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| US12201454B2 |
System and method for detecting medical device delivery tool position
A medical system is configured to deliver an implantable medical device to a targeted implant site. The system may include a processor configured to receive a cardiac electrical signal and determine a feature of the cardiac electrical signal. The processor may be configured to determine a position of the delivery tool based on at least one feature of the cardiac electrical signal. The processor may detect a deployment position of the delivery tool in response to the cardiac electrical signal feature meeting criteria for detecting the deployment position. |
| US12201451B2 |
Optical shunt reduction using optically absorptive materials in a medical sensor
A patient monitoring sensor having a communication interface, through which the patient monitoring sensor can communicate with a monitor is provided. The patient monitoring sensor includes a light-emitting diode (LED) communicatively coupled to the communication interface and a detector, communicatively coupled to the communication interface, capable of detecting light. The patient monitoring sensor includes an optically absorptive material at least partially between the LED and the detector to reduce or prevent shunting of light to the detector. |
| US12201449B2 |
Garment system providing biometric monitoring
A garment (e.g., a shirt) for monitoring biometric properties of the wearer of the garment is disclosed. The garment may include sensors for monitoring or assessing biometric properties such as, but not limited to, respiration properties, heart properties, and motion properties. These properties may be assessed together to provide an assessment of vital signs and body position (e.g., three-dimensional body position) of the wearer of the garment. |
| US12201446B2 |
Stress coping style determination system, stress coping style determination method, learning device, learning method, program, and learned model
Provided is a system capable of determining a stress coping style of a test subject in a non-contact state. The system includes a biological information acquiring part which acquires biological information of a test subject in a non-contact state, and a determining part which determines a stress coping style of the test subject based on the biological information and a response pattern specified in advance. The response pattern is specified by a hemodynamic parameter. |
| US12201439B2 |
Skin analysis device
A device for photographing a human face comprising: a) a light-excluding housing configured to receive a human face at an aperture in said housing; and b) a stand on which the light-excluding housing is mounted at one or more (preferably two rotatable pivot points, such that rotation about said pivot points results in movement of the aperture upwards and/or downwards. |
| US12201437B2 |
Contingent cardio-protection for epilepsy patients
Disclosed are methods and systems for treating epilepsy by stimulating a main trunk of a vagus nerve, or a left vagus nerve, when the patient has had no seizure or a seizure that is not characterized by cardiac changes such as an increase in heart rate, and stimulating a cardiac branch of a vagus nerve, or a right vagus nerve, when the patient has had a seizure characterized by cardiac changes such as a heart rate increase. |
| US12201436B2 |
Wireless nerve integrity monitoring systems and devices
A nerve integrity monitoring device includes a control module and a physical layer module. The control module is configured to generate a payload request. The payload request (i) requests a data payload from a sensor in a wireless nerve integrity monitoring network, and (ii) indicates whether a stimulation probe device is to generate a stimulation pulse. The physical layer module is configured to (i) wirelessly transmit the payload request to the sensor and the stimulation probe device, or (ii) transmit the payload request to a console interface module. The physical layer module is also configured to, in response to the payload request, (i) receive the data payload from the sensor, and (ii) receive stimulation pulse information from the stimulation probe device. The data payload includes data corresponding to an evoked response of a patient. The evoked response is generated based on the stimulation pulse. |
| US12201435B2 |
Vision-based patient stimulus monitoring and response system and method utilizing visual images
Vision-based stimulus monitoring and response systems and methods are presented, wherein detection, via image(s) of a patient through an external stimulus, such as a caregiver, prompts analysis of the response of the patient, via secondary patient sensors or via analysis of patient image(s), to determine an autonomic nervous system (ANS) state. |
| US12201429B2 |
Conductive film, biomedical electrode, and biomedical sensor
A conductive film includes a cured material having a composition containing a conductive polymer and a binding resin, wherein a water content of the cured material after water absorption is 70% or less. |
| US12201428B2 |
Biomedical electrode pad, biological signal processing device, and combination thereof
A biomedical electrode including: an attachment sheet being elastically stretchable and contractible with an electrically insulating property on a back surface side, an adhesive surface suitable for attachment to the skin; a plurality of electrodes located apart from one another on the back surface side of the attachment sheet and exposed on the back surface side; a plurality of connecting parts located at a central part on the back surface side of the attachment sheet and covered with electrical insulation while being exposed toward a front surface side through openings of the attachment sheet; and electrode connecting wires located on the back surface side of the attachment sheet and covered with electrical insulation that electrically connect respective ones of the plurality of electrodes with corresponding ones of the plurality of connecting parts, wherein at least one of the electrode connecting wires extends in a stretchable, contractible, and bendable manner. |
| US12201426B2 |
Electronic device and method for providing personalized biometric information based on biometric signal using same
An electronic device for providing biometric information is provided. The electronic device includes a sensor module, a memory, and a processor electrically connected to the sensor module and the memory. The processor obtains a biometric signal from the sensor module at a predetermined time interval, determines whether a user is in a first state on the basis of the obtained biometric signal, in case the user is in a first state, obtains a representative value for a respective of the at least one biometric signal, defines the obtained representative value for the respective of the at least one biometric signal as a candidate reference value for a corresponding biometric signal, determines a candidate reference value satisfying a predetermined condition as a first reference value for the corresponding biometric signal, and updates a second reference value previously configured for the corresponding biometric signal on the basis of the first reference value. |
| US12201425B1 |
Stress biomarker and health indicator system
A point-of-use analysis with biosensors for peripheral body fluids (e.g., saliva, urine and sweat) and interstitial fluid provides measurements that gain insights to the stress response and inflammation. These measurements may be used in a closed-loop approach in which they are analyzed, and a subject's progress is measured and therapy controlled according to that progress. The point-of-use biosensors provide an opportunity to better understand the effects of stress in real-time and during normal life activities. The digital point-of-use biosensor device enable personalized medicine for many disease conditions. |
| US12201422B2 |
Methods of manufacture to optimize performance of transdermal sampling and analysis device
Methods and systems for manufacturing a transdermal sampling and analysis device for non-invasively and transdermally obtaining biological samples from a subject and determining levels of analytes of the obtained biological samples are provided. A method of manufacturing the device may improve performance and includes forming channel structures on the lid of the device, thereby making the spacer/channel support structures physically independent and separable from the sensing electrode. Other methods of manufacturing the device may improve performance and include forming at least one of the electrodes on each of the base and the lid, and forming a recessed second spacer layer over the channel support structures, thereby separating the channel support structures and the electrode on the lid to allow a larger area of the electrode to be exposed to the biological sample. |
| US12201420B2 |
Total hemoglobin screening sensor
A total hemoglobin index system derives total hemoglobin (tHb) index value utilizing a depopulated emitter with an index set of LEDs. A patient fails a tHb index test if tHb measurements are trending down and/or tHb values fall below a predefined index threshold. If a patient fails the tHb index test, a high resolution sensor derives a specific tHb measurement utilizing a high resolution set of LEDs. The number of high resolution set LEDs is greater than the number of index set LEDs. |
| US12201419B2 |
Infrared spectroscopic devices and methods of use for transdermal patient assessment
One or more aspects of the technical solutions described herein facilitate using transdermal infrared optics to discover infraspectral markers. The infraspectral markers can predict presence/absence of one or more physiological state in a subject. One or more aspects of the technical solutions described herein further facilitate continuous monitoring and prediction of trends of a physiological state of a subject using non-invasive transdermal infrared optics. Further, one or more aspects of the technical solutions described herein facilitate personalized triage of and alerts for a subject based on continuous monitoring of non-invasive transdermal optical infraspectral markers. |
| US12201414B2 |
Pressure sensing implant
Disclosed is an implant and method of making an implant. The implant having a housing that defines a cavity. The housing includes a sensor comprising a base attached to a diaphragm wherein said base may be positioned within said cavity. The sensor may be a capacitive pressure sensor. The diaphragm may be connected to the housing to hermetically seal said housing. The sensor may include electrical contacts positioned on the diaphragm. The base may define a capacitive gap and a vent wherein the electrodes may be positioned within said capacitive gap such that at least a portion of the electrical contacts extend through the vent. The implant may include a coil in electric communication with the sensor, said coil may be positioned within said housing. A printed circuit board having at least one component may be attached to the floating base. |
| US12201412B2 |
System and method for reconstruction using a high-resolution phase in magnetic resonance images
A method for producing an image of a subject with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) comprises acquiring a first set of partial k-space data from the subject and generating a phase corrected image based on a phase correction factor and the first set of the partial k-space data. The method further includes transforming the phase corrected image into a second set of partial k-space data and reconstructing the image of the subject from the second set of the partial k-space data and a weighting function. |
| US12201396B2 |
Optical speckle receiver
An optical speckle receiver for receiving a speckle signal from a sample, the optical speckle receiver comprising an optical detector and an aperture and/or lens array. The aperture and array respectively comprise a plurality of apertures or lenses and is located between the sample and the optical detector such that the received speckle pattern is obtained from multiple discrete sample locations. |
| US12201393B2 |
Glove dispensing systems and methods thereof
A disposable glove apparatus. A cartridge of disposable gloves can be configured and mounted for presentation to a user. A user's hands in proximity to an open portion of a glove causes a gas flow to inflate a pair of gloves. A user can insert hands into the open gloves and remove them, thereby donning gloves in an easy and sanitary manner. |
| US12201392B2 |
Devices, systems, and methods for surgical instrument reprocessing
A method of reprocessing a surgical instrument includes flowing a flow of irrigation fluid through an accessory drive device operably coupled to the surgical instrument, the accessory drive device comprising inflatable bladders, and the flow of irrigation fluid causing inflation of the bladders. The method further includes converting inflation of the bladders to motion of an input drive member of the surgical instrument; converting the motion of the input drive member to motion of an actuation element of the surgical instrument; converting the motion of the actuation element to motion of a distal component of the surgical instrument; and irrigating the surgical instrument with the flow of irrigation fluid. |
| US12201389B2 |
Systems and methods for network based electrosurgical device activation
A method for remote control of an electrosurgical device over a network is provided. The method including transmitting an activation request from a remote device to an electrosurgical device over a network, activating the electrosurgical device to output electrosurgical energy in response to receiving the activation request, starting a timer in response to receiving the activation request, and deactivating the electrosurgical device in response to at least one of the timer exceeding a predetermined time value or receiving a deactivation request from the remote device. |
| US12201388B2 |
Indicator for tool state and communication in multi-arm robotic telesurgery
Medical and/or robotic devices, systems and methods can provide an indicator associated with each manipulator assembly of a multi-arm telerobotic or telesurgical system. The exemplary indicator comprises a multi-color light emitting diode (LED) mounted to a manipulator moving an associated surgical instrument, allowing the indicator to display any of a wide variety of signals. The invention may provide an additional user interface to facilitate communications between the telesurgical system and/or members of a telesurgical team. |
| US12201387B2 |
Systems and methods for trocar kinematics
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for discretizing a movement or a motion of one or more robotic arms. The system may comprise a robotic arm, an end effector coupled to a distal portion of the robotic arm, and a trocar through which the end effector may be inserted. The trocar may comprise a trocar reference point. The system may further comprise a processor configured to (i) determine a starting position and a destination position of a distal end of the end effector, (ii) determine a path between the starting position and the destination position, (iii) determine a plurality of points along the path, and (iv) determine a set of motions to move the distal end of the end effector from the starting position to the destination position, based at least in part on the trocar reference point. |
| US12201382B2 |
System, method and apparatus for magnetic tracking of ultrasound probe and generation of 3D visualization thereof
A magnetic-based tracking system for tracking an ultrasound probe to create a three-dimensional visualization. The system can include a reference device including a reference magnet and an ultrasound probe including an ultrasound acoustic transducer or acoustic array that acquires ultrasound images and a magnetometer that detects a magnetic field generated by the reference magnet. The ultrasound probe couples a first ultrasound image with a first magnetic field strength, wherein both of the first ultrasound image is received and the first magnetic field strength is detected at a first time. The system can include a console including a processor and non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of processor executed logic modules that perform operations including receiving and recording a plurality of coupling of ultrasound images and detected magnetic field strengths, and generating a 3D visualization from the ultrasound images. |
| US12201381B2 |
Systems and methods for spinal surgical procedures
A method comprising capturing a pose of a surgical tool at a surgical site of a patient. The method includes determining a range of movement of the surgical tool at the surgical site, in response to the captured pose. The method includes displaying a representation of the determined range of movement onto an image associated with the surgical site. The method includes providing one or more instructions to limit a movement of a robotic device according to the determined range of movement. |
| US12201380B2 |
System and method for computer-aided surgical navigation implementing 3D scans
A surgical navigation system for providing computer-aided surgery. The surgical navigation system includes a handheld surgical tool with computer-aided navigation, a graphical user interface module, and optionally an imaging device. The handheld surgical tool includes a handle that may comprise at least one sensor for detecting orientation of the. A computing device and at least one display device are associated with the handheld surgical tool and configured to display a target trajectory of the handheld surgical tool for the surgical procedure. |
| US12201373B2 |
Determining a configuration of a medical robotic arm
A computer implemented method for determining a configuration of a medical robotic arm, wherein the configuration comprises a pose of the robotic arm and a position of a base of the robotic arm, comprising the steps of: acquiring treatment information data representing information about the treatment to be performed by use of the robotic arm; acquiring patient position data representing the position of a patient to be treated; and calculating the configuration from the treatment information data and the patient position data. |
| US12201369B2 |
Interactive extended-reality apparatuses for robotic surgery
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for performing robotic surgery in an extended-reality (XR) surgical simulation environment are disclosed. The disclosed systems provide a surgical metaverse in which a surgical robot network receives medical images of a patient. A digital twin is generated from the medical images that enables generation of a virtual surgical simulation environment for performing a surgical procedure. Necessary workflow objects for the procedure are selected and surgical actions are performed on the digital twin. Data of the workflow objects and actions in relation to the digital twin are stored. The surgical robot network generates a surgical workflow based on the workflow objects and actions and compares the surgical workflow to historical workflows to allow adjustment of the workflow in the surgical simulation virtual environment. The workflow, workflow objects, and actions in relation to the digital twin are sent to the surgical robot. |
| US12201366B2 |
Systems and methods for optimizing parameters of orthopaedic procedures
Systems and methods for optimizing parameters of an orthopaedic procedure for a particular patient, including parameters relating to the anatomic and biomechanic fit of an implant or implant system implanted into the patient's joint. These systems and methods may utilize patient-specific information gathered pre-operatively in conjunction with optimization algorithms to determine an optimal implant design and an optimal position and orientation for implantation of the implant into the particular patient's joint. |
| US12201365B2 |
Alignment improvements for ophthalmic diagnostic systems
The present application describes the addition of various feedback mechanisms including visual and audio feedback mechanisms to an ophthalmic diagnostic device to assist a subject to self-align to the device. The device may use the visual and non-visual feedback mechanisms independently or in combination with one another. The device may provide a means for a subject to provide feedback to the device to confirm that an alignment condition has been met. Alternatively, the device may have a means for sensing when acceptable alignment has been achieved. The device may capture diagnostic information during the alignment process or may capture after the alignment condition has been met. |
| US12201363B1 |
System for testing and/or training the vision of a user
A system for testing and/or training the vision of a user is disclosed herein. The system includes at least one camera, a visual display device having an output screen, and a data processing device operatively coupled to the at least one camera and the visual display device. In one embodiment, the data processing device is programmed to determine a head position, head velocity, and/or head speed of a user during a vision test or vision training routine from a plurality of images of the head of the user captured by the at least one camera. In another embodiment, the data processing device is programmed to determine, based upon an input signal received from a user input device, a contrast display setting for a screen background relative to at least one visual target, the contrast display setting enabling the user to gradually adapt to increasing levels of visual stimulation. |
| US12201361B2 |
Methods and kits for assessing central nervous system integrity
A system includes an eye tracker having a camera, the eye tracker being configured and arranged to track an eye movement of a subject, and a processor in communication with the eye tracker, the processor being configured and arranged to create a dataset of the eye movement, generate a plot of the dataset, the plot reflecting a timecourse of eye position versus time, and identify one or more streaking vertical lines in the plot to indicate a deficit in cranial nerve II function. |
| US12201360B2 |
Home OCT with automatic focus adjustment
An optical coherence tomography (OCT) system for imaging a retina applies a user specific focus correction to focus a sample arm light beam on the user's retina. An OCT image detector generates an OCT signal. A control unit monitors the OCT signal, controls a reference arm optical path length adjustment mechanism to identify a length of the reference arm optical path for which the OCT signal corresponds to an OCT image of the retina, and varies an operational parameter of the sample arm light beam focus mechanism over a range, while maintaining the length of the reference arm optical path for which the OCT signal corresponds to the OCT image of the retina, to identify a focus correction for the user, based on the OCT signal, for application to the sample arm light beam. |
| US12201359B2 |
OCT apparatus
An OCT apparatus has a wavelength sweep light source changing a sweep frequency between a first sweep frequency and a second sweep frequency, an OCT optical system, an image processor, an FPN generation optical system generating a first FPN and a second FPN generated at a position separated from a zero delay position with respect to the first FPN, a detector, and a controller. The controller acquires first correction information based on the first FPN detected in a case of the first sweep frequency, and second correction information based on the second FPN detected in a case of the second sweep frequency. The controller applies the first correction information to an arithmetic process on a spectral interference signal obtained in the case of the first sweep frequency, and the second correction information to the arithmetic process on the spectral interference signal obtained in the case of the second sweep frequency. |
| US12201358B2 |
OCT device
An OCT device that selectively captures OCT data of a fundus of a subject eye and OCT data of an anterior segment of the subject eye. The OCT device includes a spectroscopic optical system that spectroscopically detects interference light between reference light and reflection light of measurement light irradiated on the subject eye. The spectroscopic optical system includes a collimating system that collimates the interference light, a spectrally dispersive element that spectrally disperses the collimated interference light for each spectral wavelength, an image formation system that forms an image of the interference light for each spectral wavelength on an imaging surface, and a light receiving element disposed on the imaging surface. An object-side focal length of the collimating system is shorter than an image-side focal length of the image formation system. |
| US12201352B2 |
System and method for assessing effective delivery of ablation therapy
A system and method for assessing effective delivery of ablation therapy to a tissue in a body is provided. A three-dimensional anatomical map of the tissue is generated and displayed with the map defining a corresponding volume. An index is generated corresponding to a location within the volume with the index indicative of a state of ablation therapy at the location. The index may be derived from one or more factors such as the duration an ablation electrode is present at the location, the amount of energy provided, the degree of electrical coupling between an ablation electrode and the tissue at the location and temperature. A visual characteristic (e.g., color intensity) of a portion of the anatomical map corresponding to the location is then altered responsive to the index. |
| US12201351B2 |
RF ablation catheter for septal reduction therapy having cooling effect
The present disclosure relates to a RF ablation catheter for septal reduction therapy having a cooling effect, and more particularly, to a RF ablation catheter for septal reduction therapy that is for performing RF ablation, in which RF energy is applied to an interventricular septum, for septal reduction therapy such as therapy for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which is a disease in which an interventricular septum of the left ventricle of the heart of the animal or human body thickens, therapy that requires reduction of an interventricular septum, or therapy for ventricular tachycardia. Also, the present disclosure relates to a RF ablation catheter for septal reduction therapy having a cooling effect that is for preventing carbonization of a tissue of the body (interventricular septum) around an electrode.An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a RF catheter for septal reduction therapy, the RF catheter including: an intra-septal part in which a tapered tip which becomes thinner toward an end thereof is formed at an end of a distal part and one or more electrodes are formed at positions on an outer circumferential surface that are adjacent to the tip; and a body part which is made of a soft material and has a guidewire lumen which passes through the intra-septal part from an inlet formed at the center of the end of the tip and has an outlet formed in a side surface, a coolant inlet lumen which is connected from a proximal part to an inner portion of the intra-septal part to allow a coolant to be injected from the outside and which has an open end, and a coolant outlet lumen which communicates with the coolant inlet lumen and has an exit formed in a side surface, wherein the guidewire lumen and the coolant inlet lumen do not communicate with each other and are partitioned from each other. |
| US12201343B2 |
Adaptive blend of electrosurgical cutting and coagulation
An electrosurgical system can include a surgical device configured to adjust energy delivery in accordance with a specified cutting-to-coagulation relationship. The specified cutting-to-coagulation relationship can be determined based at least in part on an impedance or other parameter associated with tissue or an environment at or near the one or more electrodes. The specified cutting-to-coagulation relationship can be determined automatically (e.g., without requiring user input) and adaptively based on the sensing, such as in real-time as the therapy progresses. |
| US12201340B2 |
Spray nozzle design for a catheter
A catheter-based medical device including controlled refrigerant dispersion is disclosed. The device includes a fluid injection tube that carries refrigerant from a coolant supply to the distal portion of the device. A fluid dispersion unit is disposed on the distal end of the fluid tube to control the angle of distribution for refrigerant that is expelled from the fluid injection tube. Controlling the angle of distribution for the refrigerant facilitates dispersion of the fluid in a predetermined spray pattern. The disclosure further relates to cryoablation treatment systems incorporating such a catheter, and to cryoablation treatment methods for tissue treatment to address various conditions suitably treatable with cryoablation. |
| US12201337B2 |
Expandable laminoplasty device
An expandable laminoplasty device has a superior plate, an inferior plate, threaded or racked gear post having external threads or gear teeth, the post affixed to one of the superior plate or the inferior plate, and a gear nut or pinion gear, the gear has internal threads or external gear teeth configured to engage external threads or gear teeth of the post. The gear is held in one of the superior plate or inferior plate not affixed to the post and wherein the superior plate or inferior plate not affixed to the post has an end with a slot or channel to receive the post and a side opening to receive and hold the gear. |
| US12201336B2 |
Stimulating targeting needle
A surgical system may include a conductive stylet with a distal end advanceable into bone material and a proximal end coupled to a stylet hub. A handle is non-removably attached to the stylet hub, and removably attachable to an insulative cannula hub. The cannula hub is non-removably attached to a conductive cannula that surrounds the stylet when the handle is attached to the proximal end of the insulative cannula hub. An outer insulative sheath is slideably engaged to insulative cannula hub, and has a radio-opaque distal tip. An electrical signal source may be applied to the stylet hub to conduct a pedicle integrity assessment. The handle and stylet may be removed from the cannula assembly, leaving the cannula assembly in place at the surgical site. |
| US12201334B2 |
Femur plate
A femur plate is provided, the femur plate comprising a first end portion anatomically pre-formed to conform to a trochanter region of the femur and a second end portion anatomically pre-formed to conform to a condyle region of the femur, wherein the second end portion comprises at least one first opening configured to receive a bone fastener. The femur plate further comprises an elongate shaft extending from the first end portion to the second end portion, the elongate shaft comprising at least one second opening configured to receive a bone fastener. Furthermore, a periprosthetic implant system comprising the femur plate and a method of implanting the femur plate are provided. |
| US12201330B2 |
Bone stabilizing implants and methods of placement across si joints
Threaded sacro-iliac joint stabilization (e.g., fusion, fixation) implants and methods of implantation and manufacture. Some implants include a threaded distal region, an optionally threaded central region, and an optionally threaded proximal region. The distal, central, and proximal regions have lengths such that when the implant is laterally implanted across a SI joint, the distal region can be positioned in a sacrum, the central region can be positioned across an SI-joint, and the proximal region can be positioned in an ilium. |
| US12201327B2 |
Bottom loading bone anchor assemblies with drag retaining ring and related methods
Bottom-loading bone anchor assemblies and components thereof are disclosed that have a reduced profile and can be utilized with bone screws of various size. Bone anchor assemblies of the present disclosure can include a receiver member, a drag retaining ring, and a shank. The retaining ring and shank can be inserted proximally into a bore of the receiver member. The drag ring can have a base and a walled portion extending proximally therefrom. The drag retaining ring can be disposed in a groove of the receiver member with the base forming a seat for the shank head that can hold the shank within the receiver. The walled portion of the drag retaining ring can impart a drag force on the shank head seated in the base to prevent unintended movement between the shank and the receiver member. |
| US12201325B2 |
Gear mechanisms for fixation frame struts
An adjustable length strut includes two joints, a threaded rod extending between the joints, and a tube adapted to receive the threaded rod. An actuation mechanism with gear teeth extending radially outward of the strut axis is rotatably fixed to the threaded rod. A protrusion may be coupled to an end of the threaded rod by a rotatable collar, with the protrusion extending through a slot in the tube to mark the length of the strut. A modular attachment member may be adapted to be couple to the first joint and include a worm gear adapted to engage gear teeth of the actuation mechanism. The modular attachment member may include a radiofrequency identity tag mechanism adapted to be read by a tag reader of a tool, the tool adapted to couple to the attachment member to rotate the worm gear to increase or decrease the effective length of the strut. |
| US12201322B2 |
Apparatus for treating a portion of a reproductive system and related methods of use
A medical device for performing a surgical procedure may include an elongate member having a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen extending therebetween. The medical device may also include a handle connected to the proximal end of the elongate member, an end effector assembly connected to the distal end of the elongate member, and a cutting device configured to extend from the end effector assembly, wherein the cutting device has a retracted configuration in which the cutting device is withdrawn into the end effector assembly and a deployed configuration in which the cutting device extends from the end effector assembly. |
| US12201319B2 |
Needle guidance system
A guidance system for guiding an intervention device such as a needle to a target location such as a vessel while remaining within a field of view of an imaging device such as an ultrasound. The guidance system may include an attachment mechanism for removable attachment to a specific ultrasound probe or which is adaptable to multiple different probes. A guidance mechanism may extend outwardly from the attachment mechanism for guiding the angle and depth of the intervention device. The guidance mechanism may include a plurality of openings through which the intervention device may be selectively inserted, with each opening being configured for a different angle and/or depth. Alternatively, the guidance mechanism may include a single opening that is adjustable along an arcuate path. A release mechanism may be included to allow the intervention device to be safely removed from the guidance mechanism without undue movement of the intervention device. |
| US12201316B2 |
Micro needle holder capable of cutting sutures
A micro needle holder capable of cutting sutures, configured for holding needles and cutting sutures during microsurgeries, includes a needle holding unit and a suture cutting unit. The needle holding unit includes a pair of first plier bodies and a first shaft, where each of the first plier bodies has a needle holding end, a first shaft connecting part, and a first plier arm. The suture cutting unit includes a pair of second plier bodies and a second shaft, where each of the second plier bodies includes a suture cutting end, a second shaft connecting part, and a second plier arm. Moreover, the first plier arms are respectively connected with the second plier arms and are configured to elastically open and close corporately. |
| US12201314B2 |
Drug delivery via mechanical vibration balloon
A drug-delivery device for vessels comprising a catheter body, an elongate ultrasound transmission member, an inflatable balloon, and a plurality of support wires. The catheter body has at least one lumen extending longitudinally therethrough. The elongate ultrasound transmission member extends longitudinally through the lumen. The elongate ultrasound transmission member has a distal portion and a proximal end configured to be coupled to an ultrasound transducer. The inflatable balloon, having an exterior surface, is coupled to the distal portion. The plurality of support wires are connected to the elongate ultrasound transmission member at two locations. A coating of at least one drug is on the exterior surface of the inflatable balloon. The elongate ultrasound transmission member is configured to transmit longitudinal vibrations to the inflatable balloon such that the inflatable balloon is longitudinally vibrated. The coating is removed by mechanical vibration of the inflatable balloon. |
| US12201311B2 |
Apparatus and methods for controlled clot aspiration
A dynamic aspiration method including engaging a distal end of an aspiration catheter against an occlusion in a blood vessel, applying a vacuum through an aspiration lumen of the aspiration catheter using a vacuum source coupled to a proximal end of the aspiration lumen by a connecting tube, whereby portions of the occlusion are drawn into the aspiration lumen, through the connecting tube and into a collection receptacle by the vacuum source, sensing flow through the connecting tube, and automatically generating pressure differentials when a clog or restricted flow is detected. |
| US12201308B2 |
Cartilage removal tool and method
An instrument for use in cartilage removal comprises an elongate body having a first end and a longitudinal axis having a longitudinal direction. A cartilage removal portion is coupled to the elongate body at the first end. The cartilage removal portion includes a plurality of serrated blades substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and adapted for removing material while moving in the longitudinal direction. Each serrated blade has a centroid located along the longitudinal axis. |
| US12201307B2 |
Assemblies, systems, and methods for a neuromonitoring drill bit
Assemblies, systems, and methods are directed at a neuromonitoring bone drill bit. The assembly may include a surgical bone drill bit, a neuromonitoring connection in electrical communication with the drill bit, and a shield extending over a distal end of the drill bit. The shield may be configured to withdraw proximally as the drill bit is advanced into a subject's bone. The assembly may be connected to a surgical drill and used in a surgical spinal procedure. In operation, the assembly may be advanced to a subject's bone at a surgical site and the drill bit may rotate into the subject's bone. In response, the shield may engage the bone and the drill bit may be advanced with respect to the shield. The shield may electrically insulate tissue from electrical current passing through the drill bit as it is inserted at the surgical site. |
| US12201304B2 |
Method for closed loop control of motor velocity of a surgical stapling and cutting instrument
A surgical system comprising an end effector, a firing driver movable during a firing stroke, a motor to drive the firing driver during the firing stroke, and a control circuit is disclosed. The control circuit is to initiate the firing stroke to drive the firing driver in a first mode, wherein, in the first mode, the motor is to drive the firing driver at a first speed; detect a first motor stall condition in the first mode; transition from the first mode to a second mode based on the detected first motor stall condition, wherein, in the second mode, the motor is to drive the firing driver at a second speed less than the first speed; detect a second motor stall condition in the second mode; and pause driving the firing driver for a period of time based on the detected second motor stall condition. |
| US12201302B2 |
Elastic band ligation device with anti-pinch feature and method for treatment of hemorrhoids
An elastic band ligation device for treatment of hemorrhoids including an inner tubular member for retaining a stretched elastic band over the front end thereof, a plunger in the tubular member with a handle extending away from the front end of the inner tubular member, the handle for sliding the plunger away from the rear end of the inner tubular member to provide a suction for drawing hemorrhoidal tissue into the inner tubular member through the opening at the front end. An obturator is disposed within the inner tubular member having a rounded end, the end of the obturator and the inner surface of the inner tubular member defining an anti-pinch structure. An outer tubular pusher sleeve is configured to provide a limited friction fit over the inner tubular member, with an external end of the outer tubular pusher sleeve adjacent the stretched elastic band. |
| US12201295B2 |
Small bone fixation systems and methods
A bone fixation system can be used to stabilize two bone portions intended to be fused together. The system include a bone staple or clip that includes a cross bar and two legs. The system can include a plurality of screws or other additional implant(s) configured to be implanted at an angle to the legs of the bone staple on opposite sides of the interface between two bone portions. The system can improve fixation strength and/or stability of the two bone portions. The fixation system can be used, for example, in small bones such as bones in the foot or hand. |
| US12201291B2 |
Suture passer systems and methods for tongue or other tissue suspension and compression
Suture passer systems for tissue suspension and tissue compression, and more particularly for tongue suspension, are described. The system can include at least a first elongate tubular body or shaft, a needle having a lateral bias carried by the elongate body, and a retrieval element operably connected to the elongate tubular body. The needle can have a substantially straight configuration when located within the elongate tubular body, and be configured to exit an opening at or near a distal end of the elongate tubular body and assume a laterally biased or curved shape to form a path through tissue. The needle is configured to carry a suture. The retrieval element can be configured to retrieve the suture carried by the needle after the needle has formed a curved or otherwise angled path through tissue. The system can also include one or more bone anchors to secure the suture loops. Methods of placing one or more suture loops into tissue, such as the base of the tongue, are also described. |
| US12201290B2 |
Multiple suture passing device
A system and method for completing one or more stitches without withdrawal and reloading of an inserter. A suture passer includes a distal end having a body with a gripping portion and a suture holding portion. The gripping portion and the suture holding portion are spaced, defining a recess in the body there between. A tube of the gripping portion extends toward the suture holding portion and maintains a needle therein. The needle is slidable within the tube between a retracted position and an extended position. The needle has a notch at its distal end for catching and securing a limb of suture. In the retracted position, the distal end of the needle is within the tube of the gripping portion and in the extended position, the distal end of the needle extends into the suture holding portion. |
| US12201288B2 |
Free motion laparoscopic surgical system
Embodiments relate to a laparoscopic apparatus having a first component and a second component. The first component has a first component manipulation end configured for manipulation by a user and/or a machine, a first component interface end, a first component magnet located at or near the first component interface end, and a first component actuator system including a cable. The first component actuator system is configured to transfer control movements from the first component manipulation end into moments and forces acting upon the cable. The second component has a second component working end configured for performing surgical work, a second component interface end, a second component magnet located at or near the second component interface end, and a second component actuator system configured to transfer moments and forces acting upon the cable into mechanical movements acting upon the second component working end. |
| US12201286B2 |
Sealing device and delivery system
The invention relates to a sealing device for repair of cardiac and vascular defects or tissue opening such as a patent foramen ovale (PFO) or shunt in the heart, the vascular system, etc. and particularly provides an occluder device and trans-catheter occluder delivery system. The sealing device would have improved conformity to heart anatomy and be easily deployed, repositioned, and retrieved at the opening site. |
| US12201280B2 |
Console light guide device
A console light guide device for use with a control console includes an interconnected light tube array. The light tube array includes a translucent surface, a shaped body substantially surrounding an output connection port on an external face of a console panel, and linear branches arranged relative to the shaped body. Side-firing light-emitting diodes (LEDs) emit light into a corresponding end of the light tube array. An opaque light guard defines a shaped channel and branch channels. The light tube array nests within the opaque light guard such that light from the side-firing LEDs is emitted uniformly through the translucent surface without any internal scattering or bleeding of the light within the console. A control console such as an ophthalmic surgical console is also disclosed herein that includes the console light guide device. |
| US12201279B2 |
Ingestible device with propulsion and imaging capabilities
An ingestible device comprising a capsule, a camera, an antenna, and a propulsion component id disclosed. The camera can capture images of various in vivo environments as the ingestible device traverses the gastrointestinal tract, and these images can be wirelessly transmitted to an electronic device located outside of the living body. The images may be transmitted to the electronic device for review by an operator responsible for controlling the ingestible device. |
| US12201278B2 |
Biopsy device with automatic biopsy parameter adjustment
A biopsy system includes an elongate cannula coupled to and extending from a support structure, the cannula having a distal portion with a tissue receiving aperture in a side wall thereof, and an elongate hollow introducer sized and configured to be mounted to the support structure over the cannula. The support structure and a proximal portion of the introducer are respectively configured for providing releasable attachment of the introducer to the support structure over the cannula in a first attachment configuration, in which the distal portion of the cannula extends out an open distal end of the introducer with the tissue receiving aperture unobscured by the introducer, and in a second attachment configuration, in which the distal portion of the cannula extends out the open distal end of the introducer with the tissue receiving aperture partially obscured by the introducer. |
| US12201273B2 |
Method and device for video endoscopy with fluorescent light
The invention relates to a method for performing video endoscopy with fluorescent light, comprising capturing a first image sequence comprised of temporally consecutive single images, using an endoscopic video system, capturing a second image sequence comprised of temporally consecutive fluorescent images, using the same endoscopic video system, forming a transformation function between different single images of the first image sequence, applying the transformation function to the consecutive fluorescent images of the second image sequence associated with the single images of the first image sequence to obtain transformed fluorescent images, superimposing a current fluorescent image of the second image sequence with at least one or several transformed fluorescent images obtained from the fluorescent images immediately preceding the current fluorescent image in the second image sequence to obtain an improved fluorescent image, and displaying a respective fluorescent image resulting in an improved second image sequence that is comprised of improved fluorescent images. |
| US12201272B2 |
Imaging apparatus and video endoscope providing improved depth of field and resolution
A dynamic imaging system for use with endoscope, or as an element of a video endoscope, utilizes path length differences and/or a variable aperture size to expand a usable depth of field and/or improve image resolution in an area of interest in the image field. In some implementations, the imaging system utilizes a variable aperture in conjunction with unequally spaced image sensors placed downstream from a beam splitter. An imaging system captures multiple focal planes of an image scene on separate sensors. A variable aperture permits the capture of enhanced resolution images or images with longer depths of field. These differently focused images and/or images with different resolutions and depths of field are then combined using image fusion techniques. |
| US12201270B2 |
Systems and methods for medical imaging using a rolling shutter imager
A system includes an illumination source and an imaging apparatus that includes an electronic rolling shutter imager and is configured for sequentially resetting rows of pixels of the rolling shutter imager from a first row to a last row, sequentially reading charge accumulated at the rows of pixels from the first row to the last row, wherein the first row is read after resetting the last row, controlling the illumination source to illuminate the tissue of the subject with illumination light for an illumination period that lasts longer than a vertical blanking period, wherein the vertical blanking period is the period from the resetting of the last row to the reading of the first row, and generating an image frame from the readings of charge accumulated at the rows of pixels, wherein at least one reading of charge accumulated at a row of pixels is removed or replaced. |
| US12201269B2 |
Rigid endoscope device
A rigid endoscope device comprises a disposable endoscope body structure (2), a disposable antibacterial line mechanism (3) and a reusable camera mechanism (1). A light source (5) is provided near the front end of the endoscope body structure (2). The endoscope body structure (2) is integrated with or separated from the antibacterial line mechanism (3). The camera mechanism (1) can be linearly inserted into the endoscope body structure (2) from the rear end of the endoscope body structure (2). The antibacterial line mechanism (3) can be linearly connected to the rear end of the endoscope body structure (2) and seals at the rear end of the endoscope body structure (2), such that the camera mechanism (1) inside the endoscope body structure (2) is isolated from the outside. In the rigid endoscope device, a reusable camera mechanism (1) is isolated from the external environment and is not in contact with people, thereby effectively ensuring a sterile state thereof. |
| US12201267B2 |
Endoscope control handle with a steering assembly
A control handle includes a housing and at least one control wire that extends from the housing to terminate at a distal tip. A steering assembly is coupled with the at least one control wire for selectively tensioning the at least one control wire to effectuate movement of the distal tip. The steering assembly includes at least one cam that is rotatable about an axis and presents a winding surface that extends circumferentially. The at least one control wire is connected to the at least one cam. An actuator dial is rotatable about the axis and coupled with the at least one cam for rotatably driving the at least one cam from a neutral position to an actuated position to at least partially wind the control wire about the winding surface and to tension the at least one control wire for deflecting the distal tip. |
| US12201265B2 |
Location pad surrounding at least part of patient eye for tracking position of a medical instrument
A location pad includes two or more field-generators, and a frame. The field-generators are configured to generate respective magnetic fields at least in a region-of-interest (ROI) of a patient organ, for measuring a position of a medical instrument in the ROI. The frame is coupled with tissue that is at least partially surrounding the organ and is configured to fix the two or more field-generators at respective positions surrounding the ROI. |
| US12201255B2 |
Water-conducting domestic appliance comprising a switchable automatic or manual door-opening assembly
A domestic appliance includes: an appliance housing which provides an appliance compartment and has a loading opening for access to the appliance compartment; an appliance door mounted so as to be rotatable about a pivot axis for closing the loading opening; a motor unit in operative connection with the appliance door and by which the appliance door is transferrable from an open position to a closed position closing the loading opening; and a clutch device arranged between the motor unit and the appliance door and in operative connection with the motor unit on a drive side thereof and with the appliance door on a driven side thereof. The clutch device has a clutch that is switchable and transferrable from a disengaged position to an engaged position and vice versa, the clutch causing an automatic switching from the disengaged position to the engaged position during operation of the motor unit. |
| US12201252B2 |
Vacuum cleaner accessory tool
An accessory tool for use with a vacuum cleaner. The accessory tool has a hair removal system configured to collect hair from various surfaces to be cleaned, including soft surfaces such as upholstery, dog beds, pillows, and automobile interiors. The collected hair is gathered by the hair removal system and ingested via the vacuum cleaner. |
| US12201249B2 |
Inclined ceramic shower tile
An integrally manufactured ceramic shower tile for use on the floors of shower areas in any and all indoor/outdoor areas such as a house, hotel, pension, beach, spa, bath house, hot spring, or timeshare holiday facilities. The tile allows waste water to flow into a drainage hole without accumulating on the shower floor, and having shower tile edge height and drainage hole height of different heights, providing a slope to the shower tile. |
| US12201248B2 |
Tools for customizing modular shower components
Disclosed herein are methods and tools for customizing shower panels to accommodate a variety of shapes and sizes of shower bases, where such methods and tools reduce installation steps. One exemplary method includes steps of using tools to trim a back shower panel, a first side shower panel, and a second side shower panel to conform to the contours of the top edges of a shower base. An exemplary assembly of tools used to perform described methods includes a plurality of contour gauge tools and a drain center groove. Each contour gauge tool includes a contoured edge, a slot formed through the contour gauge tool, and indicia formed on a surface of the contour gauge tool. The drain center tool includes a first groove, second groove intersecting the first groove and perpendicular to the first groove, and a tab extending upward of the top surface of the drain center tool. |
| US12201245B2 |
Ergonomic serving utensil with tilting receptacle
The present embodiments provide a handheld device for transferring a substance. In example embodiments, a handheld device for transferring a substance includes a receptacle configured to receive and hold the substance. The receptacle is pivotably mounted to a handle about at least one pivot point, thereby forming an axis of rotation of the receptacle. The receptacle is rotatable about the axis of rotation in response to an external force being applied to an outer surface of the receptacle. |
| US12201244B2 |
Single-use food preparation container assemblies, systems and methods
A single-use product preparation container assembly including a cup body and a cup closure assembly configured for removable operative engagement with the cup body, the cup closure assembly including a mechanically externally rotatably drivable rotary product engagement assembly for engaging an at least partially liquefiable product located within the cup body and a liquid retaining chamber configured to receive liquid leaked from the cup body via the mechanically externally rotatably drivable rotary product engagement assembly and including a vent allowing egress of air from the liquid retaining chamber. |
| US12201242B2 |
Modular hand-held kitchen applicance
The present invention is directed to a hand-held modular kitchen multitool having a universal powerhead capable of being used with a variety of kitchen appliance attachments, such as a can opener and a coffee grinder. The can opener is a side cutting can opener which provides a more compact size and smoother cut. The coffee grinder has a rotating blade that's only operational when enclosed by a cup and assembled with the powerhead. This prevents unintentional operation and injury to the user. |
| US12201239B2 |
Air fry cooking method and apparatus
A method is disclosed for cooking food in an oven cavity, where air is the cooking medium. Using a predetermined cooking algorithm, a temperature of the oven cavity is adjusted in a plurality of temperature and/or time regulated cooking stages. An initial pre-heat stage targets a first target temperature including a user-selected oven cavity temperature plus a first offset. A subsequent post-heat stage targets a second target temperature including the user-selected temperature plus a second offset different from the first offset. Two or more heating elements and a fan are operated during the post-heat stage according to a duty cycle controlled via a hysteresis temperature control algorithm or a PID temperature control algorithm. |
| US12201238B2 |
Kettle grill rotisserie
A rotisserie device useful in a partially opened kettle grill includes a support ring that is shaped and configured to inhibit airflow into and out of the grill when the cover is partially opened. The support ring includes one or more cover supporting portions or chocks that hold the cover and base apart when the cover is partially opened, and one or more apertures through the ring that can receive a rotatable spindle which serves as or which drives a removable, rotatable rotisserie spit. |
| US12201234B2 |
Insulating fill material
The invention provides an insulating fill material comprising a blend of fibres, the fibres comprising cashmere guard hair. The fill material typically includes at least 50% cashmere guard hair. The blended fibres are preferably formed into a non-woven web, which is lapped to provide a plurality of layers (101). The invention also provides products incorporating the fill material, such as bedding and garments. |
| US12201230B2 |
Container and withdrawal system
A container system having an access portal is disclosed. The container system may contain a selected material for access and withdraw through the portal. The portal may be engaged in any appropriate manner, such as with the application of a vacuum or pouring out. |
| US12201226B2 |
Retail shelf floor divider
A retail shelf floor divider or shelf floor limiter, which comprises mechanical coupling means which are arranged for coupling the retail shelf floor divider or shelf floor limiter to a further structure, in particular a shelf floor in order to divide the shelf floor in shelf floor sections or to limit it, and electronic detection means for the detection of movement in the neighborhood of the retail shelf floor divider or the shelf floor limiter, which are arranged to utilize an electromagnetic wave, preferred a radio wave, more preferred a light wave, or a sound wave for said detection. |
| US12201213B1 |
Modular and expandable storage rack for quick assembly and disassembly
A modular and expandable storage rack for quick assembly and disassembly includes a plurality of first connecting pieces, a plurality of second connecting pieces, a plurality of third connecting pieces, a plurality of fourth connecting pieces, a plurality of support rods, and a plurality of storage partitions, which are distributed in a rectangular array respectively. Each storage partition includes four connecting rods. Each first connecting piece, each second connecting piece, each third connecting piece, and each fourth connecting piece include a longitudinally-extending hollow tube and different quantity of side hollow tubes respectively to receive at least one corresponding support rod and at least one corresponding connecting rod. One opposing end of the first longitudinally-extending hollow tube is fixedly provided with a first bump for attaching to an outer side of one corresponding support rod. |
| US12201211B2 |
Vertically rotating grooming attachment brush and method of use
A rotating grooming brush comprising a brush hub having grooming elements and shroud elements, and method for grooming a surface having an unwanted material thereon. The elements extend from the brush hub and may be positioned near its outer periphery. The elements may be grooming elements forming an array and shroud elements forming a shroud array. A rigid or elastomeric shroud extending from the brush hub surface may optionally be included about the edge of the brush hub, to the outside of the grooming elements. Rotation of the grooming attachment brush causes a low pressure region to build in the central area of the brush. This low pressure region creates a resulting force that forcefully attracts the grooming attachment brush to the surface to be groomed. The resulting force is controlled by the diameter of the brush hub, arrangement, of the elements and the speed of rotation. |
| US12201210B2 |
Cosmetic brush cleaning device
A cosmetic brush cleaning device, comprising a support part (1) and a cleaning part (2). The support part (1) and the cleaning part (2) form a hourglass-shaped structure; and the cleaning part (2) is rotationally arranged at the top of the support part (1). The cleaning device can perform the action of back-and-forth friction between bristles and a silica gel inner rotary disc (22) in an electric manner, the cleaning efficiency is effectively improved, the cleaning effect can be effectively enhanced, the tedious manual back-and-forth movement is greatly reduced, and the problem that time and labor are wasted when a cosmetic brush is manually cleaned is solved. |
| US12201206B2 |
Device for applying a cosmetic product stick
A device for applying a cosmetic product includes a cup comprising at least one lug; a guide comprising a slot passed through by an associated lug of the cup, the slot comprising an upper edge; a sheath comprising internally a helical groove for receiving the lug of the cup; and the lug (32) having an upper flattened area. The upper edge of the slot is inclined with respect to a radial plane. |
| US12201202B2 |
Hair styling appliance
The present invention relates to a hair straightening apparatus having two arms pivotably coupled together and a heating plate on a facing side of at least one arm. A central pack disposed between the first arm and the second arm and coupled to the hair styling apparatus at the hinge end and a biasing means adapted to support the central pack symmetrically between the first arm and the second arm. |
| US12201201B2 |
Holder for TSA-approved locks
Disclosed is a holder for TSA-approved locks, the multi-purpose protective holder comprising a holder body, a TSA-approved and recognised logo window provided on at least one of either a front face and a back face of the holder body for exposing a TSA-approved and recognised logo; a code zone provided on one side of the holder body to expose code dials; and a keyhole zone provided at the underside of the holder body to expose a keyhole and a TSA key number, wherein the holder body is further attached with a card case body including a card case bottom wall and a card case top wall. The holder as disclosed may facilitate customs officials in identifying the TSA-approved and recognised logo so as to avoid the circumstances of removing the lock by force, causing damage due to misidentification; besides, it is convenient for a passenger to place an information card in the card case to record names/usages of the items inside the luggage as well as personal information. Besides, the holder as disclosed may be further used in collaboration with an electronic tracking device so as to provide preliminary evidence for the passenger to claim against the service providers upon occurrence of losses or damage to items in the luggage. |
| US12201198B1 |
Golf club boot
A golf club boot having a sole with a sleeve partially buttressed by a set of ribs with the buttressed sleeve extending upward from the sole supporting an upside-down golf club therein in upright condition when the golf club boot is used as a cane stand with the sleeve pivotable to maintain the sole in ground contact during a walking motion of a person using a golf club head as a cane handle. |
| US12201194B2 |
Metal one piece slide and pull for slide fastener
The invention involves a slide assembly for a zipper, and a method for manufacturing a zipper slide assembly. The slider assembly is formed in a single die cast operation to include the slider and the pull member being formed simultaneously. At least one side shifting slide is incorporated into the die, which allows the bridge and pull loop to be formed with their full geometric shape and without the converging flat surfaces required in the prior art. |
| US12201193B2 |
Automatic locking keychain
An automatic locking keychain includes a curved plate, a pin shaft at one end of the curved plate, a middle seat rotatably arranged on the pin shaft, a fitting block on the middle seat, and a locking mechanism on a side of the curved plate close to the pin shaft. An end side surface of the fitting block away from the middle seat is attached to another end of the curved plate. The locking mechanism is configured to limit a rotation of the middle seat, and includes a limiting hole at an end of the curved plate close to the pin shaft, a sliding rod sliding inside the limiting hole, and a locking shaft at an end of the sliding rod close to the pin shaft. A locking hole is arranged on the middle seat. A spring is provided between the sliding rod and the limiting hole. |
| US12201189B2 |
Human locomotion assisting shoe
Embodiments of footwear, in particular, a shoe, sandal or boot, that have the unexpected benefit of reducing the pressure on the plantar surface of the foot while also reducing metabolic demand of walking while also gait speed and improving walking, running, hiking, as well as jumping, hopping, and other motion involving the ankle, lower leg and Achilles tendon, through integration of force-carrying mechanisms within footwear that manage the forces and energy associated with such motion by productively harvesting and storing energy during dorsiflexion motion and releasing and returning energy during plantar flexion and limiting range of motion that conduce towards ankle inversion and eversion. Such footwear may comprise a yoke connected to footwear at a pivot region in parallel to the axis of rotation of the ankle and a tension spring region suspended between the yoke and the posterior portion of the footwear sidewalls or sole. |
| US12201186B2 |
Shoe
Described is a shoe, in particular an athletic shoe. The shoe can include a sole and a shoe upper. The shoe upper can include (a.) a lateral portion; (b.) a medial portion; and (c.) intermediate portion between the lateral portion and the medial portion. The intermediate portion can include a cupped portion uncoated by a first coating portion on the lateral portion and a second coating portion on the medial portion. When the shoe upper is separate from the sole at least a majority of the cupped portion may be cupped above surrounding areas of the shoe upper. |
| US12201183B2 |
Cushioning article with tensile component and method of manufacturing a cushioning article
A cushioning article comprises a first and a second polymeric sheet bonded to one another and enclosing an interior cavity. The polymeric sheets retain a gas in the interior cavity. A tensile component disposed in the interior cavity includes a first tensile layer, a second tensile layer, and a plurality of tethers spanning the interior cavity and connecting the first tensile layer to the second tensile layer. An inwardly-protruding bond joins the first polymeric sheet to the first tensile layer, protrudes inward from the first polymeric sheet toward the second polymeric sheet, and partially traverses the plurality of tethers. The first polymeric sheet is displaced from the first tensile layer adjacent to the inwardly-protruding bond by the gas. A method of manufacturing a cushioning article is disclosed. |
| US12201180B2 |
Rapid-entry footwear having rotatable straps
A rapid-entry shoe comprising a forward strap and a rearward strap configured to resiliently pivot relative to the other and/or configured to rotate relative to the rapid-entry shoe. The forward strap and the rearward strap are generally further apart from one another when the rapid-entry shoe is in an open configuration to facilitate reception of a foot of an individual donning the rapid-entry shoe. |
| US12201178B2 |
Shoe, especially sports shoe
The invention relates to a shoe, especially to a sports shoe, having a shoe upper. The shoe upper consists at least partially of a knitted fabric. The shoe upper has a plurality of loops for threading a lace to allow the tying of the shoe at the foot of a wearer by means of the lace. To provide an easy and efficient method for adjusting the lacing or tying of the shoe at the foot of the wearer individually, at least a part of the loops consist of a knitted fabric. The loops have the shape of a tubular body which forms a passage for the lace. |
| US12201175B2 |
Safety headwear and accessories
A coupling system for safety headwear is provided. Various embodiments of safety headwear accessories, such as a brim guard, are adjustable to couple to various configurations of safety headwear. The brim guard includes a mechanism to detachably couple accessories, such as a face shield, to the safety headwear. |
| US12201170B2 |
Turn direction indicator garment
This present application discloses a turn direction indicating jacket having a plurality of directional indicators independently actuatable via a switch and a portable power supply. The invention illuminates the lights in sequential fashion from the wearer's shoulder to his or her wrist with an arrowhead at the base, there ensuring that other motorists and pedestrians alike are aware of the wearer's presence in traffic and the wearer's intended traffic movement. |
| US12201169B2 |
Electrically heatable oversock
An electrically heatable, above-the-calf, oversock is formed by interconnected fabric sections. The oversock defines a foot section and a leg section interconnected with one another. The foot section has a toe heating section secured thereto. The leg section is formed of interconnected pattern fabric panels secured together by thread seams. In one embodiment of the oversock, the pattern fabric panels include two elongated side fabric panels extending from a top end of the leg section to the foot section, a front panel and a rear panel. At least the lateral one of the two elongated side fabric panels is formed by two or more superimposed side panel pattern pieces interconnected to one another by stitch seams and defining there between a channel through which extends a power feed wire from a switch secured in a upper part of the channel and accessible from an outer surface of the lateral side panel. The feed wire extends to the toe heating section where it is secured to a toe heating wire. An oversock retainer is secured about a top end of the leg section for retention of the oversock above the calf of a wearer person's leg. |
| US12201165B2 |
Adjustable, cleavage enhancing undergarment system
An adjustable, cleavage-enhancing undergarment system is described. In one embodiment, a compression paddle includes a first surface contoured to engage with at least a portion of a user's breast. The compression paddle may include a mechanical coupling configured to engage with an end of a force generating member. The compression paddle may include a locking mechanism configured to engage a rotational state wherein the compression paddle is configured to rotate about an axis that is substantially coaxial to the end of the force generating member, and engage a locked state wherein the compression paddle is mechanically locked at an angular position selectable by the user. |
| US12201162B2 |
Aerosol-generating article including vaporizing substrate and aerosol-generating system using the same
An aerosol-generating article includes a sealed container; and a composition contained in the sealed container and including a tobacco material and a vaporizing agent, wherein the tobacco material includes an aerosol-generating material and tobacco leaves, and the vaporizing agent generates oxidizing heat when exposed to air such that an aerosol may be generated without a heating device or electric power. |
| US12201161B2 |
Machine and method for the production of a cartridge for an electronic cigarette
A manufacturing machine and method for the production of a cartridge for an electronic cigarette can include a first assembling drum which is mounted rotatable around a first rotation axis and has at least one first seat which is designed to house a tube and a second seat which is axially aligned with the first seat and is designed to house a support of a heating device; a first feeding station in which a tube is fed into the first seat; a second feeding station in which a support of a heating device is fed into the second seat; and a first welding station which is arranged downstream of the first feeding station and of the second feeding station and is provided with a first welding device, which, through a welded joint, connects a tube carried by the first seat to a support carried by the second seat. |
| US12201160B2 |
Configuring a personal computing device for communication with an aerosol generation device
A method of configuring a personal computing device for communication with an aerosol generation device involves a Progressive Web Application, PWA. A native application launches a web browser on the personal computing device and the web browser launches the PWA. The native application provides a resource to the web browser, which resource causes the web browser to process a call received by the web browser from the PWA intended for the aerosol generation device by directing a command based on the call to the native application. The command allows the native application to cause the personal communication device to communicate with the aerosol generation device over the short-range wireless communication connection. |
| US12201159B2 |
Electronic cigarette preheating method to ensure preparation of liquid aerosol material
An electronic cigarette preheating method comprises setting preheating parameters and preheating routine in a microcontroller MCU. The preheating parameters at least include preset temperature value, and preset heating time or preset target temperature value. The preheating routine comprises: after turning on the electronic cigarette, activating preheating function when preheating button arranged on the electronic cigarette is pressed, detecting real-time temperature value by means of a temperature sensor; by means of the microcontroller MCU, comparing the real-time temperature value with the preset temperature value, and determining whether preheating of the cigarette liquid stored inside the liquid storage chamber is required. If no, directly entering an available stand-by state. If yes, controlling a heating device by means of the microcontroller MCU to perform preheating for the preset heating time or until the preset target temperature value is reached, and then ending the preheating and entering the available stand-by state. |
| US12201158B2 |
Electronic vaping system
A re-fillable liquid tip or pod for a vaping device that includes capacitive sensor plates in the tip liquid reservoir. A liquid re-filling device provides liquid to the vaping device, drawn from a refill bottle; the re-filling device includes a capacitance measuring circuit; a microcontroller uses the data from the capacitance measuring circuit to determine if the level of liquid in the tip liquid reservoir is above or below a threshold level; if below, then a liquid pump in the re-filling device is activated to draw liquid from the refill bottle and pump it through the vaping device and up into the tip liquid reservoir. Pumping ceases once the liquid reaches the threshold level. |
| US12201155B2 |
Aerosol-generating device with sliding contacts for induction coil
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a heating arrangement including an induction coil, a first sliding arrangement including a first contact, the first sliding arrangement being arranged adjacent to the induction coil of the heating arrangement and being configured to slide parallel to a longitudinal axis of the induction coil, and the first contact being mounted on the first sliding arrangement and being arranged to contact the induction coil; and a second sliding arrangement including a second contact, the second sliding arrangement being arranged adjacent to the induction coil of the heating arrangement and being configured to slide parallel to a longitudinal axis of the induction coil, and the second contact being mounted on the second sliding arrangement and being arranged to contact the induction coil, in which alternating current is supplied to the induction coil between the first contact and the second contact. |
| US12201152B2 |
Atomizer and electronic cigarette
An atomizer and an electronic cigarette, the atomizer comprising: a housing, provided with a liquid storage chamber used to store e-liquid; a liquid guide element disposed in the housing, the liquid guide element having an atomization surface, and the liquid guide element being used to absorb some e-liquid in the liquid storage chamber and being capable of transferring the e-liquid to the atomization surface; and a radiating light source, having at least one radiation generating surface, the atomization surface facing the radiating light source and the radiating light source and the atomization surface being separated by a set distance, the radiation generating surface having provided thereon a far-infrared radiating component, the far-infrared radiating component being used to emit infrared light and at least partly radiate onto the atomization surface, so as to heat e-liquid near the atomization surface and generate an aerosol. |
| US12201149B2 |
Volcano extract bowl
The Volcano Extract Bowl allows an individual to Vaporize extracts with the Volcano Vaporizer. It transforms the Volcano Vaporizer into a Vaporizer that can Vaporize extracts like Rosin, Shatter, oils, Budder, wax, etc. Essentially, this is a Volcano Extract Bowl specifically designed to work with the Volcano Vaporizer by Storz and Bickel®. |
| US12201148B2 |
Closed system capsule with airflow, heat-not-burn (HNB) aerosol-generating devices, and methods of generating an aerosol
A capsule for an aerosol-generating device includes a housing. The housing includes an inner frame defining an opening. The housing defines at least one air inlet and at least one air outlet. The capsule also includes an aerosol-forming substrate at least partially within the opening, and a heater supported by the inner frame and extending across at least a portion of the opening. The at least one air inlet, the opening, and the at least one air outlet collectively form at least one airflow pathway through the capsule. The airflow pathway is longer than a thickness of the capsule. |
| US12201144B2 |
Hookah device
A hookah device (202) which attaches to a hookah (246). The hookah device (202) comprises a plurality of ultrasonic mist generator devices (201) for generating a mist for inhalation by a user. The hookah device (202) comprises a driver device (202) which controls the mist generator devices (201) to maximize the efficiency of mist generation by the mist generator devices (201) and optimize mist output from the hookah device (202). |
| US12201139B2 |
Heat-not-burn device and method
A device and method for converting a consumable into an aerosol with high heat without burning the consumable by packaging the consumable containing an internal susceptor inside a housing. The consumable can be in the form of a compressed powder. A first end of the housing can be capped with an end cap and a second end of the housing can have a mouthpiece. The housing containing the consumable and the susceptor can be placed inside a case with an inductive heating element configured to heat the susceptor. Heating the susceptor results in the consumable being released as an aerosol for inhalation. |
| US12201138B2 |
Seam-sealing adhesive application apparatus and associated method
An apparatus and method for forming a smoking article rod is provided. A forming device is configured to engage a continuous stream of a smokable filler material with a first surface of a longitudinally-continuous web of a wrapping material, the web having first and second edge portions extending along the web, and a second surface opposing the first surface. A wrapping device is configured to longitudinally overlap the first and second edge portions such that the first surface about the first edge portion extends over the second surface about the second edge portion, to contain the smokable filler material within the web. An adhesive applicator device is configured to apply an adhesive material to the second surface about and longitudinally along the second edge portion, between the overlapped edge portions, prior to the wrapping device engaging the overlapped edge portions, with the adhesive material therebetween, to form a sealed seam. |
| US12201135B1 |
Apparatus and method for plasma treatment of a substrate using automatic water replenishment
An apparatus for treating a substrate is disclosed. The apparatus includes a water supply tank with a level line and a reservoir filled with water to the level line. The water supply tank may automatically replenish water upon detection of depletion of water beneath the level line. A reaction chamber is communicatively connected to the water supply tank. The reaction chamber contains a pair of electrodes which define a reaction region between each electrode, where the reaction region may surround the substrate. A control module is communicatively connected to at least the reaction chamber and may a control signal. An injector connects the water supply tank to the reaction chamber may generate a dispersion of microfine water droplets from water extracted from the reservoir in response to receipt of the control signal. A platform may support at least the reaction chamber and lay on a flat surface. |
| US12201130B2 |
Stable granules for feed compositions
The present invention relates to pelletized feed compositions comprising granules which comprise an inner salt layer and an outer hydrophobic layer. The invention further relates to the use of salt and hydrophobic coated granules for steam treated pelletized feed compositions. |
| US12201124B2 |
Method for obtaining products for the food industry and/or feed industry from insects, and solid phase obtained from insects
A method for obtaining products for the food industry and/or feed industry from insects at the larval stage involves: a) comminuting the insects to form an insect pulp; b) shifting the pH-value of the insect pulp to an acid range by adding an acid and malaxing the insect pulp for a period of at least 45 minutes; and c) fractioning the insect pulp using centrifugal treatment into at least two fractions i) a solid fraction, ii) a fatty phase; and a fat-reduced solid phase. |
| US12201120B2 |
Movable mould member for moulding food products
A moveable mould member is configured for use in an installation for moulding food products from a pumpable foodstuff mass. The mould member has a permeable mould body with an outer surface forming at least part of the outer mould member surface, which outer surface of the permeable mould body is fluid tight; mould cavities and a permeable volume defining fine openings opening out at the mould cavities, such that each mould cavity of the permeable mould body is delimited at least in part by a permeable volume. In addition, the mould drum has, for each group of mould cavities from which food products are to be ejected simultaneously, an ejection fluid inlet allowing the entry of pressurized fluid, and one or more channels extending from the associated ejection fluid inlet to the one or more permeable volumes of the group of mould cavities. |
| US12201116B2 |
High stearic oilseed stearin fat and process for its preparation
A high stearic oilseed stearin fat including: from 19% to 95% of disaturated triglycerides in which the (w/w) ratio of disaturated triglycerides with one oleic acid to disaturated triglycerides with one linoleic acid (SOS/SLS) is higher than 1; and at least 1% of trisaturated triglycerides; in which the Ssn-2/Stotal×100 value is of from 11 to 98; and a process for preparing the same. |
| US12201111B2 |
Glyphosate formulations containing amidoalkylamine surfactants
An herbicidal composition comprising (a) glyphosate or a derivative thereof, (b) an amidoalkylamine surfactant of formula (1): wherein R1 is a hydrocarbyl having from about 1 carbon atoms to about 22 carbon atoms, R2 and R3 are each independently hydrocarbyl or substituted hydrocarbyl having from 1 to about 6 carbon atoms and R4 is hydrocarbylene or substituted hydrocarbylene having from 1 to about 6 carbon atoms and (c) a co-surfactant component comprising at least one co-surfactant selected from, for example, alkoxylated tertiary amine oxides, amidoamine alkoxylates, and betaines. |
| US12201110B2 |
Polymeric particles containing microorganisms
The present invention relates to polymeric particles comprising a biodegradable polymer, and at least one microorganism in a total concentration of at least 108 CFU/g dry weight that is stable for at least 35 weeks at 30° C. and optionally additional carriers and additives as well as to methods for producing polymeric particles and use thereof. |
| US12201109B2 |
Method for mosquito control
A method for mosquito control is provided in the form of mosquito larvicide carrying insects which can be introduced in a mosquito population to thereby control the mosquito population. The larvicide carrier insects may include artificially generated adult insect carriers of a mosquito larvicide in which the mosquito larvicide has minimal impact on the adult insect carrier and which mosquito larvicide affects juvenile mosquito survival or interferes with metamorphosis of juvenile mosquitoes to adulthood. The larvicide carrier insects may be either male or female and may include mosquitoes and non-mosquito insects. |
| US12201108B2 |
System and method for controlling boom assembly position of an agricultural sprayer
An agricultural sprayer includes a boom assembly having first and second wing boom sections. Additionally, the sprayer includes an actuator configured to adjust a fore/aft tilt angle of the boom assembly, with the fore/aft tilt angle defined between a central axis of the boom assembly and a vertical direction. Moreover, the sprayer includes a sensor configured to capture data associated with a position of the second boom section relative to the first boom section. In this respect, a computing system is configured to determine an angle defined between the first and second boom sections or a height of a tip of the second boom section based on the data captured by the sensor. In addition, the computing system is configured to control an operation of the actuator to adjust the fore/aft tilt angle of the boom assembly based on the determined angle or the determined height. |
| US12201105B1 |
Using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect pest activity within a wall of a building
In some examples, a central hub receives, from a sensor node that is mounted to a wood item inside a wall of a building, a notification including sensor data. The sensor data includes: an ambient temperature inside the wall of the building, an ambient humidity inside the wall of the building, a resistance of the wood item between two metal fasteners used to fasten the sensor node to the wood item, and audio data captured by a microphone of the sensor node that is coupled to the wood item. The hub performs an analysis of the sensor data using an artificial intelligence algorithm. After determining, based on the analysis, a presence of a pest in the wood item, the hub sends a message indicating the presence of the pest to a computing device. |
| US12201102B2 |
Cast control system for a fishing reel
A fishing reel includes a casing having an inner surface. The fishing reel further includes a spool assembly configured to rotate about an axis and having an outer surface located radially inward relative to the inner surface of the casing and defining at least one pocket. The fishing reel further includes at least one body configured to be received by the at least one pocket and to move within the at least one pocket between a first position in which the at least one body fails to contact the inner surface of the casing and a second position in which the at least one body contacts the inner surface of the casing. |
| US12201099B2 |
Fishing rod with suspension system and method for using same
A fishing rod that has an adjustable force transfer portion that alters the transfer of forces from the distal section to the proximal section of the fishing rod. The fishing rod may be modular, and the adjustable force transfer portion may be located in any one or more sections of the rod. |
| US12201095B2 |
Animal model of mucopolysaccharidoses type IVA
The present invention provides a new animal model for mucopolysaccharidosis type IVA or Morquio A syndrome and to methods of generating the animal model and uses thereof. |
| US12201093B2 |
Brood box for a beehive
A brood box for a beehive includes a main box having a plurality of sides and a bottom configured to be in a continuous and seamless unibody structure and defining a cavity inside the main box, each of the plurality of sides and the bottom being continuously insulated with one another to thereby insulate and thermally isolate the main box cavity from an environment outside of the brood box. Also included is a transition plate configured to be disposed on top of the main box cavity, and an insulated lid configured to interface with the plurality of sides of the main box and being disposed to cover the main box cavity and the transition plate in certain weather conditions. |
| US12201088B2 |
Connector for pet lead rope
According to an embodiment, a connector for connecting a lead rope to a harness worn on a body of a pet includes: a pair of rectangular strap connection portions for connecting a strap of the harness; and a connector body having a predetermined curvature and formed with a plurality of hook grooves to which a hook connected to the lead rope is caught. |
| US12201084B2 |
Rain shield device for pet crates
The present invention relates to a rain and sun shield device for pet crates/cages that prevents rainwater from accumulating inside the crates. More specifically, the rain and sun shield device includes multiple lip structures designed to be mounted on the top surface of the crate, such that the lip structures deflect any rainwater pouring over the crate and prevent any rainwater from entering inside the crate. The rain and sun shield device can be retrofitted to existing animal crate/cage designs or incorporated into the manufacturing of new models to provide protection against rainwater and sunlight. The device protects pets from the elements while being kept in a crate or cage placed in outdoor settings or while being transported in the bed of a pickup truck. The device ensures that pets remain safe, shaded, and dry. |
| US12201080B2 |
Milking arrangement
A milking arrangement includes a milk transport line (1), a plurality of milk stations, and a cleaning arrangement (4) with a delivery arrangement (5) configured to deliver a cleaning liquid into the milk transport line (1) and a pump (6) configured to pump the cleaning liquid through the milk transport line (1) at a pressure larger than atmospheric pressure, thereby filling the transport line (1) with cleaning liquid. A control unit (9) is configured to determine a volume and/or length of the milk transport line (1) on basis of registered first point of time of pump start, a second point of time of passage of cleaning liquid through the milk transport line (1), and the amount of liquid introduced into the milk transport line from the first point of time to the second point of time. |
| US12201075B2 |
Methods and compositions for axillary shoot micropropagation of Cannabis and related plants
A plant medium composition and methodology of application of the medium as it pertains to the micropropagation of Cannabis and related plant species is described that yields two to four-fold increase in the number of biologically functional nodes from axillary shoots thereby allowing for exponential amplification of such plant species. The compositions comprise basal plant media supplemented with: (i) one or more cytokinins, and (ii) one or more gibberellins and/or brassinolides. This achievement in exponential shoot growth of these plant species represents a marked step forward in the Cannabis industry as it pertains to commercial micropropagation of a recreationally and medicinally important plant whose extracts are the subject of numerous clinical trials. |
| US12201074B2 |
Automated plant growing system and methods
System, methods, and devices may control air flow, temperature, relative humidity, substrate temperature, substrate moisture, carbon dioxide concentration, photoperiod, irrigation, light intensity, spectrum, and vapor pressure deficit. The system may comprise water and air pumps, sensors, air and water distribution apparatus, lights, heaters, foggers, sensors, and electronic system control dedicated to control the environment on individual or multiple growing platforms. The present disclosure provides the ability to provide microclimate control to optimize the environment at the plant or shelf level to optimize plant yields and production resources. The present disclosure may utilize an open or closed plant production configuration depending on the desired plant outcome and plant species. |
| US12201071B2 |
Device for promoting the growth of plants
The invention relates to a device and to a method for promoting the growth of plants comprising a conveyor belt which can be moved along a conveyor path for transporting plants, which are at least temporarily supplied with nutrients illuminated during movement. The conveyor path contains a horizontal section and vertical section. The plants are at least temporarily fixed relative to the conveyor belt such that roots of the plants protrude below a lower surface of the conveyor belt, while leaves and/or fruits of the plants protrude above an upper surface of the conveyor belt. |
| US12201070B2 |
Modular aeroponic garden system
The present invention includes a modular aeroponic garden system for growing plants. Through circulating an atomized fluid, nutrients and air through a conduit circuit the modular aeroponic garden system provides a closed-loop aeroponic system for growing plants. The closed-loop configuration allows the user to better control the internal environmental conditions of the modular aeroponic garden system, therein facilitating improved plant growth. Modular sections of conduit and modular joints allow the user to customize the aeroponic garden system to unique spaces and grow a variable quantity of plants. In doing so, the closed-loop system reduces time spent on maintenance, cleaning and monitoring of the plants grown within the modular aeroponic garden system and the system itself while better conserving resources such as water, electricity, and nutrients than comparable open-loop systems. In addition, novel open systems are provided, wherein fog generation devices are placed within the garden system. |
| US12201046B2 |
Agricultural implements and means for engaging the same to a tractor
An agricultural tractor mounting assembly comprising a toolbar engaged with a first implement engaging a soil subsurface and also equipped with a carrying tool for engaging another implement. The carrying tool may include hydraulic cylinders and hydraulic charged accumulators which lift, suspend, and support implements behind a toolbar engaged to a tractor. The implement engaging the soil and the carrier tool may be engaged to the toolbar of the tractor mounting assembly which is engaged to the tractor. |
| US12201043B2 |
System and method for detecting bent disk blades on an agricultural implement
An agricultural implement includes a disk assembly having a hanger and a disk blade. Furthermore, the agricultural implement includes first and second fasteners coupling the hanger to a frame member of the agricultural implement. Additionally, the agricultural implement includes a first load sensor configured to generate data indicative of a first load being applied to the first fastener by the disk assembly. Moreover, the agricultural implement includes a second load sensor configured to generate data indicative of a second load being applied to the second fastener by the disk assembly. In addition, the agricultural implement includes a computing system configured to determine when the disk blade is bent based on the data generated by the first and second load sensors. |
| 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. |