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US12207567B2	Under-cut via electrode for sub 60nm etchless MRAM devices by decoupling the via etch process A method for fabricating a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) structure is described. A first dielectric layer is deposited on a bottom electrode and partially etched through to form a first via opening having straight sidewalls, then etched all the way through to the bottom electrode to form a second via opening having tapered sidewalls. A metal layer is deposited in the second via opening and planarized to the level of the first dielectric layer. The remaining first dielectric layer is removed leaving an electrode plug on the bottom electrode. MTJ stacks are deposited on the electrode plug and on the bottom electrode wherein the MTJ stacks are discontinuous. A second dielectric layer is deposited over the MTJ stacks and polished to expose a top surface of the MTJ stack on the electrode plug. A top electrode layer is deposited to complete the MTJ structure.
US12207561B2	MRAM device with wrap-around top electrode A semiconductor device including a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack and an upper word line of the MTJ stack surrounding vertical side surfaces of the MTJ stack. A semiconductor device including a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack and an upper word line for the MTJ stack surrounding vertical side surfaces and an upper surface of a reference layer of the MTJ stack. A method including forming a forming a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack and forming a dielectric encapsulation layer surrounding vertical side surfaces of a top electrode, a free layer, a tunneling barrier, a reference layer and a bottom electrode of the MTJ stack.
US12207558B2	Composite piezoelectric element, tire-condition measuring apparatus, tire sensor module, tire sensor, and piezoelectric sensor A composite piezoelectric element includes a first electrode layer, a piezoelectric substance layer disposed on the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer disposed on the piezoelectric substance layer, and, in plan view, a measuring unit including the first electrode layer, the piezoelectric substance layer, and the second electrode layer and a buffer portion in which the piezoelectric substance layer is not provided.
US12207557B2	Method for manufacturing vibrator device A method for manufacturing a vibrator device includes a first dry etching step of dry-etching a quartz crystal substrate having a first surface and a second surface from the side facing the first surface to form first grooves and part of the outer shapes of a first vibrating arm and a second vibrating arm, a second dry etching step of dry-etching the quartz crystal substrate from the side facing the second surface to form second grooves and part of the outer shapes of the first vibrating arm and the second vibrating arm, and thereafter, a wet etching step of wet-etching the side surfaces of the first vibrating arm and the second vibrating arm.
US12207556B2	Method of deposition In a method for sputter depositing an additive-containing aluminium nitride film containing an additive element like Sc or Y, a first layer of the additive-containing aluminium nitride film is deposited onto a substrate disposed within a chamber by pulsed DC reactive sputtering. A second layer of the additive-containing aluminium nitride film is deposited onto the first layer by pulsed DC reactive sputtering. The second layer has the same composition as the first layer. A gas or gaseous mixture is introduced into the chamber when depositing the first layer. A gaseous mixture comprising nitrogen gas and an inert gas is introduced into the chamber when depositing the second layer. The percentage of nitrogen gas in the flow rate (in sccm) when depositing the first layer is greater than that when depositing the second layer.
US12207552B2	Thermal radiation sensor comprising an ionic conductor One or more devices, systems, apparatuses, methods of manufacture and/or methods of use to facilitate thermal sensing in a field related to thermal radiation are envisioned. In one embodiment, an ionic thermoelectric thermal radiation sensor, comprises a substrate, an ionic thermoelectric sensing unit arranged on the substrate and comprising ionically conductive and electrically insulating material, wherein the ionic thermoelectric sensing unit is a voltage-producing unit having first and second surfaces spaced apart from and disposed opposite to one other, wherein the ionic thermoelectric sensing unit produces voltage via thermal diffusion of ions or via the Soret effect under a temperature difference between the first and second surfaces, a thermal radiation absorber that generates heat when exposed to thermal radiation, and one or more electrical connectors that connect the first and second surface.
US12207546B2	Hole-transporting self-organized monolayer for perovskite solar cells The present invention addresses uniformly formed layers on TCOs with minimized thickness which are hole transporting, due to a hole transport material which is configured for self assembly on the corresponding surface. The layers are formed by a compound made up of at least one kind of molecule according to formula (I) mixed up with a filler molecule FM given by where L is a linking fragment, A an anchor group and HTF is a hole transporting fragment. FM (filler molecule) is at least one kind of molecule consisting of an anchoring group, an alkyl chain of N carbon atoms, with N is in the range of 1 to 18, and a functional group of at least on of the group methyl, halogen, amino, bromide, ammonium and sulfuric functional group and where x is in the range of 0.02 to 1 and y equals (1−x).
US12207544B2	Light-emitting device, electronic apparatus including the same, and organometallic compound Provided are an organometallic compound represented by Formula 1, a light-emitting device including the same, and an electronic apparatus including the light-emitting device. The light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and interlayer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer, wherein the emission layer includes an organometallic compound represented by Formula 1.
US12207543B2	Perovskite light-emitting layer and device using the same A light-emitting layer for a halide perovskite light-emitting device, a method for manufacturing the same and a perovskite light-emitting device using the same are disclosed. The light-emitting layer can be manufactured by forming a first nanoparticle thin film by coating, on a member, a solution comprising halide perovskite nanoparticles having a halide perovskite nanocrystalline structure. Thereby, a nanoparticle light emitter has therein a halide perovskite having a crystal structure in which FCC and BCC are combined; and can show high color purity. In addition, it is possible to improve the luminescence efficiency and luminance of a device by making perovskite as nanoparticles and then introducing the same into a light-emitting layer.
US12207540B2	Display device including elastic member A display device including a display panel having a folding area and a bending area, a support member disposed on a surface of the display panel and including a plurality of openings formed in the folding area, an elastic member disposed on a surface of the support member and overlapping the openings in the folding area, and a first adhesive member disposed between the support member and the elastic member.
US12207537B2	Display devices and manufacturing method thereof An embodiment of the present inventive concept provides a display device including: a mother substrate on which a plurality of display modules are located; and a mother film located on a rear surface of the mother substrate, wherein the mother film may include a first layer, and a second layer disposed between the first layer and the mother substrate, the second layer has a thickness of from about 40 μm to about 60 μm, and a thickness of the first layer may be greater than that of the second layer.
US12207535B2	Peel-off patterning method for fabrication of organic optoelectronic devices A method of fabricating an organic optoelectronic device comprises positioning a patterning layer over a substrate, etching the patterning layer using a photolithographic process to create an etched patterning layer, positioning a layer of an organic material over the etched patterning layer, and removing at least a portion of the etched patterning layer and at least a portion of the layer of the organic material to create a patterned organic layer over the substrate.
US12207534B2	Flexible display panel and manufacturing method thereof A flexible display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The method includes: forming a photodeformable layer on a carrier board; forming a flexible substrate on a side of the photodeformable layer away from the carrier board; forming a light-emitting device layer on a side of the flexible substrate away from the photodeformable layer; and irradiating the photodeformable layer with light having a predetermined wavelength until the photodeformable layer is deformed and is separated from the carrier board, thereby obtaining the flexible display panel.
US12207533B2	Screen tensioning device A screen tensioning device includes a supporting frame with a mounting surface and a plurality of air floating assemblies arranged on the mounting surface, each of the air floating assemblies includes an air floating base mounted on the mounting surface; a supporting tray arranged on a side of the air floating base away from the mounting surface, the supporting tray includes a first surface facing the air floating base and a second surface disposed opposite to the first surface and for supporting a mask frame; at least one air hole disposed toward the first surface of the supporting tray, so as to float the supporting tray when air is blown; and a limiting component connected between the air floating base and the supporting tray, and for limiting a displacement of the supporting tray in a direction parallel to the mounting surface.
US12207530B2	Apparatus for manufacturing display apparatus and method of manufacturing display apparatus An apparatus and method for manufacturing a display apparatus includes: a chamber; a first nozzle unit at the chamber, the first nozzle unit configured to deposit an organic layer or an inorganic layer on a substrate; a second nozzle unit at the chamber, the second nozzle unit configured to deposit the organic layer or the inorganic layer on a substrate and the second nozzle unit being linearly aligned with the first nozzle unit in a first direction; and an injection nozzle unit between the first nozzle unit and the second nozzle unit, the injection nozzle unit configured to inject a first gas in the chamber toward the substrate.
US12207529B2	Light emitting device, display device, photoelectric conversion device, and electronic apparatus Alight emitting device in which a first substrate including a light emitting area where a plurality of light emitting elements are arranged and a second substrate where a temperature detector configured to detect a temperature of the first substrate is arranged are stacked, is provided. In an orthogonal projection with respect to a main surface of the first substrate where the light emitting area is arranged, the temperature detector is arranged in an overlapping area of the second substrate overlapping the light emitting area.
US12207527B2	Display panel including mesh blocking portion A display panel is provided and includes at least one cutting section and a functional section. A cross-sectional structure of the display panel includes a substrate, a blocking portion, and an encapsulating layer. The substrate includes a first sub-portion corresponding to a position of the cutting section. The blocking portion is disposed on the first sub-portion. The encapsulating layer is disposed on the blocking portion. A contact surface between the encapsulating layer and the blocking portion is a rugged surface.
US12207526B2	Display substrate, preparation method therefor, and display apparatus Provided are a display substrate, a method for manufacturing a display substrate and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes a base, a drive structure layer disposed on the base, a light emitting element disposed on the drive structure layer, an encapsulation layer disposed on the light emitting element, a circular polarizer layer disposed on the encapsulation layer, and a lens definition layer and a lens structure layer disposed on the circular polarizer layer. The light emitting element includes a pixel definition layer provided with a plurality of sub-pixel openings; the lens structure layer includes a plurality of lenses disposed at intervals, the lens definition layer is disposed in a gap region between adjacent lenses, and an orthographic projection of each lens on the base contains an orthographic projection of a sub-pixel opening on the base.
US12207524B2	Display panel and display apparatus The display panel includes an active area, a bending area, and a bonding area; the active area includes a substrate and a luminescent unit disposed on the substrate, the bending area includes a bending part, the bonding area includes a bonding part, the bending part is connected to the bonding part, and the bending part is configured for bending the bonding part on a side of the substrate away from the luminescent unit; the display panel further includes a protection part, the protection part is configured for at least covering the bending part, the protection part includes a first end and a second end opposite to each other, the first end is fixed to the side of the substrate away from the luminescent unit, and the second end is fixed to a side of the bending part away from the substrate.
US12207522B2	Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same including cutting substrate and black matrix at tip end of blocking layer A display apparatus includes: a substrate; a pixel circuit layer on the substrate and including a thin-film transistor; a display element layer on the pixel circuit layer and including a display element electrically connected to the thin-film transistor; a color filter layer on the display element layer and including a color filter overlapping the display element and a black matrix having a first side contacting the color filter and a second side extending in an edge direction of the substrate; and a blocking layer between the black matrix and the substrate, wherein a tip end of the blocking layer has no step difference with an end of the black matrix.
US12207521B2	Display panel and display device A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes: a light-emitting unit, including a first sub-light-emitting unit, a second sub-light-emitting unit and a third sub-light-emitting unit adjacent to each other; and a color filter film including a first color resist block located on the first sub-light-emitting unit, a second color resist block located on the second sub-light-emitting unit and a third color resist block located on the third sub-light-emitting unit. A thickness of the first color resist block is different from at least one of a thickness of the second color resist block and a thickness of the third color resist block.
US12207520B2	Display apparatus having light-emitting device A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting layer between a first electrode and a second electrode, he light emitted from the light-emitting device may display a white color, the light-emitting layer may include a plurality of emission stacks, each of the emission stacks includes at least one emission material layer, one of the emission stacks may include a stacked structure of a red emission material layer and a blue emission material layer, thus improving the white balance and increasing color viewing angle.
US12207518B2	Display substrate with pixel defining layers having communication slots in gaps between adjacent rows of sub-pixels The display substrate includes: a base substrate; a pixel defining layer on the base substrate, and an organic light-emitting functional layer. The pixel defining layer includes: openings in sub-pixels respectively and communication slots. The organic light-emitting functional layer corresponding to the sub-pixels is provided in the openings. In at least one row of pixels, openings of sub-pixels of the same color communicate with one another through corresponding communication slots. At least of a portion of the communication slots are located in gaps between adjacent rows of pixels.
US12207517B2	Pixel arrangement structure, display panel, and display device A pixel arrangement structure includes two first sub-pixels and two second sub-pixels which are connected as a first virtual quadrilateral. The two first sub-pixels are located at two first vertices of the first virtual quadrilateral. The two second sub-pixels are located at two second vertices of the first virtual quadrilateral. The two first vertices and the two second vertices are alternately arranged and spaced apart from each other. A third sub-pixel is located within the first virtual quadrilateral, and a center of the third sub-pixel deviates from a center of the first virtual quadrilateral. In a row direction or a column direction, the first virtual quadrilateral includes a first side and a second side facing to each other, and a length of the first side is smaller than a length of the second side.
US12207515B2	Display apparatus and multi-screen display apparatus including the same A display apparatus may include a display area including a plurality of pixels arranged over a first substrate along a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction, a circuit layer disposed in the display area and configured to include a plurality of pixel driving lines coupled to the plurality of pixels, a planarization layer covering the circuit layer, a light emitting device layer disposed over the planarization layer, a first encapsulation layer wholly or fully covering the light emitting device layer and directly contacting an uppermost surface of the circuit layer, a second encapsulation layer wholly or fully covering the first encapsulation layer and directly contacting the uppermost surface of the circuit layer, and a third encapsulation layer wholly or fully covering the second encapsulation layer and directly contacting the uppermost surface of the circuit layer.
US12207513B2	Display panel and display apparatus including the same A display panel includes: a main display area; a component area including a transmission area; a peripheral area outside the main display area; a substrate; main display elements on the substrate to correspond to the main display area; main pixel circuits respectively connected to the main display elements; auxiliary display elements on the substrate to correspond to the component area; auxiliary pixel circuits respectively connected to the auxiliary display elements; a driving voltage line to apply a driving voltage to the main pixel circuits; a data line to apply a data signal to the main pixel circuits; a bottom metal layer between the substrate and the auxiliary pixel circuits at the component area; and a bias wire connected to the bottom metal layer, and located at the main display area.
US12207509B2	Display substrate, display panel, and display device Disclosed are a display substrate, a display panel, and a display device. The display substrate includes a base substrate having a first display area and a second display area; a light-emitting device layer arranged on the base substrate and including a plurality of first light-emitting devices arranged in the first display area; a driving circuit layer arranged between the light-emitting device layer and the base substrate and including a plurality of first pixel circuits; and a plurality of transparent conductive layers arranged on the base substrate.
US12207507B2	Display with overlapping signal lines on different layers and shielding layer therebetween Disclosed are a display substrate, a display panel and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes a base substrate; a plurality of read signal lines, extending on the base substrate in a first direction; a plurality of display signal lines, extending on the base substrate in a second direction, the second direction intersects with the first direction, the plurality of display signal lines and the plurality of read signal lines are arranged on different layers, there is an overlapped region between an orthographic projection of the plurality of display signal lines on the base substrate and an orthographic projection of the plurality of read signal lines; and a shielding layer, located between a layer where the plurality of read signal lines are and a layer where the plurality of display signal lines are, an orthographic projection of the shielding layer on the base substrate at least covers the overlapped region.
US12207506B2	Display panel having main pixels and auxiliary pixels and display apparatus including the same A display panel includes: a substrate including a main display area, a component area, and a peripheral area; a plurality of main subpixels in the main display area; a plurality of auxiliary subpixels in the component area; a first pixel circuit unit and a second pixel circuit unit in the peripheral area and including a plurality of auxiliary pixel circuits; a plurality of main scan lines connected to the plurality of main pixel circuits and extending in a first direction and a plurality of main data lines extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; and a plurality of scan connection lines branched from some of the plurality of main scan lines in the second direction and connected to the plurality of auxiliary pixel circuits, wherein the plurality of scan connection lines are in the main display area or between the main display area and the component area.
US12207500B2	Organic light-emitting display apparatus An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: a semiconductor layer including a drain region; an interlayer-insulating layer covering the semiconductor layer; a connection metal on the interlayer-insulating layer and contacting the drain region through an interlayer contact hole in the interlayer-insulating layer; a protective insulating layer covering the connection metal; a bridge electrode on the protective insulating layer and contacting the connection metal through a protective contact hole in the protective insulating layer; a planarization layer covering the bridge electrode; and a pixel electrode on the planarization layer and connected to the bridge electrode through a pixel contact hole in the planarization layer. In a plan view, the pixel contact hole is defined outside the protective contact hole.
US12207494B2	Circular polarizing plate The present application relates to a circularly polarizing plate. The present application can provide a circularly polarizing plate which can improve a reflection color sense by using a retardation film having flat dispersion characteristics. In addition, the present application can provide an OLED device comprising the circularly polarizing plate.
US12207492B2	Display device and method of manufacturing the same A display device includes: an insulating substrate, where a through hole is defined through the insulating substrate; and an organic layer which covers the insulating substrate. In the display device, a barrier area surrounding the through hole is defined in the insulating substrate, and an interruption portion, at which the organic layer is interrupted, is defined in the barrier area.
US12207491B2	Display device including sub-metal layers and tip A display device includes: a substrate having an opening; a plurality of display elements at a display area adjacent to the opening, the plurality of display elements each including a pixel electrode, an opposite electrode, and an intermediate layer between the pixel electrode and the opposite electrode; and a metal stacked structure between the opening and the display area, and including: a first sub-metal layer having a first hole; and a second sub-metal layer under the first sub-metal layer and having a second hole, the second hole overlapping with the first hole and having a width greater than a width of the first hole.
US12207490B2	Method for treating transparent adhesive layer of protective film on display back plate of display panel Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a display panel. The method includes: providing a display back plate, wherein the display back plate is provided with a light emitting side; attaching a protective film on the light emitting side of the display back plate, wherein the protective film comprises a transparent adhesive layer disposed on the display back plate and a heavy release film disposed on a side, distal from the display back plate, of the transparent adhesive layer; treating the transparent adhesive layer; and removing the heavy release film, and attaching a functional layer on a side, distal from the display back plate, of the transparent adhesive layer.
US12207488B2	Display device A display device includes a front area, a side area, a display panel, and a protective element. The side area peripheral to sides of the front area. The display panel includes a flat surface in the front area and a curved surface in the side area. The protective element is disposed on a lower surface of the display panel. The protective element has different thicknesses in the front area and the side area.
US12207479B2	Semiconductor structure and formation method thereof A semiconductor structure comprises: a substrate; a first transistor including a first gate located in the substrate and a first terminal located on a surface of the substrate, the first terminal being configured to be connected to a first-type memory cell; and a second transistor including a second gate located in the substrate and a second terminal located on the surface of the substrate, the second terminal being configured to be connected to a second-type memory cell, and a width of the second gate being less than a width of the first gate.
US12207477B2	Same level MRAM stacks having different configurations A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a base layer, a first MRAM device formed on the base layer, and a second MRAM device formed on the base layer. The first MRAM device has a different performance characteristic than the second MRAM device.
US12207475B2	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of first forming a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on a substrate, forming a top electrode on the MTJ, forming an inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer around the top electrode and the MTJ, forming a landing layer on the IMD layer and the MTJ, and then patterning the landing layer to form a landing pad. Preferably, the landing pad is disposed on the top electrode and the IMD layer adjacent to one side of the top electrode.
US12207472B2	Semiconductor memory device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor memory device, and a method of manufacturing the same, includes a first stack and a second stack stacked on a semiconductor substrate in a cell region of the semiconductor memory device and a slit region of the semiconductor memory device adjacent to the cell region. The semiconductor memory device also includes a plurality of cell plugs at least partially passing through the second stack and the first stack of the cell region and extending in a vertical direction, a slit at least partially passing through the second stack and the first stack of the slit region, and a protective pattern disposed between the slit and dummy cell plugs adjacent to the slit among the plurality of cell plugs.
US12207467B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device including a substrate; a lower structure including a sealing layer on the substrate and a support layer on the sealing layer, the sealing layer and the support layer both including a semiconductor material; a mold structure on the lower structure and having an interlayer insulating film and a conductive film alternately stacked therein; a channel hole penetrating the mold structure; a channel structure extending along sidewalls of the channel hole; an isolation trench penetrating the mold structure and extending into the lower structure; and a poly liner extending along sidewalls of the isolation trench, the poly liner being connected to the lower structure and including the semiconductor material.
US12207460B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device having a subtrate with a protruding portion having different heights in regions overlapped with different gate electrodes A semiconductor device includes: a fin that is a portion of a semiconductor substrate, protrudes from a main surface of the semiconductor substrate, has a width in a first direction, and extends in a second direction; a control gate electrode that is arranged on the fin via a first gate insulating film and extends in the first direction; and a memory gate electrode that is arranged on the fin via a second gate insulating film and extends in the first direction. Further, a width of the fin in a region in which the memory gate electrode is arranged via the second gate insulating film having a film thickness larger than the first gate insulating film is smaller than a width of the fin in a region in which the control gate electrode is arranged via the first gate insulating film.
US12207459B2	Three-dimensional memory array with dual-level peripheral circuits and methods for forming the same A bonded assembly includes a backside peripheral circuit, a memory die and a first logic die. The memory die includes a doped semiconductor material layer, a three-dimensional memory array, and memory-side metal interconnect structures and first memory-side bonding pads embedded in memory-side dielectric material layers. The first logic die includes a logic-side peripheral circuit including a first subset of logic devices configured to control operation of the three-dimensional memory array, logic-side dielectric material layers, and logic-side metal interconnect structures and first logic-side bonding pads that are bonded to a respective one of the first memory-side bonding pads. The backside peripheral circuit includes a second subset of the logic devices located on a second side of the doped semiconductor material layer.
US12207457B2	Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a substrate including first and second region, a bit line structure on the first region, key structures on the second region, each key structure having an upper surface substantially coplanar with an upper surface of the bit line structure, a first trench disposed between two adjacent key structures spaced apart from each other in a first direction, a filling pattern in a lower portion of the first trench, the filling pattern having a flat upper surface and including a first conductive material, and a first conductive structure on the flat upper surface of the filling pattern, an upper sidewall of the first trench, and the upper surface of each of the plurality of key structures, the first conductive structure including a second conductive material.
US12207456B2	Method of forming an integrated circuit devices having buried word lines An integrated circuit device includes a substrate having an active region and a word line trench therein. The word line trench includes a lower portion having a first width, and an upper portion, which extends between the lower portion and a surface of the substrate and has a second width that is greater than the first width. A word line is provided, which extends in and adjacent a bottom of the word line trench. A gate insulation layer is provided, which extends between the word line and sidewalls of the lower portion of the word line trench. An electrically insulating gate capping layer is provided in the upper portion of the word line trench. An insulation liner is provided, which extends between the gate capping layer and sidewalls of the upper portion of the word line trench. The gate insulation layer extends between the insulation liner and a portion of the gate capping layer, which extends within the upper portion of the word line trench.
US12207455B2	Composite cover plate, method for preparing the same, and display device containing composite cover plate Provided is a composite cover plate including a substrate body, wherein the substrate body includes two surfaces that are arranged opposite, at least one surface is provided with an antistatic film layer; the antistatic film layer includes a perfluoropolyether mixture and a silane coupling agent. Further provided is a method for preparing a composite cover plate, including: providing a substrate body with two surfaces that are arranged opposite, and spraying an antistatic film layer on at least one surface of the substrate body; wherein the antistatic film layer includes a perfluoropolyether mixture and a silane coupling agent. Further provided is a display device including a display module and a composite cover plate covering the surface of the display module, wherein the composite cover plate is any composite cover plate provided herein, an antistatic film layer is arranged on a side of the composite cover plate away from the display module.
US12207454B2	Shielded enclosure comprising modular containers A modular system of medical article containers is used to form enclosures of selectable storage space. The containers are each RF shielded and include an interconnect wall for connecting to another container to form the enclosure. The interconnect walls have a complementary design. The interconnect seam of two containers includes an electrically conductive component that also interconnects the RF shields of the two containers together. The interconnect seam also includes a tortuous path seal for greater RF shielding of the enclosure. The walls of the containers include a substrate of non-electrically conductive material for weight reduction and an electrically conductive element that is coextensive with the substrate. One embodiment is a plastic substrate with a metallic mesh. The enclosure provides a Faraday cage about the interconnected containers. Enclosures of differing heights and sizes can be made, and they may be stacked or otherwise assembled.
US12207453B1	Electronic display assembly with thermal management An electronic display assembly includes a housing having an intake and an exhaust, a liquid crystal display (“LCD”) interior to the housing, a backlight interior to the housing and rearward of the LCD, a cover forward of the LCD, and a panel interior to the housing, at least part of which is spaced apart from a rear surface of the backlight. An airflow pathway extends, at least in part, from the intake, rearward of the backlight and forward of the panel, and to the exhaust. A second airflow pathway is separated from the airflow pathway, and forms a closed, continuous airflow pathway extending, at least in part, rearward of the backlight and a rear surface of the panel. At least one electronic component for operating the electronic display assembly is located at the rear surface of the panel and within the second airflow pathway.
US12207452B2	Electronic display assembly with thermal management Electronic display assemblies are disclosed which include a housing, an electronic display located within the housing, a first airflow pathway extending through the housing between an intake and an exhaust and a second airflow pathway, separated from the first airflow pathway, and forming a closed, continuous pathway within the housing. A panel is spaced apart from the electronic display and at least partially defining and separating the first and second airflow pathways, where at least a portion of the first airflow pathway extends between a rear surface of the electronic display and a forward surface of the panel, and where at least a portion of the second airflow pathway extends between a rear surface of the panel and a forward surface of a rear portion of the housing. Electronic component(s) for operating the electronic display assembly are located within the second airflow pathway.
US12207451B2	Electric vehicle and power converter thereof A power converter is provided. The power converter includes a housing, a heat dissipation module, and a first circuit board. The housing forms a receiving space, wherein the housing includes a first housing port and a second housing port. The heat dissipation module is detachably connected to the housing, and disposed in the receiving space. The heat dissipation module includes an inner path that communicates the first housing port with the second housing port. Working fluid enters the inner path via the first housing port. The working fluid leaves the inner path via the second housing port. The first circuit board includes a first circuit board body and a first heat source, wherein the first heat source is disposed on the first circuit board body, and the first heat source is thermally connected to the inner path of the heat dissipation module.
US12207448B2	Airflow guiding mechanism and electronic device An airflow guiding mechanism includes a housing and a shielding assembly. The housing includes an airflow guiding portion and a guiding track. The shielding assembly is movably connected to the guiding track. The shielding assembly is able to move within the airflow guiding portion along the guiding track. In an embodiment, the shielding assembly may include a first shielding plate and at least one second shielding plate. The first shielding plate is connected to the housing. The at least one second shielding plate and the first shielding plate are movably connected to each other. The at least one second shielding plate are able to move with respect to each other to be folded and unfolded, so as to open and shield the airflow guiding portion.
US12207446B2	Adjustable retention device for heat sink assembly A heat sink retention device for retaining a heat sink, including a spring, proximate an electronic device in a circuit board. The device includes a first component configured to be attached to a circuit board, and a second component configured to be adjustably attached to the first component, and including an opening configured to retain a portion of a spring of a heat sink. When the first and second components are attached together and the first component is attached to the circuit board, the heat sink retention device is adapted to allow application of a force on the spring in order to retain the heat sink proximate an electronic device mounted on the circuit board.
US12207444B2	Systems and methods for an electronic device Methods and systems for an electronic package for a vehicle are provided. In one example, the electronic package includes a chassis having a plurality of bent tabs forming a plurality of respective vent openings in the chassis, and a circuit board coupled to the chassis, wherein the bent tabs directly contact the circuit board.
US12207441B2	Components for a fluid cooling system and fluid cooling system having these components A first module for a fluid cooling system may have a control unit, a first communication unit, a pump for a cooling fluid, and a first heat exchanger. The first communication unit may be configured to receive signals from at least one second module, the signals having an identification feature of the second module. The control unit, on the basis of the identification feature, is designed for identifying the second module, checking whether the second module is system-compatible or authorized, and switching on the pump and/or the first heat exchanger depending on the presence of the system-compatible or authorized second module. A cooling fluid system may have the first module and a second module.
US12207438B2	Electronic display with cooling Display assemblies with thermal management features are provided. The display assemblies include an image assembly, a housing for the image assembly having an intake and exhaust. A first, continuous airflow pathway is located within the housing, and includes a first portion located forward of the image assembly and a second portion located rearward of the image assembly. A second airflow pathway extends within the housing between the intake and the exhaust. A heat exchanger located within the housing and rearward of the image assembly includes a first set of ducted passageways forming part of the first airflow pathway and a second set of ducted passageways forming part of the second airflow pathway. The first set of ducted passageways extend alongside, in an alternating fashion with, the second set of ducted passageways.
US12207437B2	Electronic display with cooling An electronic display assembly includes an electronic display located within a housing. A first airflow pathway fluidly connected to an ambient environment extends through at least a portion of the housing. A second airflow pathway, separated from the first airflow pathway, forms a closed loop within the housing. Some or all electronic components for operating the electronic display assembly are located within the second airflow pathway, such as to at least partially isolate such electronics from dust or other containments in ambient air.
US12207435B2	Cooling fan assembly with air guider A fan assembly comprises: a fan having a fan intake and a fan exit downstream from the fan intake, wherein the fan is configured to draw air into the fan intake and propel the air downstream through the fan exit; a housing having a housing inlet coupled to the fan exit and a housing outlet downstream from the housing inlet; and an air guider, mounted inside the housing adjacent to the housing inlet, having a conical shape with a base adjacent to the housing inlet and an apex opposite the base that points towards the housing outlet, wherein the air guider has a first diameter that tapers from the base to the apex, and wherein the air guider is configured to reduce air turbulence of the air when the air is propelled from the housing inlet to the housing outlet.
US12207433B2	Portable blockchain mining system and methods of use Portable blockchain mining systems and methods of use are discussed here. Systems include a portable building; a plurality of blockchain mining processors mounted within, or a plurality of blockchain mining processor mounts located within, an interior of the portable building; an air inlet defined in the portable building; and an air outlet defined in the portable building. Air outlets may be above the air inlet and oriented to direct exhaust air in an upward direction out of the portable building. A cooling fan may be connected to convey air through the air inlet, across the plurality of blockchain mining processors and out the air outlet. The cooling fan may simultaneously cool a genset and processors 72. Compact, stackable mining modules are discussed.
US12207432B2	Aggregate rail system for a rack assembly A bus bar assembly including a bus bar including a coupling interface; an enclosure surrounding a portion of the bus bar, wherein the enclosure exposes the coupling interface; and a bracket including a first portion and a second portion, the first portion of the bracket coupling the enclosure to the bus bar with one or more fasteners, the second portion of the bracket coupled to an aggregate rail, wherein the coupling interface of the bus bar is coupled to a respective power supply of one or more servers that are removably coupled to the aggregate rail.
US12207429B2	Power conversion device having temperature determination function A power conversion device having a temperature determination function is provided. The power conversion device is disposed on a light fixture and includes a housing, a power converter, and at least one temperature determination component. The power converter and the temperature determination component are disposed within the housing, and the temperature determination component is a temperature fuse. When an ambient temperature of the power converter reaches a preset temperature, the temperature determination component melts to indicate that the power converter is used under the abnormal ambient temperature. Accordingly, the ambient temperature of the power converter can be determined to be abnormal.
US12207421B2	Control box and display device including the same Disclosed are a control box and a display device including the same. The control box includes a case providing an inner accommodation space and having an opening formed in the upper surface thereof, a first plate supported by the lower surface of the case, a second plate located on the first plate so as to be spaced apart from the first plate, a third plate located on the second plate so as to be spaced apart from the second plate, a rotary plate covering the opening in the case and rotatably mounted to the third plate, and a transceiver located inside the case and coupled to the rotary plate. The display device includes a head including a display panel, and the head exchanges information with the transceiver.
US12207420B2	Support component and flexible display module The present disclosure provides a support component and a flexible display module. The support component includes a support layer. The support layer has a patterned structure in a bending area. The patterned structure includes two first hollow patterns. The first hollow pattern includes a plurality of support blocks and a plurality of first hollow parts. An opening is formed at a corresponding first edge close to each of the plurality of first hollow parts, when the support layer is in a bending state, the opening shrinks to a closed state.
US12207413B2	Component supply method and component supply device A component supply method of supplying components scattered on a stage, includes a storage step of storing position information indicating a position of a component, posture information indicating a posture of the component, and number information indicating the number of components based on imaging data of the components scattered on the stage, and a holding step of holding the components scattered on the stage with a holding tool based on the position information and the posture information stored in the storage step.
US12207412B2	Article transport system An article transport system includes a station group, a first communication device, and a determination section. In the station group, multiple stations capable of sending out and receiving an article, which is used in a board work machine performing a predetermined board work on a board, are arranged side by side. The first communication device includes a first communication section, which is provided in a transport vehicle capable of sending out and receiving the article between the transport vehicle and a predetermined station among the multiple stations, and a second communication section, which is provided in each of the multiple stations.
US12207410B2	Wiring circuit board Provided is a wiring circuit board that allows the electrical connection between the elements and the terminals to be easy and sure. The wiring circuit board includes an insulating base layer, a plurality of wires with different thicknesses from each other, and an insulating cover layer sequentially toward an upper side. The wires include a first wire having the greatest thickness. The wiring circuit board further includes a plurality of terminals disposed on an upper surface of the insulating base layer. The terminals are electrically connected with the wires, respectively. The upper surfaces and of the terminals are each located at an upper side as compared to an upper surface of the insulating cover layer (a wire covering portion) covering the first wire.
US12207409B2	Modular capacitor subassembly for backup power An embodiment of an electronic system comprises a main board, and a modular capacitor subassembly mechanically and electrically coupled to the main board, wherein the modular capacitor subassembly provides backup power for the main board, and wherein the main board is adapted for use in at least two housing form factors. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US12207408B2	Flexible circuit board and display device including the same A display device is provided. The display device comprises a display panel comprising an active area for displaying images on a front surface and a non-active area around the active area, and a flexible circuit board comprising at least one conductive line extending from one end to an opposite end, wherein the flexible circuit board is disposed on a rear surface of the display panel to have a loop shape surrounding more than half of at least a part of the active area.
US12207407B2	Overlap joint flex circuit board interconnection An interconnection for flex circuit boards used, for instance, in a quantum computing system are provided. In one example, the interconnection can include a first flex circuit board having a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The interconnection can include a second flex circuit board having a third side and a fourth side opposite the third side. The first flex circuit board and the second flex circuit board are physically coupled together in an overlap joint in which a portion of the second side for the first flex circuit board overlaps a portion of the third side of the flex circuit board. The interconnection can include a signal pad structure positioned in the overlap joint that electrically couples a first via in the first flex circuit board and a second via in the second flex circuit board.
US12207400B2	Metal component and ceramic substrate A columnar metal component includes a first main surface, and a second main surface on an opposite side to the first main surface. The first main surface includes a first groove. The metal component includes a through-hole penetrating the metal component from the first main surface to the second main surface.
US12207398B2	Electronic device carrier structures including polymer layers as barriers to solid state solder diffusion and methods of forming the same An electronic device carrier structure can include a substrate including a plurality of electrical contacts spaced apart on the substrate, a plurality of electrically conductive balls, each of the electrically conductive balls being on a respective one of the plurality of electrical contacts, solder attaching each of the electrically conductive balls to respective ones of the electrical contacts to form an attachment boundary where the solder ends on a surface of each of the plurality of electrically conductive balls, and a polymer layer extending on the substrate onto the plurality of electrically conductive balls to form a surface of the polymer layer at a contact point on the plurality of electrically conductive balls that is above the attachment boundary and below an apex of each of the plurality of electrically conductive balls.
US12207395B2	Backplane footprint for high speed, high density electrical connectors A printed circuit board includes a plurality of layers including attachment layers and routing layers; and columns of via patterns formed in the plurality of layers, wherein via patterns in adjacent columns are offset in a direction of the columns, each of the via patterns comprising: first and second signal vias forming a differential signal pair, the first and second signal vias extending through at least the attachment layers; and at least one conductive shadow via located between the first and second signal vias of the differential pair. In some embodiments, at least one conductive shadow via is electrically connected to a conductive surface film.
US12207391B2	Hatching ground under a pad in a printed circuit board An information handling system includes a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board includes first and second pads of a first differential pair, a hatched ground, and first and second traces of a second differential pair. The first and second pads of the first differential pair are routed a surface of the printed circuit board. The hatched ground routed within a first layer of the printed circuit board. The first and second traces of the second differential pair are routed below the first and second pads and the hatched ground within a second layer of the printed circuit board. The hatched ground dampens crosstalk between signals on the traces and signals on the differential pair pads.
US12207390B2	Module A module includes: a board having a first main surface; a first component mounted on the first main surface; a first conductor column group including a plurality of conductor columns arranged on the first main surface along at least a part of an outer periphery of the first component; a first ground conductor disposed inside the board; a first conductor via group including a plurality of via conductors that connect the first ground conductor and an end of each of the conductor columns, the end of each of the conductor columns being located close to the first main surface; and a shield film disposed to cover over the first component. When viewed in a cross section taken along a plane perpendicular to the first main surface, the first component is at least partially surrounded by the first conductor column group, the first conductor via group, and the first ground conductor.
US12207384B2	Top surface wave antenna of spherical Tokamak Disclosed is a top surface wave antenna of a spherical Tokamak, comprising a feedback waveguide, a brim, sub-waveguides, and a metal base. The lower end of the feed waveguide is connected to one end of the metal base, and one side of the feed waveguide is connected to the brim. The brim is towards a length direction of the metal base. A plurality of sub-waveguides are arranged on the metal base at equal intervals, the tops of the sub-waveguides are not higher than the height of the metal base, and the sub-waveguides are arranged in a rising line trend. The feed waveguide serves as a microwave input port. The top surface wave antenna of the spherical Tokamak is mainly used in a high-power Tokamak system and acts on the low-hybrid wave current driving together with an external antenna so as to obtain a better effect.
US12207372B2	Electronic device with housing for generating light effect An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a first light-emitting module, a second light-emitting module, and a control unit. The housing includes a first light-emitting region and a second light-emitting region. The first light-emitting module includes a plurality of first light-emitting units arranged in the first light-emitting region in an array, and the first light-emitting unit includes a light-emitting ink layer. The second light-emitting module is disposed in the second light-emitting region. The control unit is electrically connected to the first light-emitting module and the second light-emitting module, and generates a first light-emitting signal and a second light-emitting signal in response to an instruction, to respectively control the first light-emitting module and the second light-emitting module to emit light.
US12207370B2	Determination of street condition by acoustic measurement The present invention provides a luminaire (1), in particular a street lamp. The luminaire comprises at least one lighting means (5), such as at least one light emitting diode, at least one sensor unit (15) including an acoustic sensor (2) configured to measure environmental sound, and further comprising a processing unit (3). The processing unit (3) is configured to identify an environmental situation of the luminaire (1), in particular the street condition at the street lamp, on the basis of at least one characteristic of the measured environmental sound, such as the amplitude, frequency or pattern of the measured environmental sound and/or control information for controlling light emission.
US12207362B2	Support unit, substrate treating apparatus including the same and temperature control method A support unit may include a plurality of heaters disposed in a matrix form in the support unit to heat a substrate, and a power supply unit for supplying power to the plurality of heaters, wherein a current applied to the plurality of heaters is controlled by switches connected to rows and columns of the matrix, respectively, and the switches connected to the rows of the matrix include first switches capable of controlling the current applied to the rows of the matrix and second switches connected in parallel with the first switches.
US12207361B2	Aerosol-generating systems with liquid level determination and methods of determining liquid level in aerosol-generating systems An electrically operated aerosol-generating system may include a liquid storage portion configured to store a liquid from which aerosol may be generated, an electric heater, a capillary wick extending between the liquid storage portion and the electric heater and configured to convey liquid from the liquid storage portion to the electric heater and electric circuitry connected to the electric heater. The electric circuitry may be configured to: activate the electric heater for a first heating time period in response to an input to vaporize liquid in the capillary wick, activate the electric heater for a second heating time period upon the elapse of a first cooling time period after the first heating time period, record a temperature measurement of the electric heater during the second heating time period, and determine an amount of liquid in the liquid storage portion based on the temperature measurement.
US12207360B1	Dual source control of a single packaged terminal unit A method and system of controlling a single load by one of two available power sources. More particularly, the wiring and use of a relay to control a power feed to a packaged terminal unit, that provides both heating and cooling to an individual housing unit, from one of two power sources based upon a heating or cooling thermostat mode of operation. The relay is wired and configured so that when the thermostat is in one mode of operation, a primary side of the relay is open, or not complete, the normally-closed contacts are energized, and the packaged terminal unit is powered by one of the first and the second power source; and when the thermostat is in a second mode of operation, the primary side of the relay is triggered, the normally-open contacts are energized, and the packaged terminal unit ingle is powered by the other power source.
US12207358B2	Integrated access and backhaul (IAB) timing handling for positioning Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node sets a downlink transmission timing of the IAB node relative to a downlink reception timing of the IAB node based on a first set of values for a set of timing parameters, receives, from a parent IAB node of the IAB node, a second set of values for the set of timing parameters, and transmits, to a positioning entity, a report indicating a change from the first set of values to the second set of values, a new downlink transmission timing based on the second set of values, or a change in downlink transmission timing.
US12207355B2	Random access method and apparatus, and computer readable storage medium A random access method and apparatus, and a computer readable storage medium. The method is applied to a multi-card terminal, and at least two subscriber identification module SIM cards are installed on the multi-card terminal, the method includes: obtaining first random access preambles selected by the at least two SIM cards; and selecting different modes for the at least two SIM cards to carry out a random access in response to the first random access preambles selected by the at least two SIM cards being the same.
US12207349B2	Methods and systems of using a plurality of remote subscriber identification module profiles The present invention discloses methods and systems for providing UICC/eUICC related response information to information requests at a cellular router. The method includes receiving an information request from a wireless communication module, and determining whether a response to the information request is cached. When the response information is not cached, forwarding the information request to a massive SIM apparatus (MSA). MSA will then respond to the information request. A response based on the MSA's response will then be sent to the wireless communication module for the information request. When the response information is cached, retrieve the response information and send it to the wireless communication module.
US12207348B2	Methods and systems of using a plurality of remote subscriber identification module profiles The present invention discloses methods and systems for providing UICC/eUICC related response information to information requests at a cellular router. The method includes receiving an information request from a wireless communication module, and determining whether a response to the information request is cached. When the response information is not cached, forwarding the information request to a massive SIM apparatus (MSA). MSA will then respond to the information request. A response based on the MSA's response will then be sent to the wireless communication module for the information request. When the response information is cached, retrieve the response information and send it to the wireless communication module.
US12207344B2	Communications method and apparatus A communications method includes determining a session management function entity based on at least one of a data network name, slice information, and an application function service identifier, and sending a first message to the session management function entity, where the first message is used to subscribe to a terminal event, the first message includes service description information, and the service description information is used to indicate a service corresponding to the terminal event.
US12207341B2	Method and apparatus for enabling a virtual building management system A system, method and apparatus for integrated building operations management. Nodes in the sensor network can be configured to interface with a building control system to exchange sensor-related information.
US12207337B2	User equipment network radio link state management for ambient electromagnetic power harvesting chip reader applications and devices User equipment (UE) network radio link state management for ambient electromagnetic power harvesting chip (AEPH) reader applications and devices is provided. In some embodiments, radio link state management services are provided that may be engaged by a UE that can wirelessly communicate both with a wireless telecommunications network, and an AEPH chip. Embodiments may include a method that determines when an AEPH chip communication event is pending, suspends a UE connection state of at least one data channel of the one or more data channels of the UE radio link in response to the determining when the AEPH chip communication event is pending, performs the AEPH chip communication event; and releases suspension of the UE connection state of the at least one data channel of the one or more data channels of the UE radio link.
US12207331B2	Methods and apparatus for utilizing dual radio access technologies in wireless systems Methods and apparatus for operation of a dual-connectivity enabled premises device in a wireless communication network. In one embodiment, the methods and apparatus utilize so-called “quasi-licensed” CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) wireless spectrum in conjunction with a cellular wireless communication network (e.g. having 4G/4.5G LTE and 5G NR base stations) for the provision of services to a number of installed enhanced fixed wireless apparatus (FWAe) at user or subscriber premises. The FWAe has dual-connectivity functionality, and can connect to two different access technologies simultaneously. The FWAe (and base stations) also support a “split” mode of operation wherein each air interface is selectively used for only certain types of traffic (e.g., UL or DL only).
US12207330B2	Method and apparatus for supporting multiple connectivity services in a wireless communication system In supporting multiple connectivity services, a remote UE establishes a PC5 unicast link with a Layer-2 UE-to-Network relay UE. Furthermore, the remote UE establishes at least two connectivity services with at least two data networks over the PC5 unicast link.
US12207326B2	Content transfer functionality beyond or within cellular networks A wireless communication unit for communicating with a wireless network node and one or more wireless remote communication units is described. The wireless communication unit comprises: at least one receiver configured to receive data content when connected to the wireless network node or a first wireless remote communication unit; at least one memory operably coupled to the at least one receiver and configured to store the received data content; at least one transmitter operably coupled to the at least one memory; and a processor operably coupled to the at least one memory and the at least one transmitter. When no longer connected to the wireless network node or the first wireless remote communication unit, the processor is configured to access the data content from the at least one memory and the transmitter is configured to transmit the accessed data content to at least one second wireless remote communication unit.
US12207323B2	Connection management method and apparatus, terminal and system Provided in the implementations of the present disclosure are a connection management method and apparatus, a terminal and a system, relating to the field of communications. The method comprises: a first terminal sending, to a second terminal, first connection management information corresponding to a first service, wherein the first connection management information is used for managing a connection between the first terminal and the second terminal, and different services correspond to different pieces of connection management information; and the first terminal receiving first response information sent by the second terminal, wherein the first response information is a response to the first connection management information.
US12207317B2	Configuration of a random access procedure A wireless device is configured to receive information from a network node. The information indicates whether or not a medium access control, MAC, service data unit, SDU, for a signaling radio bearer, SRB, or data radio bearer, DRB, is to be received by the wireless device in the same MAC protocol data unit, PDU, as a MAC PDU carrying a random access success response message. This random access success response message indicates both a random access channel and an uplink shared channel payload were decoded successfully. In some embodiments, the wireless device is configured to receive a MAC PDU carrying the random access success response message, and to process the received MAC PDU based on the received information indicating whether a MAC SDU for an SRB or DRB is included in the received MAC PDU.
US12207313B2	Transmission method, terminal and storage medium for random access based on spatial information Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmission method and a device. The method includes: determining first spatial information; and receiving, in CSS and/or USS according to the first spatial information, a random access response message of a 2-step random access procedure triggered by beam failure recovery (BFR). The terminal can receive, in common search space and/or UE-specific search space, the random access response message of the 2-step random access procedure triggered by the beam failure recovery (BFR), so that reliability of a communications system can be improved.
US12207311B2	Method and apparatus for random access procedure for small data transmission in wireless communication system A method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes in case that a random access procedure for small data transmission (SDT) in a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state is initiated, transmitting, to a base station, a RRC message including a parameter associated with a size of uplink data, receiving, from the base station, a response message including information associated with transmission resource for the uplink data, and transmitting, to the base station, the uplink data based on the transmission resource.
US12207308B2	Random access method and apparatus A random access method and an apparatus. In the method, random access is completed in a manner in which an agent terminal performs access, so that an access requirement of a terminal can be satisfied under low energy consumption. The method and the apparatus may be applied to application scenarios such as an internet of things (IoT), machine type communication (MTC), massive machine type communication (mMTC), an internet of vehicles, and a connected vehicle.
US12207303B2	Listen-before-talk in beam centric cells User equipment (UE) in beam-centric telecommunications cell may use a variety of listen-before-talk (LBT) procedures and hybrid channel access procedures for uplink transmissions are on different beams and configured or scheduled in contiguous or non-contiguous mode. UE behavior may be based on the LBT result across the different beams. A gNB may indicate LBT occasions to UEs. The UL numerology may be adjusted without LBT while near the end of a gNB's maximum channel occupancy time (MCOT). A gNB may use LBT procedures, before down link transmissions, using data, control, and reference signals, etc., across different beams.
US12207302B2	Sidelink channel access timeline techniques for wireless communications systems Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling indicating a configuration for performing channel sensing. The configuration may include one or more parameters corresponding to a processing time associated with the channel sensing. The UE may adjust the processing time associated with the channel sensing based on the one or more parameters and a full duplex capability of the first UE. The UE may transmit, using a first set of resources, a sidelink message based on the adjusted processing time. In some examples, the UE may transmit a first data message associated with a first priority level and perform channel sensing for a second data message associated with a second priority level that is higher than the first priority level. The UE may drop the first data message, skip an interference cancellation, or a combination thereof.
US12207299B2	Methods, apparatus and device-readable mediums for scheduling transmissions in a wireless network One aspect of the disclosure provides a method performed by a transmitting device, for transmitting wirelessly to a receiving device in a wireless network. The method comprises: obtaining information which is indicative of a level of wireless activity caused by interfering transmissions by one or more interfering devices, experienced by one or more receiving devices on one or more first channels configured for transmissions by the one or more receiving devices; and determining whether to transmit to a receiving device of the one or more receiving devices using one or more second channels based on the information indicative of the level of wireless activity experienced by the one or more receiving devices on the one or more first channels.
US12207298B2	Channel access procedures in a wireless network A base station performs channel access procedures for transmission on the plurality of LAA cells comprising a first cell group and a second cell group. The channel access procedures comprising a first channel access procedure of a first cell of the first cell group. The first channel access procedure is dependent on a second channel access procedure of a second cell of the first cell group and is independent of a third channel access procedure of a third cell of the second cell group.
US12207295B2	Communication apparatus and communication method The present technology aims to achieve flexible transition of a communication apparatus from a centralized communication mode to another mode. A communication apparatus includes: a transition information generation unit that generates a plurality of pieces of different transition information related to transition from a first mode in which centralized communication is performed by an access point to a second mode in which no centralized communication by an access point is performed; and a frame generation unit that generates a frame containing the transition information.
US12207293B2	Random access channel procedures Aspects relate to random access channel procedures. In some examples, if a user equipment (UE) has not successfully received a random access channel (RACH) downlink message prior to the end of a random access window for a first RACH attempt, the UE may elect to proceed with a second RACH attempt. For example, the UE may determine whether there are any remaining downlink symbols available during the random access window to receive the RACH downlink message. If not, the UE may retransmit a physical RACH (PRACH) preamble.
US12207292B2	Apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium for communication in a wireless local area network Many aspects pertaining to various apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium are described herein. Some aspects pertain to wireless communication between various apparatuses, which may include one or more access points (APs) and/or one or more stations (STAs). The one or more APs and/or one or more STAs may have one or more radios. Some aspects pertain to various features related to such one or more radios. Some aspects pertain to certain technologies related to uplink (UL) communication(s) and/or downlink (DL) communication(s). The written description and appended drawings provide detailed descriptions regarding these and many other aspects.
US12207289B2	Downlink beam determination in wireless communication system with full-duplex Disclosed are techniques related to wireless communication system to enable full duplex communication. A network node may include a transceiver, a memory, and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver and the memory. The transceiver, memory, and processor may be configured to determine downlink (DL) parent and child link priorities for parent and child time-domain resources that overlap in time at least partially. The transceiver, memory, and processor may also be configured to determine DL parent and child beams based on the DL parent and child link priorities. The transceiver, memory, and processor may further be configured to notify the parent node of the DL parent beam for the parent and child time-domain resources. The transceiver, memory, and processor may yet further be configured to concurrently receive parent traffic from the parent node using the DL parent beam and transmit child traffic to the child node using the DL child beam.
US12207285B2	Coordinated scheduling method and related apparatus A coordinated scheduling method and a related apparatus are disclosed. The embodiments of this application may be applied to multi-frequency ultra-dense networking. The method includes: A base station first determines one or more frequencies corresponding to cells at a capacity layer and one or more frequencies corresponding to cells at a coverage layer. Some cells at the coverage layer are obtained by combining at least two cells having co-channel interference, and cells at the capacity layer are all cells that are not combined. In addition, the base station further obtains network information of the first terminal on at least one carrier set, and optimizes the current network based on the network information.
US12207284B2	Scheduler systems and methods Methods and systems are provided for improving network communications, for example by scheduling or configuring a downlink/uplink (DL/UL) slot ratio, and/or an amount of redundant Transmission Time Intervals (TTIs) to be transmitted, in some cases prior to an acknowledgement. In embodiments using FDD, an improved scheduler can be asymmetrical, for example limiting resources used by an uplink to 20%, while allowing a user device to use a maximum power level, or an increased power level, in the uplink.
US12207280B2	Indication of reference geographic coordinate for sidelink zone Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a communications device (e.g., UE, gNB, LMF, etc.) determines a reference geographic coordinate (e.g., local or global coordinate) for a plurality of sidelink zones, wherein boundaries associated with each sidelink zone are defined via a respective sidelink zone identifier that includes one or more geographic offsets relative to the reference geographic coordinate. A UE receives an indication of the reference geographic coordinate, and performs one or more sidelink zone-related operations based on the reference geographic coordinate.
US12207279B2	Method for transmitting and receiving control information for device-to-device (D2D) communication in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor A method of transmission by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method including receiving, by the UE from a eNB, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) which is scrambled with one of a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) Cell-radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) or a sidelink RNTI, wherein the PDCCH includes a downlink control information (DCI) format 0 including a three bit-field; and transmitting, by the UE, a signal based on the DCI format 0, wherein the three bit-field is related to a cyclic shift DMRS based on that the PDCCH is scrambled with the SPS C-RNTI, and wherein the three bit-field is used as a resource information for a sidelink communication, based on that the PDCCH is scrambled with the sidelink RNTI.
US12207269B2	Downlink control channel monitoring or sending method and apparatus A downlink control channel monitoring method includes determining a first search space (SS) set and a second SS set. The method also includes determining, based on a first priority of the first SS set and a second priority of the second SS set, whether to monitor a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) on a first downlink control channel candidate resource of the first SS set, and whether to monitor a second PDCCH on a second downlink control channel candidate resource of the second SS set. The first priority of the first SS set is equal to the second priority of the second SS set. The second PDCCH carries a power saving signal.
US12207263B2	Method and apparatus for communications with carrier aggregation A method at a base station for performing data transmission to a user equipment in a communications system supporting carrier aggregation of at least one first carrier on which a short TTI is applied and at least one second carrier on which a long TTI is applied. The method transmits at least one DL scheduling grant corresponding to data transmission to the user equipment in a DL control region of at least one of a short TTI on a first carrier and a long TTI on a second carrier and performs DL data transmission towards the user equipment in a data transmission region of a short TTI on the first carrier and in the data transmission region of a long TTI on the second carrier as indicated by the at least one DL scheduling grant.
US12207260B2	Feedback information transmission method and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention describe a feedback information transmission method and apparatus. The feedback information transmission method may include receiving, by a first terminal, first data sent by a second terminal. The method may also include sending, by the first terminal, feedback information for the first data to the second terminal in a first subframe, where there is second data to be sent by the first terminal in the first subframe. The feedback information may be carried in sidelink control information (SCI) of the second data, or the feedback information may be carried in a data packet carrying the second data.
US12207259B2	Sidelink mode 1 mini-slot Aspects are provided which allow a base station to indicate use of a mini-slot based resource allocation in sidelink communications between a Tx UE and a Rx UE. Initially, the base station configures control information indicating a sidelink data resource for a mini-slot, and transmits the control information to a Tx UE. After the Tx UE receives the control information, the Tx UE transmits sidelink data in the sidelink data resource to a Rx UE. Similarly, the Rx UE receives the control information from either the Tx UE or the base station, and the Rx UE receives the sidelink data in the sidelink data resource from the Tx UE. Accordingly, the base station may schedule the Tx UE and Rx UE to communicate sidelink data in mini-slots rather than slots, thereby reducing scheduling latency, increasing the number of available resources, and achieving more flexibility in sidelink communications.
US12207257B2	Sidelink resource reservation and selection Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may receive information indicating a reservation or allocation of a resource for transmission of a first signal by another network node, wherein the information identifies whether the network node is to use the resource for transmission of a second signal concurrently with the first signal. The network node may transmit the second signal in the resource based at least in part on the information identifying whether the network node is to use the resource for transmission of the second signal. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12207252B2	Method for monitoring uplink cancellation instruction, user equipment, apparatus, computer-readable storage medium, method for transmitting uplink cancellation instruction, and base station A UE may: receive a configuration regarding a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasion (MO) for UL CI reception; receive scheduling information for UL transmission; and perform or skip UL CI monitoring for the UL transmission in the PDCCH MO on the basis of the configuration and the scheduling information. Performing or skipping the UL CI monitoring for the UL transmission in the PDCCH MO may comprise: performing the UL CI monitoring for the UL transmission in the PDCCH MO on the basis of the fact that the UL transmission and a reference resource region that may be instructed by a UL CI received in the PDCCH MO overlap at least in terms of time; and skipping the UL CI monitoring for the UL transmission in the PDCCH MO on the basis of the fact that the reference resource region and the UL transmission do not overlap in terms of time.
US12207247B2	Sidelink and uplink prioritization A method and apparatus for prioritization of sidelink and uplink. The apparatus compares priorities of a first group of transmission signals to determine a first signal from the first group of transmission signals having a highest priority. The first group of transmission signals comprise at least one uplink signal and at least one sidelink transmission signal. The apparatus compares a priority of the first signal from the first group of transmission signals against a reception signal having a highest priority of a second group of reception signals to determine to transmit at least the first signal from the first group of transmission signals or to receive at least one reception signal from the second group of reception signals. The second group of reception signals comprises at least one sidelink reception signal.
US12207245B2	Packet expiry information signaling for sidelink communications Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitter user equipment (UE) may obtain timing information that indicates an expiration time for transmitting a plurality of packets to a receiver UE. The transmitter UE may transmit a sidelink communication to the receiver UE, in accordance with the timing information, that includes at least one packet of the plurality of packets. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12207244B2	Test signals and feedback for beam optimization in 5G and 6G Base stations and user devices in 5G and 6G networks can save enormous amounts of power, while minimizing background generation, by directing narrow transmission and reception beams toward each other. To optimize those beam directions, and their lateral beam widths, and the frequency and power transmitted, a small set of test signals can be appended to each message, and a feedback message selecting the best-received test signal can be appended to the acknowledgement. In this way, the base station can develop a custom set of beam parameters optimized for each user device, and each user device can maintain its uplink beam squarely toward the base station. Result: higher signal quality per watt transmitted, fewer faults and retransmissions, and improved network operations overall.
US12207243B2	Techniques for separated beam design Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to select a set of beams to generate energy in a first coverage region (e.g., an out-of-coverage (OOC) region) to reduce the effects of a distorted electric field. The UE may select the set of beams based on gain parameters associated with a set of antennas at the UE, where the gain parameters are determined for communications in a second coverage region (e.g., an in-coverage (INC) region). In some examples, the UE may use iterative techniques to select the beams. In some examples, the UE may select the set of beams based on calculations using a set of codebook beams associated with the second coverage region. In some examples, the UE may additionally select the set of beams for communications in the second coverage region.
US12207242B2	Method and node for determining channel assignment using an objective function There is provided a method in a controlling node for determining channel assignment for different network nodes. The method comprises: determining a channel assignment based at least on a factor, the factor including one or more of channel usability, contiguous spectrum allocation, spectrum allocation stability and user value; and transmitting the determined channel assignment to a network node.
US12207239B2	Uplink signal time difference adjustment system and method Provided is an uplink signal time difference adjustment method, adapted to a base station and including the following steps. Each first delay time of arrival of each uplink signal is detected based on a time slot boundary. Each second delay time of each uplink signal is adjusted according to multiple sampling points. Each time offset between each first delay time and each second delay time corresponding to each user apparatus is calculated. The time slot boundary is adjusted according to each time offset.
US12207235B2	Logical channel prioritization based on HARQ feedback A method and apparatus for logical channel prioritization (LCP) based on hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device selects a first logical channel with a highest priority among multiple logical channels having data available for transmission. When the first logical channel is configured with a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback, the wireless device selects one or more second logical channels configured with the HARQ feedback among the multiple logical channels. When the first logical channel is not configured with HARQ feedback, the wireless device selects one or more second logical channels not configured with the HARQ feedback among the multiple logical channels. The wireless device creates a data unit based on the first logical channel and the one or more second logical channels.
US12207234B2	Method of transmitting and receiving PSFCH in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor A method of transmitting and receiving a PSFCH in a wireless communication system and a device therefor are disclosed. The method performed by a first UE comprises receiving, from a second UE, a first PSCCH including first SCI, receiving, from a third UE, a second PSCCH including second SCI, determining, based on a resource reserved by the first SCI overlapping a resource reserved by the second SCI, a resource conflict in the resource reserved by the first SCI using a RSRP measured based on the first PSCCH and a RSRP measured based on the second PSCCH, and transmitting, to the second UE, the PSFCH including conflict information indicating the resource conflict in the resource.
US12207232B2	Resource allocations to source user equipment from a user equipment in a hop Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a first source UE of two or more source UEs, an indication of a first resource allocation for transmitting first data. The UE may transmit, to a second source UE of the two or more source UEs, an indication of a second resource allocation for transmitting second data. The UE may receive, from the first source UE, the first data using the first resource allocation. The UE may receive, from the second source UE, the second data using the second resource allocation. The UE may transmit the first data and the second data to at least one destination UE. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12207230B2	Methods, apparatus and systems for configuring a paging resource in a wireless communication Methods, apparatus and systems for configuring a paging resource in a wireless communication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication device is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving a first message from a wireless communication node, wherein the first message comprises information about a plurality of tracking area codes (TACs) and a plurality of TAC characteristics; transmitting a second message to the wireless communication node, wherein the second message includes a TAC that is selected from the plurality of TACs based on at least one of the plurality of TAC characteristics of the wireless communication device; and receiving a third message within the TAC, wherein the TAC comprises at least one cell.
US12207228B2	Method and apparatus for terminal to determine reference paging cycle in mobile wireless communication system A method and apparatus for monitoring paging in a mobile communication system are provided. Method for monitoring paging includes receiving a first message including first paging cycle and second paging cycle from the AMF, receiving a second message including third paging cycle and fourth paging cycle from the base station, receiving a system information including an information related to the support of extended DRX, determining a reference DRX cycle and monitoring paging occasion based on the reference DRX cycle.
US12207226B2	Device tracking with radio ranging and sensor functions Methods and systems for identifying device positions include measuring radio signal strength information between devices. Inertial information is measured for the devices. The radio signal strength information and the inertial information are fused to determine relative locations between the devices. The relative locations are oriented to a fixed anchor node. Elevation is estimated for the plurality of devices using pressure sensor information.
US12207217B2	Secure data transmission system and method for targeting specific receiver locations A secure data transmission system and method for targeting specific receiver locations. The secure data transmission system includes a time multiplexer, a time delay unit, a receiver tacker, and a plurality of transmitters. Additionally, the secure data transmission system may include a multiplexing sequence, a digital switch, a plurality of empty vectors, a range calculator, a delay estimator, and a plurality of stream time delays. The method for targeting specific receiver location includes receiving an input data stream, multiplexing the input data steam, receiving at least one instantaneous receiver locations, calculating a plurality of transmission ranges for each of the plurality of output data streams, calculating a plurality of time delays for each of the plurality of output data streams, delaying each of the plurality of output data streams according its calculated time delay, and transmitting each of the plurality of output data streams.
US12207211B2	Synchronization in access point (AP) coordination Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide an apparatus for wireless communication. The apparatus generally includes a processing system configured to generate a message comprising coordination information, wherein the apparatus is associated with a first AP, the message to be used for coordinated communications by the first AP and a second AP, wherein the first AP and the second AP are associated with different basic service sets (BSSs), and an interface configured to output the message for transmission during a networking coordination window of a networking cluster.
US12207205B2	Dual connectivity power control Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, while in dual connectivity with a carrier of a second cell group, a first grant for a first communication on a carrier of a first cell group. The UE may determine an allocated power for the first cell group by a specified time offset before a start of second cell group transmissions. The UE may receive a second grant, after the first grant, for a second communication on the first cell group. The UE may transmit the first communication with a first transmit power. The UE may transmit the second communication with a second transmit power that is based on the allocated power and the first transmit power and/or a maximum transmit power for the first cell group. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12207200B2	Terminal and radio communication method A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control section that uses a first cell and a second cell of business operators different from each other; and a receiving section that receives downlink transmission having transmission power different depending on at least one of a business operator, frequency, time, and interference in the first cell and the second cell. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, deterioration of communication quality due to interference between networks of different business operators can be suppressed.
US12207199B2	Wearable device location systems Systems, methods, devices, computer readable media, and other various embodiments are described for location management processes in wearable electronic devices. Performance of such devices is improved with reduced time to first fix of location operations in conjunction with low-power operations. In one embodiment, low-power circuitry manages high-speed circuitry and location circuitry to provide location assistance data from the high-speed circuitry to the low-power circuitry automatically on initiation of location fix operations as the high-speed circuitry and location circuitry are booted from low-power states. In some embodiments, the high-speed circuitry is returned to a low-power state prior to completion of a location fix and after capture of content associated with initiation of the location fix. In some embodiments, high-speed circuitry is booted after completion of a location fix to update location data associated with content.
US12207198B2	Wake up signal monitoring occasions Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a wake up signal (WUS) within a WUS monitoring occasion (WMO) indicating to initiate a discontinuous reception (DRX) on-duration, a time to initiate the DRX on-duration being based at least in part on a timing of the WMO within a set of WMOs. The UE may receive a communication based at least in part on initiating the DRX on-duration at the time. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12207196B2	Efficient preamble design and modulation schemes for wake-up packets in WLAN with wake-up radio receivers Systems and methods of transmitting and receiving a Wake-Up Radio (WUR) packet by using a simplified preamble structure that contains no training field. The preamble carries a signature sequence selected from a set of predefined sequences, each corresponding to a different data transmission rate. The preamble and the control information of the WUR packet are transmitted in the same rate as indicated by the selected sequence. Hence, a receiving WUR can determine the data transmission rate and locate the associated control information directly if a sequence that matches a predefined signature sequence is detected. The same sequence or in combination with an additional sequence in the preamble may also be used to indicate automatic gain control synchronization, packet type and other related information.
US12207192B2	Methods for power saving sensing and resource allocation A first wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive, from a second WTRU, sidelink control information (SCI), including first information indicating if a resource is reserved by the second WTRU, and second information indicating if the second WTRU is a power saving or non-power saving. The first WTRU may measure a reference signal receive power (RSRP) of signals transmitted by the second WTRU. The first WTRU may add a resource to a set of available resources if the first information indicates that the resource is not reserved by the second WTRU. If a resource is reserved, the WTRU may set an RSRP threshold to a first set or second threshold based on a power saving mode of the second WTRU. The first WTRU may add the resource to the set of available resources if the measured RSRP is less than the selected RSRP threshold.
US12207190B2	Wireless device-autonomous procedures for missed-wake up signals A method and wireless device (WD) for autonomous WD wake up are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a wireless device configured to communicate with a network node is provided. The wireless device includes processing circuitry configured to determine that a transmitted wake up signal has been missed before a discontinuous reception (DRX) ON-duration, and perform at least one action during the DRX ON-duration based at least in part on the determination that the wake signal has been missed.
US12207189B2	First access point, second access point, method performed by wireless network, and storage medium The present disclosure discloses a first access point, a second access point, a method performed by a wireless network, and a storage medium. The first access point is one of constituent devices of a wireless network, and includes one or more processors configured to: select, in response to a degree of interference of the first access point satisfying a preset condition, a plurality of second access points adjacent to the first access point; determine the first access point and the plurality of second access points as constituent access points of a sub-network of the wireless network; and adjust, based on a first network performance parameter corresponding to at least one client connected to an access point of the sub-network and/or a second network performance parameter corresponding to at least one access point in the sub-network, a transmit power of the first access point.
US12207186B2	Dynamic cell functionality determination in L1/L2 based mobility A base station may select an active set of serving cells for a user equipment (UE) from a configured cell set of the UE. The base station may select a cell of the active set of serving cells to perform a primary cell (PCell) function for the UE. The base station may select the cell and transmit an indication of the selected cell to the UE in layer 1 or layer 2 signaling, or the base station may select the cell using a common rule and the UE may select the cell using the common rule. Upon determining the cell, the UE may perform the PCell function with the cell.
US12207185B2	Selecting PLMN in wireless communication system A method for selecting a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) in a wireless communication system by a User Equipment (UE), the method includes detecting, by the UE, that the UE is operating in an interworking mode, triggering, by the UE, a manual scan in the interworking mode for acquiring a list of PLMNs in the wireless communication system, and causing, by the UE, a display to output the list of PLMNs in response to the triggering.
US12207184B2	Terminal apparatus and communication method A terminal apparatus includes a receiver and reception signal control circuitry. The receiver, in operation, receives a first downlink data signal transmitted from a first communication station and receives a second downlink data signal transmitted from a first communication station, the first downlink data signal and the second downlink data signal being received over a first downlink channel and a second downlink channel that are at least partially overlapped in time and frequency domain. The reception signal control circuitry, in operation, demodulates the received first downlink data signal and a second downlink data signal.
US12207178B2	Time window for radio link failure detection of an unlicensed cell A base station transmits, to a wireless device and via an unlicensed cell, downlink signals during a time window. The base station receives, from the wireless device, an RRC message indicating a radio link failure (RLF) of the unlicensed cell based on a counter, wherein the counter is incremented in response to a radio link quality of the downlink signals being worse than a threshold during the time window.
US12207177B2	Communication apparatus, control method, and program When a communication is performed in a particular frequency channel included in a 6 GHz band, if a signal that is not according to the IEEE 802.11 series standard is detected in the 6 GHz band, control is performed such that a signal according to the IEEE 802.11 series standard is not allowed to be transmitted in the particular frequency channel.
US12207172B2	Emergency event detection and response system An emergency event detection and response system detects an occurrence of an event associated with a user and initiates an emergency response flow. A user may be associated with a wearable device and have in his home a base station and portable or stationary wireless devices containing sensors capable of detecting an emergency event. The emergency event may be detected based on voice or non-voice audio input from the user, data monitoring by the wearable device, base station, and/or portable or stationary wireless device, or by physical button press. Responsive to determining that an emergency event has occurred, the system triggers an emergency response flow by notifying a call center and contacting one or more caregivers associated with the user. Caregivers may access a response system application to receive updates regarding the detected emergency and to contact the user and/or a provider associated with the call center.
US12207168B2	Power management of movable edge computing servers A method for controlling operation of a mobile first Edge Computing, EC, server (220) configured to provide compute resources to User Equipment, UE, (303), wherein the first EC server is connected to an EC management entity (300) configured to manage a plurality of EC servers (220, 220-2), the method being carried out in the first EC server and comprising receiving (501) status information associated with the first EC server from an external entity; receiving (500,503) control information from the EC management entity, said control information identifying a power state control instruction; determining (504) a power state triggering event in accordance with the power state control instruction, based on the received status information; controlling (506) the power state of the first EC server responsive to the determined power state triggering event.
US12207167B1	Bidirectional link device and method for V2X-based autonomous cooperative traveling Disclosed are a bidirectional link device and method for V2X-based autonomous cooperative traveling. The bidirectional link device mounted on an autonomous cooperative traveling vehicle to support V2X communication between the autonomous cooperative traveling vehicle and a plurality of autonomous traveling infrastructure devices includes a communication standard detector that detects a communication standard of a sharing infrastructure device that is an autonomous traveling infrastructure device that will perform the V2X communication among the plurality of autonomous traveling infrastructure devices, an encoder/decoder that encodes vehicle information of the autonomous cooperative traveling vehicle using the detected communication standard and decodes infrastructure information of the sharing infrastructure device, and a link controller that controls the encoding and the decoding according to a predetermined criterion.
US12207165B2	Sensor hierarchy for context inference The present disclosure relates to a personal computing device configured to provide a sensor hierarchy for a subscriber comprising: a sensor module, configured to receive or retrieve values from a sensor; a memory module, configured to store data indicative of a sensor hierarchy, wherein the sensor hierarchy comprises a plurality of nodes wherein each node comprises at least one hierarchical identifier and at least one node comprises data indicative of the sensor module; and a sensor hierarchy module, configured to: obtain the data indicative of the sensor hierarchy from the memory module; receive a subscription request from the subscriber, wherein preferably the subscription request comprises data indicative of the hierarchical identifier to subscribe to; optionally locate the hierarchical identifier of the subscription request within the sensor hierarchy; and subscribe the subscriber based on the subscription request.
US12207164B2	Methods, wireless communication device, IMS and OCS for sending information to communication network subscribers Disclosed is a method performed by an IP Multimedia System, IMS (140), of a communication network. The method comprises receiving information of a call initiation or a call reception by a wireless communication device (110), the information comprising an ID indicative of a subscriber of the wireless communication device (110). The method further comprises sending information of the initiated or received call to an online charging system, OCS (150), the information comprising the ID indicative of the subscriber of the wireless communication device (110), receiving, from the OCS (150) and in response to the sending, a pointer referring to a notification picture, and sending the pointer to the wireless communication device (110). Hereby it is possible for an operator to send notification pictures to its subscribers. Disclosed are also methods performed by the OCS (150) and the wireless communication device (110).
US12207160B2	Systems and methods for supporting a location uncertainty for a scheduled location The location of a user equipment (UE) is determined at a scheduled location time based on location measurements for the UE received from one or more other entities. The location measurements are obtained at a plurality of times based on the scheduled location time. An uncertainty of the location that indicates a difference between the location and an actual location of the UE at the scheduled location time is determined and the location and the uncertainty of the location are sent to a requesting entity. The uncertainty of the location is based on a location uncertainty and a time uncertainty relative to the scheduled location time, which are combined into a single location uncertainty.
US12207156B2	Systems and methods for providing guidance instructions to an operational charging unit A charging unit guidance system includes a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions that upon execution by the processor, cause the processor to receive a sequence of user states associated with a user of a first autonomous vehicle, each user state being one of a walking state and an at-charging-unit state and the sequence of user states being based on a sequence of observed user speeds associated with detected user position data associated with movement of the user from the first autonomous vehicle to a charging unit and at the charging unit, determine a charging unit location of the charging unit based on a correlation between the at-charging-unit states in the sequence of user states and the user position data, and upload the charging unit location associated with the charging unit to an edge computing system, the edge computing system being configured to provide guidance instructions to the charging unit to a second autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the charging unit location.
US12207154B2	Method for providing better connecting signals, electronic device and computer readable storage medium A method for providing better connecting signals is disclosed. Coordinates of multiple mobile terminals are obtained. Distances between a mobile Wi-Fi (MIFI) device and the mobile terminals are calculated according to received signal strength indicator (RSSI) values between the mobile terminals and the MIFI device, and a relative coordinate of the MIFI device is then calculated based on the distances. Unit vectors of the mobile terminals relative to the MIFI device are calculated according to the relative coordinate of the MIFI device and the coordinates of the mobile devices. Reference signal receiving power (RSRP) values of the mobile terminals are calculated and are multiplied by the unit vectors to obtain RSRP vectors of the mobile terminals. The RSRP vectors are added up to generate a position where the MIFI device moves to a base station.
US12207147B2	Small data transmission techniques in wireless communications Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) may establish a connection with a network entity and transition to an inactive state in which a security context associated with the connection between the network entity and the UE is maintained. The UE may determine, based on a presence of data for transmission via the connection while in the inactive state, that one or more parameters associated with the connection meet a threshold criteria, and transmit the data via the connection while in the inactive state. The threshold criteria may be, for example, a cell energy of a serving cell associated with the connection, and an amount of data to be transmitted may be below a size threshold associated with a small data transmission.
US12207144B2	User equipment positioning measurements under cell change A method performed by a UE (102) that is being served by at least a first cell. The method includes the UE performing a multi round-trip-time, multi-RTT, positioning measurement (e.g., a UE Rx-Tx measurement), wherein the UE is configured with SRS for the measurement with respect to a second cell. The method also includes the UE detecting a need to change a serving cell. The method further includes, as a result of detecting the need to change a serving cell, the UE deciding whether to restart or continue performing the multi-RTT measurement. The UE is configured such that the UE continues the multi-RTT measurement if the serving cell change is for a cell different than the second cell in which the UE is configured with the SRS for the measurement).
US12207143B2	User equipment and method of uplink beam management A user equipment (UE) and a method of uplink beam management are provided. The method includes being configured, by a source cell, an uplink transmit beam for an uplink transmission for a target cell and transmitting, to the target cell, the configured uplink transmit beam for the uplink transmission. During a handover from the source cell to the target cell, the uplink transmit beam for the UE to the target cell is determined based on collaboration between the source cell and the target cell. The method enables a random access channel-free (RACH-free) handover procedure which reduces latency of handover and overhead of signaling and resource.
US12207140B2	Method and apparatus for controlling sidelink QoS The present application generally relates to wireless communication technology. More particularly, it relates to a method and apparatus for controlling sidelink (SL) Quality of Service (QoS). According to one or more embodiments, a method for controlling sidelink (SL) Quality of Service (QoS) comprising the following steps carried out at a User Equipment (UE): a) generating QoS requirement from characteristics for one or more packets to be transmitted via a sidelink; b) determining bearer configuration corresponding to the QoS requirement; and c) performing SL transmission on the basis of the bearer configuration.
US12207139B2	Processing method of direct communication, processing device of direct communication, relay terminal and remote terminal A processing method of direct communication, a processing device of direct communication, a relay terminal and a remote terminal are provided. The method includes: receiving a direct communication request message sent by a remote terminal, where the direct communication request message includes: a flow identification of a first QoS flow requested to be established and a QoS parameter of the first QoS flow; the first QoS flow is a QoS flow on a direct communication interface between the remote terminal and the relay terminal; and sending a direct communication response message to the remote terminal, where the direct communication response message is configured to indicate that an establishment of the first QoS flow is finished.
US12207138B2	System and method for adaptively tracking and allocating capacity in a broadly-dispersed wireless network Disclosed is a system for tracking and dynamically allocating wireless capacity within a wireless telecommunications network. The system has a plurality of processor levels: a layer of baseband-level capacity processors that are deployed within each baseband processor; a layer of client-level capacity processors that are deployed within each wireless base station; a layer of server-level capacity processors, each of which orchestrate allocation of wireless capacity over a unique domain of wireless base stations; and a master level capacity processor. Wireless capacity is allocated in terms of active connections to wireless devices, and the active connections are quantized and allocated as logical connections, or connection tokens. The system dynamically allocates wireless capacity so that resources are devoted to venues and environments where demand is greatest at any given time.
US12207135B2	Use of per-connection spectral efficiency as basis for dynamic control of air-interface communication with dual-connected device A method and system for controlling data split of a dual-connected user equipment device (UE) when the UE has at least two co-existing air-interface connections including a first air-interface connection with a first access node and a second air-interface connection with a second access node. An example method includes (i) comparing a level of spectral efficiency of the first air-interface connection with a level of spectral efficiency of the second air-interface connection, (ii) based at least on the comparing, establishing a split ratio that defines a distribution of data flow of the UE between at least the first air-interface connection and the second air-interface connection, and (iii) based on the establishing, causing the established split ratio to be applied. Further the method could include using the comparison as a basis to set one of the UE's air-interface connections as the UE's primary uplink path.
US12207134B2	4X LTF sequence for 320MHZ band The present disclosure is related to a wireless local area network (WLAN) system. A transmitting station (STA) can generate a physical protocol data unit (PPDU) and transmit the PPDU, the PPDU can include a long training field (LTF) signal, and the LTF signal can be generated on the basis of an LTF sequence for a 320 MHZ band.
US12207130B2	Systems and methods for network design and configuration based on user-level usage modeling A system described herein may identify sets of seed parameters that are each associated with a respective User Equipment (“UE”) of a group of UEs. The system may generate, based on the seed parameters for each UE, a respective set of UE usage metrics for each UE, and may generate a set of aggregate UE usage metrics based on the generated sets of UE usage metrics. The system may compare the aggregate UE usage metrics to a measure of network capacity; determine an amount of time that a measure of UE usage exceeds the measure of network capacity; determine that the amount of time, that the measure of UE usage exceeds the measure of network capacity, exceeds a threshold amount of time; and modify network configuration parameters based on determining that the amount of time, that UE usage exceeds the network capacity, exceeds the threshold amount of time.
US12207127B2	System and method for prioritization of network traffic across multiple wireless options An information handling system comprising a processor, memory, and a wireless network interface device and the processor executing an access point survey module to survey a plurality of access points distributed across the multi-channel communication network having a plurality of wireless protocol networks to, based on the type of wireless protocol network, determine and assign a numerical value to the access point characteristics based on access point related signal quality factors and data connection factors aggregate the numerical values associated with the factors for each access point and rank each access point based on an aggregated score and assign communication for a network slice from the wireless network interface to an access point channel based on the aggregated scores of the access point.
US12207122B2	Apparatus and method for analyzing network data related to terminal in roaming state in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The disclosure is to analyze N network data on a UE which is in a roaming state in a wireless communication system. According to various embodiments of the disclosure, a method for operating an apparatus for a network data analytics function (NWDAF) belonging to a first network in a core network of a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: transmitting a first message requesting network data for a terminal to a core network device belonging to a second network; receiving a second message including the network data from the core network device; and transmitting a third message including an analytics result of the network data to a consumer network function (NF).
US12207121B2	Activation of measurement gap configuration Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, device and computer readable storage medium of communication. The method implemented at a first device comprises receiving, from a second device, a message for bandwidth part switching for the first device, the message triggering the first device to activate a measurement gap configuration, the measurement gap configuration indicating one or more measurement gaps. The method further comprises delaying to apply at least one measurement gap of the one or more measurement gaps. In this way, the delay of the bandwidth part switching procedure is controllable and predictable for both the first and the second device, and further the required necessary interaction after the bandwidth part switching is ensured thereby, while the new measurement gap configuration may be activated as soon as possible.
US12207120B2	Repetition configuration for remote interference management-reference signal (RIM-RS) transmissions A network element for configuring a Remote Interference Monitoring Reference Signal (RIM-RS) is disclosed. The network element transmits RIM-RS resource configuration and Information of Things (IoT) measurement and reporting configuration information to a base station. The base station conducts the IoT measurement and ducting phenomenon detection according to the received configuration, and transmits the results to the network element. The base station determines the number of repetition and/or near-far indication based on the received information and transmits the number of repetition and near-far indication to the base station. The base station then transmits the RIM-RS according to the received repetition and near-far indication.
US12207119B1	Systems, methods, and devices for automatic signal detection with temporal feature extraction within a spectrum Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed for automatic signal detection in an RF environment. An apparatus comprises at least one receiver and at least one processor coupled with at least one memory. The apparatus is at the edge of a communication network. The apparatus sweeps and learns the RF environment in a predetermined period based on statistical learning techniques, thereby creating learning data. The apparatus forms a knowledge map based on the learning data, scrubs a real-time spectral sweep against the knowledge map, and creates impressions on the RF environment based on a machine learning algorithm. The apparatus is operable to detect at least one signal in the RF environment.
US12207114B2	Method for network optimization of a cellular network Provided is a method for a first base station operating with a cellular network, covering a first cell area and being connectively coupled to a second base station supporting beamforming, covering a second cell area, wherein a plurality of user equipments is located in said first cell area. It includes sending a message representative of an instruction to perform at least one automatic neighbor relation measurement to at least one of the plurality of user equipments located in said first cell area, receiving at least one automatic neighbor relation message from said at least one user equipment, and omitting said at least one user equipment from further considering for further automatic neighbor relation evaluation, when said automatic neighbor relation message indicates that said user equipment is located outside of the second cell area.
US12207112B2	Customization approach for cooperating nodes A method and network node for differentiated handling of at least one interaction of network nodes within a communication network. The method includes obtaining, at a first network node, information about a category of at least one second network node related to an interaction type, and selecting a communication algorithm based on the obtained information to provide the differentiated handling of the at least one interaction of network nodes within the communication network.
US12207111B2	Method and system for threshold monitoring The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for carrying out performance measurement monitoring. Specifically, a consumer seeking performance measurement monitoring transmits a request to a management service producer that includes the parameters of the monitoring, such as the type of data to be monitored, a granularity period and one or more threshold values. In response, the management service producer communicates with a network function to carry out the monitoring. In particular, for each granularity period, a monitoring value is initialized. Then, either at the end of the granularity period or at intervals throughout the granularity period, the monitoring value is measured. If, at the time of measurement, the measurement value exceeds any one of the threshold values, a notification is transmitted to the consumer. Otherwise, monitoring continues for the remainder of the granularity period and/or is repeated for subsequent granularity periods.
US12207109B2	Techniques for PDCCH monitoring aggregation Wireless communications systems and methods related to a downlink search space with or without PDCCH monitoring aggregation in a wireless communication network are provided. A UE receives a monitoring configuration from a BS including a repetition of DCI over a plurality of PDCCH monitoring occasions of a search space. The monitoring configuration indicates one or more forms of diversity between PDCCH monitoring occasions. Diversity may be achieved, for example, by a CORESET frequency allocation difference, a PDCCH monitoring occasion frequency resource allocation difference, and/or different hashing functions for the CCE index of PDCCH monitoring occasions within a CORESET. Additional diversity is possible by using different beams and other methods. When activated either explicitly or implicitly, UE monitors for PDCCH transmissions from the first device utilizing the configured PDCCH monitoring aggregation.
US12207106B2	Wi-fi sensing mesh network WiFi Sensing Mesh Network A sensing system for monitoring a place comprising a plurality of mesh devices located in the place. Each mesh device comprises a transmitter component which, when activated, configures the mesh device as a transmitter, and a receiver component which, when activated, configures the mesh device as a receiver. At least two of the mesh devices have activated receiver components. Each mesh device having an activated receiver component is configured, by a configuration tool, to receive sensed data for processing from at least one other selected mesh device of the plurality of mesh devices. The selected mesh device having been selected by the configuration tool and having an activated transmitter component. The sensed data is generated from a wireless signal transmitted by the transmitter device and received by each receiver device over a wireless communication medium.
US12207093B2	Methods and systems for obfuscating entry of sensitive data at mobile devices Systems and methods are disclosed for obfuscating entry of sensitive data at a mobile device, which may be infected with a rogue application configured to steal the sensitive data. One method comprises detecting a prompt for a user to enter sensitive data at a mobile device, and activating one or more of an audio speaker and a vibration motor of the mobile device. The activation of the one or more of the audio speaker and the vibration motor is terminated in response detection conclusion of the user's entry of sensitive data the mobile device.
US12207092B2	System and method for rogue device detection Methods, systems and computer readable media for rogue device detection are described. The method may include automatically generating one or more dummy network identifiers associated with a wireless network, advertising the one or more dummy network identifiers, and identifying a device as a suspect device based on receiving a connection attempt to at least one of the one or more dummy network identifiers by the device. The method can also include allocating a virtual local area network within the wireless network to process traffic associated with the at least one of the one or more dummy network identifiers, and monitoring network traffic of the suspect device on the virtual local area network. The method can further include, if the monitored network traffic meets an abnormality threshold, determining that the suspect device is a rogue device, and performing an action to protect the wireless network from the rogue device.
US12207090B2	Management server, terminal, and method for providing and applying wireless LAN security policy by participating in multiple access points Provided is a method in which a management server provides wireless LAN security policy by participating in multiple APs. The method includes a step of receiving terminal information of a terminal, which is acquired in a process of scanning broadcasting information of multiple APs, from each of the multiple APs, a step of issuing and storing a token for opening a wireless LAN data channel to each of the multiple APs on the basis of reception time points of the terminal information, a step of receiving a token request for opening a wireless LAN data channel to an AP to be accessed, selected by a terminal among the multiple APs, and a step of distributing, to the terminal, a token of the AP to be accessed corresponding to the token request.
US12207087B2	Secure storage device Techniques for securing data in a storage device are disclosed. The storage device includes one or more authentication components including one or more of a biometric reader, a positioning system, and a wireless receiver. The storage device further includes a security subsystem configured to secure data using multiple authentication factors obtained using the one or more authentication components.
US12207084B2	Wireless device and network node for verification of a device as well as corresponding methods in a wireless communication system The present invention relates to a method and wireless device for supporting verification of a device as well as to a method and a network node. It is desired to enable the reliable verification of a device. The method at the device includes transmitting the wireless device identifier; calculating verification information from a random bit sequence by using a verification function associated with the wireless device identifier, wherein the verification function uses the cryptographic key; transmitting a message including the verification information to a trusted network node over a secure connection; and wherein the secure connection is established by using a trusted network identifier or by using a network encryption key associated with a trusted network identifier.
US12207083B2	WWAN-WLAN aggregation security One feature pertains to a method for secure wireless communication at an apparatus of a network. The method includes receiving a user equipment identifier identifying a user equipment and a cryptographic key from a wireless wide area network node, and using the cryptographic key as a pairwise master key (PMK). A PMK identifier (PKMID) is generated based on the PMK and the two are stored at the network. A PMK security association is initialized by associating the PMK with at least the PMKID and an access point identifier identifying an access point of the apparatus. An association request is received that includes a PMKID from the user equipment, and it's determined that the PMKID received from the user equipment matches the PMKID stored. A key exchange is initiated with the user equipment based on the PMK to establish a wireless local area network security association with the user equipment.
US12207081B2	Apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods for aircraft communication configuration Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for aircraft communication configuration. An example apparatus includes memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to decrypt a first message received from a first radio of an aircraft, the first radio using a first communication protocol, the aircraft including a second radio to be configured for a second communication protocol different from the first communication protocol, and, in response to a determination that the first message includes radio configuration information associated with the second radio, configure a third radio to transmit a second message to the second radio based on the radio configuration information.
US12207080B2	Method and device for multicast transmission The present disclosure provides a method and device for multicast transmission, wherein a method for multicast transmission performed by a first network device includes: receiving a first message for requesting handover from a second network device; transmitting a second message for responding to the first message to the second network device.
US12207074B2	Method and system for detecting sound event liveness using a microphone array A method performed by an electronic device in a room. The method performs an enrollment process in which a spatial profile of a location of an artificial sound source is created and performs an identification process that determines whether a sound event within the room is produced by the artificial sound source by 1) capturing the sound event using a microphone array and 2) determining a likelihood that the sound event occurred at the location of the artificial sound source.
US12207067B2	Multi-channel audio playback system A multi-channel audio playback system includes a front speaker, a wearable speaker, and a signal processor. The front speaker is configured to receive front sound field signals (FS). The wearable speaker is designed to allow a listener to hear environmental sounds and is configured to receive rear sound field signals (RS). The signal processor is configured to divide a multi-channel signal into a front sound field signal group (FSG) and a rear sound field signal group (RSG); mix FSG (RSG) and generate the FS (RS), wherein the number of the FS (RS) is equal to the number of the drivers of the front speaker (wearable speaker); and perform time delay adjustment on FS or RS, so that a difference between times for sound waves emitted by the front speaker and by the wearable speaker to respectively reach ears of the listener is less than a default value.
US12207065B2	Power supply device and method for searching audio output device using power supply device An electronic device includes: a wireless communication circuit; a power management circuit; and a control circuit, and the control circuit may: in a state where the electronic device connects a first communication with a first audio output device by using the wireless communication circuit, or is electrically connected with the first audio output device by using the power management circuit, operate in a connection standby mode or in an advertise mode by using a first wireless communication address of the first audio output device; receive a signal for finding the first audio output device from an external electronic device, based on the first wireless communication address; and transmit a signal for letting the first audio output device output a notification to the first audio output device through the first communication, or transmit the signal to the first audio output device through the electrical connection.
US12207061B2	Signal processing method and device of mems microphone and mems microphone A signal processing method and device of a MEMS microphone and a MEMS microphone are disclosed. The method comprises: acquiring a first electrical signal obtained by converting a received optical signal by an optical sensor disposed near a sound hole of the MEMS microphone; acquiring a second electrical signal output by the MEMS microphone; and judging that the second electrical signal is an interference signal when within a substantially overlapping time range, the first electrical signal acquired reaches a preset first threshold value and the second electrical signal acquired meets a preset condition.
US12207059B2	Apparatus and method for estimation of eardrum sound pressure based on secondary path measurement An individual cutoff frequency for an individual secondary path measurement is determined. First and second acoustic transducer-to-eardrum responses below and above the cutoff frequency are determined using an individual secondary path measurement, a reduced dimensionality estimate, and a least squares estimate. A sound pressure level at an eardrum of the user is predicted using the first and second receiver-to-eardrum responses.
US12207052B2	MEMS structure A MEMS structure is provided. The MEMS structure includes a substrate having an opening portion and a backplate disposed on one side of the substrate. The MEMS structure also includes a diaphragm disposed between the substrate and the backplate. The opening portion of the substrate is under the diaphragm, and an air gap is formed between the diaphragm and the backplate. The MEMS structure further includes a pillar structure connected with the backplate and the diaphragm and a protection post structure extending from the backplate into the air gap. From a top view of the backplate, the protection post structure surrounds the pillar structure.
US12207051B2	Vibration module for piezoelectric speaker and panel speaker The present invention provides a piezoelectric speaker and a vibration module for a panel speaker including a piezoelectric speaker and a vibration module for a panel speaker including one speaker unit being configured by including a diaphragm, and at least 3 piezoelectric resonators each being independently configured and attached to one surface of the diaphragm. As described above, according to the present invention, the acoustic properties of a piezoelectric speaker having the advantages of a thin speaker may be enhanced. Most particularly, the present invention may provide a piezoelectric speaker that is required in panel speakers of large-sized TVs, mobile devices, and so on, that can generate sufficient sound pressure and produce stable bass sound (or low frequency sound) at the same time, by resolving the disadvantages of insufficient sound pressure properties in the low frequency band, and by enhancing the smoothness of the sound pressure level (SPL).
US12207050B2	Camera microphone drainage system designed for beamforming An image capture device with a housing, a drainage microphone, processor, and drainage channel. The housing defining an audio depression. The drainage microphone coupled to the housing at a location of the audio depression and configured to capture audio. The processor coupled with a memory storing instructions that when executed cause the processor to apply a set of tuned beamforming parameters to the captured audio. The drainage channel within the housing to drain moisture from the drainage microphone. The drainage channel defining a channel entrance having a channel entrance width and a channel entrance height.
US12207034B2	Acoustic device The present disclosure may provide an acoustic device. The acoustic device may include a housing, at least one low-frequency acoustic driver, at least one high-frequency acoustic driver, and a noise reduction assembly. The housing may be configured to be rested on a shoulder of a user. The at least one low-frequency acoustic driver may be carried by the housing and configured to output first sound from at least two first sound guiding holes. The at least one high-frequency acoustic driver may be carried by the housing and configured to output second sound from at least two second sound guiding holes. The noise reduction assembly may be configured to receive third sound and reduce noise of the third sound.
US12207033B2	Pressure relief valve for headphones A headphone comprising: two headphone earcups each comprising: an earcup housing defining an active chamber that acoustically couples a sound output side of a speaker to an ear of a user, and an inactive chamber that surrounds the active chamber; and a passive valve assembly configured to open in response to a positive pressure and a negative pressure within the active chamber to fluidly couple the active chamber to the inactive chamber and equalize a pressure between the active chamber and the inactive chamber.
US12207028B2	Control device, projection system, control method, and control program A control device of a projection system including an optical system that projects an image generated in a display portion based on input image data to a projection object, and an imaging portion that images the projection object, includes: a distance determination portion that acquires first captured image data of the image projected to the projection object from the imaging portion and determines a distance from an object present between the projection object and the optical system to the optical system based on a first sharpness of a part or an entire part of the first captured image data and a second sharpness of the input image data.
US12207027B2	Image projector with laser scanning over spatial light modulator An image projector employing a laser scanning illumination arrangement to illumination a spatial light modulator (SLM), where an angular beam spreader element, typically a diffuser or a micro-lens array (MLA), adjacent to, or in a conjugate plane with, the SLM, enhances filling of the exit aperture while minimizing impact on the precision of scanning of the laser illumination on the SLM. Also disclosed are various schemes for synchronous rolling update of the SLM during scanned illumination, and systems employing binary-switchable SLMs.
US12207025B2	Apparatus and method of acquiring image by employing color separation lens array An apparatus for acquiring images includes an image sensor and a signal processor. The image sensor may include a sensor substrate and a color separation lens array, wherein the sensor substrate includes a plurality of photo-sensing cells, and the color separation lens array may separate an incident light into a plurality of lights having different wavelengths and forms a phase distribution for condensing the plurality of lights having the different wavelengths on adjacent photo-sensing cells of the plurality of photo-sensing cells. The signal processor may perform deconvolution on sensing signals of the plurality of photo-sensing cells to obtain a sub-sampled image, perform demosaicing to restore a full resolution image having a full resolution from the sub-sampled image, and correct a color of the full resolution image using a point spread function (PSF) of the color separation lens array.
US12207023B2	System and method for exchanging compressed images over LoRaWAN gateways A system and method for creating small data size representations of images, created on the image detection device, over wireless connections when there is insufficient bandwidth to support detailed images is disclosed. Image data size is often too large to send over low-powered long-distance wireless connections. Image data must be dramatically reduced to enable use of the lowest-power longest-distance wireless platforms including LoRa with LoRaWAN. Common image compression algorithms include jpeg and mpeg that provide only moderate reductions in data size. The described invention reduces data size beyond jpeg compression by reducing targeted image objects to simple outlines, contours or vectors. Monitoring security, wildlife, agricultural and other natural events require images of objects including insects, crops, livestock, wildlife or intruders. Contours, outlines or vectors of targeted objects are often sufficiently recognizable to provide useful information.
US12207022B2	Optical gas imaging camera with navigation and targeting control, learning and operating methods for the camera, and compliance auditing system An optical gas imaging camera, methods of operating the optical gas imaging camera in a learning mode and in an operating mode, and a compliance auditing system are disclosed, where the optical gas imaging camera has on-board hardware, devices, and software used for generating images of fugitive emissions of a target object along with generating a multitude of other information associated with the time of generating images of the target object, which is all combined into compliance data that can be stored on-board the optical gas imaging camera or transmitted to a central computer in the auditing system. The compliance data is stored and can be retrieved to add additional information such as repair of a fugitive emission or for compliance auditing purposes.
US12207019B2	Monitoring system, monitoring method, and monitoring program An abnormality behind a shielding object is discovered. There is provided a monitoring system including a video acquirer, a detector, and a notifier. The video acquirer of the monitoring system acquires a video. The detector of the monitoring system detects entering of a target object into a blind spot generated by a shielding object in the video and appearance of the target object from the blind spot. If the target object does not appear from the blind spot even after a first time elapses since entering of the target object into the blind spot, the notifier of the monitoring system makes a notification.
US12207018B2	System and methods providing supplemental content to internet-enabled devices synchronized with rendering of original content An electronic device can be synchronized with a broadcast of a live sporting event to obtain supplemental sports data over a data network from a server storing data associated with the live sporting event. Supplemental sports data is obtained from the server for display on the electronic device following a triggering activity associated with the broadcast of the live sporting event. Supplemental sports data can be transmitted for rendering on a display associated with the electronic device. Supplemental sports data can include display of an instant replay video of a sports athlete combined with audio of a pre-recorded statement by the sports athlete associated with the instant replay video, an announcement of a score change for a sporting event monitored by the electronic device, and a display of a football widget providing updates on football game status (e.g., possession, ball location, current score) monitored by the electronic device.
US12207014B2	Cloud-based application of visual effects to video A server system receives, from a first client device, a video stream relating to a videoconferencing session and receives, from the first client device, visual effects information relating to one or more visual effects to be applied to the video stream. The server system applies, based on the received visual effects information, the one or more visual effects to the video stream to generate one or more modified video streams, and transmits the one or more modified video streams to one or more other client devices participating in the videoconferencing session.
US12207008B2	Solid-state image sensor and electronic device To control an excess bias to an appropriate value in a light detection device.A solid-state image sensor includes a photodiode, a resistor, and a control circuit. In this solid-state image sensor, the photodiode photoelectrically converts incident light and outputs a photocurrent. Furthermore, in the solid-state image sensor, the resistor is connected to a cathode of the photodiode. Furthermore, in the solid-state image sensor, the control circuit supplies a lower potential to an anode of the photodiode as a potential of the cathode of when the photocurrent flows through the resistor is higher.
US12207007B2	Image sensor, processor of image sensor, and image processing method An image sensor includes a test image generator configured to receive pixel data of a group of pixels including channel that corresponds to a size of a plurality of row regions of a pixel array that includes the plurality of row regions and a plurality of column regions, and is configured to generate test image data based on the pixel data, and an interface configured to transmit the test image data from the test image generator to a test device. The test image generator is configured to divide the pixel data into a first column region corresponding to 2n-th column region of the column regions of the pixel data and a second column region corresponding to 2n−1-th column region of the column regions of the pixel data and configured to generate a test image based on the first column region.
US12207006B2	Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus The present invention relates to a solid-state imaging device capable of highly accurate authentication.The solid-state imaging device includes a light receiving unit and a control unit. The light receiving unit includes event-driven pixels that output the occurrence of an event on the basis of a threshold. The control unit is a control unit that controls the light receiving unit, and is configured to set a first threshold for the event-driven pixels, and, in a case where an event based on the first threshold has been detected, set a second threshold smaller than the first threshold for the event-driven pixels.
US12207004B2	Utilising different apertures for different eyes An imaging apparatus includes: a left camera and right camera; and processor(s) configured to: control the left and right cameras to capture pairs of left and right images, respectively, wherein a left image of one of two consecutive pairs and a right image of another of two consecutive pairs are captured using one of small aperture size(s) and large aperture size(s), whilst a right image of one of two consecutive pairs and a left image of another of two consecutive pairs are captured using any one of: (i) another of small aperture size(s) and large aperture size(s), (ii) one of small aperture size(s) and medium aperture size(s) and another of small aperture size(s) and medium aperture size(s), respectively, (iii) one of large aperture size(s) and medium aperture size(s) and another of large aperture size(s) and medium aperture size(s), respectively; and send the captured images to client device(s) or server(s).
US12207003B2	System and method for IR subtraction in an RGB-IR image sensor using FPGA A method and system to produce an enhanced color image of Bayer 2×2 pixel pattern, and IR image, from 4×4 pixel initial color pattern containing separate R, G, B, and infra-red (IR) light pixels, the method predicting color and IR replacement pixels, determining calibrated IR contents, providing enhanced color R, G, B, and replacement B pixels by subtracting the calibrated IR contents from each of the R, G and B pixels, and constituting the enhanced color image of Bayer 2×2 pixel RGGB pattern from said enhanced color R, G, and B pixels; the system comprising an RGB IR camera with a dual pass filter permitting visible light and infra-red light as separate R, G, B and IR pixels, an integrated circuit device configured to predict pixels, convert 4×4 pixel patterns to 2×2 Bayer color patterns and IR patterns, wherein the integrated circuit device is a field programmable gate array.
US12206999B2	High dynamic range processing based on angular rate measurements Systems and methods are disclosed for high dynamic range processing based on angular rate measurements. For example, methods may include receiving a short exposure image that was captured using an image sensor; receiving a long exposure image that was captured using the image sensor; receiving an angular rate measurement captured using an angular rate sensor attached to the image sensor during exposure of the long exposure image; determining, based on the angular rate measurement, whether to apply high dynamic range processing to an image portion of the short exposure image and the long exposure image; and responsive to a determination not to apply high dynamic range processing to the image portion, selecting the image portion of the short exposure image for use as the image portion of an output image and discard the image portion of the long exposure image.
US12206995B2	Portable inspection device A portable inspection device comprises a lighting component configured to provide an adjustable level of illumination, a camera having a wide angle lens, configured for recording a video of an area to be inspected, a memory for storing video data captured by the camera and a touch screen to receive input from a user, and to display output video. The device further comprises a controller to: receive an instruction from a user to initiate a video recording using the camera; determine a measure of the brightness of ambient lighting in the area to be inspected; adjust the level of illumination of the so lighting component; store recorded video data in the memory; receive a video playback instruction from a user to initiate playback of recorded video data stored in the memory; and initiate playback of the recorded video data in response to receiving the video playback instruction.
US12206991B2	Body language detection and microphone control A system includes a gimbal, a shotgun microphone coupled to the gimbal, a camera, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to receive data indicative of an image or video feed from the camera. The at least one processor is also configured to determine, based on the data indicative of the image or video feed, a primary human speaker among a group of humans and a location of the primary human speaker. The at least one processor is also configured to control the gimbal to point the shotgun microphone at the location of the primary human speaker.
US12206976B2	Vehicular camera module A vehicular camera module includes a front housing member, an imaging array sensor, a lens, a rear housing member, and a circuit board. The rear housing member is mated with the front housing member to form a camera housing. With the circuit board accommodated within the camera housing formed by the mated front and rear housing members, the imaging sensor is closer to a first side of the circuit board than to a second side of the circuit board. The rear housing member includes an electrical plug connector having a plurality of individual electrically-conductive pins that are configured to plug into respective individual pin-receiving sockets of an electrical socket connector disposed at the second side of the circuit board. Individual electrically-conductive pins of the plurality of individual electrically-conductive pins plug into and make electrical-conductive contact with corresponding individual pin-receiving sockets of the plurality of individual pin-receiving sockets.
US12206974B2	Optical element driving mechanism An optical element driving mechanism is provided, including a fixed part, a movable part, and a driving assembly. The movable part includes a holder, and a supporting element. The holder holds an optical element. The supporting element is connected to the holder. The driving assembly drives the movable part to move relative to the fixed part. The holder uses the supporting element as a fulcrum and moves relative to the fixed part around the first axis and the second axis. The first axis is not parallel to the second axis.
US12206970B2	Imaging lens and electronic device An imaging lens includes a light blocking sheet that includes an inner ring surface, a plurality of tapered light blocking structures, and a nanostructure layer. The inner ring surface surrounds an optical axis and defines a light passage opening. The tapered light blocking structures are disposed on the inner ring surface, and each tapered light blocking structure protrudes from the inner ring surface and tapers off towards the optical axis. The tapered light blocking structures are periodically arranged to surround the optical axis. The contour of each tapered light blocking structure has a curved part in a view along the optical axis. The curved part forms a curved surface on the inner ring surface. The nanostructure layer is disposed on the curved surface and has a plurality of ridge-like protrusions that extend non-directionally, and the average structure height of the nanostructure layer ranges from 98 nanometers to 350 nanometers.
US12206966B2	Sensor driving device having substrate with electromagnetic driving unit and protrusion part and camera module having same A sensor driving device includes a first substrate; a second substrate disposed on the first substrate; and an image sensor. The second substrate includes a body having first and second lateral surfaces; a first protrusion part protruding from the first lateral surface; and a second protrusion part protruding from the second lateral surface. The first protrusion part includes a first extension part, and a second extension part extending in a direction different from the first extension part. The second protrusion part includes a first extension part, and a second extension part extending in a direction different from the first extension part. The first extension parts are disposed parallel to an optical axis of the image sensor. The second extension part of the first protrusion part is closer to the second extension part of the second protrusion part than to the first extension part of the second protrusion part.
US12206965B2	SVVRON effect: 3D TV and camera (without glasses) The present invention relates to enhancing the image capturing devices, and to enhance the image producing devices, in such a way that they can capture and produce 3D images without the need of any gear to be worn by the viewers. The proposed solution is inspired by ray optics, geometry, mirrors, diamond cuts, eyes, rods & cones of human eyes, and retina design of human eyes. It doesn't “trick” the eyes and brain, it doesn't manipulate the images like current technologies do to give the 3D effect. The invention describes how the light sensors and light emitters, and their layouts to be changed in imaging devices like cameras and TV screens, to capture and produce 3D images, whether or not the directional information can be captured by image sensors and emitters.
US12206962B2	Method and device for generating video preview content, computer device and storage medium The present disclosure relates to a method and device for generating video preview content, a computer device and a storage medium. The method for generating video preview content includes parsing a video to be processed, to obtain all image frames of the video to be processed and generate a list of ordered image frames; processing the list of the ordered image frames by image recognition to filter out a slice header and a slice tail of the video; and generating preview content of the video based on a list of the filtered image frames.
US12206959B2	Method and apparatus for signaling multiple media data types A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to signaling multiple media data types in a container file format, for example, ISOBMFF, in an efficient manner. In the context of a signaling method, media type definitions overloaded in an instance a plurality of media type definitions is present in compatible media type list, wherein a media type definition is associated with a media type. The method then indicates, using the compatible media type list, presence of a plurality of media types in a metadata or multimedia box. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.
US12206958B2	Methods and apparatus to extend a timestamp range supported by a watermark Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to extend a time range supported by a watermark are disclosed. Example watermark encoding apparatus disclosed herein determine which one of a plurality of timestamp cycles is to be represented by a timestamp of a watermark, the timestamp including a set of timestamp symbols, a first subset of data symbols and a second subset of data symbols. Disclosed example apparatus also modify the first subset of data symbols of the watermark based on a further timestamp symbol not included in the set of timestamp symbols of the timestamp, but not modify the second subset of data symbols based on the further timestamp symbol, the further timestamp symbol to identify the one of the plurality of timestamp cycles to be represented by the timestamp of the watermark. Disclosed example apparatus further embed the watermark in a piece of media.
US12206957B2	Pre-distribution identification of broadcast television content using audio fingerprints Systems, devices and methods are provided to automatically identify advertisements or other portions of a broadcast television stream before the stream is distributed via a cable, DBS, IPTV or other medium. The television broadcast is received at the data processing system, and audio content of the television broadcast is analyzed to generate an audio fingerprint of a portion of the audio content. The identified audio fingerprint are compared to audio fingerprints stored in a database to thereby identify the portion of the television broadcast based on the generated audio fingerprint. By identifying the contents of an actual broadcast prior to redistribution of the broadcast, additional actions may be taken that are unique to the identified content.
US12206953B2	Arrangement for adjusting frequency response A network element of a cable television (CATV) network, comprising at least a first and a second downstream amplifier stage; a first signal path comprising a first equalizer and a second signal path comprising a second equalizer between the first and the second amplifier stage; a switch configured to connect the first equalizer or the second equalizer to be used between the first and the second amplifier stage; a sampling circuit configured to provide a first sampling signal associated with the first signal path and a second sampling signal associated with the second signal path from an output of the second amplifier stage; and a control unit configured to control the switch to connect the first signal path or the second signal path to be used between the first and the second amplifier stage based on said first and second sampling signals.
US12206950B2	Coordinated primary media stream with supplemental media stream A request, from an end user device associated with a user, for supplemental media is received. Based on the request, metadata and a broadcast time associated with a primary media stream transmitted to the end user device is determined. Based on the metadata and the broadcast time, supplemental media from an account of the user on a platform is retrieved. A supplemental media stream, that includes the supplemental media, is sent in synchronization with the primary media stream.
US12206947B2	System to dispatch video decoding to dedicated hardware resources A system to perform processing operations of input (video) streams, including is disclosed. The system consists of an input module, a stream type detection engine, a plurality of processing resources a resource monitoring engine, an attribution module, a dispatching module, and various other optional interface modules.
US12206942B2	Methods and apparatus to estimate population reach from different marginal rating unions Example methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to estimate population reach for different unions based on marginal ratings. An example apparatus includes memory and processor circuitry to determine a population reach estimate of a union of time intervals for which media ratings data is available, the population reach estimate based on a pseudo universe estimate of a population audience corresponding to the union of the time intervals; determine a pseudo universe estimate of a recorded audience corresponding to the union of the time intervals; determine the pseudo universe estimate of the population audience based on the pseudo universe estimate of the recorded audience; and in response to a decision to update the pseudo universe estimate of the population audience to reduce an error of the population reach estimate output the population reach estimate of the union when the error of the population reach estimate satisfies a threshold.
US12206930B2	Video editing using transcript text stylization and layout Embodiments of the present disclosure provide, a method, a system, and a computer storage media that provide mechanisms for multimedia effect addition and editing support for text-based video editing tools. The method includes generating a user interface (UI) displaying a transcript of an audio track of a video and receiving, via the UI, input identifying selection of a text segment from the transcript. The method also includes in response to receiving, via the UI, input identifying selection of a particular type of text stylization or layout for application to the text segment. The method further includes identifying a video effect corresponding to the particular type of text stylization or layout, applying the video effect to a video segment corresponding to the text segment, and applying the particular type of text stylization or layout to the text segment to visually represent the video effect in the transcript.
US12206926B2	Crowd sourced indexing and/or searching of content Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for a crowd sourced indexing and/or searching of content. An embodiment operates by receiving one or more requests for content from one or more media devices, each request comprising content identifier information that identifies the content, determining whether crowd sourced content index information has been generated for the content, transmitting a response to the one or more media devices of the one or more media devices, in response to the one or more requests, the response comprising content location information and a content indexing request, and receiving content index information for the content identified by the content identifier information from the one or more media devices.
US12206925B2	Systems and methods for content customization Systems and methods for content customization are provided. One aspect of the systems and methods includes receiving dynamic characteristics for a plurality of users, wherein the dynamic characteristics include interactions between the plurality of users and a digital content channel; clustering the plurality of users in a plurality of segments based on the dynamic characteristics using a machine learning model; assigning a user to a segment of the plurality of segments based on static characteristics of the user; and providing customized digital content for the user based on the segment.
US12206920B2	Platform, system and method of generating, distributing, and interacting with layered media The present application describes platform containing a dynamic multilayered media structure which is generated by aggregation of media pieces into a plurality of media layers. The platform allows users to interact with media layers of the dynamic multilayered media structure independently of one another. The platform further provides for a dynamic, customized media channel lineup and a user account that allows individual media pieces within the dynamic multilayered media structure to play across separate devices that are linked to the account. The user account allows for inputs including real-time controls over the media, interaction, preferences, adding additional media content, editing media into a condensed form, and curation options with the dynamic multilayered media structure.
US12206919B2	Time-based content synchronization In some implementations, a system is capable of dynamically associating content streams to improve a user's viewing experience while accessing primary content. To accomplish this, the CMS uses content association data assigning secondary content items to the primary content. Secondary content items can be assigned to designated frames of the primary content so that the secondary content items are presented to user at specified time points during the playback of the primary content. Secondary content items can represent content that is related to the subject matter of the primary content, or content that a user may be interested in accessing while viewing the primary content.
US12206918B2	Automated video content processing Video content is processed for delivery using an automated process that allows for convenient packaging of encrypted or digital rights management (DRM) protected content in a manner such that the packaged content can be efficiently stored in a content delivery network (CDN) or other content source for subsequent re-use by other media clients without re-packaging, and without excessive storage of unused content data.
US12206913B2	Systems and methods for distributed media streaming Systems and methods are described for identifying a first network (associated with an edge server comprising a cache) and a second network available to a user equipment device. A request to access at least a portion of a media asset may be received from the user equipment device. In response to determining that the at least a portion of the media asset is not stored in the cache, a determination may be made whether the edge server, via the first network, or whether the user equipment device, via the second network, should obtain such at least a portion of the media asset. Such at least a portion of the media asset may be obtained using the selected server via the first network or using the selected user equipment device via the second network, caused to be stored at the cache, and generated for display at the user equipment device.
US12206912B2	Techniques for constraint flag signaling for range extension with extended precision Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video data processing. In some examples, an apparatus for video data processing includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines a first syntax element for coding control in a first scope of coded video data in a bitstream. The first syntax element is associated with a coding tool for processing transform coefficients with a dynamic range that is extended from a predetermined dynamic range. The dynamic range is associated with an extended precision. Then, in response to the first syntax element being a first value indicative of disabling of the coding tool in the first scope, the processing circuitry decodes the first scope of coded video data in the bitstream that includes one or more second scopes of coded video data without invoking the coding tool.
US12206910B2	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: performing motion compensation on a plurality of encoded point clouds; merging the plurality of encoded point clouds that have been motion compensated to generate a reference point cloud; generating an N-ary tree structure of a current point cloud, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2; and encoding the N-ary tree structure of the current point cloud using the reference point cloud.
US12206907B2	Adaptive local reshaping for SDR-to-HDR up-conversion A global index value is generated for selecting a global reshaping function for an input image of a relatively low dynamic range using luma codewords in the input image. Image filtering is applied to the input image to generate a filtered image. The filtered values of the filtered image provide a measure of local brightness levels in the input image. Local index values are generated for selecting specific local reshaping functions for the input image using the global index value and the filtered values of the filtered image. A reshaped image of a relatively high dynamic range is generated by reshaping the input image with the specific local reshaping functions selected using the local index values.
US12206897B2	Size based transform unit context derivation Systems, apparatus, articles, and methods are described including operations for size based transform unit context derivation. In an example encoder, first circuitry is to encode video input data into a bitstream according to a bitstream syntax, wherein the video input data includes one or more pictures, the one or more pictures are partitioned into one or more coding tree blocks, the one or more coding tree blocks are partitioned into slices including one or more coding tree blocks, the one or more coding tree blocks include one or more transform blocks according to a transform tree including a split_transform_flag indicative of the split of a given coding block into corresponding one or more transform blocks, the split_transform_flag is coded using CABAC, and a context index associated with the CABAC coding of the split_transform_flag is based on a value. Second circuitry of the encoder is to output the bitstream.
US12206895B2	Intra-frame prediction-based video coding method and device A video coding/decoding method and device, according to the present invention, may enable: deriving an intra-frame prediction mode of a current block; configuring a reference pixel for the intra-frame prediction of the current block; and carrying out the intra-frame prediction of the current block on the basis of the intra-frame prediction mode and the reference pixel. The intra-frame prediction mode of the current block is derived on the basis of any one of MPM candidates or a predetermined default mode.
US12206890B2	Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method An encoder which includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry generates a list which includes candidates for a first motion vector for a first partition. The list has a maximum list size and an order of the candidates, and at least one of the maximum list size or the order of the candidates is dependent on at least one of a partition size or a partition shape of the first partition. The circuitry selects the first motion vector from the candidates included in the list; encodes an index indicating the first motion vector among the candidates in the list into the bitstream based on the maximum list size; and generates the predicted image for the first partition using the first motion vector.
US12206886B1	Video pre-processing using encoder-aware motion compensated residual reduction Techniques are described for pre-processing frames to apply a temporal filter. A P-frame may be temporally filtered based on neighboring reference frames. The temporal filter may be applied to blocks of the P-frame to improve alignment with dependent frames that are encoded based on blocks of the P-frame.
US12206885B2	Methods for processing a video signal The present invention relates to a video signal decoding method for adding an intra prediction mode as a sub-macroblock type to prediction of a macroblock in coding a video signal. Some implementations may include obtaining a macroblock type, when a macroblock includes the intra prediction coded sub-macroblock and the inter prediction coded sub-macroblock based on the macroblock type, obtaining prediction mode flag information indicating whether the sub-macroblock is the intra prediction coded or the inter prediction coded, and obtaining a prediction value of the sub-macroblock. Accordingly, implementations disclosed herein may raise coding efficiency of video signal by adding an intra prediction mode as a sub-macroblock type in predicting a macroblock.
US12206880B2	Multiview view position supplementary enhancement information message Aspects of the disclosure provide a method, an apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for video decoding. The apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry can decode, from a bitstream, pictures associated with views of respective layers in a coded video sequence (CVS). The processing circuitry is configured to determine, based on a first supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message and a second SEI message, positions of the views to be displayed in one dimension. The first SEI message includes scalability dimension information (SDI) and the second SEI message includes multiview view position (MVP) information. The processing circuitry is configured to display the decoded pictures based on the positions of the views in the one dimension.
US12206877B2	Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method An encoder includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry performs prediction on an image. A motion vector predictor list used in the prediction includes a spatially neighboring motion vector predictor obtained from a block spatially neighboring a current block, and a spatially broad motion vector predictor obtained from a block positioned at any of a plurality of predetermined positions in a second range that is broader than a first range that spatially neighbors the current block. The plurality of predetermined positions are defined by a regular interval using the top-left of a current picture as a reference point.
US12206876B1	Vectorized random forest search Encoding a digital video using a Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) operation. Advantageously, digital video may be encoded in a manner that conserves computational resources. A software encoder searches a decision tree in a random forest in furtherance of encoding of the digital video by causing a physical hardware component to perform a single operation on multiple data operands concurrently. The single operation may be a comparison of two or more thresholds of a single feature of a single frame, or a portion thereof, of the digital video. The decision tree may be arranged to position comparisons involving a single feature near the root of the decision tree.
US12206873B2	Video encoding and decoding method, apparatus and computer device A video encoding/decoding method and apparatus, a computer device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: for each non-key frame in a video frame sequence, dividing a current non-key frame into a plurality of sub-image blocks according to information of an object in the current non-key image, and determining an importance level of each sub-image block; according to a pre-stored first correlation between different importance levels and different resolutions, performing conversion to make each sub-image block in each non-key frame have a resolution corresponding to the importance level of the sub-image block, wherein in the first correlation, a higher importance level corresponds to a higher resolution, and the highest importance level corresponds to a target highest resolution; and performing video encoding on the video frame sequence to obtain encoded video data. By means of the method, memory and bandwidth occupied by a video can be reduced.
US12206871B2	Methods and apparatus for video usability information (VUI) for scalable video coding (SVC) There are provided methods and apparatus for video usability information (VUI) for scalable video coding (SVC). An apparatus includes an encoder (100) for encoding video signal data into a bitstream. The encoder specifies video user information, excluding hypothetical reference decoder parameters, in the bitstream using a high level syntax element. The video user information corresponds to a set of interoperability points in the bitstream relating to scalable video coding (340, 355).
US12206869B2	Skip convolutions for efficient video processing A method for video processing via an artificial neural network includes receiving a video stream as an input at the artificial neural network. A residual is computed based on a difference between a first feature of a current frame of the video stream and a second feature of a previous frame of the video stream. One or more portions of the current frame of the video stream are processed based on the residual. Additionally, processing is skipped for one or more portions of the current frame of the video based on the residual.
US12206864B2	Intra filtering flag in video coding A method of decoding video data including, receiving a first block of video data, receiving a first syntax element indicating if a coding mode is to be used for the first block of video data in the case that the first block of video data is associated with a number of non-zero transform coefficients greater than or equal to a threshold, explicitly decoding a value of the received first syntax element, and applying the coding mode to the first block of video data in accordance with a value of the first syntax element.
US12206852B2	Derivation of quantization matrices for joint Cb-Br coding A method for reconstructing a block of an image, said block comprising a plurality of components and being predictively encoded from a reference block, includes if a single quantized residual block is used to jointly encode at least two components of the plurality of components, deriving at least one quantization matrix from a plurality of scaling lists each defined for one component of the plurality of components; and, applying one of the at least one derived quantization matrix to the single quantized residual block to obtain a reconstructed residual block for each of the at least two components.
US12206849B2	Method and apparatus for processing video signal A method for decoding a video according to the present invention may comprise: determining merge target candidate blocks of a current coding block, specifying at least one among the merge target candidate blocks, and generating a merged block by merging the specified merge target candidate block and the current coding block.
US12206842B2	Motion field estimation based on motion trajectory derivation A motion field estimate determined using motion vector information of two or more reference frames of a current/encoded frame is used to derive a motion vector for inter-prediction of the current/encoded frame. Motion trajectory information, including concatenated motion vectors and locations of the current/encoded frame at which those concatenated motion vectors point, is determined by concatenating motion vectors of the reference frames. A motion field estimate is determined using the motion trajectory information and, in some cases, by interpolating unavailable motion vectors using neighbors. The motion field estimate is used to determine a co-located reference frame for the current/encoded frame, and an inter-prediction process is performed for the current/encoded frame using a motion vector derived using the co-located reference frame. During decoding, the motion field estimate may be determined using motion vectors signaled within a bitstream and without additional side information, thereby improving prediction coding efficiency.
US12206834B2	Transmission processing apparatus, transmission processing method, and storage medium A transmission processing apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate data to be transmitted, based on an image captured by an imaging apparatus, a transmission and reception processing unit configured to receive data transmitted from a second transmission processing apparatus which is in cascade connection to the transmission processing apparatus and to transmit the received data, and a determination unit configured to determine, depending on a type of the data transmitted from the second transmission processing apparatus, whether to transmit the data generated by the generation unit in an order corresponding to the cascade connection or transmit the data generated by the generation unit in parallel with the data transmitted from the second transmission processing apparatus.
US12206831B2	Verification method for calibration of camera, calibration verification program and calibration verification apparatus A calibration verification method for verifying a calibration result of a camera mounted to a vehicle includes: an image acquiring step for acquiring an image captured by a camera; an overlay position calculation step for calculating a display position of a required accuracy range based on positional information of a verification target and a required accuracy of the camera; an overlay image generation step for generating an overlay image indicating a display position of the required accuracy range, and causing a display device to display a verification image where the overlay image is overlaid on the image captured by the camera; and a determination step for determining that the calibration result of the camera satisfies the required accuracy of the camera.
US12206830B2	Techniques for displaying and capturing images Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to devices, systems, and methods for separately processing an image stream to generate a first set of images for display by a set of displays and a second set of images for storage or transfer as part of a media capture event. Specifically, a first set of images from an image stream may be used to generate a first set of transformed images, and these transformed images may be displayed on a set of displays. A second set of images may be selected from the image stream in response to a capture request associated with a media capture event, and the second set of images may be used to generate a second set of transformed images. A set of output images may be generated from the second set of transformed images, and the set of output images may be stored or transmitted for later viewing.
US12206825B1	Providing a communication history of a multi-modal communication based on an aggregation of events Methods are provided for providing a unified communication history of a multi-modal communication. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a plurality of event logs related to the multi-modal communication. The multi-modal communication comprises a first communication modality and a second communication modality. The method includes aggregating the one or more events from the event logs as a plurality of aggregated events and resolving an identity of each user from among the plurality of users in the plurality of aggregated events. The method includes storing the aggregated events into a communication history of the multi-modal communication. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US12206823B2	Virtual caller system Method starts with a processor receiving configuration settings including an identified task, a relationship data, and a criticality value. Processor initializes a communication session with an agent client device. The communication session is between a virtual caller associated with the system and the agent client device. Processor then processes an audio signal of the communication session to generate an agent utterance and generates a transcribed agent utterance based on the agent utterance using a speech-to-text processor. Processor generates a virtual caller utterance using a task-specific virtual caller neural network associated with the identified task. The virtual caller utterance can be generated based on the transcribed agent utterance. Processor then causes the virtual caller utterance to be played back in the communication session to the agent client device. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US12206821B1	Contact center customization in data communications systems Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to customization of a contact center, using a data communications server. According to a specific example, the data communications server includes circuitry configured and arranged to provide data communications services to a plurality of remotely-situated client entities. The data communications server further provides a user interface for each respective remotely-situated client entity, the user interface including a display of communications-based campaigns, tools for contact center communications (e.g., interactive voice response (IVR) tools), and data analytics. Moreover, the data communications server provides a display on the user interface which may include selectable components to create for the associated remotely-situated client entity, a customized way for handling data communications by the data communications server. Accordingly, the data communications server may handle communications for the associated remotely-situated client entity according to the provided customization.
US12206820B2	Detection of unwanted calls or caller intent based on a fusion of acoustic and textual analysis of calls Systems and methods for processing calls to determine if the call is potentially fraudulent or unwanted. The system extracts a speech signal from an audio signal associated with a call. The system identifies audio characteristics based on analysis of the audio signal. The system generates textual transcript of the audio signal based on automatic speech recognition of the speech signal, which is used to assign text categories for the call based on an automated multi-label textual classification of the textual transcript. The system assigns audio categories for the call based on automated multi-label acoustic classification of the speech signal. The system generates an output label for the call based on a combined analysis of the text categories, the audio categories, and the audio characteristics. The language spoken during the call may be detected and used to generate the textual transcript and to assign the text categories and the audio categories.
US12206819B2	Methods and apparatuses for implementing mobile terminating call Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for implementing mobile terminating call. According to an embodiment, a subscriber management node obtains, from a mobility management node, an indication that indicates whether a packet switching (PS) connection is currently active for a terminal device. The subscriber management node receives, from a server, a first query about whether a PS access domain is to be used for a terminating call to the terminal device. The subscriber management node sends a response to the server based on the obtained indication.
US12206818B2	Automatically collected device problem information to route and guide users' requests A system and method for providing assistance to a customer of a computing device. In one aspect, an incoming call is received from a device of a customer; a check for identification of the customer is done; an event history of the device is obtained; and a solution is provided to the customer using the event history. In another aspect, a method includes: receiving a code from a mobile computing device; and in response to receiving the code, calculating at least one set of data for use in guiding a request of a customer for service to a resource that can provide a suggested remedy. In another aspect, a method includes: identifying a user associated with a mobile computing device; determining an event history of the mobile computing device; and providing guidance to resolve an issue based on the event history.
US12206817B2	Privileged electronic communications with inmates Systems and methods for providing secure communication between an inmate and an outside user are disclosed. In various aspects, account information of both the user and the inmate is stored. A message transmission is received from a first device that includes a header portion and an encrypted payload portion. The system verifies that confidential communication between the inmate and the outside user is permitted based on the header portion and the stored account information. Once verified, the message is transmitted to a second device without decrypting the payload portion of the message.
US12206812B2	Integrating customer and/or merchant discrete functionality with discoverable applications in a user device Integrating buyer and/or merchant functionality with discoverable applications is described. In an example, applications associated with a service provider can be stored in a repository associated with the service provider. At least a part of an application of the applications is associated with a particular, discrete functionality. The service provider can determine context data associated with a user computing device and can select, based at least in part on the context data, the application from the applications, wherein at least the part of the application is to be surfaced on the user computing device. The service provider can cause a user interface associated with at least the part of the application to be presented via the user computing device, wherein the user interface enables a user of the user computing device to input data for enabling the particular, discrete functionality, and wherein a portion of the context data is used to customize the user interface for the user.
US12206810B2	Roll-slide mobile terminal Provided is a roll-slide mobile terminal in which a front area of a flexible display unit is variable, for solving a problem of an electric field portion narrowing due to a structure for the variation of the front area, the roll-slide mobile terminal comprising a first frame, a second frame sliding in a first direction with respect to the first frame, the flexible display unit, a first guide rail fixed to the first frame to be parallel to the front area of the flexible display unit and provided in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a first slider moving in the second direction along the first guide rail, and a link rotatably fastened to each of the first slider and the second frame to move the second frame according to movement of the first slider.
US12206800B1	Event-driven assessment of network system assets A method for asset assessment is provided. The method includes receiving, by a scan engine, an event message from a scan assistant associated with an asset of a network system. The asset includes at least one computing resource. The event message includes an indication of one or more events associated with the asset. The method also includes responsive to receiving the event message, transmitting, by the scan engine, a request to the scan assistant for executing one or more scan operations on the asset and to determine a state of the asset based on at least one of an amount of available network resources or a schedule associated with the asset. The method further includes executing, by the scan engine, the one or more scan operations on the asset after transmitting the request.
US12206799B2	Secure accessory connections Techniques are disclosed relating to securely authenticating communicating devices. In various embodiments, a computing device receives, via a network connection with a network, a first certificate for a first public key pair of the computing device. The computing device provides the first certificate to an offline accessory device and receives a second certificate for a second public key pair maintained by the offline accessory device. The computing device performs a verification of the second certificate and, responsive to the verification being successful, interacts with the offline accessory device. In some embodiments, prior to providing the first certificate, the computing device determines an ordering in which the first and second certificates are to be exchanged by the first computing device and the offline accessory device, and the first certificate is provided to the offline accessory device in accordance with the determined ordering.
US12206798B2	Component tracking for information handling systems Systems and procedures are provided for tracking hardware components of an IHS (Information Handling System). During factory provisioning of an IHS, an inventory certificate to the IHS is stored to the IHS that includes an inventory identifying factory-installed hardware components of the IHS. Also during the factory provisioning, a record is stored in a component datastore of the factory-installed hardware specified in the inventory certificate. Upon initialization of the delivered IHS, a pre-boot validation environment is initialized on the IHS and the stored inventory certificate is retrieved and used to validate the detected hardware components of the IHS. The results of the validation are then reported to a component datastore, where they are used to identify any transfer of a factory-installed hardware component. The factory datastore is updated in subsequent validations to reflect any detected modifications to the IHS in tracking genuine components.
US12206796B2	Endpoint and protocol for trusted digital manufacturing An endpoint for trusted fabrication, the endpoint including at least one secure controller configured for connection to a wide area network; and at least one untrusted controller configured for local communication, wherein the endpoint is configured for connection to a fabricator and further configured to receive digitally-signed data specifying at least one item for manufacture; verify the digitally-signed data; and direct the fabricator to manufacture the at least one item after verifying the digitally signed data. A method for trusted on-demand manufacturing, the method including receiving, at an endpoint connected to a fabricator, digitally signed data describing at least one item for manufacture; verifying, at the endpoint, the digitally signed data; and manufacturing the at least one item using the digitally signed data after verifying the digitally signed data, wherein the endpoint comprises at least one secure controller and at least one untrusted controller.
US12206793B2	Signature verification method, memory storage device and memory control circuit unit A signature verification method, a memory storage device, and a memory control circuit unit are disclosed. The method includes: reading first data, signature information, and first verification information from a memory storage device; performing a first verification operation according to the signature information and the first verification information; generating second verification information according to the first data; performing a second verification operation according to the first verification information and the second verification information; and performing a corresponding process on the first data according to an operation result of the first verification operation and an operation result of the second verification operation.
US12206788B2	Systems and methods for using secure, encrypted communications across distributed computer networks to efficiently update cryptography-based digital repositories for performing blockchain operations in decentralized applications Methods and systems are described herein for facilitating blockchain operations in decentralized applications by offering enhanced efficient when conducting blockchain operations using cryptography-based, digital ledgers through the use of specialized indexing. For example, as opposed to relying on raw blockchain data to power decentralized applications, the methods and systems use a blockchain indexer. The blockchain indexer provides a queryable record of a subset of blockchain operations.
US12206786B2	Call center web-based authentication using a contactless card Systems, methods, articles of manufacture, and computer-readable media. A server may receive a phone call and generate a uniform resource locator (URL) comprising a session identifier for an account. The server may transmit the URL to a client device. The server may receive, from a web browser, a request comprising the URL. The server may determine that the session identifier in the URL of the request matches the session identifier for the account, and transmit, to the web browser, a web page at the URL. The server may receive, from the web browser, a cryptogram read by the web page via a card reader of the client device and decrypt the cryptogram. The server may authenticate the identity of the caller for the call based on decrypting the cryptogram and the session identifier of the URL matching the session identifier of the account.
US12206778B2	Method for performing cryptographic operations in a processing device, corresponding processing device and computer program product One or more keys are derived from a master key by executing a plurality of encryption operations. A first encryption operation uses the master key to encrypt a plaintext input having a plurality of bytes. Multiple intermediate encryption operations are performed using a respective intermediate key generated by a previous encryption operation to encrypt respective plaintext inputs having a number of bytes. At least two bytes of a plaintext input have values based on a respective set of bits of a plurality of sets of bits of an initialization vector, wherein individual bits of the respective set of bits are introduced into respective individual bytes of the plaintext input and the respective set of bits has at least two bits and at most a number of bits equal to the number of bytes of the plaintext input.
US12206777B2	Mechanisms and apparatus for securing broadcast content distribution of time-sensitive data Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, authenticating a user device based on communication over a data plane of a network, generating a decryption key, transmitting the decryption key to the user device, and transmitting encrypted content to the user device. The encrypted content may be accessible at the user device via the encryption key, potentially as a function of location and/or time. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12206774B2	Method and apparatus for network function messaging SEPP 1 forms a first TLS protected N32-c connection between with SEPP 2 so that SEPP 1 and SEPP 2 are respectively a TLS client and server. A TLS protected second N32-c connection between with SEPP 2 so that SEPP 1 and SEPP 2 are respectively a TLS server and client. On forming the first and second TLS protected N32-c connections, respective first and second shared secrets are formed. First and second master keys are obtained from the first and second shared secrets, respectively. N32-f context IDs are created by each SEPP on setup of the first and second N32-c connections. Based on the first master key and the first N32-f context ID, a first session key is produced for encryption of a first N32-f request to the second security edge proxy and correspondingly a second session key is produced for decryption of a second N32-f request from SEPP 2.
US12206773B2	System, method, and device for vitality verification using a biometric one-time passcode A system, method, and token for vitality verification is disclosed. The token includes a biometric sensor configured to obtain a token reading of an individual, a clock module, and a memory including a cryptographic key and an enrollment reading of the individual. The token also includes a one-time passcode (OTP) generator, and a processor communicatively coupled to the biometric sensor, the clock module, the memory, and the OTP generator. The processor is configured to determine a vitality of the individual at the time the token reading was obtained, compare the token reading with the enrollment reading, and generate, in response to the token reading matching the enrollment reading and determining the vitality of the individual, a token OTP string including a token OTP generated by the OTP generator by applying a one-way function to a token message including the cryptographic key, the enrollment reading, and a timestamp.
US12206771B2	System and method for managing fragmented encryption keys for granting access A secondary fragment of an encryption key is received. The secondary fragment is associated with an authentication process of a user. The secondary fragment is one of a plurality of secondary fragments of the encryption key. The user is authenticated (e.g., by validating a username/password). The encryption key is regenerated using the secondary fragment and a primary fragment of the encryption key. In response to regenerating the encryption key using the secondary fragment and the primary fragment, and authenticating the user: access is granted, to the user, by unencrypting an encrypted data record using the regenerated encryption key.
US12206768B2	Distributed anonymized compliant encryption management system A method for data security implemented as an application on a device includes generating a request for one or more secret shares needed to reconstruct a key. The device stores a first secret share in its memory. The method also includes signing the request with a certificate that identifies the request as valid without identifying the device, and sending the request, signed with the certificate, to at least one other device. The method further includes receiving, from the at least one other device, the one or more secret shares, determining whether the one or more secret shares received from the at least one other device is sufficient to reconstruct the key, and reconstructing the key using the first secret share and the one or more secret shares upon determining that the one or more secret shares are sufficient to reconstruct the key.
US12206762B2	Computing device and method for generating fingerprint data having an obfuscated location reference A computing device, method and computer program product are provided to generate fingerprint data having an obfuscated location reference, thereby maintaining the privacy of the location information provided by fingerprint data and represented by a radio map. For a computing device configured to generate fingerprint data having an obfuscated location reference, the computing device is caused to receive fingerprint data comprising a location reference and measurement(s) of one or more communications nodes. The computing device is caused to determine translation and/or rotation parameter(s) based on a respective identifier of at least one of the one or more communications nodes and to apply one or more of the parameters at least to the location reference, thereby generating an obfuscated location reference. The computing device is also caused to provide the fingerprint data including the obfuscated location reference to another computing device for generation or updating of a radio map.
US12206756B2	Electronic device within blockchain based PKI domain, electronic device within certification authority based PKI domain, and cryptographic communication system including these electronic devices An electronic device of a first domain, which is a blockchain-based public key infrastructure (PKI) domain, includes: an interface configured to receive, from a first entity belonging to a second domain which is a certification authority (CA)-based PKI domain, a first certificate of the first entity and a second certificate of a second entity, wherein the second entity is an upper node of the first entity and is a node of a blockchain; a memory configured to store the first certificate and the second certificate; and a processor configured to look up a transaction corresponding to the second entity at a distributed ledger of the first domain based on an identifier of the second entity, verify the second certificate based on the transaction, and verify the first certificate based on the second certificate.
US12206753B1	Unified time base for storage device data channel A method of clocking a data channel of a storage device includes generating a single time-base frequency signal, deriving from the single time-base frequency signal, using a plurality of frequency-modification techniques, a plurality of individual clock signals, each respective one of the individual clock signals being for clocking a respective one of reading, writing and servo functions of the data channel. When the storage device is a disk storage device having a rotational frequency, generating a single time-base frequency signal may include generating a time-base frequency signal based on the rotational frequency. Deviation of the single time-base frequency from the rotational frequency may be detected, and the deviation may be compensated for. Each technique of the frequency-modification techniques may be a digital frequency-modification technique, such as a digital timing recovery technique or a digital frequency division technique.
US12206752B2	Data protocol over clock line A system includes a plurality of line cards and a timing card. A clock generation circuit on the timing card generates a clock signal which is pulse width modulated according to information to be transmitted. A clock line supplies the pulse width modulated clock signal to the line cards. The timing card sends a first control word to the plurality of line cards over the clock line after sending a beacon. The first control word includes a size field specifying a first length of first data following the first control word. The timing card sends time of day information over the clock line to the line cards following the first control word. The time of day information may be encrypted. A second control word follows the time of day information. One or more additional control words can follow the second control word before the next beacon.
US12206751B2	Methods and systems for content distribution Methods and systems are described for content distribution. A first computing device may send a request for content to a second computing device. The first computing device may receive data that indicates a third computing device, and the first computing device may send a request for content to the third computing device. The third computing device may facilitate the first computing device receiving content from a fourth device.
US12206744B2	Systems and methods for ensuring continued access to media of a playlist despite geographic content restrictions Systems and methods are described herein for detecting information that indicates that a user will be traveling from a first geographic location to a second geographic location, and responsively accessing a playlist indicated by a profile of the user that indicates a plurality of streaming media that the user intends to consume. Control circuitry may then compare data corresponding to each streaming media of the plurality of streaming media to a database to determine whether each streaming media of the plurality of streaming media is accessible to the user at the second geographic location, and may determine that a subset of the plurality of media is not accessible to the user at the second geographic location. In response to determining that the subset is not accessible to the user at the second geographic location, the control circuitry may download each media of the subset.
US12206741B2	Profile based content and services Profile based services and content can assist with the backward and forward compatibility of conventional service layers or the like. Using a profile to manage content and access to services offered may reduce the overhead or processing associated with providing those value added services by service layers.
US12206740B2	System and method for transferring a client connection In a system with a plurality of servers serving one or more clients, situations may arise in which a client has a connection to a first server which is providing a service to the client, and in which it would be advantageous to transfer the connection to a second server, in a manner that does not require the re-establishing of the connection or the making of a renewed request, by the client, for the service. As such, a system and method for transferring a client connection from one server to another server are provided.
US12206738B2	Centralized and agentless in-cloud management of on-premises resources Disclosed methods and systems for managing on-premises information handling resources establish, by an in-cloud web portal, an agentless connection to an on-premises information handling resource and perform, via the agentless connection, a configuration management operation to modify a configuration of the on-premises handling resource. Establishing the agentless connection and performing the configuration management operation may include one or more appropriate API calls. Disclosed teachings enable a web-accessible, public cloud portal to perform active configuration management of on-premises resources scattered across any number of distinct and potentially isolated customer sites without deploying and maintaining management agent software within the customer's private cloud. The on-premises resources may include a multi-node cluster provided by a node or nodes of one or more HCI appliances.
US12206731B2	Configuring control devices operable for a load control environment A control device configuration system may receive, store, process, and/or display control device configuration information. The control device configuration system may filter the control device configuration information based on user selections of configuration options for configuration parameters. The control device configuration system may identify compatible and incompatible configuration options for various configuration parameters. The control device configuration system may allow selections of the incompatible configuration options. The control device configuration system may adjust how it filters the control device configuration information based on the selections of the incompatible configuration options. The control device configuration system may implement a configuration model that includes configuration parameter groups for efficient evaluation of user selections.
US12206730B2	Enhanced M2M content management based on interest Methods, devices, and systems are disclosed for an M2M Interest Function. An M2M Interest Function may receive requests from users to publish the users' personal interests in particular data identify relationships and patterns in the data. Associated data may then be stored in a single best location for such data based on various criteria rather than on separate M2M Gateways or M2M Servers. This location may be provided to users interested in such data. Relationship and association data may be provided to M2M gateways.
US12206721B2	Addressable resource index events for CMAF and DASH multimedia streaming Methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for processing a media stream. The media stream may follow a DASH or CMAF standard. The method may include processing an Addressable Resource Index (ARI) event associated with the 5G media stream, wherein the ARI event comprises at least one of: an inband event transmitted along with a first media slice in a content set, the content set comprising one or more media slices; or a Media Presentation description (MPD) event; and the ARI event carries configuration information of the one or more media slices in the content set.
US12206720B2	Remotely directing video streams Embodiments of the present application describe techniques of facilitating directing operations. The techniques comprise obtaining guest information of a target studio, where the guest information includes a room identification number of a guest room, the guest room associated with producing content scenes; generating a directing configuration file based on the guest information of the target studio; and sending the directing configuration file to a director terminal associated with content directing, so that the director terminal performs a directing operation based on the directing configuration file.
US12206719B2	Communication sessions between devices using customizable interaction environments and physical location determination Techniques are described for providing and managing an interactive communication session between client computing devices via a shared visual interaction environment that is customizable to include selected functionality and visual representations. In some situations, the described techniques include using selected visible layers that each present one or more types of visual information or other visual effects corresponding to one or more predefined and/or user-defined functionality types, and in some situations to include using a virtual object that is positioned on a layer in an interactive communication session at a specified real-world geographical location and is visible to at least some users participating in the interactive communication session who are physically present at that real-world geographical location, such as to enable such participant users to verify their presence at that real-world location using private data that is visible or otherwise perceivable from a virtual object at that location.
US12206718B2	System and methods for handling immersive service in IP multimedia subsystem and mission critical services The disclosure relates to methods and system for handling immersive services with feature tags in an 3GPP IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) and 3GPP mission critical services (MCX). A user equipment uses the media tags, feature tags with unique IMS communication service identifier (ICSI) and IMS application reference identifier (IARI) to communicate with the IMS network for determining the immersive services in the communication. Accordingly, a method includes: performing, a registration with a network for handling immersive call services based on feature tags included in a session initiation protocol (SIP) REGISTER request; determining whether the network provides a provision for the handling of immersive call services based on an SIP REGISTER response; and sending an SIP INVITE request including feature tags to a second client device via the network based on determining that the network provides the provision of handling immersive media streams. Thus, the immersive call is established by the first client device with the second client device.
US12206716B2	Electronic conferencing Aspects of the subject technology provide for secure, privacy-preserving access to electronic conferencing. In one or more implementations, a device may obtain a link that corresponds to a call with a second device, encrypt a request to join the call using a key obtained using the link, and send the encrypted request to a server for delivery to the second device. The link may also include information used to identify an alias for an account associated with the second device. The device may send the encrypted request to the server with the alias. The device may receive an encrypted response to the request from the server, obtain an identifier of the call from the encrypted response, and then receive an invitation to join the call associated with the identifier.
US12206715B2	Active speaker tracking using a global naming scheme A method includes, at a media bridge configured to distribute a plurality of media streams among a plurality of client devices connected to the media bridge over a network, receiving the plurality of media streams from the plurality of client devices via the media bridge. The media bridge connects the plurality of client devices. The method further includes assigning a pair of names for each of the plurality of media streams. The pair of names include a contribution name and a distribution name. The method further includes presenting a first list to the plurality of client devices. The first list including a plurality of the distribution names for the plurality of media streams received from the plurality of client devices. The method further includes providing an indication of a current active speaker within the plurality of media streams via a signaling process.
US12206714B1	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for handling internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) registration at proxy call session control function (P-CSCF) for roaming users after policy and charging rules function (PCRF) database failure A method for handling IMS registrations at a P-CSCF after PCRF database failure includes receiving a SIP REGISTER request message after a PCRF database failure and determining that the SIP REGISTER request message is for an existing user. The method further includes obtaining a list of user contacts having entries in a registration cache of the P-CSCF corresponding to an address of record in the SIP REGISTER request message, testing reachability of the user contacts in the list, and freeing resources of the P-CSCF for the user contacts determined to be unreachable.
US12206713B2	Updating security rule sets using repository switching Methods and systems are described herein for updating cybersecurity enforcement rules in real-time over disparate computer networks. A rule enforcement system may receive a real-time data stream. The real-time data stream may include real-time communications requiring cybersecurity verification. Real-time data communications are processed through a first rule repository. In response to determining that rule updates to rules within the first rule repository are available, a second rule repository is retrieved and brought online. Previously received real-time communication data is processed with the first rule repository and new real-time communication data is routed to the second rule repository. When previously received real-time communication data has been processed, the first rule repository is disabled.
US12206712B2	Method for characterizing security technology deployment telemetry across a computer network A method includes identifying a first group of objects generated by security tools during a first time interval and containing cotemporal, analogous characteristics identifying a first endpoint device connected to a computer network; based on the first group of objects, confirming detection of the first endpoint device by a first security tool and a second security tool during the first time interval; identifying a second group of objects generated by security tools during a second time interval and containing cotemporal, analogous characteristics identifying the first endpoint device; based on the second group of objects, confirming detection of the first endpoint device by the second security tool during the second time interval; and responsive to absence of detection of the first endpoint device by the first security tool during the second time interval, generating a source remove event specifying removal of the first security tool from the first endpoint device.
US12206710B2	Systems and methods for enterprise-level security policy management tool An enterprise-level security policy management tool receives, via a graphical user interface (GUI), inputs defining a security policy configured to be deployed within an enterprise that operates one or more operational technology (OT) networks, generates the security policy based on the inputs, and transmits the security policy to one or more computing devices running respective other instantiations of the enterprise-level security policy management tool, wherein the respective other instantiations of the enterprise-level security policy management tool are configured to facilitate enforcement of the security policy within the one or more OT networks operated by the enterprise.
US12206709B2	Dynamic management of security rules and policies A method of managing security rules may include extracting metadata from a data packet received at a first network device. The metadata including network metadata and network system metadata. The method may further include distributing the metadata to at least one service endpoint registered with the first network device, receiving from the at least one service endpoint, an indication as to how traffic associated with the data packet is to be handled, and enabling the traffic based at least in part on feedback received from the at least one service endpoint and creating a first service flow hash entry of a hash table associated with the data packet at the first network device. The first service flow hash entry identified each of a number of services using a unique number. The method may further include distributing the hash table including the first service flow hash entry across a fabric to at least a second network device.
US12206707B2	Rating organization cybersecurity using probe-based network reconnaissance techniques A system and methods for cybersecurity rating using active and passive external reconnaissance, comprising a web crawler that send message prompts to external hosts and receives responses from external hosts, a time-series data store that produces time-series data from the message responses, and a directed computational graph module that probes, scans, and fingerprints devices within a cyber-physical graph and analyzes the results as time-series data to produce a weighted score representing the overall cybersecurity state of an organization.
US12206698B2	Methods, systems, and devices for dynamically modeling and grouping endpoints for edge networking Various embodiments described herein disclose an endpoint modeling and grouping management system that can collect data from endpoint computer devices in a network. In some embodiments, agents installed on the endpoints can collect real-time information at the kernel level providing the system with deep visibility. In some embodiments, the endpoint modeling and grouping management system can identify similarities in behavior in response to assessing the data collected by the agents. In some embodiments, the endpoint modeling and grouping management system can dynamically model groups such as logical groups, and cluster endpoints based on the similarities and/or differences in behavior of the endpoints. In some embodiments, the endpoint modeling and grouping management system transmits the behavioral models to the agents to allow the agents to identify anomalies and/or security threats autonomously.
US12206696B1	Detecting anomalies in a network environment Activities within a network environment are monitored (e.g., using agents). At least a portion of the monitored activities are used to generate a logical graph model. The generated logical graph model is used to determine an anomaly. The detected anomaly is recorded and can be used to generate an alert.
US12206690B2	Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to reduce computation corresponding to inspection of non-malicious data flows Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve the inspection of network data flows. An example apparatus includes memory, and processor circuitry to execute machine readable instructions to at least identify network domains accessible by at least one client device in a geographic location of interest, associate the identified network domains with Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs), create a list of respective ones of the ASNs that include a non-malicious status corresponding to Internet protocol (IP) addresses associated with respective ones of the identified network domains, and in response to receiving a reputation request corresponding to a destination IP address, cause inspection of a data flow to be skipped when the destination IP address is associated with the list of non-malicious ASNs.
US12206686B2	AIOps guided, quantum-safe zero trust data transfer methods in-motion with segmented, data transfer across an overlay network The present disclosure relates to Overlay Content Forwarding (OCF) Methods to transfer data across a wide area network without introducing a single point of data breach or wire-tapping on a Zero Trust Data transfer paradigm. Methods are applied on a system built upon Data Transport Controllers (DTC) and USC with AIOps capabilities. System modules are deployed across various geo locations in a Wide Area Network, operating at the control of Universal Security Controller (USC). USC extracts system, security and storage activity telemetry data from DTC controllers, update Routes through XML updates and Routing update exchanges, to orchestrate Autonomous, de-duplicated, segmented data forwarding across exclusive path overlay network guided by AIOps mechanisms. Data is segmented in unintelligible manner based on information theory and sent across different, exclusive path across DTC nodes in an overlay network in different application sessions and reassembled at destination DTC node to recover the original content. Segment transfer across overlay support de-duplication in-transit as an overlay based storage reduction service.
US12206679B2	Data and source validation for equipment output data or equipment failure prediction using blockchains Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing data and source validation for equipment output data and/or for equipment failure predict. In various embodiments, in response to receiving a first request for first data that is output by first equipment, a computing system might retrieve and analyze the first data to determine whether the first data can be trusted. If so, the computing system might send the first data to the requesting device. If not, the computing system might send a second request for identifying a blockchain containing a block containing a copy of the first data. In response to the blockchain system identifying such a blockchain, the computing system might receive the identified blockchain; might abstract the block containing the copy of the first data from the identified blockchain; might abstract the first data from the block; and might send the first data to the requesting device.
US12206678B2	Network reachability solving algorithm based on formal verification A network reachability solving algorithm based on formal verification, which abstractly models the network reachability problem, concretely models and refines it through semantic equivalence, and implements the network reachability solving algorithm through logical equivalence transformation. With the help of formal verification tools, the present disclosure ensures the correctness and logical completeness of the reachability solving algorithm through mathematical reasoning. Compared with traditional testing-based schemes, the present disclosure guarantees the correctness and effectiveness of the network reachability algorithm based on formal method.
US12206674B2	Access control tower Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a customer a central location to manage permissions provided to third-parties and devices to access and use customer information maintained by a financial institution are described. The central location serves as a central portal where a customer of the financial institution can manage all access to account information and personal information stored at the financial institution. Accordingly, the customer does not need to log into each individual third-party system or customer device to manage previously provided access to the customer information or to provision new access to the customer information.
US12206669B2	Controlling user creation of data resources on a data processing platform The methods comprise receiving from a user a user request to create a data resource on the software platform, the user request comprising, or identifying, a specification indicative of the data resource and a user identifier associated with said user. The methods may further comprise performing verification of said user using the user identifier to determine if said user is permitted to create or modify the data resource indicated in the specification in accordance with a predetermined set of permissions. The methods may also comprise, responsive to verifying said user in accordance with the predetermined set of permissions, creating a version the data resource indicated in accordance with the specification for deployment on the software platform for subsequent access or execution by said user.
US12206662B2	Non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for server, server, and method executed by server A server may receive, from a terminal device, a change instruction for changing a password of a communication device different from the server and the terminal device. The server may, in a case where the change instruction is received from the terminal device, send first authentication information to the terminal device. The first authentication information may be inputted to the communication device by a user of the terminal device after the first authentication information has been sent to the terminal device. The server may, in a case where the first authentication information is inputted to the communication device, receive the first authentication information from the communication device. The server may, in a case where the first authentication information is received from the communication device, send a change permission notification to the communication device. The change permission notification may be a notification to permit the communication device to change the password.
US12206661B2	Multi-party exchange platform Arrangements for providing multi-party exchange functions are provided. In some aspects, a request for exchange may be received by a computing platform. The request for exchange may include identification of parties involved in the exchange, identification of goods, services, property, or the like, involved in the exchange, and the like. In some examples, the computing platform may determine a value of property, goods, or services associated with the exchange. The computing platform may request additional exchange data from one or more other parties. For instance, data associated with the exchange and another party to the exchange may be requested and received. In some examples, unique exchange identifiers may be generated linking each party to the exchange to the goods, services or property being exchange, a value, or the like. An indication of acceptance may be received and one or more exchange processing functions may be executed.
US12206660B2	Access and messaging in a multi client network A messaging system for exchanging messages between nodes in a network via a broker that uses a publish-subscribe message protocol, which nodes have object identifications (IDs). Messages between the nodes are routed using the object IDs of the nodes. Secure communication is provided using authentication according to digital certificates being used as first and second tiers by a commissioning broker and a data broker, respectively, in which the second tier certificate used by the data broker has a shorter lived expiration time.
US12206659B2	Provisioning control apparatus and method for provisioning electronic components or devices A provisioning control apparatus is configured to be coupled to a provisioning equipment server electrically connectable with one or more electronic devices for provisioning the electronic devices with security sensitive provisioning data. The provisioning control apparatus includes a processor configured to generate a group context for creating a group of provisioning control apparatuses. The processor is further configured to generate the security sensitive provisioning data based on the group context. The provisioning control apparatus includes a communication interface configured to provide the security sensitive provisioning data to the provisioning equipment server. The communication interface is configured to provide the group context to a security server for generating a proxy provisioning control apparatus on the security server. The proxy provisioning control apparatus is configured to provide the group context to a first further provisioning control apparatus for enrolling the first further provisioning control apparatus for the group of provisioning control apparatuses. The first further provisioning control apparatus is configured to be coupled to the provisioning equipment server.
US12206656B2	Method and apparatus with provider information access authorization A method and apparatus with provider information access authorization are provided. The method includes receiving a single sign-on (SSO) token from a provider apparatus for a validated login request by a client device for a user account, wherein the SSO token is indicative of the provider apparatus having authorized secure protocol access with the provider apparatus to access information at the provider apparatus associated with the user account, retrieving customer information from the provider apparatus using the SSO token, receiving information from the client device, confirming whether, based on the information and the customer information that a user of the user account is eligible to complete a data exchange, and in response to a result of the confirming being that the user of the user account is confirmed eligible to compete the data exchange, cause the provider apparatus to process the data exchange corresponding to the information.
US12206650B2	Data transfer workflow in a multi-machine ecosystem Facilitating transfer of data from a first machine and/or computing system to at least a second machine and/or computing system in instances where traditional data transfer methods (such as using a communications network) are not immediately feasible is achieved by identifying a triggering event for physical transport of data, collecting the data to be transported, and transferring the data. Secure transfer of the collected data is achieved via encryption of the collected data.
US12206648B2	Optimized utilization of internet protocol addresses in a virtual private network A method for receiving, at a VPN server, a first data request for the VPN server to retrieve first data of interest from a first host device; utilizing, by the VPN server, a first exit IP address to transmit a first query for retrieving the first data of interest; determining, by the VPN server based on transmitting the first query, that the first exit IP address is blocked by the first host device; suspending, by the VPN server based on determining that the first exit IP address is blocked by the first host device, utilization of the first exit IP address for retrieving the first data of interest from the first host device; and utilizing, by the VPN server, the first exit IP address to transmit a second query for retrieving second data of interest from a second host device is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US12206643B1	System and method for enabling sensors with unique addresses An example system includes: a set of sensors, each sensor having a programmable address; a set of microcontrollers, each microcontroller paired with one sensor from the set of sensors; a controller configured to: enable an operational state of the set of sensors to uniquely address each sensor in the set of sensors by sequentially, for each microcontroller in the set of microcontrollers, causing the microcontroller to activate the sensor paired with the microcontroller and assigning a unique address to the activated sensor; scan the set of sensors using the unique address of each sensor to obtain data detected by the sensor.
US12206641B2	System and method for dynamically generating suggestions to facilitate conversations between remote users A system includes a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory stores a set of messages associated with a first user. The processor receives an indication of a conversation between the first user and at least a second user. In response, the processor selects a first message from the set of messages associated with the first user and uses the interface to present the first message to the second user as a suggestion to transmit to the first user. The processor determines that the second user transmitted the first message to the first user. In response to determining that the second user transmitted the first message to the first user, the processor updates the set of messages associated with the first user.
US12206640B2	Synchronizing message status across multiple user devices The disclosed system and method enable multiple user devices to track the read/unread status of received messages, even though the user reads the message on only one device. A server of a telecommunication network can receive, from a user device associated with a sender, a message sent to a recipient. The user device does not communicate to the server that the received message has been read. Upon receiving the message, the server can determine that the message is in reply to a message thread and can update a status of a second message in the message thread to the read status. The second message is the most recent message in the message thread sent by the recipient to the sender. The server can provide the updated status of the second message in the message thread to the multiple user devices associated with the sender.
US12206633B2	Real-time chat service file transfer across different networks A method of completing RCS file transfer. The method comprises receiving a first SIP message comprising a first URL designating a file stored in a first message store in a first network by an RCS server in a second network; sending the first URL by the RCS server to a second message store in the second network; identifying a second URL by the second message store, wherein the second URL is to be associated with the first URL by a proxy server; sending the first URL and the second URL by the second message store to the proxy server; sending the second URL by the second message store to the RCS server; and sending a second SIP message comprising the second URL by the RCS server to a communication device, whereby the communication device is enabled to request a file from the proxy based on the second URL.
US12206632B2	Method, apparatus, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for controlling user access through content analysis of an application A method, apparatus, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for controlling user access through content analysis of an application are disclosed. The method for controlling access may include understanding a public level according to honorific language use by analyzing chat contents for each chat partner registered in an application, by the at least one processor; and controlling user access to the application based on the public level for each chat partner, by the at least one processor.
US12206630B2	Virtual-assistant-based resolution of user inquiries via failure-triggered document presentation In certain embodiments, document-based resolution of user inquiries may be facilitated. A predicted intent of the user is determined based on chat activity information associated with the user. A response to a user inquiry may be provided to the user via a chat interface based on the predicted intent. User response may be obtained for the response, which may indicate a failure in providing a resolution to the user (e.g., regarding a user inquiry). Upon detecting a failure in providing the resolution, a document associated with the user and matching the predicted intent may be obtained and presented to via the chat interface. The document may have content related to the predicted intent. The document may be presented as a response to the user response to seek a confirmation from the user regarding its relevance to the user inquiry.
US12206628B2	Information processing method, storage medium, and information processing apparatus An information processing method includes posting information for inputting an image forming instruction to execute an image forming process based on data uploaded to a channel of a chat service to the channel, causing an image forming apparatus to execute the image forming process based on the data based on the image forming instruction input using the posted information, and determining, based on a state of the image forming apparatus, whether to post the information to the channel.
US12206625B2	Method, terminal device, base station, computer readable medium for measuring cross-link interference, and methods and apparatuses for random access preamble allocation, determination, and data transmission A terminal device and a method for measuring cross-link interference. The method includes receiving time-frequency resource configuration information from a base station, wherein the time-frequency resource configuration information includes configuration information of measurement time-frequency resources for measuring the cross-link interference. The method also includes determining measurement time-frequency resources for measuring the cross-link interference according to the time-frequency resource configuration information. The method further includes measuring the cross-link interference on the measured time-frequency resources and feeding back the measurement result of the cross-link interference to the base station.
US12206623B2	Method and apparatus for reporting channel state information A configuration can be received that configures a UE with a single configured CSI process for a serving cell. A highest CQI index value can be derived for which a single PDSCH TB with a combination of corresponding modulation scheme and TB size is received with a TB error probability not exceeding a target TB BLER value. The single PDSCH transport block can occupy a CSI reference resource. A CSI request can be received in either a subslot or a subframe. The CSI reference resource can be defined by the subslot in which the CSI request is received if the CSI request is received in the subslot. The CSI reference resource can be defined by the subframe in which the CSI request is received if the CSI request is received in the subframe.
US12206622B2	Apparatus and method of harq-ack feedback Apparatus and methods of Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) Acknowledgement (ACK) feedback for multiple Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) based multiple Transmit Receive Points (TRP) transmission are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a receiver that receives a plurality of configurations of control resource sets (CORESETs), wherein each CORESET comprises a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) in frequency domain and a plurality of symbols in time domain, and time-frequency resources identified by the CORESET are used to transmit a Downlink Control Information (DCI); a processor that determines a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) Acknowledgement (ACK) feedback selected from a group consisting of: a separate HARQ-ACK feedback and a joint HARQ-ACK feedback; anda transmitter that transmits the determined HARQ-ACK feedback; wherein the separate HARQ-ACK feedback is transmitted through a plurality of uplink resources; and the joint HARQ-ACK feedback is transmitted through one uplink resource.
US12206620B2	Sounding reference signal sequence design Described is an apparatus of an Evolved Node-B (eNB). The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry and a second circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to determine a first Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) sequence and a second SRS sequence. The second circuitry may be operable to process a first Uplink (UL) transmission from the first UE incorporating the first SRS sequence over a first set of subcarrier frequencies. The second circuitry may also be operable to process a second UL transmission from the second UE incorporating the second SRS sequence over a second set of subcarrier frequencies. The second SRS sequence may comprise at least a first block that overlaps the first set of subcarrier frequencies and a second block that does not overlap the first set of subcarrier frequencies.
US12206619B2	Wireless pathloss calculation method and terminal thereof A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control section that, when a pathloss reference signal is not configured for specific uplink transmission, determines a reference signal used for calculation of a pathloss based on at least one quasi-collocation (QCL) parameter corresponding to at least one specific downlink resource, and calculates the pathloss; and a transmitting section that performs the specific uplink transmission using transmission power based on the pathloss.
US12206616B1	Duplexing transceivers, system, and methods for optimizing the capacity of adaptive communication systems A wireless communications system that uses adaptive arrays is disclosed in which the capacity is optimized. A method for optimizing the capacity of a wireless communications system that uses adaptive arrays is also disclosed. The wireless communication system may be a point to multi-point (P2MP) and/or a multi-point to multi-point (MP2MP) STAP system.
US12206612B2	Reference signal indication method and apparatus A reference signal indication method includes receiving a plurality of reference signals, and sending at least one codeword on a first time-frequency resource. The at least one codeword includes a first codeword. The first codeword corresponds to a first reference signal in N reference signals of the plurality of reference signals. The first reference signal is a selected reference signal. The N reference signals are a subset of the plurality of reference signals, and N is a positive integer.
US12206611B2	Model-based channel state information This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for tracking channel variations via a model-based representation of the channel. A first network entity may receive from a second network entity or transmit to the second network entity, a model configuration indicative of a model condition of a channel between the first network entity and the second network entity. The model configuration may be associated with one or more initial parameters. The first network entity may receive a reference signal from the second network entity to measure a condition of the channel between the first network entity and the second network entity, and transmit, to the second network entity, one or more updated parameters for the model configuration based on a measurement of the condition of the channel in comparison to the model condition of the channel based on the model configuration.
US12206609B2	Phase-tracking reference signal configuration in sidelink Aspects relate to configuration of phase-tracking reference signals (PT-RSs) in sidelink networks. A sidelink PT-RS configuration for a transmitting wireless communication device may be configured based on a sidelink channel state information (CSI) report received from a receiving wireless communication device. The transmitting wireless communication device may further transmit the sidelink PT-RS configuration to the receiving wireless communication device.
US12206607B2	On-demand positioning reference signal (PRS) Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for on-demand UE positioning. For example a method may include transmitting a request that comprises one or more parameters based on a request configuration, to at least one of a plurality of base stations of a network, to participate in at least one of an uplink UE positioning procedure or a downlink UE positioning procedure, and receiving signaling from the at least one of the plurality of base stations of the network in response to the request.
US12206604B2	Cross-channel measurement control and configuration The present invention introduces a method and a system for base station cross-channel measurement control and configuration. A centralized unit (CU) (301, 601) of a base station configures (304, 305) at least two distributed units (DU) (302, 303, 602, 604) with DU sounding signaling transmission objects and DU cross-link measurement objects. The first DU (302) transmits (306) a sounding signal through an air interface (308) which the second DU (303) measures (307). The second DU (303) reports (309) this to the CU (301). Then the second DU (303) transmits (311) a sounding signal through an air interface (312) which the first DU (302) measures (310). The first DU (302) reports (313) this to the CU (301). Beam-forming can be applied as well. Also neighboring operators can be found by inter-frequency measurements of the sounding signals or Synchronization Signals. The CU (301, 601) can control the DUs (302, 303, 602, 604) with appropriate TDD switching patterns based on the found cross-link interference levels.
US12206600B1	Network switching unit configuration Port parameters corresponding to a port of a network switching unit are received at one or more processing chips in the network switching unit. Both (i) serializer/deserializer (SerDes) parameters corresponding to the port, and (ii) transceiver parameters corresponding to the port, are obtained from a local storage based on the port parameters by the one or more processing chips. Signal processing operations of a SerDes unit are configured by the one or more processing chips using the SerDes parameters. The transceiver parameters are provided to a local platform of the network switching unit, for configuration, using the transceiver parameters, of a transceiver communicatively coupled to the port. The signal processing operations are performed by the SerDes unit, according to the SerDes parameters, on a signal received at the SerDes unit from the transceiver or on a signal transmitted from the SerDes unit to the transceiver.
US12206585B2	Methods and systems for managing quality of service in a networked storage environment Methods and systems for a networked storage system are provided. One method includes assigning a quality of service (QOS) parameter for a storage volume of a networked storage environment having a first storage node and a second storage node, where the QOS parameter is defined by a throughput value that defines a maximum data transfer rate and a number of input/output (I/O) operations executed within a time period (IOPS); distributing the QOS parameter between the first storage node and the second storage node; determining that throughput credit is available for processing an I/O request for using the storage volume; determining that IOPS credit is available for processing the request by the first storage node; and processing the I/O request when both the throughput credit and the IOPS credit is available.
US12206584B1	Method and system for filtering data packets to prevent crosstalk Embodiments of a secure communication network are disclosed. To implement the embodiments, an ingress core node that includes a processor and a memory storing computer-executable instructions, is presented. The instructions, when executed, cause the processor to receive a data packet. The instructions further cause the processor to compare a slice identifier (ID) associated with the received data packet with one or more slice IDs in an access control list (ACL). The instructions further cause the processor to filter the received data packet based on the comparison indicating an occurrence of a match between the slice ID associated with the data packet and one of the one or more slice IDs in the ACL. The instructions further cause the processor to transmit the filtered data packet to an egress core node of the core network via one or more intermediate core nodes of the core network.
US12206583B2	Data transmission method and apparatus, device, storage medium, and computer program product A data transmission method and apparatus, an electronic device, a computer readable storage medium, and a computer program product are provided. The method includes: receiving to-be-transmitted data currently transmitted from a data source node; determining an average receiving interval and an average transmitting interval based on a historical data receiving interval and a historical data transmitting interval; determining the splitting transmission number based on the average receiving interval and the average transmitting interval; obtaining a plurality of data fragments based on a data size of the to-be-transmitted data and the splitting transmission number; and sequentially and uniformly transmitting the data fragments to a next-level node within a subsequent period with a duration being the average receiving interval.
US12206582B2	Facilitating fast re-route in high-availability networks A system for efficiently determining a set of next-hop switches from a switch is provided. During operation, the system can determine the plurality of next-hop switches for an Internet Protocol (IP) address prefix. The system can then store, in an entry of a forwarding data structure of the switch, a list of identifying information indicating the plurality of next-hop switches corresponding to the IP address prefix. The identifying information for the plurality of next-hop switches can be stored in the list in an order of preference for forwarding traffic matching the IP address prefix. Upon receiving a packet with a destination IP address matching the IP address prefix, the system can select the entry from the forwarding data structure for determining a next-hop switch for forwarding the packet. The system can then determine the next-hop switch for the packet from the entry based on the order of preference.
US12206572B2	Performance measurement, telemetry, and OAM in MPLS networks using entropy labels Techniques for utilizing entropy labels of a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) label stack for performing monitoring operations (e.g., telemetry, performance measurement, OAM, etc.) without altering the MPLS label stack and/or packet path (e.g., ECMP path). The techniques may include determining, by a node of a network, to perform a monitoring operation associated with traffic that is to be sent along a path through the network. In some examples, the node may receive a packet that is to be sent along the path and encapsulate the packet with an MPLS header. The MPLS header may include an entropy label, entropy label indicator, or other label that is capable of carrying a flag indicating the monitoring operation to be performed. The flag may be carried in a TTL field or traffic class field of the label such that the MPLS label stack is not altered to trigger the monitoring operation.
US12206571B2	Spectral defragmentation in communication networks An assignment of demands to routes on a communication network can be improved by selecting and updating a subset of the routes. A network management system (or other communication network component) can obtain a representation of the communication network. The representation can include a network graph, sets of resources, and a set of paths for the network graph. The network management system can update the set of paths by selecting a path subset and updating the paths of the path subset. The updating can satisfy a total change condition and a network improvement condition. The updating can be limited to unused edge and resource combinations or edge and resource combinations used by paths in the path subset. The network management system can configure the communications network to satisfy the demand using routes corresponding to the updated set of paths.
US12206567B2	Dynamic cloning of application infrastructures Techniques for dynamically cloning application infrastructures are provided. In one embodiment, a computer system can monitor one or more metrics pertaining to an infrastructure for an application at a first site. If the one or more metrics exceed or fall below one or more corresponding thresholds, the computer system can clone the infrastructure at a second site distinct from the first site, thereby enabling the application to be hosted at the second site.
US12206564B2	Method and system for connectivity diagnostics in communication systems Described is a method and system for connectivity diagnostics in communication systems. The method comprises: querying a first communication device at a first time and a second time to determine whether a second communication device is connected to the first communication device and to determine a value of an operational parameter at the first and second times; and determining the second communication device disconnected from the first communication device based on detecting the second communication device was connected to the first communication device at both the first time and the second time, and detecting the value of the operational parameter at the second time is inside a range of threshold values. In one embodiment, the method comprises determining a link is unstable for connectivity based on connection duration, number and/or pattern of connection and/or disconnection events, and/or traffic activity during connection and/or disconnection events.
US12206563B2	Systems and methods for asset mapping for an information technology infrastructure A method comprising performing, by at least one processor, operations including: sending instructions to an asset among various hardware and software assets in a networked information technology infrastructure to cause the asset to generate an answer file; copying data from the generated answer file to memory of a mapping system; tracking and logging events associated with the copying of the data; validating the copied data based on the logged events; determining standardized reporting data from the validated data in the memory of the mapping system; saving the standardized reporting data in a data structure formatted for the various hardware and software assets; applying an algorithm to the saved data structure to determine a relationship between the various hardware and software assets; and linking the determined relationship between the various hardware and software assets to the saved data structure.
US12206561B2	Information management method An information management method collects log information of one or more home electrical apparatuses corresponding to service providers. Display screen data is generated which indicates a status of the log information. The display screen data includes groups of information which each contain information on an apparatus, a service provider corresponding to the apparatus, and log information output from the apparatus. Provision of the log information of each group is individually selectable. The display screen data is provided via a network to a display terminal that performs access to a server device. Information is received from the display terminal, which indicates that selection on whether or not provision of the log information is performed. Provision of the log information is not performed on the selected group when a determination is made that refusal of provision of the log information on the selected group is performed.
US12206559B2	Adapting microservices to multi-platform deployments A method includes: receiving, by a computing device, a microservice code from a user device; identifying, by the computing device, a service used by the microservice code; identifying, by the computing device, the service in a target cloud platform; generating, by the computing device, a modified microservice code by adding a predefined code template to the microservice code, the predefined code template being associated with the service in the target cloud platform; receiving, by the computing device, user input defining a value of a parameter in the predefined code template in the modified microservice code; and generating, by the computing device, a new deployment file for the target cloud platform based on the modified microservice code.
US12206556B2	Coordinated startup routine for control devices of a network A control device may be configured to form a network at a unique coordinated startup time. The control device may identify a role assigned to the control device in a previously-formed network that the control device was attached to. The control device may determine a unique coordinated startup time for the control device based on the role assigned to the control device in the previously-formed network. The control device may initiate a network formation procedure at the unique coordinated startup time for the device. For example, the network formation procedure may cause the control device to attach to another control device in the network. The network formation procedure is configured to enable the control device to assume the role assigned to the control device in the previously-formed network in the new network.
US12206548B1	Dynamic application configuration techniques In some implementations, a system enables users to create dynamically configurable applications that can be dynamically configured and adjusted. An application that runs on the server system in a first configuration is configured using a first configuration template. Data indicating (i) that the application is being accessed on a computing device in the first configuration, and (ii) a request to adjust the first configuration of the application is received. Operations are then performed while the application is being accessed on the computing device in the first configuration. A second configuration template that specifies a second configuration of the application corresponding to the request included in the received data is generated. The application is adjusted using the second configuration template to run in the second configuration. An instruction is provided to the computing device to enable the computing device to access the application running in the second configuration.
US12206545B2	Cooperative monitoring networks An electronic monitoring system is described that receives data from a particular monitoring system, receives data from multiple other monitoring systems, analyzes data received from the particular monitoring system irrespective of data received from the multiple other monitoring systems, based on the analysis determines whether one or more events occur at the particular environment, and in response to determining that a particular event occurs at the particular environment, evaluates the particular event against a set of rules, selects, based on the evaluation results, a particular subset of the multiple other monitoring systems to serve as a cooperative monitoring network, assesses data received from the particular subset of the multiple other monitoring systems, based on the assessment, tracks, in connection with the particular event, events detected by the particular subset of the multiple other monitoring systems, and handles the particular event based on the tracked events.
US12206542B2	Signal transmission method and apparatus A signal transmission method and an apparatus are provided, to resolve a problem, in a conventional technology, that transmission performance is poor when a signal is transmitted in a DFT-s-OFDM waveform. A transmitting end maps a plurality of modulation symbols to a plurality of layers, performs discrete Fourier transform (DFT) on a modulation symbol at a part of the layers to obtain a first symbol, and performs discrete Fourier transform DFT and phase offset on a modulation symbol at a remaining part of the layers to obtain a second symbol. Phase offset is performed on a symbol at a part of layers, so that a PAPR can be reduced.
US12206540B2	Method and device for transmitting and receiving wireless signals in wireless communication system The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and specifically, to a method and a device for the method, the method comprising: a step for receiving SRS configuration information; a step for performing a CAP for SRS transmission for each symbol, starting from the first symbol among a plurality of symbols, on the basis of the SRS configuration information; and a step for performing an SRS transmission process on the basis of a successful CAP in the Mth symbol among the plurality of symbols, wherein the SRS transmission is performed on the Mth symbol among the plurality of symbols on the basis of M being equal to or less than a reference value, and the SRS transmission is canceled even in all of the symbols after the Mth symbol among the plurality of symbols on the basis of M being greater than the reference value.
US12206532B1	Wireline receiver sampling circuit Embodiments included herein are directed towards sampling circuits and methods of using the same. Embodiments may include a data sense amplifier circuit and a reference sense amplifier circuit directly connected with the data sense amplifier circuit. Embodiments may further include a latch circuit configured to receive a first input from the data sense amplifier circuit and a second input from the reference sense amplifier circuit. The latch circuit may be further configured to generate a least significant bit output based upon, at least in part, the first input and the second input.
US12206526B2	System and method for blind channel estimation and coherent differential equalization in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) receiver In one aspect, an apparatus includes: a fast Fourier transform (FFT) engine to receive and convert a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) samples into a plurality of frequency carriers; a detector coupled to the FFT engine to determine a channel estimate for a first frequency carrier using a first channel estimate for the first frequency carrier and a plurality of other channel estimates, each of the plurality of other channel estimates for one of a plurality of neighboring frequency carriers within an evaluation window, and determine a log likelihood ratio (LLR) for the first frequency carrier using the channel estimate for the first frequency carrier; and a decoder coupled to the detector to decode a first OFDM symbol comprising the first frequency carrier using the LLR for the first frequency carrier.
US12206525B2	Sounding reference signal waveform design for wireless communications Techniques and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for staggering sounding reference signal (SRS) transmissions in frequency across multiple orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, which may allow multiple UEs to transmit SRS using a common listen-before-talk (LBT) gap for a LBT procedure. The techniques also provide for transmitting an SRS across multiple OFDM symbols using same frequency resources, and an orthogonal cover code (OCC) may be applied to the SRS transmission of each OFDM symbol, which may allow multiple UEs to transmit concurrent SRS using a common LBT gap.
US12206520B1	Domestic appliance commissioning A domestic appliance or method for commissioning the same may include features or steps for receiving an internet protocol (IP) address and an appliance identifier at a remote server spaced apart from the domestic appliance. Also included may be matching the received IP address to a stored IP address and determining a novel identifier as the received appliance identifier after matching the received IP address. Further included may be associating the received appliance identifier with the stored IP address after determining the received appliance identifier is novel identifier.
US12206518B2	Frame processing at an access point In embodiments of the present disclosure, a method is provided for performing a frame processing operation on a broadcast/multicast frame at a physical access point (AP). A pre-processing operation is performed on the frame at a protocol layer between a physical layer and an upper layer of the AP to obtain a pre-processed frame. The pre-processing operation comprises a common operation to be performed for the plurality of virtual interfaces at the protocol layer. In this way, by performing a pre-processing operation common to the virtual interfaces supported by the physical AP, the consumption of resources caused by the performance of repeated operations in the frame processing operation can be reduced.
US12206517B2	Systems and methods for processing and utilizing video data A method includes receiving, from an entity, a request to organize a survey on a topic, based on the request, organizing a survey of a plurality of people, recording a video of the survey, obtaining a transcription of the video and linking the transcription of the video in time to the video to yield a processed video. The method can further include presenting, on a user interface to the entity based on the processed video, the video and the transcription of the video, wherein each word in the transcription of the video is selectable by the entity, receiving a selection of text by the entity from the transcription of the video and, based on the selection of the text, presenting a portion of the video at a time that is associated with when a participant in the video spoke the text.
US12206515B2	Verifying user identities for admission to video conferences One example method for controlling online meeting attendance includes obtaining meeting information associated with a meeting, the meeting information comprising a meeting identifier; receiving, by a video conferencing system from a client device, a request to join the meeting, the request comprising the meeting identifier; receiving a user identifier corresponding to a user; accessing a set of guest identifiers corresponding to a plurality of meeting guests invited to the meeting; determining that the user is a meeting guest of the plurality of meeting guests based on the user identifier and a correspondence to a guest identifier of the set of guest identifier, wherein the user identifier is not in the set of guest identifiers; and responsive to determining that the user is a meeting guest of the plurality of meeting guests, connecting the client device to the meeting.
US12206514B2	Transmitter and transceiver including the same A transmitter includes a transmission controller which outputs original data through an original data lane, an encoder which encodes the original data into encoded data and outputs the encoded data through an encoded data lane, and a transmission driver which outputs the encoded data at a speed of M (M is a real number greater than 0) gigabits per second through a transmission and reception interface. The transmission driver provides a first clock signal corresponding to an output speed to the encoder, the encoder provides a second clock signal having a second frequency less than a first frequency of the first clock signal to the transmission controller, the transmission controller outputs the original data based on the second clock signal, and the encoder outputs the encoded data based on the first clock signal.
US12206511B2	User terminal In order to appropriately control uplink control information even in a case of controlling repetition transmission by use of a plurality of pieces of downlink control information, a user terminal according to the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives downlink shared channels repeatedly transmitted by use of a plurality of slots, and a control section that, in a case that transmissions of the downlink shared channels transmitted in the respective slots are controlled based on different pieces of downlink control information, controls transmissions of acknowledgment signals for the downlink shared channels repeatedly transmitted, using a resource specified by at least one piece of downlink control information.
US12206508B2	Terminal and communication method A terminal includes a reception unit that receives, from a base station, a plurality of DCIs for scheduling a DL resource, an UL resource, and an SL resource, and DL data transmitted in a DL resource scheduled by the DCI, a transmission unit that multiplexes a HARQ response corresponding to the DL data, and a HARQ response corresponding to at least one of the SL resource or SL data that is transmitted in the SL resource, and transmits the multiplexed HARQ response to the base station via a UL shared channel in the UL resource scheduled by the DCI, and a control unit that determines a HARQ codebook, based on a DAI included in the DCI that schedules the UL resource, among the plurality of DCIs, and the DAI is assumed to be determined based on specific DCI among the plurality of DCIs.
US12206507B2	Method and apparatus for performing sidelink retransmission on basis of CR in NR V2X A method by which a first device performs wireless communication is presented. The method can comprise the step of transmitting data through a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) to a second device, receiving, from the second device, hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback related to the data through a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH), and acquiring a channel occupancy ratio (CR) for a transmission resource related to the data in a first slot. For example, the transmission resource related to the data remaining after the reception of the HARQ feedback can be released, and the transmission resource related to the data, released after the first slot, cannot be considered with respect to the CR.
US12206502B2	Method and apparatus for group based physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) feedback in wireless communication A user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The UE comprises a processor configured to perform operations comprising receiving a hybrid automatic repeat request process group (HPG) configuration signal from a base station associated therewith, wherein the HPG configuration signal comprises information of a plurality HARQ process groups (HPGs), each HPG comprising one or more HARQ processes of a set of HARQ processes configured for the UE. The operations further comprise receiving a downlink control information (DCI) from the base station, wherein the DCI comprises information that identifies one or more HPGs of the plurality of HPGs, the HARQ-ACK feedback information of which are to be included in a HARQ-ACK feedback signal that is triggered by the DCI. In addition, the operations comprise generating the HARQ-ACK feedback signal comprising the HARQ-ACK feedback information of HARQ processes associated with the one or more HPGs and sending the HARQ-ACK feedback signal to the base station.
US12206494B2	Coding method and apparatus for data communication A coding method and apparatus for data communication are provided, and may be applied to a plurality of scenarios such as a metro network, a backbone network, and a data center interconnection. As an example method, a first codeword is formed, where the first codeword includes n image bits and n to-be-transmitted bits. The n image bits are selected from to-be-transmitted bits in m source codewords. The m source codewords are formed before the first codeword. Both n and m are positive integers, and n>m; The n to-be-transmitted bits in the first codeword are sent. The bit in the first codeword can be protected by a plurality of codewords generated at different moments. In addition, the bit in the codeword can be protected by different quantities of codewords.
US12206481B2	Method and apparatus for selecting beam in wireless communication system preliminary class Provided is a communication system for supporting higher data rates. A method by which a user equipment selects a beam for transceiving data to or from a base station in an initial access mode is provided. The method includes determining a first receive-beam-parameter including information about the number of receive antennas to be used for first beam searching, receiving, from the BS, a first transmit-beam-parameter including information about the number of transmit antennas to be used for the first beam searching, receiving first RS identified based on the first transmit-beam-parameter while changing a receive beam based on the first receive-beam-parameter, selecting a transmit beam and a receive beam to be used for data transmission and reception, based on the received first RS, and transmitting information about the transmit beam to the BS.
US12206476B2	Beamforming management in wireless networks Apparatus, systems, and methods to implement receive beamforming in communication systems are described. In one example, apparatus of an evolved Node B (eNB) comprising processing circuitry to receive, from a user equipment (UE), a beamforming reference signal received power (BRS-RP) measurement and in response to the BRS-RP measurement, configure a downlink (DL) transmit (Tx) beamforming and a receiving (Rx) beamforming process on the UE. Other examples are also disclosed and claimed.
US12206469B2	Near-field broadband uplink MIMO transmission method assisted by dynamic metasurface antenna The present invention discloses a near-field broadband uplink MIMO transmission method assisted by a dynamic metasurface antenna. The method includes: Broadband signals sent by a plurality of users distributed in a near-field region are processed with a large-size dynamic metasurface antenna as a receive antenna on a base station side, which can reduce system hardware costs and power consumption; and compared with the current hybrid beamforming based on a phase shifter and a conventional antenna, hybrid beamforming based on the dynamic metasurface antenna can effectively improve transmission performance. The present invention proposes an algorithm framework jointly designing a dynamic metasurface antenna and a baseband beamformer and including method such as matrix-weighted mean square error sum (MWMSE) minimization, alternate optimization, matrix vectorization, and MM. The present invention implements near-field broadband large-scale MIMO uplink transmission assisted by a dynamic metasurface antenna with low algorithm complexity and good convergence.
US12206464B2	Reducing errant measurement report timer deactivation using layer 3 filter augmentation An apparatus to be implemented in a user equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising hardware circuitry to activate a timer for transmitting a measurement report to a base station; output a filtered signal value from a measured signal using a first parameter; determine a trend in signal quality based on the first filtered signal value and a second filtered signal value based on a second parameter; or some processing of the values either from the first filter or from the received signal; and determine whether to deactivate the timer based on the trend in signal quality. The filtered signal can be generated using a first layer 3 filter using network-configured parameters and a second layer 3 filter using proprietary parameters. Processing of the values can also be done using proprietary parameters and techniques.
US12206459B2	System and method for entangled state identification using metadata A method and system for identifying entangled photons includes generating a plurality of sets of four entangled photons, wherein one pair of photons of each set are time correlated, thereby indicating that another pair of four entangled photons are entangled. Quantum metadata comprising a time window corresponding to the generated plurality of sets of four entangled photons is collected. A coincidence of one pair of photons of each of the plurality of the sets of four entangled photons is determined. A state value of at least one photon of the other pair of each of the number of the sets of four entangled photons is determined. Ordered lists of coincidences are compared to ordered lists of state values to determine entangled state information. Time window are compared to times corresponding to the ordered lists. Error conditions are generated if conditions are met.
US12206455B1	Wavelength-multiplexed subranging electro-optic modulator (SEOM) for high dynamic range applications Described herein is a solution to address the intrinsic nonlinearity of analog signals and the restrictions this places on the signals dynamic range. The subject matter described herein produces linear electro-optic modulation over a dramatically wider range of the input signal amplitude. This is accomplished by a distributed multiwavelength design that “folds” the large dynamic range across multiple linear subranges, with each subrange being addressed using an optical wavelength. As a result, the subrange within the wide dynamic range of the input signal is captured by the linear portion of the transfer function of a single transfer function. Several physical implementations of this subject are presented herein. This innovation enables the efficient use of optical links for the transmission and processing of analog and multilevel signals, overcoming the limitations that were once hindering progress in this field.
US12206454B2	Communication device, communication method, and communication program A communication device includes an interleaving unit that determines an interleaving length of transmit data to be transmitted through free-space optical communication, and interleaves the transmit data based on the determined interleaving length, and a shaping unit that shapes the interleaved transmit data so as to make the interleaving length detectable on a receiving side of the free-space optical communication.
US12206452B2	Multi-source wireless optical communication spectrum sensing system and method The invention relates to a multi-source wireless optical communication spectrum sensing system, including: a transmit end, configured to transmit an optical signal, the transmit end including multiple LEDs; and a secondary user terminal, configured to: receive the optical signal transmitted by the transmit end, convert the optical signal into an electrical signal, filter out a direct current component in the electrical signal to obtain a filtered electrical signal, sample the electrical signal to obtain sampling data and a corresponding sampling quantity, perform channel estimation based on the sampling quantity and acquired location data of the secondary user terminal to obtain a channel matrix, calculate a detection metric M and a decision threshold K based on the channel matrix, the sampling data, and the sampling quantity, and determine, based on a value relationship between M and K, whether a channel is occupied by a primary user.
US12206446B2	Low latency off-grid communication system with network optimization and low energy signal transmission capabilities A system includes a network node device operable to dynamically connect to different networks and different types of networks based on factors including latency and noise levels in each network. The system allows for low power transmission of data packets as well as obfuscation of transferred data packets by splitting packets for a single file across multiple nodes in a mesh network, where the mesh network then recombines the signals to externally convey the data. The system leverages the use of LoRa communication across one or more networks to communicate critical data, such as location data for particular devices, at long ranges with minimized risk of detection.
US12206445B2	Transceiver and operating method thereof A transceiver includes a transmitter up-converting a frequency of input data to transmit data of a first frequency, an orthogonal basis generator receiving the input data from the transmitter to generate an orthogonal basis; and a receiver receiving the orthogonal basis from the orthogonal basis generator and receiving the transmitted data for down-converting a frequency of the received data to a second frequency different from the first frequency. The orthogonal basis generator includes, a multiplier multiplying the input data by a Gaussian characteristic value obtained by extracting a Gaussian characteristic of the data to generate an out of band emission (OOBE) value, and a polynomial block generating the orthogonal basis by using the OOBE value as an input to an Itô-Hermite polynomial.
US12206439B2	Power amplifier circuit, radio frequency circuit, communication device, radio frequency module, and amplification method A power amplifier circuit is provided that includes a transmission circuit, a control circuit, a first terminal, and a second terminal. The transmission circuit includes an amplifier element that amplifies power of a radio frequency signal. The control circuit controls the transmission circuit. The first terminal receives a serial data signal that is based on a serial data standard. The second terminal receives a digital signal different from the serial data signal. The control circuit then controls the transmission circuit in response to the digital signal received from the second terminal.
US12206434B1	Obfuscating data in distributed data storage systems and network communications Storing and accessing information in a distributed data storage system includes: using erasure code, encoding a data block of the information to generate an encoded data block comprising both parity data and the data block, wherein by using the erasure code the data block may be reconstituted from a subset of the encoded data block, the subset comprising less than all of the data block; distributing, for storage, portions of the subset across a plurality of network storage locations such that the subset is not stored in its entirety at any one of the plurality of network storage locations; retrieving the distributed portions from the plurality of network storage locations; reconstituting the subset from the distributed portions that are retrieved; and using the erasure code, reconstituting the data block from the reconstituted subset of the encoded data block.
US12206432B2	Frequency synthesizer A frequency synthesizer includes: a time-to-digital converter configured to output a time-to-digital value corresponding to a time event of a trigger signal with respect to an operating clock signal; a comparison unit configured to compare a value based on the time-to-digital value with a target value; an oscillation unit configured to generate the synthesizer signal; and a frequency adjustment unit configured to adjust a frequency of the synthesizer signal based on a comparison result of the comparison unit. The time-to-digital converter includes: a state transition unit configured to start a state transition in which an internal state transitions based on the time event of the trigger signal and output state information indicating the internal state; a transition state acquisition unit configured to acquire and hold the state information in synchronization with the operating clock signal; and a calculation unit configured to calculate the time-to-digital value according to the number of transition times of the internal state based on the state information acquired by the transition state acquisition unit.
US12206431B2	Comparator-based switched-capacitor circuit A comparator-based switched-capacitor circuit has a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a first output terminal, and a second output terminal, and includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a decoder, and a switch-capacitor network. The ADC is coupled to the first input terminal and the second input terminal and includes a plurality of comparators. The decoder is coupled to the ADC. The switch-capacitor network includes a comparator, a first current source, a second current source, a plurality of switches, and a plurality of capacitors. The first current source is coupled to the comparator and the first output terminal. The second current source is coupled to the comparator and the second output terminal. The voltage of the first output terminal and the voltage of the second output terminal do not exceed a target range.
US12206426B2	Method and system for digital equalization of a linear or non-linear system A system and method for equalization of a linear or non-linear system. The system includes an adder configured to add an analog reference signal and an input signal, a processing system configured to process a sum of the analog reference signal and the input signal, a non-linear equalizer (NLEQ) configured to process an output of the processing system to remove a distortion incurred by the processing system, a calibration circuitry configured to generate a reconstructed reference signal in digital domain based on measurement of the analog reference signal, and generate coefficients for the NLEQ based on the reconstructed reference signal and the output of the processing system, and a subtractor configured to subtract the reconstructed reference signal from an output of the NLEQ. The analog reference signal may be a sinusoid including single or multiple tones of sinusoids. The non-linear system may be an analog-to-digital converter (ADC).
US12206425B2	Linearization of digital-to-analog converters (DACs) and analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and associated methods Systems and methods for processing and storing digital information are described. One embodiment includes a method for linearizing digital-to-analog conversion including: receiving an input digital signal; segmenting the input digital signal into several segments, each segment being thermometer-coded; generating a redundant representation of each of the several segments, defining several redundant segments; performing a redundancy mapping for the several segments, defining redundantly mapped segments; assigning a probabilistic assignment for redundantly mapped segments; converting each redundantly mapped segment into an analog signal by a sub-digital-to-analog converter (DAC); and combining the analog signals to define an output analog signal.
US12206421B2	IC with delay-locked loop with widened lock range An integrated circuit (IC) features a delay-locked loop (DLL) with a DLL signal input. The DLL comprises a delay line with multiple delay stages, a gater with clock input, and a phase-frequency detector (PFD). The delay line's signal input is linked to the DLL signal input, while the gater's inputs are connected to phase outputs of the delay line. The gater's clock input is tied to the DLL signal input, and its outputs feed into the PFD inputs. The PFD generates outputs that are used by a loop filter to control the speed of the delay line.
US12206418B2	Delay device and delay control method A delay device and a delay control method are provided. The delay device includes at least one current-controlled delay group and at least one switch. The at least one current-controlled delay group is coupled to a transmission wire, each of the at least one current-controlled delay group includes at least one current-controlled delayer, and each of the at least one current-controlled delayer provides a delay according to a control voltage. The at least one switch is coupled between the at least one current-controlled delay group and the transmission wire, and each of the at least one switch is turned on or off according to a bit of an enable signal applied thereto. In the disclosure, the generated delay can be dynamically adjusted and cannot be affected by parasitic capacitance.
US12206416B2	Clock distribution device, and signal processing device and image display apparatus including same The present disclosure relates to a clock distribution device, and a signal processing device and an image display apparatus including the same. The clock distribution device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a latch configured to receive a first pulse signal among the first pulse signal and a second pulse signal having non-overlapping high levels; and a flip-flop configured to receive an inverted signal in which the second pulse signal is inverted, wherein an output clock signal is output based on an output signal of the latch, an input clock signal, and an output signal of the flip-flop. Accordingly, the input clock signal may be simply distributed.
US12206414B2	Electronic circuitry According to one embodiment, electronic circuitry includes a transmission circuit to output a waveform including a plurality of pulse waveforms in response to an input signal. The pulse waveforms include a first transmit pulse waveform, and a second transmit pulse waveform following the first transmit pulse waveform, and the first transmit pulse waveform is larger in amplitude than the second transmit pulse waveform.
US12206410B2	Programmable logic device with fine-grained disaggregation A programmable device may have logic circuitry formed in a top die and memory and specialized processing blocks formed in a bottom die, where the top die is stacked directly on top of the bottom die in a face-to-face configuration. The logic circuitry may include logic sectors, logic array blocks, logic elements, and other types of logic regions. The memory blocks may include large banks of multiport memory for storing data. The specialized processing blocks may include multipliers, adders, and other arithmetic components. The logic circuitry may access the memory and specialized processing blocks via an address encoded scheme. Configured in this way, the maximum operating frequency of the programmable device can be optimized such that critical paths will no longer need to traverse any unused memory and specialized processing blocks.
US12206408B2	Level shift circuit, chip and display device Embodiments of the disclosure provide a level shift circuit, a chip and a display device. By setting first and second voltage clamping modules, and by adjusting first clamping voltage by controlling bias voltage input to the first voltage clamping module and adjusting second clamping voltage by controlling bias voltage and second bias voltage input to the second voltage clamping module, respective operating and output voltages of the first and the second voltage clamping modules and the shift module are within small range. Therefore, even the level shift circuit is designed by using devices with breakdown voltage lower than the difference between the first and second power supply voltages, the devices in the level shift circuit may be avoid being breakdown. Accordingly, some process platforms that cannot produce high-breakdown voltage devices may produce chips including the level shift circuit in the embodiment, and the restrictions on the process platform are reduced.
US12206403B2	Switch circuit structure having reduced crossovers and layout system thereof A switch device structure includes RF1-st and RF2-nd input terminals, RFA-th, RFB-th and RFC-th output terminals, P2A-th, P1B-th and P1C-th paths, and first and second common paths. The P2A-th path includes a first terminal, and a second terminal coupled to the RFA-th output terminal. The P1B-th path includes a first terminal, and a second terminal coupled to the RFB-th output terminal. The P1C-th path includes a first terminal, and a second terminal coupled to the RFC-th output terminal. The first common path is coupled to the RF2-nd input terminal and the first terminal of the P2A-th path. The second common path is coupled to the RF1-st input terminal, the first terminal of the P1B-th path, and the first terminal of the P1C-th path. The first and second common paths cross each other on different planes to form a crossover.
US12206397B2	Power switching circuitry with feedback control An integrated circuit may be provided with power switching circuitry. The power switching circuitry may include a primary power switch and multiple auxiliary power switches. A power gating control circuit may output control signals for selectively activating the primary power switch and at least one of the auxiliary power switches to charge a gated voltage. One or more voltage detectors may be configured to monitor the gated voltage and to activate the remaining auxiliary power switches in response to detecting that the gated voltage exceeds one or more thresholds. Configured and operated in this way, inrush current surge protection can be achieved while charging up the gated voltage sufficiently fast.
US12206396B2	Low voltage detection floating N-well bias circuit Disclosed is a low-voltage detection floating N-well bias circuit. The circuit includes a power detector configured to detect states of first power (VDD) and second power (DVDD) at different power levels; a switch configured to perform a switching operation according to the states of the first power (VDD) and the second power (DVDD); and a voltage output circuit configured to output the first power (VDD) or the second power (DVDD) as an N-well bias voltage according to the states of the first power (VDD) and the second power (DVDD) and the switching operation of the switch. Accordingly, when the first power (VDD) and the second power (DVDD) are supplied and the second power (DVDD) has a low voltage state, the floating N-well bias circuit can continuously bias an N-well with the second power (DVDD), without dropping the second power (DVDD).
US12206392B2	Transient overvoltage active clamping for semiconductor power switches A system may include a switch, a gate driver, and a signal conditioner. The switch may couple to a load. The gate driver may generate one or more gating signals to control one or more operations of the switch. The signal conditioner may receive an input signal associated with the switch and generate a modification signal that may modify the one or more gating signals based on the input signal. The modified gating signal may be used to reduce an amplitude of a voltage transient received by the switch to below a voltage threshold.
US12206391B2	Pre-driven bootstrapping drivers A bootstrapping gate driver circuit in which the size of the bootstrap capacitors is reduced. The gate-to-source voltage of the high side (pull-up) FET is pre-driven to an initial voltage (pre-driven voltage) before the bootstrap capacitor releases charge to charge up the gate-to-source voltage of the high side FET. This pre-driven voltage is applied through a pre-driven FET that allows current flow from the supply voltage to charge the gate of the high side FET to the pre-driven voltage. The pre-driven FET is turned on by a turn-on signal that occurs before the bootstrap capacitor releases charge. The pre-driven period (and hence, the pre-driven voltage) is determined from the time that the pre-driven FET begins to turn on, to the time that the bootstrap capacitor starts to release charge.
US12206388B2	Bulk acoustic wave resonators employing materials with piezoelectric and negative piezoelectric coefficients Bulk acoustic wave resonators are presented. Such resonators typically operate based on a dynamic nonuniform effective piezoelectricity in composite multilayer ferroelectrics with large electrostriction coefficients, like barium strontium titanate (BST). Harmonic resonance modes of a multilayer bulk acoustic wave resonator can be selectively excited with an electromechanical coupling coefficient equal to the fundament mode, which is contrary to the trend K2∝1/n2 exhibited by conventional piezoelectric bulk acoustic resonators. Such a resonator allows for the design of a new class of band-switching filters.
US12206380B2	System for configuring active inductor simulator and multiplier circuit A tunable grounded positive and negative active inductor simulator and impedance multiplier circuit and a method for implementing the tunable grounded positive and negative active inductor simulator and impedance multiplier circuit are described. The circuit includes one second generation voltage-mode conveyor circuit (VCII+), a voltage source configured to generate an output current, a first impedance, a second impedance and an operational transconductance amplifier OTA. The first impedance is connected between the voltage source and the positive VCII+ input terminal, Y. The second impedance is connected between the second output terminal and a ground terminal. The OTA is configured to have a transconductance gain. The circuit is configured to be tuned by a selection of values for the first and second impedances.
US12206376B2	Glitch mitigation in switched reactance phase shifters A phase shifter cell and multiple coupled phase shifter cells that mitigate signal glitches arising from phase state changes by a combination of design architecture and control signal timing. Specifically, one or more of the following three concepts are employed to mitigate insertion loss glitches and control phase behavior during phase state transitions: the timing of switching for each switched half-cell (e.g., including series and/or shunt reactance elements, such as inductors and/or capacitors) within a phase shifter cell is controlled in such a way that the reactance elements do not all switch at the same time; use of a “make before break” timing scheme for combination or “multi-state” phase shifter cells; and/or arranging the timing of each phase shifter cell in a set of multiple coupled phase shifter cells such that the individual cells do not all switch at the same time.
US12206375B2	Digital phase shift circuit and digital phase shifter A digital phase shift circuit includes: a signal line that extends in a predetermined direction; a first inner line that is separated from a first side of the signal line; a second inner line that is separated from a second side of the signal line; an outer line that is provided at a position which is farther from the signal line than the first inner line or the second inner line on a first side or a second side; a first grounding conductor that is provided at each of first ends of the first inner line, the second inner line, and the outer line; a second grounding conductor that is provided at a second end of the outer line; a first electronic switch that is provided between a second end of the first inner line and the second grounding conductor; and a second electronic switch that is provided between a second end of the second inner line and the second grounding conductor.
US12206368B2	High-gain amplifier based on dual-gain boosting Provided is a high-gain amplifier based on double-gain boosting including a first gain amplification unit including a first amplifier, a second amplifier, and a an interstage matching network connected between the first amplifier and the second amplifier and performing primary amplification; and a second gain amplification unit connected in parallel with the first gain amplification unit and performing secondary boosting.
US12206363B2	Load modulated power amplifiers Apparatus and methods for load modulated power amplifiers are provided. In certain embodiments, a load modulated power amplifier system includes a power amplifier that receives a radio frequency signal at an input and provides an amplified radio frequency signal at an output, and a controllable load impedance coupled to the output of the power amplifier. The controllable load impedance receives an envelope signal that changes in relation to an envelope of the radio frequency signal, and the envelope signal is operable to control an impedance of the controllable load impedance to modulate a load at the output of the power amplifier.
US12206359B2	Method and system for solar photovoltaic power station monitoring Disclosed are a method and a system for solar photovoltaic power station and the system includes: an unmanned aerial vehicle flying over the sky of a plurality of solar photovoltaic panels included in a solar photovoltaic power station and obtaining and providing a monitoring image by photographing the solar photovoltaic panel; and a computing device correcting the monitoring image and obtaining the corrected monitoring image, and executing a solar photovoltaic power station monitoring application of performing a malfunction area inspection process for the solar photovoltaic panel based on the obtained corrected monitoring image.
US12206358B2	Solar powered pool heater A portable solar powered pool heater comprising a housing, a hose, a controller, a solar panel and at least one leg having a first position for supporting the housing above a surface, and a second position disposed inside of the housing. This heater can include a hinge, wherein the leg comprises a leg that is coupled to the housing via the hinge. In one embodiment the leg comprises a telescoping leg having a first leg, and a second leg wherein said second leg is telescoping inside of the first leg.
US12206357B2	Automated attachment of solar components A method may include positioning one or more PV module mounting devices along a length of a structural component. The method may include specifying one or more parameters related to fastening the PV module mounting devices to the structural component, the one or more parameters indicating a spacing between the PV module mounting devices. The method may include fastening, by an automated attachment equipment, the PV module mounting devices to the structural component based on the specified parameters and moving the PV module mounting devices fastened to the structural component to an assembly platform.
US12206355B2	Single-piece hinged clamp for track mounting assemblies Single-piece hinged-clamps employed used in assemblies used to mount solar power modules to surface installation are disclosed. In some embodiments, a clamp with a right portion with a right notch having a right platform, a left portion with a left notch having a left platform, and a base portion with a flexible hinge is disclosed. The left portion also includes a threaded aperture extending downwardly from the left platform. In some embodiments, a method of securing a component with the clamp is disclosed in which a right member of a component is inserted into a right notch of a clamp, an applied force imparts movement of a left notch away from the right notch, and a buildup of potential energy in the flexible hinge during the application of the force moves the left notch in the opposite direction to engage the left member of the component.
US12206353B2	Drive control apparatus for brushless motor and related device A drive control apparatus for a brushless motor and a related device. The drive control apparatus is configured to more quickly turn off the brushless motor and includes a motor drive circuit connected to the brushless motor, and a discharge circuit connected to the brushless motor and the motor drive circuit. The motor drive circuit is configured to, during a turn-off period of the brushless motor, stop supplying power to the brushless motor, and output an induced current generated by the brushless motor to the discharge circuit. The discharge circuit is configured to, during the turn-off period of the brushless motor, receive the induced current, and apply work by using the induced current, to consume electric energy of the brushless motor, and accelerate turn-off of the brushless motor.
US12206345B2	Comparison of rotor flux parameters Examples include a method for detecting the evolution of the magnetic state of a permanent magnet rotor. The method includes, during a first and a second time interval, applying a respective direct current command signal to the motor to estimate a respective stator resistance value, and applying a respective alternative voltage command signal corresponding to a specific direct axis stator current value to the motor while measuring respective stator phase current values. The method also includes determining respective rotor flux parameters as a function of the measured respective stator phase current values and of the estimated respective stator resistance values. The method further includes comparing the respective rotor flux parameters. The first and second time intervals are separated by a time period which exceeds at least 100 times any one of a first or second interval length.
US12206341B2	Multilayer electrostatic actuator To provide a simply-structured multilayer electrostatic actuator that exhibits a sufficient stroke and a sufficient contraction force in a specific drive range, and rapidly hardens upon an attempt to widen the interval between electrodes beyond the drive range. A multilayer electrostatic actuator (1) is configured by a plurality of actuator parts (2a, 2b, 2c) each including: a first film (3a1, 3b1, 3c1) having a plurality of first connection regions (7a1, 7b1, 7c1) formed on one surface in a predetermined pattern; and a second film (3a2, 3b2, 3c2) connected to the first film via the first connection regions, and having a plurality of second connection regions (7a2, 7b2, 7c2) formed on a surface opposite to the first film in the identical pattern. The actuator parts are connected and layered via the second connection regions. On both the first film and the second film of one actuator part (2a, 2b, 2c), a non-connection region (15) is formed having a substantially fixed width between connection regions adjacent to each other as viewed in a layering direction (Z). The first connection regions and the second connection regions are arranged so as not to overlap each other as viewed in the layering direction. Axes of the patterns between two actuator parts (2a, 2b; 2b, 2c) connected intersect each other at a predetermined angle (θ, except θ=0°) as viewed in the layering direction. When the multilayer electrostatic actuator is pulled in the layering direction due to an external force, the non-connection region, in particular mainly the non-connection region of the second film, is bending-deformed to separate the first film and the second film, resulting in the multilayer electrostatic actuator extending in the layering direction. Further pulling makes the non-connection region tensile-deformed and hardened. When a voltage is applied, the multilayer electrostatic actuator contracts in the layering direction due to the electrostatic attractive force.
US12206337B2	Power conversion device and control circuit with input capacitor discharge function A power conversion device and a control circuit are provided. The power conversion device includes a power conversion circuit and a control circuit. The control circuit includes a first controller and a second controller. The power conversion circuit includes an input capacitor, a rectifier circuit, and a power switch. The input capacitor is coupled to an input terminal of the power conversion device. The rectifier circuit converts an input AC power into a rectified power. The first controller operates the power switch to cause the power conversion circuit to convert the rectified power into an output power. The second controller detects a signal waveform at the input terminal, and controls the first controller in response to the signal waveform at the input terminal, so as to utilize the power switch to discharge the charge stored in the input capacitor.
US12206336B2	Power converter A converter includes a diode module including a diode bridge disposed inside a module case; and a body case including an opening in a placement face. The module case includes a counter face facing the placement face and a noncounter face, with a breakage prevention structure being disposed on at least one of the counter face or the noncounter face. When the counter face is where the breakage prevention structure is disposed, the breakage prevention structure entirely covers the counter face. When the noncounter face is where the breakage prevention structure is disposed, the noncounter face where the breakage prevention structure is disposed is a noncounter placement face with a largest area among exterior wall faces of the module case, and the noncounter placement face including an area farther from the placement face than a middle of the noncounter placement face is as a nonplacement area.
US12206335B2	Power conversion apparatus A power conversion apparatus includes a transformer including a first winding, a second winding, and a third winding, a first switching circuit connected between an external power supply and the first winding, a second switching circuit connected between a main battery and the second winding, and a third switching circuit connected between an auxiliary battery and the third winding. The first switching circuit includes a power factor correction circuit, a smoothing capacitor configured to smooth a voltage of direct-current power output from the power factor correction circuit, and a relay provided in a power line between the smoothing capacitor and the first winding.
US12206334B2	Networked automation system for start-up of a switch mode power supply Networked automation systems having electric actuation from a high voltage source. The electric actuator includes a switch mode power supply coupled to the high voltage source as a principal power source. The networked automation systems include a controller device having an output network port wired to an input network port of the motor drive. The controller device is also coupled to an auxiliary source of power. Thus, a regulation circuit of the switch mode power supply can be coupled to the auxiliary source of power, thereby providing power for the regulation circuit at start up.
US12206333B2	High voltage amplifier circuit and analyzer apparatus An amplifier circuit includes a constant current circuit for outputting a constant current signal at its output terminal, an operational amplifier for outputting an amplified control signal based on the first voltage signal, and an amplified voltage output circuit for outputting a second voltage signal based on both the constant current signal and the amplified control signal. The constant current circuit has a light-emitting device having one end supplied with the constant voltage signal and another end supplied with ground potential, a light responsive electricity generating device for outputting a drive signal in response to light emitted by the light-emitting device, a first transistor generating the constant current signal based on the amplified voltage signal applied thereto and to output the constant current signal; and a current control circuit for detecting the value of the constant current signal and controlling the supply of the drive signal based on the detection.
US12206332B2	Systems and methods for generating currents with variable slopes for DC-to-DC voltage converters System and method for generating one or more compensation currents for a DC-to-DC voltage converter. For example, a system for generating one or more compensation currents for a DC-to-DC voltage converter includes: a voltage generator configured to receive a reference voltage and generate a first ramp voltage and a second ramp voltage based at least in part on the reference voltage; and a current generator configured to receive the first ramp voltage, the second ramp voltage, an input voltage, and an output voltage; wherein the current generator is further configured to: if the output voltage is smaller than the input voltage, generate a first compensation current based at least in part on the first ramp voltage; and if the output voltage is larger than the input voltage, generate a second compensation current based at least in part on the second ramp voltage.
US12206329B2	DC/DC converter using partial resonance and control method thereof A direct current (DC)/DC converter is provided. The DC/DC converter includes multiple switches, a capacitor, an inductor, and at least one processor, wherein, when the output voltage of the DC/DC converter is less than a first threshold voltage, the at least one processor is configured to control an on/off state of the multiple switches so as to increase the current output from the inductor based on the current, which is output from the inductor, being less than a first threshold current, and control a second switch and a fourth switch to be in an on state or control a first switch and a third switch be in the on state to allow one end or the other end of the capacitor to be connected to one end of the inductor, based on the current, which is output from the inductor, being increased to be greater than or equal to the first threshold current.
US12206326B2	Voltage converter with average input current control and input-to-output isolation A circuit includes a control circuit having a first control circuit input, a second control circuit input, a first control circuit output, and a second control circuit output, and a first transistor having a first current terminal, a second current terminal, and a control terminal, the control terminal coupled to the first control circuit output, the first current terminal coupled to the first control circuit input and to a second transistor, and the second current terminal adapted to be coupled to the second transistor, a logic circuit having a first logic input, a second logic input, and a logic output, the first logic input coupled to the second control circuit output and a switch having a first switch terminal, a second switch terminal, and a switch control terminal, the switch control terminal coupled to the logic output and the first switch terminal coupled to the second current terminal.
US12206325B2	Pumping controller for a plurality of charge pump units In one example, a system comprises a plurality of charge pump units connected in parallel to receive an input voltage and to generate an output voltage greater than the input voltage and a pumping controller to provide a pumping signal to a first charge pump unit of the plurality of charge pump units and to provide sequentially delayed versions of the pumping signal to the other charge pump units of the plurality of charge pump units.
US12206324B2	DC/DC power converter, method for controlling switching thereof, DC/DC power converter arrangement and system A DC/DC power converter for converting voltage at an input to a voltage at an output of the DC/DC power converter is provided, wherein the output voltage is a multiple of the input voltage. The DC/DC power converter comprises two switching circuits electrically connected in series, two capacitor units electrically connected in series, and a resonant circuit comprising a resonant capacitor and a resonant inductor. A first switching circuit of the two switching circuits is electrically connected to one side of the first capacitor unit opposite to the other side of the first capacitor unit connected to the second capacitor unit of the two capacitor units. The switches of the first switching circuit are controllable semiconductor switches. The first switching circuit comprises one or more diode units electrically connecting the first capacitor unit to the two switching units of the first switching circuit.
US12206318B2	Electric machine with a can, and stator for an electric machine An electric machine has a rotor and a stator defined by a stator laminated core (15). The rotor and the stator are separated from one another by a can (20) for the cooling of the stator using a liquid coolant. The electric machine has a stator component (100) formed as a single piece and composed of the stator laminated core (15) and of a plastics workpiece (10) molded thereon. The plastics workpiece (10) is formed as the can (20).
US12206313B2	Electric work machine A brushless motor is at least partially located in a hermetically sealed space. An electric work machine includes a brushless motor, an output unit, a motor case, a lead wire, and a first seal. The brushless motor includes a stator, a rotor rotatable with respect to the stator, and a rotor shaft fixed to the rotor. The output unit is drivable by the rotor shaft. The motor case includes an internal space and a wiring passage. The internal space accommodates the stator and the rotor. The lead wire is located in the wiring passage connecting the internal space and an external space of the motor case. The first seal seals between the lead wire and the motor case.
US12206312B2	Motor and manufacturing method of the same [Problem] To provide a motor and a manufacturing method of the motor capable of suppressing generation of creep noise.[Means for Resolution] A motor (49) that drives piston pumps (45, 48) according to the invention of the present application includes: a motor housing (61); an output rotary shaft (50); a first bearing (66) that supports the output rotary shaft (50) and is arranged on a side of the piston pumps; a second bearing (67) that supports one end of the output rotary shaft (50) and is arranged on a side of a bottom portion (72) of the motor housing (61); and a bearing holder (80, 90) that is held by an inner wall of the motor housing (61) so as to hold the second bearing (67).
US12206311B2	Outer diameter side magnet field and magnetic gear An outer diameter side magnet field pole piece assembly for a magnetic gear which is disposed on an outer circumferential side of a plurality of magnetic pole pieces disposed on an outer circumferential side of the outer diameter side magnet field pole piece assembly along a circumferential direction, includes: a plurality of magnetic pole pairs disposed on the outer circumferential side of the plurality of magnetic pole pieces along the circumferential direction; and a support member for supporting the plurality of magnetic pole pairs from the outer circumferential side. A space along an axial direction is formed in at least a part between an outer circumferential surface of each of the plurality of magnetic pole pairs and an opposite surface of an inner circumferential surface of the support member opposite to the outer circumferential surface of each of the plurality of magnetic pole pairs.
US12206308B2	Actuator A movable body of an actuator includes a first yoke to which a first magnet facing a coil from a Z1 direction is fixed, and a second yoke to which a second magnet facing the coil from a Z2 direction is fixed. The portion of the first yoke to which the first magnet is fixed consists of two members: a first inner member and a first outer member. The portion of the second yoke to which the second magnet is fixed consists of two members: a second inner member and a second outer member. The portions surrounding both sides of the coil in the X direction bond first connecting plate portions of the first outer member and second connecting plate portions of the second outer member.
US12206305B2	Electrical machines for aircraft power and propulsion systems A transverse flux electrical machine for coupling to a rotating shaft of a propulsor of an aircraft is provided. The transverse flux electrical machine includes a rotor having a plurality of circumferentially distributed permanent magnets that form a number, NP, of rotor poles, wherein the rotor poles have a pole pitch angle, Pθ, equal to 2π divided by the number of rotor poles, NP. The transverse flux electrical machine further includes a stator having a plurality of current-carrying coils configured to interact with the rotor poles of the rotor to produce a torque. The transverse flux electrical machine further includes an air gap separating the rotor from the stator by an air gap distance, GAir, wherein a machine parameter, , defined as: =Pθ×GAir is less than 100 micro radian-meters.
US12206297B2	Brake or steering system having redundant components The present invention relates to a brake or steering system including an actuator (6, 7), and an electromotor arrangement (10) comprising a rotatably mounted shaft (12) for driving the actuator (6, 7), a first pair of brushes (14), a second pair of brushes (16), a commutator assembly (21, 22, 24) arranged on the shaft, the commutator assembly being in contact with the first pair of brushes (14) and the second pair of brushes (16), a coil assembly (30) electrically connected to the commutator (21, 22, 24) assembly, and at least one permanent magnet cooperating with the coil assembly (30) to provide a rotational movement of the shaft (12) when the coil assembly (30) is energized.
US12206296B2	Motor controller and outer rotor motor comprising the same A motor controller includes a housing, a power circuit board, and a control circuit board. The housing includes a first mounting platform, a second mounting platform, and a side wall. There is a height difference between the first mounting platform and the second mounting platform. The first mounting platform is disposed on an upper part of the side wall, and the second mounting platform is disposed on a middle part of the side wall. The second mounting platform is disposed on one side of the first mounting platform. The first mounting platform and the side wall form an upper chamber, and the control circuit board and the power circuit board are disposed in the upper chamber. The control circuit board is closer to the first mounting platform than the power circuit board. The second mounting platform and the side wall form a lower chamber communicating with the upper chamber.
US12206290B2	Lamination ring for a laminated rotor core of a rotor of an electric machine, and method for producing a laminated rotor core made of multiple lamination rings A lamination ring for constructing a laminated rotor core for a rotor of an electric machine and a method for producing a laminated rotor core made of multiple lamination rings for a rotor is disclosed. The lamination ring has multiple receiving openings for permanent magnets, and multiple structural elements are arranged homogeneously in the lamination ring at the same distance to one another in the circumferential direction in a rotated manner by an offset angle relative to the axis of symmetry such that the arrangement of structural elements is not symmetrical relative to the axis of symmetry of the lamination ring.
US12206286B2	Rotor for induction motor and induction motor using same A rotor for an induction motor includes a rotor core having a hollow portion on a central portion wherein a shaft is coupled to the rotor core by being inserted through the hollow portion, a plurality of slots radially formed in the rotor core around a central axis of the shaft, a plurality of conductor bars coupled to the plurality of slots, and an end ring electrically connecting the plurality of conductor bars to each other, wherein the rotor core is thermally treated above Curie temperature to form a predetermined pattern on an outer circumference of the rotor core.
US12206284B2	Electric compressor A stator of an electric compressor has a stator core configured by laminating a plurality of electromagnetic steel plates in an axial direction, the electromagnetic steel plates having a substantial ring shape as seen from the axial direction. As seen from the axial direction, a plurality of through-holes are formed through the stator core in the lamination direction of the electromagnetic steel plates, on the same circle centered around the axis line, and as seen from the axial direction, a first arc length or a second arc length longer than the first arc length is set as each arc length between through-holes adjacent in the circumferential direction. The stator is secured to a housing by a bolt inserted through the through-holes, the stator core is varnished at least in areas near the centers in the circumferential direction between through-holes where the second arc length is set.
US12206281B2	High-efficiency modular uninterruptible power supply Examples of the disclosure include a power system comprising an input to receive input power, an output to provide power to a load, a sensor configured to provide load information indicative of power drawn by the load, a plurality of power modules, each having a power module input configured to be coupled to the input, and a power module output configured to be coupled to the output, and a controller coupled to the power modules and the sensor, and being configured to control the power modules to provide power to the output, receive the load information from the sensor, select, based on the load information, at least one power module to maintain in an active state to provide power to the output, and deactivate each power module other than the at least one power module based on selecting the at least one power module to maintain in the active state.
US12206280B1	Power stealing in relay circuits Techniques for an electronic device to perform power-stealing techniques to harvest energy from a power-control circuit to power components of the electronic device. In some examples, the electronic device may be connected in the power-control circuit between a power supply and a relay that is selectively configured to activate a power load. According to the techniques described herein, the electronic device may include voltage-drop circuitry that is connected in the power-control circuit such that a voltage drop is produced across electrical components of the electronic device while the relay is in the activated, or triggered, state. In this way, the electronic device may perform power-stealing from the power-control circuit while the relay is maintained in the activated state.
US12206279B2	Power balancing solar charging system A system for charging a device can include a housing and a first solar panel, a second solar panel connected in series to the first solar panel, and a third solar panel connected in series to the first solar panel and the second solar panel. The system can include a boost converter including an input channel connected to the first, second, and third solar panels and an output channel configured to couple to the device. The system can include a charge pump including a first flying capacitor connected between the first solar panel and the third solar panel and a second flying capacitor connected between the second solar panel and the third solar panel. The system can include a controller configured to selectively switch connectivity between the set of solar panels and the set of flying capacitors to route current to the boost converter.
US12206278B2	Electronic device and method for wired and wireless charging in electronic device An apparatus for wired and wireless charging of an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a display on a surface of the housing, a battery mounted in the housing, a circuit electrically connected with the battery, a conductive pattern positioned in the housing, electrically connected with the circuit, and configured to wirelessly transmit power to an external device, a connector on another surface of the housing and electrically connected with the circuit, a memory, and a processor electrically connected with the display, the battery, the circuit, the connector, and/or the memory. The circuit is configured to electrically connect the battery with the conductive pattern to wirelessly transmit power to the external device and electrically connect the battery with the connector to transmit power to the external device by wire, simultaneously or selectively, with wirelessly transmitting power to the external device.
US12206277B2	Vehicle uninterruptible power supply system and control method thereof A vehicle uninterruptible power supply system and a control method thereof are provided. The control method includes: instructing, by a control circuit, a charging and discharging circuit to use one of a vehicle power supply and a backup battery for charging a vehicle load according to a voltage of the vehicle power supply and a voltage of the backup battery when the control circuit receives an ignition-on signal; instructing, by the control circuit, the charging and discharging circuit to use one of the vehicle power supply and the backup battery for charging the vehicle load according to the voltage of the backup battery when the control circuit receives an ignition-off signal; and preventing, by the control circuit, the vehicle power supply and the backup battery from charging the vehicle load when the control circuit receives the ignition-off signal.
US12206275B2	Redundant power source system with overvoltage response A power source system has a first system having a first power supply path and a first power source supplying a power source voltage, a second system having a second power supply path and a second power source having a battery being charged by the power source voltage, an intersystem switch, a switching controller switching the intersystem switch between an open state and a closed state, and a charging discharging part, arranged between the second power source and a connection node of a connection path on the second power supply path. The charging discharging part performs charging of the battery by the power source voltage and discharging of the battery based on a discharging request after completion of battery charging, and performs charging of the battery before the switching controller switches the intersystem switch to the open state from the closed state when overvoltage occurs in any system under the closed state of the intersystem switch.
US12206268B2	Jumper cable apparatus A jumper cable is provided that includes: a first charging transfer cable having first and second opposing ends; a second charging transfer cable having third and fourth opposing ends, and a connecting element at each of the first, second, third, and fourth opposing ends, the connecting element configured to releasably attach respective ends of the first and second charging cables to one or more battery terminals. A portion of the first charging transfer cable is coupled to the second charging transfer cables between a first point of union and a second point of union, and the unequal length portions of the first and second charging transfer cables extend from at least one of the first and second points of union.
US12206264B2	Alternately charging method, alternately charging apparatus, and alternately charging terminal device A charging apparatus includes a charging module, where the charging module is connected to a first terminal of a first selection module; a second terminal of the first selection module is connected to a first terminal of a first battery module, a third terminal of the first selection module is connected to a first terminal of a second battery module, in a case in which a first condition is satisfied, the first terminal of the first selection module is connected to the second terminal of the first selection module, and in a case in which a second condition is satisfied, the first terminal of the first selection module is connected to the third terminal of the first selection module; and a coulometer management module, connected to the first battery module and the second battery module.
US12206257B2	Surface mountable wireless power transmitter for transmission at extended range A surface mountable housing for a power transmitter for wireless power transfer includes a connector system configured for use to mount, at least, a transmitter antenna to an underside of a structural surface, such that the transmitter antenna is configured to couple with a receiver antenna of a power receiver when the receiver antenna is proximate to a top side of the structural surface. The surface mountable housing further includes a heat sink, the heat sink configured to rest, at least in part, below the transmitter antenna, when the power transmitter is connected to the structural surface, and configured to direct heat generated by the power transmitter away from the structural surface, and an antenna housing, the antenna housing substantially surrounding a side wall of the transmitter antenna, the antenna housing connected to the heat sink and positioned between the heat sink and the structural surface.
US12206253B2	Voltage doubler in wireless power application Systems and methods for wireless power transfer systems are described. A controller can be coupled to a power rectifier configured to rectify alternating current power into direct current power. The power rectifier can include a first high side transistor, a second high side transistor, a first low side transistor, and a second low side transistor. The controller can be configured to selectively switch on one or more of the first high side transistor, the second high side transistor, the first low side transistor, and the second low side transistor to operate a wireless power receiver under one of a full bridge rectifier mode and a voltage doubler mode.
US12206247B2	Output control and compensation for AC coupled systems A power output control and compensation (PCC) circuit operates within a distributed energy resource (DER) system. The PCC circuit is located in a battery power conversion system (PCS) and includes an input terminal to connect with a power source and an output terminal to connect with an electrical panel or load. A current sensing device is coupled between the input and the output terminals to measure a power level of the power source. A relay is coupled between the current sensing device and the output terminal and a processor selectively connects power from the power source to the electrical panel or the load based on the measured power level or based on other power measurements within the DER system. PCS-control of multiple power sources decreases cycle times for controlling distributed energy resources.
US12206242B2	Power frequency line protection procedure A method for protecting a power system having inverter-interfaced renewable energy sources is provided. The power system includes an inverter and a control system. The control system includes a current controller including a saturation limiter and a proportional and integral (PI) controller, a phase-locked system, and a low-voltage ride-through (LVRT) control unit. The method includes: by using a Park transformation matrix, determining an output voltage of the inverter; determining a modulated voltage of the output voltage; upon detecting a grid fault, obtaining current references by the LVRT control unit; determining a fault current in a first stage of a transient phase of the grid fault; determining a fault current in a second stage of the transient phase; determining a fault current in a third stage of the transient phase; and switching the control system to a fault control mode by tracking the fault currents in the first, second and third stages, to the current references.
US12206239B2	Power supply system and power supply unit An object of the present invention is to enable two or more power supply units constituting a power supply system to be synchronized to stably operate the power supply system. A power supply system 100 includes two or more power supply units 10 to 13, the power supply units 10 to 13 cooperating to supply DC power to a shared load 22, the power supply units 10 to 13 including a power supply main circuit 30 that converts AC power inputted from the outside into DC power; a control unit 36 that controls the power supply main circuit 30; a pair of synchronous terminals Z1, Z2 respectively connected to a pair of synchronous signal lines ZCL; a transmission unit 35 that outputs a trigger signal TG by establishing conduction between the pair of synchronous signal lines ZCL; and a reception unit 35 that detects a conductive state between the pair of synchronous signal lines ZCL and that receives the trigger signal TG, wherein the power supply main circuit 30 stops outputting based on timing of receiving the trigger signal TG.
US12206237B2	Semiconductor die with transformer and ESD clamp circuit A semiconductor die includes a transformer with terminals of a first winding electrically coupled to external die terminals of the semiconductor die. The terminals of a second winding of the transformer are coupled to internal circuitry of the semiconductor die. An ESD clamp circuit is electrically coupled to the center tap of the second winding of the transformer. When made conductive during and ESD event, the ESD clamp circuit discharges ESD current between the center tap and a supply rail.
US12206236B2	Modular power distribution panel A power distribution panel for distributing power to a plurality of components. A modular frame may removably attach in an aperture of a side of a chassis. A first module may be removably attached in an opening of the modular frame. A second module, different from the first module, may be removably attached in the opening of the modular frame.
US12206230B2	Power cable system prefabricated in a building structure The present invention provides a power cable system prefabricated in a building structure, the building structure contains at least one floor, and each floor has at least one starting column, a plurality of main beams and a plurality of auxiliary beams, the main beams are connected with the starting column, and the auxiliary beams are respectively connected with the main beams and the starting column; wherein main wires, first secondary wires, second secondary wires, and third secondary wires are correspondingly prefabricated on the starting column, the main beams, and the auxiliary beams respectively. Through those structure, the workers can quickly construct a power cable system while construct the beam-column system, which can significantly improve the construction efficiency.
US12206224B2	Mobile substation system for fracturing operations A method and system are disclosed for providing electrical power from a utility electric grid to a fracturing operation, and an electrically powered fracturing system. A mobile substation includes at least two transformer units that are operatively coupled to the utility electric grid in a parallel orientation, wherein the transformer units are capable of receiving power from the utility electric grid and stepping down the power for delivery to a switchgear. An electric motor is operatively coupled to a hydraulic fracturing pump and operatively controlled by a variable frequency drive. At least one open air relay cable is operatively coupled between the switchgear and the electric motor and capable of delivering power to the electric motor.
US12206222B2	Integrated edge-generated vertical emission laser Configurations for an edge-generated vertical emission laser that vertically emits light and fabrication methods of the edge-generated vertical emission laser are disclosed. The edge-generated vertical emission laser may include a distributed feedback (DFB) laser structure, a grating coupler, and contact layers. Light may propagate through the DFB laser structure, approximately parallel to the top surface of the edge-generated vertical emission laser and be directed by the grating coupler toward the top surface of the edge-generated vertical emission laser. The light may vertically emit from the edge-generated vertical emission laser approximately perpendicular to the top surface of the edge-generated vertical emission laser. Additionally, the contact layers may be n-metal and p-metal, which may be located on the same side of the edge-generated vertical emission laser. These features of the edge-generated vertical emission laser may facilitate ease of testing and increased options for packaging.
US12206216B2	Isolated ring cavity resonator Described herein are isolated ring cavities that have refractive and heat-generating components physically separated and mechanically held by flexure mounts that are adapted to function in combination with the physically separated structure to moderate the thermal expansion effects of the heat generated by the refractive and other heat-generating elements (e.g., gain element) of the optical cavity. The flexure mounts may be configured as thinned portions of connective elements, reducing the effects of thermal expansion of the baseplate and allowing a thermal isolation from the baseplate. Multiple flexure mounts may be arranged to minimize further the effects of thermal expansion of the baseplate.
US12206215B2	Method of using resistance soldering device A method of method of resistance soldering may include providing a controllable electrical power supply having a negative pole and a positive pole. The method may include providing an electrical terminal having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface on which a solder layer is disposed. The method may include providing a resistance soldering device with an electrode having a first electrical conductor connected to the positive pole of the electrical power supply, a second electrical conductor connected to the negative pole of the electrical power supply, an electrically resistive bridge interconnecting the first and second electrical conductors. The method may include turning the electrical power supply on to provide an electrical current between the positive and negative poles. The method may include contacting the electrode to the first surface of the electrical terminal.
US12206211B2	Hardline splitter with anti-rotation configured to enhance connection of an input cable A splitter for allowing a hardline cable to be connected to the splitter as an input and a connector to be connected to the splitter as an output includes a housing portion. The housing portion includes an input portion; the input portion is configured to receive a hardline input cable; the housing portion includes an output portion; the input portion includes an engagement portion configured to engage a hardline back nut; the splitter is configured to connect to the hardline input cable; and the connection of the splitter to the hardline input cable is configured to allow the splitter to be installed on the hardline input cable without additional hardware to connect the splitter to the hardline input cable.
US12206207B2	Power transmission device and electric power device Provided is a power transmission device with which it is possible to minimize transmission of an excessive external force. This power transmission device has an input lever, an output lever, and a housing that are capable of moving relative to each other and that are mechanically connected to each other so as to be capable of transmitting power therebetween. The power transmission device has: a main spring disposed on a first power transmission path that is for transmitting power between the input lever and the output lever; a return spring disposed on a second power transmission path that is for transmitting power between the input lever and the housing; and a damper disposed on a third power transmission path that is for transmitting power between the output lever and the housing.
US12206204B2	Connector connection structure including internal connector positioned inside casing and electronic control unit configured to be electrically connected to the internal connector To prevent electric conductance impairment of an electric connecting part between an electronic control unit and an internal connector in a reliable manner even when the electric connecting part between the electronic control unit and the internal connector is placed in an environment where oil mist or electroconductive substances are present, the electronic control unit includes a main part, a first conductive connection portion provided at a lower end of the main part and configured to be electrically connected to the internal connector, and an outer shell member extending downward so as to surround the first conductive connection portion, and to be open only at a lower end thereof, and wherein the internal connector is provided with a housing including a part defining an annular recess opened upward on an outer periphery thereof, the lower end of the outer shell member being received in the annular recess when the electronic control unit is connected to the internal connector.
US12206201B2	Connector A connector includes a terminal-equipped electric wire having a terminal connected to an end portion of an electric wire, housing to accommodate the terminal and to hold the terminal-equipped electric wire and a heat transfer member having elasticity. The housing includes a first housing having a terminal accommodating portion, and a second housing to hold the terminal-equipped electric wire. The second housing includes a resin holder to be mounted on an electric wire connection portion of the terminal and the end portion of the electric wire, and a metal holder to be externally mounted on the resin holder. The heat transfer member is disposed in a compressed and deformed state between an outer circumferential surface of at least: one of the electric wire connection portion of the terminal and the end portion of the electric wire and an inner circumferential surface of the second housing.
US12206194B2	Electrical connector assembly An electrical connector assembly is provided. The electrical connector assembly includes a housing, two electrically conductive connection members, and two electrically conductive cable sets. The two electrically conductive connection members are arranged in the housing and respectively connected to the two electrically conductive cable sets. The electrically conductive connection member has an electrically conductive terminal, a cable connection member, and a terminal holding member. The cable connection member is bent relative to a vertical axis and has a first connection part and a second connection part. An electrically conductive cable of the electrically conductive cable set is connected to the first connection part by soldering. The second connection part is coupled to a U-shaped connection part of the electrically conductive terminal. The terminal holding member is arranged at a periphery of the electrically conductive terminal A guide opening is formed on a side of the terminal holding member.
US12206192B2	Female connector, male connector and connector assembly The present application provides a female connector, a male connector and a connector assembly. The female connector includes: a plurality of female terminals, ends of which are radially expanded outward to form trumpet-shaped guide heads for blind mating with a male connector or a gold finger circuit board; a cantilever section of the female terminal being bent at at least one position to form an elastic pressing portion for an interference fit contact with the male connector or the gold finger circuit board; a first high-frequency radiation area being formed in the vicinity of the trumpet-shaped guide head when the female terminals are mated with the male connector or the gold finger circuit board; and a first wave-absorbing material is disposed in a spatial scope covered by the first 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.
US12206188B2	Circuit integrated antenna Arranged on a surface of a substrate are a patch conductor that radiates an electromagnetic field having been fed, a feed line that feeds the patch conductor with the electromagnetic field having been input, two slits parallel to the feed line on both sides of a connection part of the feed line toward an inner side of the patch conductor, and a ring conductor at a space from the patch conductor with an interposition of a gap to surround an outer periphery of the patch conductor. Accordingly, an electric capacitance can be formed between the patch conductor and the ring conductor, and when achieving impedance matching with the feed line, adjustment can be performed using the size of the ring conductor and the gap.
US12206186B2	Antenna module An antenna module is provided. An antenna module according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises: an antenna unit including an antenna pattern, which has a pattern portion and a lead portion formed, respectively, on both surfaces of a circuit board; a magnetic field shielding sheet including a sheet body made of a magnetic material to block a magnetic field, and a plurality of eddy current reducing pattern portions formed on the sheet body to reduce the generation of eddy current by increasing the resistance of the sheet body; and an insulation member arranged between the antenna unit and the magnetic field shielding sheet, wherein the antenna unit is provided in an asymmetric form in which the pattern portion and the lead portion respectively formed on both surfaces of the circuit board have different thicknesses.
US12206181B2	Antenna system An antenna system includes a signal feeding element, a first antenna element, a second antenna element, a first selection circuit, a second selection circuit, a first transmission line, a second transmission line, a third transmission line, a fourth transmission line, a fifth transmission line, and a sixth transmission line. The first selection circuit selects one of the first transmission line, the second transmission line, and the third transmission line as a first target transmission line. The selected first target transmission line is coupled between a third connection point and a first connection point. The second selection circuit selects one of the fourth transmission line, the fifth transmission line, and the sixth transmission line as a second target transmission line. The selected second target transmission line is coupled between a fourth connection point and a second connection point.
US12206180B2	Planar multibeam hybrid-electromechanical SATCOM terminal A lens array antenna system that includes a plurality of lens modules, each consisting of an RF lens and a plurality of feeds forming a linear feed region or feed array. Multiple linear feed regions supporting different frequency bands may be used. The lenses and array of feeds jointly rotate and are slidably connected to allow the location of the linear feed region relative to the focal locus of the lens to be changed by an actuator and controller to allow any two focal points corresponding to desired beam scanning directions to be covered by the linear feed region. In this way, a planar hybrid electromechanical beamforming antenna can form two independent beams in the upper hemisphere with only two mechanical actuators and a single axis of electronic beamforming, reducing production cost compared to existing multibeam antenna solutions.
US12206177B2	Method and apparatus for radio signal transmission and reception in communication system An operation method of a first communication node may comprise: receiving one or more polarized radio signals transmitted from a second communication node included in the communication system through one or more receive polarized antennas included in the first communication node; performing a receive polarized antenna alignment state adjustment operation so that a detection result for a magnitude of an electric field excited by the one or more polarized radio signals is maximized; and receiving a first polarized signal transmitted from the second communication node through at least part of the one or more receive polarized antennas based on a result of the receive polarized antenna alignment state adjustment operation.
US12206176B2	Electronic devices having bi-directional dielectric resonator antennas An electronic device may have a first phased antenna array that radiates through a display and a second phased antenna array that radiates through a rear wall. The first array may include a front-facing dielectric resonator antenna and the second array may include a rear-facing dielectric resonator antenna. The front and rear-facing antennas may share a dielectric resonating element. Feed probe(s) may excite a first volume of the dielectric resonating element to radiate through the display and may excite a second volume of the dielectric resonating element to radiate through the rear wall. The dielectric resonating element may have a geometry that helps to isolate the front-facing dielectric resonator antenna from the rear-facing dielectric resonator antenna. The first and second arrays may collectively cover an entire sphere around the device while occupying a minimal amount of volume within the device.
US12206172B2	Reflection apparatus used for base station antenna and base station antenna A reflection apparatus includes a base plate, where one side is used to dispose a radiation unit, and the other side is used to dispose a feeding network; a first side plate and a second side plate that are separately connected to the base plate and that are disposed opposite to each other, where the first side plate and the second side plate each extend relative to the base plate and toward the side used to dispose the feeding network; a first return plate connected to the first side plate, where the first return plate extends relative to the first side plate and toward a direction of the feeding network; and a second return plate connected to the second side plate, where the second return plate extends relative to the second side plate and toward the direction of the feeding network.
US12206168B2	Multi-frequency slot antennas, terminal devices and methods for adjusting resonance frequencies of antennas Described are electronic devices, and specifically provides a multi-frequency slot antenna, a terminal device and an antenna resonance frequency adjustment method. The antenna is applied to a terminal device, and the terminal device includes a metal casing. According to an example, the antenna includes a slot provided in the metal casing, the slot having a first end and a second end opposite to each other in a length direction; a feed terminal across inside of the slot and located between the first end and the second end; and a capacitor provided in the slot, two electrodes of the capacitor being respectively connected with two sides of the slot in a width direction. Furthermore, in the length direction, the capacitor is located at a position where voltages are not zero at original values of multiple orders of resonance frequencies of the antenna when the capacitor is not provided in the slot. In this way, an operating frequency of the antenna includes multiple orders of resonance frequencies.
US12206167B2	mmW antenna array with radar sensors Aspects described herein include methods and devices for radar integration with a mmW communication module. In some aspects, an apparatus is provided that includes a millimeter wave (mmW) printed circuit board (PCB), with first and second mmW elements, and a radar antenna. The first mmW element is coupled to a first side of the mmW PCB, where the first mmW element is configured for wireless mmW communications at frequencies above approximately 24 gigahertz (GHz). A second mmW element coupled to the first side of the mmW PCB, where the second mmW element is positioned adjacent to the first mmW element and is separated from the first mmW element by a gap spacing. A radar antenna is disposed in the mmW PCB and aligned with the gap spacing between the first mmW element and the second mmW element.
US12206164B2	Method and apparatus for a converged 5G FR1 and FR2 antenna An information handling system operating a converged 5G antenna module includes a processor; a memory; a power management unit; the processor executing a wireless interface adapter configure to concurrently operate a converged 5G antenna module at a new radio frequency range 1 (NRFR1) frequency and a NRFR2 frequency; a first radio subsystem including a first front end operatively coupled to a mmWave antenna of the converged 5G antenna module to communicate via an NRFR2 wireless communication signal; and a second radio subsystem including a second antenna front end operatively coupled to a cooling element structure of the converged 5G antenna module to receive an NRFR1 wireless communication signal via the cooling element structure of the converged 5G antenna module.
US12206163B2	Electronic devices having antennas that radiate through three-dimensionally curved cover layers An electronic device may have a cover layer and an antenna. A dielectric adapter may have a first surface coupled to the antenna and a second surface pressed against the cover layer. The cover layer may have a three-dimensional curvature. The second surface may have a curvature that matches the curvature of the cover layer. Biasing structures may exert a biasing force that presses the antenna against the dielectric adapter and that presses the dielectric adapter against the cover layer. The biasing force may be oriented in a direction normal to the cover layer at each point across dielectric adapter. This may serve to ensure that a uniform and reliable impedance transition is provided between the antenna and free space through the cover layer over time, thereby maximizing the efficiency of the antenna.
US12206162B2	Three-dimensional graphene antenna and preparation method thereof A three-dimensional graphene antenna includes a three-dimensional graphene radiation layer, a dielectric substrate, a metal layer and a feeder line. The three-dimensional graphene radiation layer is made from porous three-dimensional graphene. A preparation method of the porous three-dimensional graphene includes steps of preparing pressurized solid particles by pressurizing gas into solid micro particles, mixing the pressurized solid particles with a graphene oxide dispersion liquid, removing liquid nitrogen under high pressure and low temperature such that the graphene oxide flakes enwrap around the pressurized solid particles, obtaining a graphene oxide block containing the pressurized solid particles by extruding, sublimating the pressurized solid particles in the graphene oxide block into gas, forming holes in the graphene oxide block and annealing, thereby obtaining the three-dimensional graphene. The three-dimensional graphene has a porous three-dimensional conductive network structure, which is able to be in any shape without any pollution.
US12206161B2	Vehicular antenna device A vehicular antenna device (10) includes an antenna base (100) and a first antenna portion (a first satellite antenna (210) or a second satellite antenna (220)). The antenna base (100) has a longitudinal direction. The first antenna portion is provided over the antenna base (100). The satellite antennas are disposed offset in a direction intersecting a virtual plane parallel or substantially parallel with the longitudinal direction.
US12206160B2	Antenna stack structure An antenna stack structure according to an embodiment includes an antenna substrate layer, an antenna unit disposed on one surface of the antenna substrate layer and including a radiator and an antenna pad, and a pad ground and an insulating layer disposed at the same level on an opposite surface of the antenna substrate layer facing the one surface. The antenna pad is superimposed over the pad ground in a thickness direction. Radiation properties can be improved utilizing the antenna pad.
US12206159B2	Integrated antenna An integrated antenna includes a first antenna, a second antenna, and a third antenna. The second antenna is electrically connected to the first antenna. The third antenna is electrically connected to the first antenna and the second antenna, and the third antenna is integrated with the first antenna and the second antenna to form the integrated antenna. Lengths of the first antenna, the second antenna, and the third antenna are different.
US12206158B2	Electronic device An electronic device includes a display panel, an antenna, and a circuit film. The antenna overlaps the display panel. The antenna includes an antenna base film having a first surface and a second surface opposite each other. The first surface is disposed between the display panel and the second surface. The antenna further includes an antenna pattern, an antenna feed line, and an antenna pad each being disposed on the first surface. The antenna pattern is electrically connected through the antenna feed line to the antenna pad. The circuit film is electrically connected to the antenna pad.
US12206152B2	Dielectric waveguide radar signal distribution A system is provided for transmitting sub-terahertz electro-magnetic radio frequency (RF) signals using a dielectric waveguide (DWG) having a dielectric core member surrounded by dielectric cladding. Multiple radar signals may be generated by a radar module that is coupled to a vehicle. A set of DWG segments may be used to transport the radar signals to various launching structures placed in various locations of the vehicle.
US12206151B2	Coaxial isolator A coaxial isolator includes an integrated circuit board, a first body and a second body. The integrated circuit board includes a first surface, a second surface, a signal processing circuit extending along a central axis, two first capacitors, two second capacitors, and a first iron core. The first capacitors are located on the first surface and are respectively disposed on both sides of the signal processing circuit. The second capacitors are located on the second surface and are respectively arranged corresponding to the positions of the first capacitors. The first iron core surrounds the signal processing circuit. A first tube portion of the first body surrounds the integrated circuit board, and a first end portion of the first body is used for connecting with an external device. A second end portion of the second body is used for connecting with another external device.
US12206150B2	Printed circuit board configured for waveguide coupling a diplexer mounted a first surface to a transmitter and a receiver which are directly mounted on a second surface A surface mount constructed millimeter wave transceiver device and methods of making a surface mount constructed millimeter wave transceiver device are disclosed. The transceiver device includes a printed circuit board having a first waveguide port and a second waveguide port. A diplexer is surface mounted to a first side of the printed circuit board, the diplexer comprising a low frequency waveguide port and a high frequency waveguide port each coupled to an antenna port. A transmitter and a receiver are surface mounted to a second side of the printed circuit board, located opposite the first side of the printed circuit board, wherein the transmitter and the receiver comprise a transmitter waveguide port and a receiver waveguide port, respectively, that are configured to be aligned to the first waveguide port and the second waveguide port of the printed circuit board, respectively.
US12206144B2	Polysulfide-based aqueous redox flow battery with soluble organic catalyst Provided is an aqueous redox flow battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a posolyte chamber containing a posolyte in a solvent, a negolyte chamber containing a polysulfide based negolyte and a soluble organic catalyst in a solvent, and a separator disposed between the posolyte chamber and the negolyte chamber, wherein the soluble organic catalyst has a potential lower than the polysulfide based negolyte.
US12206140B2	Fuel cell system and method for controlling the temperature of a fuel cell system The present invention relates to a fuel cell system (1a; 1b; 1c; 1d) comprising: at least one fuel cell stack (2) with an anode portion (3) and a cathode portion (4); a reformer-heat exchanger (5) with a cold side which is upstream of the anode portion (3) and forms a reformer (6) and a hot side which is downstream of the cathode portion (4) and forms a heat exchanger (7); and an afterburner (8) downstream of the heat exchanger (7) for combusting anode exhaust gas from the anode portion (3) and/or cathode exhaust gas from the cathode portion (4), the heat exchanger (7) being situated directly downstream of the cathode portion (4) and being in fluid communication with the cathode portion (4) by means of a cathode exhaust gas line (9) in order for the cathode exhaust gas to be fully conducted through the heat exchanger (7). The invention also relates to a method for controlling the temperature of a fuel cell system (1a; 1b; 1ce; 1d) according to the invention.
US12206138B2	Bus member, battery and power consumption device The present application provides a bus member, a battery and a power consumption device, and relates to the technical field of batteries. The bus member includes a first connection portion configured to be connected to a first electrode terminal of a first battery cell; a second connection portion configured to be connected to a second electrode terminal of a second battery cell; and a plurality of fusing portions, one end of each fusing portion being connected to the first connection portion, and the other end being connected to the second connection portion; where an overcurrent cross-sectional area corresponding to one of the plurality of fusing portions with a maximum is expressed as Smax, and with a minimum is expressed as Smin, Smin and Smax satisfy: 0.3≤Smin/Smax≤1 and 0.3≤Smin/Smax≤1, thus avoiding accumulation of arc energy of the fusing portions due to a long-duration short circuit.
US12206137B2	Battery and manufacturing method therefor Disclosed here is a battery including: an exterior body having a bottom wall; and a winding electrode body in which positive electrode, negative electrode and separator are wound about a winding axis. The winding electrode body has a flat shape having a pair of curvature parts having a curved outside surface and a flat part that connects the pair of curvature parts to each other and has a flat outside surface. When a line perpendicular to the winding axis of the winding electrode body and perpendicular to the bottom wall of the exterior body is assumed as L1, a portion positioned at an outermost periphery of the negative electrode in at least one of the pair of the curvature parts faces a portion positioned on a winding inner peripheral side of the negative electrode via the separator and not via the positive electrode on the line L1.
US12206136B2	Cell connector structure, rechargeable battery pack and gardening and/or forestry work system A cell connector structure is provided for a rechargeable battery pack that supplies electrical drive power to an electrically driven gardening and/or forestry work appliance. The cell connector structure has: a plurality of cell connectors, wherein the cell connectors are designed for electrically connecting rechargeable battery cells, at least one cell connector element, wherein the cell connectors and the at least one cell connector element are designed for being arranged on one another and for being secured against becoming detached from one another, a plurality of voltage tap elements, wherein the voltage tap elements have voltage tap cables, wherein the voltage tap cables are designed for being electrically connected to the cell connectors, and at least one tap element body, wherein the voltage tap elements and the at least one tap element body are designed for being arranged on another and for being secured against becoming detached from one another. The at least one cell connector element with the cell connectors and the at least one tap element body with the voltage tap elements are designed for being mechanically connected to one another.
US12206135B2	Electric power module and method for assembling it An electric power module comprises: a plurality of electric power units, each of which extends along a longitudinal direction from a first end, including a first electrode, to a second end, including a second electrode; a first panel, including a first plurality of contact elements, each of which is in contact with the first electrode of a corresponding power unit; a second panel, including a second plurality of contact elements, each of which is in contact with the second electrode of a corresponding power unit. In the module, the first panel comprises a first plurality of holes, each of which is aligned, along the longitudinal direction, with a respective contact element of the first plurality of contact elements and with a respective first electrode, and the second panel comprises a second plurality of holes, each of which is aligned, along the longitudinal direction, with a respective contact element of the second plurality of contact elements and with a respective second electrode.
US12206130B2	Composite separator and electrochemical device including the same Provided are a composite separator including a coating layer including inorganic particles and a binder formed on a porous substrate, which has improved coatability and improved thermal shrinkage, and a lithium secondary battery using the same.
US12206125B2	Battery cell, battery, electrical device and device and method for preparing battery cell Described is a battery cell, which includes a casing having a first opening; an electrode assembly received in the casing, the electrode assembly having a first tab, a second tab and a third tab, the first tab having an opposite polarity to the second tab, and the third tab having the same polarity as the first tab or the second tab; an end cap for closing the first opening; an insulating member disposed between the end cap and the electrode assembly, wherein the third tab is configured to be connected with the insulating member. It is possible to improve the heat dissipation efficiency of the battery cell by additionally providing a heat dissipation path of the electrode assembly—the third tab—the insulating member—the end cap, thereby improving the overcurrent capacity and the safety performance of the battery cell.
US12206121B2	Aluminum cover plate of battery The present application discloses an improved aluminum cover plate of a battery, including a cover plate, a metal sheet and an electrode column. The electrode column penetrates and is arranged in rivet holes of the cover plate and the metal sheet, and is riveted with the metal sheet. A first sealing ring is arranged between a cap portion and a nail portion of the electrode column and the cover plate. A second sealing ring is arranged on an outer periphery of the nail portion of the electrode column, and the second sealing ring is clamped and arranged between the cover plate and the metal sheet. The first sealing ring and the second sealing ring are arranged separately.
US12206118B1	Method of fabricating carbon quantum dots using camel hair A method of fabricating carbon quantum dots (CQDs) from camel hair using a bio-char synthetic approach. In an embodiment, the method comprises adding dried camel hair to water to provide a mixture; subjecting the mixture to a hydrothermal treatment in a hydrothermal reactor at a temperature of about 150° C. to about 250° C. for a period of time ranging from about 8 hours to about 13 hours to provide a product including camel-hair derived carbon quantum dots. The camel-hair derived carbon quantum dots can be an effective electrocatalyst in a microbial fuel cell for bioelectricity generation.
US12206117B2	Method for manufacturing core-shell catalyst using carbon monoxide The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing core-shell particles using carbon monoxide, and more particularly, to a method for manufacturing core-shell particles, the method of which a simple and fast one-pot reaction enables particle manufacturing to reduce process costs, facilitate scale-up, change various types of core and shell metals, and form a multi-layered shell by including the steps of adsorbing carbon monoxide on a transition metal for a core, and reacting carbon monoxide adsorbed on the surface of the transition metal for the core, a metal precursor for a shell, and a solvent to form particles with a core-shell structure having a reduced metal shell layer formed on a transition metal core.
US12206114B2	Electrochemical device and electronic device including same An electrochemical device including a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte. The anode includes an anode active material layer, and the contact angle of the anode active material layer relative to a non-aqueous solvent is not greater than 60° as measured by a contact angle measurement. The electrochemical device has improved cycle performance.
US12206113B2	Electrode having an interphase structure Methods are disclosed for manufacturing an electrode for use in a device such as a secondary battery. Electrodes may include a first layer having first active particles adhered together by a binder, a second layer having second active particles adhered together by a binder, and an interphase layer interposed between the first and second layers. In some examples, the interphase layer may include an interpenetration of the first and second particles, such that substantially discrete fingers of the first layer interlock with substantially discrete fingers of the second layer.
US12206112B2	Asymmetric metal complex as an active material of a flow battery The present invention teaches an asymmetrical metal complex comprising a metal center coordinated with between two and six hydrophilic ligands, wherein at least one of said hydrophilic ligands is chemically different than the other said hydrophilic ligands.
US12206108B2	Lithium silicate cathodes for lithium-ion batteries An improved nanocomposite cathode material for lithium-ion batteries and method of making the same. The nanocomposite cathode material includes lithium iron silicate based nanoparticles with a conductive matrix of graphene sheets. The nanoparticles may be doped with at least one anion or cation.
US12206107B2	Sulfur-based active material, electrode, non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and producing methods thereof Provided is a sulfur-based active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a large charge/discharge capacity and excellent cycle characteristics which is inexpensively and easily provided, an electrode comprising the sulfur-based active material, and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising the electrode, as well as a producing method thereof. The sulfur-based active material is obtainable by calcinating a raw material, the raw material comprising (1) a heat-expandable particle comprising an outer shell comprising an acryl-based copolymer and a hydrocarbon included inside the outer shell, the heat-expandable particle having an expansion starting temperature of 150° C. or lower, and (2) sulfur.
US12206100B2	Mono-grain cathode materials Compounds, particles, and cathode active materials that can be used in lithium ion batteries are described herein. Methods of making such compounds, powders, and cathode active materials are described. The particles have a particle size distribution with a D50 ranging from 10 μm to 20 μm.
US12206099B2	Silicon-based anode material for secondary battery and preparation method thereof, secondary battery A silicon-based anode material for secondary batteries, a preparation method thereof and a secondary battery are provided. The silicon-based anode material includes: an inner core including an Si particle and silicon oxide SiOx1, where 0
US12206097B2	Coatings for cathode active materials A cathode active material includes a plurality of cathode active compound particles and a coating disposed over each of the cathode active compound particles. The coating includes a lithium (Li)-ion conducting oxide containing lanthanum (La) and titanium (Ti).
US12206096B2	Anode active material for secondary battery, secondary battery including the same, and method of preparing the same An anode active material for a secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present invention includes first particles serving as a core active material and second particles attached on surfaces of the first particles. A weight of the second particles based on 100 weight parts of a total weight of the first particles and the second particles satisfies a predetermined relation. A secondary battery including the anode active material is provided.
US12206094B2	Silicon-carbon composite anode material, and preparation method and use thereof The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of battery materials, and discloses a silicon/carbon composite anode material, and a preparation method and use thereof. The preparation method includes the following steps: S1. dissolving a graphite anode powder in an acid solution, and conducting solid-liquid separation (SLS) to obtain a precipitate; and washing and drying the precipitate, adding a reducing agent, and subjecting a resulting mixture to heat treatment to obtain a purified graphite material; and S2. mixing a modified silicon powder with the graphite material, adding a resulting mixture to a polyimide (PI)-containing N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) solution, and stirring; and subjecting a resulting mixture to distillation and then to carbonization to obtain the silicon/carbon composite anode material.
US12206087B2	Chemical prealkaliation of electrodes Disclosed herein are methods of making an electrode. The method includes contacting an electrode material with a mixture that includes an alkali metal, an organic solvent, and an aromatic compound. Also disclosed herein are methods of making a battery that includes an electrode provided by the disclosed methods.
US12206086B2	Device for supplementing electrode sheet with lithium and method for supplementing electrode sheet with lithium A device for supplementing an electrode sheet with lithium and a method for supplementing electrode sheet with the lithium. The device includes two first rolling wheels, a second rolling wheel, a lithium ribbon providing mechanism, a first transfer film conveying mechanism, a second transfer film conveying mechanism and an electrode sheet providing mechanism; the two first rolling wheels are opposite each other, and the second rolling wheel is adjacent to the first rolling wheel; the lithium ribbon providing mechanism is used for feeding a lithium ribbon between the second rolling wheel and the first rolling wheel; the first transfer film conveying mechanism is used for conveying a first transfer film carrying a first release agent and transferring the first release agent to the lithium ribbon; the electrode sheet providing mechanism is used for providing the electrode sheet.
US12206085B2	Application of porosity-controlled lithium metal coating A method of manufacturing a component having a porosity-controlled lithium metal coating includes setting up an aerosol spray apparatus having a material feeder and a confinement conduit in fluid communication therewith. The confinement conduit has an inlet end and a nozzle end. The method also includes setting up a substrate having an exposed surface on a moveable tooling plate and directing the nozzle end at the exposed surface. The method additionally includes loading a lithium metal into the material feeder. The method also includes feeding a high-pressure gas into the inlet end of the confinement conduit to thereby form an aerosol spray of lithium metal. The method further includes moving the tooling plate to regulate a thickness and a pattern of deposition of the lithium metal onto the exposed surface through the nozzle end to thereby generate a porous lithium metal coating on the substrate.
US12206082B2	Battery module and manufacturing method thereof A battery module according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a battery cell stack in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked, a module frame for housing the battery cell stack, end plates for covering front and rear surfaces of the battery cell stack, and a cooling port configured to supply a refrigerant to a heat sink formed on a bottom part of the module frame, the module frame comprises a module frame protrusion part, which is extended and formed so as to pass through the end plates on the bottom part of the module frame, the cooling port is formed at an upper surface part of the module frame protrusion part, and the end plate comprises an end plate opening formed at a portion thereof corresponding to the cooling port and an insulator formed so as to cover the end plate opening.
US12206081B2	Battery module thermal management A battery module includes features to optimize cooling while providing electrical isolation and cell gas-venting channels. The battery module can include the integration of a heatsink in order to improve thermal performance. Thermally conductive pads can be provided to create an electrically isolated interface between a plurality of series-connected battery-cell lead plates, at different potentials, and the heatsink. Optimization, by stacking thin and thick thermally conductive pads, allows for creation of gas-venting channels along the positive cell terminal locations. In some arrangements, a plurality of fluid paths are disposed between the inlet and the outlet of the battery module to provide heat convective airflow through the battery module.
US12206079B2	Waste lithium-ion battery roasting apparatus A waste lithium-ion battery roasting apparatus includes: a transport mechanism including a cylindrical body, the cylindrical body containing an internal atmosphere that is a reducing atmosphere or a low-oxygen atmosphere; a heating mechanism that heats an outer wall of the cylindrical body to increase an internal temperature of the cylindrical body, and controls heating temperatures individually at which the heating mechanism heats the outer wall at different respective positions in a transporting direction in which the transport mechanism transports a waste lithium-ion battery; and a controller that controls the heating temperatures, at which the heating mechanism heats the outer wall, in accordance with a transporting speed at which the transport mechanism transports the waste lithium-ion battery, such that a temperature increase rate of the waste lithium-ion battery transported inside the cylindrical body is a predetermined temperature increase rate.
US12206069B2	Lithium phosphate derivative compounds as Li super-ionic conductor, solid electrolyte and coating layer for lithium metal battery and lithium-ion battery Electrodes for a solid-state lithium-ion battery are provided. The electrodes have an active material layer containing or coated with electrolytes of lithium phosphate derivative compounds which contain an anionic framework capable of conducting lithium ions. Materials of specific formulae are provided and methods to alter the composite materials with inclusion of aliovalent ions shown. Lithium batteries containing the electrodes are also provided.
US12206068B2	Gallium-substituted solid electrolyte material, and all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery Provided is a novel solid electrolyte material of high density and high ionic conductivity, and an all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery that utilizes the solid electrolyte material. The solid electrolyte material has a chemical composition represented by Li7-3xGaxLa3Zr2O12 (0.08≤x<0.5), has a relative density of 99% or higher, belongs to space group I-43d, in the cubic system, and has a garnet-type structure. The lithium ion conductivity of the solid electrolyte material is 2.0×10−3 S/cm or higher. The solid electrolyte material has a lattice constant a such that 1.29 nm≤a≤1.30 nm, and lithium ions occupy the 12a site, the 12b site and two types of 48e site, and gallium occupies the 12a site and the 12b site, in the crystal structure. The all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery has a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a solid electrolyte. The solid electrolyte is made up of the solid electrolyte material of the present invention.
US12206064B2	Nanoporous ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene membrane Methods are provided for producing a biaxially oriented nanoporous UHMWPE membrane. The method can include combining a petroleum jelly, an ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE), and an antioxidant, forming a suspension, feeding the suspension into an extruder to produce a gel filament, pressing the gel filament to form a gel film, subjecting the gel film to an annealing temperature, and extracting the petroleum jelly from the gel film.
US12206056B2	Semiconductor package with intermetallic-compound solder-joint comprising solder, UBM, and reducing layer materials Provided is a method of fabricating a semiconductor package. The method of fabricating the semiconductor package include preparing a lower element including a lower substrate, a lower electrode, an UBM layer, and a reducing agent layer, providing an upper element including an upper substrate, an upper electrode, and a solder bump layer, providing a pressing member on the upper substrate to press the upper substrate to the lower substrate, and providing a laser beam passing through the pressing member to bond the upper element to the lower element.
US12206053B2	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.
US12206050B2	Semiconductor optical device having distributed feed-back type laser and electroabsorption-type modulator A semiconductor optical device, in which a light emitting region and a modulator region are integrated, includes a first mesa disposed in the light emitting region, protruding in a direction that intersects a light propagation direction, and including an active layer, first and second buried layers disposed on the first mesa in a direction that intersects the light propagation direction and sequentially stacked in a direction in which the first mesa protrudes, a first semiconductor layer disposed on the first mesa and the second buried layer, a second mesa disposed in the modulator region and including a light absorption layer, and a third buried layer disposed on the second mesa. The first semiconductor layer and the first buried layer each have a first conductivity type. The second buried layer has a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, and the third buried layer is a semi-insulating semiconductor layer.
US12206049B2	Inorganic light-emitting diode substrate and manufacturing method thereof, and inorganic light-emitting diode display device An inorganic light-emitting diode substrate includes: a base, a plurality of epitaxial layer structures disposed on the base, a passivation layer, and a plurality of second electrodes disposed on a side of the passivation layer away from the base. The base includes a base substrate and a plurality of first electrodes disposed on the base substrate. The plurality of epitaxial layer structures are spaced apart, and each first electrode is coupled to one epitaxial layer structure. The passivation layer is made of photoresist. The passivation layer covers surfaces, away from the base, of the plurality of epitaxial layer structures, and fills gaps between the plurality of epitaxial layer structures. The passivation layer has a plurality of via holes, and each second electrode is coupled to one epitaxial layer structure through at least one via hole.
US12206047B2	Light-emitting diode chip and ultraviolet light-emitting device including the same A light-emitting diode (LED) chip includes a substrate and an epitaxial structure. The epitaxial structure includes a first semiconductor layer, an active layer and a second semiconductor layer that are sequentially disposed on the substrate in such order. The second semiconductor layer has a light-emitting surface that is opposite to the active layer and that is formed with a microstructure. The microstructure includes a plurality of first protrusions that are separately disposed on the light-emitting surface, and a plurality of second protrusions that are disposed on the first protrusions and on the light-emitting surface between any two adjacent ones of the first protrusions.
US12206046B2	Ultrathin solid state dies and methods of manufacturing the same Various embodiments of SST dies and solid state lighting (“SSL”) devices with SST dies, assemblies, and methods of manufacturing are described herein. In one embodiment, a SST die includes a substrate material, a first semiconductor material and a second semiconductor material on the substrate material, an active region between the first semiconductor material and the second semiconductor material, and a support structure defined by the substrate material. In some embodiments, the support structure has an opening that is vertically aligned with the active region.
US12206045B2	Light emitting device and manufacturing method thereof Provided is a light emitting device including a buffer layer, a body provided on the buffer layer, the body including a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer, a reflective layer configured to reflect light incident from the active layer, and a scattering pattern provided between the first semiconductor layer and the buffer layer, the scattering pattern being configured to scatter the light incident from the active layer and light incident from the reflective layer.
US12206044B2	Semiconductor component with a stress compensation layer and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor component A semiconductor device may include a conductive layer over a semiconductor body and a first stress compensation layer adjacent to the conductive layer. The stress compensation layer may include a defined first stress.
US12206042B2	Micro-LED structure and micro-LED chip including same A micro-LED chip includes multiple micro-LEDs. At least one micro-LED of the multiple micro-LEDs includes: a first type conductive layer; a second type conductive layer stacked on the first type conductive layer; and a light emitting layer formed between the first type conductive layer and the second type conductive layer. The light emitting layer is continuously formed on the whole micro-LED chip, the multiple micro-LEDs sharing the light emitting layer. The micro-LED chip further includes: a top spacer formed on a top surface of the light emitting layer; a bottom spacer formed on a bottom surface of the light emitting layer; and an isolation structure formed between adjacent micro-LEDs.
US12206041B2	Method for monolithic integration preparation of full-color nitride semiconductor micro light-emitting diode array Disclosed is a method for monolithic integration preparation of a full-color nitride semiconductor micro light-emitting diode (micro-LED) array. The method includes preparing a composite conductive substrate; overlaying an insulating template onto the composite conductive substrate to prepare a template substrate; overlaying monocrystalline graphene onto the template substrate in a completely aligned manner to obtain a customized template graphene substrate including graphene array units, wherein one blue-region graphene array element, one green-region graphene array element, and two red-region graphene array elements in each graphene array unit have surface properties different from each other; then performing an in-situ process to epitaxially grow a vertical-structure all-nitride material, to obtain a full-color micro-LED array epitaxial wafer by one-step in-situ process; finally, performing packaging and preparing a transparent electrode, to obtain a vertical-structure full-color nitride micro-LED array with top light emission.
US12206040B2	Method for homogenising the cross-section of nanowires for light-emitting diodes A method of manufacturing an optoelectronic device including-light-emitting diodes comprising the forming of three-dimensional semiconductor elements made of a III-V compound, each comprising a lower portion and an upper portion and, 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 area of the III-V compound covering the active area. The upper portions are formed by vapor deposition at a pressure lower than 1.33 mPa.
US12206037B2	Photovoltaic device with transparent tunnel junction A photovoltaic device includes a substrate, a semiconductor stack and a transparent tunnel junction. The semiconductor stack includes an n-type layer selected from a first transparent conductive oxide layer, or a window layer, or both; and a p-type absorber layer disposed on the n-type layer, wherein the absorber layer consists essentially of CdSexTe(1-x), wherein x is from 1 to about 40 at. %. The transparent tunnel junction comprises a transparent interface layer of CdyZn(1-y)Te doped to be p+type, and a transparent contact layer doped to be n+type, and the interface layer is disposed between the p-type absorber layer and the transparent contact layer. In bifacial embodiments, the tunnel junction forms a transparent back contact and electrode; and in multi-junction embodiments, the tunnel junction forms a diode-like connector between top and bottom cells. The transparent contact layer may comprise tin oxide or zinc oxide doped with aluminum, fluorine or indium. The photovoltaic device may also include an electron reflector layer and/or an optical reflector layer.
US12206036B2	Power conversion module for use with optical energy transfer and conversion system A power conversion system for converting optical energy received from a fiber optic line to electrical energy, the system comprises a housing, a heat sink within the housing, a high power connector coupled to the line and having an end positioned within the housing, beam forming optics within the interior space positioned proximal to the connector, and a partially spherical end array and annular arrays of photovoltaic chips.
US12206035B2	Solar battery module, method for manufacturing same, and construction-use exterior wall material using same To provide a solar cell module excellent in design property and weather resistance, a method for producing it, and a building exterior wall material using it.The solar cell module of the present invention comprises, from the light-receiving surface side of the solar cell module, a cover glass, a first encapsulant layer, a design layer, a second encapsulant layer and solar cells in this order, the first encapsulant layer contains an ultraviolet absorber, the first encapsulant layer has a thickness of from 50 to 2,000 μm, and the design layer contains a fluororesin.
US12206034B2	Solar cell module A solar cell module comprises: two base plates each including a conductive layer on at least one side; and a plurality of submodules interposed between respective conductive layers of the two base plates. The plurality of submodules each include a plurality of cells connected to each other as a result of a conductive material electrically connecting the respective conductive layers of the two base plates. The two base plates each have a plurality of insulating grooves in a gap between the plurality of submodules. The plurality of insulating grooves of one of the two base plates and the plurality of insulating grooves of an other one of the two base plates define at least one insulating space that prevents short circuiting between adjacent submodules.
US12206033B2	Methods and apparatuses for improved barrier and contact layers in infrared detectors An infrared detector and a method for forming it are provided. The detector includes absorber, barrier, and contact regions. The absorber region includes a first semiconductor material, with a first lattice constant, that produces charge carriers in response to infrared light. The barrier region is disposed on the absorber region and comprises a superlatice that includes (i) first barrier region layers comprising the first semiconductor material, and (ii) second barrier region layers comprising a second semiconductor material, different from, but lattice matched to, the first semiconductor material. The first and second barrier region layers are alternatingly arranged. The contact region is disposed on the barrier region and comprises a superlattice that includes (i) first contact region layers comprising the first semiconductor material, and (ii) second contact region layers comprising the second semiconductor material layer. The first and second contact region layers are alternatingly arranged.

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