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US12201870B2	Retraction device having a tensioning mechanism An exercise device includes a cable configured to extend from a housing between a retracted position and an extended position. A resistance device is positioned in the housing and configured to bias the cable into the retracted position. A tensioning mechanism is formed integrally with the housing.
US12201867B2	Strap connection systems, quick connectors, and related systems and methods A male-female quick connect system is described, along with related methods and uses. Example applications include using the strap as an exercise resistance trainer band, a boating mooring connector, a replacement or supplement to freight transport tie-downs, and others. An interchangeable strap connection system is described, having: a male connector; a strap connected to the male connector; a plurality of female sockets spaced from one another and anchored to a substrate, with each female socket structured to permit the male connector to interchangeably quick connect with and quick release from the female socket.
US12201865B2	Exercise machine support system An exercise machine support system for providing increased versatility including inclination or declination of an exercise surface, a reduction in the overall length and width of the exercise machine, and an enhanced user interface which reduces the risk of injury. The exercise machine support system generally includes a cantilevered exercise machine which is adapted to have a variable angle of incline or decline with respect to a horizontal ground surface. The exercise machine will generally include a base and a support which extends between the base and the exercise machine. The upper end of the support is connected to the exercise machine by a first pivot such that the exercise machine pivots about the support. An adjustment device may be utilized to pivot the exercise machine and thus adjust its angle of incline. Various types of adjustment devices are disclosed, including an actuator, ratchet-and-pawl, gears, and cam.
US12201864B2	Fire protection system for sloped combustible concealed spaces A fire protection system is provided for a space having a pitched roof constructed of structural members extending from a ridgeline to an eave, with respective channels therebetween. A first row of sprinklers is mounted to a first branch line extending generally parallel to the ridgeline. Each sprinkler is positioned within a respective channel, with consecutive sprinklers spaced apart having no less than one, and no more than five, channels therebetween. A second row of sprinklers, downslope from the first row, is mounted to a second branch line extending generally parallel to the first branch line. Each sprinkler thereof is positioned within a respective channel, with consecutive second row sprinklers spaced apart as in the first row. Each second row sprinkler is also placed within a different channel from each first row sprinkler. A farthest number of channels between a first row sprinkler and a second row sprinkler is three.
US12201863B2	Flexible dry sprinkler A flexible dry fire protection sprinkler includes an inlet seal assembly sealing an inlet orifice, an inlet release unit to release the seal assembly, a flexible tube connected to the inlet release unit, a flexible linkage extending through the flexible tube, having an inlet end connected to the inlet release unit, an outlet biasing portion connected to an outlet end of the flexible tube and the flexible linkage, to displace the outlet end of the linkage upon activation, a sprinkler body connected to the outlet biasing portion, and an outlet seal assembly to seal an outlet orifice of the body until a predetermined temperature is reached. When reached, the outlet seal assembly releases from an outlet orifice of the body, and the outlet biasing portion displaces the linkage, causing the inlet end of the linkage to operate the inlet release unit, releasing the inlet seal assembly from the inlet orifice.
US12201862B2	E-extinguishing lance An extinguishing lance for electrical devices that are burning, has a holding portion having a handle part for operation, an extinguishing-agent feed having a coupling device for connecting a pressure hose for extinguishing agent, and a tubular extinguishing portion, from the free end of which extinguishing agent is introduced, under pressure, into the object that is burning. The extinguishing portion tapers to a point at the free end and has a constricted, hollow flow cross-section for extinguishing agent conducted under pressure. The extinguishing portion and its tapered, additionally hardened end are produced from stainless steel. The extinguishing portion has, at least in the region of the holding portion, a voltage-insulating coating, which is electrically insulating for electric voltages U≥500 V. Thus, the minimum legal requirements for protection against thermal hazards, against mechanical overloads, and against electrical hazards are reliably met.
US12201860B2	In-rack fire protection sprinkler system including at least one unitary horizontal barrier that covers racks of adjoining racks and at least one rack level fire protection sprinkler disposed below the at least one horizontal barrier A fire protection sprinkler system includes a horizontal barrier that covers two adjacent racks, and the vertical flue space between the racks. The horizontal barrier is provided at a predetermined height, and has a width that is at least equal to a width of the rack, and a depth that is at least equal to a sum of a depth of the rack, a depth of the other rack, and a depth of the vertical flue space. In addition, the horizontal barrier can be a sheet having one or more apertures. The system also includes a rack level fire protection sprinkler connected to a fluid supply conduit, and being disposed in the vertical flue space below the horizontal barrier. The rack level sprinkler has a K-factor of 11.2 gpm/(psi)1/2 or greater, and is vertically spaced from commodities stored on the rack and the other rack covered by the horizontal barrier.
US12201855B2	Particle beam therapy system and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus The system includes a bed on which an irradiation target is mounted, an irradiation device that irradiates the irradiation target with a particle beam, and a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus that captures an image of an irradiation object and includes a magnet that generates a static magnetic field in an image capturing space in which the irradiation target is disposed, and a yoke disposed outside the image capturing space and through which a magnetic flux of the generated magnetic field passes. The irradiation device 21 is disposed on a back surface side of the yoke when viewed from the image capturing space, and irradiates the irradiation target with the particle beam from a through-hole or gap provided in the yoke. A direction in which the particle beam enters the image capturing space intersects with a direction of a static magnetic field applied to the image capturing space by the magnet.
US12201848B2	Device and methods for use in removal of bio-film and treatment of halitosis A device for removal of bio-film without cutting or injury to tissue is provided which is an elongated, thin and flexible member which encases a fiber optic piece and having a downward curved section at or near one end. The fiber optic protrudes from the end of the member and is covered by a diffuser to create a light emitting head, which can be used to direct light energy to a selected treatment site. Disclosed are safe, simple and effective broad-spectrum treatments for bio-film removal, such as halitosis and other microbial infections of the non-dental upper respiratory tract useful to treat bacterial and other microorganism species, including anaerobic bacteria. Electromagnetic radiative energy including visible, and optionally, thermal, RF and/or microwave wavelengths, is topically applied to internal surfaces of the upper respiratory tract to destroy or incapacitate superficial microorganisms without the use of antibiotics.
US12201846B2	Implantable medical device and electrode thereof An implantable medical device includes an electrode and an insulative material secured to the electrode via an adhesive. The electrode includes a metal substrate and a metal coating. The metal substrate includes a connection segment and an active segment along a length of the metal substrate. The metal coating is disposed on an outer surface of the metal substrate along the connection segment and the active segment. The insulative material surrounds the connection segment of the metal substrate without surrounding the active segment, and the adhesive adheres to the metal coating on the connection segment.
US12201844B2	Robust adaptive brain stimulation Systems and methods that automatically adjust, or adapt, stimulation waveforms delivered to brain structures. Closed loop system embodiments can automatically be re-configured into a more suitable closed loop control system in response to measures of control system performance. Measures can be internal performance characteristics of the adaptive control system or external inputs provided by another subsystem. As these measures change in time, the robust adaptive system changes in response.
US12201840B2	Electrical stimulation device and method An electrical stimulation device is provided. The electrical stimulation device includes a boost circuit, a voltage selecting circuit and a control circuit. The boost circuit generates a plurality of voltages, wherein the voltages have different voltage values. The voltage selecting circuit is coupled to the boost circuit and selects one voltage according to a reference voltage on a tissue impedance to generate an output voltage. The control circuit is coupled to the boost circuit and in response to electrical stimulation; it transmits a control signal to enable the boost circuit.
US12201835B2	Systems and methods for spatially selective spinal cord stimulation A system may include electrodes on at least one lead configured to be operationally positioned for use in modulating a volume of neural tissue, a neural modulation generator configured to deliver energy using at least some electrodes to modulate the volume of neural tissue, a programming system configured to program the programmed modulation parameter set, including determine electrode fractionalizations for the electrodes based on a target multipole. The programmed parameter set may include the determined electrode fractionalizations. The target multipole may be used to determine electrode fractionalizations having at least three target poles that directionally and progressively stack fractionalizations of target poles to provide a linear electric field over the volume of tissue. The neural modulation generator may be configured to use the programmed modulation parameter set to provide the linear electric field over the volume of tissue.
US12201834B2	Apparatuses and methods for transdermal electrical stimulation of nerves to modify or induce a cognitive state Portable transdermal electrical stimulation (TES) applicators for modifying a subject's cognitive state by applying stimulation to the subject's skin. One or more electrode may be on the subject's mastoid, and/or on or near the back of the subject's neck. The portable applicators are configured and adapted to be lightweight and may be wearable, and to deliver a high-intensity TES able to evoke or enhance a predetermined cognitive effect to stimulate either the trigeminal, facial and/or cervical plexus. These TES applicators may include a pair of electrodes and a TES control module comprising a processor, a timer and a waveform generator.
US12201832B2	Stimulation therapy for treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) based on compound muscle action potential (CMAP) A medical system for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) treatment includes therapy delivery circuitry configured to output one or more electrical stimulation signals to a tongue of a patient; sensing circuitry configured to sense one or more compound muscle action potential (CMAP) signals, wherein the one or more CMAP signals are generated in response to the delivery of the one or more electrical stimulation signals; and processing circuitry configured to: cause the therapy delivery circuitry to output the one or more electrical stimulation signals to the tongue; receive information indicative of the one or more CMAP signals from the sensing circuitry; determine, based on the one or more CMAP signals, one or more therapeutic stimulation parameters for the OSA treatment; and cause the therapy delivery circuitry to deliver therapeutic electrical stimulation signals according to at least the determined one or more therapeutic stimulation parameters.
US12201828B2	System and methods for therapeutic stimulation A system and method for providing electrical stimulation to biological tissue to treat medical conditions. The system can include a lead configured to be positioned in contact with biological tissue proximate one or more occipital nerves, an implantable pulse generator configured to deliver electrical stimulation to the biological tissue via the one or more leads, and/or a power source configured to operatively connect and supply power to the implantable pulse generator. The system can further include a processor configured to communicate with the implantable pulse generator. The processor can operate the implantable pulse generator to deliver the electrical stimulation to the biological tissue via the lead. The implantable pulse generator can deliver the electrical stimulation by applying a stimulation waveform or a stimulation pattern. The stimulation waveform can include a series of stimulation pulses that can vary over time, which can reduce an effect of neural accommodation or adaptation.
US12201827B2	Photosensitive pixel structure with increased light absorption and photosensitive implant The present invention refers to a photosensitive pixel structure comprising a substrate with a front surface and a back surface, wherein at least one photosensitive diode is provided on one of the surfaces of the substrate. A first material layer is provided at least partially on the back surface of the substrate, wherein the material layer comprises a reflective layer, in order to increase a reflectivity at the back surface of the substrate. Further, the present invention refers to an array and an implant comprising such a photosensitive pixel structure, as well as to a method to produce the pixel structure.
US12201812B2	Contextual adjustment of control parameters A processor-implemented method includes causing fluid delivery to a patient based on a first value for a control parameter, identifying a second value for the control parameter based on a determination that a current operational context is associated with the second value, and causing fluid delivery to the patient based on the second value for the control parameter in lieu of the first value for the control parameter.
US12201807B2	Medical infusion pump treatment identification Disclosed are various embodiments for identification of medical fluid treatment to a medical patient. Systems and their operations are disclosed to identify a fluidic treatment protocol among a plurality of medical infusion lines. The system includes medical infusion pumps, illuminating medical infusion lines, and computing resources to initiate identification. Fluidic medical treatment is prone to error, cognitive load is elevated in healthcare operations, the various embodiments disclosed herein are systems and methods to decrease error and reduce cognitive load by identifying as a visual cue the medical fluid treatment protocol.
US12201803B2	Infusion system and components thereof Certain embodiments provide multi-medicament infusion systems for preventing the cross-channeling of medicaments. The system may include one or more of an infusion pump, medicament reservoirs, collars, a multi-channel fluid conduit, and an infusion set. The medicament reservoirs and/or collars may be sized and shaped differently such that the medicament reservoirs can only be inserted into the system selected configurations.
US12201802B2	Multiple fluid delivery system with multi-use disposable set and features thereof A multi-fluid injector system having a powered injector having a housing enclosing at least one reciprocally operable piston is described. The injector system includes a multi-use disposable set (MUDS) connectable to the powered fluid injector. The MUDS has at least one syringe having a proximal end and a distal end and a plunger reciprocally movable by the at least one piston element within a syringe interior between the proximal end and the distal end; a manifold in fluid communication with the distal end of the at least one syringe; at least one valve in fluid communication with the syringe interior, the at least one valve operable between a filling position for filling the syringe interior with fluid and a delivery position for delivering the fluid from the syringe interior; and at least one connection port in fluid communication with the manifold and the syringe interior when the at least one valve is in the delivery position. The injector system further includes a coupling mechanism for operating the at least one valve between the filling position and the delivery position. Various features of the MUDS assembly and methods of interaction between the injector system and the MUDS assembly are also described.
US12201799B2	Needleless connector with in-line filter Needleless connectors are described herein. A needleless connector includes a housing comprising a cavity and a proximal fluid port in fluid communication with the cavity. The connector further includes a filter support disposed at least partially within the cavity. The filter support can include a distal fluid port in fluid communication with the proximal fluid port. The connector further includes a filter disposed circumferentially around the filter support and between the proximal fluid port and the distal fluid port.
US12201798B2	Method for increasing cell viability by using drug delivery system and ultrasound irradiation, and ultrasound irradiation apparatus using same Disclosed are a method for increasing the viability of cells by ultrasound irradiation and an ultrasound irradiation apparatus using same. The method comprises: applying a drug and an epidermal drug delivery system onto the epidermis of a subject; and, with ultrasound parameters each being preset within a certain range, an ultrasound irradiation apparatus irradiating ultrasound onto the epidermis of the subject through an ultrasound generation unit placed within a critical range from the epidermis of the subject, wherein the epidermal drug delivery system induces the formation of cavities, i.e., cavitation around the epidermis of the subject when the ultrasound is irradiated, the ultrasound parameters at least include an ultrasound pressure and an ultrasound duty percentage, the ultrasound pressure is 0.5-1 MPa, and the ultrasound duty percentage is 1-5%.
US12201792B2	Method for making a guidewire from a drawn-filled tube of a stainless steel sheath jacketing a nitinol core wire A guidewire made from a drawn-filled tube composite wire is described. The composite wire has a stainless steel outer sheath jacketing a nitinol core wire. The drawn-filled tube composite wire is ground at its distal end to expose the nitinol core, which has superelastic and kink resistant properties that are desirable for the distal end of a guidewire. The proximal end of the drawn-filled tube is not ground or if ground, the outer sheath of stainless steel is not removed to an extent sufficient to expose the nitinol core.
US12201787B2	Medical device handle and method of use A handle assembly includes a drive wire coupled to an expandable end effector, the wire having a diameter of no more than 3 French and a handle cannula receiving the wire therethrough, rotation of the handle cannula transferring torque to rotate the wire. The assembly also includes a shaft receiving the handle cannula, rotation of the shaft transferring torque to rotate the handle cannula. The assembly further includes an actuation assembly receiving the shaft, the actuation assembly coupled to a sheath sized to receive the wire and end effector therethrough, the actuation assembly moveable between a proximal configuration in which the sheath is moved proximally to expand the end effector and a distal configuration in which the sheath is moved distally to retract the end effector, the actuation assembly including a rotation mechanism transferring torque to the shaft to rotate the shaft.
US12201786B2	Measurement of distal end dimension of catheters using magnetic fields In one embodiment, a system includes generator coils to generate respective magnetic fields, a catheter including a distal end, which includes magnetic coil sensors to output electrical signals based on detection of the respective magnetic fields, and processing circuitry to receive the electrical signals from the magnetic coil sensors, select at least one of magnetic fields having a magnetic field gradient as a function of at least one of the received electrical signals, compute a difference between magnetic field magnitudes of the at least one selected magnetic field detected by the first magnetic coil sensor and the second magnetic coil sensor as a function of the electrical signals, and compute a dimension of the distal end, based on the difference between the magnetic field magnitudes of the at least one selected magnetic field and the magnetic field gradient of the at least one selected magnetic field.
US12201785B2	Endoscopic medical device and method of use A medical device including a handle body having a proximal end and a distal end, a spool on the handle body and to move between the distal end and the proximal end of the handle body, a catheter extending from the distal end of the handle body, an actuator attached to the spool and extending through the catheter, such that the actuator is removably connected to one or more dispensable devices at a distal end of the catheter, a spool controller to prevent connection with another of the dispensable devices to the actuator after a predetermined number of dispensable devices have been dispensed by the medical device.
US12201778B2	Water tank mounting structure for ventilation treatment apparatus and ventilation treatment apparatus A water tank mounting structure and a ventilation treatment apparatus for such structure. The water tank mounting structure comprises a cavity for containing a water tank and a side wall defining the cavity, wherein the side wall comprises an inner side wall spaced apart from an outer side, a first gas hole provided in the inner side wall, and a second gas hole provided in the outer side wall, both holes arranged in a staggered manner perpendicular to the side wall. The arrangement of the double-layer side wall, and the first and second gas holes in the inner and outer side walls, respectively, allows for hot gas in the cavity to be effectively removed. The staggered arrangement of the gas holes allows for water to flow downward along the side wall without invading the cavity when water enters through the second gas hole. A waterproof effect is achieved.
US12201777B2	Humidifier heater base A humidifier heater base assembly has a heater plate with a thermally conductive portion and a perimeter portion around a perimeter of the heater plate. A resilient member has an inner part attached to the perimeter portion and an outer part adapted to provide a resilient perimeter flange around at least part and preferably the whole of the perimeter portion. The resilient member fixes the heater base to the humidifier by the resilient perimeter flange such that the heater plate and the inner part can move relative to the humidifier in a direction substantially transverse to the general plane of the heater plate. At least a portion of the resilient perimeter flange remains stationary relative to the humidifier.
US12201776B2	Apparatus for use in a respiratory support system An apparatus or kit for a respiratory support system for delivering humidified gas to a user or patient. The apparatus comprising a humidifier chamber in pneumatic communication with a gases source, an inspiratory conduit in pneumatic communication with the humidifier chamber downstream of the humidifier chamber, a filter that is in pneumatic communication with the inspiratory conduit downstream of the inspiratory conduit, and a patient interface for delivering humidified gas to a user or patient, wherein the patient interface is in pneumatic communication with the filter downstream of the filter, or is configured to be placed in pneumatic communication with the filter downstream of the filter.
US12201771B2	Patient interface formed from a textile construction and including a stiffened portion to provide for customization The invention relates to a patient interface comprising a plenum chamber, a seal-forming structure, and a positioning and stabilizing structure, as well as the method of operating the patient interface. The patient's interface is configured to leave a patient's mouth uncovered or if the seal-forming structure is configured to seal around a patient's nose and mouth, the patient interface is configured to allow the patient to breath from the ambient in an absence of the flow of pressurized. The positioning and stabilizing structure includes headgear, and the seal-forming structure and at least a portion of the headgear is formed from a one piece construction of textile material. In another embodiment, the seal-forming structure and/or the positioning and stabilizing structure includes an adaptive portion that adjusts based on usage conditions. In another embodiment, the positioning and stabilizing structure, the seal-forming structure and/or the plenum chamber includes and/or is formed of a textile material, and the textile material includes at least one magnetic thread constructed of magnetic material to provide a magnetic interaction between a first part of the patient interface and a second part of the patient interface. In another embodiment, a stiffener is coupled to the plenum chamber, the seal-forming structure, and/or the positioning and stabilizing structure. In another embodiment, at least one of the plenum chamber and the seal-forming structure includes a textile material; and wherein the textile material includes a surface structure that limits adhesion of debris. A UV cleaning receptacle of the patient interface is also disclosed.
US12201769B2	Methods and apparatus for oxygenation and/or CO2 removal An apparatus for oxygenation and/or CO2 clearance of a patient. The apparatus comprising: a flow source or a connection for a flow source for providing a gas flow, a gas flow modulator, a controller to control the gas flow. The controller is operable to: receive input relating to heart activity and/or trachea gas flow of the patient, and control the gas flow modulator to provide a varying gas flow with at least two oscillating components. One oscillating component has a frequency based on the heart activity and/or trachea flow of the patient. One oscillating component has a frequency to: promote bulk gas flow movement, or promote mixing.
US12201768B2	Wire heated tube with temperature control system, tube type detection, and active over temperature protection for humidifier for respiratory apparatus A PAP system for delivering breathable gas to a patient includes a flow generator to generate a supply of breathable gas to be delivered to the patient; a humidifier including a heating plate to vaporize water and deliver water vapor to humidify the supply of breathable gas; a heated tube configured to heat and deliver the humidified supply of breathable gas to the patient; a power supply configured to supply power to the heating plate and the heated tube; and a controller configured to control the power supply to prevent overheating of the heating plate and the heated tube.
US12201763B2	Blood treatment device with automatic air removal A blood treatment device includes an extracorporeal blood circuit, a dialyzer and a dialysis fluid circuit. The extracorporeal blood circuit has an arterial portion, a venous portion, an air detector configured to monitor whether air is present in the venous portion, at least one blood pump configured to pump blood through the extracorporeal blood circuit, a venous hose clamp configured to selectively clamp or release the venous portion, a user interface, and a control unit. When the control unit receives information from the air detector that there is air in the venous portion, the control unit is configured to stop the blood pump, close the venous hose clamp, raise an alarm, and display on the user interface instructions for removing air in the venous portion and displaying status reports about the removal of air, and carry out automatic removal of air from the venous portion on a user-initiated basis.
US12201762B2	Dialysis system and methods Dialysis systems and methods are described which can include a number of features. The dialysis systems described can be to provide dialysis therapy to a patient in the comfort of their own home. The dialysis system can be configured to prepare purified water from a tap water source in real-time that is used for creating a dialysate solution. The dialysis systems described also include features that make it easy for a patient to self-administer therapy. For example, the dialysis systems include disposable cartridge and patient tubing sets that are easily installed on the dialysis system and automatically align the tubing set, sensors, venous drip chamber, and other features with the corresponding components on the dialysis system. Methods of use are also provided, including automated priming sequences, blood return sequences, and dynamic balancing methods for controlling a rate of fluid transfer during different types of dialysis, including hemodialysis, ultrafiltration, and hemodiafiltration.
US12201760B2	Medical device with antimicrobial properties Devices and methods for delivering an antimicrobial composition to a medical device to prevent infection and microbial ingress in medical devices. An embodiment of the device includes a male connector with a distal tip and a recess at the distal tip configured to deliver an antimicrobial composition into solution within a cavity formed by the recess. The surface of the recess includes an antimicrobial composition. In certain implementations, the antimicrobial composition contains chlorhexidine acetate.
US12201759B2	Conductivity control systems A dialysis system has a module with a dialyzer configured to remove one or more substances from a dialysis solution as it passes through a dialyzer. The module has a fluid line, a sorbent cartridge, and a sodium control system adapted to actively alter a sodium concentration of dialysis solution passing through the fluid line as the dialysis solution exits the sorbent cartridge. The sodium control system has a conductivity sensor that sends a signal indicating the conductivity of the dialysis solution as the dialysis solution exits the sorbent cartridge, the conductivity meter being in communication with the sodium control system, a processor configured to receive the signal from the conductivity sensor, compare the conductivity signal to a threshold value lower than a prescription value, and cause the sodium control system to stop actively altering the sodium concentration if the signal is greater than the threshold value.
US12201755B2	Modular contaminate capture and sterilization apparatus and method An apparatus and method are provided for capturing and sterilizing contaminants, such as viruses and the like. Air containing the contaminants is drawn into the apparatus that comprises a housing having a customized number and arrangement of dissimilar treatment chambers to remove a particular contaminate targeted for removal. The treatment chambers are selected from a group of pre manufactured, self-contained chambers that are singularly or in combination inserted into the housing and within an air flow path created by a fan. The group of treatment chambers include a UV chamber, a temperature chamber and an ozone converter chamber. The customized arrangement of treatment chambers are each placed in the air flow path and programmed to provide customized sterilization of any type of contaminate while persons are present in the space being treated.
US12201751B2	Flushable disintegration catheter Medical devices that are flushable in a standard toilet are disclosed. The medical devices are made at least in part of material that when introduced into water (of a toilet) disintegrate and/or fragment or are fragmentable before or after introduction into water such that they can be easily carried by the water through the disposal system. At least a portion of the device is intended for insertion into a patient or subject wherein the body-insertable portion retains its structural integrity while in use but is fragmentable once outside the body and exposed to a selected condition.
US12201747B2	Compositions and methods for treatment of bone defects The present invention relates to the field of treatment of bone defects. The invention provides a composition for treatment of bone defects as well as methods for treatment of such defects.
US12201746B2	Expandable bone and tissue regeneration system, and applications of same The disclosure relates to an expandable scaffold and a method for fabricating the scaffold. The expandable scaffold includes a three-dimensional porous structure comprising a composite material composed by a first material and a second material. The 3D porous structure has a tunable expansion capacity. When applied in a liquid, the 3D porous structure may uptake the liquid and expand from an original volume to an expansion volume up to 1000 times of the original volume. The 3D porous structure may be formed by a plurality of layers of the composite material, and architecture and shape of the layers of the composite material are arranged in accordance with a shape and a size of the expansion volume. Applications of the scaffold may include a bone or soft tissue regeneration system or a bleed stopping device.
US12201744B2	Heart valve A heart valve is at least partially constructed from a block-copolymer, the block-copolymer having a phase structure formed by its constituent blocks, and wherein the phase structure is arranged so as to produce anisotropic physical properties in the heart valve.
US12201742B2	Hydrophobically-modified biopolymer materials In various aspects and embodiments, the present invention provides hemostatic products and methods for treating wounds, including cavity wounds and non-compressible hemorrhage. In various embodiments, the invention employs hydrophobically-modified polymer foams, gels, or pastes.
US12201738B2	System for converting an existing ethylene oxide vacuum sterilizer into a chlorine dioxide vacuum sterilizer This invention serves to repurpose existing ethylene oxide sterilization chambers utilizing a novel chemical means of sterilization. Ethylene oxide is a longstanding gaseous sterilant for medical devices but has increasing problems associated with its hazards. Ethylene oxide is a carcinogenic and explosive chemical, and its emissions can be very harmful and cause serious health risks. Due to this, the FDA and many medical device manufacturers are trying to reduce or eliminate the use of the gas. Chlorine dioxide gas is a nearly identical alternative mode of sterilization that is non-carcinogenic and non-explosive. If firms choose to eliminate the use of ethylene oxide but do not want to waste the capital expenditure on existing sterilizers, they can instead utilize the ethylene oxide-to-chlorine dioxide conversion system of the present invention and use an effective and environmentally friendly form of sterilization in a system they already possess.
US12201735B2	Modeling to assist high-level UV-C disinfection The invention concerns a disinfection device includes a disinfection chamber having an interior volume and a radiation source coupled to the interior volume. The radiation source is arranged to emit disinfecting radiation into the interior volume when in operation. A disinfection program in the disinfection chamber is arranged to control the radiation source to emit the disinfecting radiation according to parameters determined based on at least one of a three dimensional model of the disinfection chamber and a three dimensional model of a target article to be disinfected. The three dimensional model of the disinfection chamber is formed using data collected by operating at least one radiation source in a data collection disinfection chamber, or by providing a disinfection chamber model having a virtual interior volume. The three dimensional model of the target article to be disinfected is formed by providing a target article model having a virtual surface.
US12201734B2	Method for sterilizing heart valves A method of preparing a sterilized heart valve, the method comprising: compressing a compressible frame of a heart valve from an expanded configuration to a crimped configuration; the heart valve comprising the frame and a plurality of leaflets coupled to the frame; wherein each of the plurality of leaflets comprises a dry, unfixed, decellularized, antigen-free biological tissue that has been treated with a solution comprising a polyol or polyhydric alcohol; packaging the heart valve within a sealed packaging system while the heart valve is in the crimped configuration; and sterilizing the heart valve packaged within the sealed packaging system with one or more cycles of electron beam radiation.
US12201730B2	Catalytic microgelators for decoupled control of gelation rate and rigidity of biological gels Provided herein are stimulus-responsive polymer microgelator particles that can activate fibrin fiber formation from their surfaces by actively ejecting thrombin to form an interconnected fibrin network with an increased elastic modulus and desirable microstructure. The use of the microgelators enables the decoupling of gelation rate and gel rigidity.
US12201727B2	Sustained release formulations of Dysoxylum binefacterum The present invention relates to the novel formulation for sustained or delayed release of rohitukine-rich Dysoxylum binectariferum extract/fraction and a process for preparing the same wherein the extract is wet-granulated using excipients i.e. biodegradable polymers and/or non-biodegradable polymers alone or in combination, and the said granules are either filled into a capsule or compressed into a tablet. The said formulation comprising a granulated extract/fraction of rohitukine-rich Dysoxylum binectariferum with polymers has resulted in a sustained release of the extract or fraction over a period of 16-24 hrs. The said formulations are useful in the treatment of inflammatory diseases.
US12201726B2	Preserving functionally-coated API particles produced by solventless mixing processes in aqueous suspension Provided are pharmaceutical compositions and methods for preparing pharmaceutical compositions that preserve the coating of coated API particles in a pharmaceutical suspension. Pharmaceutical compositions include coated active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) particles comprising: an API particle; a first coating comprising one or more deformed components coating the API particle; a second coating comprising silica surrounding and/or partially or fully embedded into the first coating, a matrix former, and a structure former.
US12201725B2	Dry powder compositions of treprostinil prodrugs and methods of use thereof The present disclosure provides a dry powder composition of treprostinil prodrugs and a method of treating pulmonary hypertension (e.g., pulmonary arterial hypertension), portopulmonary hypertension, or pulmonary fibrosis in a patient in need thereof. The dry powder composition includes (a) from about 0.1 wt % to about 3 wt % of a compound of Formula (I): or an enantiomer, diastereomer, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, (b) from about 0.01 wt % to about 3 wt % of DSPE-PEG2000, (c) from about 10 wt % to about 50 wt % of leucine, and the balance being (d) a sugar selected from the group consisting of trehalose and mannitol. The entirety of (a), (b), (c), and (d) is 100 wt %, and R1 is tetradecyl, pentadecyl, hexadecyl, heptadecyl, or octadecyl. The method includes administering an effective amount of the dry powder composition to the lungs of the patient by inhalation via a dry powder inhaler. In certain compositions and methods provided herein, R1 is hexadecyl, e.g., linear hexadecyl.
US12201724B2	Lecithin vesicles for oral delivery Giant multi-lamellar vesicles (GMVs) comprising lecithin are provided which are at least about 3 μm in size. Methods for preparing the GMVs, and for preparing large unilamellar vesicles (LUVs) from the GMVs, are provided, as well as methods for encapsulating cargo within the GMVs and LUVs. The present vesicles are useful for the oral delivery of encapsulated cargo.
US12201722B2	Nanostructured lipid carriers and stable emulsions and uses thereof Provided herein are nanostructured lipid carrier compositions, and methods of making and using thereof. The compositions comprise a nanostructured lipid carrier (NLC), where the NLC comprises an oil core comprising a mixture of a liquid phase lipid and a solid phase lipid, a cationic lipid, a sorbitan ester, and a hydrophilic surfactant, and optionally a bioactive agent. The bioactive agent can be associated with the NLC. The compositions are capable of delivery of a biomolecule to a cell for the generation of an immune response, for example, for vaccine, therapeutic, or diagnostic uses. Compositions and methods related to making the compositions and using the compositions for stimulating an immune response are also provided.
US12201717B2	Compositions and methods for supporting skin barrier homeostasis The present disclosure is directed to the use of a composition comprised of: (1) a first active blend of at least: (a) Jojoba oil/Macadamia seed oil esters; (b) squalene; (c) phytosteryl macadamiate; and (d) phytosterols; (2) a second active blend of at least: (e) EGF growth factor; (f) IGF-1 growth factor; (g) acidic FGF growth factor; (h) basic FGF growth factor; (i) VEGF growth factor; (j) vitamin B9; and (k) acetyl glutamine; and (3) a third active blend of at least: (l) an extract of lithothamnium calcareum; (m) pentylene glycol; (n) lactic acid; and (o) glycerin; (4) an emulsifier; and (5) a dermatologically acceptable carrier which, when applied onto skin, helps to positively influence inflammation, hydration, and keratinocyte hyperproliferation, thereby supporting skin barrier health, integrity, and functionality.
US12201714B2	Multicomponent pur composition The instant disclosure generally relates to a multicomponent composition for coloring mammalian or synthetic keratin fibers, the multicomponent composition comprising first, second, third and fourth components. The first component includes an organic polymer, the second component includes an in situ linking material, the third component includes a base compound and the fourth component includes a catalyst or other substance. One or more of the components includes pigment microparticles. The multicomponent composition in situ links upon application, forms a solid coating on treated material such as hair and has a substantially long color remanence following development. Methods of using such compositions are also described herein.
US12201703B2	Radiotherapy gel and method of preparing the same A radioactive thermogel suspension, including a thermogel and a plurality of insoluble radioactive isotope phosphate particles, such as yttrium phosphate, suspended in the thermogel. The thermogel is PLGA-g-PEG. The thermogel contains less than 65 ppm stannous octanoate. The plurality of radioactive yttrium phosphate particles are between 0.03 μm and 10 μm in diameter. The plurality of radioactive yttrium phosphate particles are generally spherical. The YPO4 particle concentration is in the range of 3 mg/ml to 100 mg/ml.
US12201702B1	Diagnosis, removal, or mechanical damaging of tumor using plasmonic nanobubbles Processes of intraoperative diagnosis and elimination of tumors or micro-tumors or cancer cells or tumor micro-environment (TME) with plasmonic nanobubbles (PNBs) are disclosed. The diagnosis and surgical processes disclosed can improve standard onco-surgery through one or more of the following: real-time intraoperative local detection of MRD in vivo with high cancer sensitivity and specificity; real-time guidance of surgery to precisely eliminate resectable MRD with minimal morbidity by resecting only PNB-positive volume instead of a larger volume; intraoperative selective elimination of unresectable MRD through the mechanical impact of lethal cancer cell-specific PNBs without damaging adjacent normal cells and tissues; and prediction of the surgical outcome through the metrics of PNB signals.
US12201696B2	Multiplexed analysis of materials for tissue delivery Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for identifying materials suitable for functional delivery of a bioactive agent to a target tissue. These compositions and methods have the advantage of simultaneously screening a library of materials for the ability to deliver a bioactive agent to a cell, tissue, or organ. The compositions and methods can also be used to confirm that the agent is delivered in a manner sufficient for function of the agent.
US12201695B2	Polyglutamated pemetrexed and uses thereof The disclosure relates generally to polyglutamated antifolates, formulations containing liposomes filled with the polyglutamated antifolates, methods of making the polyglutamated antifolates and liposome containing formulations, and methods of using the polyglutamated antifolates and liposome containing formulations to treat hyerproliferative disorders (e.g., cancer) and disorders of the immune system (e.g., an autoimmune disease such as rheumatoid arthritis).
US12201693B2	Amanitin conjugates The invention relates to a conjugate comprising (a) an amatoxin comprising (i) an amino acid 4 with a 6′-deoxy position; and (ii) an amino acid 8 with an S-deoxy position; (b) a target-binding moiety; and (c) optionally a linker linking said amatoxin and said target-binding moiety. The invention furthermore relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising such conjugate.
US12201692B2	Targeted protease compositions and uses related thereto This disclosure relates to targeted protease compositions and uses related thereto. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to nanoparticles wherein a targeting molecule is linked to the nanoparticle and wherein a catalytic domain of a protease is linked to the nanoparticle. In certain embodiments, the targeting molecule and the catalytic domain are within a single polypeptide sequence. In certain embodiments, the targeting molecule binds a molecule more highly expressed on cancer cells then non-cancerous cells, and the nanoparticles disclosed herein are used for the treatment of cancer by further attaching an anti-cancer agent to the nanoparticle or incorporating an anticancer agent within the nanoparticle.
US12201680B2	Nucleic acid comprising or coding for a histone stem-loop and a poly(A) sequence or a polyadenylation signal for increasing the expression of an encoded pathogenic antigen The present invention relates to a nucleic acid sequence, comprising or coding for a coding region, encoding at least one peptide or protein comprising a pathogenic antigen or a fragment, variant or derivative thereof, at least one histone stem-loop and a poly(A) sequence or a polyadenylation signal. Furthermore the present invention provides the use of the nucleic acid for increasing the expression of said encoded peptide or protein. It also discloses its use for the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition, especially a vaccine, e.g. for use in the treatment of infectious diseases. The present invention further describes a method for increasing the expression of a peptide or protein comprising a pathogenic antigen or a fragment, variant or derivative thereof, using the nucleic acid comprising or coding for a histone stem-loop and a poly(A) sequence or a polyadenylation signal.
US12201674B2	Injectable presentations, syringes and compositions with sustained and/or controlled release of lanreotide The present invention relates to novel injectable presentations, kits or syringes comprising a composition with sustained or controlled release of lanreotide or one of the salts thereof. The compositions of lanreotide or one of the salts thereof are packaged in a syringe having a diameter greater than 3.00 mm and provided with a needle having an outer diameter no greater than 1.00 mm.
US12201672B2	Nucleic acids encoding p75NTR neurotrophin binding proteins The present invention relates to a p75NTR neurotrophin binding protein, p75NTR(NBP), for use in the treatment of pain and/or a symptom of pain.
US12201665B2	Polygoni Milletii Rhizome compositions and methods of preparing the same A method of preparing a Polygoni Milletii Rhizome tincture includes: preparing a first mixture; extracting the first mixture with 70-90% ethanol under reflux condition to obtain a first extract solution; preparing a second mixture; extracting the second mixture with 50-70% ethanol to obtain a second extract solution; and mixing the first extract solution with the second extract solution to obtain the polygoni milletii rhizome tincture. A method of preparing a Polygoni Milletii Rhizome poultice includes: reparing a Polygoni Milletii Rhizome mixture; mixing the Polygoni Milletii Rhizome mixture and a skin penetration enhancer in water; mixing a moisturizing agent and a binder in water; adding a thickener in water; mixing methylparaben and ethylparaben in 90% ethanol; mixing all solutions to form a mixture; and applying the mixture on a non-woven fabric cloth and drying to form the Polygoni Milletii Rhizome poultice.
US12201660B2	Herbo-mineral composition for alleviating adverse effects of chemotherapy in cancer patients The present disclosure relates to a herbo-mineral kit for alleviating adverse effects of chemotherapy resulting into improved quality of life of patients. The herbo-mineral kit comprises a first container containing Padmakadi Ghrut (PDG) in a thick, viscous form; a second container containing Mouktikyukta Kamdudha Vati (MKD) in a solid dosage form; a third container containing Praval Pishti Vati (PPV) in a solid dosage form; and a fourth container containing Ananta vati in a solid dosage form. The herbo-mineral kit of the present disclosure can be used for alleviating adverse effects of chemotherapy such as nausea, vomiting, constipation, diarrhea, stomatitis, and skin discoloration in cancer treatment. Use of the herbo-mineral kit of the present disclosure may prove to be beneficial in all types of cancers and diseases for which chemotherapy is treatment of choice.
US12201657B2	Adeno-associated virus compositions for restoring HBB gene function and methods of use thereof Provided herein are adeno-associated virus (AAV) compositions for correcting a mutation in a beta globin gene (HBB) gene and methods of using the same to correct an HBB gene mutation in a cell. Also provided are packaging systems for making the adeno-associated virus compositions.
US12201653B2	Engineered immunostimulatory bacterial strains and uses thereof Provided are delivery immunostimulatory bacteria that have enhanced colonization of tumors, the tumor microenvironment and/or tumor-resident immune cells, and enhanced anti-tumor activity. The immunostimulatory bacteria are modified by deletion of genes encoding the flagella, or by modification of the genes so that functional flagella are not produced, and/or are modified by deletion of pagP or modification of pagP to produce inactive PagP product. As a result, the immunostimulatory bacteria are flagellin− and/or pagP−. The immunostimulatory bacteria optionally have additional genomic modifications so that the bacteria are adenosine or purine auxotrophs. The bacteria optionally are one or more of asd−, purI−, and msbB−. The immunostimulatory bacteria, such as Salmonella species, are modified to encode immunostimulatory proteins that confer anti-tumor activity in the tumor microenvironment, and/or are modified so that the bacteria preferentially infect immune cells in the tumor microenvironment, or tumor-resident immune cells, and/or are modified to induce less cell death in immune cells than in other cells. Also provided are methods of inhibiting the growth or reducing the volume of a solid tumor by administering the immunostimulatory bacteria.
US12201649B2	Pharmaceutical composition comprising oxidizable biphenol and manganese porphyrin, and method of using the same A pharmaceutical composition and a method of using the same for killing cancer cells are provided. The pharmaceutical composition comprising effective amounts of one oxidizable diphenol and a manganese porphyrin in one-part dosage form or in a two-part dosage form. The oxidizable diphenol and the manganese porphyrin can be administrated to a subject in need thereof simultaneously or sequentially.
US12201646B2	Hydrogel tablet for relieving alcoholism and protecting the liver as well as preparation process and application thereof The present disclosure provides a hydrogel tablet for relieving alcoholism and protecting the liver as well as the preparation process and application thereof. The present disclosure firstly provides a composition with the effects of relieving alcoholism and protecting the liver, which comprises the following components on the basis of weight parts: 20˜40 parts of chitosan, 25˜55 parts of sodium alginate, 3˜20 parts of gelatin, 1˜10 parts of calcium carbonate and 0.05˜0.5 parts of gallic acid. Based on this composition, the present disclosure further provides a hydrogel tablet for relieving alcoholism and protecting the liver. In the present disclosure, chitosan, sodium alginate and calcium carbonate are compounded at an appropriate proportion to form powder particles of chitosan/sodium alginate (shell)-calcium carbonate (core), into which are additionally added gelatin and gallic acid to get a product that is the hydrogel tablet.
US12201641B2	Compositions comprising Withania Somnifera extract for mammalian consumption Provided is a Withania somnifera extract composition contains at least one of withaferin A, withanoside IV, withanoside V, withanoside VI, withanolide A, withanolide B, anaferine, anahygrine, 12-deoxywithastromonolide, sitoindoside X, sitoindoside IX, cuscohygrine, isopelletierine, bracteosin A, bracteosin B, or bracteosin C, or a salt or solvate of any one thereof. Related compositions, methods, and processes are also provided.
US12201636B2	Heterocyclylamines as PI3K inhibitors The present invention provides heterocyclylamine derivatives of Formula I: wherein the variables are defined herein, that modulate the activity of phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks) and are useful in the treatment of diseases related to the activity of PI3Ks including, for example, inflammatory disorders, immune-based disorders, cancer, and other diseases.
US12201635B2	Multi-target kinase inhibitor, pharmaceutical composition, and preparation method for multi-target kinase inhibitor and use thereof A multi-target kinase inhibitor is shown in formula (I), in which R is selected from formula (a), formula (b), formula (c), formula (d), formula (e) and formula (f). The multi-target kinase inhibitor can effectively inhibit the enzymatic activities of RET, VEGFR3 and PDGFRA, and can effectively treat diseases that are regulated and controlled by multi-target kinases and are related to abnormal signal transduction pathways of the multi-target kinases, including cancers of breast, respiratory tract, brain, reproductive organ, digestive tract, urinary tract, eye, liver, skin, head and/or neck and distant metastatic cancers thereof, and lymphoma, sarcoma, leukemia and the like. The active ingredients of the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention comprise a multi-target kinase inhibitor, which accounts for 1-50 wt % of the composition.
US12201634B2	Methods of treating depression using orexin-2 receptor antagonists The present disclosure is directed to, inter alia, methods of treating a subject suffering from or diagnosed with depression, comprising administering to a subject in need of such treatment an effective amount of a compound of formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1 to R4 are described herein and wherein the compound is administered prior to sleep.
US12201632B2	Levoketoconazole for treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia and primary aldosteronism Disclosed are methods for treating congenital adrenal hyperplasia or primary aldosteronism in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of 2S,4R ketoconazole enantiomer substantially free of the 2R,4S ketoconazole enantiomer to the subject. Also disclosed are compositions comprising a therapeutically effective amount of 2S,4R ketoconazole enantiomer substantially free of the 2R,4S ketoconazole enantiomer for use in treating a disease or condition associated with congenital adrenal hyperplasia or primary aldosteronism.
US12201631B2	Methods and compositions for reducing tactile dysfunction and anxiety associated with autism spectrum disorder, Rett syndrome, and fragile X syndrome The present invention features a method of reducing tactile dysfunction or anxiety in a subject diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Rett Syndrome, or Fragile X syndrome by administering a GABAA agent having reduced blood brain barrier or by expressing a nucleic acid encoding an exogenous alpha or beta subunit of a GABAA receptor in dorsal root ganglion neurons in the subject using a vector.
US12201625B2	Single nucleotide polymorphic alleles of human DP-2 gene for detection of susceptibility to hair growth inhibition by PGD2 DP-2 antagonists reversed PGD2-mediated human hair growth inhibition in a dose-dependent manner in vitro by reducing PGD2-triggered apoptosis and maintaining proliferation of keratinocytes. Hair follicles from approximately half of the alopecia patients exhibited little susceptibility to PGD2's effect in vitro. SNPs in the human DP-2 gene were identified that are associated with hair growth inhibition by PGD2. These findings underscore the role of DP-2 in regulating hair growth and indicate that DP-2 can be an effective approach in preventing and/or treating androgenetic alopecia in patients sensitive to PGD2. Furthermore, the SNPs identified here can be used to identify patients who will benefit from treatment.
US12201623B1	Composition and method for preventing long-term COVID-19 morbidity Disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition in one or more of a solid dosage form, a powder form, a liquid-filled capsule, and a softgel capsule for preventing long-term COVID-19 morbidity. The pharmaceutical composition includes a therapeutically effective amount of a mixture of: nicotinic acid, ascorbic acid, vitamin D, zinc picolinate, selenium, luteolin, methylcobalamin (B12), taurine, turmeric extract (>95% Curcumin), R-alpha-lipoic acid, d1-alpha-tocopheryl acetate (Vitamin E), Co-enzyme Q10 (CoQ10), acetyl-L-carnitine, pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ), 5-MTHF methyl folate, lutein, zeaxanthin, thiamine (B1), riboflavin (B2), biotin (B7), pyridoxine hydrochloride (B6), calcium ascorbate, magnesium bisglycinate, copper bisglycinate, panthothenate (B5), betain Hydrochloride, vitamin K2, and boron glycinate.
US12201622B2	Continuous delivery of lenalidomide and other immunomodulatory agents Provided are systems and methods for continuously administering to a subject in need of treatment a formulation comprising an immunomodulatory imide compound. In some embodiments, the method are for use in treating multiple myeloma, transfusion-dependent anemia due to low- or intermediate-1-risk myelodysplastic syndromes, mantle cell lymphoma, hematologic cancers, or solid tumor cancers.
US12201620B2	Compositions and methods for treating chemotherapy resistant cancer The present invention features methods for increasing sensitivity and/or reversing resistance to chemotherapy, methods for treating or preventing a cancer in a subject, methods for treating clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential in a subject, and methods of identifying resistance or sensitivity to chemotherapy in a subject. In some embodiments, the methods contain the step of administering an agent that inhibits the expression or activity of a Protein phosphatase 1D (PPM1D) polypeptide or polynucleotide. The present invention also features compositions for increasing sensitivity and/or reversing resistance to chemotherapy.
US12201619B2	Compounds and methods for use in the treatment of microglia-mediated disorders Provided are M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) agonists, for use in the treatment of a neurological or neurodegenerative disease by promoting microglia and/or macrophage viability and/or activation. Microglia and macrophage survival and activation are thereby achieved by increasing levels of sTREM2 released by microglia cells. In addition, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of preparing the same are described, which are suitable for the treatment or prevention of conditions or diseases that require microglia and/or macrophage modulation, as well as methods for monitoring treatments and enhancing microglia and/or macrophage survival and/or activation.
US12201617B2	HDAC6 inhibitors for treatment of metabolic disease and HFpEF Provided herein are methods of treating or preventing metabolic disease with an HDAC6 inhibitor. Also provided herein are methods of treating or preventing heart failure with preserved ejection fraction with an HDAC6 inhibitor. A variety of HDAC6 inhibitors are described herein for use in treating or preventing metabolic disease or heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. In one aspect, described herein are methods of treating a human patient by orally administering an HDAC6 inhibitor, such as an inhibitor of Formula (I) or Formula (II).
US12201616B2	Methods and compositions for treatment of mydriasis The invention provides methods, compositions, and kits containing an alpha-adrenergic antagonist, such as phentolamine, for use in monotherapy or as part of a combination therapy to treat patients suffering from presbyopia, mydriasis, and/or other ocular disorders.
US12201615B2	Methods and compositions for treatment of mydriasis The invention provides methods, compositions, and kits containing an alpha-adrenergic antagonist, such as phentolamine, for use in monotherapy or as part of a combination therapy to treat patients suffering from presbyopia, mydriasis, and/or other ocular disorders.
US12201605B2	Compositions comprising non-crystalline forms of cannabidiol Various aspects of this patent document relate to liquid compositions comprising cannabidiol, which have either freezing points or glass-liquid transition temperatures less than the melting point of pure cannabidiol.
US12201604B2	Treatment of circadian rhythm disorders Embodiments of the invention relate to the use of a melatonin agonist in the treatment of free running circadian rhythms in patients, including light perception impaired patients, e.g., blind patients, and to methods of measuring circadian rhythm.
US12201600B2	Treatment of herpes zoster with topical tetracaine The present invention relates to a method of treating herpes zoster (shingles), such as in the acute eruptive phase, comprising topically administering tetracaine base (or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof) to a patient in need of such treatment.
US12201593B2	Oral pharmaceutical formulations of bitter compounds for asthma There is disclosed an oral pharmaceutical formulation of bitter compounds that are agonists of TAS2R receptors for the treatment of asthma. More specifically, the present disclosure provides an asthma oral formulation comprising a bitter agent selected from the group consisting of denatonium benzoate (DB), denatonium chloride (DC), denatonium saccharide (DS), denatonium acetate (DA), and combinations thereof and formoterol.
US12201585B2	Medical device, medical device assembly including the same, and method of reconstitution of a pharmaceutical composition A medical device is configured to be connectable with a vial. The medical device includes a tubular body and an adapter. The tubular body defines a container for containing a composition, and has a spike located at a distal end thereof. The spike has at least one through hole in fluid communication with the container. The adapter is formed with or coupled to the body, and is located at or about the spike.
US12201578B1	Massage device with a releasable connection for a massaging head Exemplary embodiments of massaging devices are disclosed herein. One exemplary embodiment includes a piston having a longitudinal axis, a massaging head connected to the piston, a motor located on a first side of the longitudinal axis and a handle located on a second side of the longitudinal axis. A drive mechanism for moving the piston and massage head is also included.
US12201575B2	Personal massager with undulating arm A personal massage device includes a front end and a back end, and may also include a third end. A curved shaft is enclosed in both the front end and the back end. A sliding component is placed on one end of the curved shaft. The design of the curved shaft and sliding component enables the front end to bend toward and away from the back end. If included, the third end can be attached to the back end. The device further includes a motor enclosed in each end. The motors in the front and third ends are adapted for creating vibration at various frequencies and amplitudes, while the motor in the back end rotates the curved shaft to generate the bending motion. To enhance the massaging effect of the device, the device is capable of simultaneously bending and vibrating, and simultaneously stimulating different areas of the body.
US12201574B2	Massage device A massage device includes a shell configured to be inserted into the human body, a driving assembly supported by the shell, and a massage member. The shell defines a moving space therein, and the moving space communicates with an external environment out of the shell. The driving assembly includes a driving wheel and a driven wheel cooperating with the driving wheel. The massage member at least partly extends into the moving space of the shell, and is shaped as an annular belt and mounted around the driving wheel and the driven wheel. The driving wheel engages with the massage member to drive the massage member to rotate, generating a kneading stimulation effect on the human body.
US12201573B2	Massage device A massage device includes a shell, a first massage portion and a first driving unit. The shell is configured to be inserted into a human body along an insertion direction. A moving space is defined in a middle portion of the shell in the insertion direction and extends through a lateral wall of the shell to define an opening therein. The moving space communicates with an external environment out of the shell through the opening of the lateral wall of the shell. The first massage portion extends into the moving space of the shell. The first driving unit is arranged in the shell and connected to the first massage portion. Under the driving of the first driving unit, the first massage portion moves along an annular trajectory.
US12201570B2	Systems and methods for user control of electronic chairs Systems/methods for user control of a vending massage chair. The methods comprise: detecting, by the vending massage chair, when a mobile communication device is located in proximity to the vending massage chair; triggering operations by the vending massage chair to relinquish operational control to the mobile communication device, in response to a detection that the mobile communication device is proximate to the vending massage chair; receiving, by the vending massage chair, a wireless signal that was transmitted from the mobile communication device; performing operations, by the vending massage chair, to relinquish control of at least one massage chair operation to the mobile communication device in response to a reception of the wireless signal; and performing the at least one massage chair operation by the vending massage chair in response to a wireless command issued by the mobile communication device.
US12201567B1	Transport wheelchair with armrest lock A transport wheelchair comprises a frame with a chair base movably carried by a wheel base displaceable on a set of wheels. A seat, a backrest and a legrest are carried by the chair base of the frame. A pair of armrests is removably coupled with respect to the seat and each having an attached position on a lateral side of the seat and a removed position away from the seat. The pair of armrests is laterally displaceable and selectively positioned with respect to the seat. Each of the armrests have a lock to selectively lock and release the armrest with respect to the seat.
US12201566B2	Head support assembly and head support unit According to an aspect of the presently disclosed subject matter, there is provided a head support assembly attachable to a seat comprising a right frame member and a left frame member. The head support assembly comprising: a right support post and a left support post; a right coupler and a left coupler, articulatable respectively to the right frame member and to the left frame member, and configured for independently arresting the right support post and the left support post, respectively, in a manner facilitating tilting the support post at least partially about a pitch axis extending between the right coupler and the left coupler; and a head support unit articulable to a right top portion of the right support post and to a left top portion of the left support post. The head support assembly of the first aspect is configured to be attached to any seat having right and left frame members, and the head support unit thereof is configured to be mounted to a head of a user seated on the seat for providing support to the head and preventing the head from being tilted forwardly and/or downwardly. In some cases, the head support unit can have a support body which is configured with a front portion to which a head restraint is attachable. In such cases, the head restraint is configured for providing improved head and neck support to a user while seated in the seat.
US12201564B1	Treatment device with adjustable support capabilities A treatment device (12) for supporting a user (10) during a therapeutic treatment includes a device body (216) and an actuator assembly (222). The device body (216) is configured to support the user (10) during the therapeutic treatment. The device body (216) includes a first body section (224) that supports at least a portion of the user (10) during the therapeutic treatment. The first body section (224) has (i) a rigid, section base (228). (ii) a first resilient layer (230A) that is positioned on top of the section base (228), the first resilient layer (230A) including a first support region (224F) and a second support region (224S), and (iii) a section cover (232) that covers the first resilient layer (230A), the section cover (232) being adapted to engage the user (10). The actuator assembly (222) is configured to selectively deform the second support region (224S) relative to the first support region (224F).
US12201563B2	Modular insert for a patient room A modular insert for a patient room, the modular insert having a headwall with supply connections for electricity and medical grade vacuum, air and oxygen, and a lightbridge with medical examination lighting, the lightbridge coupled to the headwall. Further a lifting frame for transporting the modular insert to a patient room and facilitating installation thereof in the patient room, the lifting frame having a floor member for removably attaching to the headwall and a wall member for removably attaching to the lightbridge, the wall member pivotally attached to the floor member. Still further, a method for transporting the modular insert to a patient room and installing the modular insert in the patient room using the lifting frame.
US12201560B2	Femtosecond laser system and methods for photorefractive keratectomy Embodiments of this invention generally relate to ophthalmic laser procedures and, more particularly, to systems and methods for lenticular laser incision. In an embodiment, an ophthalmic surgical laser system comprises a laser delivery system for delivering a pulsed laser beam to a target in a subject's eye, an XY-scan device to deflect the pulsed laser beam, a Z-scan device to modify a depth of a focus of the pulsed laser beam, and a controller configured to form a top lenticular incision and a bottom lenticular incision of a lens in the subject's eye, or just a bottom lenticular incision.
US12201556B2	Porous structures for extended release drug delivery devices A therapeutic device for extended release drug delivery including a refillable reservoir configured to receive a therapeutic agent and having an outlet for delivery of the therapeutic agent to a patient from the reservoir over an extended period. A porous structure is coupled near the outlet of the reservoir, the porous structure formed of sintered material. A barrier layer is coupled to the reservoir on or adjacent a surface of the porous structure such that the therapeutic agent passes through both the porous structure and the barrier layer upon delivery from the reservoir through the outlet. The porous structure is tuned to deliver the therapeutic agent at a diffusion rate and the barrier layer is adapted to block passage of particles having an average particle size within an average particle size range that is outside an average particle size range blocked by the porous structure. Related methods and systems are provided.
US12201555B2	Drug eluting ocular implant Disclosed herein are drug delivery devices and methods for the treatment of ocular disorders requiring targeted and controlled administration of a drug to an interior portion of the eye for reduction or prevention of symptoms of the disorder. The devices are capable of controlled release of one or more drugs and may also include structures which allows for treatment of increased intraocular pressure by permitting aqueous humor to flow out of the anterior chamber of the eye through the device.
US12201554B2	Equine cryotherapy dual compartment boot An equine cryotherapy overleg device that encircles the lower limb of a subject horse and provides cryotherapy to the subject horse. The one-piece device includes upper and lower fasteners, a pastern area that will hold ice and ice water and a vertical zipper. The arrangement of the hoof cover, and hoof slipper allow for free movement of the subject horse and for a thermal fluid to contain ice and prevent the ice from migrating under the subject horse hoof.
US12201550B2	System and method for delivering a therapy and sensing a biological activity in the mouth Methods, devices, and systems are disclosed for controlled delivery of a therapy, such as a stimulant, to a mouth of a subject via an oral device positioned in a secured configuration in the mouth. At least one of a tongue position stimulator (TST) and tongue position sensor (TSE) is provided, according to certain aspects. According to another aspect, a stimulus is delivered to the mouth and/or tongue via a mouthpiece secured to the subject's teeth. In another regard, a stimulus is delivered that generates a natural response to eliminate or reduce sleep disorders, such as for example at least one of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea.
US12201548B2	Ostomy bag An ostomy bag for collecting output from a stoma comprising: a bag having at least one opening for accepting ostomy output; a spout positioned at least partially around the edge of the at least one opening; wherein the spout extends away from the at least one opening and radially outwardly from the at least one opening, into the interior of the bag. Methods of manufacturing ostomy attachments and methods of use are also provided. An attachment plate for use in an ostomy bag and an ostomy bag kit are also described. Methods of manufacturing an ostomy bag and an attachments plate, and methods od use of the same are further described.
US12201546B2	Armpit support A support device configured to transfer load from a user's armpit to that user's hips or torso which includes an armpit support, wherein said armpit support includes a central section from which a first and second wing extend asymmetrically, such that the armpit support is configured to provide enough resistance to cause and hold a slight shoulder extension.
US12201544B2	Perineal bandage for vaginal delivery A perineal bandage for preventing and treating tears that occur during childbirth. The perineal bandage includes a flexible bandage having a first side and a second side, wherein the second side includes an adhesive configured to adhere the bandage to the skin of a patient. The perineal bandage may further include a plurality of tearing zones that tear before the bandage. The perineal bandage may further include a reinforced region disposed along a portion of a bottom edge of the bandage, wherein the reinforced region requires a greater amount of force to tear than the bandage and the tearing zones.
US12201541B2	Vascular access devices and methods for lower limb interventions A guide sheath device with an integrated stabilization wire is provided. The guide sheath device includes an elongate member having a proximal and distal end and a lumen there between and a stabilization wire integrated to the elongate member.
US12201537B2	Prosthetic foot with layers of fibrous material A prosthetic foot including a continuous body extending from a proximal end to a distal end. The body includes an anterior surface, a posterior surface opposite the anterior surface, and a fin on the posterior surface. A prosthetic foot can include a first footplate and a second footplate. The first footplate extends between a proximal portion and a distal portion. The proximal and distal portions of the first footplate are configured to operatively engage a support surface during ambulation. The second footplate extends between a proximal portion and a distal portion. The distal portion of the second footplate is coupled to the first footplate at an intermediate location between the proximal and distal portions of the first footplate. The second footplate incudes an anterior surface, a posterior surface opposite the anterior surface, and a fin on the posterior surface.
US12201536B2	Systems and methods for residual limbs of amputees Various aspects of this disclosure relate to a prosthetic cover comprising an array of sensors, which transmit signals to an array of electrodes in a liner that fits over a residual limb of an amputee. Different interactions with the prosthetic cover cause different activation of the electrodes to transmit electrical current through different areas of the residual limb and modulate neurons differently within the residual limb. Various aspects of this disclosure also relate to a prosthetic liner with a substrate that includes electrodes for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and/or electronic muscle stimulation for a residual limb.
US12201531B2	Implants having bone growth promoting agents contained within biodegradable materials Various embodiments of implant systems and related apparatus, and methods of operating the same are described herein. In various embodiments, an implant for interfacing with a bone structure includes a web structure, including a space truss, configured to interface with human bone tissue. The space truss includes two or more planar truss units having a plurality of struts joined at nodes. Implants may include biodegradable polymer particles contained within biocompatible fibers. The biodegradable polymer particles may include bone growth promoting agents that are released as the particles degrade over time.
US12201526B2	Percutaneous transvalvular intraannular band for mitral valve repair Mitral valve prolapse and mitral regurgitation can be treating by implanting in the mitral annulus a transvalvular intraannular band. The band has a first end, a first anchoring portion located proximate the first end, a second end, a second anchoring portion located proximate the second end, and a central portion. The central portion is positioned so that it extends transversely across a coaptive edge formed by the closure of the mitral valve leaflets. The band may be implanted via translumenal access or via thoracotomy.
US12201524B2	Methods and systems for rapid retraction of a transcatheter heart valve delivery system Methods for the rapid retraction of trans-catheter heart valve delivery systems are provided. A rapid retraction trans-catheter heart valve delivery system comprises a catheter based delivery system. The delivery system has internal mechanisms that allow for the controlled deployment of a heart valve prosthesis, as well as mechanisms that allow for quickly closing the catheter once the heart valve prosthesis has been implanted. This rapid retraction ability allows for reduced procedural durations and thus reduced risk to the patient.
US12201523B2	Hydraulic systems for delivering prosthetic heart valve devices and associated methods Systems for delivering prosthetic heart valve devices and associated methods are disclosed herein. A delivery system configured in accordance with embodiments of the present technology can include, for example, an elongated catheter body, a delivery capsule carried by the elongated catheter body, and two fluid chambers within the delivery capsule. The delivery capsule can be hydraulically driven between a containment configuration for holding the prosthetic heart valve device and a deployment configuration for at least partially deploying the prosthetic heart valve device. For example, the delivery capsule can be urged towards the deployment configuration when fluid is removed from the first chamber and fluid is delivered into the second chamber, whereas the delivery capsule can be urged towards the containment configuration to resheathe the prosthetic heart valve device when fluid is removed from the second chamber and delivered into the first chamber.
US12201518B2	Reinforced prosthetic valves A prosthetic valve comprising a conical shaped sheet structure and a support structure, the sheet structure having a closed distal end and a plurality of elongated ribbon members that are positioned proximate each other in a joined relationship, whereby the ribbon members form a plurality of fluid flow modulating regions that close when fluid flow through the valve exhibits a negative flow pressure and open when fluid flow through the valve exhibits a positive flow pressure, the support structure having at least one elongated cardiovascular structure engagement member that is associated with one of the ribbon members and adapted to engage a cardiovascular structure.
US12201517B2	Transcatheter heart valve apparatus for calcific mitral stenosis Examples of a mitral heart valve apparatus are described. In one example, the apparatus has an annular body made of a first material, and a plurality of first anchor members and at least two paddles made of a second material extending from the annular body. In a compressed state, the first anchor members extend substantially longitudinally from the first end of the annular body, and the paddles extend substantially longitudinally from the second end of the annular body. In an expanded state, the annular body has a larger diameter, the first anchor members extend outward from the first end for engaging an upstream portion of a mitral valve annulus to resist displacement of the annular body towards a left ventricle, and the paddles extend outward from the second end for engaging chordae tendineae. In another example, the annular body, anchor members, and paddles are made of the same material.
US12201513B2	Systems, apparatuses, and methods for intraocular lens selection using artificial intelligence Aspects of the present invention may include systems and methods for intraocular lens selection using a formula and a deep learning machine to estimate the error of the formula. In an aspect, the disclosure provides a method for intraocular lens selection. The method may include obtaining at least two ocular measurement parameters and a lens selection parameter for an eye. The method may include determining an intraocular lens power based on a formula using the at least two ocular measurement parameters. The method may include determining an estimated error of the formula using a deep learning machine trained on verified post-operative results using intraocular lenses selected by the formula. The method may include adjusting the lens selection parameter based on the estimated. The method may include redetermining the intraocular lens power based on the formula and the adjusted lens selection parameter.
US12201512B2	Delivery sleeve An implant delivery sleeve is disclosed. The sleeve may comprise a first tube including a first segment, a second segment, and a third segment. The first segment may have a first stiffness, the second segment may have a second stiffness, and the third segment may have a third stiffness. The third stiffness may be greater than the second stiffness and the second stiffness may be greater than the first stiffness. The implant-delivery sleeve may be used to deliver a breast implant to a subject. The implant may be deformed within the sleeve, to advance it within the sleeve and extrude it from the distal end of the sleeve.
US12201508B2	Dynamic microvalve protection device An endovascular system includes inner and outer catheters, a handle system operably coupled one end of the catheters, and a microvalve coupled to the other end of the catheters. The microvalve is constrained in a radially-collapsed closed configuration for advancement within a vessel to a treatment site. The handle system is operable to displace the inner and outer catheters portions relative to each other to move the microvalve between closed and open configurations. An indicator is provided to visually indicate the extent by which the microvalve is opened within the vessel.
US12201505B2	Underpants-type disposable diaper An underpants-type disposable diaper wherein the end portions of elastic members are kept from being drawn in, and the bonding strength in side sealed portions is kept from deteriorating. The diaper has outer member defining front and back body sections, wherein side portions of the outer member in the front and back body sections are joined to form side sealed portions, which produce a waist opening and a pair of leg openings. The front and/or back body sections, are provided with a tortuous elastic member extending with curvature from one to the other of the side sealed portions, and bonded thereto with adhesive. The amount of adhesive applied to a zone neighbouring the inner zone of each side sealed portion is larger than that applied to the outer zone of each side sealed portion.
US12201497B2	Dentistry tool A drill bit and method for normalizing bone is provided. The drill bit has a non-round drill bit core that is adapted to cut hard bone and to not cut soft bone. The drill bit has a cutting edge which may be positioned within a compression zone of the non-round drill bit core. The rotational speed of the drill bit and the profile of the drill bit core are tuned so that hard bone recovers into a cutting zone defined by the cutting edge while soft bone remains outside of the cutting zone. The insertion torque of the drill bit can be measured to determine when the normalization is adequate.
US12201496B2	Device and method for treatment of an artificial bone implant with blood A device for treating an artificial bone implant with blood, the device comprising: a container configured to accommodate an artificial bone implant and be filled with blood, wherein the container comprises an opening and a cover configured to cover the opening of the container. Additional embodiments of the device and methods for using the same are disclosed herein.
US12201494B2	Methods and systems for dental procedures A device including a coded pattern for use in dental procedures is provided. Related methods and systems are also provided.
US12201490B2	Digital design of dental matrix with improved customized interproximal contacts Systems and techniques for designing a digital dental matrix with improved interproximal contacts are disclosed including generating a digital three-dimensional model of a future dental anatomy of a patient, the future dental anatomy representing an intended shape of at least one tooth of the patient, selecting one or more pairs of adjacent teeth in the 3D model, for each selected pair of teeth, determining a location and orientation in the interproximal space of the adjacent teeth to insert a digital 3D geometry having one or more initial parameters, and inserting the digital 3D geometry at the determined location and orientation.
US12201488B2	Compensating deviations using a partial manufacturing result The invention relates to method for manufacturing a dental prosthetic assembly. The dental prosthetic assembly comprises a first and a second element. The first element comprises a first connection portion with a reception configured to establish a mechanical connection between the first and the second element by receiving a protrusion of a second connection portion comprised by the second element.
US12201484B2	Systems and methods for presenting augmented reality in a display of a teleoperational system A system comprises a processor and a memory having computer readable instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by the processor, cause the system to display an image of a surgical environment. The image includes an information icon corresponding to an instrument in the surgical environment. The instructions further cause the system to display an image of a body part of a user. The image of the body part is used to interact with the information icon. The instructions further cause the system to receive a gesture of the body part, via a gesture-based input device registering movement of the body part, to cause the image of the body part to interact with the information icon. The instructions further cause the system to display an information menu in the image of the surgical environment based on the interaction between the image of the body part and the information icon.
US12201483B2	Thoracic imaging, distance measuring, and notification system and method A system and method for enhanced surgical navigation and graphical user interfaces associated therewith. The system includes a 3D endoscope and a computing device including a display for displaying the graphical user interfaces. The 3D endoscope includes a camera source and a scan source and is utilized to generate a 3D spatial map of a surgical site. A position of a surgical tool is detected in the 3D spatial map, a distance between the position of the surgical tool in the 3D spatial map and a location of an anatomy is detected, and a warning is generated when it is determined that the distance between the position of the surgical tool in the 3D spatial map and the location of the anatomy is equal to or not greater than a threshold minimum distance.
US12201482B2	Stabilization assembly for head fixation device A head fixation device includes a rocker arm assembly containing one or more stabilizing features. The rocker arm is rotatably adjustable about a longitudinal axis of the rocker arm assembly to any rotational position in a non-stepped fashion. The rocker arm assembly is removable from the head fixation device for easy of cleaning. A lever of the rocker arm assembly translates a shaft and includes eccentric features to provide a camming action for moving locking features of the rocker arm assembly to an unlocked state such that the rocker arm can be rotationally adjusted.
US12201475B2	Ultrasound probe An ultrasound probe 11 includes a transducer array 15, a housing body 13 having a battery accommodation portion 18, a battery 16 that is accommodated in the battery accommodation portion 18, a battery cover 14 that is attachably and detachably mounted on the housing body 13 to cover the battery accommodation portion 18 and has a cover rib CL1 protruding toward the battery accommodation portion 18, and an elastically deformable waterproof packing P1 that is disposed between a side surface of the cover rib CL1 and the housing body 13. The waterproof packing P1 is elastically compressed between the side surface of the cover rib CL1 and the housing body 13, and restrains water from entering the battery accommodation portion 18 from between the housing body 13 and the battery cover 14.
US12201472B2	Fetal ultrasound processing unit An ultrasound processing unit and method for use in ultrasound fetal monitoring are provided. The processing unit is configured to receive Doppler ultrasound data corresponding to one or more initial trial depth windows within the fetal region. From these, an ultrasound signal for each trial depth window is extracted. Unlike approaches of the state of the art that seek the optimum depth range based on signal strength, in the present disclosure a defined measure of statistical structure of the signal is computed for each depth signal, wherein the measure of statistical structure corresponds to an intrinsic statistical property or characteristic of the signal. A new recording window is then selected for acquiring a fetal heart rate signal, based on selecting a window which is estimated to maximize the measure of statistical structure of ultrasound signals derived from the new window.
US12201470B2	System and method for feature extraction and classification on ultrasound tomography images Disclosed herein systems, processors, or computer-readable media configured with instructions to: receive transmission and/or reflection images of a tissue of a subject, wherein the images are generated from acoustic signals derived from acoustic waveforms transmitted through the tissue; provide a set of prognostic parameters associated with a user selected region of interest; wherein the set of prognostic parameters comprises sound propagation metrics characterizing sound propagation within a tissue; wherein the set of prognostic parameters corresponds to inputs into a tissue classifier model; wherein the set of prognostic parameters comprises a plurality of subsets of related feature groupings; and determine a type of tissue of the subject based on said plurality of subsets of related feature groupings using the classifier model, wherein the type of tissue is a cancerous tumor, a fibroadenoma, a cyst, a nonspecific benign mass, and an unidentifiable mass.
US12201466B2	System and method for imaging a subject A method and system is disclosed for acquiring image data of a subject. The image data can be collected with an imaging system in a selected manner and/or motion. More than one projection may be combined to generate and create a selected view of the subject.
US12201460B2	Radiography apparatus, method for operating radiography apparatus, and program for operating radiography apparatus A radiation detector has a sensor panel unit which includes two sensor panels and in which end portions of the two sensor panels are arranged to overlap each other in a thickness direction. An image processing unit acquires two projection images from the two sensor panels. A combination unit of the image processing unit performs a process related to image quality on the projection image in a case in which a tomographic image which is a diagnosis image to be used for a doctor's diagnosis is generated and does not perform the process related to image quality on the projection image in a case in which a scout image which is a confirmation image for confirming a reflected state of the subject is generated.
US12201458B2	Implant holder Various implant holding systems are provided herein that include an outer tube, an inner tube, and a holder. The implant holding systems can be designed to hold various implants, such as bone anchors used in spinal operations. For example, one embodiment of an implant holding system can have an outer tube, an inner tube that can be disposed within the outer tube, and an implant holder that can be disposed within the inner tube. An individual bone anchor that has various configurations and sizes can be disposed within the holder, and the holder can engage the bone anchor to assist in maintaining an orientation of the bone anchor relative to the holder.
US12201443B2	Determining a sleep state of a user According to an embodiment of an aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method for determining a sleep state of a user. The method comprising receiving (S11) a physiological signal from a physiological signal detector used by the user. The method further comprising determining (S12), based on the received physiological signal, the sleep state of the user. The method further comprising calculating (S13) a reliability value associated with the determination. The reliability value being calculated based on a comparison of the received physiological signal with historic physiological signals of the same sleep state as the determined sleep state. There is further provided a device (20) and computer-readable medium (30). In accordance with the present disclosure, the sleep state of a user may be determined with greater accuracy when compared with past methods.
US12201441B2	Biomarkers of neuropathic pain This disclosure is related to methods of objectively detecting and measuring neuropathic pain in a subject.
US12201440B2	Assessment of spinal column integrity A method of assessing spinal column stability involves receiving image data corresponding to a spinal column of a patient; determining, based on the image data, a material strength of bony anatomy in at least a portion of the spinal column; completing a first stability assessment of the spinal column, based at least in part on the determined material strength; modifying the image data to simulate removal of bony anatomy or soft tissue from the spinal column to yield modified image data; and completing a second stability assessment of the spinal column, based at least in part on the determined material strength and the modified image data.
US12201438B2	Method for diagnosing and treating hemorrhoids A method of determination of a cause of hemorrhoids in a subject includes a determination of the presence of hemorrhoids in the subject by visual inspection, and by one or more of a non-invasive medical imaging procedure and/or an intra-vascular visualization procedure, determining if there is an obstruction or occlusion in an iliac vein of the subject, and if so, determining that the hemorrhoids were caused by such obstruction or occlusion. If the obstruction or occlusion are determined to be the cause of the hemorrhoids, a procedure for compressing the obstruction or occlusion in the iliac vein of the subject, such as by angioplasty or stenting, is performed. After an appropriate time period, changes to the hemorrhoids in the subject are determined by a subsequent visual inspection.
US12201434B2	Intention decoding apparatus and intention conveyance assist apparatus An intention decoding apparatus and a decoding method that quickly and precisely analyze brain waves for decoding an intention decision without requiring an advance brain wave measurement for, for example, a calibration step, and an intention conveyance assist apparatus, an intention conveyance assist system, and a program using a decoding result of the intention decision in the brain. The intention decoding apparatus that analyzes brain waves to decode an intention performs a process to examine a dispersion by classifying brain wave data of event-related potentials corresponding to a plurality of stimulus events into any one stimulus event and the other stimulus events among the plurality of stimulus events, on all the stimulus events, and identifies a classification where the dispersion becomes maximum to identify the one stimulus event in the classification as the intention. The intention conveyance assist apparatus includes a presentation unit that presents a decoding result.
US12201433B2	Detection and localization of myocardial infarction using vectorcardiography A method includes detecting whether one or more myocardial infarctions (MI) has occurred using vectorcardiographic (VCG) signals with gradient boosting, the VCG signals including VCG loops, and determining an MI location using the VCG signals and gradient boosting.
US12201431B2	Blood glucose states based on sensed brain activity Blood glucose states based at least on sensed brain activity data. Blood glucose states may be predicted states using prediction models, and may be real-time or future glucose states. One or more wearable sensors, optionally adapted for use in either single channel or dual channel sensing, can record brain activity signals and communicate brain activity signal data to a remote device.
US12201430B2	Wearable device having structure preventing measurement error caused by impedance The present disclosure relates to a wearable device having a structure that prevents impedance measurement errors. The wearable device, which is used by being attached to the skin of a user, includes a plurality of electrodes spaced apart from each other, conductive members, blocking members, and absorbent members. A conductive member is positioned on one surface of each of the plurality of electrodes and comprises an exposure portion. A blocking member includes a different material from the conductive member and covers an outside of the conductive member so that the exposure portion is present within the blocking member. An absorbent member is positioned in the outside of the blocking member and comes into contact with the skin of the user.
US12201418B2	Fixed operation time frequency sweeps for an analyte sensor Sensors that detect an analyte via spectroscopic techniques using non-optical frequencies such as in the radio or microwave frequency range of the electromagnetic spectrum or optical frequencies in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum. An analyte sensor described herein includes a detector array having at least one transmit element and at least one receive element. The transmit element and the receive element can be antennas or light emitting elements such as light emitting diodes. The sensor is controlled to implement first and second frequency sweeps and the frequency sweeps have at least one overlapping range of frequencies where the operation times are the same between the first and second frequency sweeps.
US12201417B2	Systems and method for activating analyte sensor electronics Various analyte sensor systems for controlling activation of analyte sensor electronics circuitry are provided. Related methods for controlling analyte sensor electronics circuitry are also provided. Various analyte sensor systems for monitoring an analyte in a host are also provided. Various circuits for controlling activation of an analyte sensor system are also provided. Analyte sensor systems utilizing a state machine having a plurality of states for collecting a plurality of digital counts and waking a controller responsive to a wake up signal are also provided. Related methods for such analyte sensor systems are also provided. Systems for controlling activation of analyte sensor electronics circuitry utilizing a magnetic sensor are further provided. One or more display device configured to display one or more analyte concentration values are also provided.
US12201415B2	Analysing a body In one aspect, a system 10 for analysing a body 14 using a device 12 is disclosed. In one arrangement and embodiment, the device 12 comprises: a controller 18; storage 20 storing electronic program instructions for controlling the controller 18; and an input means. In one form, the controller is operable, under control of the electronic program instructions, to: receive input via that input means, the input comprising at least one representation of the body 14; process the input to conduct an analysis of the body 14 and generate an output on the basis of the analysis, the processing comprising using a database 40; and communicate the output via a display 22. In an embodiment, the output comprises an estimation of an individuals three-dimensional (3D) body shape and associated body measurements, composition and health and wellness risks from a representation comprising human imagery.
US12201411B1	Systems, methods and apparatus for galvanic skin response measurements and analytics Systems, methods, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable media for measuring and analyzing galvanic skin response. A system for measuring galvanic skin response includes an electrical conductivity meter (ECM) electrically connected to a positive electrode and a negative electrode and a server platform in network communication with the ECM. The ECM includes at least one processor and at least one memory. The positive electrode is in contact with a point on a hand or a foot of a subject. A circuit is created between the ECM and the subject including the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The positive electrode includes a pressure sensor to indicate an amount of pressure applied by a tip of the positive electrode on the point. The server platform includes artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to detect variations in the pressure applied by the positive electrode during a session and/or across multiple sessions.
US12201410B2	Systems and methods for clinical neuronavigation Systems and methods for clinical neuronavigation in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for generating a brain stimulation target, including obtaining functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) image data of a patient's brain, where brain imaging data describes neuronal activations within the patient's brain, determining a brain stimulation target by mapping at least one region of interest to the patient's brain, locating functional subregions within the at least one region of interest based on the fMRI image data, determining functional relationships between at least two brain regions of interest, generating parameters for each functional subregion, generating a target quality score for each functional subregion based on the parameters and selecting a brain stimulation target based on its target quality score and the patient's neurological condition.
US12201409B2	Biological information measuring apparatus A biological information measuring apparatus (10) includes a compression belt (20) to be wound around a part of a living body, a pressure adjusting unit (51) configured to change an internal pressure of the compression belt, a data acquiring unit (52) configured to acquire time-series data indicating a change in each of the internal pressure of the compression belt and a capacity of the compression belt in a period in which the internal pressure of the compression belt is changing, and a tonus-information calculating unit (53) configured to calculate, based on the time-series data, tonus information indicating a correspondence relation between a first indicator indicating pressure applied to a blood vessel wall (100) of the living body and a second indicator indicating a capacity on an inner side of the blood vessel wall.
US12201408B2	Method of estimating blood pressure of a subject The present invention relates to a method and system for estimating blood pressure of a subject. In particular, but not exclusively, the method involves receiving a photoplethysmogram (PPG) signal from a light-based Pulse-Plethysmography sensor applied to the skin of a subject and reconstructing a pulse blood pressure waveform between systolic and diastolic blood pressure of the subject. Additionally, but not exclusively, the method involves processing the pulse blood pressure waveform and reconstructing an absolute blood pressure waveform of the subject.
US12201407B2	Grip-type pulse wave measuring device A grip-type pulse wave measuring device includes a main body that has a substantially spheroid shape, and a stopper that projects along an axial direction of the main body and abuts against a side surface of a thumb to restrict a position of the thumb when a user grips the main body portion. Moreover, a light shielding cover is provided that is formed into a substantially semi-cylindrical shape and is mounted so as to be swingable about, as a swing shaft, a shaft that is provided in parallel to the axial direction of the main body. A photoplethysmographic sensor is disposed at a position offset from the swing shaft of the light shielding cover along a peripheral direction of the main body and is configured to acquire a photoplethysmographic signal.
US12201403B2	Free flow fever screening A method for free flow fever screening is presented. The method includes capturing a plurality of frames from thermal data streams and visual data streams related to a same scene to define thermal data frames and visual data frames, detecting and tracking a plurality of individuals moving in a free-flow setting within the visual data frames, and generating a tracking identification for each individual of the plurality of individuals present in a field-of-view of the one or more cameras across several frames of the plurality of frames. The method further includes fusing the thermal data frames and the visual data frames, measuring, by a fever-screener, a temperature of each individual of the plurality of individuals within and across the plurality of frames derived from the thermal data streams and the visual data streams, and generating a notification when a temperature of an individual exceeds a predetermined threshold temperature.
US12201402B2	Wearable device (smart bra) with compressive chambers and optical sensors for analyzing breast tissue This invention is a wearable device or system for optical analysis of breast tissue which be embodied in a “smart bra” or an insert which is placed into the cup of a conventional bra. This device or system has light emitters which transmit light into breast tissue and light receivers which receive the light after it has been transmitted through the breast tissue. It also has expandable chambers which gently compress a breast to reduce light diffusion and improve optical scanning of breast tissue.
US12201395B2	Head-worn remote informatics system An informatics system that can be head-worn under a helmet and used to provide a wearer's vital statistics and other information to a remote monitoring station, for example in connection with pre-hospital emergency care.
US12201386B2	Robotic system for minimally invasive surgery Systems and methods for performing minimally invasive surgical procedures, especially for removal of tumors, and especially for brain tumors, using a robotically inserted therapeutic probe, which first detects tumorous tissue on a pre-planned path through the patient's tissue, before performing therapeutic procedures on the tissue, such as ablation. This pre-treatment detection procedure is thus able to avoid the destruction of healthy tissue. This also ensures that the therapeutic process indicated in a preoperative surgical plan is only performed on tumorous tissue, without sole reliance on preoperative image indications. This is important for neurosurgical operations performed on the brain, since preoperative images may not be accurate due to brain shift occurring during the procedure. Detection can be performed optically or ultrasonically, and treatment by laser or RF ablation. The probe insertion can be performed at 90° to the insertion axis of the device, thus minimizing passage through healthy tissue.
US12201384B2	Tracking systems and methods for image-guided surgery Apparatus and methods are described including tracking a tool portion and a patient marker from a first line of sight, using a first tracking device disposed upon a first head-mounted device that includes a display. The tool portion and the patient marker are tracked from a second line of sight, using a second tracking device. When a portion of the patient marker and the tool portion are both within the first line of sight, an augmented reality image is generated upon the first display based upon data received from the first tracking device and without using data from the second tracking device. When at least the patient marker portion and the tool portion are not both within the first line of sight, a virtual image of the tool and anatomy of the patient is generated using data received from the second tracking device. Other applications are also described.
US12201379B2	X-wing enhanced guidance system for distal targeting A surgical instrument assembly configured to display a representation of the surgical instrument relative to a trajectory (e.g., a desired trajectory for drilling into an implant) based image data from an image sensor (e.g., a camera). For example, the surgical instrument assembly may be configured to determine a desired trajectory (e.g., a central axis of a distal hole of an intramedullary nail) based on X-ray image data representing at least one fiducial marker (e.g., an array of ArUco markers) and representing an anatomical structure and/or an implant. The surgical instrument assembly may in real time display a representation of the orientation and/or position of the surgical instrument (e.g., the orientation and position of a drill bit of the surgical instrument) in relation to the desired trajectory based on image sensor data that is generated based on an orientation of the at least one fiducial marker detected by an image sensor.
US12201378B2	Hybrid multi-camera tracking for computer-guided surgical navigation A camera system for surgical navigation systems including a plurality of cameras mounted in a room. At least three cameras are mounted in the room which are operated in at least two different modes. In the first mode at least a subset of the cameras is operated to determine the position of markers and in a second mode at least a subset of the cameras is operated to determine the position of surfaces of the room.
US12201377B2	Arm movement safety layer A system according to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a processor; and at least one inertial sensor having a known physical relationship with a tracked object in a first pose, the at least one inertial sensor providing a measurement indicative of a movement of the tracked object from the first pose to a second pose, wherein the processor determines the second pose of the tracked object based, at least in part, on the measurement provided by the at least one inertial sensor.
US12201376B2	Accurate position determining device, method and system for surgical tool The disclosure discloses an accurate position determining device, method and system for surgical tool. The method adopts two trackers for navigation and position determining: an end tracker is used for accurate position determining; the end tracker is removed after it is in place, and a main body tracker is used for real-time monitoring. Robotic arm movement will generate errors, and a navigation device is used to achieve multiple calibrations and successive recursion to approach a precise position, which thereby ensures a high accuracy to the utmost extent. During a navigation and position determining process, the main body tracker can provide a distance from a real-time position of a surgical tool to a spatial pose of a target cutting plane and feed it to an operator through a screen of a host, who makes fine adjustments by visual indication, and stops swinging if it exceeds a threshold value.
US12201372B2	Lesion prediction based in part on tissue characterization A method for determining a predicted lesion size formed in a tissue by receiving or calculating a measure of contact force between the electrode and the tissue, determining a tissue characterization, and calculating the predicted lesion size using both the measure of contact force and the tissue characterization. A system comprising an electronic control unit configured to receive or determine a measure of contact force between the electrode and the tissue, characterize the tissue based on both the measure of impedance and the measure of contact force, and cause the tissue characterization to be either (a) presented to a user, or (b) applied to calculate a metric and cause the metric to be presented to the user.
US12201367B2	Systems and methods for predictive heart valve simulation Systems and methods are described herein for predictive heart valve simulation. The systems and methods described herein can include segmenting anatomical region of a heart of a patient from image data characterizing the heart of the patient. Anatomical model data that can include three-dimensional shapes of the anatomical regions of the heart can be generated based on the image data. The anatomical model data can be used to generate anatomical model data. The analytical model data can include a three-dimensional mesh of the anatomical regions of the heart. A deformed analytical model that can be indicative of a deformed position of the anatomical regions of the heart and a deformed position of the surgical object can be generated based on the analytical model data.
US12201364B2	Eye cup for passive feedback for fundus camera alignment Eye cups and retinal imaging systems including an eye cup are described. In an embodiment, the eye cup is shaped to couple with an eyepiece lens assembly. In an embodiment, the eye cup includes a concave socket shaped to couple to a periorbital region of an eye, the concave socket defining a viewing aperture positioned to align with a pupil of the eye along a longitudinal axis of the viewing aperture when the concave socket is coupled to the periorbital region; and a flange extending from the concave socket away from the longitudinal axis and shaped to couple with a lateral margin of the periorbital region when the concave socket is coupled to the periorbital region. In an embodiment, an outer edge of the flange extends farther from the longitudinal axis than an outer edge of portion of the concave socket.
US12201356B2	Dual wavelength laser ablation systems for MRI-guided ablation procedures and related devices and methods Laser ablation devices and related systems and methods may have laser outputs with multiple wavelengths. Laser ablation devices may include a laser energy source that can emit two or more laser outputs with different wavelengths. Some laser ablation devices include a processor to control the laser energy source to cause the laser energy source to emit a target wavelength blend with the laser outputs.
US12201354B1	Expandable ablation mechanisms for shunting catheters Some embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems, apparatus, and methods for creating a shunt in a patient. In some embodiments, a shunting catheter includes an expandable ablation mechanism having a plurality of expandable struts and a plurality of positioning elements coupled to the plurality of expandable struts. The positioning elements are configured to be disposed radially outwardly from the expandable struts. The ablation mechanism is configured to receive energy from an energy source and deliver ablation energy to a target location of a patient.
US12201353B2	Cardiac pulsed field ablation A method for ablating tissue by applying at least one pulse train of pulsed-field energy. The method includes delivering a pulse train of energy having a predetermined frequency to cardiac tissue, the pulse train including at least 60 pulses, an inter-phase delay between 0 μs and 5 μs, an inter-pulse delay of at least 5 μs, and a pulse width of 5 μs.
US12201350B2	Real-time guidance of radiofrequency ablation catheter contact orientation with cardiac tissue using optical coherence tomography An exemplary system, method and computer-accessible medium for determining particular for a portion(s) of an organ of a patient(s) can be provided, which can include, for example, receiving an in vivo optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging information for the portion(s), and determining (i) a lesion formation on or in the portion(s), (ii) a contact of a catheter on or with the portion(s), or (iii) an angle of the catheter with respect to the portion(s), by applying a convolutional neural network(s) to the in vivo OCT imaging information.
US12201347B2	Laparoscopic forceps assembly with an operable mechanism An electrosurgical device comprising: (a) a stylet including: (i) a first jaw; (ii) a second jaw that is movable relative to the first jaw from a first position where the first jaw and the second jaw are open to a second position where the first jaw and the second jaw move towards each other to grasp tissue therebetween; and (iii) one or more jaw support rods connected to the first jaw, the second jaw, or both; and (b) a housing connected to the stylet and the stylet extending from the housing, the housing including: (i) an operable mechanism including: (1) a fourth link; (2) a second link; (3) a first link being connected to the fourth link via a first pivot and being rotatable relative to the first pivot, and connected to the second link at a second pivot so that movement of the first link moves the second link relative to the fourth link; and (4) a third link being connected to the second link at a third pivot so that movement of the second link moves the third link, and the fourth link being connected to the third link at a fourth pivot, the third link moving about the fourth pivot to move the one or more jaw supports so that the first jaw and the second jaw are moved between the first position and the second position; and wherein the fourth link is the housing and the first link is a clamp lever that extends outside of the housing and is actuated by a user.
US12201346B2	Surgical instrument and method An actuator for use in a surgical instrument, the actuator includes an upper portion configured to be actuated by one or more fingers, wherein the upper portion has an upper distal portion for operating the surgical instrument in a first mode of operation, and an upper proximal portion for operating the surgical instrument in a second mode of operation, and wherein the upper distal portion and the upper proximal portion have different respective tactile configurations for informing the user of the first and second modes of operation, respectively.
US12201344B2	Systems and methods for pulsed-field ablation with charge-balanced waveforms The present invention relates to a generator (G) for a substantially charge-balanced pulse for application onto at least one electrode pair (101) of a medical device, the generator comprising: a pulse-shaping output stage (POS) for coupling to the at least one electrode pair; an internal pulse generator for applying an internal pulse to the pulse-shaping output stage; wherein the pulse-shaping output stage comprises a transformer (T) and/or a capacitor system (CS) comprising at least one capacitor such that the internal pulse is transformed into a substantially charge-balanced pulse in the at least one electrode pair (I1) when coupled to the pulse-shaping output stage (POS). Further aspects relate to a catheter, a system, a method.
US12201342B2	Heat ablation systems, devices and methods for the treatment of tissue A system for treatment target tissue comprises an ablation device and an energy delivery unit. The ablation device comprises an elongate tube with an expandable treatment element. The system delivers a thermal dose of energy to treat the target tissue. Methods of treating target tissue are also provided.
US12201333B1	Augmented spanning fixation bone plate assembly An augmented spanning fixation bone plate assembly combines an augmentation fixation bone plate with a spanning fixation bone plate. The augmentation fixation bone plate may be detachably attachable to the spanning fixation bone plate and may be slidably engaged with the spanning fixation bone plate to allow the augmentation fixation bone plate to be positioned for augmented fixation, wherein one or more separate bones are fixed with respect to the spanning fixation bone plate. An augmentation fixation bone plate may have one or more wings that extend laterally from the spanning fixation bone plate. An augmentation fixation bone plate may have two wings that extend in opposing lateral directions from the spanning fixation bone. A wing has a fastener aperture that may be slotted and may have an insert to enable directional fixation, wherein the fastener extends in an offset angle.
US12201332B2	Bone plate with movable joint System, including methods and devices, for fixing bone. The system may include a bone plate having two or more plate members connected to one another with one or more movable joints. Each joint may permit the orientation of the plate members to be adjusted relative to one another in a single plane or two or more nonparallel planes. The joint may have a movable configuration and a fixed configuration. Methods of creating the bone plate are also provided.
US12201331B2	Implants, systems, and methods of use Implants, systems and methods for correcting bone deformities and fractures in the lower extremity are disclosed. Specifically, implants, systems and methods used for correcting bone deformities and/or fractures in the foot using compression are disclosed. A nail system including a first member with a first deformable member positioned at a first end of the first member and a second member received within the first member.
US12201329B2	Method and device for endoscopic endonasal occipitocervical fusion A novel endonasal method for occipitocervical fusion is provided. This new method provides a minimally invasive advance in the ability of surgeons to treat pathology of the craniocervical junction. The method uses an implant system comprising a body having a spacer section that engages with the occipital condyle and a plate section that engages with the C1 lateral mass. Fasteners fix the plate section with the occipital condyle the plate section with the C1 lateral mass.
US12201326B2	Knotless syndesmosis system A bone anchor includes a flexible strand defining a first adjustable loop and a friction knot coupled to a proximal end of the first adjustable loop. The friction knot is configured to allow adjustment of the first adjustable loop in a first configuration and is configured to prevent adjustment of the first adjustable loop in a second configuration. A knot capsule includes a body defining an internal knot cavity. The friction knot and a portion of the first adjustable loop are positioned within the internal knot cavity. The internal knot cavity defines one or more impingement surfaces configured to maintain the friction knot in a fixed position within the internal knot cavity when the friction knot is in the second configuration.
US12201324B2	Bone fixation implant and method of implantation Provided is a nested screw assembly and a related method for fusing a joint between two bones using the nested screw assembly, where the nested screw assembly includes a cannulated outer screw and an inner screw.
US12201318B2	Tissue-removing catheter with a coupled inner liner The present disclosure provides a tissue-removing catheter for removing tissue in a body lumen that includes an elongate body, a handle, tissue-removing element, liner assembly, and coupling assembly. The elongate body is sized and shaped to be received in the body lumen. The tissue-removing element is mounted on a distal end portion of the elongate body and removes tissue as rotated by the elongate body. The liner assembly defines a guidewire lumen. The coupling assembly is coupled to the liner assembly with a first orientation and a second orientation relative to the coupling assembly. The first orientation permits distal movement of the liner assembly relative to the coupling assembly prior to rotation of the elongate body to rotate the tissue-removing element. The second orientation is relative to the coupling assembly after rotation of the elongate body to prevent distal movement of the liner assembly relative to the coupling assembly.
US12201315B2	Clot removal methods and devices with multiple independently controllable elements A clot removal device for removal of an occlusion from a lumen in a patient's body is provided. The clot removal device has a lumen, an elongated member positioned within the lumen and extending axially from a proximal end to a distal end of the lumen, a handle attached to the proximal end of the lumen, a first expandable member positioned along a length of the elongated member, a second expandable member positioned along the length of the elongated member, wherein the second expandable member is distal to the first expandable member relative to the handle. The handle has at least one actuation mechanism and at least one of the following applies: a) the first expandable member is coupled to the at least one actuation mechanism and is configured to be moveable relative to the second expandable member upon manipulation of the at least one actuation mechanism; b) the first expandable member is configured to mechanically expand or contract by manipulating the at least one actuation mechanism; c) the second expandable member is coupled to the at least one actuation mechanism and is configured to be moveable relative to the first expandable member upon manipulation of the at least one actuation mechanism; or d) the second expandable member is configured to mechanically expand or contract by manipulating the at least one actuation mechanism.
US12201313B2	Ultrasonic probe A method of treating a calculi mass can include using an ultrasonic probe to produce acoustic energy and fragment the mass. The method can include varying the frequency at which fragmentation occurs to treat the mass with a resonant frequency. The ultrasonic probe can have a distal tip for contact with the mass, where the tip has a morphology for concentrating stress on the mass. The ultrasonic probe can have two or more ultrasonic horns to allow for higher voltage and power levels.
US12201312B2	Self-adjusting catheter Catheters and uses of same are described. The catheter may be an aspiration or distal access catheter used to treat stroke or other neurovascular conditions and may include a proximal segment and a distal segment with fixed shapes and outer diameters, and a distensible segment that is located proximal to the distal segment and adjacent to the catheter distal end and that is configured to undergo a conformation change when the catheter open distal end is lodged against the wall of a human blood vessel and a surgeon is attempting to move the catheter distally through the human blood vessel. The catheter may include a wall that is comprised of an inner tube surrounding the catheter's hollow interior, a coil surrounding the inner tube, a braid surrounding the coil and/or an outer tube surrounding the braid. The pitch of the coil may be greater in the distensible segment as compared to the proximal segment and the outer tube may not be attached to the inner tube for at least a portion of the distensible segment, which features allow for the distensible segment to undergo the conformational change. The distal segment may include a metallic marker band, providing rigidity to the distal segment.
US12201309B2	Decompression system and methods of use A decompression surgery system includes an instrument shuttle configured to engage a first side of a target anatomical location, the instrument shuttle including a track. The system further includes a working channel configured to couple to and advance along the track of the instrument shuttle, the working channel having a distal end configured to engage a second side of the target anatomical location so that the target anatomical location is positioned between a portion of the instrument shuttle and the distal end of the working channel. The working channel is configured to receive one or more instruments therethrough.
US12201305B2	System and method for driving an ultrasonic device A method for driving an ultrasonic device for bone cement removal and/or osteotomy operations includes the steps of establishing at least a data connection between a control unit and a handset of the ultrasonic device, sending a signal to the handset, receiving from the handset a response to the sent signal, and checking an operating condition of the ultrasonic device based on said response.
US12201303B2	Systems and methods for treating aneurysms An apparatus for treating an aneurysm in a blood vessel includes an occlusion element configured to be releasably coupled to an elongate delivery shaft and configured to be delivered in a collapsed configuration through an inner lumen of a delivery catheter, the occlusion element including an inverted mesh tube having an outer layer and an inner layer, the outer layer transitioning to the inner layer at an inversion fold, wherein at least the outer layer is formed into a first expanded shape including: a smooth outer cylinder configured to engage a wall of an aneurysm throughout a 360° circumference; and a substantially distal-facing surface including one or more heat-formed undulations, the one or more undulations configured to apply a radial force on the wall of the aneurysm.
US12201301B2	Circular surgical stapler end effector having staple line alignment feature A surgical stapler for creating an anastomosis includes a stapling head assembly having a deck member that incorporates an alignment feature. The alignment feature aligns with a transection staple line prior to creating the anastomosis. In some versions the alignment feature is a groove formed in a surface of the deck member. The surgical stapler may include an anvil with a complementary stepped feature to the alignment feature of the deck member. Various surgical staplers with an alignment feature can be oval shaped, circular shaped, or dog-bone shaped. In some versions different staple geometries are used along the deck member incorporating the alignment feature.
US12201300B2	Magnetic compression anastomosis device with multipiece vertebra A magnetic compression anastomosis device comprises a plurality of interconnected vertebrae including a first vertebra and a second vertebra, wherein each of the first vertebra and the second vertebra is a multipiece vertebra comprising a magnet at least partially encapsulated by a vertebra skin, and wherein the first vertebra and the second vertebra are interconnected by a cylindrical roller and at least one flex element, the roller and the at least one flex element at least partially encapsulated by the first vertebra skin and the second vertebra skin, the roller configured to allow the first and second vertebra to pivot through a predetermined range of rotation in a device plane between at least a delivery configuration and an assembled configuration while constraining movement in other degrees of freedom, the at least one flex element biasing the first and second vertebra toward the assembled configuration.
US12201298B2	Anastomotic coupler An anastomotic coupler is provided. A ring can include a receiving portion. A fixation device includes a cartridge. The cartridge includes a plurality of fasteners. Upon actuation of the fixation device, the fasteners puncture the tubular structure. The fasteners are received by the receiving portions such that the tubular structure is coupled with the ring.
US12201297B2	Surgical stapling apparatus A loading unit for use with a surgical stapling apparatus is provided and includes a tool assembly having a cartridge assembly and an anvil assembly that are movable in relation to one another; a surgical buttress releasably secured to a tissue contacting surface of the anvil assembly and/or the cartridge assembly, wherein each surgical buttress is secured to the anvil assembly and/or the cartridge assembly by at least one anchor; a release assembly associated with the anvil assembly and/or the cartridge assembly; and a drive assembly slidably translatable through the tool assembly between proximal and distal positions, wherein the drive assembly actuates the release assembly to thereby release the anchor to free the surgical buttress from the anvil assembly and/or the cartridge assembly.
US12201293B2	Method and apparatus for passing suture through tissue A method for passing a suture through tissue includes extending a distal end of a suture retainer of a suture passer from a distal portion of a tube of the suture passer; locating a suture adjacent the suture retainer; retracting the suture retainer partially into the tube and retaining a suture between a retaining portion of the suture retainer and a first portion of a cutaway in a side of a wall defining the tube, wherein the first portion of the cutaway curves around a longitudinal axis of the distal portion of the tube and two longitudinally extending portions of the cutaway extend distally from the first portion to a distal end of the tube; and passing the distal portion of the suture passer with the retained suture through tissue.
US12201284B2	Medical seal assemblies and methods of using the same A medical device that includes a shaft having a distal end and a cap at the distal end that defines a reservoir for storing a material. The medical device includes a deployment mechanism configured to eject the material from the reservoir, and the deployment mechanism is configured to apply a force to the reservoir. The cap includes a seal or a perforation that is configured to contain the material in the reservoir in the absence of the force applied by the deployment mechanism to the material.
US12201283B2	Devices, systems and methods for treating benign prostatic hyperplasia and other conditions Devices, systems and methods for compressing, cutting, incising, reconfiguring, remodeling, attaching, repositioning, supporting, dislocating or altering the composition of tissues or anatomical structures to alter their positional or force relationship to other tissues or anatomical structures. In some applications, the invention may be used to used to improve patency or fluid flow through a body lumen or cavity (e.g., to limit constriction of the urethra by an enlarged prostate gland).
US12201282B2	Endoscope assembly and endoscope system having the same An endoscope assembly includes a base module, an injection needle, and an image sensing unit. The base module includes an illumination input end. The injection needle is tubular, is connected to the base module, and has a needle shaft. The needle shaft has a bevel surface that is formed on a distal end thereof. The image sensing unit includes a tube portion that extends inside the needle shaft, and an image sensor that is connected to a distal end of the tube portion and that is adjacent to the bevel surface of the needle shaft. Additionally, a passage is formed between the tube portion and an inner surface of the needle shaft.
US12201277B2	Uterine cavity biocompatible seal A method includes: delivering a biodegradable expandable member into a body cavity of a patient; insufflating the biodegradable expandable member in the body cavity to expand the body cavity; sealing the biodegradable expandable member against an inner wall of the body cavity to seal the body cavity internally; and delivering an endoscope into the body cavity.
US12201276B2	Disposable laryngoscope blade Described herein is a video laryngoscope designed for easy and safe operation comprising an apparatus body, a laryngoscope camera arm unit, and an associated laryngoscope blade releasably attached to the laryngoscope camera arm unit. The laryngoscope camera arm unit is angularly adjustable by use of a rotary linkage member connected to a distal end of the apparatus body. A communication unit is connected to a linkage device at a proximal end of the apparatus body. A light source and a video camera are located on the laryngoscope camera arm unit. The laryngoscope blade has at least two internal fluidic channels for delivering fluid to oral cavity regions of a patient and providing suction of bodily fluids from the patient.
US12201275B2	Endoscopy device having a flexible shaft Systems and methods are disclosed for an endoscope for use in a surgical procedure, e.g., a pediatric trans-nasal endoscopy procedure. The endoscope may include a handle for gripping by a user, and a shaft extending from the handle. The shaft may have a working channel extending longitudinally therethrough and a distal region configured to be inserted into a patient. The exterior of the shaft may be protected by a laminate layer that is more flexible at the distal regions of the shaft than at more proximal regions, so as to improve steering. The shaft wall may be comprised of braided filaments so as to minimize the outer diameter of the shaft while maintaining a maximum working channel diameter. The handle may include symmetrical steering mechanisms to enable ambidextrous steering capabilities.
US12201268B2	Endoscope An endoscope having an operating handle including a handle housing arranged at a proximal end and an insertion tube extending from the handle towards a distal end of the endoscope and terminating in a steerable tip part at the distal end of the endoscope, the endoscope further including a control mechanism with a Bowden cable having an outer guide tube having a first length between a proximal end and a distal end of the outer guide tube and an inner pull-wire having a second length between a proximal end and a distal end of the inner pull-wire, the second length being longer than the first length, the proximal end of the outer guide tube is affixed to the operating handle by an adhesive.
US12201266B2	Location pad surrounding at least part of patient eye and having optical tracking elements A location pad includes two or more field-generators, one or more tracking elements, and a frame. The field-generators are configured to generate respective magnetic fields at least in a region-of-interest (ROI) of an organ of a patient, for measuring a position of a medical instrument in the ROI. The one or more tracking elements are for registering the location pad with the organ. The frame is coupled with tissue that is at least partially surrounding the organ, and the frame is configured to fix (i) the two or more field-generators at respective positions surrounding at least a portion of the ROI, and (ii) the one or more tracking elements at one or more respective predefined positions on the frame.
US12201262B2	Target part identification among human-body internal images Provided are a surgery assistance apparatus, a surgery assistance method, and a computer readable recording medium that includes a surgery assistance program recorded thereon that improve the accuracy of endoscopic surgery by identifying a target part image. A surgery assistance apparatus 1 includes a feature amount calculation unit 2 that calculates, from a human-body internal image captured using an endoscope, a feature amount of a target part image corresponding to a target part, a similarity degree calculation unit 3 that calculates a similarity degree of the features amount between different human-body internal images, and an identification unit 4 that identifies the target part image in each of the different human-body internal images if the similarity degree is greater than or equal to a predetermined value.
US12201261B2	Capsule endoscope apparatus and method of supporting lesion diagnosis Provided are a capsule endoscope apparatus for supporting a lesion diagnosis and a lesion diagnosis supporting method using the same. The capsule endoscope apparatus for supporting lesion diagnosis includes an imaging unit configured to capture one or more images of an inside of a body, a control unit configured to detect a suspected lesion region in the images and perform a precision diagnosis procedure when a suspected lesion region corresponding to a value equal to or greater than a certain threshold is detected, an image processing unit configured to process the images in the precision diagnosis procedure, and a communication module configured to transmit and receive processed images to another capsule endoscope apparatus or a terminal by using a wireless communication method.
US12201258B2	Shoe management apparatus A shoe management apparatus including a receiving portion defining a receiving space for receiving shoes therein, a first supply portion for guiding flow of a fluid towards the receiving portion, the first supply portion including a stationary duct disposed above the receiving space, a flexible duct connected to the stationary duct and able to rotate to change shape, a rotatable duct connected to the flexible duct and a first driver connected to the rotatable duct and for generating a rotational force to rotate the rotatable duct.
US12201257B2	High speed reusable beverage container washing system with air knife chamber for supplying air to a rotatable air knife opening A beverage container washing system may be used for rapid washing and/or sanitizing of beverage containers, e.g., for use in a retail environment to wash and/or sanitize customer-provided beverage containers prior to filling the beverage containers with purchased beverages, among other applications. The beverage container washing system may include multiple concentric housing members supported on a base, and an air knife chamber that supply air from a stationary air supply to an air knife opening on a rotatable one of the concentric housing members.
US12201256B2	Water-using domestic appliance and method for operating a water-using domestic appliance A water-using household appliance includes an electrically controllable actuator, a first voltage source designed to provide a switch-on power amount to the actuator, a second voltage source designed to provide a holding power amount to the actuator, and a control unit designed to electrically connect the first voltage source to the actuator in order to switch on the actuator and, after a switch-on interval, to electrically disconnect the first voltage source from the actuator and to electrically connect the second voltage source to the actuator.
US12201253B2	Cleaning article with differential sized tow tufts A cleaning article defining an XY plane and a Z direction perpendicular to the plane. The cleaning article has discrete tufts of tow fibers bonded to a carrier sheet by primary bonds. The discrete tufts have secondary bond lines external to the tufts. The secondary bond lines interrupt the Z-direction thickness of the tufts, to provide channels for improved collection and retention of debris from a target surface. The tufts are created by slits between the primary bonds and secondary bonds, which yield plural tuft sizes. The slits may be transversely unequally spaced between adjacent bonds.
US12201247B2	Toilet odor vacuum filtration device A toilet odor vacuum filtration device adapted to draw gases from along the rear portion of the toilet bowl and toilet seat by disposing an intake port between the toilet bowl and toilet seat. Inlets along the intake port urge gases and odor from the toilet bowl area, through a hose, and into an air pump and filtration assembly, wherein the odors are filtered from the captured gases prior to the captured gases being released to the external environment.
US12201246B2	Portable toilet system The present invention relates generally to the field of toilets. More specifically, the present invention relates to a portable toilet system primarily comprised of at least one inflatable toilet, at least one privacy screen, and at least one pump. The inflatable toilet can further be inflated, manually or using the pump, wherein the privacy screen can then be erected around the toilet such that a user can defecate or urinate in a bowl member within the toilet that has a waste bag liner. The system may also be comprised of wet wipes and a water bottle to allow a user to clean themselves. All components of the system may further be stored within a carrying case.
US12201240B2	Heating cooking apparatus A heating cooking apparatus includes a heating cooking chamber (100A), a first air sending unit (14), and a second air sending unit (13). The heating cooking chamber (100A) accommodates an object to be heated. The first air sending unit (14) supplies a first hot air (F1) to the heating cooking chamber (100A). The second air sending unit (13) supplies a second hot air (F2) to the heating cooking chamber (100A) from a direction different from the supply direction of the first hot air (F1) supplied by the first air sending unit (14). The heating cooking chamber (100A) includes an accommodation space (120) that accommodates an object to be heated.
US12201236B2	Portable sous vide cooking appliance A portable sous vide cooking appliance that does not require a motor to physically move water or have its own container is provided. The portable sous vide cooking appliance may be used with a separate pot or other container holding water. The sous vide cooking appliance requires no water circulators to function. Unlike immersion circulators, only the heating element and the mechanism for delivering power to the heating element are immersed in water. The sous vide cooking appliance described requires no electric motor, no impeller pump, no water intakes and no water outtakes. Further, unlike immersion circulators, the sous vide cooking appliance passively circulates water through convection currents and are not required to actively agitate the water bath, creating noise and more evaporation and steam.
US12201235B2	Curved curtain rod A curved curtain rod is provided with adjustable rods and an adjustable end cap assembly. The adjustable end cap assembly includes a user accessible drive element that can be rotated to operate the adjustable end cap assembly.
US12201233B2	Interchangeable hanger mounting system A hanger assembly includes a first decorative element and a mounting base. The decorative element has a first surface and a first elongated mounting plate joined thereto in a plane perpendicular to the first surface. The base has a rear surface fastenable to a vertical surface, a first sidewall, and a front surface within which is formed a recessed slot having a substantially T-shaped cross-section. The recessed slot extends from an open end in the first sidewall to a fixed stop formed in the mounting base and slidably receives the mounting plate. The mounting base may be used with a variety of interchangeable multi-themed decorations or plant hangers.
US12201232B1	Thin removable beverage coaster for insertion over the top of a stemware foot to absorb and minimize condensation A thin, flat, absorbent, removable beverage coaster for placement over the top of a stemware foot to absorb condensation trickling down from the stemware bowl. This reduces condensation for reaching the stemware user or the table surface.
US12201223B2	Vehicle seat Provided is a vehicle seat that allows engagement holes for engaging an end part of the skin member to be provided without burdening the seat frame design. The seat cushion of the vehicle seat includes a frame structure, a support member supported by the frame structure within the frame structure to resiliently support an occupant, a pad provided on a proximal side of the frame structure and the support member, and a skin member covering the pad. The support member is provided with plurality of engagement portions engaging end parts of the skin member.
US12201221B2	Bedding system facilitating comforter staying tucked and providing for efficient making of bed A bedding system comprises an anchor assembly and a comforter to provide optimal sleep experience and minimize the effort of making of a bed for sleep. The anchor assembly is formed to “box” in a mattress with the comforter installed on the front face of the mattress. Various types of adjustable anchors are attached to an anchor band of the anchor assembly and connect to the comforter along two longitudinal sides and a bottom side of the mattress so that the comforter can stay tucked on the mattress at all times. The anchors allow a user to make adjustments of tightness of the comforter to achieve ultimate comfort and high-quality sleep while the user is tucked in during sleep. The bedding system provides efficient connections between the anchors and the comforter, and/or a fitted sheet, thus facilitating easy disconnection of the system for washing and/or replacement.
US12201220B2	Safety latch mechanism An articulating frame of an adjustable bedframe is restricted by a safety latch mechanism from pivoting beyond a limited range of motion from its undeployed position unless an actuator lifting assembly mechanism is driving the articulating frame to pivot. Locking tabs and guides mate with each other to restrain the actuator lifting assembly mechanism from moving beyond a limited range of motion unless the actuator lifting assembly mechanism is driving the articulating frame to pivot.
US12201219B2	Packable chair A chair includes a first fabric panel having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, a second fabric panel coupled to the first panel between the first end and the second end such that the second fabric panel divides the first fabric panel into a seat section between the second fabric panel and the first end and a rear section between the second fabric panel and the second end. Back support poles are received within sleeves extending along sides of the second fabric panel. The chair further includes cross support poles having ends coupled to the back support poles and opposite ends coupled to the second end of the second fabric panel. The cross support poles cross one another. The chair has an overall weight less than 12 ounces.
US12201217B2	Display mounting A system for mounting a display to a vertical surface includes a track, at least one rail, a carriage and a number of anchors. The angle bar has a first portion configured for mounting to the vertical surface and a second portion extending from the first portion. Configured to hang from the second portion of the angle bar and slide therealong, the rail has a length defined between first and second ends. The carriage includes a display mounting panel and is configured for selectively sliding along the rail towards the first or second ends. The anchors are configured for selectively locking the carriage to the rail at any of a variety of positions between the first and second ends.
US12201216B2	Flat pack shelf and bracket system The present disclosure provides a shelf and bracket system that comprises a shelf and a bracket assembly. In various embodiments, the bracket assembly comprises a main bracket bar, a plurality of support arms, and hardware for attaching each of the plurality of support arms to the main bracket bar. In addition, in various embodiments, each support arm is disposed adjacent a respective end of the main bracket bar and the respective first hardware for the support arm is configured such that, when disengaged, the support arm is configured to rotate between a shelf support position and a folded storage position so that when each of the plurality of support arms are in the folded storage position, the bracket assembly is substantially flat.
US12201215B2	Mechanism for electrically adjusting work surface position An adjustment mechanism assembly for adjusting a work surface position vertically includes a vertical guiding element, a work surface support element engaged with the vertical guiding element and configured to be movable vertically with electric actuation, and means for the electric actuation comprising a cable. The adjustment mechanism assembly includes a vertical support member which extends vertically from within the vertical guiding element to outside it or resides completely within the vertical guiding element. The cable includes a spiraled portion between its termini, which spiraled portion is supported with respect to its central axis by the support member. The disclosed solution also has a wall structure and a table comprising such an adjustment mechanism assembly.
US12201214B2	Frictional slide rail with synchronous middle and inner rails and lockable middle and outer rails A frictional slide rail with synchronous middle and inner rails and lockable middle and outer rails includes an inner rail, a middle rail, an outer rail and a synchronous locking spring plate. A first wing is formed on both sides of the inner rail, a second wing and a first slide groove are formed on both sides of the middle rail, and a second slide groove is formed on both sides of the outer rail. Inner rail is movably accommodated in middle rail, and middle rail is movably accommodated in outer rail to define a frictional sliding connection. Two second slide grooves have multiple micro top bumps for reducing the frictional area during sliding, synchronous locking spring plate is installed on middle rail and has an inner and middle rails locking part and a middle and outer rails locking part inwardly extended from an end of the synchronous locking spring plate.
US12201212B2	Food pan cooling system with one or more perforated food pans A food preparation table includes a housing at least in part defining multiple food pan receiving locations and a cooling air flow path internal of the housing below the food pan receiving locations. A first food pan is positioned within a first one of the food pan receiving locations such that side walls and a bottom wall of the first food pan are within the cooling air flow path, a first one of the side walls of the first food pan includes a plurality of openings therein to permit some cooling air to enter the first food pan and flow in contact with food items therein.
US12201208B1	Shield sling apparatus for shield support A sling for use with a ballistic shield, wherein the sling may be fastened with a release buckle and tightened. Excess strap may be secured in a glide buckle and can be trimmed to fit. An optional security webbing loop adds stability against strap sliding. Ambidextrous buckles near the handle grip allow versatile connection and use. The shoulder strap hooks onto the lower strap, enhancing stability.
US12201203B2	Universal and reusable versatile dispenser A dispenser includes a container designed to receive a cartridge with an open or partially open end, the cartridge featuring an internal cavity for storing a product and has open or partially open ends. Within the cavity, a movable platform engages the product to control its expulsion facilitated by a force exerting element that is inherently biased to move the platform. The dispenser also includes a roller at the container's end, which selectively restricts or permits product expulsion, allowing user control over the dispensing rate.
US12201188B2	Multilayered materials with color changing properties Described are articles of wear including with a material with color changing properties. The material includes at least one elastic portion having an unstretched colored appearance and a stretched colored appearance. The material also includes at least one fixed portion having the stretched colored appearance regardless of a magnitude of an external force applied to the at least one fixed portion.
US12201187B2	Article of footwear having a knitted upper An article of footwear includes an upper, a heel element, a sole structure, a medial side, and a lateral side. The upper includes an outer surface that defines a forefoot region, a midfoot region, and a heel region. The upper includes a membrane layer and a material layer. The material layer includes a knit fabric and defines a first knit zone and a second knit zone. The first knit zone has a tighter knit than the second knit zone.
US12201185B2	Sole structure with proprioceptive elements and method of manufacturing a sole structure A sole structure for an article of footwear comprises a midsole body having a proximal surface and a distal surface. Proprioceptive elements may extend in holes in the midsole body. The midsole body has an interior portion having a first density and an outer skin covering the interior portion. The outer skin has a second density that is greater than the first density, extends along each of the holes from the proximal surface to the distal surface, and forms a cylinder around each of the perforated holes. The midsole body has a greater compressive stiffness under loading along each central axis than under loading transverse or oblique to each central axis. A first set of proprioceptive elements have a third density different from a fourth density of a second set.
US12201184B2	Footwear strobel with bladder and lasting component and method of manufacturing An article of footwear includes a strobel that has a polymeric bladder defining an interior cavity and configured to retain a fluid in the interior cavity. The polymeric bladder has a peripheral flange extending around at least a portion of a perimeter of the interior cavity. A tensile component is disposed in the interior cavity and is secured to opposing inner surfaces of the polymeric bladder. The peripheral flange defines a groove extending along the peripheral flange. The strobel also includes a lasting component configured to extend along the peripheral flange around the at least a portion of the perimeter of the interior cavity. The lasting component is secured to the peripheral flange. A method of manufacturing footwear that includes the strobel is disclosed.
US12201181B2	Shoe sole and shoe A shoe sole 1 includes a bottom part 20 and a deformation restraining part 30. The bottom part 20 includes: a rear bottom surface part 24 formed to extend from a rearfoot to a midfoot portion and to be, when the shoe sole is placed on a virtual surface S as a flat surface, in contact with the virtual surface S; and a toe portion 26 of which a height from the virtual surface S is set to 100% or greater and 250% or less with respect to a thickness in the rear bottom surface part 24. The deformation restraining part 30 is disposed in an edge part on a medial side and a lateral side of the bottom part 20 and extends from a forefoot to the midfoot portion along the bottom part 20. The deformation restraining part 30 has higher hardness than the bottom part 20.
US12201177B2	Modular liner system for protective helmets Disclosed are methods, devices, and systems for improved protective clothing such as helmets and protective headgear, including improvements in modular, semi-custom or customized helmet liners and/or inserts to enhance wearer comfort and reduce the deleterious effects of impacts between the wearer and other players and/or objects in all types of wearer activities (i.e., sports, military, equestrian, etc.).
US12201176B2	Auxetic conversion of foam for impact attenuation An impact absorbing article including an auxetic foam substrate having a top surface, a bottom surface opposite the top surface, and a thickness extending from the top surface to the bottom surface. The auxetic foam substrate is comprised of a plurality of closed-cells and configured to dissipate forces delivered through the bottom surface associated with localized impacts delivered to the top surface of the auxetic foam substrate. The plurality of closed cells each have a negative Poisson ratio.
US12201174B2	Method and apparatus for displaying darts on pattern pieces of garment A method and apparatus for displaying a dart on a pattern piece receives a position of a second dart to be generated in association with a first dart included in at least one pattern piece that forms a garment, sets a pivot point by an intersection point between a first extension line extending from the first dart and a second extension line extending from the second dart, generates the second dart in the pattern piece based on a width of the first dart that is changed by rotating at least a portion of the pattern piece around the pivot point, and displays a pattern piece including the generated second dart.
US12201173B1	Sport gloves with padding A pair of sport gloves for properly positioning a bat and for protecting a dominant hand and a secondary hand of a player. The pair of sport gloves includes a first sport glove adapted to fit over the dominant hand and a second sport glove adapted to fit over the secondary hand. The first sport glove includes a first padding assembly that includes a first palm pad and a webspace pad including a generally triangular shape. The second sport glove includes a second padding assembly that is different from the first padding assembly. The second padding assembly includes a second palm pad and a heal pad including a rectangular shape.
US12201171B2	Airbag actuator mounted in a custom buckle for personal impact protection systems A protective device includes an airbag assembly configured to extend at least partially around a waist or hips of an individual; a buckle attached to the airbag assembly, the buckle comprising a first buckle half, and a second buckle half, the first and second buckle halves being attachable to and detachable from one another; and an airbag actuator configured to actuate the airbag assembly. At least a portion of the airbag actuator is disposed in the first buckle half or the second buckle half.
US12201167B2	Conductive garment fastening product An aspect of the present disclosure describes a conductive garment fastening product for a garment, comprising a first article coupleable to a second article for fastening the garment. The first article comprises: a first substrate; an array of first conductive fasteners attached to the first substrate, the array comprising a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns; and a set of first conductive paths disposed conductively along the rows of first conductive fasteners. The first conductive fasteners are engageable with second conductive fasteners of the second article for coupling the first and second articles together and forming a conductive connection therethrough.
US12201153B2	Aerosol provision device An aerosol provision devices are described. One such device comprises a receptacle configured to receive aerosol generating material, wherein the receptacle comprises a susceptor which is heatable by penetration with a varying magnetic field. The device further comprises an insulating member extending around the susceptor, wherein the insulating member is positioned away from the receptacle to provide an air gap around the susceptor. The device further comprises an inductor coil extending around the insulating member such that the insulating member is positioned between the inductor coil and the susceptor, wherein the inductor coil is configured to generate the varying magnetic field.Another such aerosol provision device comprises: a susceptor configured to receive aerosol generating material, wherein the susceptor is heatable by penetration with a varying magnetic field; an insulating member extending around the susceptor, wherein the insulating member is positioned away from the susceptor; an inductor coil extending around the insulating member such that the insulating member is positioned between the inductor coil and the susceptor, wherein the inductor coil is configured to generate the varying magnetic field; and an outer cover forming at least a portion of an outer surface of the aerosol provision device, wherein an inner surface of the outer cover is positioned away from an outer surface of the susceptor by a distance of between about 4 mm and about 10 mm.
US12201142B2	Filter for smoking or vaping article comprising a nonwoven substrate The present invention relates to a filter comprising a nonwoven substrate having a low density and comprising natural fibers and a binder. The filter can be used as a filter for a smoking or vaping article.
US12201140B2	Aerosol generation Disclosed herein in a laminate aerosol generating material, wherein the material comprises a carrier layer (6), a layer of aerosol-forming amorphous solid (4) attached to the carrier layer (6), and a porous layer (2) attached to the amorphous solid layer (4).
US12201136B2	Extrusion of agro-food industry byproducts and protein concentrates into value-added foods The present invention relates to a process for preparing an edible foodstuff from food industry waste stream byproducts. This process involves the steps of: (i) combining, in an extruder, an extrusion formulation comprising a first food byproduct and at least one additional ingredient; (ii) introducing supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) into the extruder to mix with the first food byproduct and the at least one additional ingredient; and (iii) producing an edible foodstuff containing the first food byproduct and the at least one additional ingredient, where the edible foodstuff comprises an extrudate prepared under supercritical fluid extrusion (SCFX) conditions. The present invention also relates to a process for preparing an edible foodstuff from a protein concentrate. The present invention further relates to edible foodstuffs produced by the various processes disclosed herein.
US12201128B2	Palm-based animal feed Animal feed formed with a base of palm fronds and combined with palm fruit, such as dates, is a sustainable and affordable feed product that can be developed in hot climates. Palm fronds with a desired moisture content are shredded, chopped, and/or ground, and mixed with palm fruit. Additives such as urea can increase the nutritional content. Feeds with palm fronds, palm fruit, and/or additives can serve as a base feed for other components. Palm fronds can also serve as a base feed for other components. Animal feeds with a variety of bases can have palm fruit added. Animal feeds with a variety of bases, including palm fronds, can include a variety of other components added.
US12201118B2	Apparatus and method for separating meat from bone An apparatus and method for separating meat from bone. Meat-laden bones are fed to a compression screw rotating within a barrel. The compression screw and the barrel cooperate to progressively compress the meat-laden bones to force the meat-laden bones radially outward against an inner wall of the barrel as the meat-laden bones move axially along the compression screw. At least a portion of the meat is separated from the meat-laden bones by forcing the meat through apertures in the barrel while inhibiting the meat-laden bones from co-rotating along within the barrel with the compression screw. In one embodiment, inhibiting the meat-laden bones from co-rotating within the barrel along with the compression screw is accomplished by cooperation of guide channels extending axially along an inner surface of the barrel with curved fillets extending between a root of the compression screw and screw flights of the compression screw.
US12201115B2	Anti-pathogen compositions Compositions comprising an activated metal or metal oxide useful for neutralizing pathogens. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides a solid anti-pathogen composition comprising an active component, wherein the active component comprises particles of at least one activated metal. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an anti-pathogen liquid composition comprising particles of an active component and in a water or saline solution, wherein the active component comprises particles of at least one activated metal. Also described herein are methods for neutralizing microbes and pathogens on surfaces and in water.
US12201114B2	Aqueous 1,2-benzisothiazoline-3-one dispersions The invention relates to aqueous benzisothiazoline-3-one dispersions of sodium-1,2-benzisothiazoline-3-one particles dispersed in water. The dispersions contain: (a) between 15 wt.-% and 35 wt.-% of sodium-1,2-benzisothiazoline-3-one; and (b) ad. 100 wt.-% of water having a content of sodium ion in the range from 4 wt.-% to 10 wt.-% with respect to water contained in the dispersion. The invention further relates to the use of the claimed dispersions for preserving water-based products of all types, in particular, cleaning and household products, plastics dispersions, paints, plasters, adhesives, sealing compounds, paper coating materials, textile softeners and sizing agents, washing raw materials, surfactants, polishing agents, spinning baths, cooling lubricants, leather treatment agents and silicone and bitumen emulsions.
US12201113B2	Fungicidal compositions A fungicidal composition comprising a mixture of components (A) and (B), wherein components (A) and (B) are as defined in claim 1, and use of the compositions in agriculture or horticulture for controlling or preventing infestation of plants by phytopathogenic microorganisms, preferably fungi.
US12201106B2	Fishing and hunting prediction system and method A fishing and hunting prediction system and method. The fishing and hunting prediction system may include a server, including a fishing and hunting prediction application, a controller, operating memory, and a communications interface, and wherein the server is accessible via a network. The fishing and hunting prediction system may further include, a data store in communication with the server; one or more data sources, wherein the one or more data sources are accessible to the fishing and hunting prediction application via the network; and wherein the controller is configured to execute stored program instructions, that may include providing access to a user; receiving user profile data; receiving waypoint data for one or more waypoints; receiving data from the one or more data sources; processing the received data; and generating fishing and hunting forecasting models based on the processed data.
US12201103B1	Wearable fishing pole holding device A wearable fishing pole holding device includes an elongated tubular-shaped main body having a top end, a closed bottom end and a hollow interior. A neck strap extends outward from a top portion of the main body for positioning the main body against the chest of a user, and a belt loop extends outward from the bottom end of the main body for engaging the belt of a user. A malleable lip extends downward from the main body and is positionable between a users waist and belt. The belt loop and lip secure the bottom portion of the main body against the users waist. The main body includes an opening along the top end for receiving the bottom end of a fishing pole. Semi-circular indentations hold a reel secured to the fishing pole in place to permit one handed operation of the reel.
US12201097B2	Climate system and method for rearing invertebrates Systems and methods are provided for rearing invertebrates by utilizing a plurality of crates arranged into at least one stack, each crate in the stack defining an airflow path there through from an inlet opening in a first wall to an outlet opening in a second wall opposite the first wall of each crate. The plurality of crates are arranged in a climate controlled chamber.
US12201094B2	Pet feeding bowl assembly A feeding bowl assembly for pets is proposed, comprising a first bowl base and a second bowl base separated from each other, and the tops of the first bowl base and the second bowl base are respectively provided with a first opening and a second opening, the first opening and the second opening are respectively used to set up one bowl body for holding food, wherein a third opening is provided at the bottom of the second bowl base, through which third opening the first bowl base can be received within the second bowl base.
US12201091B2	Simulated natural landscape in a cage-free facility to improve animal welfare and health An artificial and/or simulated environment is used to raise a domestic or commercially raised animal to promote a positive health feedback and to minimize stress on the animal. The simulated environment is used to create the façade of a free range or cage free environment, while also minimizing the exposure to inclement weather, potential predators, and other unknown or stress-inducing situations. The results include animals that have higher resistance to diseases and have a lower stress. The artificial environment can be created by projecting or otherwise showing images and/or videos depicting simulation of environments, climate, and/or other unknown situations to normalize the animals to the same.
US12201087B2	Harness for animals Disclosed is a harness for animals, the harness including a chest rest configured to wrap a chest or the chest and a part of an abdomen of an animal, wherein the chest rest includes a main body portion including a front area and a rear area each having a relatively large width and a middle area extending from the front area to the rear area, the middle area being long and narrow, and a plurality of bands coupled to the main body portion, each of the bands being provided at one end thereof with a first fastening member configured to perform fastening when the harness is worn, and a three-dimensional pattern is formed in left-right symmetry at an inner surface of the chest rest that abuts a body of the animal when the chest rest is worn.
US12201086B2	Breakaway buckle device for a pet collar A breakaway buckle device for a pet collar. The breakaway buckle device includes a first buckle portion, a second buckle portion, and a coupling mechanism arranged to releasably couple the first buckle portion with the second buckle portion. The coupling mechanism can be manipulated to adjust a breakaway force required for the first buckle portion to break relatively away from the second buckle portion.
US12201082B2	Multilayer, static housing systems One aspect of the present disclosure can include a multilayer static housing system for preventing the ingress of microorganisms therein. The housing system can include a static outer housing unit and at least one static inner housing unit nested completely inside of the outer housing unit. Airflow through the housing system can be driven passively by the chimney effect.
US12201081B2	Milking device A milking device is provided with milking device, a control unit, a milk line for transporting the milk from the milking device to a milk tank, a milk filter for filtering the milk passing through the milk line, and a cleaning device for the milk filter with cleaning liquid. The milk filter includes a housing surrounding a filter volume and has a milk inlet and a milk outlet, and a filter component in the filter volume. The filter component includes a circumferential plate part with filter holes, and divides the filter volume into a central inner filter volume and an outer filter volume surrounding the latter. The milk filter is configured to be flushed, in use, with the milk to be filtered from the milk inlet to the milk outlet. The cleaning device is configured to clean the milk filter by passing cleaning liquid through the milk filter in a countercurrent direction in consecutive pulses, in such a way that, in each pulse, during a first pulse stage more cleaning liquid is supplied than is discharged, and subsequently, during a second pulse stage, at least as much cleaning liquid flows from the filter volume as is supplied. As a result thereof, an amount of cleaning liquid always collects in the filter volume up to a liquid level, which surrounds at least some of the plurality of holes. The next pulse makes cleaning liquid collide with the liquid level, which improves the cleaning of the filter.
US12201078B2	Hemp cultivar named ‘CBDRX18’ One embodiment relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of hemp cultivar ‘CBDRx18’, and to methods for producing a hemp plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves, with another hemp plant, such as a plant of another genotype, or with vegetatively propagating said plant. Another embodiment further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. Further embodiments relate to parts of such plants, and products produced.
US12201076B2	Method for obtaining regenerated seedlings of Brassica campestris L.ssp.chinensis from embryonic tip tissue A method for obtaining regenerated seedlings of Brassica campestris L. ssp. chinensis from embryonic tip tissues, including the following steps. A seed is inoculated to a germination medium for dark culture for 60 h. The testa, root tip, two cotyledons and middle growing point of the resultant germinated seed are removed, and an embryonic tip with a length of 3-5 mm is retained as an explant. The explant is sequentially subjected to low-temperature pre-culture in a pre-culture medium for 36 h, room-temperature shaking culture in a liquid bud induction culture medium for 10 min, and bud induction culture in a bud induction culture medium for 20 d. A regenerated plant with 5-6 leaves is transferred to a rooting medium for rooting culture for about 2 weeks, and a well-rooted plant is collected, and subjected to hardening and transplantation into a filed.
US12201067B2	Pasture grass substrate A pasture grass substrate includes a dry material and water. The dry material includes pasture grasses, corncobs and rice brans. The weight ratio of the pasture grasses in the dry material is from 55% to 75%. The weight ratio of the corncobs in the dry material is from 20% to 30%. The weight ratio of the rice brans in the dry material is from 5% to 15%. The incubating methods of mushrooms are also disclosed.
US12201066B2	Six-device-in-one material-saving consumer-and-manufacturer-cost-saving shipping-volume-saving multi-barrier-locking multi-root-gripping-and-water-flowing anti-digging garden-and-tree-protecting vertical-truck-bed-extender-and-tonneau-cover stackable landscape barrier A six-device-in-one landscape barrier, comprises: a barrier, a end-wing molded to the barrier for saving materials during manufacturing, being half of the length of comparable prior art and saving money for consumers by requiring less overlap at the ends of the landscape barriers and preventing animals from digging beneath the landscape barrier, when inserted into the soil vertically and bending to create a variety of corner angles, corner-angling holes cut out from the barrier for lockingly supporting a garden-plant cage and promoting bending of the end-wing to form a variety of corner angles, tongue-locking openings cut out from the end-wing, barrier-locking tongues molded to the end-wing for saving materials during manufacturing, being half of the length of comparable prior art and saving money for consumers by requiring less overlap at the two barrier ends of the landscape barriers and securely supporting solar-stake-mounted lights or a trellis for vines or climbing plants or an umbrella pole or a sprinkler head or drip line and securely connecting multiple landscape barriers together by inserting through the tongue-locking opening and wrapping over the top or under the bottom of the barrier and securely locking multiple landscape barriers together by inserting through the tongue-locking openings, wrapping in the opposite direction through the corner-angling holes, and again through the tongue-locking opening and anchoring the landscape barrier into soil and protecting garden plants from animals and saving materials during manufacturing, being half of the length of comparable prior art and saving money for consumers by requiring less overlap at the ends of the landscape barriers, a fold-over ridge folded from the top of the material-saving barrier for connecting the ridge of one landscape barrier to the ridge of an another landscape barrier to create a shield to protect garden plants from animals and to create a shield to protect saplings from animals and to create a shield to protect trees from animals and to create a barrier to protect garden vegetation from animals and to create a tonneau cover of a truck bed and providing a guide for the end-wing to slide into, at least one serpentine stake punched out of the barrier for frictionally anchoring the stake into soil by providing a serpentine stake shape and securing the landscape barrier into soil on an inclined or level surface and piercing into soil angledly or vertically, root-gripping tunnels punched out of the barrier for saving materials during manufacturing by stamping out the stake from the barrier and saving time and energy costs when the stake is stored within the root-gripping tunnel during packaging and storage and shipping the landscape barrier to reduce the space needed in each shipping container and to reduce the space needed for the landscape barrier and to reduce unit cost of the landscape barrier and securing the landscape barrier into soil by providing tunnel openings through which grass and plant roots may grow and soil may fill and locking into soil by providing tunnel lower edges below the root-gripping tunnels, stake-locking nipples formed into the barrier for locking the stake to the barrier to provide a secure place to store the stake when not in use and to prevent loss of the stake, a stopper formed into the stake, a stake-locking hole punched out of the stake for locking the stake tip to the barrier for storage and shipping and securing the stake in the soil by providing an opening through which grass and plant roots may grow and creating friction against the soil to secure the stake, at least one single-angled sheath and double-angled sheath and triple-angled sheath, molded to the barrier for connecting multiple landscape barriers by providing an opening for a strap to be threaded therethrough to create a shield to protect gardens or saplings or trees from animals and a barrier to protect garden plants from animals and a tonneau cover of a truck bed and securing the landscape barrier to the utility holes of a pickup truck by providing an opening for the stake to be threaded therethrough to create a vertical truck-bed extender and securing multiple landscape barriers to each other vertically by providing an opening for a stake to be threaded therethrough to create a tree ring or planter ring of varying heights and guiding a stake while being inserted vertically or angledly, ridges respectively pressed into the stake for wedging into the single- and double- and triple-angled sheaths to securely lock the stake for storage and shipping and wedging into the double-angled sheath to securely lock the stake and wedging into the triple-angled sheath to securely lock the stake and frictionally securing the stake into soil, having friction provided by serpentine ridge-shapes, to prevent lifting when ground expands and contracts due to changes in temperature and securingly locking the stake to the barrier by snap-locking to the triple-angled sheath.
US12201065B2	Round baler implement having forming belt pin wear detection system A round baler implement includes a forming belt having a first longitudinal end and a second longitudinal end coupled together by a retaining pin to secure the forming belt in an endless loop. An image sensor is positioned and operable to capture an image of the retaining pin. A baler controller receives a current image of the retaining pin from the image sensor and determines a wear condition of the retaining pin therefrom. The baler controller may then communicate a notification signal to a communicator providing the wear condition of the retaining pin, thereby notifying user of the condition of the retaining pin so that the user may decide to replace the retaining pin when necessary.
US12201063B2	Sugarcane harvester extractor with fixed leaf shredder An extractor is disclosed for a sugarcane harvester that chops stalks of sugarcane into billets. The extractor comprises a housing, a fan positioned within the housing and comprising fan blades mounted for rotation in a rotational path about an axis of rotation to induce a flow of air to extract leaf material from billets produced by the sugarcane harvester, and a leaf shredder positioned within the housing and comprising shredding knives fixed against rotation about the axis of rotation, the shredding knives offset axially from the fan blades relative to the axis of rotation in proximity to the rotational path of the fan blades such that the fan blades and the shredding knives cooperate to shred leaf material by shearing action as the fan blades rotate past the shredding knives about the axis of rotation.
US12201061B2	Adjustable billet deflector A cleaning arrangement for separating a billet material from an extraneous plant matter in a sugarcane harvester includes a cleaning chamber defining an inlet for the billet material and the extraneous plant matter, a first outlet for the extraneous plant matter, and a second outlet for the billet material. A fan is positioned within the cleaning chamber and configured to generate an airflow to direct the extraneous plant matter toward the first outlet. A billet deflector is located between the inlet and the first outlet and configured to direct the billet material toward the second outlet. An actuation mechanism is coupled to the billet deflector and is controllable to adjust the position of the billet deflector. A sensor is configured to generate a signal. A controller is programmed to activate the actuation mechanism to adjust the position of the billet deflector based on the signal.
US12201060B2	Work equipment provided with a damper element A work equipment (10) is described, comprising: —a pole (20); —a work apparatus (W) fixed to a first end of the pole (20), comprising a work tool (30), —a support body (45), fixed to a second end of the pole (20), for housing a power supply battery (P) operatively connected to the work apparatus (W), said power supply battery (P) being removably associated with the support body (45), characterized in that a damper element (95) is positioned between the support body (45) and the power supply battery (P).
US12201059B2	Power capacity indicator for a riding lawn mower A riding lawn mower includes a seat, a frame, a mowing element, a deck surrounding, and forming a mowing space for accommodating at least part of the mowing element, and a first motor for driving the mowing element to rotate. The riding lawn mower may further include a footrest provided on a front side of the seat and used to support a user's feet, wherein the footrest comprises a bottom plate and a front cover protruding relative to the bottom plate. The riding lawn mower may include an indicator device for displaying a remaining capacity of the power supply device, and the indicator device is at least partially mounted to the front cover of the footrest.
US12201058B2	Riding grass mower with rotary blade drive selection unit A riding grass mower includes a driver seat 11 in a travel chassis 10, a mower deck 30 supported by the travel chassis 10, a rotary blade 20 in a glass-cutting space defined by side wall and a top plate 31 of the mower deck 30, a blade motor 4 configured to supply motive power to the rotary blade 20, and a blade motor control unit 55 configured to control the blade motor 4. The blade motor control unit 55 includes a main drive control unit 55a configured to rotate the rotary blade 20 forward, an auxiliary drive control unit 55b configured to rotate the rotary blade 20 backward, and a drive selection unit 55c configured to selectively operate the main drive control unit 55a and the auxiliary drive control unit 55b at a start of mowing with use of the rotary blade 20.
US12201053B2	Riding mower edge detection system A lawn mower includes a frame, an operator support, a blade assembly, a steering system, a motor assembly, a sensor and one or more processors. The operator support is coupled to the frame and is configured to support the entire weight of an operator of the lawn mower during use thereof. The motor assembly is configured to drive rotatable wheels so as to move the frame along the ground surface and drive at least one blade relative to the ground surface to cut grass. Sensor and processor to detect the an edge between an unmowed area of grass and a mowed area of grass and control the motor assembly stop driving the at least one blade, the wheels, or both based on the input from the sensor.
US12201052B2	Work machine with a rotary member and torque control therefor A work machine comprises, a drive source, a working unit that includes a rotary member rotated by the drive source and performs a predetermined work by rotation of the rotary member, and a control unit that controls the drive source so that output of the rotary member partially takes different values in one rotation of the rotary member.
US12201051B2	Apparatus and method for seed germination and planting Systems and methods for seed germination and planting include: a germinator unit providing an environment for seeds to germinate in water, and means to deliver the germinated seeds in batch form, suspended in an aqueous hydrogel; and a planting unit to accept batches of suspended seeds and dispense the seeds, preferably in singulated manner, to selected locations in a planting environment. The planting unit may be man-portable, mounted on a trailer or autonomous vehicle, or substantially stationary for use in a greenhouse. The planting environment may be a field or it may be a planting tray, pot, or other container for use in a greenhouse.
US12201050B2	Rotational sprouter system A rotational sprouter system, is disclosed including: a chamber comprising an opening; a porous end cap that is configured to engage the opening of the chamber; a reservoir; wherein the chamber and the porous end cap are at least partially submerged in the reservoir such that an interior of the chamber is in communication with the reservoir via the porous end cap; and wherein the porous end cap is adapted to engage a drive mechanism that is configured to rotate the chamber and the porous end cap while the chamber and the porous end cap are at least partially submerged in the reservoir.
US12201049B2	Work machine control systems to monitor ground engagement tools and map obstacles Work machines, control systems for work machines, and methods of operating work machines. A work machine includes a frame structure, a work implement, and a control system. The work implement is coupled to the frame structure and includes at least one ground engagement tool that is configured for movement in response to interaction with an underlying surface in use of the use work machine. The control system is coupled to the frame structure and includes a sensor mounted to the at least one ground engagement tool and a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor.
US12201047B2	System and method for performing spraying operations with an agricultural applicator A system for an agricultural sprayer includes a boom assembly operably coupled with a chassis. A steering system is operably coupled with the chassis and includes a steering sensor. The system also includes one or more imaging devices and one or more nozzle assemblies. A computing system is operably coupled with the one or more imaging devices and the one or more nozzle assemblies. The computing system is configured to receive data related to a first imaged portion of an agricultural field from the one or more imaging devices; identify a target within the first imaged portion of the agricultural field; receive data related to an inputted steering command from the steering system; and determine a target offset of the target relative to the sprayer path and a boom offset of the assembly relative to the sprayer path.
US12201045B2	Frame apparatus for agricultural work vehicle Disclosed herein is a frame apparatus for an agricultural work vehicle. The frame apparatus includes: an engine frame configured to support the engine of an agricultural work vehicle; a front frame connected to each of a front work machine and the engine frame to support the front work machine mounted in front of the agricultural work vehicle; a center case spaced apart from the front frame based on a first axis direction, and disposed behind the engine frame; a rear axle case coupled to the rear of the center case; side frames each coupled to each of the front frame and the rear axle case on both sides of the agricultural work vehicle; and a crossbar coupled to the side frames while connecting the side frames on both sides based on a second axis direction perpendicular to the first axis direction.
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.

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