US12199046B2 |
Electrical devices and methods of manufacture
A die can be applied to a front conductive layer. Openings can be formed in the conductive layer over contact points on the die. The openings can be filled with a conductive material to electrically couple the conductive layer to the contact points on the die. The front conductive layer can be etched to form a first conductive pattern. Conductive standoffs can be formed on portions of the front conductive layer. An additional front conductive layer can be laminated onto the front side. Openings can be formed in the additional front conductive layer over the standoffs. The openings can be filled with a conductive material to electrically couple the additional conductive layer to the underlying standoffs. The additional conductive layer can be etched to form a second conductive pattern. |
| US12199044B2 |
Semiconductor device and electronic system including the same
A peripheral circuit structure may include peripheral circuits and peripheral circuit lines on a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor layer including cell array and connection regions on the peripheral circuit structure, a stack including electrodes stacked on the semiconductor layer having a stepwise structure on the connection region, and a planarization insulating layer covering the stack, vertical structures on the cell array region penetrating the stack, including a data storage pattern, a dam group including insulating dams on the connection region penetrating the stack, penetration plugs penetrating the insulating dams and connected to respective peripheral circuit lines, the dam group including a first insulating dam farthest from the cell array region, the first insulating dam including first and second sidewall portions spaced apart, a difference between upper and lower thicknesses of the second sidewall portion of the first insulating dam is larger than that of the first sidewall portion. |
| US12199041B2 |
Thinned semiconductor package and related methods
Implementations of semiconductor packages may include a die having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, a first metal layer coupled to the first side of the die, a tin layer coupled to the first metal layer, the first metal layer between the die and the tin layer, a backside metal layer coupled to the second side of the die, and a mold compound coupled to the die. The mold compound may cover a plurality of sidewalls of the first metal layer and a plurality of sidewalls of the tin layer and a surface of the mold compound is coplanar with a surface of the tin layer. |
| US12199038B2 |
Semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same
A semiconductor device includes a transistor on a substrate, a first metal layer that is on the transistor and includes a lower wire electrically connected to the transistor, and a second metal layer on the first metal layer. The second metal layer includes an upper wire that is electrically connected to the lower wire and includes a via structure in a via hole and a line structure in a line trench. The via structure includes a via portion that is in the via hole and is coupled to the lower wire, and a barrier portion that vertically extends from the via portion to cover an inner surface of the line trench. The barrier portion is between the line structure and an insulating layer of the second metal layer. The barrier portion is thicker at its lower level than at its upper level. |
| US12199035B2 |
Chip-type fuse
A chip-type fuse includes a plated-shape fusible body (26). The fusible body (26) has internal electrodes (28 and 30) facing toward the center of the straight line from both ends of the straight line, respectively and has a fusible portion (32) formed between the internal electrodes (28 and 30) and integrated with them. The fusible body is housed into a casing (2). Protrusions (38 and 40) protrude from the parts of the both ends of the internal electrodes (28 and 30). The protrusions (38 and 40) are covered with plating layers (50 and 52). |
| US12199033B2 |
Extended via semiconductor structure and device
A device includes a substrate, a first conductive layer on the substrate, a first conductive via, and further conductive layers and conductive vias between the first conductive via and the substrate. The first conductive via is between the substrate and the first conductive layer, and is electrically connected to the first conductive layer. The first conductive via extends through at least two dielectric layers, and has thickness greater than about 8 kilo-Angstroms. An inductor having high quality factor is formed in the first conductive layer and also includes the first conductive via. |
| US12199032B2 |
Semiconductor memory device with three-dimensionally stacked memory cells having improved yield
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes first and second conductor layers, a first pillar, a first contact, and a source line drive circuit. The first pillar is passing through the second conductor layers. The first pillar includes a first semiconductor layer and a second insulator layer. The first semiconductor layer includes a side surface partially in contact with the first conductor layer. The first contact is passing through the second conductor layers. The first contact includes a third conductor layer and a third insulator layer. The third conductor layer includes a side surface partially in contact with the first conductor layer. The source line drive circuit is electrically coupled to the first conductor layer via the first contact. |
| US12199028B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for producing same
A semiconductor device 1 has an electrode structure that includes source electrodes 3, a gate electrode 4, and drain electrodes 5 disposed on a semiconductor laminated structure 2 and extending in parallel to each other and in a predetermined first direction and a wiring structure that includes source wirings 9, drain wirings 10, and gate wirings 11 disposed on the electrode structure and extending in parallel to each other and in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The source wirings 9, the drain wirings 10, and the gate wirings 11 are electrically connected to the source electrodes 3, the drain electrodes 5, and the gate electrode 4, respectively. The semiconductor device 1 includes a conductive film 8 disposed between the gate electrode 4 and the drain wirings 10 and being electrically connected to the source electrodes 3. |
| US12199023B2 |
Ball grid array for a semiconductor integrated circuit device
An electronic apparatus includes an integrated circuit board on, over, or in which a USB circuit block is provided; a first USB interface; a second USB interface; a printed circuit board on which a source clock circuit configured to output a source clock is provided; and a ball grid array that includes first, second, and third ball grids for electric coupling between the integrated circuit board and the printed circuit board. The first ball grid electrically couples the USB circuit block and the first USB interface to each other. The second ball grid electrically couples the USB circuit block and the second USB interface to each other. The third ball grid electrically couples the source clock circuit and the USB circuit block to each other. The third ball grid is located between the first ball grid and the second ball grid. |
| US12199018B2 |
Direct bonding in microelectronic assemblies
Disclosed herein are microelectronic assemblies including direct bonding, as well as related structures and techniques. For example, in some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a first microelectronic component and a second microelectronic component coupled to the first microelectronic component by a direct bonding region, wherein the direct bonding region includes a first subregion and a second subregion, and the first subregion has a greater metal density than the second subregion. In some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a first microelectronic component and a second microelectronic component coupled to the first microelectronic component by a direct bonding region, wherein the direct bonding region includes a first metal contact and a second metal contact, the first metal contact has a larger area than the second metal contact, and the first metal contact is electrically coupled to a power/ground plane of the first microelectronic component. |
| US12199017B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device includes a nitride-based transistor, a first metal layer, a second metal layer, a third metal layer, a source pad, and a drain pad. The first metal layer is disposed over the nitride-based transistor. The second metal layer is disposed over the first metal layer. The third metal layer is disposed over the second metal layer and includes a first pattern and a second pattern which are spaced apart from each other. The source pad is immediately above the first metal layer, the second metal layer, and the first pattern of the third metal layer and is electrically coupled with the nitride-based transistor. The drain pad is immediately above the first metal layer, the second metal layer, and the second pattern of the third metal layer and is electrically coupled with the nitride-based transistor. |
| US12199015B2 |
Semiconductor device including via structure and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device according to some example embodiments includes a substrate, an insulating structure covering the substrate, a transistor between the substrate and the insulating structure, a via insulating layer extending through the insulating structure and the substrate, a plurality of via structures extending through the via insulating layer, a plurality of conductive structures respectively connected to the plurality of via structures, and a plurality of bumps respectively connected to the conductive structures. |
| US12199010B2 |
Power conversion apparatus
To improve cooling capability, power conversion apparatus 1 that converts a direct current voltage into an alternating current voltage includes: first substrate 100 on which power conversion circuit 2 is mounted; second substrate 200 on which driving circuit 3 that drives power conversion circuit 2 is mounted; and shield plate 300 that is disposed between first substrate 100 and second substrate 200, and first substrate 100 is a metal substrate. |
| US12199009B2 |
Electronic apparatus
An electronic apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and an elastic member. The first substrate has a first surface on which a metal member is provided. The second substrate is coupled to the first substrate above the first surface and on which a plurality of electronic components is mounted. The second substrate has a second surface that faces away from the first surface. The elastic member has an inner surface that contacts the second surface or at least one of the electronic components and an outer surface that faces the first surface and is in thermal contact with the metal member. |
| US12199007B2 |
Copper connected glass modules on a glass board
Copper-connected glass modules on a glass board are provided. An apparatus includes one or more dies, an interposer formed of a first material, the interposer coupled to the one or more silicon dies, the interposer comprising an interconnection layer formed on one side of the interposer, wherein the interconnection layer includes a plurality of copper interconnects, and a substrate comprising a top layer, glass core, and a bottom layer, wherein the interconnection layer of the interposer and the top layer of the substrate are copper bonded. |
| US12198991B2 |
Test structure for use in dynamic random access memory and manufacturing method thereof
A test structure for use in a dynamic random access memory is provided. A first gate structure is disposed in a semiconductor substrate. First and second source/drain regions are disposed in the semiconductor substrate and at two sides of the first gate structure. A bit line structure is disposed on the first source/drain region. A dielectric layer is disposed on the semiconductor substrate and the bit line structure. A first landing pad is disposed on the dielectric layer. A first contact plug is disposed in the dielectric layer and electrically connects the second source/drain region and the first landing pad. A conductive layer is disposed on and electrically connected to the first landing pad, in which a first upper surface of the first landing pad is entirely covered by the conductive layer, and the conductive layer has a substantially planar upper surface. |
| US12198989B2 |
Method for detecting resistance of side trace of display substrate and display substrate
The present disclosure provides a method for detecting resistance of a side trace of a display substrate and the display substrate, and belongs to the field of display technology. In the method for detecting resistance of a side trace of a display substrate, the display substrate includes: a base substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other; a plurality of first pads at intervals on the first surface; and a plurality of second pads at intervals on the second surface; the first pad is electrically connected to a corresponding second pad through a side trace; the method includes forming at least one detection unit; wherein forming the detection unit includes: connecting two first pads through a connection part; and detecting two second pads in the detection unit, and obtaining resistance of the detection unit to obtain the resistance of the side trace. |
| US12198988B2 |
Gate formation of semiconductor devices
A method includes forming an active region on a substrate, forming a sacrificial gate stack engaging the active region, measuring a gate length of the sacrificial gate stack at a height lower than a top surface of the active region, selecting an etching recipe based on the measured gate length of the sacrificial gate stack, etching the sacrificial gate stack with the etching recipe to form a gate trench, and forming a metal gate stack in the gate trench. |
| US12198982B2 |
Laser dicing for singulation
In a described example, a method includes: applying a dicing tape over a metal layer covering a portion of a surface of scribe streets on a device side of a semiconductor wafer that includes semiconductor device dies formed thereon separated from one another by the scribe streets; and placing the semiconductor wafer with the device side facing away from a laser in a stealth dicing machine. A power of a laser beam is adjusted to a first power level. The laser beam is focused through the non-device side of the semiconductor wafer to a first focal depth in the metal layer. The laser beam scans across the scribe streets and ablates the metal layer in the scribe streets. The method continues by singulating the semiconductor device dies using stealth dicing along the scribe streets in the stealth dicing machine. |
| US12198980B2 |
Metal interconnection structure and manufacturing method thereof
The present invention provides a metal interconnection structure and a manufacturing method thereof, the metal interconnection structure includes: metal interconnection lines disposed at intervals, first metal layers respectively disposed on the metal interconnection lines; second metal layers respectively disposed on the first metal layers; dielectric layers disposed on both sides of the first metal layer and the second metal layer and having a gap with both the first metal layer and the second metal layer; and a metal diffusion covering layer covering the dielectric layer and the second metal layer. In the present invention, by disposing the dielectric layer on both sides of the first metal layer and the second metal layer, and the dielectric layer has a gap with both the first metal layer and the second metal layer, and the formed metal interconnection structure reduces parasitic capacitance due to the gap, and the gaps existing between the first metal layer and the dielectric layer and between the second metal layer and the dielectric layer can further reduce the diffusion of metal ions to the dielectric layer. |
| US12198977B2 |
Manufacturing method of semiconductor structure having elastic member within via
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes: providing a first wafer including a first substrate, a first dielectric layer under the first substrate, and a first conductive pad surrounded by the first dielectric layer; disposing a first passivation layer over the first substrate; removing portions of the first dielectric layer, the first substrate and the first passivation layer to form a first opening exposing a portion of the first conductive pad; disposing a first conductive material within the first opening; disposing a first elastic material within the first opening and surrounded by the first conductive material; removing portions of the first conductive material and the first elastic material adjacent to an end of the first opening to form a first elastic member; and disposing a second conductive material over the first elastic member and the first conductive material to form a first conductive via surrounding the first elastic member. |
| US12198974B2 |
Dielectric gap-filling process for semiconductor device
A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same are provided. The method includes forming a trench in a substrate. A liner layer is formed along sidewalls and a bottom of the trench. A silicon-rich layer is formed over the liner layer. Forming the silicon-rich layer includes flowing a first silicon precursor into a process chamber for a first time interval, and flowing a second silicon precursor and a first oxygen precursor into the process chamber for a second time interval. The second time interval is different from the first time interval. The method further includes forming a dielectric layer over the silicon-rich layer. |
| US12198971B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus
There is provided a substrate processing apparatus. The substrate processing apparatus may include a substrate supporter supporting a substrate, a processing solution feeder supplying a processing solution to the substrate, first and second recovery containers configured to recover the processing solution, a first pipe connected to the first recovery container and including an insulating material, a second pipe connected to the second recovery container and including an insulating material, a first static electricity eliminator in contact with the first pipe, a second static electricity eliminator in contact with the second pipe, and a plurality of first conductive lines connected to the first and second static electricity eliminators. |
| US12198969B2 |
Conductive electrostatic chuck lift pin, electrostatic chuck comprising the same, and semiconductor manufacturing method using the same
The present invention relates to a conductive lift pin used in an electrostatic chuck, an electrostatic chuck including same, and a semiconductor manufacturing method using same. Provided in the present invention are a conductive electrostatic chuck lift pin and an electrostatic chuck having the lift pin mounted therein, the lift pin including AlTiC, which has a TiC phase dispersed on an Al2O3 phase, and having electrical resistivity of 2.5x10−5 to 3.5x10−5 Ω·m. The electrostatic chuck lift pin of the present invention can solve the problem of defects induced by static electricity and electric reaction due to contact between the components and insulating ceramic when using existing insulating ceramic, and is conductive and thus can release residual charge between a semiconductor wafer and the electrostatic chuck even without the presence of plasma. Therefore, since the lift pin can be raised immediately after de-chucking, treatment time per wafer sheet is reduced. |
| US12198965B2 |
Member for semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, method for manufacturing the same, and mold
A member for a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a ceramic disc incorporating an electrode and a ceramic cylindrical shaft supporting the disc. The disc and the shaft are integrally formed and mutually have no bonding interface. The disc has a surface with which the shaft is integrated. The surface has a region inside the shaft and a region outside the shaft. The region inside the shaft is recessed by one step with respect to the region outside the shaft and has an electrode exposure hole through which the electrode is exposed. |
| US12198964B2 |
Electrostatic chuck and processing apparatus
According to one embodiment, an electrostatic chuck includes a ceramic dielectric substrate, a base plate, and a first porous part. The ceramic dielectric substrate includes first and second major surfaces. The second major surface is opposite to the first major surface. The base plate supports the ceramic dielectric substrate and includes a gas feed channel. The first porous part is provided in the ceramic dielectric substrate and is opposite to the gas feed channel. The first porous part includes a first porous region, and a first dense region denser than the first porous region. The first porous region includes first sparse portions, and a first dense portion. The first sparse portions include pores. The first dense portion has a higher than the first sparse portions. The first dense portion is positioned between the first sparse portions. The first sparse portions include a first wall part provided between the pores. |
| US12198958B2 |
Substrate storage apparatus provided with storage environment detection
The invention discloses a substrate storage apparatus having a detecting device detachably connecting to an outer pod. The detecting device includes a sensing member having a sensing terminal, a cavity and a sensor. The sensing terminal detachably connects to the outer pod such that the sensing terminal exposes in an accommodating space inside of the outer pod. The cavity receiving the sensor extends to an outside of the outer pod and the accommodating space. The cavity communicates with the accommodating space through the sensing terminal, allowing the sensor to read information regarding the accommodating space. |
| US12198954B2 |
Execution device and execution method
An execution device according to exemplary embodiments includes an operation device, a first acceleration sensor, a second acceleration sensor, and a control device. The operation device executes a predetermined operation. The first acceleration sensor detects acceleration in a first direction along a horizontal direction. The second acceleration sensor detects acceleration in a second direction intersecting the first direction along the horizontal direction. The control device recognizes a transport position of the execution device in the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus based on output values from the first acceleration sensor and the second acceleration sensor. When it is recognized that the execution device is transported to a predetermined position, the control device causes the operation device to execute the predetermined operation. |
| US12198949B2 |
Thermocouple guide and ceramic heater
A thermocouple guide includes a first tube portion of a straight shape, and a second tube portion connected to the first tube portion and including a curved section that is formed to turn an extension direction from the first tube portion. An outer diameter of at least a tip-side part of the curved section, the tip-side part extending from a tip end of the curved section through a predetermined length, is smaller than an outer diameter of the first tube portion. |
| US12198946B2 |
Intelligent customizable wet processing system
Embodiments of wet processing systems and methods for uniform wet processing are disclosed. A method described in the present disclosure includes measuring one or more wafer characteristics of a wafer using a plurality of detectors and determining a wafer profile of the wafer based on the measured one or more wafer characteristics. The method also includes setting first and second sets of wet processing parameters of a wet processing system for respective first and second wafer regions based on the wafer profile, where a value of at least one wet processing parameter is different between the first and second sets of wet processing parameters. The method further includes performing wet processing on the wafer by dispensing one or more chemicals onto the first and second wafer regions according to the respective first and second sets of wet processing parameters. |
| US12198940B2 |
Method for modifying the strain state of a block of a semiconducting material
A method is provided for modifying a strain state of a block of a semiconducting material including steps in the following order: a) making a lower region of the block of the semiconducting material resting on a substrate amorphous, while a crystalline structure of an upper region of the block in contact with the lower region is maintained, then b) forming a stressing zone on the block of the semiconducting material, then c) making at least one creep annealing with a suitable duration and temperature to enable creep of the lower region without recrystallizing a material of the lower region, and then d) making at least one recrystallization annealing of the lower region of the block. |
| US12198935B2 |
Atmospheric plasma in wafer processing system optimization
A method and a system for polishing a wafer is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes generating atmospheric plasma. The method further includes treating a component of a wafer processing system with the atmospheric plasma. The method further includes delivering a slurry containing abrasive and corrosive particles to a surface of the wafer processing system which includes atmospheric plasma-treated component. The method further includes polishing a wafer with the abrasive and corrosive particles. |
| US12198934B2 |
Multilayer semiconductor structure, semiconductor device, and method for manufacturing multilayer semiconductor structure
A multilayer semiconductor structure of the present disclosure includes a substrate a buffer layer disposed on the substrate and a semiconductor layer disposed on the buffer layer. A void is provided between the buffer layer and the semiconductor layer. |
| US12198932B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor structure including spacer filler etch and stacked mandrel layers and semiconductor structure
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure and a semiconductor structure are disclosed. The method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes: providing a substrate, and forming a first sacrificial layer on the substrate, where the first sacrificial layer includes a first sacrificial dielectric layer and a second sacrificial dielectric layer; patterning the first sacrificial layer, and forming first intermediate pattern structures that are arranged at intervals, where a first gap is provided between two adjacent first intermediate pattern structures; forming a first spacer pad layer in the first gap, where the first spacer pad layer covers sidewalls of each of the two adjacent first intermediate pattern structures and a bottom of the first gap; removing the first spacer pad layer at the bottom of the first gap, and the second sacrificial dielectric layer; and removing the first sacrificial dielectric layer, to form first pattern structures. |
| US12198930B2 |
Method for manufacturing semiconductor device
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. A photolithographic coating, including a first film, a photolithographic film, and a second film, is formed on the to-be-connected structure. Refractive indexes of the first film and the second film are smaller than 1, so that the photolithographic coating forms an optical structure with a high reflection coefficient. The photolithographic coating is exposed to a light having a target wavelength through a mask. The to-be-connected structure is reflected in the photolithographic coating, and hence serves as another mask and is imaged to the photolithographic film. A pattern of the mask is simultaneously imaged to the photolithographic film. That is, both the to-be-connected structure and the pattern of the mask are imaged to a target region of the photolithographic film, and the target region corresponds to the to-be-connected structure. |
| US12198929B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor device, substrate processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
A method of processing a substrate includes: (a) providing a substrate; (b) supplying a processing gas comprising H2O-containing radicals to the substrate; (c) supplying a gas including at least one element of Si, Ti, Mo, Al, W, Hf or Zr and a halogen element to the substrate; (d) supplying a gas including one or both of an oxygen element and a nitrogen element to the substrate after (c); and (e) repeating (c) and (d). |
| US12198928B2 |
Carbon gap fill processes
Exemplary semiconductor processing methods may include providing a carbon-containing precursor to a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. A substrate may be disposed within the processing region. The substrate may define one or more recessed features. The methods may include providing a second precursor to the processing region. The methods may include forming a plasma of the carbon-containing precursor and the second precursor in the processing region. Forming the plasma of the carbon-containing precursor and the second precursor may be performed at a plasma power of greater than or about 500 W. The methods may include depositing a carbon-containing material on the substrate. The carbon-containing material may extend within the one or more recessed features. The methods may include, subsequent depositing the carbon-containing material for a first period of time, applying a bias power while depositing the carbon-containing material for a second period of time. |
| US12198922B2 |
Lamp filament having a pitch gradient and method of making
Examples disclosed herein relate to a to a pitch gradient in a lamp filament, and a method of making. In one implementation, a lamp has a bulb filled with a gas. A filament is disposed within the bulb. The filament has a plurality of coils that include a first coil having a first point. The plurality of coils includes a second coil having a second point, and a third coil having a third point. The pitch gradient is defined by a first pitch between the second point and the first point, and a second pitch between the third point and the second point. The second pitch is greater than the first pitch. The second point is 360 degrees away from the first point. The third point is 360 degrees from the second point. A terminal coil is electrically coupled to at least the first coil, the second coil, and the third coil. |
| US12198921B2 |
Laser-sustained plasma light source with tapered window
A LSP broadband light source is disclosed. The light source may include a gas containment structure for containing a gas. The light source may include a laser pump source configured to generate an optical pump to sustain a plasma within the gas containment structure for generation of broadband light. The light source may include a tapered window configured to transmit broadband light through an aperture within a wall of the gas containment structure, the tapered window including a tapered section including a tapered surface, wherein the tapered surface is configured to deflect light impinging on a peripheral portion of the tapered window away from a portion of the gas containment structure to protect the portion of the gas containment structure. |
| US12198920B2 |
Ion analyzer
In order to improve the ionization efficiency and ion collection efficiency in an ESI ion source to achieve a higher level of analysis sensitivity while improving the throughput of the analysis, one mode of the present invention provides an ion analyzer equipped with an ion source employing an electrospray ionization method, where the ion source (2) includes: a plurality of capillaries (211-218) configured to spray a supplied liquid sample in the same direction; one or more auxiliary electrodes (23, 231-328) arranged so as to be surrounded by the plurality of capillaries; and a voltage supplier (24) configured to apply, to the plurality of capillaries, a DC high voltage for which the potential of the one or more auxiliary electrodes is used as a reference. |
| US12198916B2 |
Microchannel plate and method of making the microchannel plate with metal contacts selectively formed on one side of channel openings
A night vision system, a microchannel plate (MCP), and a planetary deposition system and methodology are provided for selectively depositing an electrode contact metal on one side of MCP channel openings. MCPs can be secured to a face of a platter that rotates about its central platter axis. The rotating platter can be tilted on a fixture surrounding an evaporative source of contact metal. A mask with a variable size mask opening is arranged between the rotating platter and the evaporative source. While the mask orbits around the evaporative source with the rotating platter, the mask does not rotate along its own axis as does the rotating platter. Depending on the opening of the non-rotating mask, and the tilt angle of the rotating platter, the respective circumferential distance around and the depth into the shaded first side of the channel opening is controlled. |
| US12198913B2 |
Semiconductor process apparatus and process chamber
A process chamber includes a chamber body, a base, and a magnetic conductive device. The base is arranged in the chamber body. The base includes a carrier surface configured to carry a wafer. The magnetic conductive device includes a magnet structure and a magnetic conductive structure made of a soft magnetic material. The magnet structure is arranged around the base and configured to provide a magnetic field above the base. The magnetic conductive structure is arranged under the carrier surface of the base, has a preset distance from the carrier surface of the base, and is configured to guide the distribution of the magnetic field lines of the magnetic field above the base to cause the intensity of the magnetic field to be evenly distributed above the base and the directions of the magnetic field lines to be consistent at different positions of the corresponding carrier surface. |
| US12198909B2 |
Apparatus for treating substrate
An apparatus for treating a substrate includes a process chamber that treats the substrate, a buffer module that accommodates a ring member to be transported into the process chamber, and a load-lock chamber having an inner space. The buffer module includes a buffer chamber having a buffer space in which the ring member is accommodated, a support shelf that supports the ring member in the buffer space, and a drive member that moves the support shelf. |
| US12198906B2 |
Substrate support and plasma processing apparatus
A substrate support includes a substrate supporting surface, an electrode, a power supply line, and a power supply terminal. The electrode is disposed below the substrate supporting surface and configured to provide a bias power. The power supply line is disposed below the electrode and configured to apply the bias power to the electrode. The power supply terminal is configured to electrically couple the electrode and the power supply line. Further, an area of a surface of the power supply terminal that is coupled to the electrode is greater than an area of a surface of the power supply terminal that is coupled to the power supply line. |
| US12198894B2 |
Measurement system and method of setting parameter of charged particle beam device
A method of setting a parameter of a charged particle beam device, for shortening the time required to adjust an ABCC parameter. An inverse conversion processing unit generates a simulator input signal corresponding to an electron emitted from a sample. A simulation detector uses an arithmetic model that simulates a detector and executes arithmetic processing on the simulator input signal in a state in which characteristic information is reflected in an arithmetic parameter. A simulated image conversion unit executes arithmetic processing corresponding to an image conversion unit and converts a signal from the simulation detector into a simulated image. An ABCC search unit searches for an ABCC parameter with respect to the simulation detector so that an evaluation value obtained from the simulated image becomes a specified reference value, and outputs the ABCC parameter as a search result to an ABCC control unit of the actual machine. |
| US12198891B2 |
Charged particle beam writing apparatus, charged particle beam writing method and recording medium
A difference between a calculated amount of drift and an actual amount of drift is reduced. According to one aspect of the present invention, a charged particle beam writing apparatus includes a deflector adjusting an irradiation position of the charged particle beam with respect to a substrate placed on a stage, a shot data generator generating shot data from writing data, the shot data including a shot position and beam ON and OFF times for each shot, a drift corrector referring to a plurality of pieces of the generated shot data, calculating an amount of drift of the irradiation position of the charged particle beam with which the substrate is irradiated, and generating correction information for correcting an irradiation position deviation based on the amount of drift, a deflection controller controlling a deflection amount achieved by the deflector based on the shot data and the correction information, and a dummy irradiation instructor instructing execution of dummy irradiation in a writing process to irradiate with the charged particle beam in a predetermined irradiation amount at a position different from the substrate on the stage. |
| US12198890B2 |
Repeller assembly for mounting into an arc chamber of an ion implanter and arc chamber containing the repeller assembly
A repeller assembly mounts in an arc chamber of an ion implanter. The repeller assembly contains a repeller, a tubular insert, first and second insulators, a contact member, and a lock member. The repeller has a knob-shaped body placed on an inner side of the arc chamber opposite to a cathode assembly. A repeller shaft is arranged extending through an opening of a wall of the arc chamber to an outer side. The repeller shaft has a step narrowing down the repeller shaft. The tubular insert is mounted concentrically to the repeller shaft. The first insulator has a collar shape and is attached to the tubular insert so that an inner shoulder of the first insulator is pressed against an outer side of the wall of the arc chamber. The second insulator is cap-nut shaped and is attached to the first insulator with an outer flange thereof. |
| US12198880B2 |
Contactor and electrical control cabinet comprising same
A contactor includes: a frame; a stationary contact; a movable contact movable between a closed position and an open position, wherein, in the closed position, the movable contact and the stationary contact are connected such that the contactor is closed, and in the open position, the movable contact and the stationary contact are disconnected such that the contactor is open; and a reset mechanism including a counter force spring, the counter force spring being a torsion spring used to bias the movable contact toward the open position, wherein the torsion spring is an integral component including a body portion having a longitudinal axis, a middle leg extending from the body portion and two torsion arms positioned at two ends of the body portion, and the torsion arms are arranged at two opposite sides of the movable contact. Also provided is an electrical control cabinet including the contactor. |
| US12198873B2 |
Illuminated keyswitch structure
The invention discloses an illuminated keyswitch structure, which includes a base plate, a keycap, and a plurality of light-emitting dies. The base plate has a through hole. The keycap is movably disposed above the base plate in a vertical direction. The light-emitting dies are disposed under the keycap. The light-emitting dies are not higher than the base plate. The light-emitting dies are located within a projection of the through hole in the vertical direction. At least two of the light-emitting dies are arranged parallel to an hole edge of the through hole. In the illuminated keyswitch structure of the invention, distances from the light-emitting dies that are arranged parallel to the hole edge to the hole edge are close to each other, and light of different colors emitted by said light-emitting dies travels through the hole edge at similar distances, thereby suppressing uneven light mixing and color deviation. |
| US12198870B2 |
Capacitor assembly
A capacitor assembly including at least one capacitor each having a first end and a second end spaced apart in a longitudinal direction, and a first terminal and a second terminal located at the first end of the capacitor, the first end being provided with a first surface, and the second end being provided with a second surface; a heat sink having a first cooling surface; and a connection system connecting the at least one capacitor heat conductively to the heat sink such that the second surface of each of the at least one capacitor is in heat conductive connection with the first cooling surface. The connection system is to in contact with the first surface of each of the at least one capacitor. |
| US12198863B2 |
Multilayer ceramic electronic component having specified thickness ratio for different portions of external electrode
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body including a capacitance formation portion including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrodes with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween; and first and second external electrodes disposed on the first and second surfaces of the ceramic body, respectively, and including first and second base electrodes connected to the first and second internal electrodes and first and second conductive layers disposed to cover the first and second base electrodes. When a thickness of the first and second conductive layers in a central portion of the first and second surfaces of the ceramic body is ‘a’, and a thickness of the first and second conductive layers at an end of the capacitance formation portion is ‘b’, ‘b/a’ is 0.07 or more. |
| US12198860B2 |
Multilayer electronic component and method of manufacturing the same
A multilayer electronic component includes: a body including dielectric layers and first and second internal electrodes and having first to sixth surfaces; a first external electrode including a first connection portion on the third surface, a first band portion on the first surface, and a third band portion on the second surface; a second external electrode including a second connection portion on the fourth surface, a second band portion on the first surface, and a fourth band portion on the second surface; a cover layer disposed on the first and second connecting portions and disposed to cover the second surface and the third and fourth band portions; a first plating layer disposed on the first band portion; and a second plating layer disposed on the second band portion. The cover layer includes a base layer, having hydrophilicity, and an insulating layer disposed on the base layer. |
| US12198852B2 |
Magnetic toroid and a magnetically actuated rotary coupling device comprising thereof
The present invention relates to a magnetic toroid (100) characterized by a Möbius-like toroid twisted by a degree, wherein the cross section of the Möbius-like toroid is a closed shape with at least four straight sides, wherein each side of the Möbius-like toroid is orthogonally magnetized to form the magnetic toroid (100), thereby creating a magnetic field having rotating polarity around the magnetic toroid (100) when the magnetic toroid (100) is spinning on its axis. The present invention also relates to a magnetically actuated rotary coupling device (200) comprising a first magnetic toroid (101) and a second magnetic toroid (102) being disposed adjacent to the first magnetic toroid (101), wherein the first magnetic toroid (101) is rotatable on its own axis relative to motion of the second magnetic toroid (102) when portions of their respective magnetic fields interact with each other. |
| US12198849B2 |
Method for manufacturing a transformer
A method is provided for manufacturing a transformer. The method includes preparing a core, a first coil portion that covers at least part of the core, and a second coil portion that covers a periphery of the first coil portion perpendicular to a central axis of winding of the first coil portion. The first and second coil portions each include a bobbin and a coil wound therearound. The coil of the first or second coil portion is an edgewise coil. The method also includes: screwing the bobbin and coil of the first coil portion with each other, and screwing the bobbin and coil of the second coil portion with each other; and attaching the second coil portion to the outside of the first coil portion perpendicular to the central axis of winding of the first coil portion, and attaching the core to sandwich the first and second coil portions in an axial direction of the first coil portion. |
| US12198847B2 |
Inductor
An inductor includes a coil including a winding section in which a conductor having two opposite width surfaces is wound and extended sections extended from the winding section, an element body including a magnetic section in which the coil is embedded, the magnetic section including magnetic powder, and an outer electrode arranged on a surface of the element body and connected to the extended sections. The element body has first side surfaces opposite to each other. Each of the extended sections has a first zone approximately parallel with a corresponding one of the first side surfaces in one of the width surfaces of the conductor. The first zone is exposed from the first side surface and connected to the outer electrode. At least one of the extended sections includes a planar section meeting the first zone at an obtuse angle and extending to a tip of the extended section. |
| US12198845B2 |
Integrated inductor assemblies and associated systems and methods
A switching power converter includes an integrated inductor assembly, a first switching stage, and a second switching stage. The integrated inductor assembly includes a magnetic core and first and second windings disposed at least partially in the magnetic core. The second winding is separated from the first winding by a separation portion of the magnetic core. The first switching stage is configured such that a first current flowing from the first switching stage to the first winding induces first magnetic flux flowing through the separation portion of the magnetic core. The second switching stage is configured such that a second current flowing from the second switching stage to the second winding induces second magnetic flux flowing through the separation portion of the magnetic core that opposes the first magnetic flux in the separation portion of the magnetic core. |
| US12198844B2 |
Inductors including electrically conductive standoffs
An inductor includes a magnetic core, a first winding, a first electrically conductive standoff, and a second electrically conductive standoff. The magnetic core includes opposing first and second outer surfaces separated from each other in a first direction. The first winding has first and second ends, and the first winding is wound around at least a portion of the magnetic core. The first electrically conductive standoff is connected to the first end of the first winding, and the first electrically conductive standoff extends along the magnetic core in the first direction from the first outer surface to the second outer surface. The second electrically conductive standoff is connected to the second end of the first winding, and the second electrically conductive standoff extends along the magnetic core in the first direction from the first outer surface to the second outer surface. |
| US12198843B2 |
Inductor
An inductor includes a wire, and a magnetic layer covering the wire. The wire includes a conducting line, and an insulating layer. The magnetic layer contains an anisotropic magnetic particle and a binder. In a peripheral region of the wire, the magnetic layer includes an orientated region in which the anisotropic magnetic particle is orientated along the periphery of the wire. The peripheral region is, in a cross-sectional view, a region from an outer surface of the wire to an outward distance of 1.5 times an average of the longest length and the shortest length from the center of gravity of the wire to the outer surface of the wire. An upper surface and a lower surface of the inductor are flat. |
| US12198841B2 |
Magnetic powder, manufacturing method of magnetic powder, and magnetic recording medium
Magnetic powder includes: an epsilon-phase iron oxide-based compound selected from ε-Fe2O3 or a compound represented by Formula (1). The magnetic powder has an average particle diameter of 8 nm to 25 nm, a ratio of Hc to Hc′ of from 0.6 to 1.0, and Hc′ satisfying Expression (II). Hc′ represents a magnetic field at which a value of Expression (I) becomes zeroin a magnetic field-magnetization curve obtained by performing measurement at a maximum applied magnetic field of 359 kA/m, a temperature of 296 K, and a magnetic field sweeping speed of 1.994 kA/m/s. M represents magnetization and H represents applied magnetic field. Hc represents a magnetic field at which magnetization becomes zero in the magnetic field-magnetization curve. In Formula (1), A represents at least one metal element other than Fe, and a represents a number that satisfies a relationship of 0 |
| US12198837B2 |
Electrically and thermally conductive element and method for producing such an element
The invention relates to an electrically and thermally conductive element (100) comprising: —a wire or ribbon (1) of high-purity aluminium; —a strip (2) of pyrolytic graphite or of graphene extending along the aluminium ribbon (1), said wire or ribbon (1) and the strip (2) being encapsulated together in a sheath (3) of an electrically insulating material. |
| US12198831B2 |
Mixtures of supercritical fluids as a dielectric material
A dielectric material with heat transfer properties includes a first fluid and a second fluid different from the first fluid and miscible with the first fluid. The first fluid and the second fluid are mixed with each other so as to form a mixture and are kept at a temperature and a pressure so that the mixture is maintained in a supercritical phase. The mixture has at least one parameter that is preferably different from a corresponding parameter in both a supercritical phase of the first fluid and a supercritical phase of the second fluid. In a method of insulating electrical contacts and removing heat therefrom, the mixture is disposed about the electrical contacts and is maintained at a temperature and at a pressure that causes the mixture to be in a supercritical phase so that the mixture has favorable dielectric and heat transfer properties. |
| US12198827B2 |
Cable
A cable includes: a cable core including one or more electrical wires; a shield layer made of a metallic wire arranged on a periphery of the cable core; and a sheath arranged on a periphery of the shield layer. The metallic wire is made of a copper alloy wire made of a copper alloy containing indium, a content of which is equal to or more than 0.3 mass % and equal to or less than 0.65 mass %, and the metallic wire has tensile strength that is equal to or higher than 350 MPa and elongation that is equal to or higher than 7%. |
| US12198822B2 |
Method for thermal performance monitoring of a nuclear power plant using the NCV method
This invention relates to the monitoring and diagnosing of nuclear power plants for its thermal performance using the NCV Method. Its applicability comprises any nuclear reactor such as used for research producing a useful output. Its greatest applicability lies with conventional Pressurized Water Reactor and Boiling Water Reactor nuclear plants generating an electric power. Its teachings of treating fission as an inertial process, a phenomena which is self-contained following incident neutron capture, allows the determination of an absolute neutron flux. This process is best treated by Second Law principles producing a total fission exergy. This invention also applies to the design of fusion thermal systems regards the determination of its Second Law viability and absolute plasma flux. |
| US12198821B2 |
Data labeling system and method operative with patient and clinician controller devices disposed in a remote care architecture
A system and method for facilitating remote care management involving a patient having an implantable medical device (IMD). Upon establishing a remote care session between a patient controller device and a clinician programmer, wherein the clinician and the patient are remotely located with respect to each other, input from the patient or the clinician may be received via a user interface control associated with a particular functionality or aspect of the remote care session, including audiovisual (AV) communications, remote therapy programming, and related context. Responsive to the user input, a dialog interface is effectuated at one of the patient controller device and/or the clinician programmer. A user characterization label is received via the dialog interface from the user, wherein the user characterization label is indicative of a subjective assessment of the particular functionality of the remote care session, which may be used in generating user-labeled data pertaining thereto. |
| US12198815B2 |
Urogenital reproductive and sexual health testing device
The embodiments disclose a method including receiving, with a first memory device, user profile data including demographics from at least from two persons, receiving specimen samples of personal tissue and pelvic fluid from the at least two persons, analyzing, with a first processor, the specimen samples to identify test results including hormones, infectious diseases, PH levels and genetic disorders, comparing, with a second processor, the test results to determine any correlation information with predetermined medical conditions data, converting, with a third processor, the correlation information into recommendation data for each person, and transmitting, with a platform communication device, the recommendation data to each person via a respective wellness app operating on a mobile device of each person. |
| US12198813B2 |
System and method for heart strain determination
Heart strain determination includes receiving a series of 2D-slice images as input. A pose estimation module estimates a slicing-pose of the inputted series of 2D-slice images in the heart. A 3D deformation estimation module estimates a 3D deformation field from the series of 2D-slice images and the estimated slicing-pose. A strain measurement module computes a heart strain measure from the 3D deformation field and a predefined definition for strain computation. |
| US12198812B2 |
System and method for analyzing acetabular cup position
A system and method to identify, convey, and reduce the risk of hip dislocations following hip replacement surgery. Preoperative images are used to identify the pelvic tilt of a patient while the patient is in a sitting position, a standing position, and a supine position. Based on the pelvic tilt and pelvic mobility depicted in the preoperative images, the system can identify a quantitative and/or qualitative risk of hip dislocation when the patient is seated, standing, and lying. During surgery, an intraoperative image can confirm the acetabular cup orientation once implanted and the system can determine the risk of hip dislocation when patient is in the supine position. The system can also extrapolate the dislocation risk when the patient is seated and standing based on acetabular cup position and orientation depicted in the intraoperative image. |
| US12198811B2 |
Pathology image management system
A laboratory information system (LIS) is linked with a whole slide image (WSI) management system to build a pathology image management system that can efficiently manage and utilize a digitized pathology image. A scan notification notifying that an image of a glass slide is scanned by a scanner is delivered to the LIS from the WSI management system to form a WSI link in the LIS, so that the LIS is linked with the WSI management system. By linking two systems with each other can eliminate the problem of mixing up specimens, for example, and hence, a pathologist can easily grasp the status of a pathology sample for which the pathologist is responsible. |
| US12198805B2 |
Adaptive athletic activity prescription systems
Systems and methods for prescribing athletic activity to be performed by a user, and for adapting the prescribed athletic activity based on completed (e.g. ongoing) athletic performances by the user. A coaching plan may be automatically created that prescribes personalized athletic activities as a user trains towards a goal date. The athletic information may be received from one or more sensor devices associated with a user, and the coaching plan may be continuously or intermittently updated based on the received sensor data. |
| US12198802B2 |
Projection and measurement system
A projection and measurement system (100) comprising a projection unit (110), a tracking unit (120), and a control unit (130). The control unit (130) is configured to control the projection unit to determine a feature of the body part of the user, generate an optical guide to be projected onto the body part based on the determined feature, and control the projection unit to project the optical guide. The control unit (130) is further configured to control the projection unit (110) to project the optical guide onto the body part in an asynchronous manner with respect to the detection of the image of the body part, and/or to generate a modulated form of the optical guide and/or illuminating light to be projected onto the body part. |
| US12198801B2 |
System and method for optimizing resource allocation
A system for optimizing resource allocation includes and/or interfaces with: a set of contextual data sources; a decision-making subsystem; and a set of schedules. Additionally or alternatively, the system can optionally include and/or interface with a set of user interfaces, memory, a set of data collection, and/or any other suitable components. A method for resource optimization includes: receiving a set of inputs; and processing the set of inputs and/or contextual data with a set of models to produce a set of schedules. Additionally or alternatively, the method can include any or all of: training the set of models; pre-processing the set of inputs to supplement the set of contextual data; dynamically adjusting the set of schedules; triggering a set of actions based on the set of schedules; updating the set of models; and/or any other processes. |
| US12198794B2 |
Method for stimulating tracheobronchial air
The invention is a method for stimulating tracheobronchial air of a patient suffering from an obstructive ventilatory disorder and modifying a rheology of the patient's tracheobronchial mucus. The method includes: interfacing a respiratory system of the patient with a physiological interface connected to a negative pressure generator with a connecting pipe; applying alternations of negative pressure with the negative pressure generator and venting impulses with a first determined frequency and duty cycle during a first part of an expiration cycle; applying a succession of alternations of negative pressure with the negative pressure generator and venting impulses with a second determined frequency and a second determined duty cycle during a second part of said expiration cycle; a duty cycle corresponding to a ratio between the duration during which a negative pressure is applied and the total duration of an expiration cycle; and reiterating a defined number of expiration cycles. |
| US12198787B2 |
Estimating properties of surfactant mixtures
Methods and apparatus for estimating properties of a mixture of two or more surfactant species are provided. Multiple molecular dynamics simulations of the mixture are performed, each simulation using a particular total concentration of the surfactant species and a particular ratio of the surfactant species, such that the multiple simulations cover a plurality of such total concentrations and a plurality of such ratios, each simulation being carried out above the critical micelle concentration of the simulated mixture. For each simulation, and from the results of each simulation, a distribution of each surfactant species between at least a micellar pseudo-phase and a non-micellar pseudo-phase of the mixture at the particular total concentration and particular ratio for that simulation is determined. A thermodynamic model of the mixture is then fitted to the distributions to determine fitted parameters of the thermodynamic model, and the one or more properties are estimated using the thermodynamic model and the fitted parameters. |
| US12198786B2 |
Methods and processes for non-invasive assessment of genetic variations
Provided herein are methods, processes, systems and machines for non-invasive assessment of genetic variations. In particular, provided herein are methods, processes, systems and machines for non-invasive assessment of copy number variations. In some aspects, copy number variations include aneuploidies (e.g., trisomy 13, 18, or 21). In some aspects, copy number variations include microdeletions or microduplications. |
| US12198784B2 |
Semiconductor device related to calibrating a termination resistance
A semiconductor system includes a controller configured to transmit a command address and a plurality of read strobe signals, and a semiconductor device including a first rank and a second rank that are configured to receive the command address and the plurality of read strobe signals and to perform a write operation and a read operation based on the command address. In the semiconductor device, the first rank is configured to calibrate a termination resistance value of the first rank to a target resistance value when a write operation for the first rank is performed. In the semiconductor device, the first rank is configured to calibrate the termination resistance value of the first rank to a dynamic resistance value based on the plurality of read strobe signals when a write operation for the second rank is performed. |
| US12198771B2 |
Fuse link programming cell, programming circuit, control circuit, and array
A fuse programming unit, comprising: two efuse units and a mode control tube. The first efuse unit includes: one end of the first fuse forms the first end, and the second end is connected to the drain end of the first MOS. The first MOS source terminal is grounded, and the first word line formed by the gate terminal. The second efuse unit includes: the first end of the second fuse forms the second wire end, and the second end is connected to the drain end of the second MOS. The second MOS source terminal is grounded, and the gate terminal forms the second line. The source end of the mode control transistor is connected to the line end of the second efuse unit, the drain end is connected to the source end of the first MOS, and the gate end forms the correction end. |
| US12198769B2 |
Smart early detection of wordline-memory hole defects with wordline-dependent dual sensing during erase verify
An apparatus disclosed herein comprises: a plurality of memory cells and a control circuit coupled to the plurality of memory cells. The control circuit is configured to: erase a block; verify, using a first erase verify level, that the block was properly erased; verify, using a second erase verify level, that the block was properly erased; determine whether there are any mismatches in a plurality of verify statuses between neighboring wordlines of the block from verifying the block using the second erase verify level; and identify, based on the determination, whether the block has failed. |
| US12198768B2 |
Semiconductor device and erasing method
A semiconductor device and an erasing method may control a number of times an erase pulse. The erasing method of a flash memory includes the following. Multiple sacrificial memory cells in a block are programmed with different write levels first. When a selected block is erased in response to an erase command, a monitor erase pulse (R1) is applied to a well, and then the sacrificial memory cells are verified (S_EV). When the verification fails, a voltage of the monitor erase pulse is increased and then a monitor erase pulse (R2) is applied until the verification of the sacrificial memory cells passes. When the verification is passed, a normal erase pulse (Q1) is applied to the well based on a voltage of the monitor erase pulse (R2) to erase the selected block. |
| US12198767B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment includes a plurality of planes each including a plurality of blocks each including a memory cell, an input/output circuit configured to receive a command set from an external controller, and a sequencer configured to execute an operation in response to the command set. Upon receiving a first command set that instructs execution of a first operation, the sequencer executes the first operation. Upon receiving a second command set that instructs execution of a second operation during execution of the first operation, the sequencer executes the second operation in parallel with the first operation. Upon receiving a third command set that instructs execution of a third operation during execution of the first operation, the sequencer suspends the first operation, executes the third operation, and resumes the first operation upon completion of the third operation. |
| US12198766B2 |
Artificial neural network operation circuit and in-memory computation device thereof
An artificial neural network operation circuit and an in-memory computation device of the artificial neural network operation circuit are proposed. The in-memory computation device includes a memory cell array, a compensation memory cell string, and an operator. The memory cell array has a plurality of memory cells to store a plurality of weight values. The memory cell array has a plurality of word lines and a plurality of bit lines. Each compensation memory cell of the compensation memory cell string stores a unit weight value. The operator multiplies a signal on a compensation bit line by peak weight information of the weight values to generate a first signal and adds the first signal to each signal on the bit lines to obtain a plurality of computation results, respectively. |
| US12198763B2 |
Memory device and operating method for performing a partial program operation
A memory device includes a first sub-block including word lines, a second sub-block including word lines, and a peripheral circuit configured to apply voltages to the word lines of the first sub-block and the word lines of the second sub-block. The memory device also includes control logic configured to control the peripheral circuit to perform a partial program operation of storing data in the first sub-block, when a plurality of memory cells included in the first sub-block are erased and a plurality of memory cells included in the second sub-block are programmed. The control logic includes a program operation controller for controlling the peripheral circuit to apply a verify operation to a selected word line of the word lines of the first sub-block and then apply a voltage having a constant level to the word lines of the second sub-block in the partial program operation. |
| US12198762B2 |
Memory arrays comprising strings of memory cells and methods used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells
A memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises laterally-spaced memory blocks individually comprising a vertical stack comprising alternating insulative tiers and conductive tiers above a conductor tier. Strings of memory cells comprise channel-material strings that extend through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers. The channel-material strings directly electrically couple to conductor material of the conductor tier. The insulative tier immediately-above a lowest of the conductive tiers comprises a lower first insulating material and an upper second insulating material above the upper first insulating material. The upper second insulating material is of different composition from that of the lower first insulating material. Intervening material is laterally-between and longitudinally-along immediately-laterally-adjacent of the memory blocks. Other embodiments, including method, are disclosed. |
| US12198758B2 |
Semiconductor memory device and write method thereof
A semiconductor memory device according to the present invention has a memory cell array, a write-driving/bias-reading circuit, a control circuit and a sense amplifier. The control circuit outputs a VSLC (Verify Sense Load Control) signal generated according to writing data. After the write-driving/bias-reading circuit applied the writing pulse and the complementary writing pulse, the sense amplifier receives the VSLC signal and detects the current difference between two currents respectively flowing through a first data line and a second data line; the first data line and the second data line respectively connecting a true memory cell and a complementary memory cell of the selected pair of memory cell. The control circuit controls to provide the additional current to at least one of the first data line and the second data line so as to make the detected current difference meet the required margin. |
| US12198754B2 |
Timing control circuit of memory device with tracking word line and tracking bit line
A circuit comprises a memory array, a tracking bit line and a timing control circuit. The memory array comprises a plurality of tracking cells. The tracking bit line is coupled between a first node and the plurality of tracking cells. The timing control circuit is coupled to the first node and comprises a Schmitt trigger. The Schmitt trigger generates a negative bit line enable signal in response to that a voltage level on the first node being below a low threshold voltage value of the Schmitt trigger. The timing control circuit generates a negative bit line trigger signal according to the negative bit line enable signal for adjusting voltage levels of a plurality of bit lines of the memory array. |
| US12198745B2 |
Semiconductor storage device and writing method thereof
A semiconductor storage device and its writing method are provided. A memory cell array is formed on a substrate, and the memory cell array has an NOR array with an NOR flash memory structure and a resistive random access array with a resistive random access memory (RRAM) structure. A read/write control unit charges a selected global bit line when a set write operation is performed on a selected memory cell of the resistive random access array, and a set write voltage is applied to the selected memory cell by applying a voltage charging the selected global bit line. |
| US12198743B2 |
Magnetic recording medium having controlled change in average width and cartridge
Provided is a magnetic recording medium with a tape shape capable of correcting a change in width of the magnetic recording medium by adjusting a running tension of the magnetic recording medium in a case where the magnetic recording medium is saved or caused to run in a high-temperature environment. The magnetic recording medium is a magnetic recording medium with a tape shape, an amount of change in average width of the magnetic recording medium before and after the magnetic recording medium is left still for 40 hours in an environment at a temperature of 50° C. and a relative humidity of 40% RH in a state where a tension of 0.55 N is applied in a longitudinal direction is 170 ppm or less, and an average tension responsiveness with respect to a tension in the longitudinal direction in the environment at a temperature of 50° C. and a relative humidity of 40% RH is 700 ppm/N or more. |
| US12198741B2 |
Apparatus and method for forming an overcoat
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for forming a magnetic recording medium having a recording layer with a plurality of perpendicular magnetic domains configured to store data; and a carbon overcoat formed on the recording layer. The carbon overcoat is characterized by a sp3 carbon content greater than 70%, and a thickness of less than 1.2 nm. |
| US12198740B1 |
Magnetic disk device and method of detecting flying height of magnetic head
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device comprising a magnetic head expanding to the magnetic disk side with the generated heat of a heater, a flying height measurement unit measuring a flying height of the magnetic head, based on a read signal of the magnetic head for data for measuring flying height written to the magnetic disk, and a controller. The controller detects variation of a measurement value of the flying height measurement unit, based on change of “correspondence between a change amount of the supply power and a measurement value of the flying height measurement unit”. |
| US12198738B1 |
Magnetic disk device
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a base having a pedestal, a magnetic disk, an actuator that supports and drives a head, and a ramp that is provided on the pedestal and holds the head in an unloading position. The pedestal has a first face, a first hole provided in the first face, a support sleeve disposed on the first face and coaxial with the screw hole, and a recess provided in the support sleeve. The ramp has a guide face that supports the head, a second face opposing the first face, a second hole opened in the second face and configured to receive the support sleeve, and a protrusion that engages with the recess and regulates a pivoting of the ramp around the support sleeve, and is fixed to the pedestal using a fastener that is passed through the second hold and into the first hole. |
| US12198737B1 |
Temperature control of a laser diode by applying reverse bias in a data storage device configured for heat-assisted magnetic recording
A data storage device includes a laser diode that heats an area of a disk near the read/write head. To mitigate mode hopping, the laser diode is preheated using the laser diode itself, such as by applying a reverse bias to the laser diode, during an interruption in writing of data to the disk. The laser diode is preheated to a temperature that maintains operation of the laser diode within a middle portion of a preselected gain mode and away from abrupt shifts in gain modes. |
| US12198735B2 |
Magnetic disk device and reference pattern writing method of the same
A magnetic disk device detects a shift of writing positions of a spiral pattern, corrects the regulation speed in a direction where the shift is canceled, and writes spiral patterns based on the corrected regulation speed. |
| US12198728B2 |
Video editing system
A system and method for generating a multi-source video to expedite video editing are disclosed. An exemplary system comprises a video switch (234) configured to (a) receive a plurality of video streams (232), each video stream associated with one of a plurality of cameras (120A-120C); and (b) select at least one portion of video from each of the plurality of video streams; a source identifier mapping module (238) configured to generate a plurality of source identifiers (370-372), each source identifier associated with one of the plurality of video streams; a video watermarking module (240) configured to: (a) embed, for each selected portion of video, one of the plurality of source identifiers in the portion of video (350-352); wherein the source identifier embedded in each selected portion of video corresponds to the video stream from which the portion of video was received; and (b) generate a multi-source video (242) comprising the selected portions of video with embedded source identifier; and a video editing processor (150) configured to pre-cache the selected portions of video based on the multi-source video and embedded source identifiers. |
| US12198727B2 |
Video processing method for application and electronic device
The present disclosure relates to a video processing method for an application and an electronic device. The method comprises: receiving a configuration instruction for an audio during an editing process of a video; and configuring the audio during a shooting process of the video in response to the configuration instruction, and displaying a microphone control in a shooting page of the video in a case where a configuration result indicates that the audio is configured during the shooting process of the video; wherein recording of an original sound is configured during the shooting process of the video when the microphone control is in an on state, and not recording of the original sound is configured during the shooting process of the video when the microphone control is in an off state. |
| US12198720B2 |
Systems and methods for speaker diarization
The various implementations described herein include methods and devices for speaker diarization. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining an audio recording and generating an embedding signal from the audio recording. The method further includes factoring the embedding signal to obtain a basis matrix and an activation matrix, including obtaining a sparse optimization of the embedding signal by minimizing a norm corresponding to the factored embedding signal. The method also includes generating a speaker log for the audio recording based on the sparse optimization of the embedding signal. |
| US12198717B2 |
Methods and apparatus to perform signature matching using noise cancellation models to achieve consensus
Examples are disclosed to perform signature matching using noise cancellation models to achieve consensus. Example apparatus disclosed herein include a signature matcher to compare a first stream of monitored media signatures to streams of reference signatures representative of corresponding reference media to determine a first signature match, and compare a second stream of monitored media signatures to the streams of reference signatures to determine a second signature match; a match selector to use at least one the first signature match or the second signature match to identify a first one of the reference media corresponding to the monitored media data; and a creditor interface to output identification data for the first one of the reference media identified with the at least one the first signature match or the second signature match, the identification data to be used to credit a media exposure corresponding to the monitored media. |
| US12198713B2 |
Learning method for generating lip sync image based on machine learning and lip sync image generation device for performing same
A lip sync image generation device based on machine learning according to a disclosed embodiment includes an image synthesis model, which is an artificial neural network model, and which uses a person background image and an utterance audio signal as an input to generate a lip sync image, and a lip sync discrimination model, which is an artificial neural network model, and which discriminates the degree of match between the lip sync image generated by the image synthesis model and the utterance audio signal input to the image synthesis model. |
| US12198710B2 |
Generating coded data representations using neural networks and vector quantizers
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media. According to one aspect, there is provided a method comprising: receiving a new input; processing the new input using an encoder neural network to generate a feature vector representing the new input; and generating a coded representation of the feature vector using a sequence of vector quantizers that are each associated with a respective codebook of code vectors, wherein the coded representation of the feature vector identifies a plurality of code vectors, including a respective code vector from the codebook of each vector quantizer, that define a quantized representation of the feature vector. |
| US12198703B2 |
Encoding method and apparatus
An audio signal encoding method and device are provided. The method and device are used to encode an audio signal to obtain a bitstream representing the analog audio signal, in which a proper bit allocation for spectral coefficients can be performed. |
| US12198693B2 |
Information processing method, information control center device, and computer-readable storage medium
The present invention discloses an information processing method, an information control center device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method comprises: obtaining semantic parsing information corresponding to a sound signal, the semantic parsing information including a designated time; performing a time prediction on the designated time based on a current time to determine an intended time; and generating a target instruction corresponding to the sound signal based on the intended time. With this method, the information control center device can process complex and diverse sound signals, and the designated time and target intention in a sound signal can be extracted from the semantic parsing information. Because of the time prediction on the semantic parsing information with the designated time, the designated time provided in the sound signal can be processed more accurately, and the voice interaction process is more accurate. |
| US12198690B1 |
Voice-based content attribution for speech processing applications
Devices and techniques are generally described for voice-based content attribution for speech processing applications. In some examples, a request for voice-based content may be received from a first speech processing skill. First identifier data associated with the first speech processing skill may be received. A determination may be made that first content that is associated with the request. Voice-based output data describing the first content may be generated. A selection of the first content may be received. Attribution data may be determined based at least in part on the selection of the first content and the first identifier data. The attribution data may be sent to a remote computing device. |
| US12198684B2 |
Electronic device and method for sharing execution information on user input having continuity
An electronic device and method for sharing execution information on a user input having continuity thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a processor configured to, recognize a user intent by analyzing the user input, execute a function and/or action corresponding to the user intent and provide an execution result through the display, store the user input in the memory, in response to a sharing request of the user input, classify a type of the user input requested to be shared, if the classification result shows that the user input requested to be shared is a user input related to a previous user input pre-stored in the memory, generate execution information, based on the at least one previous user input and the user input requested to be shared, and transmit the generated execution information to another electronic device through the communication module. Various other embodiments are also possible. |
| US12198675B2 |
Electronic apparatus and method for controlling thereof
An electronic apparatus which acquires input data to be input into a TTS module for outputting a voice through the TTS module, acquires a voice signal corresponding to the input data through the TTS module, detects an error in the acquired voice signal based on the input data, corrects the input data based on the detection result, and acquires a corrected voice signal corresponding to the corrected input data through the TTS module. |
| US12198668B2 |
Acoustic apparatus and acoustic control method
An acoustic apparatus includes a sound-emitting unit that acoustically outputs a sound signal, at least one sensor that periodically detects accelerations of the user in three directions including a front-rear direction, a left-right direction, and an upper-lower direction, a vibration sound peak detection unit detecting a peak of a vibration sound based on a movement of the user when detection values of the accelerations in the front-rear direction, the left-right direction, and the upper-lower direction satisfy a predetermined condition, and a signal processing unit that determines whether a time difference at which the peak of the vibration sound is detected is periodic. When it is determined that the time difference is periodic, the signal processing unit sets a gain of a cancellation signal to be suppressed from the sound signal acoustically output from the sound-emitting unit based on the peak of the vibration sound. |
| US12198661B2 |
Music synthesizer with spatial metadata output
Described are apparatus for generating and/or processing audio signals. One apparatus includes: a first stage for obtaining an audio signal; a second stage for modifying the audio signal based on one or more control signals for shaping sound represented by the audio signal; a third stage for generating spatial metadata related to the modified audio signal, based at least in part on the one or more control signals; and an output stage for outputting the modified audio signal together with the generated spatial metadata. Also described are corresponding methods, as well as corresponding programs and computer-readable storage media. |
| US12198656B2 |
Display with localized brightness adjustment capabilities
An electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels. The device may have an array of components such as an array of light sensors for capturing fingerprints of a user through an array of corresponding transparent windows in the display. A capacitive touch sensor, proximity sensor, force sensor, or other sensor may be used by control circuitry in the device to monitor for the presence of a user's finger over the array of light sensors. In response, the control circuitry can direct the display to illuminate a subset of the pixels, thereby illuminating the user's finger and causing reflected light from the finger to illuminate the array of light sensors for a fingerprint capture operation. The display may have display driver circuitry that facilitates the momentary illumination of the subset of pixels with uniform flash data while image data is displayed in other portions of the display. |
| US12198649B2 |
Display panel and mobile terminal with reduce crosstalk and improved charging uniformity
This application discloses a display panel and a mobile terminal. The display panel includes a pixel array and data lines. The pixel array includes sub-pixels. A data line is connected to sub-pixels with same polarity in a column of sub-pixels, and the data line and sub-pixels connected to the data line are spaced by at least one sub-pixel, to form a column-spaced connection manner between the data line and the sub-pixels. Thereby, the display panel can reduce crosstalk and improve the charging uniformity. |
| US12198644B2 |
Display device and control method
In a display device, a display includes a display area for displaying a display image, and a peripheral area surrounding the display area. A control circuit receives, from an illuminance sensor for detecting an illuminance of an incident light, the illuminance and controls the display. The display area includes a first end area that is an area located near the peripheral area. The control circuit derives a brightness ratio that is a ratio between a brightness of the first end area and a brightness of the peripheral area, based on the illuminance and image data for the display image. The control circuit controls, when the brightness ratio is larger than a brightness ratio threshold value that is a predefined value, the display to cause the brightness ratio to be equal to or smaller than the brightness ratio threshold value. |
| US12198642B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device, having a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region, is provided. The electronic device includes a light sensor, a first light-emitting element, and a second light-emitting element. The light sensor is disposed in the first region and is configured to receive a light signal. The first light-emitting element is disposed in the first region. The second light-emitting element is disposed in the second region. The first light-emitting element is driven by a first driving signal. The first driving signal has a first duty cycle. The second light-emitting element is driven by a second driving signal. The second driving signal has a second duty cycle. The first duty cycle has a first duty ratio. The second duty cycle has a second duty ratio. The first duty ratio is less than the second duty ratio. The electronic device provides a better light sensing function. |
| US12198641B2 |
Head-mounted electronic device and method for operating the same
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an optical lens, a display module configured to display a screen through the optical lens, a sensor module configured to measure a temperature of the display module at one or more positions, and memory, and at least one processor. The instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to control the display module to display a designated screen, obtain at least one temperature respectively corresponding to the one or more positions from the sensor module while displaying the designated screen, and based on the obtained at least one temperature, change a luminance of at least a part of the designated screen or change a display area of the display module based on the obtained at least one temperature. |
| US12198640B2 |
Power monitoring for correcting ambient temperature measurement by electronic devices
This application is directed to a method for correct temperature measurement. An electronic device includes a temperature sensor that measures an ambient temperature of an environment and a display that is driven by a display driver. The electronic device determines a brightness setting of the display, estimates a display driver current based on the brightness setting, estimates a driver efficiency of the display driver based on the display driver current, and combines a predetermined display driver voltage, the display driver current, and the driver efficiency to determine a power consumption of the display driver. An ambient temperature correction is determined in accordance with the determined power consumption of the display driver, and the measured ambient temperature is thereby corrected using the ambient temperature correction. In some implementations, a power consumption of a distinct heat-generating electronic component is also monitored for adjusting the ambient temperature correction. |
| US12198638B2 |
Electronic device for driving plurality of display areas of display at different driving frequencies
An electronic device and a method for driving a plurality of display areas of a display at different driving frequencies are provided. The electronic device can determine a first driving frequency of a first application, and the position of a first portion on which a first execution screen of the first application is to be displayed, determine a second driving frequency of a second application, and the position of a second portion on which a second execution screen of the second application is to be displayed, determine a third driving frequency of a third application, and the position of a third portion on which a third execution screen of the third application is to be displayed, and drive a first area of the display panel based on a first partial scan rate, and drive a second area of the display panel based on a second partial scan rate. |
| US12198631B2 |
Pixel circuit having two capacitors and display device including the same
Disclosed is a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes: a driving element connected to a first node, a second node, and a third node; a first switch element configured to be turned on to supply a data voltage to a fourth node; a second switch element configured to be turned on to supply a reference voltage or an initialization voltage to the fourth node; a third switch element configured to be turned on to connect the first node to the second node; a fourth switch element configured to be turned on to supply the reference voltage to the third node; a fifth switch element configured to be turned on a fourth gate signal to supply a pixel driving voltage to the first node; and a sixth switch element configured to be turned on to connect the third node to a fifth node. |
| US12198629B2 |
Pixel circuit for threshold compensation, driving method thereof and display device for providing signals
Disclosed are a pixel circuit, a driving method of the pixel circuit and a display device, the pixel circuit including a reset unit, a voltage writing unit and a light-emitting control unit, the reset unit is connected to a reset control signal terminal, and resets the pixel circuit under the control of the reset control signal; the voltage writing unit stores a data signal and a threshold voltage of a driving transistor under the control of the scan control signal; the light-emitting control unit is connected to a light-emitting control signal terminal and includes the driving transistor, and use the data signal and the threshold voltage to generate a current under control of the light-emitting control signal; the light-emitting control unit includes a first type transistor, the reset unit and the voltage writing unit include a second type transistor different from the first type transistor. |
| US12198628B2 |
Light emitting display device
A light emitting display device includes: a light emitting element including an anode connected to a first line; a first transistor; a second transistor including a first electrode connected to a data line, and a second electrode connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor; a third transistor including a first electrode connected to the first line, and a second electrode connected to a first electrode of the first transistor; a fourth transistor including a second electrode connected to the gate electrode; a sixth transistor including a first electrode connected to a second electrode of the first transistor, and a second electrode connected to a second line; a first capacitor including a first electrode connected to the gate electrode and a second electrode connected to the second electrode of the first transistor; and a second capacitor including a second electrode connected to the second electrode of the first transistor. |
| US12198619B2 |
Pixel driving circuit and display device
The present disclosure proposes a pixel driving circuit and a display device. The pixel driving circuit comprises a driving transistor, a first data writing module and a second data writing module. The driving transistor comprises: a channel in a channel layer, a first gate in a first gate layer, and a second gate in a second gate layer, and an output end electrically connected to a light generating unit. The first gate and the second gate are respectively located at opposite sides of the channel. The first data writing module comprises an output end electrically connected to the first gate. The second data writing module comprises an output end electrically connected to the second gate. |
| US12198617B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: a display panel including pixels having light-emitting elements; a timing control unit for variably changing the driving frame frequency of the display panel according to the input frame frequency of digital video data; and a data driving unit for outputting data voltages according to the digital video data, wherein the display panel operates at a first frame frequency for a first frame period and operates at a second frame frequency, which is lower than the first frame frequency, for a second frame period, the second frame period includes a data addressing period in which a data voltage corresponding to each of the pixels is applied to the pixels, and a blank period in which no data voltage is applied to each of the pixels, and the blank period includes a period of initializing a first electrode of a light-emitting element into an initialization voltage. |
| US12198612B1 |
Micro light emitting diode display
A micro light-emitting diode (LED) display is provided. The micro LED display includes a panel, at least one first pixel, and a least one second pixel. The panel is provided with a first display area and a second display area. The first pixel is disposed on the first display area and including a first sub-pixel. The first pixel receives a first control signal. The second pixel which includes a plurality of second sub-pixels is arranged at the second display area and receiving a second control signal. Thereby the display with pixel variation is provided for lower power consumption and reduced manufacturing cost. |
| US12198608B2 |
Display substrate and driving method thereof, and display apparatus
A display substrate includes a plurality of data lines extending in a first direction, and a plurality of sub-pixels. A sub-pixel includes a pixel driving circuit and a light-emitting device. The pixel driving circuit includes a current control circuit, and a duration control circuit electrically connected to the current control circuit and the light-emitting device. The current control circuit is configured to generate a driving signal to drive the light-emitting device to emit light; and the duration control circuit is configured to generate a duration control signal to control a duration of a connection between the current control circuit and the light-emitting device. The current control circuit and the duration control circuit are electrically connected to a same data line. |
| US12198605B2 |
Active control of light emitting diodes and light emitting diode displays
Active control of light emitting diodes (LEDs) and LED packages within LED displays is disclosed. LED packages are disclosed that include a plurality of LED chips that form at least one LED pixel for an LED display or an LED panel. Each LED package may include an active electrical element that is configured to receive a control signal and actively maintain an operating state, such as brightness or grey level while other LED packages are being addressed. The control signal may be provided in a data stream that includes a plurality of data packets. Each data packet may include an identifier that enables each LED package of an array that receives the data packet to take one or more actions based on the identifier or a series of identifiers. |
| US12198603B2 |
Touch display driving apparatus, method and touch display apparatus
A touch display driving apparatus, a method, and a touch display apparatus are provided. The touch display driving apparatus includes: an analog front end, a timing controller, and a master oscillator, herein, the master oscillator is connected with a signal input and output end, the analog front end, and the timing controller, respectively, and is configured to provide a first output signal to the analog front end and provide a second output signal to the timing controller, under controlling of the signal input and output end. |
| US12198599B2 |
Array substrate and display device
The present disclosure relates to an array substrate and a display device. The array substrate includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array, each of the pixel units including a plurality of sub-pixels. The array substrate includes: a plurality of power lines which are arranged in a conductive layer on a base substrate, are arranged at intervals along a first direction and extend along a second direction, and are used for providing power signals to the sub-pixels; and a plurality of power leads which are arranged in another conductive layer, are arranged at intervals along the second direction and extend along the first direction. Projections of at least one of the power lines and at least one of the power leads on the base substrate intersect, and the projections of the power lines and the power leads on the base substrate form a grid-like structure. |
| US12198596B2 |
Display driving apparatus having mura compensation function and method of compensating for mura of the same
A display apparatus having a mura compensation function includes a mura memory in which compensation data corresponding to coefficient values of a mura compensation equation is stored; and a mura compensation circuit configured to perform mura compensations on display data by using the mura compensation equation to which the compensation data has been applied, wherein the coefficient values are set so that the mura compensation equation has been fit to have a curve that satisfies known difference values of selected gray levels, a first estimation difference value of a first estimation gray level higher than the selected gray levels, and a second estimation difference value of a second estimation gray level lower than the selected gray levels, and wherein the compensation data comprises the coefficient values of the mura compensation equation in which all of the known difference values of the selected gray levels, the first estimation difference value, and the second estimation difference value have a difference within a preset error range. |
| US12198586B2 |
Display device and method of driving the same
A display device of the disclosure includes a display panel including pixels, a first sensor configured to sense mobility of the pixels, and a second sensor. The first sensor generates an initial sensing value using a first process to sense the mobility during a first time period from a power-on time point of the display device to a display start time point, and generates a first sensing value using a second process to sense the mobility after the display start time point. The second sensor senses whether the display panel is an abnormal state based on the initial sensing value and the first sensing value. |
| US12198585B2 |
Drive circuit of electro-optical device, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus
In a first operation, in a tournament circuit, any one row of data lines is selected according to a selection signal, and a voltage of the selected data line is output to a test output terminal via an amplifier. In a second operation, a selection circuit in a first layer in the tournament circuit is in an off state between all the data lines and an input end of a selection circuit in a second layer. |
| US12198581B2 |
Highly transparent and stretchable LED display structure
A light emitting diode display device includes: a substrate, a plurality of signal lines, and a plurality of transparent apertures. A plurality of element packages arranged in matrix on one side of the substrate, the two element packages are connected by the signal lines, and the transparent aperture is surrounded by the signal lines. The signal line is a multi-layer structure for transmitting signal, which can reduce the risk of breaking the signal transmission line during stretching. The transparent aperture is stacked with organic materials, and the inorganic material is removed, which reduces the problem of the cracking and extension of the inorganic material layer when the product is stretched. It also has the effect of reducing the penetration loss caused by the refraction of light through multiple layers, so that the transparent aperture forms a high light-transmitting effect. |
| US12198580B2 |
Externally-mounted oscillating display apparatus and methods of use thereof
The invention includes a novel oscillating display device, system, and assembly configured to be mounted to an external surface and allow dynamic oscillation movement of a personalized display in response to an external force, such as air flow generated by the movement of a vehicle, while maintaining the display in an approximately horizontal position relative to an external viewer. The oscillating display of the invention may further include one or more marketing messages or advertisements to be displayed to a viewer. |
| US12198578B2 |
Sports paraphernalia devices
A sports paraphernalia device may be provided as a physical object that is configured to resemble a particular sports entity and that is configured to receive sports entity updates from a sports entity server. A sports entity can employ the sports entity server to send sports entity updates to sports paraphernalia devices to thereby interact directly with fans. Such interactions can include causing the sports paraphernalia devices to provide visual, audio or mechanical output. |
| US12198575B2 |
Prompting users to annotate simulated phishing emails in cybersecurity training
Aspects of the disclosure relate to dynamically generating simulated attack messages configured for annotation by users as part of cybersecurity training. A computing platform may generate a simulated attack message including a plurality of elements and send the simulated attack message to an enterprise user device. Subsequently, the computing platform may receive, from the enterprise user device, user selections annotating selected elements of the plurality of elements of the simulated attack message. The computing platform may thereafter identify one or more training areas for the user based on the user selections received from the enterprise user device, generate a customized training module specific to the identified one or more training areas, and send the customized training module to the enterprise user device. Sending the customized training module to the enterprise user device may cause the enterprise user device to display the customized training module. |
| US12198572B1 |
Apparatus and a method for the generation of an impedance model of a biological chamber
An apparatus for the generation of an impedance model of a biological chamber is disclosed. The apparatus includes a catheter assembly comprising a plurality of electrodes arranged into one or more constraint pairs. The apparatus includes a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor. The memory instructs the processor to receive tank data. The memory instructs the processor to generate a plurality of relative configurations of the plurality of electrodes as a function of the tank data using a compliant configuration generator. The memory instructs the processor to record voltage data from the plurality of electrodes within a biological chamber as a function of the plurality of relative configurations. The memory instructs the processor to map a plurality of impedance metrics for each relative configuration as a function of the voltage data. The memory instructs the processor to generate an impedance model as a function of the map. |
| US12198570B2 |
Determination of surgical performance level
A surgical training system comprising circuitry configured to: obtain surgical information recorded during each of a plurality of surgical performances occurring at a plurality of identified times by each of a plurality of surgeons in a surgeon network; determine a level of influence of each surgeon using the surgical information and the identified times; and output an identifier of a surgeon with a level of influence which meets a predetermined condition as a candidate for receiving training. |
| US12198563B2 |
System and method for instructing one or more weather drones
A computer implemented method and system of instructing one or more weather drones. The method includes analysing a first data set comprising flight path data indicative of the flight paths of one or more aircrafts over a predefined time period. The method includes identifying, based on said analysis, at least one geographical region which is not intercepted by or adjacent to, any of the flight paths of the one or more aircrafts. The method includes instructing one or more weather drones to fly to the at least one geographical region. |
| US12198552B1 |
Occupant facing vehicle display
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a vehicle for maneuvering an occupant of the vehicle to a destination autonomously as well as providing information about the vehicle and the vehicle's environment for display to the occupant. The information includes a representation of a scene depicting an external environment of the vehicle. The representation of the scene includes a visual representation of the vehicle and a visual representation of objects in an external environment of the vehicle. |
| US12198550B2 |
Video distribution apparatus, video distribution method and program
A video distribution device according to an embodiment is a video distribution device that distributes videos from a plurality of cameras installed in each of a plurality of vehicles that perform autonomous driving to a terminal, and includes a probability of collision calculating unit that calculates a probability of collision indicating a probability of the vehicles colliding with an object by a predetermined time of day, a selecting unit that selects, out of the videos of the plurality of cameras, video from a camera installed in a vehicle of which the probability of collision is highest, and a control unit for setting video quality of the video of the selected camera to be high. |
| US12198549B2 |
Vehicle and trip data navigation for communication service monitoring using map graphical interface
An apparatus for monitoring a network communication system onboard a vehicle comprises a network interface and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to obtain location data indicating geographic locations of a plurality of vehicles within a geographic area, generate a first interface comprising a first portion and a second portion, and generate first graphical interface data within the first portion of the first interface. The first graphical interface data represents a map of the geographic area and a plurality of vehicle icons. Each of the plurality of vehicle icons is selectable via user input and at a position on the map corresponding to a respective geographic location of one of the plurality of vehicles. The control circuitry is further configured to generate second graphical interface data within the second portion of the first interface. The second graphical interface data represents vehicle identifiers for the plurality of vehicles. |
| US12198548B1 |
System and method to generate position and state-based electronic signaling from a vehicle
A system and method for using a mobile device to capture the proper execution of a series of one or more tasks with pre-assigned constraints that are associated with a specific set of assets, where those assets have certain known physical attributes and characteristics and are configured in a known manner is disclosed herein. The assets are preferably vehicles such as trucks. |
| US12198546B1 |
Context based alert filtering using ranked risk from vehicle events and/or an accident database
A system for context based alert filtering using ranked risk from vehicle events and/or an accident database includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive a location of a translating object. The processor is configured to trigger a warning to the translating object based at least in part on its location and the existence of an associated hazard, wherein a secondary condition distinct from the hazard is used to determine relevance of the hazard. |
| US12198544B2 |
Probabilistically adaptive traffic management system
The system includes circuitry to send and/or receive data, a processor to process data, memory for storing data to operate a traffic control algorithm. The system is configured to transmit processed data to traffic control devices. The traffic control algorithm includes at least one step of calculating and estimating total probabilities of future traffic locations and time periods, and selecting an action for the traffic control devices to perform during those time periods. |
| US12198537B2 |
Notification system, vehicle transportation system, and computer program
The notification system is configured to be capable of communicating with the outside, and is configured to notify the surroundings of the fact that the conveyance work is performed by a third party who has obtained permission when the vehicle is conveyed by the vehicle transportation device capable of autonomous traveling based on a notification instruction from the outside. |
| US12198534B2 |
System for providing location alerts relating to emergencies
Disclosed is a system for generating alerts communicated to emergency responders and/or contacts indicating a location of an incident. The system comprises a housing, one or more light sources, and a computing processor. A switch is located in the housing and configured to be accessible to a user. When the switch is actuated by a user indicating an incident, the processor provides power to the at least one light source to output light from the housing thereby indicating the location of the system. The system may also control a speaker to output an audible signal and a transmitter to transmit an emergency signal with location information to a device of an emergency responder and/or an emergency contact. The present invention may also be embodied in a software application that is implemented on a mobile device to thereby leverage the components of the mobile device to send alerts. |
| US12198529B2 |
Systems and methods to manage a task based on a staff member's dynamic attributes
A method for managing an alarm issued by a medical device is disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving the alarm from the medical device, ranking a staff member based in part on a dynamic attribute that is associated with the staff member, selecting a recipient based in part on the ranking, and providing an alert to the recipient. |
| US12198528B2 |
Alarm system facial recognition
A premises device associated with a premises security system includes a three-dimensional (3D) depth sensor and a camera and processing circuitry in communication with the camera and the 3D depth sensor. The processing circuitry in the premises device generates a two-dimensional (2D) template of a face based on an image captured by the camera. The 2D template indicates a facial characteristic associated with the person's face. A 3D mapping of the facial characteristic is generated using data from the 3D depth sensor. At least one of an emotional state or facial gesture is determined based on the 3D mapping. The premises security system performs a security action based on the at least one of the determined emotional state or facial gesture. |
| US12198525B2 |
Fall detection and reporting technology
Fall detection and reporting technology, in which output from at least one sensor configured to sense, in a room of a building, activity associated with a patient falling is monitored and a determination is made to capture one or more images of the room based on the monitoring. An image of the room is captured with a camera positioned to include the patient within a field of view of the camera and the captured image of the room is analyzed to detect a state of the patient at a time of capturing the image. A potential fall event for the patient is determined based on the detected state of the patient and a message indicating the potential fall event for the patient is sent based on the determination of the potential fall event for the patient. Techniques are also described for fall detection and reporting using an on-body sensing device. |
| US12198523B2 |
Vehicle with an occupancy detection system and a method for warning regarding a living being forgotten in a vehicle
A vehicle includes an occupancy detection system made up of at least one computing unit and at least four antennae. The occupancy detection system is configured to transmit Wi-Fi radio signals by multiple-input multiple-output communication in an occupancy detection mode. At least two first antennae arranged inside the vehicle are configured to send out Wi-Fi packages and at least two further antennae arranged inside the vehicle are configured to receive these and to transmit them to the computing unit. The computing unit analyses the received Wi-Fi packages, taking into consideration a relation between sending and receiving antennae for investigating channel state information, to determine periodic variations in the channel state information in order to detect the presence of at least one living being in the vehicle. |
| US12198520B2 |
Systems and methods for real-time occupancy detection and temperature monitoring of cooking utensils for food processing assistance
In one embodiment, a method for monitoring a kitchen environment by a smart hood includes accessing sensor data indicating parameters of a cooking utensil detected by the smart hood apparatus from sensors of the smart hood apparatus, wherein the sensors comprise one or more of a camera, a thermal sensor, an audio sensor, or an air particle sensor, determining occupancy information associated with the cooking utensil based on the sensor data by algorithms, wherein the occupancy information indicates whether the cooking utensil is placed within an allowable deviation from a target location on a cooktop, determining a thermal state of an accessory associated with the cooking utensil based on the sensor data by the algorithms, and sending instructions for presenting the occupancy information associated with the cooking utensil and the thermal state of the accessory. |
| US12198518B2 |
Package protection using existing security system
A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a base station of a security system, an identification of a shipment package, the identification received from a first security sensor that is part of the security system. The method further includes adding, by the base station, a shipment device of the shipment package as a second security sensor of the security system. The method further includes configuring, by the base station, the shipment device in protect-mode, wherein the shipment device sounds an alarm in response to the shipment being displaced by at least a predetermined distance when in the protect-mode. The method further includes reconfiguring, by the base station, the shipment device in safe-mode in response to receiving, from a customer associated with the shipment package, a confirmation signal that the shipment package has been safely received. |
| US12198517B1 |
Devices and techniques for deactivating tags
This disclosure describes, in part, devices and methods for deactivating tags. For instance, an electronic device may include antennas that transmit signals and/or fields for deactivating the tags. In some examples, the electronic device includes a first gate that includes a first portion of the antennas and a second gate that includes a second portion of the antennas. To deactivate the tags, the electronic device may detect locations of an object relative to the electronic device. The electronic device may then activate a respective tag and/or a respective group of tags based on the location of the object. For example, the electronic device may activate a first tag and/or a first group of tags when the object is at a first location, activate a second tag and/or a second group of tags when the object is at a second location, and/or so forth. |
| US12198516B1 |
Security camera device
An audio/video (A/V) device includes a first housing and a second housing rotatably coupled to the first housing. The first housing includes a camera oriented in a first direction, one or more microphones oriented in the first direction, one or more first lighting elements oriented in the first direction, one or more second lighting elements oriented in a second direction, one or more third lighting elements oriented in a third direction, and one or more first contacts. The second housing includes a loudspeaker oriented in a fourth direction and one or more second contacts configured to engage with the one or one first contacts. An engagement between the one or more first contacts and the one or more second contacts communicatively couples the loudspeaker to computing components with the first housing. |
| US12198513B2 |
Monitoring device and monitoring method
A monitoring device for monitoring a customer operating a checkout terminal in a store, includes a network interface configured to communicate with the checkout terminal configured to perform checkout processing and an attendant terminal, a camera interface through which an image captured by a camera is received, the camera being installed so as to image the customer operating the checkout terminal, and a processor configured to, upon receipt of a first command indicating that the checkout processing has been started from the checkout terminal, begin monitoring of the image captured by the camera, upon detection of presence of the customer in the image, acquire feature information representing features of the customer from the image, and upon detection of absence of the customer in the image after the feature information is acquired, control the network interface to output to the attendant terminal an alert signal with the acquired feature information. |
| US12198512B2 |
Methods and apparatus to indicate off-platter weigh conditions
Methods and apparatus to indicate off-platter weigh conditions are disclosed herein. An example barcode reading and weighing apparatus includes: a weigh platter having a surface extending in a first transverse plane; a scale configured to measure a weight of an item on the surface; an off-platter detection assembly configured to detect whether a portion of the item is not resting on the weigh platter; a communication interface configured to communicate with a POS system; a processor in communication with the weigh platter, the off-platter detection assembly and the communication interface; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the barcode reading and weighing apparatus to, when the portion of the item is not resting on the weigh platter, modify the weight to form a modified weight and send the modified weight to the POS system via the communication interface, wherein the weight is modified to indicate the portion of the item a3was not resting on the weigh platter. |
| US12198508B2 |
Randomly modulated boosted feature areas for slot machine
A gaming machine produces boosted feature areas of different sizes and/or shapes and/or locations based on chance and alerts players and bystanders of such changes when they happen. |
| US12198506B2 |
Electronic depleting pool lottery
An electronic depleting pool lottery solution, in which there is, for a set of lottery tickets, at least a record that comprises at least an identifier of the set, prize distribution information and permutation information. When a lottery ticket is bought, an initial index value is assigned, and one or more permutations are performed to the initial index value, the result being a final index value. The prize of the lottery ticket is determined using the final index value and the prize distribution information. |
| US12198504B2 |
Game of chance systems and methods
In various embodiments, players may compete in a gaming context. |
| US12198502B2 |
Method and apparatus for a video poker game
The various embodiments generally pertain to a gaming system and method of providing a multi-hand poker wagering game with a bonus hand feature. By way of one example, the player is awarded a new poker hand if the dealt poker hand meets a bad hand criterion. |
| US12198494B2 |
Entertainment game-based gaming device
Embodiments of this concept are direct to a game that includes a combination of an entertainment game and a gambling game. This game combination provides an entertainment game that retains the playability and fun of a skill game or other non-traditional gambling game while allowing for wagers to still be placed and awards won. In some embodiments, the wager-based gambling game is tied directly into the entertainment game, which provides additional entertainment and excitement. Other embodiments separate some of the aspects of the gambling game from the entertainment game to retain the feel of well known gaming devices while still providing an entertainment game to the player. |
| US12198493B2 |
Gaming devices, systems, and methods for reusing wild symbols
A method comprises initiating a gaming session for a grid-based game, tracking a number of consecutive losing plays of the grid-based game during the gaming session, and providing a player of the grid-based game with an option to reuse a wild symbol that appears in one play of the number of consecutive losing plays in a next play when the number of consecutive losing plays exceeds a threshold. The method further comprises receiving first input from the player to reuse the wild symbol in the next play, generating, in response to the first input, a sequence of symbols comprising the wild symbol, and causing a display to display the sequence of symbols populated in the array of cells. |
| US12198491B2 |
Device, an apparatus and a method for directing bank notes
A note directing device (1) comprises a first note feeder (11), a brushed roller (2), and a second note feeder (12); wherein: the first note feeder (11) feeds the bank note (10) along a direction (A) tangential to a bank note (10) surface and presents the leading edge (14) of the bank note (10) to the brushed roller (2); the brushed roller (2) engages with the bank note (10) and rotates in a direction (B) such that the leading edge (14) is directed towards the second note feeder (12); the second note feeder (12) accepts the leading edge (14) and feeds the bank note (10) along a direction (C) tangential to a bank note (10) surface; wherein the brushed roller (2) comprises an axis (4) and bristles (6), each bristle (6) being attached at one end to the axis (4) and extending radially from said axis (4), the distribution of bristles (6) extending along a longitudinal direction (E) of the axis (4). |
| US12198489B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium
An apparatus includes a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions to: obtain a first image including one or more faces captured at a first time by one or more cameras, each of the one or more faces corresponding to a person, among one or more persons; detect a first person, among the one or more persons, by performing facial recognition operation on the one or more faces in the image obtained from the camera; detect a body region corresponding to a face region of the first person; track the body region in a second image captured by the one or more cameras at a second time subsequent to the first time; and output information to control a bather to open based on a determination that the body region is approaching the barrier. |
| US12198487B2 |
Management device, management method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium recording management program
A management device that includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein: the memory is configured to store communication information corresponding to versions of a protocol of a digital key that implements a key operation of a vehicle from a terminal registered at the vehicle; and the processor is configured to, in response to receiving a communication request in accordance with a predetermined version of the communication information from the terminal, delete communication information corresponding to a version preceding the predetermined version from the memory. |
| US12198486B2 |
Keyless puck lock apparatus and system
A keyless puck lock apparatus with wireless communications and power interfaces. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a keyless puck lock system enabling a low cost and high security solution that is difficult to tamper with and defeat. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the system uses a keyless puck lock assembly that includes a hasp assembly and a keyless lock mechanism that does not require any physical mechanical keys so that it does not have a mechanical cylinder inserted therein to lock or unlock the puck lock. Accordingly, the keyless puck lock system in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present invention does not have a physical keyway which is a security attack point that is included in conventional hockey puck-type locks. |
| US12198480B2 |
Using sound to detect vehicle body anomalies
A system for detecting vehicle body damage is disclosed. One or more ultrasonic transceivers are installed on a portion of the vehicle body and configured to transmit and receive ultrasonic sound waves. One or more controllers are coupled to the one or more ultrasonic transceivers. The one or more controllers are programmed to cause the ultrasonic transceiver to emit first ultrasonic sound waves and receive first reflected ultrasonic sound waves, store in memory first sound signature data relating to the first reflected ultrasonic sound waves, cause the ultrasonic transceiver to emit second ultrasonic sound waves and receive second ultrasonic sound waves, and determine a presence of damage on the portion of the vehicle body based on second sound signature data relating to the second reflected ultrasonic sound waves deviating from the first sound signature data. |
| US12198477B1 |
Vehicle diagnostics and malfunctions management
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for managing diagnostics and malfunctions of a vehicle. A route management system detects an event representing an improper operation of an electronic logging device (ELD) of a vehicle; in response to detecting the event: generates, for display, a notification representing the event to a driver of the vehicle; retrieves instructions for resolving the improper operation of the ELD; presents the instructions as part of the notification; and coordinates communicating the event and resolution status of the event to a fleet manager of the vehicle. |
| US12198476B2 |
Systems and methods for vehicle dynamics and powertrain control using multiple horizon optimization
The use of multiple horizon optimization for vehicle dynamics and powertrain control of a vehicle is provided. Long horizon optimization for a trip of the vehicle is performed, and an optimal value function is determined. Data is received from powertrain and/or connectivity features from one or more of components of the vehicle. Short horizon optimization for the trip is performed using a rollout algorithm, the optimal value function, and the received data. The operation of the vehicle is adjusted using results of the short horizon optimization. |
| US12198470B2 |
Server device, terminal device, and display method for controlling facial expressions of a virtual character
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions which, when executed by processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to acquire, from a first sensor, data related to a face of a performer; provide first data, that is generated based on the data, to a classifier; receive, from the classifier, specific facial expression data indicating one specific facial expression among a plurality of predetermined specific facial expressions on the basis of the first data; and select, for display output, a specific facial expression corresponding to the specific facial expression data received from the classifier. |
| US12198466B2 |
Face detection in spherical images using overcapture
Face detection in a spherical image is performed using overcapture. Multiple views of a spherical image are separately processed using face detection, and results of the face detection for those views are projected to a format for further processing of the spherical image. |
| US12198461B2 |
Display panel and display device
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a fingerprint identification module. The fingerprint identification module includes a light sensor and a light-shielding layer disposed on a light incident side of the light sensor. The light-shielding layer is provided with a light-transmitting hole. A light filter structure is disposed in the light-transmitting hole. The display panel and the display device can filter out red light and near-infrared light entering the fingerprint identification module, so that the display panel can successfully perform fingerprint identifications even in a strong light environment. |
| US12198458B2 |
Character recognition method for dynamic images
A character recognition method includes the stages as detailed in the following paragraph. An image is received, wherein the image is one in a plurality of consecutive images. A target object in the image is detected. Object information of the target object is defined according to the area ratio of the target object occupied in the image. Whether the target object in the image is the same as the target object in the previous image is determined according to the object information. Character recognition on the target object is performed to obtain a recognition result. The weighting score of the recognition result is calculated according to the object information and the recognition result. The weighting score of the recognition result of the target object in the consecutive images is accumulated until the weighting score is higher than a preset value, and the recognition result is output. |
| US12198454B2 |
Attention mechanism-based 12-lead electrocardiogram classification method and apparatus
An attention mechanism-based 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) classification method is described, the method including acquiring an original image of a 12-lead ECG, segmenting waveform data recorded in the original image to obtain segmented waveform data for each lead in the 12-lead ECG, performing depth feature extraction on the segmented waveform data of said each lead to obtain a first feature map of said each lead, performing feature transformation on the first feature map of said each lead based on an attention mechanism to obtain a depth feature of said each lead, and classifying the depth feature of said each lead to obtain a classification result for the original image. The classification method can make full use of the 12-lead ECG for overall classification and improve the accuracy of image classification. |
| US12198453B2 |
Systems and methods for open vocabulary object detection
Embodiments described herein provide methods and systems for open vocabulary object detection of images. given a pre-trained vision-language model and an image-caption pair, an activation map may be computed in the image that corresponds to an object of interest mentioned in the caption. The activation map is then converted into a pseudo bounding-box label for the corresponding object category. The open vocabulary detector is then directly supervised by these pseudo box-labels, which enables training object detectors with no human-provided bounding-box annotations. |
| US12198449B2 |
Driving assistance apparatus, computer program, and recording medium storing computer program
A driving assistance apparatus configured to assist driving of a vehicle includes one or more processors and one or more memories communicably coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute a process including determining whether the vehicle is in a situation in which the vehicle is obstructing passage of a following vehicle; that the vehicle is in the situation, determining whether a driver of the vehicle is aware of the situation; upon determining that the driver is aware of the situation, determining whether the driver is able to determine a driving operation for avoiding the situation; and, upon not determining that the driver is able to determine the driving operation, setting an assistance operation for avoiding the situation, based on consciousness of the driver and a width of a road on which the vehicle is traveling. |
| US12198448B2 |
Computer-assisted method for analyzing person-related accident data
A computer-assisted method for analyzing person-related accident data of one or more vehicle occupants, the person-related accident data including at least image data of a video sequence of the vehicle occupants during an accident. The computer-assisted method includes at least one first step of detecting a pattern on the basis of the image data, and at least one second step of comparing the detected pattern with a number of previously stored patterns. |
| US12198445B2 |
Drive assist device, drive assist method, and program
A drive assist device includes: a marking recognition unit configured to recognize a road marking on a driving lane and a road marking on a first adjacent lane from an image of a pavement captured from a vehicle and specify a permitted travel direction of the driving lane and a permitted travel direction of the first adjacent lane; a detection unit configured to detect a lane change performed by the vehicle; and an information management unit configured to cause a storage unit to store first information indicating the permitted travel direction of the driving lane and second information indicating the permitted travel direction of the first adjacent lane specified by the marking recognition unit, and in a case in which the detection unit detects the lane change to the first adjacent lane, update the information stored in the storage unit to change the second information as the permitted travel direction of the driving lane and the first information as the permitted travel direction of a second adjacent lane. |
| US12198442B2 |
Systems and methods for providing updatable roadway codes
Systems and methods for providing updatable roadway codes are described. One embodiment of a method includes locating a roadway code along a roadway and determining stored data provided by the roadway code. Some embodiments include providing at least a portion of the stored data to the user and capturing environmental data along the roadway, where the environmental data corresponds with the stored data. Still some embodiments include comparing the stored data with the environmental data to determine whether the stored data is accurate and in response to determining that the stored data is not accurate, providing a communication to update the stored data. |
| US12198440B2 |
Vehicle perception by adjusting deep neural network confidence valves based on k-means clustering
Vehicle perception techniques include obtaining a training dataset represented by N training histograms, in an image feature space, corresponding to N training images, K-means clustering the N training histograms to determine K clusters with respective K respective cluster centers, wherein K and N are integers greater than or equal to one and K is less than or equal to N, comparing the N training histograms to their respective K cluster centers to determine maximum in-class distances for each of K clusters, applying a deep neural network (DNN) to input images of the set of inputs to output detected/classified objects with respective confidence scores, obtaining adjusted confidence scores by adjusting the confidence scores output by the DNN based on distance ratios of (i) minimal distances of input histograms representing the input images to the K cluster centers and (ii) the respective maximum in-class. |
| US12198437B1 |
Parking facility system for vehicle detection and identification
Systems, tools and methods to allow for control and management of a free flowing parking facility. Accurate recognition of vehicles may be achieved by identifying a target time and location for capturing an image of the vehicle based on a predicted path of the vehicle. The predicted path may be calculated based on sensor readings that detect the presence of a vehicle as well as the speed at which it is traveling. |
| US12198435B2 |
Video highlight extraction method and system, and storage medium
The present disclosure relates to a video highlight extraction method and system, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a to-be-processed online class video and a teacher-student interaction feature and dividing the to-be-processed online class video into a plurality of target videos; respectively analysis on pictures corresponding to all frames of a target video, to obtain a visual feature set of a student and a visual feature set of a teacher in the pictures corresponding to the frames; determining timeliness of student feedback; performing speech recognition on the speech segment corresponding to the student and the speech segment corresponding to the teacher and extracting a key word, to determine fluency of language of the teacher, fluency of language of the student, and correctness of teaching knowledge; and determining a highlight in the to-be-processed online class video according to priorities of the target videos. |
| US12198434B2 |
Dynamic triggering and processing of purchase based on computer detection of media object
A method and system for processing a purchase based on image recognition in a video stream being presented by a computing system. A method includes receiving a first user-input defining a first user-request to pause presentation of the video stream, and, responsive to the first user-input, pausing by the computing system the presentation of the video stream at a video frame. Further, the method includes detecting based on computer-vision analysis of the video frame, at least one object depicted by the video frame. Additionally, the method includes correlating the detected object with at least one purchasable item and presenting a prompt for purchase of the at least one purchasable item. Also, the method includes receiving a second user-input requesting to purchase a given one of the at least one purchasable item and processing, responsive to receiving the second user-input, a purchase of the given purchasable item for the user. |
| US12198427B2 |
Attention-based content visualization for an extended reality environment
Techniques for adaptively visualizing content in an artificial environment based on the attention of a user. In one particular aspect, a computer-implemented method is provided that includes obtaining input data from a user, inferring content that is of interest to the user based on features gathered from the user's attention in the input data, identifying virtual content data based on the content that is of interest to the user, determining modifications to be applied to the virtual content data based on relevancy, applying the modifications to the virtual content data to generate a final format for the virtual content data, and rendering virtual content in the extended reality environment displayed to the user based on the final format for the virtual content data. The virtual content rendered from relevant virtual content data is more prominently displayed as compared to the virtual content rendered from semi-relevant and non-relevant virtual content data. |
| US12198424B2 |
Vegetation inspection using multiple digital images
Systems, methods, and software of inspecting growth areas for plants. In one embodiment, an inspection system captures a plurality of digital images of the growth area from different angles in relation to the growth area, and processes the digital images to identify a boundary of the growth area in the digital images. The inspection system combines the digital images based on the boundary identified in the digital images to generate a composite image of the growth area, and performs image processing on the composite image to detect one or more deficient growth regions in the growth area. The inspection system highlights the deficient growth regions in the composite image, and displays the composite image with the deficient growth regions highlighted. |
| US12198423B2 |
Method and system for assessing damage to infrastructure
A method and system may survey a property using aerial images captured from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a manned aerial vehicle (MAV) or from a satellite device. The method may include identifying a commercial property for a UAV to perform surveillance, and directing the UAV to hover over the commercial property and capture aerial images at predetermined time intervals. Furthermore, the method may include receiving the aerial images of the commercial property captured at the predetermined time intervals, detecting a surveillance event at the commercial property, generating a surveillance alert, and transmitting the surveillance alert to an electronic device associated with an owner of the commercial property. |
| US12198422B2 |
Stereo abort of unmanned aerial vehicle deliveries
A method includes, during a delivery process of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), receiving, by an image processing system, a depth image captured by a downward-facing stereo camera on the UAV. One or more pixels are within a sample area of the depth image and are associated with corresponding depth values indicative of distances of one or more objects to the downward-facing stereo camera. The method also includes determining, by the image processing system an estimated depth value representative of depth values within the sample area. The method further includes determining that the estimated depth value is below a trigger depth. The method further includes, based at least on determining that the estimated depth value is below the trigger depth, aborting the delivery process of the UAV. |
| US12198420B2 |
Adversarial learning for finegrained image search
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for using adversarial learning for fine-grained image search. An image search system receives a search query that includes an input image depicting an object. The search system generates, using a generator, a vector representation of the object in a normalized view. The generator was trained based on a set of reference images of known objects in multiple views, and feedback data received from an evaluator that indicates performance of the generator at generating vector representations of the known objects in the normalized view. The evaluator including a discriminator sub-module, a normalizer sub-module, and a semantic embedding sub-module that generate the feedback data. The image search system identifies, based on the vector representation of the object, a set of other images depicting the object, and returns at least one of the other images in response to the search query. |
| US12198415B2 |
System, devices and/or processes for application of kernel coefficients
Example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, techniques to process pixel values sampled from a multi color channel imaging device. In particular, methods and/or techniques to process pixel samples for interpolating pixel values for one or more color channels. |
| US12198413B2 |
Ephemeral content digests for assistant systems
In one embodiment, a method includes, by one or more computing systems, receiving, by an assistant xbot associated with the one or more computing systems, a user request for a content digest, retrieving one or more content objects corresponding to the user request, generating one or more slides for the one or more retrieved content objects, respectively, and providing, by the assistant xbot, instructions for presenting the content digest responsive to the request from the first user, wherein the content digest comprises the one or more slides, and wherein one or more of the slides of the content digest are removed from the content digest after a predetermined time period. |
| US12198410B2 |
Image analysis model comprising a discrete coupling layer
A computer-implemented method of training an image analysis model. The image analysis model comprises a coupling layer that determines an output vector of discrete values from an input vector of discrete values. First, a machine learnable submodel of the coupling layer is trained to predict a second input part of the coupling layer from a first input part of the coupling layer. Next, the image analysis model is trained. This involves applying the coupling layer by applying the machine learnable submodel to the first input part to obtain a prediction of the second input part; and determining a second output part by applying an invertible mapping to the second input part defined by the prediction of the second input part. The mapping maps a predicted value of an element of the second input part to a fixed value independent from the predicted value. |
| US12198407B2 |
Artificial intelligence-based image processing method and apparatus, device, and storage medium
An artificial intelligence-based image processing method includes: obtaining a first sample image of a source domain and a second sample image of a target domain, the first sample image of the source domain carrying a corresponding target processing result; converting the first sample image into a target sample image, the target sample image carrying a corresponding target processing result; training a first image processing model based on the target sample image and the target processing result corresponding to the target sample image, to obtain a second image processing model; and inputting, in response to obtaining a human tissue image of the target domain, the human tissue image into the second image processing model, positioning, by the second image processing model, a target human tissue in the human tissue image, and outputting position information of the target human tissue in the human tissue image. |
| US12198401B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method and recording medium
An information processing apparatus (2) includes: a reducing unit (211) that generates a second image (IMG2) by reducing a first image (MGI) in which a target object is included; a first extracting unit (212) that extracts, as a first key point, a key point (KP) of the target object from the second image; a setting unit (213) that sets a target area (TA) that designates a part of the first image based on the first key point; and a second extracting unit (214) that extracts, as a second key point, a key point of the target object from a target image (IMG1 TA) of the first image that is included in the target area. |
| US12198399B2 |
Display system and display method
A luminance determining unit determines a luminance distribution of an exterior circumstantial image in a line-of-sight direction of a driver, and a luminance changing unit determines a bright region of this luminance distribution. Further, the luminance changing unit determines a luminance after the change in a peripheral region of this bright region. A virtual-image creating unit creates a virtual image based on the determined luminance, and a display processing unit displays this virtual image on a display unit. In this manner, since a display system displays the virtual image for use in increasing the luminance in periphery of the bright region, the feeling of the brightness for the driver can be moderated, and therefore, the visual recognition can be improved. That is, the display system can output the virtual image depending on the circumstances. |
| US12198396B2 |
Enhanced object detection for autonomous vehicles based on field view
Systems and methods for enhanced object detection for autonomous vehicles based on field of view. An example method includes obtaining an image from an image sensor of one or more image sensors positioned about a vehicle. A field of view for the image is determined, with the field of view being associated with a vanishing line. A crop portion corresponding to the field of view is generated from the image, with a remaining portion of the image being downsampled. Information associated with detected objects depicted in the image is outputted based on a convolutional neural network, with detecting objects being based on performing a forward pass through the convolutional neural network of the crop portion and the remaining portion. |
| US12198394B2 |
Object recognition method and apparatus, electronic device and readable storage medium
Provided is an object recognition method which includes obtaining a first visible-light image acquired by the first camera device and a second visible-light image acquired by the second camera device; performing exposure processing on the first visible-light image according to the luminance information of the bright area image of the first visible-light image and performing exposure processing on the second visible-light image according to the luminance information of the dark area images of the first visible-light image and/or the second visible-light image, where the dark area image is an area image having a luminance value less than or equal to the preset value; and performing target object detection on the first visible-light image obtained after exposure processing and the second visible-light image obtained after exposure processing and recognizing and verifying a target object according to the detection result. |
| US12198393B2 |
Imaging system, imaging method, and computer readable medium
An imaging system (10) includes: iris imaging means (1) for photographing an iris of a subject; first irradiation means (2a) for applying light to the subject; and second irradiation means (2b) for applying light to the subject in such a manner that an angle between an optical axis of the light emitted from the second irradiation means (2b) and an optical axis of the iris imaging means (1) is larger than an angle between an optical axis of the light emitted from the first irradiation means (2a) and the optical axis of the iris imaging means (1). |
| US12198392B2 |
Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device
A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: encoding geometry information of each of three-dimensional points based on one of a first geometry information encoding method of encoding using octree division and a second geometry information encoding method of encoding without using octree division; and generating a bitstream including the geometry information encoded and a geometry information flag indicating whether the encoding was performed based on the first geometry information encoding method or the second geometry information encoding method. In the generating of the bitstream: when the encoding is performed based on the first geometry information encoding method, the bitstream including a parameter set used in octree division is generated; and when the encoding is performed based on the second geometry information encoding method, the bitstream not including the parameter set used for octree division is generated. |
| US12198389B2 |
Three-dimensional mesh compression using a video encoder
A system comprises an encoder configured to compress and encode data for a three-dimensional mesh using a video encoding technique. To compress the three-dimensional mesh, the encoder determines sub-meshes and for each sub-mesh: texture patches and geometry patches. Also the encoder determines patch connectivity information and patch texture coordinates for the texture patches and geometry patches. The texture patches and geometry patches are packed into video image frames and encoded using a video codec. Additionally, the encoder determines boundary stitching information for the sub-meshes. A decoder receives a bit stream as generated by the encoder and reconstructs the three-dimensional mesh. |
| US12198386B2 |
Vehicle external environment imaging apparatus
A vehicle external environment imaging apparatus includes imaging devices and a controller. The imaging devices are disposed on a vehicle to perform imaging of a vehicle external environment. The controller generates information regarding a distance or a direction of a vehicle-external imaging target with imaging images of the imaging devices. At least two imaging devices are disposed on the vehicle to be able to perform duplicated imaging of a common imaging region. The controller generates, on the basis of a distance and a direction in an imaging image obtained by a first one of the at least two imaging devices, correction information regarding a distance, a direction or both of the vehicle-external imaging target based on an imaging position which is to be used in a monocular process on an imaging image of at least one the at least two imaging devices that is different from the first one. |
| US12198383B2 |
Camera parameter estimation apparatus, camera parameter estimation method, and camera parameter estimation program
A camera parameter estimating device includes an obtaining unit which obtains time series frames including a plurality of subject images existing in a common field of vision shared by multiple cameras for each of the cameras, a point estimating unit which estimates the coordinates of a joint point determined in the subject image in the time-series frame for each of the subject images, a motion trajectory estimating unit which estimates the trajectory of the joint point between the time-series frames for each of the cameras, an inter-camera correspondence estimating unit which estimates a group of the trajectories between the frames obtained respectively from a pair of the cameras, and a parameter estimating unit which estimates a camera parameter for each of the cameras according to the group of trajectories. |
| US12198382B2 |
Automatic trailer camera calibration
A method for calibrating extrinsic parameters (182) of a trailer camera (132d, 132e, 132f) supported by a trailer (106) attached to a tow vehicle (102). The method includes determining a three-dimensional feature map (162) from one or more vehicle images (133) received from a camera (132a, 132b, 132c) supported by the tow vehicle and identifying reference points (163) within the three-dimensional feature map. The method includes detecting the reference points within one or more trailer images received from the trailer camera after the vehicle and the trailer moved a predefined distance in the forward direction. The method also includes determining a trailer camera location (172) of the trailer camera (132d, 132e, 132f) relative to the three-dimensional feature map (162) and determining a trailer reference point (184) based on the trailer camera location. The method also includes determining extrinsic parameters (182) of the trailer camera relative to the trailer reference point. |
| US12198378B2 |
Technologies for fusing data from multiple sensors to improve object detection, identification, and localization
Technologies for performing sensor fusion include a compute device. The compute device includes circuitry configured to obtain detection data indicative of objects detected by each of multiple sensors of a host system. The detection data includes camera detection data indicative of a two or three dimensional image of detected objects and lidar detection data indicative of depths of detected objects. The circuitry is also configured to merge the detection data from the multiple sensors to define final bounding shapes for the objects. |
| US12198374B2 |
Method for training SMPL parameter prediction model, computer device, and storage medium
A method for training an SMPL parameter prediction model, including: obtaining a sample picture; inputting the sample picture into a pose parameter prediction model to obtain a predicted pose parameter; inputting the sample picture into a shape parameter prediction model to obtain a predicted shape parameter; calculating model prediction losses according to an SMPL parameter prediction model and annotation information of the sample picture; and updating the pose parameter prediction model and the shape parameter prediction model according to the model prediction losses. |
| US12198373B2 |
Scenario triggering and interaction based on target positioning and identification
A method for scenario triggering and interaction is disclosed. One or more camera devices (110) are used to monitor a target object (142) in a scene (140). A target object vector (143a) is generated from captured images of each camera device (110) to represent a line of sight from the camera device (110) to the target object (142). A target object position (129) in the scene (140) is then determined from an intersection of the target object vectors (143a). The target object position (129) is compared with a task triggering region (144) in the scene (140) to trigger a pre-determined task when the target object (142) is within or around the task triggering region (144). For example, the target object (142) may be a human user and augmented reality contents are presented to the human user when the human user is detected to be within or around the task triggering region (144). |
| US12198370B2 |
Image forming apparatus for notifying a user that a different user operated the image forming apparatus when the user is detected
An information processing device including multiple operation units operable for a user, comprises: a storage; and a hardware processor that: detects the user; detects the operation unit operated by a first user from among the multiple operation units when the first user is being detected; stores operation information in which operation unit is recorded in the storage; and reads the operation information in the storage and notifies a second user of the operation unit operated by the first user when the second user is detected. |
| US12198369B2 |
Three-dimensional pose estimation method, program, recording medium and three-dimensional pose estimation device
A method for estimating a three-dimensional pose from control points of an image of the object, includes: selecting, for each pair consisting of first and second control points that define a skeleton of the object, relative positions of the first control point with respect to the second control point on the image, estimating, for each of the selected relative positions, a relative depth of the first control point with respect to the second control point over the entire image based on an assumption that the second control point exists at each position on the image; detecting two-dimensional positions of the control points on the image for the object using the image; obtaining, based on the relative depth estimated for each of the selected relative positions and the two-dimensional positions of the control points, relative three-dimensional positions of the control points; and estimating the three-dimensional pose for the object. |
| US12198367B2 |
Portable dimensional reference for 3-D tower modeling
A portable dimensional reference (PDR) that is transportable to a tower site and deployable on site at ground level near a tower. The PDR includes a pair of target pads and multiple connecting segments, which may be attached end-to-end between the target pads. The target pads are marked with respective targets that enable photogrammetry software to identify the targets, their locations, and the distance between them with high precision, enabling the software to apply the known distance as a scale constraint for accurately scaling dimensions of imaged components of the tower. |
| US12198364B2 |
Computer vision systems and methods for detecting and modeling features of structures in images
A computer vision system and method for detecting and modeling features of a building in a plurality of images is provided. The system includes at least one computer system in communication with a database of aerial imagery, and computer vision system code executed by the at last one computer system which automatically detects contours and infers interior roof features of the building. The system first processes the plurality of images to identify a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) line segments in each image. Then, the system processes the plurality of 2D line segments to generate a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) line segments. The plurality of 2D line segments are then processed to detect a contour of the structure, and the contour of the structure is utilized by the system to infer interior roof lines from the structure. A model of the roof of the structure is finally generated using the detected contour and interior roof lines. The system can execute a straight-skeleton algorithm to infer the interior roof lines from the detected contour. Additionally, the system can detect roof rakes from the images. |
| US12198363B2 |
Systems and methods for reconstructing objects using transitional images
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by an object reconstruction module, a first image and a second image. The first image includes a first region of an object and the second image comprises a second region of the object. The method also includes identifying, by the object reconstruction module, a transitional image. The transitional image includes the first region of the object and the second region of the object. The method further includes determining, by the object reconstruction module, that the first region of the object in the transitional image and the first region of the object in the first image are equivalent regions and generating, by the object reconstruction module, a reconstruction of the object using the first image and the transitional image. The reconstruction of the object includes the first region of the object and the second region of the object and excludes equivalent regions. |
| US12198359B2 |
Powering up cameras based on shared video footage from audio/video recording and communication devices
Systems and methods for communicating in a network using share signals in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure are provided. In one embodiment, a method for communicating in a network may include receiving, from a first client device associated with an A/V recording and communication device, at a backend server in network communication with the A/V recording and communication device, a share signal comprising location data and first image data captured by a first camera of the A/V recording and communication device, the share signal including a command to share the first image data with a network of users; generating a power-up command signal based on the share signal; identifying at least one second camera to power up; and transmitting the power-up command signal to the at least one second camera, by the backend server, using a network interface. |
| US12198358B2 |
Deep structured scene flow for autonomous devices
Systems, methods, tangible non-transitory computer-readable media, and devices associated with motion flow estimation are provided. For example, scene data including representations of an environment over a first set of time intervals can be accessed. Extracted visual cues can be generated based on the representations and machine-learned feature extraction models. At least one of the machine-learned feature extraction models can be configured to generate a portion of the extracted visual cues based on a first set of the representations of the environment from a first perspective and a second set of the representations of the environment from a second perspective. The extracted visual cues can be encoded using energy functions. Three-dimensional motion estimates of object instances at time intervals subsequent to the first set of time intervals can be determined based on the energy functions and machine-learned inference models. |
| US12198353B2 |
Methods and systems for automatically generating backdrop imagery for a graphical user interface
In one aspect, an example method for generating a candidate image for use as backdrop imagery for a graphical user interface is disclosed. The method includes receiving a raw image and determining an edge image from the raw image using edge detection. The method also includes identifying a candidate region of interest (ROI) in the raw image based on the candidate ROI enclosing a portion of the edge image having edge densities exceeding a threshold edge density. The method also includes manipulating the raw image relative to a backdrop imagery canvas for a graphical user interface based on a location of the candidate ROI within the raw image. The method also includes generating, based on the manipulating, a set of candidate backdrop images in which at least a portion of the candidate ROI occupies a preselected area of the backdrop imagery canvas, and storing the set of candidate backdrop images. |
| US12198352B2 |
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for creating 3-dimensional representations exhibiting geometric and surface characteristics of brain lesions
Methods, apparatuses, systems, and implementations for creating 3-dimensional (3D) representations exhibiting geometric and surface characteristics of brain lesions are disclosed. 2D and/or 3D MRI images of the brain may be acquired. Brain lesions and other abnormalities may be identified and isolated with each lesion serving as a region of interest (ROI). Saved ROI may be converted into stereolithography format, maximum intensity projection (MIP) images, and/or orthographic projection images. Data corresponding to these resulting 3D brain lesion images may be used to create 3D printed models of the isolated brain lesions using 3D printing technology. Analysis of the 3D brain lesion images and the 3D printed brain lesion models may enable a more efficient and accurate way of determining brain lesion etiologies. |
| US12198351B2 |
System and method for instance segmentation in pathological images using object-guided framework
A method, computer program, and computer system are provided for image segmentation. Image data, such as biological image data, is received. One or more objects associated with the received image data is detected. One or more regions of interest are determined within the receive image data corresponding to one or more segments based on the detected objects. |
| US12198350B2 |
Segmentation system and method of an ascending aorta and a coronary artery from CCTA using a hybrid approach
Provided are a segmentation system and method of an ascending aorta and a coronary artery from coronary CT angiography (CCTA) using a hybrid approach, which relates to a technology of extracting only the shape of the coronary artery and ascending aorta from the input coronary CT medical image. |
| US12198349B2 |
Methods and systems for real-time image 3D segmentation regularization
Various methods and systems are provided for real-time image segmentation of medical image data. In one example, the real-time image segmentation of the medical image data may include updating an initial segmentation of the medical image data in real-time. The update may be based on a user input to a regularization brush applied to the medical image data, the user input to the regularization brush allowing modification of a volume of the initial segmentation. |
| US12198347B2 |
Mask for satellite image data
A computing device is provided, including a processor configured to receive imaging relevance data for a geographic area. The processor may be further configured to generate, based at least in part on the imaging relevance data, image mask instructions specifying a region of interest included in the geographic area. The processor may be further configured to transmit the image mask instructions to a satellite. The processor may be further configured to receive, from the satellite, filtered satellite image data of the region of interest. One or more deprioritized regions of the geographic area outside the region of interest may be excluded from the filtered satellite image data. |
| US12198343B2 |
Multi-modal computer-aided diagnosis systems and methods for prostate cancer
Methods and apparatus for computer-aided prostate condition diagnosis are disclosed. An example computer-aided prostate condition diagnosis apparatus includes memory to store instructions and a processor. The example processor can detect a lesion from an image of a prostate gland and generate a mapping of the lesion from the image to a sector map, the generating the mapping of the lesion comprising identifying a depth region of the lesion, wherein the depth region indicates a location of the lesion along a depth axis. The processor can also provide the sector map comprising a representation of the lesion within the prostate gland mapped from the image to the sector map. |
| US12198342B2 |
Method and system for computer-aided triage
A system for computer-aided triage can include a router, a remote computing system, and a client application. A method for computer-aided triage can include determining a parameter associated with a data packet, determining a treatment option based on the parameter, and transmitting information to a device associated with a second point of care. |
| US12198341B2 |
Personalized registration method for template library of anatomical morphology and mechanical properties of materials of bone CT images
The present invention provides a personalized registration method for a template library of anatomical morphology and mechanical properties of materials of bone CT images. In the method, a large number of bone CT images of healthy persons are used to build a statistical model capable of containing anatomical morphology and mechanical properties of materials of bones, the parameterized description of bones of a patient is realized by a personalized registration method for the statistical model and bone CT images, a prosthesis template library is built by using images of the patient and registration parameters, and the template library is matched with the CT images of the patient by the personalized registration method to retrieve template images and prosthesis models similar to the bone conditions of the patient from the template library as the initial reference template for design of personalized prosthesis implants. |
| US12198334B2 |
Method for detecting radiological progression in cancer surveillance
A method and computer-based system is provided that assists physicians in detecting early tumor growth and allowing modification of treatment to have a positive impact on medical management, patient morbidity, outcomes and survival times. The method comprises measuring tumor volumes from radiological images to predict growth by a statistical method. The methods allow detection of increases in tumor size earlier than is currently possible and, therefore, advantageous in modifying or optimizing treatment. |
| US12198333B2 |
Method of providing diagnostic information on brain disease using gray-level co-occurrence matrix and pyramid directional filter bank contourlet transform with kernel support vector machine
The present invention relates to a method of providing diagnostic information for brain diseases classification, which can classify brain diseases in an improved and automated manner through magnetic resonance image pre-processing, steps of contourlet transform, steps of feature extraction and selection, and steps of cross-validation. The present invention relates to a diagnostic information providing method capable of providing an optimal diagnostic means. The present invention relates to a method for providing diagnostic information for brain diseases classification, and relates to a method for providing an optimal diagnostic means for classifying brain diseases in an improved and automated manner through the steps of the magnetic resonance imaging pre-processing, contourlet transform, feature extraction and selection, and cross-validation. |
| US12198331B2 |
Multi-scale tumor cell detection and classification
Methods and systems for training a machine learning model include generating pairs of training pixel patches from a dataset of training images, each pair including a first patch representing a part of a respective training image, and a second patch, centered at the same location as the first, representing a larger part of the training image, being resized to a same size of as the first patch. A detection model is trained using the first pixel patches, to detect and locate cells in the images. A classification model is trained using the first pixel patches, to classify cells according to whether the detected cells are cancerous, based on cell location information generated by the detection model. A segmentation model is trained using the second pixel patches, to locate and classify cancerous arrangements of cells in the images. |
| US12198330B2 |
Artificial-intelligence-based determination of relative positions of objects in medical images
Methods and systems are described which allow a classification of first and second objects in an X-ray projection image. A respective representation and localization of both objects are determined by applying the models to match the objects in the X-ray image and a spatial relation of the classified objects is obtained. Such methods and systems take advantage of artificial intelligence. |
| US12198327B2 |
Measurement system, method for generating learning model to be used when performing image measurement of semiconductor including predetermined structure, and recording medium for storing program for causing computer to execute processing for generating learning model to be used when performing image measurement of semiconductor including predetermined structure
The present invention proposes a technique for enabling the execution of measurement processing without referring to a design drawing for which it is difficult to adjust or obtain parameters for image processing that requires knowhow. This measurement system according to the present disclosure refers to a learning model generated on the basis of teaching data, which is generated from a sample image of a semiconductor, and the sample image, generates a region-segmented image from an input image (measurement subject) of a semiconductor having a predetermined structure, and uses the region-segmented image to perform image measurement. Here, the teaching data is an image in which labels, which include a structure of the semiconductor in the sample image, are assigned to each pixel of the image, and the learning model includes parameters for deducing teaching data from the sample image (see indicator 1). |
| US12198324B2 |
Evaluation index calculation device, evaluation index calculation method, and evaluation index calculation program
The present disclosure provides an evaluation index calculation device, an evaluation index calculation method, and an evaluation index calculation program which are capable of diversifying an evaluation index representing an optical state of a light control sheet. The evaluation index calculation device acquires an evaluation image of an imaging target in a predetermined environment, captured via a light control sheet, and calculates a degree of obscuring caused by the light control sheet in the evaluation image, as an evaluation index, through image analysis of the evaluation image. |
| US12198323B2 |
Image processing techniques for jetting quality classification in additive manufacturing
Techniques for determining print quality for a 3D printer are disclosed. An example method includes obtaining an image of a stream of material jetted from a nozzle of the 3D printer, and binarizing the image to distinguish background features from foreground features contained in the image. The method also includes identifying elements of jetted material in the foreground features, and computing statistical data characterizing the identified elements. The method also includes generating a quality score of jetting quality based on the statistical data and controlling the 3D printer based on the quality score. The quality score indicates a degree to which the elements of jetted material form droplets of a same size, shape, alignment, and jetting frequency. |
| US12198319B2 |
Syclops
The present invention is an imaging system which includes an optional hand-held mobile device and software application that allows a user to scan and communicates data to secured third parties. The embodiment allows such devices to transmit and receive critical imaging information. The SYCLOPS™ system will provide statistical data analysis and broadcast secured information to users in a manner that have not been previously utilized. |
| US12198316B2 |
Fusing map reconstructions generated from multiple batches of data
Examples disclosed herein may involve a computing system that is operable to (i) receive image data captured from one or more devices, (ii) based on the image data, generate at least two batches of data corresponding to an area of a global map, wherein each batch of data comprises (a) a respective group of images from the received image data, and (b) one or more common images comprising one or more common visual features, (iii) generate a respective reconstruction of the area of the global map for each of the at least two batches of data, and (iv) fuse the respective reconstructions of the area of the global map using the one or more common visual features from the one or more common images. |
| US12198314B2 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method for contrast enhancement
An image processing method includes: receiving an input image; performing a low-frequency image regulating operation to regulate the local intensity of the image of pixel unit(s) according to low-frequency information of the image of pixel unit(s) of the input image; performing a high-frequency image regulating operation to improve the details of the image of pixel unit(s) according to high-frequency information of the image of pixel unit (s) of the input image; and, generating an output image according to the input image, the low-frequency image regulating operation, and the high-frequency image regulating operation. |
| US12198312B2 |
High frame rate image pre-processing system and method
Described herein is an image pre-processing system and method. One embodiment provides a method (500) including: at step (501), receiving a plurality of images captured at a first frame rate, the plurality of images captured under at least two different image conditions; pre-processing the plurality of images by: at step (502) identifying one or more regions of interest within the images; at step (503), performing a visibility measure on the one or more regions of interest; and, at step (504), selecting a subset of the plurality of images based on the visibility measure; and, at step (505), feeding the subset of images to an image processing pipeline for subsequent processing at a second frame rate that is lower than the first frame rate. |
| US12198310B2 |
Image processing method for performing color migration to correction image according to reference image, and obtaining first scratch image and/or second scratch image so as to obtain scratch repairing image
An image processing method and an image processing device are provided. The image processing method includes performing at least one of a scratch repairing step, a dead point repairing step, a denoising step and a color cast correcting step on a to-be-processed video frame. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, it is able to repair a scratch and a dead point, remove a noise and/or correct color cast for a video frame, thereby to improve a display effect of the video frame. |
| US12198306B2 |
Content based image processing
Some embodiments relate to sharpening segments of an image differently based on content in the image. Content based sharpening is performed by a content image processing circuit that receives luminance values of an image and a content map. The content map identifies categories of content in segments of the image. Based on one or more of the identified categories of content, the circuit determines a content factor associated with a pixel. The content factor may also be based on a texture and/or chroma values. A texture value indicates a likelihood of a category of content and is based on detected edges in the image. A chroma value indicates a likelihood of a category of content and is based on color information of the image. The circuit receives the content factor and applies it to a version of the luminance value of the pixel to generate a sharpened version of the luminance value. |
| US12198305B2 |
GPU-accelerated data processing method for rapid noise-suppressed contrast enhancement
The present disclosure relates to a data processing method, and more specifically, to a digital image processing method to enable a rapid noise-suppressed contrast enhancement in an optical linear or nonlinear microscopy imaging application. The disclosed method digitally mimics a hardware-based feedback-driven adaptive or controlled illumination technique by means of digitally resembling selective laser-on and laser-off states so as to selectively optimize the signal strength and hence the visibility of the weak-intensity morphologies while mostly preventing saturation of the brightest structures. |
| US12198303B1 |
Training data generation method and apparatus for artificial intelligence visual analysis model
Disclosed are a training data generation method and apparatus for an artificial intelligence visual analysis model. The training data generation method includes: (a) receiving a background image and object-related information; (b) generating a target object image that meets a condition based on the object-related information; (c) applying the background image to a depth estimation model to estimate depths of each pixel location and generate a depth map; (d) determining an insertion location and scale at which the target object image is inserted based on the depth map to generate a local object insertion image and a mask image, respectively; (e) simply synthesizing the local object insertion image and the background image and then generating a synthesis image reflecting a scale feature of the background image through a trained multi-scale visual analysis model; and (f) generating a final training image using the background image, the synthesis image, and the mask image. |
| US12198302B2 |
Image processing method and device, and training method of image processing model and training method thereof
An image processing method includes: acquiring a first image containing a target object; inputting the first image into an image processing model to obtain a second image, the second image being a mask image of the target object in the first image, a value for each pixel in the second image being in a range of 0 to 1, inclusive ([0, 1]), and the range of 0 to 1, inclusive ([0, 1]) indicating a degree of relation between each pixel in the second image and a pixel in the target object; fusing the first image and a background image according to the second image to obtain a fused image; and providing a first interface and displaying the fused image on the first interface. |
| US12198300B2 |
Computational refocusing-assisted deep learning
Computational refocusing-assisted deep learning methods, apparatus, and systems are described. In certain pathology examples, a representative image is generated using a machine learning model trained with uniformly focused training images generated by a Fourier ptychographic digital refocusing procedure and abnormalities are automatedly identified and/or enumerated based on the representative image. |
| US12198295B2 |
Parallelization of convolution operations
A technique for performing convolution operations is disclosed. The technique includes performing a first convolution operation based on a first convolutional layer input image to generate at least a portion of a first convolutional layer output image; while performing the first convolution operation, performing a second convolution operation based on a second convolutional layer input image to generate at least a portion of a second convolutional layer output image, wherein the second convolutional layer input image is based on the first convolutional layer output image; storing the portion of the first convolutional layer output image in a first memory dedicated to storing image data for convolution operations; and storing the portion of the second convolutional layer output image in a second memory dedicated to storing image data for convolution operations. |
| US12198289B1 |
Systems and methods for using augmented reality to preview false eyelashes
A method includes receiving, by a processing device and from a client device, a first video segment of a video stream, wherein the first video segment represents an eye area of a subject. The method further includes performing a first computer vision operation on the first video segment to track a plurality of points corresponding to the eye area of the subject. The method further includes modifying the first video segment to include an overlay of a first 3D model of false eyelashes proximate the tracked points corresponding to the eye area of the subject. The method further includes providing the first modified video segment for presentation at the client device. |
| US12198288B2 |
Systems and methods for generating an image of an automobile
Systems and methods for generating an image of an automobile can include generating an artificial surface for a 3D model of the automobile, blending the artificial surface with a real world surface, and generating the image of the automobile using a blended surface. The image can have a number of different blended surfaces (e.g., a cleaner floor, shadows for the automobile, reflections for the automobile). The images can be used to create a 360 degree display of the automobile where the blended surface is displayed. |
| US12198284B2 |
Applying vector-based decals on three-dimensional objects
This disclosure describes one or more implementations of systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that apply a resolution independent, vector-based decal on a 3D object. In one or more implementations, the disclosed systems apply piecewise non-linear transformation on an input decal vector geometry to align the decal with a surface of an underlying 3D object. To apply a vector-based decal on a 3D object, in certain embodiments, the disclosed systems parameterize a 3D mesh of the 3D object to create a mesh map. Moreover, in some instances, the disclosed systems determine intersections between edges of a decal geometry and edges of the mesh map to add vertices to the decal geometry at the intersections. Additionally, in some implementations, the disclosed systems lift and project vertices of the decal geometry into three dimensions to align the vertices with faces of the 3D mesh of the 3D object. |
| US12198282B1 |
Systems and methods for virtual physical distancing
A system and method for helping a user carrying a smart device to maintain safe distances from other persons during an epidemic or a pandemic. A portable smart device measures the approximate distance to persons in the vicinity of the user, and notifies the user whenever he or she is too close to other persons. The portable smart device may overlay augmented reality graphics (such as arcs, lines, text, numbers, or other graphics) over images captured by the smart device's camera, to indicate safe distances. The graphics serve to inform and/or warn the user that he or she may be getting too close to other persons. |
| US12198281B2 |
Deforming real-world object using an external mesh
Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations comprising: receiving a video that includes a depiction of a real-world object; generating a three-dimensional (3D) body mesh associated with the real-world object that tracks movement of the real-world object across frames of the video; determining UV positions of the real-world object depicted in the video to obtain pixel values associated with the UV positions; generating an external mesh and associated augmented reality (AR) element representing the real-world object based on the pixel values associated with the UV positions; deforming the external mesh based on changes to the 3D body mesh and a deformation parameter; and modifying the video to replace the real-world object with the AR element based on the deformed external mesh. |
| US12198280B2 |
Displaying a virtual display
In an exemplary process, a set of parameters corresponding to characteristics of a physical setting of a user is obtained. Based on the parameters, at least one display placement value and a fixed boundary location corresponding to the physical setting are obtained. In accordance with a determination that the at least one display placement value satisfies a display placement criterion, a virtual display is displayed at the fixed boundary location corresponding to the physical setting. |
| US12198276B2 |
Electronic device with coordinated camera and display operation
An electronic device may have a camera and a display. The display may be configured to display virtual reality content for a user in which no real-world content from the camera is displayed or mixed reality content in which a combination of real-world content from the camera and overlaid virtual reality content is displayed. Control circuitry in the device may adjust the display and camera while transitioning between virtual reality and mixed reality modes. The control circuitry may reconfigure the camera to exhibit a desired frame rate immediately upon transitioning from virtual reality mode to mixed reality mode. Transitions between modes may be accompanied by smooth transitions between frame rates to avoid visible artifacts on the display. The camera frame rate may be synchronized to the display frame rate for at least part of the transition between the virtual reality and mixed reality modes. |
| US12198274B2 |
Deep learning of biomimetic sensorimotor control for biomechanical model animation
Systems and methods for training and implementing a sensorimotor control framework in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for operating a sensorimotor control framework. The method includes steps for determining a current state of a musculoskeletal model, determining a desired state of the musculoskeletal model, computing a set of muscle activations, based on a difference between the current and desired states, and driving a musculoskeletal model based on the computed muscle activations. |
| US12198272B2 |
Patient-specific cortical surface tessellation into dipole patches
A method (26) that tessellates a cortical surface of a brain with a plurality of dipole patches, wherein a quantity of the plurality of dipole patches is variable and dependent upon a head size. |
| US12198271B2 |
Multi-resolution geometric representation using bounding volume hierarchy for ray tracing
Devices and methods for multi-resolution geometric representation for ray tracing are described which include casting a ray in a space comprising objects represented by geometric shapes and approximating a volume of the geometric shapes using an accelerated hierarchy structure. The accelerated hierarchy structure comprises first nodes each representing a volume of one of the geometric shapes in the space and second nodes each representing an approximate volume of a group of the geometric shapes. When the ray is determined to intersect a bounding box of a second node representing one group of the geometric shapes, a selection is made between traversal and non-traversal of other second nodes based on a LOD for representing the volume of the one group of geometric shapes. |
| US12198269B2 |
Method and system for inversion of high-resolution aquifer storage coefficient based on gravity satellite data
Embodiments of a method and system for inversion of high-resolution aquifer storage coefficient based on gravity satellite data are disclosed. The method comprises: acquiring gravity satellite data, soil moisture storage data, surface water storage data and other non-groundwater component data, based on a preset region. The method also comprises: obtaining monthly time series of terrestrial water storage anomalies, by inversing the gravity satellite data; obtaining monthly time series of soil moisture storage anomalies, surface water storage anomalies, and other non-groundwater component anomalies; obtaining monthly time series of groundwater storage anomalies; and obtaining monthly time series of groundwater level anomalies in different aquifers. The method yet comprises: obtaining random sample values of storage coefficient by a stochastic simulation; obtaining correlation coefficient and Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency coefficient between random value of groundwater storage trend after a forward modeling and groundwater storage trend in the gravity satellite time-variable signal; and obtaining an inversion result. |
| US12198268B2 |
Information processing device
The length of a moving body made of a material that hardly reflects laser light is measured with high accuracy.First point cloud information based on three-dimensional point cloud information of a first region A1 of a moving body path RW in which a movement direction is set, second point cloud information based on three-dimensional point cloud information of a second region A2, and third point cloud information based on three-dimensional point cloud information of a third region A3 downstream of the second region A2 are acquired in a time series. A velocity VAM of a moving body AM is calculated based on a temporal change of the first point cloud information A1. A front end position FE of the moving body AM at a first time T1 is calculated based on the second point cloud information A2. A rear end position RE of the moving body AM at a second time T2 is calculated based on the third point cloud information A3. A length LAM of the moving body is calculated based on the velocity VAM of the moving body, the front end position FE of the moving body AM at the first time T1, and the rear end position RE of the moving body AM at the second time T2. |
| US12198266B2 |
Method and apparatus with image processing and reconstructed image generation
A processor-implemented method includes: determining albedo data in a canonical space and depth data in the canonical space based on input image data including an object, using one or more neural network-based extraction models; generating deformed albedo data and deformed depth data by applying a target shape deformation value respectively to the albedo data and the depth data; generating resultant shaded data by performing shading based on the deformed depth data and a target illumination value; generating intermediate image data based on the resultant shaded data and the deformed albedo data; and generating reconstructed image data from the intermediate image data and the deformed depth data based on a target pose value. |
| US12198265B2 |
Technologies for rendering items within a user interface using various rendering effects
Systems and methods for rendering items with a user interface of an electronic device are described. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may detect its orientation and render, in a user interface, a physical item using a rendering effect determined from the orientation. As a user of the electronic device reorients the electronic device, the electronic device may automatically and dynamically update the rendering with an updated rendering effect to reflect the updated orientation. In embodiments, the user may use the electronic device to complete an order for the physical item. |
| US12198256B2 |
Early release of resources in ray tracing hardware
Techniques are disclosed for improving the throughput of ray intersection or visibility queries performed by a ray tracing hardware accelerator. Throughput is improved, for example, by releasing allocated resources before ray visibility query results are reported by the hardware accelerator. The allocated resources are released when the ray visibility query results can be stored in a compressed format outside of the allocated resources. When reporting the ray visibility query results, the results are reconstructed based on the results stored in the compressed format. The compressed format storage can be used for ray visibility queries that return no intersections or terminate on any hit ray visibility query. One or more individual components of allocated resources can also be independently deallocated based on the type of data to be returned and/or results of the ray visibility query. |
| US12198255B2 |
Query-specific behavioral modification of tree traversal
Methods and systems are described in some examples for changing the traversal of an acceleration data structure in a highly dynamic query-specific manner, with each query specifying test parameters, a test opcode and a mapping of test results to actions. In an example ray tracing implementation, traversal of a bounding volume hierarchy by a ray is performed with the default behavior of the traversal being changed in accordance with results of a test performed using the test opcode and test parameters specified in the ray data structure and another test parameter specified in a node of the bounding volume hierarchy. In an example implementation a traversal coprocessor is configured to perform the traversal of the bounding volume hierarchy. |
| US12198253B2 |
Method for handling of out-of-order opaque and alpha ray/primitive intersections
A hardware-based traversal coprocessor provides acceleration of tree traversal operations searching for intersections between primitives represented in a tree data structure and a ray. The primitives may include opaque and alpha triangles used in generating a virtual scene. The hardware-based traversal coprocessor is configured to determine primitives intersected by the ray, and return intersection information to a streaming multiprocessor for further processing. The hardware-based traversal coprocessor is configured to provide a deterministic result of intersected triangles regardless of the order that the memory subsystem returns triangle range blocks for processing, while opportunistically eliminating alpha intersections that lie further along the length of the ray than closer opaque intersections. |
| US12198252B2 |
Reducing false positive ray traversal using point degenerate culling
Techniques applicable to a ray tracing hardware accelerator for traversing a hierarchical acceleration structure with reduced false positive ray intersections are disclosed. The reduction of false positives may be based upon one or more of selectively performing a secondary higher precision intersection test for a bounding volume, identifying and culling bounding volumes that degenerate to a point, and parametrically clipping rays that exceed certain configured distance thresholds. |
| US12198250B2 |
Apparatus and method for double-precision ray traversal in a ray tracing pipeline
Apparatus and method for double-precision traversal and intersection. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) generator to construct a BVH comprising a plurality of hierarchically arranged BVH nodes; a ray storage to store rays to be traversed through one or more of the BVH nodes; ray traversal circuitry comprising a first plurality of 64-bit arithmetic logic units (ALUs) which natively support double-precision floating point operations, the ray traversal circuitry to use at least a first ALU of the one or more ALUs to traverse a first ray through a first BVH node at a double-precision floating point precision to generate double-precision floating point traversal results; a plurality of execution units (EUs) coupled to the ray traversal circuitry, at least one of the plurality of EUs comprising a second plurality of 64-bit ALUs capable of natively performing double-precision floating point operations, the at least one of the plurality of EUs to execute one or more intersection shaders to perform ray-primitive intersection testing at double-precision floating point precision based on the double-precision floating point traversal results. |
| US12198245B2 |
Three-dimensional (3D) rendering method and apparatus
A three-dimensional (3D) rendering method includes extracting sample points from a 3D scene, acquiring rendering result information for the sample points by rendering the sample points, and generating a rendering result image corresponding to an entire rendering based on the rendering result information for the sample points and feature information of the 3D scene. |
| US12198244B1 |
Systems and methods for true three-dimensional streaming
Disclosed is a system that streams true three-dimensional (“3D”) image data over a data network in a manner that preserves the dimensionality and detail of a dynamic and changing 3D scene. The system generates the 3D image data to represent the 3D scene, and streams different set of the 3D image data that are within different viewing frustums requested by different devices. The system generates updates to the 3D image data based on changes occurring at different parts of the 3D scene. The system streams a first update to the first device in response to image data updated by the first update being within the first device's viewing frustum, and streams a second update to the second device in response to image data updated by the second update being within the second device's viewing frustum. |
| US12198243B2 |
Online interactive platform with motion detection
Techniques for a motion-based online interactive platform are described. The platform makes a motion-based online class realistic and allows a teacher to visualize motions performed by a student in a perspective and how close the motion is in view of an authoritative instructor (model). Each of computing devices used respectively by students is coupled to or includes a camera, where the camera is used by a student to show his/her presence or poses he/she performs. Data streams from the computing devices are received in a control computer associated with the teacher, where each of the data streams includes a video and a set of sensing data. A 3D avatar of a student is generated from the sensing data in the control computer and may be shown alone or along with an avatar of an instructor or model to visualize any differences between the student and the model in reference to a pose or motion. |
| US12198239B2 |
Constraint-based multi-party image modification
A computer hardware system having an image modification platform includes a hardware processor configured to initiate the following executable operations. A digital image is received by the image modification platform. A plurality of objects within the digital image are detected using an object segmentation engine of the image modification platform. The plurality of objects are classified using an object classification engine of the image modification platform and involve associating a stakeholder, respectively, to at least two of the plurality of objects. A knowledge map for the digital image is generated based upon the classifying and the stakeholders using a knowledge map engine. A set of constraints are identified for each of the plurality of objects based upon the knowledge map and the plurality of stakeholders. A modified digital image to be published is generated by an interactive image generation engine using the sets of constraints. |
| US12198236B2 |
Map data processing method and apparatus, and storage medium
Provided are a map data processing method and apparatus, and a storage medium, which relate to the field of data processing technology and, in particular, to artificial intelligence technology, for example, computer vision, map technology, and intelligent transportation. A specific implementation solution includes: processing landform coverage data according to a type of surface species coverage and a data processing rule associated with the type of surface species coverage to obtain a surface species coverage effect map; and generating a landform map according to the surface species coverage effect map and a reference map. |
| US12198234B2 |
Systems and methods for motion detection in medical images
Methods and systems are provided for identifying motion in medical images. In one example, a method includes obtaining projection data of an imaging subject, reconstructing a first image of a location of the imaging subject from the projection data using a first reconstruction technique and reconstructing a second image corresponding to the same location of the imaging subject from the of projection data using a second reconstruction technique, different than the first reconstruction technique in terms of temporal sensitivity, calculating an inconsistency metric quantifying temporal inconsistencies between the first image and the second image, and taking an action based on the inconsistency metric. |
| US12198231B2 |
Generating differentiable procedural materials
The present disclosure relates to using end-to-end differentiable pipeline for optimizing parameters of a base procedural material to generate a procedural material corresponding to a target physical material. For example, the disclosed systems can receive a digital image of a target physical material. In response, the disclosed systems can retrieve a differentiable procedural material for use as a base procedural material in response. The disclosed systems can compare a digital image of the base procedural material with the digital image of the target physical material using a loss function, such as a style loss function that compares visual appearance. Based on the determined loss, the disclosed systems can modify the parameters of the base procedural material to determine procedural material parameters for the target physical material. The disclosed systems can generate a procedural material corresponding to the base procedural material using the determined procedural material parameters. |
| US12198216B2 |
Method and system for constructing virtual environment for ride-hailing platforms
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for constructing a virtual environment for a ride-hailing platform are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises: obtaining a plurality of historical interaction trajectories each comprising one or more interaction records between a driver and a ride-hailing platform, each interaction record comprising a program recommendation of the ride-hailing platform to the driver and a reaction of the driver in response to the program recommendation; training a simulator based on the plurality of historical interaction trajectories; and integrating a reward function with the simulator to construct the virtual environment, wherein the plurality of first program recommendations and the plurality of reactions form a plurality of simulated interactions, and a data distribution of the plurality of simulated interactions approximates a data distribution of a plurality of interaction records in the plurality of historical interaction trajectories. |
| US12198215B2 |
Self-sovereign identity systems and methods for identification documents
Self-sovereign identity systems and methods for identification documents are disclosed herein. An example method includes transmitting data obtained from a near-field communications (NFC) chip of an object to the service provider. The data can include identifying information for an owner of the object. The method can include receiving a user identity packet from the service provider that is generated by the service provider based on verification of an identity of the owner and validity of the NFC chip, storing the user identity packet on a computing device, receiving a request from a first requesting device or service for the data stored on the NFC chip of the object and transmitting the user identity packet from the computing device to the first requesting device or service instead of the data. |
| US12198214B2 |
Detection and prevention of inmate to inmate message relay
Secure system and method of detecting and preventing inmate to inmate message relays. A system and method which monitors inmate communications for similar phrases that occur as part of two or more separate inmate messages. These similar phrases may be overlapping in real time as in a conference call or can occur at separate times in separate messages. The communications that appear similar are assigned a score and the score is compared to a threshold. If the score is above a certain threshold, the communication is flagged and remedial actions are taken. If the flagged communication contains illegal matter then the communication can be disconnected or restricted in the future. |
| US12198211B2 |
Data collection, storage, and processing system using one or more inputs
A system for collecting, storing, and/or analyzing data received from one or more inputs comprising a property information database, a profile preference database, and one or more modules for accessing the databases. The system may receive data from a multiple listing service, internet source, and/or drone. The system may calculate and store a predicted property value and/or compare the predicted property value to a stored listed property price. A real estate offer and/or orders for an inspection, appraisal, contractor walkthrough, preliminary title report, or loan applications may be generated and/or sent to an entity based, at least in part, on information stored in the property information database and/or the profile preference database. |
| US12198209B2 |
Systems and methods for presence detection and approaching customer identification
Systems and restaurant locations for use with a mobile ordering system, and methods thereof, to provide at least more time-efficient pick up of orders by customers than with traditional ordering and pick up windows. |
| US12198204B2 |
Ledger-based image distribution permission and obfuscation
Using an image analysis model within an image intended for distribution online, an image portion depicting personally identifiable information is identified, the personally identifiable information comprising image data usable to identify a specific individual. Using an online profile, a person depicted in the image portion is identified. A transaction is posted in a publicly-accessible distributed encrypted ledger, the transaction comprising an encrypted request to allow the image to be distributed online. According to a response to the request, the image portion is obfuscated, the obfuscating comprising altering data of the image portion, the altering making the image portion unusable to identify the person. |
| US12198200B2 |
Systems and methods for transaction tracing
A method and apparatus is described for performing transaction tracing. The method may include mapping one or more funds flow transactions into each account to one or more funds flow transactions out of said each account based on a first-in-first-out ordering. The method may also include generating an initial graph from the mappings of the transactions for each said account. Furthermore, the method may include transforming the initial graph to a function graph, wherein the functional graph is a directed pseudoforest where each node has an out degree of at most one. Then, the method may include for a node in the functional graph, performing a trace of the transaction generating a set of transactions that contributed to the transaction. |
| US12198199B2 |
Segmentation and load balancing
According to some embodiments, data may be received indicative of a plurality of insurance claims along with an indication of an appropriate claim segment classification for each insurance claim. A first claim handler may then be automatically selected for a first insurance claim based at least in part on: (i) a first segment classification associated with the first insurance claim, (ii) numbers of other insurance claims currently assigned to claim handlers, and (iii) load factors associated with claim handlers. An indication of the selected first claim handler may then be transmitted. |
| US12198198B2 |
Method and apparatus for accidental negligence evaluation of accident image using deep learning
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for split liability assessment of a car accident video using deep learning. The method for split liability assessment of a car accident video using deep learning according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include: (a) obtaining car accident video data; and (b) outputting accidental split liability information by applying the obtained car accident video data to an accidental split liability determination model. |
| US12198197B2 |
Systems and methods for predictive modeling via simulation
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for predictively determining a risk of damage to a property are provided. To determine the risk, a high resolution virtual model of a region that includes the property is obtained. The virtual model is imported into a simulation environment. One or more of the simulation parameters are set based on historic weather data for the region. For example, each parameter may be associated with a probability distribution derived based on the historic weather data that is sampled prior to executing the simulation. One or more simulations are executed in accordance with the sampled inputs to simulate the likely weather patterns the property will experience. The result of the simulation is analyzed to determine the predicted risk of damage to the property. |
| US12198195B2 |
Systems and methods for processing workers compensation claim administration to facilitate claim resolution
A system, method, and process improving the efficiency of the current workers compensation information supply chain, logistics and claims adjudication process and capture of data capture and analysis of work-related incidents. Employees, employers and insurance companies are legally, financially, ethically and morally compromised when unnecessary delays take place in the claims reporting process. Late reporting of an accident, injury or illness reduces the projected time line that it takes for an injured employee to return to full or partial health and the ability to return to work. Reducing lag time reporting reduces the financial exposure to the employee, employer and a workers compensation risk transfer facility also known as an insurance company. There is need for a fiduciary of claims information to have greater speed, reliability and accuracy of the information initiated through mobile devices and web portals through computers with Internet access. When combined with behavioral science professionals/concierge services or a relevant party follow-up team, the Workers Compensation rights of the employee, employer and insurance carrier are preserved and executed with greater transparency. |
| US12198194B1 |
Message randomization and delay based on order type in an electronic trading system
A system and method for managing latency of messages in an exchange system to address technical advantages in certain market participant hardware are disclosed. In one implementation, the system may include an exchange system, and a set of instructions, to cause a processor of the exchange system identify an order type susceptible to technical advantages certain market participants may possess and to apply a re-ordering of, and/or a fixed or random latency to, all orders of the identified order type during a predetermined time of a trading day. |
| US12198191B2 |
System and method for a risk check
Various systems and methods are described herein for a risk check. The risk check bases a decision to allow a trading strategy to proceed on whether the order quantity for each leg of the trading strategy satisfies a certain condition. Particularly, when a trading strategy is initiated, the quantity for each of the orders to be submitted on behalf of the trading strategy, including the quantity of the initial order and any subsequent orders, is then compared to a corresponding risk value. If the order quantity for each of the orders is less than the corresponding risk value, then the trading strategy can proceed and the initial order can be sent on to the exchange. However, if the order quantity for any of the orders exceeds the risk value, then the initial order is not sent to the electronic exchange. Additionally, as described herein, quantity associated with the trading strategy is held or reserved for execution of the trading strategy regardless of the activity taken by the trader since the trading strategy was initiated. The reserved quantity can be drawn from the trading strategy until the quantity is depleted, the trading strategy has ended, or both, for example. |
| US12198190B2 |
Facilitation of deterministic interaction with a dynamically changing transaction processing environment
The disclosed embodiments relate to ensuring that a selected value, selected, for example, via interaction with a graphic user interface, of a dynamically changing parameter, such as a price, is used when generating an electronic data transaction request message in a data transaction processing system, such as an electronic trading system. The data transaction processing system being a system in which data items, such as financial contracts, e.g., futures contracts, are transacted or otherwise traded by a hardware matching processor that attempts to match electronic data transaction request messages with electronic data transaction request messages counter thereto for the same one of the data items based on multiple transaction parameters. A selected value is temporarily buffered allowing the represented value to update wherein a subsequently generated transaction may be based on the buffered value rather than an updated value. |
| US12198186B2 |
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for resource bandwidth enforcement
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for resource bandwidth monitoring and control are described. For example, in some embodiments, an apparatus comprising a requestor device to send a credit based request, a receiver device to receive and consume the credit based request, and a delay element in a return path between the requestor and receiver devices, the delay element to delay a credit based response from the receiver to the requestor are detailed. |
| US12198185B2 |
System and method for providing time to cure negative balances in financial accounts while encouraging rapid curing of those balances to a positive net position
A computer implemented method and system for providing financial services are described. The system and method include determining an account balance for a financial account. If the account balance is negative, notice of the negative balance is sent to the account holder in real time. After a predetermined period of time or grace period, and/or by a predetermined end time or cut-off date or time, it is determined whether the negative balance was cured. If the negative balance was not cured during the grace period, an overdraft fee is assessed to the financial account. If the negative balance was cured during the grace period, any assessed overdraft fee for the negative balance is rebated or reversed. |
| US12198183B1 |
Dynamic media-product searching platform apparatuses, methods and systems
A dynamic media-product searching platform (DMPSP) transforms media source, product, and user inputs into product metadata and transactions outputs. In some implementations, the DMPSP may receive an indication that a user is interacting with a media source, provide a product overlay to the user indicating products within the media source available for purchase, receive from the user a selection of a product, send product information to the user via the product overlay, receive from the user an indication of interest in purchasing the product, and process a transaction for the user to purchase the product. |
| US12198179B1 |
Inferring facility planograms
This disclosure describes techniques for updating planogram data associated with a facility. The planogram may indicate, for different shelves and other inventory locations within the facility, which items are on which shelves. For example, the planogram data may indicate that a particular item is located on a particular shelf. Therefore, when a system identifies that a user has taken an item from that shelf, the system may update a virtual cart of that user to indicate addition of the particular item. In some instances, however, a new item may be stocked on the example shelf instead of a previous item. The techniques described herein may use sensor data generated in the facility to identify this change and update the planogram data to indicate an association between the shelf and the new item. |
| US12198178B2 |
Self-checkout store
A method operates a sales device for goods. The method includes: detecting, using a shelf with automatic removal monitoring, a removed item and determining item data of the removed item; receiving, by a controller, the item data of the removed item; adding, with the controller, the item data of the removed item to a list of items intended for payment; and detecting, with a detector, items for which a payment transaction is to be executed, the detector having at least one sensor and an evaluator. For detecting the items, at least data of the sensor and the list of items intended for payment is made available to the evaluator as input variables. |
| US12198175B2 |
Object comparison method, and device
The disclosure discloses an object comparison method and apparatus, relating to the technical field of computers. One specific implementation mode of the method comprises: acquiring, in response to a selection operation of at least two objects in an object list, corresponding object information according to identifiers of the at least two objects; performing, on the basis of each object information, three-dimensional model information rendering to obtain three-dimensional model information of each of the objects; and receiving image information of a real scenario to construct three-dimensional reconstruction information of the real scenario, and superimposing the three-dimensional model information of each of the objects onto the three-dimensional reconstruction information for display and comparison. The implementation mode enables a user, when selecting objects, to perform an intuitive comparison on the basis of the three-dimensional model information of the objects in addition to knowing the objects on the basis of the basic information thereof, so as to give the user an intuitive feeling and improve the efficiency of object recommendation. |
| US12198173B2 |
Treatment selection and application using machine learning to predict cost of treatment where information about cost of treatment is unknown
A user treatment engine uses user data describing characteristics of a user to evaluate a set of treatments that the user treatment engine may apply to the user. The user treatment engine generates treatment cost predictions for the treatments and generates treatment scores for the set of treatments based on the treatment cost predictions for the treatments and the user data for the user. The user treatment engine selects and applies a treatment from the set of treatments based on the generated treatment scores. The user treatment engine determines a reward to the online concierge system for the application of the treatment to the user and updates treatment selection parameters for the applied treatment based on the determined reward. |
| US12198172B2 |
Trusted fulfillment agent network
A system and method for a trusted fulfillment agent network system is described. A network of trusted fulfillment agents is generated for a seller in an online marketplace. A transaction between a buyer and the seller corresponding to a listing of the seller in the online marketplace is accessed. A request is generated to the network of trusted fulfillment agents of the seller to fulfill a shipment of an item from the listing to the buyer on behalf of the seller. |
| US12198171B2 |
Apparatuses, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products for improved user account identification for shared account linking
Embodiments are provided that improve identification of user accounts for linking with a shared account, specifically user accounts suggested for linking with a consumer sharing account using specific electronically managed data to dynamically allocate data to the consumer sharing account. Some example embodiments detect electronic marketing information corresponding to user identifier(s) via a plurality of data sources, identify a consumer sharing account associated with a first user identifier, determine suggested user identifier(s) not associated with the consumer sharing account based on a portion of the electronic marketing information associated with the suggested user identifier(s), detect a transaction associated with the first user identifier, allocate at least a first portion of a dynamically-allocable transaction metric, and in response to detecting the transaction, cause generation at a first user device of a graphical user interface display that upon interaction causes sending of a consumer sharing account notification. |
| US12198167B2 |
Quantum cryptographic device, quantum cryptographic communication fee calculation system, and quantum cryptographic communication fee calculation method
According to an embodiment, a quantum cryptographic device includes a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to: tabulate information on an application key transmitted and received by using a quantum cryptographic key and output an application-key information tabulation result; calculate a unit price of the application key based on the application-key information tabulation result; and display information that is display information including the unit price of the application key. |
| US12198164B2 |
Systems and methods for transformation of raw data to actionable data
Embodiments of systems and methods disclosed herein provide solutions for predicting vehicle invoice pricing, trim, and options by starting from scratch (raw data), transforming the raw data into actionable data, and comprehensively exploring all possible option combinations that can match a vehicle's Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price (MSRP). Embodiments implement algorithms that determine the trim of a vehicle and intelligently analyze all possible option combinations that would result in a target MSRP while avoid searching unnecessary vehicle configurations. The algorithms can be used to predict the trim, invoice, and options of a vehicle based on the vehicle's VIN and MSRP. |
| US12198161B2 |
Cartop advertisement vehicle-based routing and matching
Systems and methods for advertisement-based vehicle matching a routing. For example, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining data associated with a vehicle that is online with a service entity associated with providing vehicle services. The method includes obtaining data associated with a vehicle that is online with a service entity associated with providing one or more vehicle services. The method includes determining that the vehicle is not currently associated with a vehicle service instance for performing the vehicle services and determining a selected advertisement content item for the vehicle. The method includes determining a selected route for the vehicle based on the selected advertisement content item. The method includes communicating data that initiates display of the selected advertisement content item via a display device positioned on an exterior of the vehicle and data indicative of route information to a computing device associated with the vehicle. |
| US12198160B2 |
Methods and systems for transition-coded media, measuring engagement of transition-coded media, and distribution of components of transition-coded media
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for transition-coded media, measuring engagement of transition-coded media, and distribution of components of transition-coded media. For instance, the method may include: obtaining a media file; determining whether the media file includes transition-coded media; in response to determining the media file includes the transition-coded media, setting up a dynamic media environment; detecting whether a user is interacting with the transition-coded media; and in response to detecting the user is interacting with the transition-coded media, executing the transition-coded media with the dynamic media environment. |
| US12198159B2 |
Systems and methods for providing optimized leading messages
Systems, apparatus, methods, and computer program products are provided for optimized and effective leading messages, which may be an email subject that may provoke a consumer to access the body portion of an email message. A system may include circuitry configured to programmatically determine a predicted access rate for a leading message when the leading message is provided as a portion of a promotional message. Circuitry may be configured to track historical data indicating the access rates of leading messages and/or leading message terms. The circuitry may be configured to leverage the historical data to determine predicted access rates for leading messages, such as based at least in part on historical access rates associated with one or more leading message terms of the leading message. |
| US12198158B2 |
Methods and systems for tracking eco-friendly financial activities
Systems and methods for tracking of eco-friendly activities performed by a user in finance related actions and rewarding the user for performing the eco-friendly activities. The method includes receiving a transaction file related to the financial transaction performed by the user who has enrolled for a green-score reward service. The green-score reward service is hosted by a server system to encourage the eco-friendly activity performed by the user. The method further includes determining whether the financial transaction comprises at least one attribute from a plurality of attributes which corresponds to the eco-friendly activity. The at least one attribute is determined based on a presence of one or more green bits in the transaction file related to the financial transaction performed by the user. Upon determination, the method further includes updating a green-score in a user profile associated with the user enrolled for the green-score reward service. |
| US12198156B2 |
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for calculating a supply based on travel propensity
Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for managing a sales pipeline, and in some embodiments, calculating supply based on travel propensity. An example method comprises identifying a total demand for a promotion tuple at a geographic location, determining, using a processor, a promotion area for the promotion tuple, the promotion tuple comprising at least a category, price information and a geographic area, identifying one or more promotions offered by a promotion and marketing service that comprise at least the category and the price information of the promotion tuple, determining whether the total demand for the promotion tuple at the geographic location is satisfied, wherein the total demand is satisfied in an instance in which the geographic location is within the promotion area for the one or more promotions, and identifying a demand gap in an instance in which the total demand for the promotion tuple at the geographic location is not satisfied. |
| US12198155B2 |
Training a model to predict likelihoods of users performing an action after being presented with a content item
An online concierge system trains a user interaction model to predict a probability of a user performing an interaction after one or more content items are displayed to the user. This provides a measure of an effect of displaying content items to the user on the user performing one or more interactions. The user interaction model is trained from displaying content items to certain users of the online concierge system and withholding display of the content items to other users of the online concierge system. To train the user interaction model, the user interaction model is applied to labeled examples identifying a user and value based on interactions the user performed after one or more content items were displayed to the user and interactions the user performed when one or more content items were not used. |
| US12198141B2 |
Consensus key locking with fast local storage for idempotent transactions
Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions according to review and approval workflows. The transaction exchange platform may receive transactions from origination sources, which may be added to the SDP as transaction objects. As the transactions are processed, the transactions may require access to a resource (e.g., a key value in a database). A microservice processing the transaction may request, from a locking microservice, a lock for the resource. The locking microservice may query a local cache to determine whether a lock exists for the resource. If the local cache determines that no lock exists for resource, the locking mechanism may employ a consensus protocol to obtain a lock for the resource from a plurality of clusters. If consensus is reached, a lock for the resource may be granted to the requesting microservice. |
| US12198138B1 |
Distributed ledger technology utilizing cardless payments
Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media utilized to complete a cardless transaction on a distributed ledger network. One method includes receiving, by a point-of-sale (POS) computing device, a transaction request including a biometric sample from an individual associated with a payment account at a financial institution. The method further includes authenticating, by the POS computing device, the biometric sample by cross-referencing the biometric sample with a biometric dataset stored on the distributed ledger network. The method further includes, in response to authenticating the biometric sample, generating, by the POS computing device, a cryptogram associated with the biometric sample and processing, by the POS computing device, the transaction request utilizing the cryptogram. |
| US12198137B2 |
V2X-based electronic toll collection system and method
A vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication-based electronic toll collection system (ETCS) according to an embodiment of the present invention includes at least one roadside unit (RSU), a token issuer checking a de-identified token of a vehicle by communicating with an on-board unit (OBU) of the vehicle via the at least one roadside unit, and a clearing house communicating with the token issuer and charging a toll to a driver/owner of the vehicle. The token issuer generates toll information of the vehicle based on the de-identified token of the vehicle and location information of the at least one roadside unit involved in checking the de-identified token. |
| US12198124B2 |
Secure remote payment transaction processing
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods, apparatuses, computer readable media and systems for securely processing remote transactions. One embodiment of the invention is directed to a method of processing a remote transaction initiated by a mobile device comprising a server computer receiving a payment request including encrypted payment information. The encrypted payment information being generated by a mobile payment application of the mobile device and being encrypted using a third party key. The method further comprises decrypting the encrypted payment information using the third party key, determining a transaction processor public key associated with the payment information, and re-encrypting the payment information using the transaction processor public key. The method further comprises sending a payment response including the re-encrypted payment information to a transaction processor. The transaction processor decrypts the re-encrypted payment information using a transaction processor private key and initiates a payment transaction. |
| US12198123B2 |
Systems and methods employing a router for electronic transactions
A system, including: a non-transitory memory; and one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the system to perform operations including: receiving a transaction request from an endpoint device on a network, wherein the endpoint device is registered with a transaction service provider; locating, based on the transaction request, an authorization token corresponding to a payment mechanism, wherein the authorization token is stored to a memory device of the router; in response to receiving the transaction request, transmitting the authorization token to the transaction service provider to retrieve transaction information from the transaction service provider, wherein the transaction information includes payment data for a user of the endpoint device; and transmitting the transaction information to the upstream network location, wherein the upstream network location includes a merchant server. |
| US12198117B2 |
Tokenization platform
In embodiments, a system for tokenizing fungible items is disclosed. The system includes an item management system that generates N fungible tokens that are cryptographically linked to a virtual representation of a fungible item, such that each token provides a digital representation of the item. The system is further configured to write the N fungible tokens to a cryptographic ledger and to initiate transfer of the ownership of one of the fungible digital tokens to an account of an acquirer via the ledger in response to the acquirer transacting for a unit of the fungible item. The system also includes a redemption system that executes a redemption workflow in response to a redeeming owner redeeming a fungible digital token, wherein the redemption workflow includes initiating delivery of an available unit of the available units and burning the fungible digital token on the cryptographic ledger. |
| US12198107B2 |
Methods and apparatus for scheduling timeslots using machine learning processes
This application relates to automatically scheduling timeslots, such as timeslots for scheduling item pickups and deliveries. The embodiments may employ machine learning process to determine, for each of a plurality of timeslots, a timeslot capacity. The embodiments may further determine a time as to when each of the plurality of timeslots become available for selection, such as on a webpage. In some examples, the time determined to make available for selection each of the plurality of timeslots is based on a predetermined amount of time before the timeslot. Further, the embodiments may provide for display each of the plurality of timeslots at the determined time. The embodiments may further include receiving a selection of one of the plurality of timeslots, and scheduling a pickup or delivery based on the selected timeslot. The machine learning processes may be trained with features generated from historical timeslot data and workforce availability. |
| US12198105B2 |
Smart reminders for responding to emails
Systems and methods herein provide for improved email efficiency. Based on selections made while drafting an email, a user requesting a response can cause a calendar reminder to be generated and sent to a recipient for automatic entry on that recipient's electronic calendar. When the original sender indicates that an appropriate response has been received, the system can cause the calendar entry to be removed from the recipient's calendar. The system can also generate automatic reminder emails to prompt the recipient to respond to the sender. The sender can access a list of outstanding email responses that are still due from various recipients and modify the associated reminders as desired. |
| US12198102B2 |
Digital recruitment systems and methods thereof
A digital recruitment system and a method to enable a candidate to create, edit, upload a multimedia comprising a job application comprising video, audio etc. in one or more sections to apply for a job is provided. Further, the system allows the candidate and recruiter(s) to exchange information with each other via videos (or multimedia), video chats, audio chats, etc. The system protects a job application and/or a multimedia response from the recruiter from editing by a third person other than an owner, wherein the candidate is the owner of the job application and the recruiter is the owner of the multimedia response. The system may embed time and location information into the multimedia; therefore, the system allows the users (candidate and recruiters) to generate authentic multimedia. Further, the system may augment more information in the multimedia automatically or based on an input from the owner of the multimedia. |
| US12198097B2 |
Systems and methods for simulation of package configurations for generating cost optimized configurations
The package configuration optimization system includes at least one non-transitory storage medium comprising instructions and at least one processor executing the instructions for performing operations. The operations may include receiving historical order data associated with a fulfillment center, the order data including at least one of items ordered, package information, shipping costs, or fill rate, generating a forecast for order data based on the historical order data and performance data associated with the fulfillment center, the forecast comprising a plurality of dummy orders, receiving preferences for packaging cost reduction, determining a current packaging configuration associated with the fulfillment center, optimizing the current packaging configuration to generate at least one new packaging configuration using the received preferences and the generated forecast, and sending the at least one new packaging configuration to a remote system. |
| US12198093B2 |
Luggage delivery management system, luggage delivery method, and vehicle
A luggage delivery management system manages a service of delivering luggage deposited by a user to a destination specified by the user. The luggage delivery management system acquires payment amount information indicating an amount equivalent to a payment amount paid by the user for the service. When multiple pieces of luggage of a plurality of the users are delivered by one vehicle, the luggage delivery management system determines whether to set priority of the multiple pieces of luggage. The luggage delivery management system sets the priority of the luggage of the user who pays more to be higher based on the payment amount information when the priority is set. Then, the luggage delivery management system sets a luggage delivery route of the vehicle such that the multiple pieces of luggage are delivered to the destinations in accordance with the priority. |
| US12198086B2 |
Orchard vehicle and system
A method and system provide the ability to autonomously navigate an orchard cart in an orchard. Data is received from a sensor suite of the orchard cart into a computer. The sensor suite includes two or more sensors with at least one positional sensor and at least one perception sensor. Based on the data, the computer detects objects in the orchard. A row in the orchard consists of the objects. The orchard cart is autonomously navigated, via the computer, through the orchard. The navigation includes autonomously positioning the orchard cart a defined distance from the detected objects with respect to the row, and autonomously maintaining a defined speed of the orchard cart as the orchard cart is navigated down the row, such that the orchard cart avoids the detected object. |
| US12198081B2 |
Work order generation for power generation system
A work request interface receives work request data for a power generation system. The work request data includes a work request having data characterizing equipment of the power generation system and a first state of the equipment. The work request interface processes the work request to modify at least one field in the work request to provide a standardized work request. The standardized work request includes data characterizing operations needed to change a state of the equipment from the first state to a second state. A work order generator receives the standardized work request and determines a priority of the standardized work request. The work order generator determines a mode of operation of the power generation system needed to change the state of the equipment from the first state to the second state and generates a set of work orders for the work request. |
| US12198080B2 |
Method and system for operating a fleet of vehicles
A method for operating a plurality of vehicles is disclosed. The method comprises receiving (101) a first set of vehicle data and a second set of vehicle data, the vehicle data comprising information about each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, each vehicle operating along at least one fixed route, receiving (102) a first set of environmental data and a second set of environmental data, the environmental data comprising information about each fixed route, and estimating (103), by means of the global self-learning model and each local-self learning model, a schedule parameter for each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles based on the received first set of vehicle data, the received first set of environmental data, the received second set of vehicle data, the received second set of environmental data, and a predefined interaction model between the global self-learning model and each local-self learning model. The method further comprises receiving (104) a measured schedule parameter for each vehicle, comparing (105) the estimated schedule parameter with the received measured schedule parameter, and updating (106) the global self-learning model and each local self-learning model based on the comparison of the estimated schedule parameter with the received measured schedule parameter. |
| US12198074B2 |
Executing a network of chatbots using a parallel bot approach
Methods and apparatus for parallel intent processing at a network of chatbots may be provided. A query may be received at a user interface. The query may be transmitted to multiple chatbots at the same time. Each chatbot may identify an intent for the query. Each chatbot may also identify a percentage of accuracy that the chatbot considers that the intent corresponds to the query. The chatbots may present the intents to the user interface. The user interface may rank the intents. The user interface may display the ranked intents to the user. The user interface may receive an intent selection from the user. The user interface may direct the user to the chatbot that identified the selected intent. |
| US12198067B2 |
Systems and methods for synthesizing cross domain collective intelligence
In some implementations, a collaborative knowledge system may receive a first set and a second set of privatized embeddings. The first set of privatized embeddings may be generated by a local model based on a first set of private documents associated with a first knowledge domain. The second set of privatized embeddings may be generated by a local model based on a second set of private documents associated with a second, different knowledge domain. The collaborative knowledge system may train, based on the first and second sets of privatized embeddings, a centralized model. The collaborative knowledge system may receive a query associated with the first knowledge domain or the second knowledge domain. The collaborative knowledge system may generate a response to the query based on processing the query with the centralized model. The collaborative knowledge system may provide the response to the query to a user device. |
| US12198066B2 |
System and method for detecting misinformation and fake news via network analysis
A method for detection of misinformation without the need to analyze any articles (HINTS) includes forming a mixed graph containing at least two different node types, such as users and articles, with edges between users and articles, and with user weights for user nodes and article weights for article nodes. Seed nodes are planted for at least one user node and at least one article node. User weights and article weights are manually assigned to the seed nodes, then neighborhoods are defined for the seed nodes. A HITS-like algorithm is then run for a predetermined number of rounds updating both people and articles, while keeping the weights of the seed nodes constant to converge the graph for the weights of articles and users. Finally, a set of highest weights for users and/or articles is outputted and possible remedial action can be taken. |
| US12198065B1 |
Seeding and healing a Genetic Algorithm to mitigate irreducible complexity
A system and method for designing a physical system using a genetic algorithm includes building a plurality of data structures necessary to build, heal, and verify a plurality of dependency chains; ensuring that multiple dependencies in a respective one of the plurality of dependency chains are represented correctly; removing any dependencies that will be trivially satisfied at random; in response to determining that one or more dependencies is consistent with another dependency, considering one or more combinations of dependencies; and building configurations that satisfy the dependencies and combinations of dependencies by associating the dependencies and combinations of dependencies with selected technology options and recursively specifying and/or revising additional technology options that are consistent with the dependencies or combinations of dependencies, until a configuration is fully specified. |
| US12198058B2 |
Tightly coupled end-to-end multi-sensor fusion with integrated compensation
Systems and methods for a tightly coupled end-to-end multi-sensor fusion with integrated compensation are described herein. For example, a system includes an inertial measurement unit that produces inertial measurements. Additionally, the system includes additional sensors that produce additional measurements. Further, the system includes one or more memory units. Moreover, the system includes one or more processors configured to receive the inertial measurements and the additional measurements. Additionally, the one or more processors are configured to compensate the inertial measurements with a compensation model stored on the one or more memory units. Also, the one or more processors are configured to fuse the inertial measurements with the additional measurements using a differential filter that applies filter coefficients stored on the one or more memory units. Further, the compensation model and the filter coefficients are stored on the one or more memory units as produced by execution of a machine learning algorithm. |
| US12198053B2 |
Integrated circuit that extracts data, neural network processor including the integrated circuit, and neural network device
An integrated circuit included in a device for performing a neural network operation includes a buffer configured to store feature map data in units of cells each including at least one feature, wherein the feature map data is for use in the neural network operation; and a multiplexing circuit configured to receive the feature map data from the buffer, and output extracted data by extracting feature data of one of features that are included within a plurality of cells in the received feature map data, the features each corresponding to an identical coordinate value. |
| US12198051B2 |
Systems and methods for collaborative filtering with variational autoencoders
Collaborative filtering systems based on variational autoencoders (VAEs) are provided. VAEs may be trained on row-wise data without necessarily training a paired VAE on column-wise data (or vice-versa), and may optionally be trained via minibatches. The row-wise VAE models the output of the corresponding column-based VAE as a set of parameters and uses these parameters in decoding. In some implementations, a paired VAE is provided which receives column-wise data and models row-wise parameters; each of the paired VAEs may bind their learned column- or row-wise parameters to the output of the corresponding VAE. The paired VAEs may optionally be trained via minibatches. Unobserved data may be explicitly modelled. Methods for performing inference with such VAE-based collaborative filtering systems are also disclosed, as are example applications to search and anomaly detection. |
| US12198048B2 |
Modality adaptive information retrieval
In some embodiments, a multimodal computing system receives a query and identifies, from source documents, text passages and images that are relevant to the query. The multimodal computing system accesses a multimodal question-answering model that includes a textual stream of language models and a visual stream of language models. Each of the textual stream and the visual stream contains a set of transformer-based models and each transformer-based model includes a cross-attention layer using data generated by both the textual stream and visual stream of language models as an input. The multimodal computing system identifies text relevant to the query by applying the textual stream to the text passages and computes, using the visual stream, relevance scores of the images to the query, respectively. The multimodal computing system further generates a response to the query by including the text and/or an image according to the relevance scores. |
| US12198047B2 |
Quasi-recurrent neural network based encoder-decoder model
The technology disclosed provides a quasi-recurrent neural network (QRNN) encoder-decoder model that alternates convolutional layers, which apply in parallel across timesteps, and minimalist recurrent pooling layers that apply in parallel across feature dimensions. |
| US12198040B2 |
Method for compressing neural network model and electronic apparatus for performing the same
A method for compressing a neural network model is disclosed. The method for compressing a neural network model includes receiving, at a processor of the electronic apparatus, an original model including a plurality of layers each including a plurality of filters, a compression ratio to be applied to the original model, and a metric for determining an importance of the plurality of filters, determining the importance of the plurality of filters using the metric, normalizing the importance of the plurality of filters layer by layer, and compressing the original model by removing at least one filter among the plurality of filters based on the normalized importance and the compression ratio. |
| US12198025B2 |
Overcoming data missingness for improving predictions
Disclosed herein are methods for training and deploying a predictive model for generating a prediction, e.g., patient eligibility for a CAR-T therapy. Datasets, such as open healthcare claims datasets, may be missing data. Missing data may hamper the ability to generate sufficient information needed for training a predictive model. Methods include leveraging comprehensive datasets, such as closed claims datasets, to create training examples for input into a machine learning algorithm. In various embodiments, the comprehensive dataset is modified to simulate the data missingness in the target dataset; then, the modified dataset is paired with the ground truth label derived from the comprehensive dataset to create training examples. In various embodiments, a comprehensive dataset is paired with a target dataset to create training examples. After training a predictive model on such examples, the model can be deployed to make predictions in the target dataset even in light of missing data. |
| US12198022B2 |
System and method for training machine learning applications
Digital object library management systems and methods for machine learning applications are taught herein. Such a method includes populating a digital object library with a number of machine readable digital objects, modifying the digital objects to include additional machine readable data about the digital objects or other digital objects and the relationships among existing digital objects, generating lists of objects for use in construction and verification of machine learning models used to classify unknown objects into one or more categories, building queries to generate object lists, initiating model generation, in which a machine learning model used to classify unknown objects into one or more categories is generated, initiating model evaluation, storing models, object lists, evaluation results, and associations among these objects, generating a visual display of object metadata, lists, relational information, and evaluation results and running distributable algorithms across the library of digital objects. |
| US12198020B2 |
Efficient temporal memory for sparse binary sequences
Systems and computer-implemented methods for training a machine learnable model and for using the machine learned model for inference, both of which using only limited memory resources. During training and inference, the machine learnable model uses previous state information. A state memory is provided which efficiently stores this previous state information. Instead of storing each previous state individually and integrally, for each element of the internal state, a value is stored in the state memory which is indicative of a most recent occurrence of an element of the internal state of the machine learnable model holding or transitioning to a particular binary state value. The states of the machine learnable model are representable as binary values and when states infrequently hold or transition to a particular binary state value. |
| US12198015B2 |
Experience orchestration
Examples of a digital orchestration system are provided. The system may obtain orchestration data on a real-time basis. The system may identify a plurality of events for offering a plurality of user services across a plurality of user interaction stages. The system may identify a plurality of actions associated with each of the plurality of events. The system may create a recipe associated with each of the plurality of actions. The system may identify and implement the associated recipe. The system may create an event sequence for each of the plurality of user interaction stages. The system may create a user service sequence comprising the plurality of user services associated with the event sequence. The system may generate a user experience result based on the event sequence and the user service sequence. |
| US12198013B1 |
Calibrating a quantum error mitigation technique
A method, system and computer program product for calibrating a quantum error mitigation technique with appropriate settings. Calibrations of the quantum error mitigation technique corresponding to combinations of noise factors and extrapolation functions that when applied to quantum circuits that represent the target quantum circuit achieve an expectation value that is close to a zero-noise value within a threshold degree of accuracy are saved. A calibration (combination of noise factors and an extrapolation function) is then selected from the saved calibrations based on the depth of the target quantum circuit. The quantum error mitigation technique is then calibrated based on the selected calibration. The calibrated quantum error mitigation technique is then performed on the target quantum circuit. In this manner, a quantum error mitigation technique is automatically calibrated with the appropriate settings to achieve a zero-noise value by the target quantum circuit without requiring multiple iterations. |
| US12198011B2 |
Quantum computing device and method of mitigating detection crosstalk
A quantum computing device performs quantum pre-processing on a plurality of qubits, performs measurements on the plurality of qubits on which the quantum pre-processing is performed, and performing classical post-processing on a measurement outcome of the plurality of qubits to mitigate a detection crosstalk included in the measurement outcome. |
| US12198010B2 |
Addressing manipulation system and addressing manipulation method
The present disclosure discloses an addressing manipulation system and an addressing manipulation method. The addressing manipulation system includes a control unit, a radio frequency driving unit and two addressing units. The control unit controls a frequency and polarization of an incident laser beam in real time, so that the incident laser beams meet the Raman transition condition. The radio frequency driving unit controls the number and frequencies of radio frequency driving fields applied to each addressing unit, and achieves the control of the number and angles of the emergent laser beams and a frequency difference of the emergent laser beam pair. The addressing unit receives and modulates the incident laser beam and outputs a preset number of the emergent laser beams for addressing manipulation, wherein the emergent laser beam is one laser beam of the emergent laser beam pair for addressing manipulation. |
| US12198009B2 |
Quantum network node and protocols with multiple qubit species
The disclosure describes aspects of using multiple species in trapped-ion nodes for quantum networking. In an aspect, a quantum networking node is described that includes multiple memory qubits, each memory qubit being based on a 171Yb+ atomic ion, and one or more communication qubits, each communication qubit being based on a 138Ba+ atomic ion. The memory and communication qubits are part of a lattice in an atomic ion trap. In another aspect, a quantum computing system having a modular optical architecture is described that includes multiple quantum networking nodes, each quantum networking node including multiple memory qubits (e.g., based on a 171Yb+ atomic ion) and one or more communication qubits (e.g., based on a 138Ba+ atomic ion). The memory and communication qubits are part of a lattice in an atomic ion trap. The system further includes a photonic entangler coupled to each of the multiple quantum networking nodes. |
| US12198007B2 |
Measurement based uncomputation for quantum circuit optimization
Methods and apparatus for optimizing a quantum circuit. In one aspect, a method includes identifying one or more sequences of operations in the quantum circuit that un-compute respective qubits on which the quantum circuit operates; generating an adjusted quantum circuit, comprising, for each identified sequence of operations in the quantum circuit, replacing the sequence of operations with an X basis measurement and a classically-controlled phase correction operation, wherein a result of the X basis measurement acts as a control for the classically-controlled correction phase operation; and executing the adjusted quantum circuit. |
| US12198005B1 |
Quantum computing using multiple quantum computers
A quantum computing service may use multiple quantum computers to execute a same quantum computing algorithm to improve the quantum computational accuracy. The quantum computing service may instruct individual ones of the multiple quantum computers to execute the quantum computing algorithm repeatedly for a number of times. The quantum computing service may obtain a plurality of results from the multiple quantum computers. The quantum computing service may aggregate the plurality of results to generate an ensemble result, and provide the ensemble result to a customer as a final result of the quantum computing algorithm. |
| US12198002B2 |
System and method for optimizing quantum circuit synthesis
A method is provided for synthesizing quantum circuits while reducing the T-count, comprising, for a plurality of qubits: determining a target unitary and executing a set of candidate operations W with a single T gate and computing a specific function f of U W−1 keeping the values of W that correspond to specific multiplicities such that after the first collection of W operators is selected a collection of unitaries U W−1 is determined to consider in the next round to build a tree. A method of synthesizing quantum circuits while reducing the T-depth is also provided, comprising, for a plurality of qubits: determining a target unitary and execute a set of candidate operations W with T depth of one and computing a specific function f of U W−1, keeping the values of W that correspond to specific multiplicities such that after the first collection of W operators is selected a collection of unitaries U W−1 is determined to consider in the next round to build a tree. A method of re-synthesizing quantum circuits while reducing T-depth is also provided, comprising, for a plurality of qubits considering all cluster sizes up to a maximum sized cluster, and continuing recursively. |
| US12198001B2 |
Balanced inductive and capacitive resonator coupling for quantum computing system
Systems and methods for balanced inductive and capacitive coupling for quantum circuits are provided. A quantum circuit can include a qubit structure comprising an inductor and at least a first portion of a qubit capacitor. The quantum circuit can further include a ground, and a second portion of the qubit capacitor coupled to the ground. The quantum circuit can further include a readout resonator configured to measure a state of the qubit structure. The quantum circuit can further include a capacitive coupling between the readout resonator and the qubit structure and an inductive coupling between the readout resonator and the inductor of the qubit structure. A coupling strength of the inductive coupling and a coupling strength of the capacitive coupling can be approximately equal in magnitude. |
| US12197998B2 |
Image-based barcode decoding
A barcode decoding system decodes item identifiers from images of barcodes. The barcode decoding system receives an image of a barcode and rotates the image to a pre-determined orientation. The barcode decoding system also may segment the barcode image to emphasize the portions of the image that correspond to the barcode. The barcode decoding system generates a binary sequence representation of the item identifier encoded in the barcode by applying a barcode classifier model to the barcode image, and decodes the item identifier from the barcode based on the binary sequence representation. |
| US12197997B2 |
Cable management system and method
A cable management system includes a cable bundling system for tracking a plurality of cables included in a cable bundle. The cable bundling system includes a pair of cable bundlers, including a first cable bundler for installing a first end of a cable, and a second cable bundler for installing a second end of the cable. |
| US12197996B2 |
Bioptic barcode readers
A bioptic barcode reader has a housing having a lower housing portion with an upper surface and an upper housing portion extending above the lower housing portion. A generally horizontal window is positioned at the upper surface, a generally upright window is positioned in the upper housing portion, and an imaging assembly having a primary field-of-view and a set of optical components are positioned within the interior region. The housing has a width greater than or equal to 5 inches and less than or equal to 7 inches, the lower housing portion has a height greater than or equal to 3 inches, the upper housing portion has a height greater than or equal to 4 inches and less than or equal to 6 inches, and the upper surface has a length greater than or equal to 6 inches and less than or equal to 8 inches. |
| US12197992B2 |
Power adapter
A method, a power adapter and a system for determining a location of the power adapter are provided. The method includes: determining whether the power input plug is engaged with an AC power output wall socket of a power source; if the power input plug is not engaged with the AC power output wall socket, instructing the beacon circuit module to broadcast tag information corresponding to the power adapter; else if the power input plug is engaged with the AC power output wall socket, enabling the tag reader to read a tag circuit of the power source; identifying an identification number detected from the tag circuit; determining a location of the power adapter according to the identification number and a location mapping table; sending a plug notification to a remote control center; and instructing the beacon circuit module for receiving a further tag information of a further power adapter. |
| US12197989B2 |
RFID label for attachment to metallic items
A RFID label is shown and described herein. The RFID label having a combined structure with an RFID component layer and an inductive component layer separated by and placed on opposite sides of a dielectric substrate. The RFID component layer including an antenna segment with an integrated circuit located along the antenna segment. A first and second capacitor assembly couples the RFID component layer to the inductive component layer. The combined structure is adhered to a spacer layer. The antenna segment radiates a plane wave when the combined structure is coupled to a ground plane. |
| US12197987B2 |
Laminate, and card body and booklet body manufactured using same
To provide a laminate which makes it possible to prevent the time deterioration of the thermal transfer image effectively and to enhance the light resistance, and which is used to produce a card body for an ID card and the like and a booklet body such as a data page of a passport. A laminate according to the present invention is characterized by including a front substrate, a laser coloring substrate, a thermal transfer image layer, a white layer, and a back substrate, wherein the laser coloring substrate contains a light resistance improving material. |
| US12197985B2 |
Integrated biometric sensor module and method for manufacturing a smartcard comprising an integrated biometric sensor module
A smartcard comprising: a plurality of smartcard substrate layers; an antenna layer comprising an antenna; a fingerprint sensor module embedded in the smartcard and connected to the antenna layer, the fingerprint sensor module being configured to receive energy and communicate with a reading device via the antenna, and wherein the fingerprint sensor module is galvanically isolated from an outside of the smartcard. |
| US12197983B2 |
RFID device with two-stage power harvesting
Disclosed is a method of gathering data from a hybrid RFID chip to determine usage of an item or article of clothing using a mobile device like a phone, laptop, or tablet. The hybrid RFID chip consists of a processor, a memory, a radio transceiver, a power harvesting antenna, and an impedance circuit that converts ambient radio frequency (RF) energy to electrical energy. The RFID chip receives a first power level from ambient RF energy and periodically broadcasts an identity. The mobile device can receive the broadcast identity, store the identity, transmit the identity and location to a remote server, and receive a notification message from the remote server. The remote serve can determine usage of the item or article of clothing by comparing current records to previous records of RFID chip identity, location, and mobile device application identity. |
| US12197975B2 |
Asynchronous communication in cluster infrastructures
A first controller application of a control plane of a cluster infrastructure may detect a message from a message queue of a data plane of the cluster infrastructure. The message may include a request to instantiate a new service. Responsive to detecting the message, a request may be transmitted to a second controller application of the control plane. Responsive to the request, the second controller application may instantiate the new service within the data plane. |
| US12197966B1 |
Systems and methods for multiuser data concurrency and data object assignment
Systems and methods which facilitate management of functionality provided with respect to data objects in a multiuser environment are described. Embodiments are adapted to provide concurrency with respect to the data of the data objects in the multiuser environments, such as through the use of channel grouping techniques for providing various data communications. Additionally or alternatively, embodiments are adapted to implement data object assignments for facilitating management functionality available with respect to the multiuser environment, such as through the use of data object assignment containers created for storage of instances of assigned data objects. Through pre-creation of data object assignments to assignees, multiple users of a multiuser environment are enabled to utilize the functionality provided with respect to data objects without duplication of tasks and/or undesired conflicts between the users. |
| US12197962B1 |
Resegmenting chunks of data based on one or more criteria to facilitate load balancing
Resegmenting chunks of data for load balancing is disclosed. A plurality of first chunks of data is received. The plurality of first chunks of data includes one or more entries that include raw data produced by a component of an information technology environment and that reflects activity in the information technology environment. The plurality of first chunks of data is resegmented into a plurality of second chunks of data based on a source type of the plurality of first chunks. A first subset of the plurality of second chunks of data is distributed to a first indexer of a set of indexers. An occurrence of a trigger event is determined, and in response to the trigger event, a second subset of the plurality of second chunks of data is distributed to a second indexer of the set of indexers. |
| US12197959B2 |
Preemption in a machine learning hardware accelerator
The present disclosure describes a system and method for preempting a long-running process with a higher priority process in a machine learning system, such as a hardware accelerator. The machine learning hardware accelerator can be a multi-chip system including semiconductor chips that can be application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) designed to perform machine learning operations. An ASIC is an integrated circuit (IC) that is customized for a particular use. |
| US12197956B2 |
Application optimization method and device, storage medium, and electronic equipment
An application optimization method, a storage medium, and an electronic equipment are provided, wherein the method is applied to the electronic equipment executing following steps: determining an application to be optimized in the electronic equipment through a system process; obtaining a count of interface switches of the application to be optimized; when the count of interface switches of the application to be optimized is greater than a predetermined count, obtaining a data volume of a file of the application to be optimized; and when the data volume is greater than a preset threshold, optimizing the file of the application to be optimized. The application is not required to wait for 24 hours before optimization, and can be optimized promptly according to the condition of the application, so the optimization efficiency of the application is improved, and the performance of the application is also improved. |
| US12197955B2 |
Heterogeneous scheduling for sequential compute DAG
Embodiments of this disclosure provide techniques for splitting a DAG computation model and constructing sub-DAG computation models for inter-node parallel processing. In particular, a method is provided where a plurality of processors split the DAG computation into a plurality of non-interdependent sub-nodes within each respective node of the DAG computation model. The plurality of processors includes at least two different processing unit types. The plurality of processors construct a plurality of sub-DAG computations, each sub-DAG computation including at least a non-interdependent sub-node from different nodes of the DAG computation. The plurality of processors process each of the plurality of sub-DAG computations in parallel. |
| US12197954B2 |
Programming model for resource-constrained scheduling
The present technology augments the GPU compute model to provide system-provided data marshalling characteristics of graphics pipelining to increase efficiency and reduce overhead. A simple scheduling model based on scalar counters (e.g., semaphores) abstract the availability of hardware resources. Resource releases can be done programmatically, and a system scheduler only needs to track the states of such counters/semaphores to make work launch decisions. Semantics of the counters/semaphores are defined by an application, which can use the counters/semaphores to represent the availability of free space in a memory buffer, the amount of cache pressure induced by the data flow in the network, or the presence of work items to be processed. |
| US12197953B2 |
Techniques for distributed computing and storage
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and program products are disclosed for techniques for distributed computing and storage. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that includes code that is executable to receive a request to perform a processing task, transmit at least a portion of the processing task to a plurality of user node devices, receive results of the at least a portion of the processing task from at least one of the plurality of user node devices, and transmit the received results. |
| US12197949B2 |
Technologies for providing attestation of function as a service flavors
Technologies for providing attestation for function as a service flavors include a compute device including circuitry configured to obtain function definition data indicative of a set of operations to be performed in a function and a set of hardware resources to be utilized by the function, execute a benchmark operation to produce benchmark data indicative of a measured performance of the function, and sign the function definition data and the benchmark data to produce function flavor data. The circuitry is also configured to provide the function flavor data to one or more other compute devices for validation that the function, when executed on the hardware resources, provides the measured performance and write, to a distributed ledger, the function flavor data. |
| US12197947B2 |
System and method for queuing work within a virtualized scheduler based on in-unit accounting of in-unit entries
A system and corresponding method queue work within a virtualized scheduler based on in-unit accounting (IUA) of in-unit entries (IUEs). The system comprises an IUA resource and arbiter. The IUA resource stores, in association with an IUA identifier, an IUA count and threshold. The IUA count represents a global count of work-queue entries (WQEs) that are associated with the IUA identifier and occupy respective IUEs of an IUE resource. The IUA threshold limits the global count. The arbiter retrieves the IUA count and threshold from the IUA resource based on the IUA identifier and controls, as a function of the IUA count and threshold, whether a given WQE from a given scheduling group, assigned to the IUA identifier, is moved into the IUE resource to be queued for scheduling. The IUA count and threshold prevent group(s) assigned to the IUA identifier from using more than an allocated amount of IUEs. |
| US12197946B2 |
Branch prediction for user interfaces in workflows
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with branch prediction in workflows are described. In one embodiment, a branch predictor is configured to make branch predictions at decision elements of a workflow that executes serially, by at least: monitoring the workflow to identify when a decision element is encountered during execution. In response to encountering a first decision element in the workflow that includes a plurality of branch paths: (i) executing a prediction that predicts a resulting path of the first decision element to predict a first user interface from a plurality of possible user interfaces that are associated with the workflow; and (ii) pre-building the first user interface into memory including a structure and content configured for being rendered on a display. The pre-built first user interface is then displayed on a display device when the workflow reaches a first terminal element associated with the first user interface. |
| US12197943B2 |
System and method for comparing behavior of software components
A method for performing workflow comparisons for determining data migration readiness is provided. The method includes initiating a comparison run for a batch file, and splitting the batch file into multiple component workflows. Each of the component workflows are then scheduled for processing across multiple processing stages. When a component workflow is determined to have completed all of the processing stages: compute a difference between a baseline and a target system for the component workflow, and cross reference the difference generated with prestored rules as well as machine learning techniques to determine whether the difference can be ignored (e.g., excluded) or explained (e.g., already encompassed in the book of work). When all of the component workflows originating from the batch file passes, merging reports for all of the component workflows for generating a merged report. |
| US12197941B2 |
Framework for scheduling dependent computer transactions
In an example embodiment, a framework is provided that helps configure predefined actions on transactions in a process flow, which will be continuously learned using artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning techniques. This allows decision trees to be dynamically built to bypass unnecessary delays, especially as the volume of inputs grows and the variations of decisions become more complex. |
| US12197940B2 |
Selecting a node group of a work group for executing a target transaction of another work group to optimize parallel execution of steps of the target transaction
A computing network includes nodes of different work groups. Nodes of a work group are dedicated to transactions of the work group. If a node of a first work group is predicted to have an idleness window, a second work group may borrow the node to execute a transaction of the second work group. At least a subset of steps of the transaction may be categorized into a step group. Trees of a transaction may be categorized into one or more tree groups. A node is selected for executing a transaction, if the predicted idleness duration of the node is sufficient relative to the predicted runtime of the transaction, the step group, and/or tree group. A credit system is maintained. A first work group transfers a credit to a second work group when borrowing a node of the second work group for executing a transaction of the first work group. |
| US12197938B1 |
Data migration with metadata
An input/output (I/O) device can initiate data migration of a virtual machine (VM) instance from a source device to a target device. The data migration of the VM instance may include migrating the data for the VM instance and tag data associated with the data. The data for the VM instance and the tag data may be stored together in a source memory. A first read request from the I/O device can enable a memory controller in the source device to read the data for the VM instance and the tag data together, store the tag data in a tag data buffer, and transmit the data for the VM instance to the target device. A second read request from the I/O device can read the stored tag data from the tag data buffer and transmit to the target device. The target device can write the data for the VM instance together with the tag data in the target memory. |
| US12197935B2 |
Migrating virtual machines in cluster memory systems
Disclosed are various embodiments for optimizing the migration of pages of memory servers in cluster memory systems. To begin, a computing device can mark in a page table of the computing device that a page stored on a first memory host is not present. Then, the computing device can flush a translation lookaside buffer of the computing device. Next, the computing device can copy the page from the first memory host to a second memory host. Moving on, the computing device can update a page mapping table to reflect that the page is stored in the second memory host. Then, the computing device can mark in the page table of the computing device that the page stored in the second memory host is present. Subsequently, the computing device can discard the page stored on the first memory host. |
| US12197933B2 |
Parallel hardware hypervisor for virtualizing application-specific supercomputers
A parallel hypervisor system for virtualizing application-specific supercomputers is disclosed. The hypervisor system comprises (a) at least one software-virtual hardware pair consisting of a software application, and an application-specific virtual supercomputer for accelerating the said software application, wherein (i) The virtual supercomputer contains one or more virtual tiles; and (ii) The software application and the virtual tiles communicate among themselves with messages; (b) One or more reconfigurable physical tiles, wherein each virtual tile of each supercomputer can be implemented on at least one physical tile, by configuring the physical tile to perform the virtual tile's function; and (c) A scheduler implemented substantially in hardware, for parallel pre-emptive scheduling of the virtual tiles on the physical tiles. |
| US12197932B2 |
Method and system for supplementing and providing enhancements to target software data entries
A guidance system and method to supplement the functionality of software programs in a manner that is not native to a target software to guide and enable a user to provide more complete and correct information in real time and hence have better information available at a lower cost. The system provides onscreen, real time guidance, reports and suggested answers for data entry, and actions at particular points in the user's workflow within a primary system. The guidance system may present data in a predetermined format based on algorithms which consider aspects of the user and the users previous actions, the location of the user in the target system, the context of other data inside and external to the target system, and ongoing artificial intelligence of the guidance system. |
| US12197931B2 |
Determinations of modifications in objects having nested child objects
According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which is stored instructions that may cause the processor to determine that information has been inputted into an object, the object including a child object nested within the object. The instructions may also cause the processor to generate a child-object hash value based on contents of the child object, generate a hash value for the object based on contents of the object, the contents of the object including the child-object hash value, and determine whether the generated hash value differs from a stored hash value, the stored hash value corresponding to contents of the object without the inputted information. The instructions may also cause the processor to, based on a determination that the generated hash value differs from the stored hash value, save the object including the child object nested within the object. |
| US12197927B2 |
Dynamic fingerprints for robotic process automation
Improved techniques for producing digital fingerprints to represent steps in a recording of user-initiated events with respect to one or more application programs. A digital fingerprint can be formed for each step in a recording by encoding a plurality of attributes for each step in the recording. The encodings can be determined differently for different attributes of the steps. Also, the particular attributes to be used together to form a digital fingerprint can be chosen differently to adjust effectiveness in matching such step with other similar steps. In one embodiment, the digital fingerprint for a given step in a given situation can dynamically generated, such as a request to a server to generate a fingerprint. |
| US12197922B2 |
Electronic device with intelligent boot
A system includes a processor, a charger circuit and a battery management unit (BMU). The charger circuit charges a battery. The BMU includes an intelligent boot module that can send a boot signal to the processor based on information including a battery condition and system information. The processor starts a boot sequence based on the boot signal. |
| US12197916B2 |
Processing instructions selected from a first instruction set in a first processing mode and instructions selected from a second different instruction set in a second processing mode
Instruction decoder to decode processing instructions; one or more first registers; first processing circuitry to execute the decoded processing instructions in a first processing mode and configured to execute the decoded processing instructions using the one or more first registers; and control circuitry to execute the decoded processing instructions in a second processing mode using one or more second registers; the instruction decoder being configured to decode processing instructions selected from a first instruction set and a second instruction set in the second processing mode, in which one or both of the first and second instruction sets comprises at least one unique instruction set; the instruction decoder configured to decode one or more mode change instructions to change between the first and second processing mode; and the first processing circuitry configured to change the current processing mode between the first and second processing mode responding to executing mode change instruction. |
| US12197913B1 |
Machine learning methods for source code quality analysis
A preferably cloud-based platform supports improvements in software development by assessing quality of source code files, for example, when files are pushed to a software repository. Various static analysis tools are executed on a source file, and the resulting bug reports, which reflect native features of the tools are assembled in a dataset. The bug dataset is enhanced by adding additional features that are not natively generated by the static analysis tool. An ML classifier is trained to predict a selected bug feature, and the classifier is used to update the bug dataset to include estimated values of the selected feature. In an embodiment, post-processing analysis of bug report datasets applies machine learning methods to predict the “severity” of bug reports, an indication of whether they are likely to be true or false. Further, a report of code quality can be returned based on the severity predictions. |
| US12197901B2 |
Automatic precision dependencies management
In a first aspect of the invention, there is a computer-implemented method including: generating, by one or more processors, dependency version information for a target software application, based on activity of a compiler registered with an event handler; generating, by the one or more processors, one or more dependency sections with a dependency list for the target software application, wherein the dependency list incorporates the dependency version information; and building, by the one or more processors, a software package with the one or more dependency sections with the dependency list for the target software application. |
| US12197897B2 |
Image-based infrastructure-as-code processing based on predicted context
A process automatically generates configuration information used to build a target computing environment based on an image that depicts an architecture of the target computing environment. First, the process generates an original graph data structure having nodes and edges that respectively represent services and connectors detected in the image. The system then determines attributes of the target computing environment based on the original graph data structure. At least in part, the attributes describe a context in which the target computing environment is used, such as the type of industry associated with the target computing environment. The process then modifies the original graph data structure based on the attributes that have been determined, to produce a modified graph data structure. Finally, the process provides the configuration information to a deployment system, which uses the configuration information to deploy the target computing environment on a computing platform. |
| US12197892B2 |
Dedicated hardware system for solving partial differential equations
Embodiments relate to a computing system for solving differential equations. The system is configured to receive problem packages corresponding to problems to be solved, each comprising at least a differential equation and a domain, and to select a solver of a plurality of solvers, based upon availability of each of the plurality of solvers. Each solver comprises a coordinator that partitions the domain of the problem into a plurality of sub-domains, and assigns each of the plurality of sub-domains to a differential equation accelerator (DEA) of a plurality of DEAs. Each DEA comprises at least two memory units, and processes the sub-domain data over a plurality of time-steps by passing the sub-domain data through a selected systolic array from one memory unit, and storing the processed sub-domain data in the other memory unit, and vice versa. |
| US12197891B2 |
Computing device for performing digital pulse-based crossbar operation and method of operating the computing device
A computing device for performing a digital pulse-based crossbar operation and a method of operating the computing device. The computing device includes a plurality of input lines to which a pulse is selectively input in a sequential manner based on a corresponding input signal; a plurality of output lines crossing the input lines; a plurality of elements, each element being disposed at a cross point between a corresponding input line and a corresponding output line to transfer, to the corresponding output line, a pulse input to the corresponding input line in response to a corresponding weight being a first value; and a plurality of pulse counters, each pulse counter counting a number of pulses output from a corresponding output line. |
| US12197889B2 |
Process for dual mode floating point multiplier-accumulator with high precision mode for near zero accumulation results
A process for a floating point multiplier-accumulator (MAC) is operative on N pairs of floating point values using N MAC processes operating concurrently, each MAC process operating on a pair of values comprising an input value and a coefficient value. Each MAC process simultaneously generates: an integer form fraction at a first bitwidth and a second bitwidth greater than the first bitwidth, a sign bit, and an exponent difference computed by subtracting an exponent sum from a maximum exponent sum of all exponent sums. The integer form fractions of the first bitwidths are provided to an adder tree using the first bitwidth, and if the sum has an excess percentage of leading 0s, then the second bitwidth is used by an adder tree using the second bitwidth to form a great precision integer form fraction. The sign, integer form fraction, and maximum exponent are provided to an normalizer which generates a floating point result. |
| US12197887B2 |
Floating-point decomposition circuitry with dynamic precision
Circuitry for decomposing block floating-point numbers into lower precision floating-point numbers is provided. The circuitry may include a high precision storage circuit configured to provide high precision floating-point numbers, input selectors configured to receive the high precision floating-point numbers from the high precision storage circuit and to generate corresponding lower precision floating-point components with adjusted exponents, and a low precision block floating-point vector circuit configured to combine the various lower precision floating-point components generated by the input selectors. The lower precision floating-point components may be processed spatially or over multiple iterations over time. |
| US12197882B2 |
Translation method, electronic device and storage medium
A translation method, an electronic device and a storage medium, which relate to the field of artificial intelligence technologies, such as machine learning technologies, information processing technologies, are disclosed. An implementation includes: acquiring an intermediate translation result generated by each of multiple pre-trained translation models for a to-be-translated specified sentence in a same iteration of a translation process, so as to obtain multiple intermediate translation results; acquiring a co-occurrence word based on the multiple intermediate translation results; and acquiring a target translation result of the specified sentence based on the co-occurrence word. |
| US12197879B2 |
Translation method and apparatus, electronic device, and computer-readable storage medium
An electronic device obtains a to-be-translated sentence. The electronic device divides the to-be-translated sentence into a preset quantity of clauses. The electronic device separately translates each of the clauses to obtain a respective translation result corresponding to each of the clauses. The electronic device combines the respective translation results corresponding to each of the clauses according to semantics to obtain a target translation sentence corresponding to the to-be-translated sentence. |
| US12197877B2 |
Visual language processing modeling framework via an attention-on-attention mechanism
Disclosed are various embodiments for a visual language processing modeling framework via an attention-on-attention mechanism, which may be employed for object identification, classification, and the like. In association with a display of a user interface, an eye tracking via images captured by an imaging device is performed to programmatically detect eye movement and fixation relative to sub-regions of the user interface. Eye fixations on at least one of the sub-regions from the eye tracking. Visual cues are extracted from the user interface based at least in part on the eye fixations, the visual cues being in a sequence of identification. A visual language sentence is generated based at least in part on the visual cues as extracted. The visual language sentence of the visual cues in the sequence of identification is correlated to at least one decision using a visual language understanding routine. |
| US12197875B2 |
Automated predictive response computing platform implementing adaptive data flow sets to exchange data via an omnichannel electronic communication channel independent of data source
Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and control systems to provide a platform to implement automated responses to data representing electronic messages, among other things, and, more specifically, to a computing and data platform that implements logic to facilitate implementation of an automated predictive response computing system independent of electronic communication channel or linguistic language of an electronic message payload, the automated predictive response computing system being configured to implement, for example, adaptive data flow sets to automatically adapt a flow of responses responsive to, for example, classification of an electronic message. In some examples, a method may include detecting data representing one or more electronic messages, extracting features, identifying data representing intent-related data and data representing one or more entity attributes, and generating data as a reply as a function of intent-related data and one or more entity attributes. |
| US12197873B2 |
Creation of component templates based on semantically similar content
Systems, methods and products for accessing a set of electronic document templates, identifying instances of common document content such as content items which are semantically similar, and generating component templates containing the common content. Semantically similar content may be identified by analyzing content for factors such as expressed sentiment, included keyphrases, recognizable entities, expressed topics, assigning values to content based on these factors, and determining similarity based on comparisons of the assigned values. Component templates may also be generated based on types of content that include identical text or images, content that has a predefined level of similarity rather than being identical, content that has common rules, scripting logic or variables, metadata, etc. The component templates may be generated automatically, or in response to user instructions. |
| US12197871B2 |
Evaluating natural language processing components
Techniques for evaluating a natural language understanding (NLU) component and determining an action to resolve an issue processing a user input are described. The system determines which component is invoked by a baseline NLU component is processing the user input, and which component is invoked by an updated NLU component. Based on that information, the system selects the action to resolve the updated NLU component generating an undesired response to the user input. |
| US12197870B2 |
Bootstrapping topic detection in conversations
A computer system and method identifies topics in conversations, such as a conversation between a doctor and patient during a medical examination. The system and method generates, based on first text (such as a document corpus including previous clinical documentation), a plurality of sentence embeddings representing a plurality of semantic representations in a plurality of sentences in the training text. The system and method generate a classifier based on the second text, which includes a plurality of sections associated with a plurality of topics, and the plurality of sentence embeddings. The system and method generate, based on a sentence (such as a sentence in a doctor-patient conversation) and the classifier, an identifier of a topic to associate with the first sentence. The system and method may also insert the sentence into a section, associated with the identified topic, in a document (such as a clinical note). |
| US12197868B2 |
Using video clips as dictionary usage examples
Implementations are provided for automatically mining corpus(es) of electronic video files for video clips that contain spoken utterances that are suitable usage examples to accompany or compliment dictionary definitions. These video clips may then be associated with target n-grams in a searchable database, such as a database underlying an online dictionary. In various implementations, a set of candidate video clips in which a target n-gram is uttered in a target context may be identified from a corpus of electronic video files. For each candidate video clip of the set, pre-existing manual subtitles associated with the candidate video clip may be compared to text generated based on speech recognition processing of an audio portion of the candidate video clip. Based at least in part on the comparing, a measure of suitability as a dictionary usage example may be calculated for the candidate video clip. |