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| US12230873B2 |
Antenna package and image display device including the same
An antenna package includes an antenna device including an antenna dielectric layer and an antenna unit formed on the antenna dielectric layer, and an intermediate circuit board electrically connected to the antenna unit. The intermediate circuit board includes a core layer and a signal line formed on a surface of the core layer and electrically connected to the antenna unit. A width of one end portion of the signal line connected to the antenna unit is smaller than a width of the other end portion opposite to the one end portion of the signal line. Impedance mismatching is prevented by the construction of the signal line to improve antenna properties. |
| US12230872B2 |
Antenna device and display device including the same
An antenna device according to an embodiment includes a dielectric layer, a rhombus-shaped first radiator disposed on an upper surface of the dielectric layer, a transmission line connected to the first radiator, a signal pad connected to one end of the transmission line, ground pads disposed around the signal pad, and second radiators extending from the ground pad along lower sides of the first radiator. |
| US12230868B2 |
Device for inductive energy transfer into a human body, for example, and use of said device
The invention relates to a device (10) for inductive energy transmission into a human body (1) with a transmitter unit (23) having a transmission coil (25), wherein the transmission coil (25) has a coil winding (26). According to the invention, the carrier element (32) is a surface area-forming flexible structure that can be made to conform to a body contour, and the coil winding (26) of the transmission coil (25) is fixed to the carrier element (32). |
| US12230867B2 |
Slant cross-polarized antenna arrays composed of non-slant polarized radiating elements
Base station antennas include first and second radio frequency (“RF”) ports and a first antenna array that includes both first and second radiating elements. Each of the first radiating elements includes a first radiator that is connected to the first RF port that is configured to radiate at a first polarization and a second radiator that is connected to the second RF port that is configured to radiate at the first polarization. Each of the second radiating elements includes a first radiator that is connected to the first RF port that is configured to radiate at a second polarization that is different from the first polarization and a second radiator that is connected to the second RF port that is configured to radiate at the second polarization. |
| US12230864B2 |
Wireless apparatus
There is provided a wireless apparatus with which a communication range may be prevented from being reduced even in a case where the height of the apparatus is restricted. The wireless apparatus includes an antenna device configured by a substrate including a substrate ground and an antenna element provided on the substrate, and a conductor formed into a sideways U-shape. The conductor includes an upper section and a lower section that are disposed along a ground plane and vertically relative to each other, and a middle section that is disposed substantially perpendicular to the ground plane, between one end of the upper section and one end of the lower section. The conductor is disposed such that the upper section, the lower section, and the middle section thereof are near an upper side section, a lower side section, and a lateral side section of the antenna device, respectively. The upper section of the conductor is disposed near the antenna element, and the conductor functions as an antenna due to current being excited in the conductor when power is supplied to the antenna element. |
| US12230863B2 |
Apparatuses for mounting an antenna assembly
Methods, systems, and devices are described for mounting an antenna assembly to a vehicle, whereby rotational degrees of freedom between the antenna assembly and the vehicle are constrained. For example, an antenna mount may employ an intermediate structure between the antenna assembly and the vehicle. In various examples, the intermediate structure may be coupled with one of the vehicle or the antenna assembly by a linear coupling, and the intermediate structure may be coupled with the other of the vehicle or the antenna assembly by a planar coupling. The antenna assembly may be coupled with the vehicle by a compliant coupling that provides a centering force between the antenna assembly and the vehicle. According to various examples, rotational movement between the antenna assembly and the vehicle may be suppressed, and vibration from the vehicle to the antenna assembly may be attenuated. |
| US12230858B2 |
Balun
A balun including first and second conductive tracks located vertically in line and at a distance from each other and having a same pattern. |
| US12230850B2 |
Highly reinforced ionomer membranes for high selectivity and high strength
Embodiments are directed to composite membranes having: increased volume of the microporous polymer structure relative to the total volume of the PEM; decreased permeance and thus increased selectivity; and lower ionomer content. An increased amount of polymers of the microporous polymer structure is mixed with a low equivalent weight ionomer (e.g., <460 cc/mole eq) to obtain a composite material having at least two distinct materials. Various embodiments provide a composite membrane comprising a microporous polymer structure that occupies from 13 vol % to 65 vol % of a total volume of the composite membrane, and an ionomer impregnated in the microporous polymer structure. The acid content of the composite membrane is 1.2 meq/cc to 3.5 meq/cc, and/or the thickness of the composite membrane is less than 17 microns. The selectivity of the composite membrane is greater than 0.05 MPa/mV, based on proton conductance and hydrogen permeance. |
| US12230849B2 |
Direct alcohol fuel cell
The present invention relates to a direct alcohol fuel cell comprising a housing containing a proton exchange membrane (PEM) separating an anode section from a cathode section, which anode section and which cathode section are contained in the housing, the cathode section comprising a cathode collection element electrically connected to a cathode catalyst, which cathode catalyst is in diffusive communication with a gaseous oxidant, and the anode section comprising an anode collection element electrically connected to an anode catalyst, and a pervaporation membrane located at a spacing distance from the PEM, which pervaporation membrane provides diffusive communication between the anode catalyst and a fuel supply, wherein the housing comprises one or more venting holes providing fluid communication between the anode section and the ambient environment, which venting hole has or which venting holes have a largest dimension in the range of 25 μm to 300 μm, the venting hole being located within the spacing distance. The fuel cell is suited for a microelectronic device. |
| US12230843B2 |
Secondary battery with pressing projection
A conductive member (61) is disposed near a side of the sealing plate (2) facing the inside of a battery with a first insulating member (10) disposed therebetween. The conductive member (61) has a conductive-member opening portion (61f) at a side facing the electrode assembly. An inserting portion (7b) of a positive electrode terminal (7) is inserted through a third terminal-receiving hole (61c) in the conductive member (61) and connected to the conductive member (61). The conductive-member opening portion (61f) of the conductive member (61) is sealed by a deformation plate (62), and the deformation plate (62) is connected to a first positive-electrode current collector (6a), which is electrically connected to positive electrode plates. The conductive member (61) includes a pressing projection (61e) that projects toward the first insulating member (10) from a portion thereof that faces the first insulating member (10). |
| US12230840B2 |
Power storage module
A power storage module includes: a stack in which a plurality of power storage cells are stacked in a stacking direction; a resin plate placed on the stack of the plurality of power storage cells; a flexible printed circuit board placed on the resin plate and having an electric circuit electrically connected to the plurality of power storage cells; and a cover member provided on the resin plate so as to cover the flexible printed circuit board. The resin plate includes a projection that extends through the flexible printed circuit board. The cover member includes a tubular protrusion that protrudes toward the flexible printed circuit board on the resin plate. The projection is accommodated in an inner periphery of the tubular protrusion. The tubular protrusion is in abutment with the flexible printed circuit board at a position to avoid the electric circuit. |
| US12230836B2 |
Organic-inorganic hybrid complex and coating composition comprising same, separator, secondary battery, battery module, battery pack and power consuming device
The present application provides an organic-inorganic hybrid complex which can be used in a coating of a separator for a secondary battery, wherein the organic-inorganic hybrid complex is formed from basic units represented by formula (I) being periodically assembled in at least one spatial direction: [Lx-i□i][MaCb].Az (I), wherein a defect percentage expressed in i/x*100% is 1% to 30%. The present application further provides a coating composition comprising the organic-inorganic hybrid complex, a coating formed from the coating composition, a separator comprising the coating for a secondary battery, a secondary battery comprising the separator, a battery module, a battery pack and a device. By applying the organic-inorganic hybrid complex of the present application in a coating, the electrolyte infiltration of a separator for a secondary battery is improved while increasing the electrolyte retention rate, thereby improving the rate capability and cycling life of the secondary battery. |
| US12230829B2 |
Mounting clip for printed circuit board
A mounting clip for a battery housing is provided. The mounting clip includes a support structure including a recess extending partially into the support structure, wherein the recess is configured to receive a printed circuit board and the recess is configured to enable the printed circuit board to move within the recess to dampen loading. |
| US12230827B2 |
Load applicator and power storage apparatus
A load applicator includes an elastic mechanism including elastic bodies, a first member configured to move in accordance with contraction of power storage cells, a second member provided opposite to the first member across the elastic mechanism, a switching device, and a restriction member. The elastic mechanism has a first form wherein a first restraint load is applied to a power storage module when the power storage module expands by a first dimension, and a second form wherein a second restraint load larger than the first restraint load is applied to the power storage module when the power storage module expands by the first dimension. The switching device performs an operation switching from the first form to the second form in a case where a restraint load smaller than the first restraint load is applied to the power storage module when the power storage module expands by the first dimension. |
| US12230825B2 |
Battery pack for a hand-held power tool, hand-held power tool and charging device
The disclosure relates to a battery back for a hand-held power tool comprising a battery pack housing. An interface of the battery pack housing has contact elements for contacting corresponding counter contact elements on the hand-held power tool and/or the charging device. A battery pack electronics system comprises a charge current path and a discharge current path. The charge current path is designed to connect the contact elements to the battery cell during a charging of the at least one battery cell, while the discharge current path is designed to connect the contact elements to the battery cell during a discharging of the at least one battery cell. The charge current path and the discharge current path are at least partially electrically separate from one another. The battery pack also comprises a first switch element for switching between at least the charge current path and the discharge current path. |
| US12230823B2 |
Battery pack and vehicle including the same
A battery pack mounted to a vehicle includes a plurality of battery modules, each having at least one battery cell; and at least one magnetic member provided to one side surface of facing battery modules among the plurality of battery modules to at least partially detachably fix the plurality of battery modules to each other. |
| US12230817B2 |
Secondary battery
A secondary battery with an exterior body having a novel scaling structure, and a structure of a sealing portion that relaxes a stress of deformation are provided. The secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an electrolyte solution, and an exterior body enclosing at least part of the positive electrode, at least part of the negative electrode, and the electrolyte solution. The exterior body includes a first region having a shape with a curve, a shape with a wavy line, a shape with an arc, or a shape with a plurality of inflection points, and a second region having the same shape as the first region. The first region is in contact with the second region. Alternatively, the first region has a shape without a straight line. The secondary battery may be flexible, and the exterior body in a region having flexibility may include the first region. |
| US12230816B2 |
Secondary battery case, and secondary battery
A secondary battery case includes a recess part recessed downward, and a sealing part provided around the recess part when the secondary battery case is unfolded. At least portions of the sealing part are attached to each other to seal inner surfaces of the recess part from an outside. A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly and the secondary battery case. The recess part of the secondary battery case has a width that corresponds to a thickness of the electrode assembly. |
| US12230809B2 |
Nickel-based catalyst for fuel cell anode
A catalyst which is suitable for use in an anode of a fuel cell. The catalyst comprises, in at least partially reduced form, (i) nickel and (ii) molybdenum and, optionally, (iii) rhenium and/or (iv) at least one transition metal which is different from nickel, molybdenum and rhenium, supported on (v) electrically conductive carbon modified with one or more elements selected from the lanthanides, yttrium, tin and titanium. The weight ratio (i):((ii)+(iii)+(iv)) is at least 2:1. |
| US12230807B2 |
Fuel cell limiting co poisoning and poisoning diagnostic process
A unit cell of a fuel cell may include: a membrane-electrode assembly including a proton exchange membrane, an anode electrode fastened to a first face of the proton exchange membrane, a first flow guide plate positioned facing the anode electrode and including at least one flow channel having a fuel inlet zone, a median flow zone and a fuel outlet zone. The anode electrode may have, at the fuel outlet zone, a tolerance to carbon monoxide pollution greater than its average tolerance to carbon monoxide pollution at the median flow zone and at the fuel inlet zone. |
| US12230806B2 |
Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery
The positive electrode active material layer is placed on a surface of the positive electrode substrate. The positive electrode active material layer includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer is interposed between the positive electrode substrate and the second layer. The positive electrode active material layer includes a positive electrode active material, carbon black, and fibrous carbon. A mass fraction of the carbon black in the first layer is higher than a mass fraction of the carbon black in the second layer. A mass fraction of the fibrous carbon in the second layer is higher than a mass fraction of the fibrous carbon in the first layer. |
| US12230801B2 |
Electrode materials and processes for their preparation
Here is described an electrode material comprising an electrochemically active metallic film and an organic compound, e.g. an indigoid compound (indigo blue or a derivative or precursor thereof). Processes for the preparation of the electrode material and electrodes containing the material, as well as to the electrochemical cells and their use are also contemplated. |
| US12230797B2 |
High energy density olivine-based cathode materials
A cathode active material includes a lithium manganese (Mn) iron (Fe) phosphate, wherein a mol ratio of Mn:Fe is from about 3:7 to about 9:1, the lithium manganese iron phosphate is an olivine structure, and the Mn and Fe in the olivine are present in an partially ordered or partially disordered sublattice. |
| US12230796B2 |
Secondary battery
A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material particle. The positive electrode active material particle includes a layered rock-salt lithium composite oxide and a spinel metal oxide. The positive electrode active material particle has therein the spinel metal oxide provided on at least a surface of a particle including the layered rock-salt lithium composite oxide. The electrolytic solution includes a chain carboxylic acid ester and a cyclic ether. |
| US12230795B2 |
Positive-electrode active material and battery
A positive-electrode active material for a magnesium secondary battery contains a composite oxide represented by the following composition formula: M1xM2yO2, where M1 is sodium, M2 is nickel and manganese, and 0 |
| US12230791B2 |
Positive electrode active material, method for the preparation thereof, positive electrode plate, secondary battery and electrical device containing the same
Provided are a positive electrode active material, a method for the preparation thereof and a positive electrode plate, a secondary battery and an electrical device containing the same. The positive electrode active material has a core-shell structure, comprising a core and a shell cladding the core, wherein the core has a chemical formula of Li1+xMn1-yAyP1-zRzO4, the shell comprises a first cladding layer cladding the core, a second cladding layer cladding the first cladding layer, a third cladding layer cladding the second cladding layer and a fourth cladding layer cladding the third cladding layer. The positive electrode active material of the present application enables the secondary battery to have a relatively high energy density, and good cycling performance, rate performance and safety performance. |
| US12230790B2 |
Method of producing conducting polymer network-enabled particulates of anode active material particles for lithium-ion batteries
Provided is a method of producing multi-functional particulates of graphene-protected conducting polymer gel network-encapsulated anode particles for a lithium battery, said method comprising: a) Dispersing a plurality of primary particles of an anode active material, having a diameter or thickness from 0.5 nm to 20 μm, and multiple graphene sheets into a precursor to a conducting polymer gel network to form a suspension; and b) Forming said suspension into micro-droplets and, concurrently or sequentially, polymerizing and/or crosslinking said precursor to form said multi-functional particulates. The conducting polymer gel network comprises a polyaniline hydrogel, polypyrrole hydrogel, or polythiophene hydrogel in a dehydrated state. |
| US12230789B2 |
Electroactive materials for metal-ion batteries
This invention relates to particulate electroactive materials comprising a plurality of composite particles, wherein the composite particles comprise: (a) a porous carbon framework including micropores and optional mesopores having a combined total volume of at least 0.7 cm3/g, wherein at least half of the micropore/mesopore volume is in the form of pores having a diameter of no more than 1.5 nm; and (b) an electroactive material located within the micropores and/or mesopores of the porous carbon framework. The D90 particle diameter of the composite particles is no more than 10 nm. |
| US12230788B2 |
Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer. The positive electrode active material layer includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer includes a first particle group. The second layer includes a mixture of a second particle group and a third particle group. The first particle group consists of a plurality of first positive electrode active material particles. The second particle group consists of a plurality of second positive electrode active material particles. The third particle group consists of a plurality of third positive electrode active material particles. Each of the first positive electrode active material particles and the third positive electrode active material particles independently includes 1 to 10 single-particles. Each of the second positive electrode active material particles includes secondary particles obtained by aggregation of 50 or more primary particles. |
| US12230782B2 |
Lithium secondary battery
The present invention relates to a lithium secondary battery manufactured by forming a negative electrode free battery and then forming a lithium metal on the negative electrode current collector by charging.In the lithium secondary battery, since lithium metal is formed on the negative electrode current collector in the state of being blocked with the atmosphere, the generation of the conventional surface oxide layer (native layer) formed on the negative electrode does not occur inherently, thereby preventing the reduction of the efficiency and lifetime characteristics of the battery. |
| US12230781B2 |
Transfer lamination of electrodes in silicon-dominant anode cells
Systems and methods are provided for high volume roll-to-roll transfer lamination of electrodes for silicon-dominant anode cells. |
| US12230778B2 |
Battery module
A battery module includes a housing that includes an internal space, a cell stack accommodated in the internal space and including a plurality of battery cells stacked in a first direction and a plurality of thermal blocking members disposed between battery cells in the plurality of battery cells, a plurality of electrically conductive members electrically connected to the plurality of battery cells, and a frame supporting the plurality of electrically conductive members. Each battery cell includes an electrode assembly and an electrode accommodating portion accommodating the electrode assembly. At least one of the thermal blocking members includes: a body portion configured to face the electrode accommodating portion and blocking heat propagation between the plurality of battery cells, and one or more blocking portions extending from the body portion in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and configured to at least partially block gas flow in the first direction. |
| US12230776B2 |
Battery pack and device including the same
A battery pack according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a plurality of battery modules including a battery cell stack where a plurality of battery cells are stacked, a module frame accommodating the battery cell stack, and a heat sink disposed below a bottom portion of the module frame. A pack frame may accommodates the plurality of battery modules. A refrigerant transmission bolt may couple the bottom portion of the module frame, the heat sink, and the pack frame. The pack frame may includes a pack refrigerant pipe for supply and discharge of a refrigerant. A connection conduit in the refrigerant transmission bolt may connects the pack refrigerant pipe and the heat sink. |
| US12230768B2 |
Secondary battery
A secondary battery includes a battery case, an electrode body, and a collector member connecting the battery case and the electrode body. A positive electrode includes an insulation layer provided so as to be adjacent to a positive electrode active material layer. The collector members include first portions, and second portions continuous to the first portions and bent relative to the first portions. The first portions are fixed to the battery case. The second portions are connected, at ends thereof opposite to the bent portions, to collector regions, respectively. The collector members further include ribs connected, at the bent portions, to the first portions and the second portions, respectively. |
| US12230767B2 |
Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method for manufacturing non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery
The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery capable of suppressing an internal short circuit of a battery due to an external impact in both a fully charged state and a non-fully charged state. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one embodiment of the present disclosure is characterized by: comprising a wound electrode body in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are wound thereon via a separator, and a battery case that houses the electrode body; the positive electrode having a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode mixture layer formed on at least one surface of the positive electrode current collector; and the separator having a normal part and a plastically deformed part having a higher puncture strength than the normal part. |
| US12230766B2 |
Li/garnet electrolyte interface with low interfacial resistance
A lithium-metal battery, includes: a substrate; a cathode disposed on the substrate; a garnet solid-state electrolyte disposed on the cathode; and a lithium anode disposed on the garnet solid-state electrolyte, such that a modification layer is disposed at an interface of the lithium anode and garnet solid-state electrolyte, the modification layer includes: a first portion; and a second portion, such that the first portion has a lithium component and the second portion has a garnet component. A method of forming a lithium-metal battery, includes: stacking a garnet source with at least one lithium source; and heating the stack at a temperature of at least 300° C. for a time in a range of 1 sec to 20 min to form a modification layer, such that the modification layer is disposed at an interface of the garnet source and the lithium source. |
| US12230763B2 |
Secondary battery and device comprising the same
The application provides a secondary battery and a device including the same. The secondary battery includes a negative electrode plate that includes a negative electrode film, where the negative electrode film includes a negative electrode active material; electrolyte that includes an electrolyte salt, an organic solvent and an additive, where the negative electrode active material includes a silicon-based material; the organic solvent includes dimethyl carbonate (DMC); and the additive includes one or more of compound shown in Formula 1 as discloses in the application, where, R1 is selected from one of C2˜C4 alkylene or halogenated alkylene, C2˜C4 alkenylene or halogenated alkenylene, C6˜C18 arylene and derivatives thereof. Under the premise of having a high energy density, the secondary battery and the device including the same according to the application can also have good high-temperature cycle performance and high-temperature storage performance. |
| US12230756B2 |
Biodegradable electrochemical device and methods thereof
An electrochemical device is disclosed, which includes an anode and a cathode. The electrochemical device also includes an extruded electrolyte composition disposed between the anode and the cathode. The cathode and/or the anode of the electrochemical device may be disposed in a stacked geometry or in a lateral x-y plane geometry. The electrolyte composition may include a gel polymer electrolyte. The electrolyte composition is disposed between the anode and the cathode in a laterally non-continuous pattern. A method of producing an electrolyte layer of an electrochemical device is also disclosed. |
| US12230755B2 |
Method for manufacturing all-solid-state battery including solid-liquid hybrid electrolyte membrane, and solid-liquid hybrid electrolyte membrane
The present disclosure relates to a solid-liquid hybrid electrolyte membrane including a predetermined amount of liquid electrolyte in a porous structure formed by solid polymer particles, and a method for manufacturing a solid-state battery including the same. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, it is possible to manufacture a battery without any separate step of injecting an electrolyte. In addition, since the solid-state battery includes a liquid electrolyte, it is possible to ensure improved ion conductivity as compared to the conventional solid electrolyte batteries. |
| US12230754B2 |
All-solid-state battery
An all-solid-state battery includes an electrode assembly including a solid electrolyte layer, a first battery unit having a first negative electrode and a first positive electrode, and a second battery unit having a second negative electrode and a second positive electrode, in which the first negative and positive electrodes and the second negative and positive electrodes are respectively stacked with the solid electrolyte layer interposed therebetween. The all-solid-state battery further includes a first external electrode; a second external electrode; a third external electrode; and a fourth external electrode, in which the second battery unit is disposed to be adjacent to at least one the fifth surface or the sixth surface of the electrode assembly, and the first battery unit is located further inside than the second battery unit in the third direction. |
| US12230753B2 |
Electrolyte for electrochemical cells with a silicon-containing electrode
An electrolyte composition for electrochemical cells including a silicon-containing electrode is provided herein as well as electrochemical cells including the electrolyte composition. The electrolyte composition includes a lithium salt, fluoroethylene carbonate (FEC), a linear carbonate, vinylene carbonate, and a fluorosilane additive. The FEC and the linear carbonate are present in the electrolyte composition in a ratio of about 1:3 v/v to about 1:9 v/v. |
| US12230751B2 |
Nitrile-substituted silanes and electrolyte compositions and electrochemical devices containing them
Described herein are liquid, organosilicon compounds that including a substituent that is a cyano (—CN), cyanate (—OCN), isocyanate (—NCO), thiocyanate (—SCN) or isothiocyanate (—NCS). The organosilicon compounds are useful in electrolyte compositions and can be used in any electrochemical device where electrolytes are conventionally used. |
| US12230746B2 |
Display apparatus
Disclosed herein is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal panel; and a backlight unit configured to emit light to the liquid crystal panel. The backlight unit includes: a substrate extending along a first direction; a light emitting diode provided on the substrate; a refractive cover provided on the light emitting diode to refract light emitted from the light emitting diode; and a lens provided on the substrate and the refractive cover, the lens comprising a bottom surface having a first length in the first direction that is less than a second length in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. |
| US12230745B2 |
Display device and method of manufacturing the same
A display device and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The display device may include a pixel circuit layer including a plurality of transistors, a first partition wall and a second partition wall on the pixel circuit layer, and each protruding in a thickness direction, a first electrode and a second electrode formed on the same layer, and on the first partition wall and the second partition wall, respectively; a light emitting element between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a first organic pattern directly on the light emitting element. |
| US12230744B2 |
Light-emitting device with a plurality of concave parts on the edge of the semiconductor mesa
A light-emitting device includes a substrate including a top surface, a first side surface and a second side surface, wherein the first side surface and the second side surface of the substrate are respectively connected to two opposite sides of the top surface of the substrate; a semiconductor stack formed on the top surface of the substrate, the semiconductor stack including a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and an active layer formed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer; a first electrode pad formed adjacent to a first edge of the light-emitting device; and a second electrode pad formed adjacent to a second edge of the light-emitting device, wherein in a top view of the light-emitting device, the first edge and the second edge are formed on different sides or opposite sides of the light-emitting device, the first semiconductor layer adjacent to the first edge includes a first sidewall directly connected to the first side surface of the substrate, and the first semiconductor layer adjacent to the second edge includes a second sidewall separated from the second side surface of the substrate by a distance. |
| US12230743B2 |
Fluidic assembly encapsulating light emitting diodes
A method is provided for fabricating an encapsulated emissive element. Beginning with a growth substrate, a plurality of emissive elements is formed. The growth substrate top surface is conformally coated with an encapsulation material. The encapsulation material may be photoresist, a polymer, a light reflective material, or a light absorbing material. The encapsulant is patterned to form fluidic assembly keys having a profile differing from the emissive element profiles. In one aspect, prior to separating the emissive elements from the handling substrate, a fluidic assembly keel or post is formed on each emissive element bottom surface. In one variation, the emissive elements have a horizontal profile. The fluidic assembly key has horizontal profile differing from the emissive element horizontal profile useful in selectively depositing different types of emissive elements during fluidic assembly. In another aspect, the emissive elements and fluidic assembly keys have differing vertical profiles useful in preventing detrapment. |
| US12230742B2 |
Substrate and method of manufacturing thereof
A substrate and a method of manufacturing thereof. A scratch-resistant layer is formed before filling the solder paste in the area corresponding to the binding terminal of the light-emitting device on the substrate, so that each circuit in the drive circuit area of the substrate will not be damaged during screen printing. After filling solder paste, the scratch-resistant layer is stripped off to prevent the circuit on the substrate from being damaged, without affecting the performance of the substrate. |
| US12230741B2 |
Display panel and electronic device
Disclosed are a display panel including a light emitting panel, and a color conversion panel facing the light emitting panel, wherein the color conversion panel being converts an emission spectrum of light emitted from the light emitting panel, wherein the color conversion panel may include a color conversion layer including a plurality of regions including a color conversion region, and bank defining each region of the color conversion layer, the color conversion region may include quantum dots, and a refractive index of the bank is lower than a refractive index of the quantum dots, and an electronic device including the same. |
| US12230740B2 |
Light-emitting device and manufacturing method thereof
A light-emitting device includes a semiconductor stack including a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer and an active area between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, wherein the first semiconductor layer including an upper surface; an exposed region formed in the semiconductor stack to expose the upper surface; a first protective layer covering the exposed region and a portion of the second semiconductor layer, wherein the first protective layer includes a first part with a first thickness formed on the upper surface and a second part with a second thickness formed on the second semiconductor layer, the first thickness is smaller than the second thickness; a first reflective structure formed on the second semiconductor layer and including one or multiple openings; and a second reflective structure formed on the first reflective structure and electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer through the one or multiple openings. |
| US12230739B2 |
Display device
A display device includes pixel areas; and a pixel disposed in each of the pixel areas. The pixel includes a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on a substrate and disposed on a same layer, a light emitting element disposed on the first electrode and the second electrode, a third electrode electrically connecting the first electrode to a first end of the light emitting element, a fourth electrode electrically connecting the second electrode to a second end of the light emitting element, and an electrode pattern and the electrode pattern and one of the third electrode and the fourth electrode being disposed on a same layer. |
| US12230734B2 |
Micro-LED structure and micro-LED chip including same
A micro-LED chip includes multiple micro-LEDs. At least one micro-LED of the multiple micro-LEDs includes: a first type conductive layer; a second type conductive layer stacked on the first type conductive layer; and a light emitting layer formed between the first type conductive layer and the second type conductive layer. The light emitting layer is continuously formed on the whole micro-LED chip, the multiple micro-LEDs sharing the light emitting layer. |
| US12230730B2 |
Solar panel cutting unit
A solar panel cutting unit according to an embodiment can separate layers of a solar panel from each other at once. The solar panel cutting unit separates thin layers of a solar panel from each other and includes a frame, a panel transporting mechanism that is provided at the frame and lowers the solar panel in a vertical direction such that adhesion lines of the thin layers are arranged downward, a pair of guide roller units that is positioned below the panel transporting mechanism and guides and lowers the solar panel, and a wire cutting mechanism that includes a pair of support rollers and cutting wires which connect the support rollers to each other and extend in the same direction as the adhesion lines such that the wire cutting mechanism separates the thin layers of the solar panel from each other. |
| US12230724B2 |
Solar cells having hybrid architectures including differentiated p-type and n-type regions with offset contacts
A solar cell, and methods of fabricating said solar cell, are disclosed. The solar cell can include a first emitter region over a substrate, the first emitter region having a perimeter around a portion of the substrate. A first conductive contact is electrically coupled to the first emitter region at a location outside of the perimeter of the first emitter region. |
| US12230717B2 |
Integrated circuit structures having partitioned source or drain contact structures
Integrated circuit structures having partitioned source or drain contact structures, and methods of fabricating integrated circuit structures having partitioned source or drain contact structures, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a fin. A gate stack is over the fin. A first epitaxial source or drain structure is at a first end of the fin. A second epitaxial source or drain structure is at a second end of the fin. A conductive contact structure is coupled to one of the first or the second epitaxial source or drain structures. The conductive contact structure has a first portion partitioned from a second portion. |
| US12230716B2 |
Semiconductor structure with thin film transistor
Semiconductor structures and methods for manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes an interconnect structure and an electrode layer formed over the interconnect structure. The semiconductor structure also includes a gate dielectric layer formed over the electrode layer and an oxide semiconductor layer formed over the gate dielectric layer. The semiconductor structure also includes an indium-containing feature covering a surface of the oxide semiconductor layer and a source/drain contact formed over the indium-containing feature. |
| US12230715B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device
A change in electrical characteristics of a semiconductor device including an interlayer insulating film over a transistor including an oxide semiconductor as a semiconductor film is suppressed. The structure includes a first insulating film which includes a void portion in a step region formed by a source electrode and a drain electrode over the semiconductor film and contains silicon oxide as a component, and a second insulating film containing silicon nitride, which is provided in contact with the first insulating film to cover the void portion in the first insulating film. The structure can prevent the void portion generated in the first insulating film from expanding outward. |
| US12230713B2 |
Semiconductor device structure and methods of forming the same
A transistor is provided. The transistor includes a first source/drain epitaxial feature, a second source/drain epitaxial feature, and two or more semiconductor layers disposed between the first source/drain epitaxial feature and the second source/drain epitaxial feature. The two or more semiconductor layers comprise different materials. The transistor further includes a gate electrode layer surrounding at least a portion of the two or more semiconductor layers, wherein the transistor has two or more threshold voltages. |
| US12230712B2 |
Dielectric fin structure
A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a dielectric fin having a helmet layer, a gate structure disposed over a first portion of the helmet layer and extending along a direction, and a dielectric layer adjacent the gate structure and disposed over a second portion of the helmet layer. A width of the first portion along the direction is greater than a width of the second portion along the direction. |
| US12230709B2 |
Transistor structure and manufacturing method of the same
Present disclosure provides a transistor structure, including a substrate, a first gate extending along a longitudinal direction over the substrate, the first gate including a gate electrode, a second gate over the substrate and apart from the first gate, a source region of a first conductivity type in the substrate, aligning to an edge in proximity to a side of the first gate, a P-type well surrounding the source region, a drain region of the first conductivity type in the substrate, an N-type well surrounding the drain region, the second gate is entirely within a vertical projection area of the N-type well and a bottom surface of the P-type well and a bottom surface of the N-type well are substantially at a same depth from the first gate. |
| US12230707B2 |
Source contact formation of MOSFET with gate shield buffer for pitch reduction
A semiconductor structure that includes at least one lateral diffusion field effect transistor is described. The structure includes a source contact and a gate shield that enables the line width of an ohmic region that electrically connects the source/body region to the gate shield to be smaller than the minimum contact feature size. The gate shield defines a bottom recess for forming a narrower bottom portion of the source contact, and a section that flares outward with distance from the ohmic region to extend above and laterally beyond the ohmic region. By providing a wider area for the source contact, the flared portion of the gate shield allows the portion of the gate shield that contacts the ohmic region to be narrower than the minimum contact feature size. As a result, the cell pitch of the lateral diffusion field effect transistor can be reduced. |
| US12230706B2 |
Transistor device having a cell field and method of fabricating a gate of the transistor device
In an embodiment, a transistor device a semiconductor substrate having a main surface, and a cell field including a plurality of transistor cells of a power transistor. The cell field further includes: a body region of a second conductivity type; a source region of a first conductivity type on or in the body region, the first conductivity type opposing the second conductivity type; a gate trench in the main surface of the semiconductor substrate; a gate dielectric lining the gate trench; a metal gate electrode arranged in the gate trench on the gate dielectric; and an electrically insulating cap arranged on the metal gate electrode. A method of fabricating a gate of the transistor device is also described. |
| US12230702B2 |
Self-passivated nitrogen-polar III-nitride transistor
A HEMT comprising a channel layer of a first III-Nitride semiconductor material, grown on a N-polar surface of a back barrier layer of a second III-Nitride semiconductor material; the second III-Nitride semiconductor material having a larger band gap than the first III-Nitride semiconductor material, such that a positively charged polarization interface and two-dimensional electron gas is obtained in the channel layer; a passivation, capping layer, of said first III-Nitride semiconductor material, formed on top of and in contact with a first portion of a N-polar surface of said channel layer; a gate trench traversing the passivation, capping layer, and ending at said N-polar surface of said channel layer; and a gate conductor filling said gate trench. |
| US12230698B2 |
Thyristor, triac and transient-voltage-suppression diode manufacturing
A device includes a semiconductor substrate. A step is formed at a periphery of the semiconductor substrate. A first layer, made of polysilicon doped in oxygen, is deposited on top of and in contact with a first surface of the substrate. This first layer extends at least on a wall and bottom of the step. A second layer, made of glass, is deposited on top of the first layer and the edges of the first layer. The second layer forms a boss between the step and a central area of the device. |
| US12230695B2 |
Display substrate and manufacturing method thereof, display device
The present disclosure provides a display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device, belongs to the field of display technology. The method includes forming a first thin film transistor, which includes: forming a first gate of the first thin film transistor on a base substrate through a patterning process; forming a first gate insulating layer on a side of the first gate distal to the base substrate; sequentially forming a first semiconductor material layer, a second gate insulating layer and a second gate metal layer on a side of the first gate insulating layer distal to the base substrate, and forming a pattern including an active layer of the first thin film transistor, a pattern of the second gate insulating layer and a second gate of the first thin film transistor through a patterning process. |
| US12230692B2 |
Self-aligned inner spacer on gate-all-around structure and methods of forming the same
Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed herein. An exemplary method of forming a semiconductor device comprises forming a fin over a substrate, wherein the fin comprises a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer comprising different semiconductor materials, and the fin includes a channel region and a source/drain region; forming a dummy gate structure over the substrate and the fin; etching a portion of the fin in the source/drain region; selectively removing an edge portion of the second semiconductor layer in the channel region of the fin such that the second semiconductor layer is recessed, and an edge portion of the first semiconductor layer is suspended; performing a reflow process to the first semiconductor layer to form an inner spacer, wherein the inner spacer forms sidewall surfaces of the source/drain region of the fin; and epitaxially growing a sour/drain feature in the source/drain region. |
| US12230684B2 |
Integrated circuit with continuous active region and raised source/drain region
According to example embodiments, an integrated circuit includes a continuous active region extending in a first direction, a tie gate electrode extending in a second direction crossing the first direction on the continuous active region, a source/drain region provided adjacent the tie gate electrode, a tie gate contact extending in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction on the continuous active region and connected to the tie gate electrode, a source/drain contact extending in the third direction and connected to the source/drain region, and a wiring pattern connected to each of the tie gate contact and the source/drain contact and extending in a horizontal direction. A positive supply power is applied to the wiring pattern. |
| US12230680B2 |
Manufacturing method of semiconductor device including hBNC layer, and manufacturing method of HBNC layer
A transistor includes a channel layer, a gate stack, and source/drain regions. The channel layer includes a graphene layer and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) flakes dispersed in the graphene layer. Orientations of the hBN flakes are substantially aligned. The gate stack is over the channel layer. The source/drain regions are aside the gate stack. |
| US12230677B2 |
Quantum structure getter for radiation hardened transistors
A microelectronic device that is radiation hardened through the incorporation of a quantum structure getter (QSG) is provided. The device, such as a field effect transistor (FET) includes a conductive channel and a material stack comprising: a capping layer, one or more barrier layers comprising a high band gap, one or more quantum structures comprising a small band gap, and a substrate. The quantum structures are positioned in close proximity to the conductive channel to form a quantum well charge getter. The getter forms a low energy area beneath the FET, which traps and confines electron-hole pair wave functions produced from ionizing radiation, causing the wave functions overlap, recombine, and produce light emission. The quantum structures getter the wave functions, which reduces the ionized photocurrent that reaches the conducting channel, thereby hardening the microelectronic device against ionizing radiation. |
| US12230672B2 |
Super junction MOSFET device
A super junction MOSFET device, including: a substrate having a first conductive type; a buffer layer having the first conductive type and disposed on the substrate; a super junction structure disposed on the buffer layer and including multiple first conductive type pillars and multiple second conductive type pillars alternately arranged in a transverse direction, several second conductive type pillars being partially and/or wholly displaced to provide two or more different transverse dimensions for the first conductive type pillars; a body region having the second conductive type and disposed on a top of the second conductive type pillar; a source structure located within the body region and including a source region having the first conductive type and an ohmic contact region having the second conductive type which contacts with the source region; and a gate structure in contact with the first conductive type pillar and the source structure. |
| US12230671B2 |
Semiconductor devices and methods for fabricating the same
Semiconductor devices are provided. The semiconductor devices includes a landing pad on a substrate, a lower electrode on the landing pad and connected to the landing pad, a capacitor dielectric film that is on the lower electrode and includes both a tetragonal crystal system and an orthorhombic crystal system, a first doping layer that is between the lower electrode and the capacitor dielectric film and includes a first metal, and an upper electrode on the capacitor dielectric film. |
| US12230670B2 |
Stacked capacitor structure and manufacturing method thereof
A method for manufacturing a stacked capacitor structure includes: forming a first patterned structure over a substrate; forming a first bottom electrode over the first patterned structure; depositing a first dielectric film over the first bottom electrode; depositing a first top electrode layer over the first dielectric film; forming a first vertical interconnect structure; forming a second patterned structure over the first top electrode layer; forming a second bottom electrode over the second patterned structure and electrically connected to the first bottom electrode through the first vertical interconnect structure; depositing a second dielectric film over the second bottom electrode; depositing a second top electrode layer over the second dielectric film; and forming a second vertical interconnect structure extending from the first top electrode layer. The second top electrode layer is electrically connected to the first top electrode layer through the second vertical interconnect structure. |
| US12230666B2 |
Display device having light emitting stacked structure
A display apparatus including a plurality of pixel regions disposed on a support substrate, each of the pixel regions including a plurality of subpixel stacks including a first epitaxial stack, a second epitaxial stack, and a third epitaxial stack, in which light generated from the first epitaxial stack is to be emitted to the outside of the display apparatus through the second and third epitaxial stacks, light generated from the second epitaxial stack is to be emitted to the outside of the display apparatus through the third epitaxial stack, during operation, one of the subpixel stacks within each pixel region is configured to be selected and driven, and at least one subpixel stack further includes an electrode disposed between the first epitaxial stack and the support substrate to be in ohmic contact with the first epitaxial stack. |
| US12230662B2 |
Backside-illumination solid-state image pickup apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and electronic equipment including embedment members
A backside-illumination solid-state image pickup apparatus and a backside-illumination solid-state image-pickup-apparatus manufacturing method, an image pickup apparatus, and electronic equipment that are configured to make it possible to reduce manufacturing costs. A diced memory circuit and logic circuit are laid out in a horizontal direction, are embedded and flattened by using an oxide film, and are stacked so as to be enclosed in a plane direction under a solid-state image pickup element. The present disclosure can be applied to an image pickup apparatus. |
| US12230658B2 |
Image sensor including a separation structure
An image sensor includes a substrate having first and second surfaces and first and second regions. Unit pixels including photoelectric conversion layers are arranged inside the first region. A pixel separation pattern extends from the first surface to the second surface in the first region, separates each of the unit pixels, and includes a pixel separation spacer film and a pixel separation filling film. A dummy pixel separation pattern extends from the first surface to the second surface in the second region, and includes a dummy pixel separation filling film. A wiring structure disposed on the second surface includes an inter-wiring insulating film and a first wiring. A first contact directly connects the dummy pixel separation filling film and connects the dummy pixel separation filling film to the first wiring. A height of the pixel separation filling film is greater than a height of the dummy pixel separation filling film. |
| US12230654B2 |
Imaging device and electronic apparatus
An imaging device that smoothly transfers electric charges from a photoelectric converter to a transfer destination is provided. This imaging device includes: a semiconductor layer; a photoelectric converter that generates electric charges corresponding to a received light amount; and a transfer section that includes a first trench gate and a second trench gate and transfers the electric charges from the photoelectric converter to a single transfer destination via the first trench gate and the second trench gate, the first trench gate and the second trench gate each extending from the front surface to the back surface of the semiconductor layer into the photoelectric converter. The first trench gate has a first length from the front surface to the photoelectric converter, and the second trench gate has a second length from the front surface to the photoelectric converter, the second length being shorter than the first length. |
| US12230653B2 |
UTTB photodetector pixel unit, array and method
The present application discloses a UTBB photodetector pixel unit, array and method, including: a silicon film layer, a buried oxide layer, a charge collection layer and a substrate, the silicon film layer, the buried oxide layer, the charge collection layer and the substrate being arranged in sequence from top to bottom; the silicon film layer includes NMOS transistors or PMOS transistors; the charge collection layer includes charge collection control regions and charge accumulation regions; and the substrate includes an N-type substrate or a P-type substrate. A centripetal electric field is formed around the charge accumulation regions, and photo-generated charges are accumulated in the corresponding pixel units under the action of the centripetal electric field. The existence of the centripetal electric field improves the photoelectric conversion efficiency, suppresses the crosstalk between pixels, saves the area of shallow trench isolation, reduces the size, and makes it more suitable for sub-micron pixels. |
| US12230652B2 |
Light receiving device and distance measuring module
The present technology relates to a light receiving device that includes a pixel array unit in which pixels each having a first tap detecting charge photoelectrically converted by a photoelectric conversion unit and a second tap detecting charge photoelectrically converted by the photoelectric conversion unit are two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix. In the pixel array unit, four vertical signal lines for outputting a detection signal detected by any one of the first tap and the second tap to the outside of the pixel array unit are arranged for one pixel column. |
| US12230649B2 |
AI system on chip (SOC) for robotics vision applications
An Artificial Intelligence (AI) multi-frame imaging System on Chip (SoC) incorporates in-pixel embedded analog image processing by performing analog image computation within a multi-frame image pixel. In embodiments, each in-pixel processing element includes a photodetector, photodetector control circuitry with at least three analog sub-frame storage elements, analog circuitry configured to process both neighbor-in-space and neighbor-in-time functions for analog data, and a set of north-east-west-south (NEWS) registers, each register interconnected between a unique pair of neighboring in-pixel processing elements to transfer analog data between the pair of neighboring in-pixel processing elements. In embodiments, the in-pixel embedded analog image processing device takes advantage of high parallelism because each pixel has its own processor, and takes advantage of locality of data because all data is located within a pixel or within a neighboring pixel. |
| US12230647B2 |
Display device, manufacturing method of display device, and electronic device
A display device in which a peripheral circuit portion has high operation stability is provided. The display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. A first insulating layer is provided over a first surface of the first substrate. A second insulating layer is provided over a first surface of the second substrate. The first surface of the first substrate and the first surface of the second substrate face each other. An adhesive layer is provided between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. A protective film in contact with the first substrate, the first insulating layer, the adhesive layer, the second insulating layer, and the second substrate is formed in the vicinity of a peripheral portion of the first substrate and the second substrate. |
| US12230645B2 |
Stretchable pixel array substrate
A stretchable pixel array substrate, including a base and a component layer, is provided. The base has multiple first openings and multiple second openings. Each of the first openings has a first opening extending direction. Each of the second openings has a second opening extending direction. The first opening extending direction and the second opening extending direction are different. The first openings and the second openings are alternately arranged in a first direction and a second direction to define multiple islands and multiple bridges of the base. The component layer is disposed on the base and includes multiple island portions and multiple bridge portions. The island potions have multiple pixel structures and are respectively disposed on the islands of the base. The bridge portions have conductive wires and are respectively disposed on the bridges of the base. The conductive wires are electrically connected to the pixel structures. |
| US12230643B2 |
Display device
According to one embodiment, a display device includes scanning lines, signal lines, pixels, a pixel electrode, a common electrode including a stem portion and branch portions, and a third wiring line, wherein a region where each pixel electrode and the first scanning line overlap is larger than a region where the respective pixel electrode and the second scanning line overlap, a width of the first region of the third wiring lines is less than a width of the scanning lines, and the branch portions of the common electrode extend from the stem portion along the second direction. |
| US12230638B2 |
Display device
A pixel portion and a driver circuit driving the pixel portion are formed over the same substrate. At least a part of the driver circuit is formed using an inverted staggered thin film transistor in which an oxide semiconductor layer is used and a channel protective layer is provided over the oxide semiconductor layer serving as a channel formation region which is overlapped with the gate electrode. The driver circuit as well as the pixel portion is provided over the same substrate to reduce manufacturing costs. |
| US12230637B2 |
Array substrate, manufacturing method thereof, and display panel
An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display panel are provided. The present invention uses an inkjet printing method to construct a two-dimensional nanomaterial as a photosensitive film, and adjusts a composition of the nanomaterial to construct a photoelectric film with high gain, which is then combined with a high mobility film to construct a display device with high mobility and broad spectrum light response. |
| US12230636B2 |
Apparatus and circuits with dual threshold voltage transistors and methods of fabricating the same
Apparatus and circuits with dual threshold voltage transistors and methods of fabricating the same are disclosed. In one example, a semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; a first layer comprising a first III-V semiconductor material formed over the substrate; a first transistor formed over the first layer, and a second transistor formed over the first layer. The first transistor comprises a first gate structure comprising a first material, a first source region and a first drain region. The second transistor comprises a second gate structure comprising a second material, a second source region and a second drain region. The first material is different from the second material. |
| US12230629B2 |
Size-efficient mitigation of latchup and latchup propagation
A set of transistor elements includes a substrate of a first doping type and a first well and a second well, both of a second doping type and both formed on the substrate. The set of transistor elements also includes a first complementary transistor cell and a second complementary transistor cell. The set of transistor element also includes an anti-propagation region of the first doping type between the first well and the second well. |
| US12230628B2 |
Switching device and method of manufacturing such a device
The present disclosure concerns a switching device comprising a first phosphorus-doped silicon layer on top of and in contact with a second arsenic-doped silicon layer. The present disclosure also concerns a method of making a switching device that includes forming a phosphorus-doped silicon layer in an arsenic-doped silicon layer. |
| US12230626B2 |
Transistor
A diode having a simple structure and a simple manufacturing method of the diode are provided. A diode including: a semiconductor layer having a first region and a second region having a resistance lower than a resistance of the first region; a first insulating layer having a first aperture portion and a second aperture portion and covering the semiconductor layer other than the first aperture and the second aperture, the first aperture portion exposing the semiconductor layer in the first region, the second aperture portion exposing the semiconductor layer in the second region; a first conductive layer connected to the semiconductor layer in the first aperture portion and overlapping with the semiconductor layer in the first region via the first insulating layer in a planar view; and a second conductive layer connected to the semiconductor layer in the second aperture. |
| US12230624B2 |
Integrated circuit with mixed row heights
An integrated circuit structure includes: an integrated circuit structure includes: a first plurality of cell rows extending in a first direction, and a second plurality of cell rows extending in the first direction. Each of the first plurality of cell rows has a first row height and comprises a plurality of first cells disposed therein. Each of the second plurality of cell rows has a second row height different from the first row height and comprises a plurality of second cells disposed therein. The plurality of first cells comprises a first plurality of active regions each of which continuously extends across the plurality of first cells in the first direction. The plurality of second cells comprises a second plurality of active regions each of which continuously extends across the plurality of second cells in the first direction. At least one active region of the first and second pluralities of active regions has a width varying along the first direction. |
| US12230621B2 |
Optical navigation module performing lateral detection
There is provided an optical navigation module including an optical package and a light reflective element. The optical package includes an image sensor which has a sensor surface. The light reflective element is configured to reflect light propagating parallel to the sensor surface to light propagating perpendicular to the sensor surface to impinge on the sensor surface thereby performing the lateral detection. |
| US12230614B2 |
Multi-typed integrated passive device (IPD) components and devices and processes implementing the same
A transistor device includes a metal submount; a transistor die arranged on said metal submount; a first integrated passive device (IPD) component that includes a first substrate arranged on said metal submount; and a second integrated passive device (IPD) component that includes a second substrate arranged on the metal submount. Additionally, the first substrate is a different material from the second substrate. |
| US12230613B2 |
Vertical semiconductor package including horizontally stacked dies and methods of forming the same
A semiconductor package includes a first connection die including a semiconductor substrate and an interconnect structure, and a first die stack disposed on the first connection die and including stacked dies, each of the stacked dies including a semiconductor substrate and an interconnect structure including a first connection line that is electrically connected to the interconnect structure of the first connection die. An angle formed between a plane of the first connection die and a plane of each stacked die ranges from about 45° to about 90°. |
| US12230611B2 |
Light-emitting device and display screen including the same
A light-emitting device includes a number (N) of light-emitting units, a number (a) of first metal pads and a number (b) of second metal pads. Each of the light-emitting units includes a number (n) of light-emitting chips each having two distinct terminals, where N and n are integers and N>1, n>≥3. The numbers (a) and (b) are integers and a>1, b>1, and the terminals of each of the light-emitting chips are electrically connected to a unique combination of one of the number (a) of first metal pads and a number (b) of second metal pads, respectively. The numbers (N), (n), (a) and (b) satisfy the equation: a*b=n*N. |
| US12230608B2 |
Semiconductor assemblies with system and methods for conveying signals using through mold vias
A semiconductor device has first and second dies forming a die stack. Molding material encapsulates the die stack and forms an upper molded surface of the die stack. First conductive traces are coupled to the first die and extend from between the first and second die to corresponding first via locations in the molding material beyond a first side edge of the die stack. Second conductive traces coupled to an active surface of the second die opposite the first die extend to corresponding second via locations. Each first via location is vertically aligned with one of the second via locations. Through mold vias extend through the molding material between vertically aligned via locations to contact with corresponding conductive traces of the first and second dies, while the molding material that extends between the first conductive traces and the upper molded surface is free from any TMV. |
| US12230605B2 |
Semiconductor package and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor package includes semiconductor bridge, first and second multilayered structures, first encapsulant, and a pair of semiconductor dies. Semiconductor dies of the pair include semiconductor substrate and conductive pads disposed at front surface of semiconductor substrate. Semiconductor bridge electrically interconnects the pair of semiconductor dies. First multilayered structure is disposed on rear surface of one semiconductor die. Second multilayered structure is disposed on rear surface of the other semiconductor die. First encapsulant laterally wraps first multilayered structure, second multilayered structure and the pair of semiconductor dies. Each one of first multilayered structure and second multilayered structure includes a top metal layer, a bottom metal layer, and an intermetallic layer. Each one of first multilayered structure and second multilayered structure has surface coplanar with surface of first encapsulant. The top metal layers, the bottom metal layers, and the intermetallic layers are in contact with the first encapsulant. |
| US12230597B2 |
Package structure with warpage-control element
A package structure is provided. The package structure includes a semiconductor chip and a protective layer laterally surrounding the semiconductor chip. The package structure also includes a polymer-containing element over the protective layer. The protective layer is wider than the polymer-containing element. |
| US12230595B2 |
Metal bumps and method forming same
A method of forming an integrated circuit structure includes forming a patterned passivation layer over a metal pad, with a top surface of the metal pad revealed through a first opening in the patterned passivation layer, and applying a polymer layer over the patterned passivation layer. The polymer layer is substantially free from N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP), and comprises aliphatic amide as a solvent. The method further includes performing a light-exposure process on the polymer layer, performing a development process on the polymer layer to form a second opening in the polymer layer, wherein the top surface of the metal pad is revealed to the second opening, baking the polymer, and forming a conductive region having a via portion extending into the second opening. |
| US12230593B2 |
Wafer level package with polymer layer delamination prevention design and method of forming the same
A package structure is provided, including a substrate, a first passivation layer, a metallization layer, a second passivation layer, and a polymer layer. The first passivation layer is formed over the substrate. The metallization layer is conformally formed on the first passivation layer. The second passivation layer is conformally formed on the first passivation layer and the metallization layer. A step structure is formed on the top surface of the second passivation layer, and includes at least one lower part that is lower than the other parts of the step structure. The polymer layer is formed over the second passivation layer. A portion of the polymer layer extends into the lower part of the step structure to engage with the step structure. |
| US12230588B2 |
Laser detecting circuit and semiconductor apparatus including the same
A laser detecting circuit is provided. The laser detecting circuit includes a latch circuit with a first inverter configured to invert a first output signal at a first node to generate a second output signal at a second node, and a second inverter configured to generate the first output signal based on the second output signal. The second inverter includes a plurality of PMOS transistors connected in series between a first source voltage and the first node, and a plurality of NMOS transistors. A gate of each of the plurality of PMOS transistors is connected to the second node, and a drain of each of the plurality of NMOS transistors is connected to the first node. The plurality of NMOS transistors includes dummy NMOS transistors and normal NMOS transistors. |
| US12230586B2 |
Printed circuit board and electronic component package including the same
A printed circuit board includes an insulating body having one surface and the other surface opposing each other, first and second wiring layers disposed on the one surface and the other surface of the insulating body, respectively, a seed layer disposed on the one surface of the insulating body and covering at least a portion of the first wiring layer, and a shielding layer covering a side surface of the insulating body and connected to the first and second wiring layers. |
| US12230584B2 |
Method for manufacturing semiconductor mark, and semiconductor mark
A method for manufacturing semiconductor mark includes: providing a pattern having a peripheral edge corrected by Optical Proximity Correction (OPC); cutting multiple independent alignment sections from the pattern; and splicing the multiple alignment sections to form a semiconductor mark having a peripheral edge corrected by OPC. |
| US12230582B2 |
Embedded die on interposer packages
Integrated circuit (IC) packages having a through-via interposer with an embedded die, as well as related structures, devices, and methods, are disclosed herein. For example, in some embodiments, an IC package may include a through-via interposer with an embedded die, the through-via connections having front to back conductivity. In some embodiments, a die may be disposed on the back side of an IC package having a through-via interposer with an embedded die and may be electrically coupled to the embedded die. In some embodiments, a second IC package in a package-on-package (PoP) arrangement may be disposed on the back side of an IC package having a through-via interposer with an embedded die and may be electrically coupled to the conductive vias. |
| US12230579B2 |
Electronic components for soft, flexible circuitry layers and methods therefor
A flexible circuitry layer may comprise a conductive mesh including a circuitry trace; and an interfacing component, comprising: a flexible substrate; a terminal electrically connected to the circuitry trace; and a connector configured to be detachably connected to an external device. |
| US12230574B2 |
Reducing RC delay in semiconductor devices
The present disclosure describes a method for reducing RC delay in radio frequency operated devices or devices that would benefit from an RC delay reduction. The method includes forming, on a substrate, a transistor structure having source/drain regions and a gate structure; depositing a first dielectric layer on the substrate to embed the transistor structure; forming, within the first dielectric layer, source/drain contacts on the source/drain regions of the transistor structure; depositing a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer; forming metal lines in the second dielectric layer; forming an opening in the second dielectric layer between the metal lines to expose the first dielectric layer; etching, through the opening, the second dielectric layer between the metal lines and the first dielectric layer between the source/drain contacts; and depositing a third dielectric layer to form an air-gap in the first and second dielectric layers and over the transistor structure. |
| US12230573B2 |
Semiconductor device and data storage system including the same
A semiconductor device and a data storage system including the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a lower structure including a semiconductor substrate, a circuit element on the semiconductor substrate, a circuit interconnection structure on the semiconductor substrate, the circuit interconnection structure including a plurality of connection patterns on different levels and electrically connected to the circuit element, and a lower insulating structure covering the circuit element and the circuit interconnection structure; and an upper structure including an upper substrate in contact with an upper surface of the lower insulating structure, a stack structure on the upper substrate, the stack structure including interlayer insulating layers and gate electrodes alternately stacked in a vertical direction, and a vertical memory structure penetrating through the stack structure in the vertical direction. |
| US12230572B2 |
Backside signal interconnection
A semiconductor structure includes a first transistor having a first source/drain (S/D) feature and a first gate; a second transistor having a second S/D feature and a second gate; a multi-layer interconnection disposed over the first and the second transistors; a signal interconnection under the first and the second transistors; and a power rail under the signal interconnection and electrically isolated from the signal interconnection, wherein the signal interconnection electrically connects one of the first S/D feature and the first gate to one of the second S/D feature and the second gate. |
| US12230565B2 |
Integrated filler capacitor cell device and corresponding manufacturing method
A semiconductor region includes an isolating region which delimits a working area of the semiconductor region. A trench is located in the working area and further extends into the isolating region. The trench is filled by an electrically conductive central portion that is insulated from the working area by an isolating enclosure. A cover region is positioned to cover at least a first part of the filled trench, wherein the first part is located in the working area. A dielectric layer is in contact with the filled trench. A metal silicide layer is located at least on the electrically conductive central portion of a second part of the filled trench, wherein the second part is not covered by the cover region. |
| US12230562B2 |
Three-dimensional pad structure and interconnection structure for electronic devices
A three-dimensional pad structure includes a substrate; a pad disposed on the substrate, wherein a perimeter of the pad is covered with a solder mask; and at least one conductive pillar protruding from a top surface of the pad. |
| US12230561B2 |
Light-emitting substrate and display apparatus
A light-emitting substrate includes a base, a first conductive pattern layer disposed on the base and a second conductive pattern layer disposed on a side of the first conductive pattern layer away from the base. The first conductive pattern layer includes first signal lines. The second conductive pattern layer includes lamp bead pads. The lamp bead pads include first lamp bead pads and at least one second lamp bead pad. A vertical projection of each first lamp bead pad on the base at least partially overlaps with a vertical projection of a first signal line on the base. A vertical projection of each second lamp bead pad on the base is outside vertical projections of the first signal lines on the base. A distance between a first lamp bead pad and the base is substantially the same as a distance between a second lamp bead pad and the base. |
| US12230560B2 |
Semiconductor package structure
A semiconductor package structure includes a frontside redistribution layer, a first semiconductor die, a first capacitor, a conductive terminal, and a backside redistribution layer. The first semiconductor die is disposed over the frontside redistribution layer. The first capacitor is disposed over the frontside redistribution layer and electrically coupled to the first semiconductor die. The conductive terminal is disposed below the frontside redistribution layer and electrically coupled to the frontside redistribution layer. The backside redistribution layer is disposed over the first semiconductor die. |
| US12230556B2 |
Semiconductor package and method of fabricating the same
Disclosed are semiconductor packages and their fabricating methods. The semiconductor package comprises a redistribution substrate, a semiconductor chip on a top surface of the redistribution substrate, and a solder terminal on a bottom surface of the redistribution substrate. The redistribution substrate includes an under-bump pattern in contact with the solder terminal, a dielectric layer on a sidewall of the under-bump pattern, an under-bump seed pattern between the dielectric layer and the sidewall of the under-bump pattern, and a redistribution pattern on the under-bump pattern. The under-bump pattern has central and edge regions. A first top surface at the edge region of the under-bump pattern is at a level higher than that of a second top surface at the central region of the under-bump pattern. An angle between the bottom surface and the sidewall of the under-bump pattern is in a range of 110° to 140°. |
| US12230555B2 |
Packaged stackable electronic power device for surface mounting and circuit arrangement
A power device for surface mounting has a leadframe including a die-attach support and at least one first lead and one second lead. A die, of semiconductor material, is bonded to the die-attach support, and a package, of insulating material and parallelepipedal shape, surrounds the die and at least in part the die-attach support and has a package height. The first and second leads have outer portions extending outside the package, from two opposite lateral surfaces of the package. The outer portions of the leads have lead heights greater than the package height, extend throughout the height of the package, and have respective portions projecting from the first base. |
| US12230554B2 |
Shield structure for backside through substrate vias (TSVs)
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards an integrated circuit (IC) in which a shield structure blocks the migration of charge to a semiconductor device from proximate a through substrate via (TSV). In some embodiments, the IC comprises a substrate, an interconnect structure, the semiconductor device, the TSV, and the shield structure. The interconnect structure is on a frontside of the substrate and comprises a wire. The semiconductor device is on the frontside of the substrate, between the substrate and the interconnect structure. The TSV extends completely through the substrate, from a backside of the substrate to the wire, and comprises metal. The shield structure comprises a PN junction extending completely through the substrate and directly between the semiconductor device and the TSV. |
| US12230550B2 |
Structures and methods for heat dissipation of semiconductor devices
A semiconductor structure is disclosed. In one example, the semiconductor structure includes: a device region having at least one semiconductor device; a dummy region in contact with the device region; and at least one thermal conductor embedded in the dummy region. |
| US12230548B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, an electrode and a wire disposed on the semiconductor substrate, and a protective film covering the semiconductor substrate. The protective film includes a main protective film covering at least portion of the electrode and at least portion of the wire, and a dummy protective film independently disposed at each of corners of the semiconductor substrate. The main protective film has a chamfer at each of the corners of the semiconductor substrate in plan view. The dummy protective film is disposed outside the chamfer to be spaced from the main protective film. |
| US12230543B2 |
Die cleaning systems and related methods
Implementations of methods of forming a plurality of semiconductor die may include forming a damage layer beneath a surface of a die street in a semiconductor substrate, singulating the semiconductor substrate along the die street into a plurality of semiconductor die, and removing one or more particulates in the die street after singulating through applying sonic energy to the plurality of semiconductor die. |
| US12230542B2 |
Method for dicing a semiconductor wafer structure
The present disclosure relates to a method for forming an integrated chip. The method includes performing a first dicing cut along a first direction and extending into a semiconductor substrate from a first side of the semiconductor substrate. The method includes performing a second dicing cut along the first direction and extending into the semiconductor substrate from a second side of the semiconductor substrate, opposite the first side. The method includes performing a third dicing cut, separate from the second dicing cut, along the first direction and extending into the semiconductor substrate from the second side of the semiconductor substrate. |
| US12230536B1 |
Self-assembled guided hole and via patterning over grating
Described herein are IC devices include vias deposited in a regular array, e.g., a hexagonal array, and processes for depositing vias in a regular array. The process includes depositing a guiding pattern over a metal grating, depositing a diblock copolymer over the guiding pattern, and causing the diblock copolymer to self-assemble such one polymer forms an array of cylinders over metal portions of the metal grating. The polymer layer can be converted into a hard mask layer, with one hard mask material forming the cylinders, and a different hard mask material surrounding the cylinders. A cylinder can be selectively etched, and a via material deposited in the cylindrical hole to form a via. |
| US12230534B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacture
A semiconductor device includes a conductive line and a conductive via contacting the conductive line. A first dielectric material contacts a first sidewall surface of the conductive via. A second dielectric material contacts a second sidewall surface of the conductive via. The first dielectric material includes a first material composition, and the second dielectric material includes a second material composition different than the first material composition. |
| US12230530B2 |
Apparatus and methods for semiconductor processing
Described are apparatus and methods for processing a semiconductor wafer so that the wafer remains in place during processing. The wafer is subjected to a pressure differential between the top surface and bottom surface so that sufficient force prevents the wafer from moving during processing, the pressure differential generated by applying a decreased pressure to the back side of the wafer. |
| US12230529B2 |
Substrate holding apparatus, substrate suction determination method, substrate polishing apparatus, substrate polishing method, method of removing liquid from upper surface of wafer to be polished, elastic film for pressing wafer against polishing pad, substrate release method, and constant amount gas supply apparatus
A substrate holding apparatus is provided, which includes a top ring main body to which an elastic film having a surface that can suck a substrate can be attached, a first line communicating with a first area of the plurality of areas, a second line communicating with a second area different from the first area of the plurality of areas, a pressure adjuster that can pressurize the first area by feeding fluid into the first area through the first line and can generate negative pressure in the second area through the second line, and a determiner that performs determination of whether or not the substrate is sucked to the elastic film based on a volume of the fluid fed into the first area or a measurement value corresponding to pressure in the first area. |
| US12230525B2 |
Micro-semiconductor chip wetting alignment apparatus
A micro-semiconductor chip wet alignment apparatus is provided. The micro-semiconductor chip wet alignment apparatus includes a semiconductor chip wet supply module configured to supply the plurality of micro-semiconductor chips and a liquid onto the transfer substrate so that the plurality of micro-semiconductor chips are flowable on the transfer substrate; and a chip alignment module including an absorber capable of relative movement along a surface of the transfer substrate and configured to absorb the liquid so that the plurality of micro-semiconductor chips are aligned in the plurality of grooves. |
| US12230524B2 |
Control system for wafer transport vehicle and method for operating the same
A control system for a wafer transport vehicle is provided. The control system includes a control apparatus, a database, an onboard interface of the wafer transport vehicle and an operation control center. The control apparatus is arranged in a container of the wafer transport vehicle and configured to detect a environmental parameters in a container of the wafer transport vehicle and regulate the internal environment of a container of the wafer transport vehicle. The database is in communication with the control apparatus and configured store the environmental parameters detected by the control apparatus. The onboard interface is in communication with the control apparatus and configured to remotely control the control apparatus. The operation control center is in communication with the control apparatus and the onboard interface of the wafer transport vehicle and configured to receive the environmental parameters detected by the control apparatus. |
| US12230519B2 |
Method and apparatus for multiple axis direct transfers of semiconductor devices
An apparatus for a direct transfer of a semiconductor device die from a wafer tape to a substrate. A first frame holds the wafer tape and a second frame secures the substrate. The second frame holds the substrate such that a transfer surface is disposed facing the semiconductor device die on a first side of the wafer tape. A needle is disposed adjacent a second side of the wafer tape opposite the first side. A length of the needle extends in a direction toward the wafer tape. A first needle actuator is used to adjust an angle of the needle to align the die, wafer tape, and transfer surface at which point the needle presses on the second side of the wafer tape to press a semiconductor device die of the one or more semiconductor device die into contact with the transfer surface of the substrate. |
| US12230517B2 |
Exhaust system and process equipment
An exhaust structure includes a piping section, wherein the piping section has a first inner diameter in a central region of the piping section, the piping section has a second diameter in at least one of an inlet or an outlet, and the second diameter has a same value as the first inner diameter. The exhaust structure further includes a plurality of smoothing layers configured to resist turbulence and condensation produced by a flow of one or more gasses in the piping section. |
| US12230509B2 |
Method for fabricating semiconductor device
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a gate structure on a substrate; forming a source/drain region adjacent to the gate structure; performing a first cleaning process; performing a first rapid thermal anneal (RTA) process to remove oxygen cluster in the substrate; forming a metal layer on the source/drain region; and performing a second RTA process to transform the metal layer into a silicide layer. |
| US12230507B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor devices using directional process
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, an underlying structure is formed over a substrate. A film is formed over the underlying structure. Surface topography of the film is measured and the surface topography is stored as topography data. A local etching is performed by using directional etching and scanning the substrate so that an entire surface of the film is subjected to the directional etching. A plasma beam intensity of the directional etching is adjusted according to the topography data. |
| US12230503B2 |
Semiconductor device with metal gate fill structure
A semiconductor process system etches gate metals on semiconductor wafers. The semiconductor process system includes a machine learning based analysis model. The analysis model dynamically selects process conditions for an etching process. The process system then uses the selected process conditions data for the next etching process. |
| US12230499B2 |
Methods of post treating silicon nitride based dielectric films with high energy low dose plasma
A method of post-treating a silicon nitride (SiN)-based dielectric film formed on a surface of a substrate includes positioning a substrate having a silicon nitride (SiN)-based dielectric film formed thereon in a processing chamber, and exposing the silicon nitride (SiN)-based dielectric film to helium-containing high-energy low-dose plasma in the processing chamber. Energy of helium ions in the helium-containing high-energy low-dose plasma is between 1 eV and 3.01 eV, and flux density of the helium ions in the helium-containing high-energy low-dose plasma is between 5×1015 ions/cm2·sec and 1.37×1016 ions/cm2·sec. |
| US12230498B2 |
Method for manufacturing semiconductor device including air gap
A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes loading a semiconductor substrate into a chamber, the semiconductor substrate including a silicon oxide film, depositing a seed layer on the silicon oxide film by supplying a first silicon source material, supplying a purge gas on the seed layer, depositing a protective layer on the seed layer by repeating a first cycle, the first cycle including supplying a base source material layer and subsequently supplying the first silicon source material, and depositing a silicon nitride film on the protective layer by repeating a second cycle, the second cycle including supplying a second silicon source material and subsequently supplying a nitrogen source material. |
| US12230496B2 |
Organoaminosilane precursors and methods for depositing films comprising same
Described herein are precursors and methods for forming silicon-containing films. In one aspect, the precursor comprises a compound represented by one of following Formulae A through E below: In one particular embodiment, the organoaminosilane precursors are effective for a low temperature (e.g., 350° C. or less), atomic layer deposition (ALD) or plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) of a silicon-containing film. In addition, described herein is a composition comprising an organoaminosilane described herein wherein the organoaminosilane is substantially free of at least one selected from the amines, halides (e.g., Cl, F, I, Br), higher molecular weight species, and trace metals. |
| US12230494B2 |
Biased cathode assembly of an X-ray tube with improved thermal management and a method of manufacturing same
Various systems and methods are provided for a biased cathode assembly of an X-ray tube with improved thermal management and a method of manufacturing same. In one example, a cathode assembly of an X-ray tube comprises an emitter assembly including an emitter coupled to an emitter support structure, and an electrode assembly including an electrode stack and a plurality of bias electrodes. The emitter assembly including a plurality of independent components that are coupled together. The electrode assembly including a plurality of independent components that are coupled together, and the emitter assembly being coupled to the electrode assembly. |
| US12230491B2 |
Nebuliser outlet
A nebuliser outlet comprises an inlet end and an outlet end, a first channel and one or more second channels arranged between the inlet end and the outlet end. The first channel is configured to receive a capillary, and the one or more second channels are configured to pass gas to the outlet end. The nebuliser outlet is a single integrated component. |
| US12230490B2 |
Device, system, and method for ion fragmentation by use of an ion mobility device and messenger tagging
A device for fragmenting ions by collision induced dissociation, the device intended to be used together with a planar ion mobility apparatus, the device including a first conductive grid having a plurality of first openings, the first conductive grid configured for electric interconnection to a first electric potential, and a second conductive grid having a plurality of second openings, the second conductive grid configured for electric interconnection to a second electric potential, the first and second conductive grids being electrically insulated from each other. |
| US12230488B2 |
IROA metabolomics workflow for improved accuracy, identification and quantitation
An isotopic ratio outlier analysis (IROA) standard sample of metabolite compounds is disclosed. Each of whose compounds has a molecular weight of 2000 AMU or less, and is present as first and second isotopomers that are equally present at two predetermined isotopomeric balances, and contain 2 to 10% of a first isotope, and 90 to 98% of a second isotope, respectively. An internal standard is also disclosed that contains the same metabolite compounds as the IROA standard sample, but contains only compounds containing the heavier of the two isotopes. Methods of making and using the above and related materials are also disclosed. |
| US12230487B2 |
Determining the average frequency of a series of pulses
A method and device for determining an average frequency of a series of ion detection pulses (P) in a spectrometer can be applied to a measurement interval (MI). The method may comprise determining the duration of an auxiliary interval (AI1, AI2, . . . ), wherein the auxiliary interval overlaps the measurement interval, the auxiliary interval starts at the last pulse (P0) preceding the measurement interval (MI), and the auxiliary interval ends at the last pulse (PN) within the measurement interval. The method may further comprise determining the number of pulses during the auxiliary interval and dividing the number of pulses by the duration of the auxiliary interval so as to produce the average frequency. The method may be applied to a series of ion pulses produced by a voltage-to-frequency converter connected to a Faraday cup. |
| US12230486B2 |
Ratchet-based ion pumping membrane systems
Described herein is an ion pump system implementing an electronic ratchet mechanism produced by modulating a spatially varying electric potential distribution that can result in a net ionic current and voltage. The ion pumping membrane system includes an ion-permeable layer integrated with ion-selective membranes. The electric potential distribution within the ion-permeable layer is modulated through external stimuli. When immersed in solution, ions within the ion-permeable layer experience a time varying, spatially asymmetric electric field distribution resulting in ratchet-driven direction pumping, which can be used in applications such as desalination. |
| US12230484B2 |
Plasma processing apparatus and plasma processing method
A plasma processing apparatus including: a chamber; a plasma generation unit configured to generate a plasma in the chamber; a stage 111 for placing a conveying carrier 10, the stage provided in the chamber; a cover 124 for covering at least part of the conveying carrier placed on the stage; a relative position change unit capable of changing a relative distance between the cover 124 and the stage 111 to a first distance and to a second distance smaller than the first distance; a determination unit configured to determine a placed state of the conveying carrier 10; and a control unit. The determination unit determines the placed state of the conveying carrier while the distance between the cover 124 and the stage 111 is the first distance, and the plasma processing is performed while the distance between the cover 124 and the stage 111 is the second distance. |
| US12230483B2 |
Deposition method and processing apparatus
A stage includes a base and an electrostatic chuck provided on the base and including N electrodes in the electrostatic chuck, where N is an integer greater than or equal to two. The stage a power supply configured to apply voltages of different N-phases to the respective N electrodes. Each of the voltages has a positive level and a negative level that periodically alternate. A center line of an electrode gap provided between adjacent electrodes is represented by x=x=r·cos(θ+2π(n−1)/N) and y=r·sin(θ+2π(n−1)/N). |
| US12230481B2 |
Plasma reactor having array of coaxial multiple pins and processing low temperature plasma at high efficiency
A plasma reactor, configured to process low temperature plasma, includes: a rotating reactor, a fixed reactor, and a master tube. An end of the master tube is connected to two branched tubes, one of the two branched tubes is connected to the rotating reactor, and the other one of the two branched tubes is connected to the fixed reactor. When a flow rate of inlet gas is less than a threshold defined by a flow detector, all the gas enters the rotating reactor from one of the two branched tubes. When the flow rate of the inlet gas is greater than the threshold of the flow detector, a valve is configured to operate to allow a part of the inlet gas that exceeds the threshold to enter the fixed reactor from the other one of the two branched tubes. |
| US12230479B2 |
Processing chamber with multiple plasma units
Provided is a processing chamber configured to contain a semiconductor substrate in a processing region of the chamber. The processing chamber includes a remote plasma unit and a direct plasma unit, wherein one of the remote plasma unit or the direct plasma unit generates a remote plasma and the other of the remote plasma unit or the direct plasma unit generates a direct plasma. The combination of a remote plasma unit and a direct plasma unit is used to remove, etch, clean, or treat residue on a substrate from previous processing and/or from native oxide formation. The combination of a remote plasma unit and direct plasma unit is used to deposit thin films on a substrate. |
| US12230478B2 |
Charged particle emission device, system, method, and program
A charged particle emission device includes a pre-emission state detector configured to detect a pre-emission charged state which is a charged state of the charged object before charged particles are emitted, an emission time generator configured to generate an emission time based on a past emission time of charged particles and a charged state of the charged object after the emission, emission processor circuitry configured to emit charged particles to the charged object which is in the pre-emission charged state based on the generated emission time, a post-emission state detector configured to detect a post-emission charged state which is a charged state of the charged object after the charged particles are emitted, machine learning processor circuitry configured to cause a machine learning model to learn a correspondence among the pre-emission charged state, the post-emission charged state, and the emission time generated by the emission time generator. |
| US12230476B2 |
Integrated control of a plasma processing system
Plasma processing systems and power delivery methods are disclosed. A system may comprise at least one modulating supply that modulates plasma properties where the modulation of the plasma properties has a repetition period, T. Electrical characteristics of an output of the modulating supply are monitored and provided to a controller where the electrical characteristics are analyzed. Characteristics of a waveform with the repetition period T are communicated to at least one piece of equipment connected to plasma processing system to enable synchronization of pieces of equipment connected to the plasma processing system. And in addition, instructions are relayed to the modulating supply and a match network, based on the analyzing of the electrical characteristics, enabling simultaneous tuning of the modulating supply and the match network. |
| US12230474B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus, method of manufacturing semiconductor device, and recording medium
There is included a process container; a gas supply system; and a coil provided with a section between a first grounding point and a second grounding point of the coil so as to be spirally wound a plurality of times along an outer periphery of the process container, wherein the coil is configured so that a coil separation distance, which is a distance from an inner periphery of the coil to an inner periphery of the process container, in a partial section of a first winding section, which is a section where the coil winds once along the outer periphery of the process container in a direction from the first grounding point toward the second grounding point, is longer than a coil separation distance in another partial section of the first winding section continuous with the partial section of the first winding section. |
| US12230470B2 |
Charged particle detector with gain element
A detector may be provided with a sensing element or an array of sensing elements, each of the sensing elements may have a corresponding gain element. A substrate may be provided having a sensing element and a gain element integrated together. The gain element may include a section in which, along a direction perpendicular to an incidence direction of an electron beam, a region of first conductivity is provided adjacent to a region of second conductivity, and a region of third conductivity may be provided adjacent to the region of second conductivity. The sensing element may include a section in which, along the incidence direction, a region of fourth conductivity is provided adjacent to an intrinsic region of the substrate, and the region of second conductivity may be provided adjacent to the intrinsic region. |
| US12230469B2 |
Apparatus for and method of local control of a charged particle beam
Disclosed among other aspects is a charged particle inspection system including a phaseplate configured and arranged to modify the local phase of charged particles in a beam to reduce the effects of lens aberrations. The phaseplate is made up of an array of apertures with the voltage and/or a degree of obscuration of the apertures being controlled individually or in groups. |
| US12230467B2 |
Breaker, breaker assembly, and contactor
A breaker is provided which is used for controlling only one current path. The breaker includes a contact assembly, a movable contact and a housing accommodating the contact assembly and the actuating member. The contact assembly includes: a first stationary contact having a first stationary contact portion; a second stationary contact having a second stationary contact portion; and a movable contact having a first movable contact portion and a second movable contact portion which are respectively located at both ends of the movable contact. The actuating member is connected to the movable contact to actuate the movable contact in a first direction to move between an open position and a closed position. A breaker assembly and a contact having the breaker are also provided. |
| US12230465B2 |
Relay switch device integrated with pre-charge system
Provided is a relay switch device including a relay housing, a first upper fixing terminal and a second upper fixing terminal arranged side by side over an inside and an outside of the relay housing, a first lower fixing terminal electrically connected to the first upper fixing terminal and arranged under the first upper fixing terminal to be apart a predetermined distance from the first upper fixing terminal, and a second lower fixing terminal electrically connected to the second upper fixing terminal and arranged under the second upper fixing terminal to be apart a predetermined distance from the second upper fixing terminal, and a circuit mode switch module provided to selectively contact the first and second upper fixing terminals or the first and second lower fixing terminals by moving a predetermined distance. |
| US12230464B2 |
Arc path-forming part and direct current relay comprising same
An arc path-forming part and a DC relay comprising same are disclosed. The arc path-forming part according to various embodiments of the present disclosure comprises a Halbach array and a magnet part that form a magnetic field in a space formed therein. The magnetic field formed by the Halbach array is stronger in the direction toward the space. The magnetic field formed by the Halbach array and the magnet part forms an electromagnetic force together with the current applied to each fixed contactor. Here, the electromagnetic force formed in the vicinity of each fixed contactor is formed in a direction away from the center of the space or in a direction away from each fixed contactor. Accordingly, a generated arc can be quickly extinguished and discharged by being induced by the electromagnetic force. |
| US12230458B2 |
MEMS relay
A MEMS relay. The MEMS relay includes: a movable switching element, on which a second switching surface is arranged in a first end section; a substrate having a first switching surface arranged thereon, which is designed to interact with the second switching surface; a switching electrode, to which an electrical switching voltage may be applied, the movable switching element being able to bring the second switching surface into contact with the first switching surface by way of an electrostatic force generated by the electrical switching voltage; at least one second compensation surface arranged in an end section of the movable switching element opposite the second switching surface; and a first compensation surface, which is designed to interact with the second compensation surface and is galvanically connected to the first switching surface via a cable. |
| US12230457B2 |
Method for manufacturing a MEMS switch having an embedded metal contact
A MEMS switch that includes a substrate with a first insulating layer and a silicon layer thereabove, a fixed portion and a movable switching portion being formed in the silicon layer.A first metal layer is situated in recesses in the silicon layer at a side of the silicon layer facing away from the substrate, the first metal layer forming at least one switchable electrical contact between the fixed portion and the switching portion.A method for manufacturing a MEMS switch including at least one embedded metal contact is also described. |
| US12230450B2 |
Semiconductor structure
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes: forming a first oxide layer over a landing pad layer; forming a middle patterned dielectric layer over the first oxide layer; sequentially forming a second oxide layer and a top dielectric layer over the middle patterned dielectric layer; forming a trench through the top dielectric layer, the second oxide layer and the first oxide layer; conformally forming a bottom conductive layer in the trench; removing a portion of the top dielectric layer adjacent to the trench to expose a portion of the second oxide layer beneath the portion of the top dielectric layer; and performing an etching process to remove the second oxide layer and the first oxide layer. A semiconductor structure is also provided. |
| US12230447B2 |
Capacitor with multiple elements for multiple replacement applications
An apparatus includes a case having an elliptical cross-section capable of receiving a plurality of capacitive elements. One or more of the capacitive elements provide at least one capacitor having a first capacitor terminal and a second capacitor terminal. The apparatus also includes a cover assembly that includes a deformable cover mountable to the case, and, a common cover terminal having a contact extending from the cover. The cover assembly also includes at least three capacitor cover terminals, each of the at least three capacitor cover terminals having at least one contact extending from the deformable cover. The deformable cover is configured to displace at least one of the at least three capacitor cover terminals upon an operative failure of at least one of the plurality of the capacitive elements. The cover assembly also includes at least four insulation structures. One of the four insulation structures is associated with one of the at least three capacitor cover terminals. The apparatus also includes a first conductor capable of electrically connecting the first capacitor terminal of a capacitor provided by one of the plurality of capacitive elements to one of the at least three capacitor cover terminals and a second conductor capable of electrically connecting the second capacitor terminal of the capacitor provided by one of the plurality of capacitive elements to the common cover terminal. |
| US12230442B2 |
Surface mountable ultracapacitor device including a resin layer having vents
A surface mountable ultracapacitor device is disclosed. The device comprises: a package including sidewalls extending in a direction generally perpendicular to a base to define an upper end wherein an interior cavity is defined between an inner surface of the base and the sidewalls; first and second conductive members disposed on the inner surface of the base; first and second external terminations on the outer surface of the base and electrically connected to the first and second conductive members, respectively; an ultracapacitor positioned within the interior cavity and including a housing and an electrode assembly and electrolyte within the housing, the ultracapacitor including first and second leads electrically connected to the first and second conductive members, respectively; a resin provided within the interior cavity and encapsulating at least a portion of the ultracapacitor; and one or more vents extending through the resin and at least to a surface of the resin. The present invention also discloses a printed circuit board including the aforementioned surface mountable ultracapacitor device as well as a communications device including the aforementioned surface mountable ultracapacitor device. |
| US12230438B2 |
Compound for bonded magnet, bonded magnet, method of producing same, and resin composition for bonded magnets
A method of producing a compound for bonded magnets, the method including: heat-curing a thermosetting resin and a curing agent having a ratio of the number of reactive groups of the curing agent to the number of reactive groups of the thermosetting resin of at least 2 but not higher than 11 to obtain an additive for bonded magnets; and kneading the additive for bonded magnets, magnetic powder, and a thermoplastic resin to obtain a compound for bonded magnets in which a filling ratio of the magnetic powder is at least 91.5% by mass. |
| US12230437B2 |
Freeze-cast magnetic flake composites
In an embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to a method of making a composite. In some embodiments, the method includes applying an external magnetic field to a mixture composed of a plurality of magnetic materials in a container, in which the external magnetic field produces a homogenous and uniform magnetic flux in the container. In some embodiments, the method further includes solidifying the mixture to result in the growth of solvent crystals in the mixture, and subliming a solvent phase of the mixture in the container to thereby form a composite having uniformly aligned magnetic materials. In an additional embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to a composite having uniformly aligned magnetic materials. In some embodiments, a majority of the magnetic materials in the composite are aligned in the same direction. |
| US12230431B2 |
Coil component
A coil component includes a body having a first surface and a first end surface and a second end surface each connected to the first surface and opposing each other, a support substrate disposed in the body, a coil unit including a first coil pattern, a first lead pattern and a second lead pattern respectively disposed on a first surface of the support substrate opposing the first surface of the body, first and second slit portions respectively disposed in edge portions between the first end surface and the second end surface of the body and exposing the first and second lead patterns, and first and second external electrodes arranged in the first and second slit portions and connected to the coil unit, wherein a ratio of a line width of any one of the first and second lead patterns to a line width of any one turn of the first coil pattern satisfies 1 to 1.5. |
| US12230430B2 |
Substrate embedded magnetic core inductors and method of making
Described are microelectronic devices including an embedded microelectronic package for use as an integrated voltage regulator with a microelectronic system. The microelectronic package can include a substrate and a magnetic foil. The substrate can define at least one layer having one or more of electrically conductive elements separated by a dielectric material. The magnetic foil can have ferromagnetic alloy ribbons and can be embedded within the substrate adjacent to the one or more of electrically conductive elements. The magnetic foil can be positioned to interface with and be spaced from the one or more of electrically conductive element. |
| US12230428B2 |
Inductor component
An inductor component comprising a spiral wiring wound on a plane; first and second magnetic layers located at positions sandwiching the spiral wiring from both sides in a normal direction relative to the plane of the wound spiral wiring; a vertical wiring extending from the spiral wiring in the normal direction to penetrate at least the inside of the first magnetic layer; and an external terminal disposed on at least a surface of the first magnetic layer to cover an end surface of the vertical wiring. The first magnetic layer is larger than the second magnetic layer in terms of the area of the external terminal viewed in the normal direction, and when A is the thickness of the first magnetic layer and B is the thickness of the second magnetic layer, A/((A+B)/2) is from 0.6 to 1.6. |
| US12230427B2 |
Medical-device magnetizer systems and methods
Disclosed herein are medical-device magnetizer systems and methods. In an example, a magnetizer system can be configured to impart one or more magnetic signatures to a medical device having ferrous elements for medical-device tracking. Such a magnetizer system can include, in some embodiments, a magnetizer. The magnetizer can have an elongate body with a single-dipole section, a multipole section, and a plurality of magnets configured to generate two or more magnetic fields. The single-dipole section can have a magnetizer body defining a cavity having a first magnetic field therein. The multipole section can have a second magnetic field therein. In another example, a method can include imparting a magnetic signature to a plurality of medical devices having ferrous elements using the magnetizer system. |
| US12230426B2 |
Soft magnetic powder composition for inductor core and method of manufacturing inductor core using the composition
A soft magnetic powder composition for an inductor core comprises 60 to 80 wt % Fe—Ni alloy powder, 5 to 25 wt % Fe—Si alloy powder, and 10 to 30 wt % Fe—Si—Al alloy powder based on a total alloy powder and a method of manufacturing the inductor uses the soft magnetic powder composition. |
| US12230421B2 |
Hermetic terminal
A hermetic terminal includes a metal outer ring made of a low resistance conductor having a through hole, a lead made of a low resistance conductor inserted in the through hole of the metal outer ring, and an insulating material made of high expansion glass for sealing the metal outer ring and the lead. |
| US12230416B2 |
Method for manufacturing electrically-conductive paste
A method for manufacturing an electrically-conductive paste includes: bringing carbon nanotubes (CNT) and a solvent into contact with each other so that a wetting rate is 25 to 125%; kneading, by using a planetary stirring machine, a mixture containing the CNT and the solvent obtained by impregnating the CNT with the solvent, to obtain a kneaded product in a paste state; and then performing dispersion processing on a dilution obtained by mixing a solvent into the obtained kneaded product. |
| US12230407B2 |
Medical intelligence system and method
A method, computer program product, and computing system for: monitoring a meeting between a patient and a medical entity during a medical encounter; gathering information during the medical encounter, thus generating gathered encounter information, wherein the gathered encounter information includes video-based content of the patient; generating video-based content information via artificial intelligence, wherein the video-based content information is based at least in part upon the video-based content and/or the gathered encounter information and is configured to provide guidance to the medical entity concerning the video-based content; and providing the video-based content information to the medical entity. |
| US12230403B2 |
Techniques for determining acid-base homeostasis
The described technology may include processes to model acid-base homeostasis in normal patients and under acid-base disorder conditions. In one embodiment, a method may include an acid-base homeostasis analysis. The method may include, via a processor of a computing device: providing a physiological acid-base model configured to model acid-base homeostasis of a virtual patient, the physiological acid-base model to: determine a plurality of operating parameters for an HCO3/CO2 buffering system having renal and pulmonary regulatory mechanisms, determine acid-base information comprising a bicarbonate concentration, a carbon dioxide concentration, and a free hydrogen ions concentration via simulating the HCO3/CO2 buffering system, and determine predicted patient information based on the acid-base information. Other embodiments are described. |
| US12230402B2 |
Injury severity estimation by using in-vehicle perception
A monitoring system may include a memory having computer-readable instructions stored thereon and a processor operatively coupled to the memory. The processor may read and execute the computer-readable instructions to perform or control performance of operations. The operations may include receive, prior to a collision involving a vehicle, sensor data representative of a feature of an internal environment and determine the collision has occurred. The operations may include automatically instruct, based on the collision, a sensor to generate another sensor data representative of another feature of the internal environment. The operations may include receive the another sensor data from the sensor and compare the sensor data and the another sensor data to accident data corresponding to previous accidents. The accident data may include a diagnosed injury and an accident severity of each of the previous accidents. The operations may include determine a severity of the collision based on the comparison. |
| US12230401B1 |
Intelligent decision reasoning method for type-based diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease, device, and product
The present disclosure provides an intelligent decision reasoning method for type-based diagnosis and treatment of a cardiovascular disease, a device, and a product, and relates to the medical field. The present disclosure adopts a risk factor mining model of a cardiovascular disease and a drug attribute association mining model of the cardiovascular disease to extract relevant information from cardiovascular data, achieving precise prediction of a fine-grained cardiovascular disease type and effectively promoting precision medicine. Based on a clinical diagnostic dataset and a clinical symptom diagnosis knowledge system of the cardiovascular disease, a type-based auxiliary diagnosis model of the cardiovascular disease is constructed, and intelligent decision reasoning is performed to obtain an association rule. This achieves efficient integration of type-based decision support of the cardiovascular disease and a medical convalescence knowledge base of the cardiovascular disease, and enhances quality of a cardiovascular medical convalescence association rule set. |
| US12230399B2 |
Multimodal fusion for diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic response prediction
Systems and methods can quantify the tumor microenvironment for diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic response prediction by fusing different data types (e.g., morphological information from histology and molecular information from omics) using an algorithm that harnesses deep learning. The algorithm employs tensor fusion to provide end-to-end multimodal fusion to model the pairwise interactions of features across multiple modalities (e.g., histology and molecular features) and deep learning. The systems and methods improve upon traditional methods for quantifying the tumor microenvironment that rely on concatenation of extracted features. |
| US12230396B2 |
Alarm notification system
An alarm notification system can enable a clinician to respond to an alarm notification received via a computing device, which may have more advanced functionality than a pager. The clinician's device can include a notification client which can respond to alarm notifications. The notification client can also provide one or more user interfaces that enable the clinician to view information about an alarm, such as information about a patient's status, physiological parameter values, trend data, audio/video of the patient, combinations of the same, or the like. Further, the notification client can provide functionality for a clinician to respond to an alarm, annotate an alarm, and/or indicate that the clinician can or cannot respond to the alarm, among other features. In addition, the clinician device can also (or instead) include an admit module that provides for automatic association of a patient to a device or location. |
| US12230389B2 |
Wireless bed locating system
Systems, methods, beds, supports surfaces and machine readable medium for associating beds and support surface of a healthcare facility are disclosed. A surface association system for a healthcare facility may comprise a plurality of beds. The system may further comprise a computing device and a plurality of support surfaces to be placed upon beds of the plurality of beds. The computing device may associate a support surface of the plurality of support surfaces with a bed of the plurality of beds. The computing device may make the association based upon status data received from the plurality of beds and the plurality of support surfaces. The support surface and/or bed to be associated may initiate a surface association request. The computing device, in response to the surface association request, may request performance of one or more actions on the bed and/or support surface to be associated to identify the bed and/or support surface from the beds and support surfaces of the healthcare facility. |
| US12230388B2 |
Server apparatus, network system, information provision method, and recording medium
A server apparatus communicates with a user terminal. The server apparatus includes a first storage area storing patient information and patient identification information, and a second storage area storing medical device identification information used for patient treatment, patient identification information on the patient that receives treatment by using the medical device, and status information indicating whether treatment is being provided. The server apparatus includes a processor that determines, when receiving a request command requesting the patient information that includes the medical device identification information, the patient identification information associated with the medical device identification information in which the status information indicates treatment is being provided, from among the patient identification information stored in the second storage area, and extracts and transmits the patient information associated with the determined patient identification information from among the patient identification information stored in the first storage area. |
| US12230384B2 |
Medical tool aiding diagnosed psychosis patients in detecting auditory psychosis symptoms associated with psychosis
A medical tool is described for supporting an individual suffering from a mental condition or disorder characterized by auditory psychosis symptoms. The tool can assist in training the individual to distinguish between an acute auditory psychosis episode and ambient sounds. The tool can monitor for a non-audio input by a patient, where the input represents an indication that the patient is hearing sounds potentially symptomatic of psychosis. A microphone can monitor ambient sounds, which are tested against a threshold to determine and whether an auditory psychosis episode may be occurring. |
| US12230381B2 |
System and method for an enhanced healthcare professional user interface displaying measurement information for a plurality of users
A computer-implemented system includes an interface comprising a display configured to display interface presentation data pertaining to a plurality of users each using a respective electromechanical machine to perform a treatment plan and one or more processing devices configured to receive selected measurement information associated with each of the plurality of users, generate the interface presentation data based on the selected measurement information; and enable the interface to present, in respective portions of the display, the interface presentation data for each of the plurality of users. Each of the respective portions comprises a graphical element that presents, in real-time or near real-time, at least one type of the selected measurement information. |
| US12230380B2 |
Machine learning techniques for prospective event-based classification
Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for performing predictive data analysis. Certain embodiments of the present invention utilize systems, methods, and computer program products that perform predictive data analysis by using at least one of prospective coverage score determination machine learning models and prospective event-based classification machine learning models. |
| US12230377B2 |
Methods and systems for analyzing accessing of medical data
Various aspects described herein relate to presenting electronic patient data accessing information. Data related to a plurality of access events, by one or more employees, of electronic patient data can be received. A set of access events of the plurality of access events can be determined as constituting, by the one or more employees, possible breach of the electronic patient data. An alert related to the set of access events can be provided based on determining that the set of access events constitute possible breach of the electronic patient data. |
| US12230374B2 |
Value-based decision optimization module for healthcare
A method including retrieving an information for a subject, the information comprising a disease of the subject, a subject condition, and a previous condition. The method includes parsing a contract between a provider and a payor to identify a measurable value and identifying a contract success factor and a social determinant for the disease in the subject based on the subject condition, the measurable value, the previous condition, and the contract. The method also includes identifying multiple options available for the provider in a treatment of the disease in the subject. The method also includes identifying an expected condition based on the performance parameter and on the disease of the subject, and providing a recommendation to the provider for an action to improve the expected condition. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions to perform the above method are also provided. |
| US12230373B1 |
Communications system, devices, methods, and techniques
In general, the systems, components, methods, and techniques provide an automated medical communications system including an automated medical communications board controller device and a medical communications board device providing a medical board communications interface customized for the location of the medical communications board device at the medical facility. |
| US12230370B2 |
Secure remote health data
The disclosure relates to methods and systems of providing secure remote health data routing for diagnostics, treatment, monitoring, and/or other health data. The system may use an anonymized identification (ID) token that may protect privacy and ensure security. The ID token may be attached with additional data such as electronic medical record (EMR) data. As such, the system may digitize and securely transmit EMR data to appropriate constituents. The system may apply routing rules and routing tables to identify the appropriate constituents. The system may also route the EMR data for storage at a user's personal device, which may include a chip card or a user device. As such, the user's personal device may store an EMR based on the EMR data, including proof of health, such as vaccination, and other health data relating to the user. |
| US12230366B2 |
System and method for fleet driver biometric tracking
A method for employee biometric tracking is provided. The method comprises providing to a user a plurality of wearable devices capable of being connected to the user, establishing a wireless connection between the plurality of wearable devices and a mobile device, collecting by the plurality of wearable devices a plurality of biometric data from the user, receiving by an application stored on the mobile device the plurality of biometric data, inputting into a predictive engine biometric data selected from the plurality of biometric data, determining by the predictive engine in response to the biometric data whether the user is at, or soon will be at, an alert level, creating an alert signal, and displaying the alert signal to the user. |
| US12230363B2 |
Efficiently characterizing protein-protein interactions
The present disclosure provides methods for improving libraries for screening protein-protein interactions (PPI) by excluding amino acid substitutions that are predicted to have a redundant or minimal effect on binding between protein binding partners. |
| US12230361B2 |
Acceleration of in-memory-compute arrays
An apparatus includes an in-memory compute circuit that includes a memory circuit configured to generate a set of products by combining received input values with respective weight values stored in rows of the memory circuit, and to combine the set of products to generate an accumulated output value. The in-memory compute circuit may further include a control circuit and a plurality of routing circuits, including a first routing circuit coupled to a first set of rows of the memory circuit. The control circuit may be configured to cause the first routing circuit to route groups of input values to different ones of the first set of rows over a plurality of clock cycles, and the memory circuit to generate, on a clock cycle following the plurality of clock cycles, a particular accumulated output value that is computed based on the routed groups of input values. |
| US12230360B2 |
Controlling memory module clock buffer power in a system with dual memory clocks per memory module
A clock buffer device for a memory module includes a first clock input coupled to an input of a first phase-locked loop (PLL), and a second clock input coupled to an input of a second PLL. An output of the first PLL is selectably coupled to clock output buffers, and an output of the second PLL is selectably coupled to a subset of the clock output buffers. The clock buffer device receives a first indication that a first information handling system is configured to provide a first clock signal on the first clock input but to not provide a second clock signal on the second clock input, and, in response to the indication, couples the output of the first PLL to the clock output buffers and to disables the second PLL. |
| US12230359B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes anti-fuse cells. The anti-fuse cells include a first active area, a first gate, a second gate, at least one first gate via, and at least one second gate via. The first gate and the second gate are separate from each other. The first gate and the second gate extend to cross over the first active area. The at least one first gate via is coupled to the first gate and disposed directly above the first active area. The at least one second gate via is coupled to the second gate. The first gate is coupled through the at least one first gate via to a first word line for receiving a first programming voltage, and the second gate is coupled through the at least one second gate via to a second word line for receiving a first reading voltage. |
| US12230358B2 |
Semiconductor device and electronic device
A data semiconductor device with a long retention time is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a ferroelectric capacitor, a first capacitor, and a memory cell. Note that the memory cell includes a third transistor. A first gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to a first terminal of the ferroelectric capacitor, and a first terminal of the first transistor is electrically connected to a second gate of the first transistor and a first terminal of the second transistor. A second terminal of the second transistor is electrically connected to a second terminal of the ferroelectric capacitor and a first terminal of the first capacitor. A back gate of the third transistor is electrically connected to the first terminal of the first transistor. In the above structure, the threshold voltage of the third transistor can be increased by supplying a negative potential to the first terminal of the first transistor. |
| US12230356B2 |
Memory device, memory system, and operating method of memory system
A memory device including a plurality of nonvolatile memory chips each including a status output pin and a buffer chip configured to receive a plurality of internal state signals, which indicate states of the plurality of nonvolatile memory chips, from the status output pins and output an external state signal having a set period on the basis of the internal state signals indicating a particular state, wherein in a first section of the external state signal having the set period, a duty cycle of the external state signal determines depending on an identification (ID) of the nonvolatile memory chip which outputs the internal state signal indicating the particular state among the plurality of nonvolatile memory chips. |
| US12230355B2 |
Hierarchical bank group timing
The memory banks of a memory device are arranged and operated in groups and the groups are further arranged and operated as clusters of these groups. Successive accesses to banks that are within different bank group clusters may be issued at a first time interval. Successive accesses to banks that are within different bank groups within the same cluster can be issued no faster than a second time interval. And, successive accesses to banks that are within the same bank group may be issued no faster than a third time interval. The memory banks of a memory device may have multiple rows open at the same time. The rows that can be open at the same time is determined by the rows that are already open. These memory banks are also arranged and operated in groups that have three different minimum time intervals. |
| US12230354B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for scatter and gather
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to scatter/gather in a memory device. An example apparatus comprises a memory device that includes an array of memory cells, sensing circuitry, and a memory controller coupled to one another. The sensing circuitry includes a sense amplifier and a compute component configured to implement logical operations. A channel controller is configured to receive a block of instructions, the block of instructions including individual instructions for at least one of a gather operation and a scatter operation. The channel controller is configured to send individual instructions to the memory device and to control the memory controller such that the at least one of the gather operation and the scatter operation is executed on the memory device based on a corresponding one of the individual instructions. |
| US12230352B2 |
Memory device, memory cell read circuit, and control method for mismatch compensation
A memory device that includes a first memory cell, a second memory cell and a sense amplifier. The sense amplifier includes a first branch and a second branch and are configured to output a first voltage and a second voltage to the first memory and the second memory, respectively in a trimming operation. A first clamp device of the sense amplifier includes a first clamp transistor and a plurality of first trimming transistors that are coupled to the first clamp transistor in parallel. The gate terminals of the first clamp transistor and the plurality of first trimming transistors are biased by a fixed clamp voltage. Each of the plurality of first trimming transistors is selectively conducted to compensate a mismatch between the first voltage and the second voltage. |
| US12230345B2 |
Built-in self-test circuits for memory systems having multiple channels
A memory system includes a plurality of memory devices having respective arrays of memory cells therein, a bus electrically coupled to and shared by the plurality of memory devices, and a memory controller. The memory controller, which is electrically coupled to the bus, includes a built-in self-test (BIST) circuit, which is commonly connected to the plurality of memory devices. The BIST circuit is configured to transfer a command set including a test pattern to the plurality of memory devices via the bus, and transfer a command trigger signal for driving the test pattern to the plurality of memory devices via the bus. |
| US12230344B2 |
Word line layer dependent stress and screen voltage
Technology is disclosed for testing a 3D memory structure. The 3D memory structure has blocks with layers of word lines. Each word line is connected to control gates of NAND memory cells. The 3D memory structure may be tested while concurrently applying a set of layer dependent voltages to a corresponding set of word lines. The magnitude of each layer dependent voltage may depend on which layer the word line to which the voltage is applied resides. There may be physical differences between the different layers such as differences in the diameters of the memory holes in which NAND string are formed. The layer dependent voltages provide for a more accurate test in view of these and other physical differences between the different layers. |
| US12230343B2 |
Method of detecting a not-open string (N/O string), converting target data, with a value that matches inhibit data, to be programmed to target memory cells in the N/O string, and programming the memory cells
A memory device including: a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells forming a plurality of strings in a vertical direction with a substrate; and a control logic configured to detect a not-open string (N/O string) from the plurality of strings in response to a write command and convert pieces of target data to be programmed on a plurality of target memory cells in the N/O string so that the pieces of target data have a value that limits a number of times a program voltage is applied to the plurality of target memory cells. |
| US12230340B2 |
Shift register unit, gate driving circuit and display device
The present disclosure provides a shift register unit, a gate driving circuit and a display device. The shift register unit provided by the present disclosure includes: an input sub-circuit, an output sub-circuit, at least one pull-down control sub-circuit, at least one pull-down sub-circuit, at least one first noise reduction sub-circuit, and a reverse bias sub-circuit; the reverse bias sub-circuit is configured to control transistors in at least part of sub-circuits connected to a pull-up node to be in a reverse bias state through a power voltage signal in response to a potential of the pull-up node, or control the transistors in at least part of the sub-circuits connected to the pull-up node to be in the reverse bias state through a cascade signal in response to a potential of a cascade signal terminal. |
| US12230338B2 |
Semiconductor memory devices with diode-connected MOS
A memory device and a method of operating a memory device are disclosed. In one aspect, the memory device includes a plurality of non-volatile memory cells, each of the plurality of non-volatile memory cells is operatively coupled to a word line, a gate control line, and a bit line. Each of the plurality of non-volatile memory cells comprises a first transistor, a second transistor, a first diode-connected transistor, and a capacitor. The first transistor, second transistor, first diode-connected transistor are coupled in series, with the capacitor having a first terminal connected to a common node between the first diode-connected transistor and the second transistor. |
| US12230336B2 |
Semiconductor memory device, and method operating based on status checker
A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory blocks, a peripheral circuit, control logic, and a status checker. Each of the plurality of memory blocks includes a plurality of physical pages. The peripheral circuit is configured to perform a program operation, an erase operation, or a read operation on a selected memory block among the plurality of memory blocks. The control logic controls the program operation, the erase operation, or the read operation of the peripheral circuit. The status checker checks a ratio of a programmed page among the physical pages included in the plurality of memory blocks. |
| US12230334B2 |
Dynamic program caching
Dynamic program caching reduces latency of a program operation on multi-level cell (MLC) memory having at least three pages and programmable with multiple threshold voltage levels, such as a Triple Level Cell (TLC) NAND. A controller determines that the program operation can be initiated without loading all pages into the memory. In response, the NAND loads a first page and then executes portions of the program operation in parallel, at least in part, with loading subsequent pages. The NAND behavior is modified to monitor data loading completion times, to copy pages from a cache register to a data register as needed, and to resume program operation if a shutdown occurs. The portions of the program operation include a program prologue operation and a pulse verify loop for the first voltage level (L1) of the MLC memory. |
| US12230330B2 |
Nonvolatile memory device for increasing reliability of data detected through page buffer
A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell array in a first semiconductor layer and including a first memory cell connected to a first word line and a first bit line and a second memory cell connected to the first word line and a second bit line; a page buffer circuit in a second semiconductor layer and including a first page buffer connected to the first bit line, and a second page buffer connected to the second bit line; and a page buffer controller in the second semiconductor layer. The page buffer controller controls the first and second page buffers so that a develop timing of a first sensing node of the first page buffer is different from a develop timing of a second sensing node of the second page buffer. The first page buffer is closer to a through electrode region than the second page buffer. |
| US12230328B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a cell area including a plurality of word lines stacked on a substrate, at least one ground select line between the plurality of word lines and substrate, and a plurality of channel structures passing through the plurality of word lines and the at least one ground select line, and a peripheral circuit area including peripheral circuits controlling the cell area. The peripheral circuits input a first ground select bias voltage to the at least one ground select line during a first program time to a program word line selected from among the plurality of word lines, and input a second ground select bias voltage having a magnitude different from the first ground select bias voltage to the at least one ground select line during a second program time, the second program voltage different from the first program voltage. |
| US12230327B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array having memory strings that include memory cells and first and second selection transistors. During a read operation, a controller applies a first voltage higher than ground to a source line, and a second voltage to a first and second selection gate lines that are connected to a selected memory string. The second voltage is also applied to the first selection gate lines connected to non-selected memory strings during a first period of the read operation. A third voltage higher than ground and lower than the second voltage is applied to the first selection gate lines connected to non-selected memory strings during a second period of the read operation subsequent to the first period. |
| US12230326B2 |
Semiconductor memory device with conductive layers separated between memory blocks
A semiconductor memory device includes memory blocks arranged in a first direction and bit lines that are arranged in a second direction, and are arranged with the memory blocks in a third direction. The memory block includes first conductive layers arranged in the third direction, a second conductive layer disposed on a side opposite to the bit lines in the third direction with respect to the first conductive layers, semiconductor layers that extend in the third direction, are opposed to the first conductive layers, have one ends in the third direction electrically connected to the second conductive layer, and have the other ends in the third direction electrically connected to the bit lines, and electric charge accumulating films disposed between the first conductive layers and the semiconductor layers. The first conductive layers and the second conductive layer are separated between the memory blocks. |
| US12230323B2 |
Memory cell array circuit and method of forming the same
A memory circuit includes a first driver circuit, a memory cell array including a first column of memory cells, a first transistor coupled between the first driver circuit and the memory cell array, a second driver circuit, a first column of tracking cells and a header circuit coupled to the first driver circuit and the second driver circuit. The first transistor is configured to receive a first select signal. The first column of tracking cells is configured to track a leakage current of the first column of memory cells, and is coupled between a first conductive line and a second conductive line, the first conductive line being coupled to the second driver circuit. |
| US12230322B2 |
Memory device including memory cell including variable resistance element and switching element
A first switching element in a memory cell is configured to transition from an ON state to an OFF state in response to a voltage applied between its two terminals being decreased. A read circuit is configured to place the second interconnect in a floating state, and, after placing the second interconnect in the floating state and based on a comparison between a first voltage of the second interconnect at a time point of the first switching element becoming the OFF state and a second voltage, either apply a third voltage to the second interconnect and then place the second interconnect in the floating state, or apply a fourth voltage lower than the third voltage to the second interconnect without applying the third voltage to the second interconnect. |
| US12230321B2 |
Device with neural network
A device with a neural network includes: a synaptic memory cell comprising a resistive memory element, which is disposed along an output line and which has either one of a first resistance value and a second resistance value, and configured to generate a column signal based on the resistive memory element and an input signal in response to the input signal being received through an input line; a reference memory cell comprising a reference memory element, which is disposed along a reference line and which has the second resistance value different from the first resistance value, and configured to generate a reference signal based on the reference memory element and the input signal; and an output circuit configured to generate an output signal for the output line from the column signal and the reference signal. |
| US12230314B2 |
Semiconductor device, memory device, and electronic device
A memory device in which bit line parasitic capacitance is reduced is provided. The memory device includes a sense amplifier electrically connected to a bit line and a memory cell array stacked over the sense amplifier. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cells. The plurality of memory cells are each electrically connected to a bit line. A portion for leading the bit lines is not provided in the memory cell array. Thus, the bit line can be shortened and the bit line parasitic capacitance is reduced. |
| US12230313B2 |
Vertical memory device
A memory device includes: a first memory cell mat that includes first multi-layer level sub word lines positioned over a substrate; a second memory cell mat that is laterally spaced apart from the first memory cell mat and includes second multi-layer level sub word lines; a first sub word line driver circuit that is positioned underneath the first memory cell mat; and a second sub word line driver circuit that is positioned underneath the second memory cell mat, wherein the first sub word line driver circuit is positioned underneath ends of the first multi-layer level sub word lines, and the second sub word line driver circuit is positioned underneath ends of the second multi-layer level sub word lines. |
| US12230312B2 |
Memory device and defense method thereof
A defense method of a memory device according to an embodiment includes obtaining a plurality of defense types to refresh a row of a memory cell array that is subjected to an attack, determining respective operation times for the defense types, and performing a refresh operation for the row of the memory cell array by switching among the defense types based on the respective operation times that were determined. |
| US12230311B2 |
Aliased row hammer detector
An energy-efficient and area-efficient, mitigation of errors in a memory media device that are caused by row hammer attacks and the like is described. The detection of errors is deterministically performed while maintaining, in an SRAM, a number of row access counters that is smaller than the total number of rows protected in the memory media device. The reduction of the number of required counters is achieved by aliasing a plurality of rows that are being protected to each counter. The mitigation may be implemented on a per-bank basis, per-channel basis or per-memory media device basis. The memory media device may be DRAM. |
| US12230306B2 |
Asynchronous true random number generator using STT-MTJ
A method, comprising: providing an electrical energy source having a specified amount of electrical energy; connecting an array comprising n magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) in parallel to said electrical energy source, wherein each of said MTJs is at a high resistance initial state; discharging said specified energy amount through said MTJs, thereby causing a random subset of said MTJs to switch to a lower resistance state; determining a post-discharging resistance state of each of the MTJs; and assigning a logical state to each of said MTJs corresponding to said resistance state of said MTJ. |
| US12230305B2 |
Magnetic disk device having heater to adjust spacing between magnetic disk and magnetic head
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device which supplies, at the time of startup of data write or startup of data read, electric power higher than steady electric power used to make, in advance, spacing between a magnetic disk and a magnetic head become saturated at a target value to a heater of the magnetic head for a specified time and, after an elapse of the specified time, gradually reduces the electric power to be supplied to the heater of the magnetic head to the steady electric power. |
| US12230301B2 |
Method of manufacturing a multi-layer PZT microactuator with active PZT constraining layers for a DSA suspension
A method of manufacturing a piezoelectric microactuator assembly can include forming a top electrode layer onto a top face of a PZT element and placing a mask at different locations on the top electrode layer. A conductive epoxy can be added in the space between the at least two portions of the mask, and a constraint layer can be applied to the conductive epoxy smaller than the top electrode layer formed on the PZT element. The mask ca be removed, leaving the constraint layer on the conductive epoxy, creating an exposed shelf of the top electrode uncovered by the constraint layer. A bottom electrode layer can be formed onto a bottom face of the PZT element opposite the top electrode layer and the PZT element can be polarized to form an active piezoelectric layer. |
| US12230292B2 |
Hard disk device
According to one embodiment, a disk device includes magnetic disks, a spindle motor, and a housing. The magnetic disks are arranged in an axial direction. The spindle motor rotates the magnetic disks about a first rotation axis extending in the axial direction. The housing includes a first wall, an inner surface of the first wall, an outer surface of the first wall, and a second wall. The spindle motor is attached to the first wall. The first wall is apart from the magnetic disks in the axial direction. The second wall protrudes from the first wall and surrounds the plurality of magnetic disks in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction. In the axial direction a maximum distance between the inner surface and the outer surface is 1.5% or more and 8% or less of a maximum dimension of the housing. |
| US12230291B2 |
Voice detection optimization using sound metadata
Systems and methods for optimizing voice detection via a network microphone device are disclosed herein. In one example, individual microphones of a network microphone device detect sound. The sound data is captured in a first buffer and analyzed to detect a trigger event. Metadata associated with the sound data is captured in a second buffer and provided to at least one network device to determine at least one characteristic of the detected sound based on the metadata. The network device provides a response that includes an instruction, based on the determined characteristic, to modify at least one performance parameter of the NMD. The NMD then modifies the at least one performance parameter based on the instruction. |
| US12230287B2 |
Quantization scale factor determination device and quantization scale factor determination method
This quantization scale factor determination device is provided with a correction circuit which corrects an initial value of a quantization scale factor on the basis of whether or not an audio signal spectrum is sparse, and a search circuit which searches for a quantization scale factor on the basis of the initial value. |
| US12230286B2 |
Decoder for decoding an encoded audio signal and encoder for encoding an audio signal
A schematic block diagram of a decoder for decoding an encoded audio signal is shown. The decoder includes an adaptive spectrum-time converter and an overlap-add-processor. The adaptive spectrum-time converter converts successive blocks of spectral values into successive blocks of time values, e.g. via a frequency-to-time transform. Furthermore, the adaptive spectrum-time converter receives a control information and switches, in response to the control information, between transform kernels of a first group of transform kernels including one or more transform kernels having different symmetries at sides of a kernel, and a second group of transform kernels including one or more transform kernels having the same symmetries at sides of a transform kernel. Moreover, the overlap-add-processor overlaps and adds the successive blocks of time values to obtain decoded audio values, which may be a decoded audio signal. |
| US12230284B2 |
Method and apparatus for filtering out background audio signal and storage medium
A method for filtering out a background audio signal includes: obtaining a first audio signal collected during playing of the background audio signal, the background audio signal being an audio signal obtained by adding watermark information to an original audio signal; separating the first audio signal to obtain the watermark information and a second audio signal without the watermark information; querying the preset correspondence according to the watermark information to obtain the original audio signal corresponding to the watermark information; and filtering out the original audio signal from the second audio signal to obtain a target audio signal. |
| US12230276B2 |
Computing systems for rapidly collecting digital witness statements and efficiently correcting transcription errors
Systems, methods, and devices disclosed herein can capture an audio recording of an utterance, generate a transcription based on the audio recording, and generate a score for a section of the transcription that reflects a level of confidence that at least one word in the section was correctly transcribed. Content of the section is rendered in a field on a display. Also, a timeline for the audio recording is rendered. If the score does not satisfy a condition, the fill scheme applied to a segment of the timeline that maps to the section may differ from a fill scheme that is applied to the remainder of the timeline. An additional audio recording is then captured and transcribed. An additional timeline is rendered for the additional audio recording alongside the timeline and is aligned with the section. The transcription of the additional audio recording is used to replace the section. |
| US12230271B2 |
Utterance classifier
A method includes receiving a spoken utterance that includes a plurality of words, and generating, using a neural network-based utterance classifier comprising a stack of multiple Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) layers, a respective textual representation for each word of the of the plurality of words of the spoken utterance. The neural network-based utterance classifier trained on negative training examples of spoken utterances not directed toward an automated assistant server. The method further including determining, using the respective textual representation generated for each word of the plurality of words of the spoken utterance, that the spoken utterance is one of directed toward the automated assistant server or not directed toward the automated assistant server, and when the spoken utterance is directed toward the automated assistant server, generating instructions that cause the automated assistant server to generate a response to the spoken utterance. |
| US12230268B2 |
Contextual voice user interface
Techniques for providing a contextual voice user interface that enables a user to query a speech processing system with respect to the decisions made to answer the user's command are described. The speech processing system may store speech processing pipeline data used to process a command. At some point after the system outputs content deemed responsive to the command, a user may speak an utterance corresponding to an inquiry with respect to the processing performed to respond to the command. For example, the user may state “why did you tell me that?” In response thereto, the speech processing system may determine the stored speech processing pipeline data used to respond to the command, and may generate output audio data that describes the data and computing decisions involved in determining the content deemed responsive to the command. |
| US12230264B2 |
Digital assistant interaction in a communication session
An example process includes while an electronic device is engaged in a communication session with external device(s): receiving, from a first user of the electronic device, input to invoke a first digital assistant; receiving, from the first user, a natural language input corresponding to a task; in accordance with invoking the first digital assistant, generating, by the first digital assistant, a prompt for further user input about the task; transmitting, to the external device(s), the prompt for further user input about the task; after transmitting the prompt for further user input, receiving, from an external device of the external device(s), a response to the prompt for further user input; initiating, by the first digital assistant, based on the response and information corresponding to the first user stored on the electronic device, the task; and transmitting, to the external device(s), an output indicative of the initiated task. |
| US12230262B2 |
Detection and correction of performance issues during online meetings
Presented herein are techniques in which a device detecting a phrase spoken in an online collaboration session between a plurality of users, the phrase being spoken by a first user to one or more second users. The device determines that the phrase indicates an issue with a quality of user experience of the online collaboration session, labels a log of metrics associated with the online collaboration session with a time stamp corresponding to a time when the phrase was spoken, to provide a labeled log of metrics; and performs one or more actions to improve the user experience based on detecting the phrase. |
| US12230259B2 |
Array geometry agnostic multi-channel personalized speech enhancement
Examples of array geometry agnostic multi-channel personalized speech enhancement (PSE) extract speaker embeddings, which represent acoustic characteristics of one or more target speakers, from target speaker enrollment data. Spatial features (e.g., inter-channel phase difference) are extracted from input audio captured by a microphone array. The input audio includes a mixture of speech data of the target speaker(s) and one or more interfering speaker(s). The input audio, the extracted speaker embeddings, and the extracted spatial features are provided to a trained geometry-agnostic PSE model. Output data is produced, which comprises estimated clean speech data of the target speaker(s) that has a reduction (or elimination) of speech data of the interfering speaker(s), without the trained PSE model requiring geometry information for the microphone array. |
| US12230254B2 |
Adversarial learning framework for persona-based dialogue modeling
Various embodiments may be generally directed to the use of an adversarial learning framework for persona-based dialogue modeling. In some embodiments, automated multi-turn dialogue response generation may be performed using a persona-based hierarchical recurrent encoder-decoder-based generative adversarial network (phredGAN). Such a phredGAN may feature a persona-based hierarchical recurrent encoder-decoder (PHRED) generator and a conditional discriminator. In some embodiments, the conditional discriminator may include an adversarial discriminator that is provided with attribute representations as inputs. In some other embodiments, the conditional discriminator may include an attribute discriminator, and attribute representations may be handled as targets of the attribute discriminator. The embodiments are not limited in this context. |
| US12230252B2 |
Generation of interactive audio tracks from visual content
Generating audio tracks is provided. The system selects a digital component object having a visual output format. The system determines to convert the digital component object into an audio output format. The system generates text for the digital component object. The system selects, based on context of the digital component object, a digital voice to render the text. The system constructs a baseline audio track of the digital component object with the text rendered by the digital voice. The system generates, based on the digital component object, non-spoken audio cues. The system combines the non-spoken audio cues with the baseline audio form of the digital component object to generate an audio track of the digital component object. The system provides the audio track of the digital component object to the computing device for output via a speaker of the computing device. |
| US12230251B2 |
Language model biasing modulation
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for modulating language model biasing. In some implementations, context data is received. A likely context associated with a user is determined based on at least a portion of the context data. One or more language model biasing parameters based at least on the likely context associated with the user is selected. A context confidence score associated with the likely context based on at least a portion of the context data is determined. One or more language model biasing parameters based at least on the context confidence score is adjusted. A baseline language model based at least on the one or more of the adjusted language model biasing parameters is biased. The baseline language model is provided for use by an automated speech recognizer (ASR). |
| US12230247B2 |
Systems and methods for improving content discovery in response to a voice query using a recognition rate which depends on detected trigger terms
A transcription of a query for content discovery is generated, and a context of the query is identified, as well as a first plurality of candidate entities to which the query refers. A search is performed based on the context of the query and the first plurality of candidate entities, and results are generated for output. A transcription of a second voice query is then generated, and it is determined whether the second transcription includes a trigger term indicating a corrective query. If so, the context of the first query is retrieved. A second term of the second query similar to a term of the first query is identified, and a second plurality of candidate entities to which the second term refers is determined. A second search is performed based on the second plurality of candidates and the context, and new search results are generated for output. |
| US12230244B1 |
Graphical user interface for customized storytelling
Systems and methods are described herein for an application and graphical user interface (“GUI”) for customized storytelling. In an example, a user can create profiles for a listener user and a reader user. The listener user profile can include information about the listener user. The reader user profile can include a voice model of the reader user's voice. The GUI can allow the user to provide a brief description of a story. The application can send the story description and listener user profile to a server that uses an artificial intelligence engine to generate a customized story for the listener user. The application can apply the reader user voice model to the story and play audio of the reader user's voice reading the story. |
| US12230243B2 |
Using token level context to generate SSML tags
This disclosure describes a system that analyzes a corpus of text (e.g., a financial article, an audio book, etc.) so that the context surrounding the text is fully understood. For instance, the context may be an environment described by the text, or an environment in which the text occurs. Based on the analysis, the system can determine sentiment, part of speech, entities, and/or human characters at the token level of the text, and automatically generate Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) tags based on this information. The SSML tags can be used by applications, services, and/or features that implement text-to-speech (TTS) conversion to improve the audio experience for end-users. Consequently, via the techniques described herein, more realistic and human-like speech synthesis can be efficiently implemented at larger scale (e.g., for audio books, for all the articles published to a news site, etc.). |
| US12230242B2 |
Sound gathering device for voiceprint monitoring and preparation method
Provided are a sound gathering device for voiceprint monitoring and a preparation method. The sound gathering device is a cone structure and includes a front end portion (1) and a rear end portion (2), the front end portion (1) is trumpet-shaped, an inner wall surface of the front end portion (1) is present a pattern array of a microstructure (3), and the microstructure (3) presenting the pattern array is formed through laser etching. A sound wave frequency monitored by the sound gathering device is 50 Hz˜10 kHz, and a sound wave enters the sound gathering device from an entrance of the front end portion (1), is reflected through the pattern array of the microstructure (3) on the inner wall surface of the front end portion (1), and is transmitted from an exit of the rear end portion (2), and a sound pressure of the exit of the rear end portion (2) is 4 times˜8 times a sound pressure of the entrance of the front end portion (1). |
| US12230234B2 |
Calibrated vibrato
A calibrated vibrato for use with a stringed musical instrument that allows pitch change, while keeping the instrument in tune. The calibrated vibrato uses pre-set string guides with particular offsets and heights for specific types of strings. The calibrated vibrato can be used with the disclosed locking nut, adjustable spring and adjustable saddles. The locking nut provides lateral force on the strings and an interlocking design between blocks. The interlocking blocks allow the locking nut to be unscrewed, while reducing the change of accidentally having the end block fall off. |
| US12230233B2 |
Foldable stringed instrument
A foldable stringed instrument having a neck and/or body that may assume a reduced profile by folding an upper neck portion away from the playing position through the use of a translating bridge assembly and a translating truss assembly, wherein the foldable stringed instrument is capable of housing or otherwise being coupled to any of a variety of electronics or electrical components (e.g. a smart phone or tablet computer) having one or more applications (apps) for driving the operation, functionality and/or effects associated with the foldable stringed instrument. |
| US12230232B2 |
Configurable types of write operations
Methods, systems, and devices for configurable types of write operations are described. A memory device may receive a write command to write data in a zone of a memory system. The memory device may identify a physical address to store the data using a cursor associated with the zone based at least in part on receiving the write command. In some examples, the cursor may be associated with a type of a write operation based on a quantity of data associated with the cursor. As such, the memory device write, using a first type of the write operation or a second type of the write operation in accordance with the quantity of data, the data, and an indication of the type of the write operation used to write the data into the memory system. |
| US12230229B2 |
Afterimage analyzer, display device, and method of compensating afterimage of display device
An afterimage analyzer may include an accumulation determiner which determines an accumulation interval of images based on a first change amount of images in regions of interest of the images in which an afterimage object is disposed and a second change amount of images in entire regions, an image accumulator which accumulates the images during the accumulation interval to generate accumulated images, and an afterimage object detector which detects the afterimage object from the accumulated images. |
| US12230228B2 |
Light-emitting assembly for enhancing optical performance
A light-emitting assembly includes a substrate and a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed on the substrate. The substrate includes a base material layer, a first electrical conductive layer and a protection layer in a sectional view. A thickness of the first electrical conductive layer is greater than a thickness of the protection layer. The thickness of the protection layer is greater than 0 μm and less than 30 μm. This disclosure can improve the non-uniform brightness issue (hotspots) or enhance the optical performance. |
| US12230224B1 |
Displays with content-specific headroom
An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may be configured to display standard dynamic range image content and high dynamic range image content at the same time. The control circuitry may dynamically adjust an amount of headroom for the high dynamic range image content to avoid washing out the standard dynamic range image content. For example, the control circuitry may reduce the amount of headroom available for high dynamic range image content with high average pixel luminance levels and low screen coverage. The headroom may be increased as the average pixel luminance levels decrease and/or as screen coverage increases. Different high dynamic range images that are displayed at the same time may be assigned different amounts of headroom (e.g., different peak brightness levels) based on average pixel luminance values, screen coverage, whether or not the content is within an active window on the display, etc. |
| US12230214B2 |
Array substrate, display panel and driving method of array substrate
An array substrate, a display panel, and a driving method of the array substrate are provided. The array substrate includes: a plurality of pairs of gate lines, each pair including a first gate line and a second gate line, and a pixel array, including pixel units arranged into a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. A scan signal terminal of a pixel unit of an nth column in an mth row of pixel units is connected to the first gate line in an mth pair of gate lines to receive a first scan signal; m and n are positive integers; a reset signal terminal of the pixel unit of the (n+1)th column in the mth row of pixel units is connected to the first gate line in the mth pair of gate lines to receive the first scan signal serving as a first reset signal. |
| US12230213B2 |
Gate driver and organic light emitting display device including the same
A gate driver includes a first scan signal generator configured to output a logic voltage for driving of a scan transistor through a plurality of stages connected in cascade, the scan transistor performing a switching operation to transfer a data voltage to a driving transistor of a pixel, a second scan signal generator configured to output a logic voltage for driving of a sensing transistor through the plurality of stages, the sensing transistor sensing deterioration of a light emitting element of the pixel, a light emission control signal generator configured to output a logic voltage for control of a light emission control transistor of the pixel through the plurality of stages, and an initialization voltage generator driven by logic voltages received from some nodes of the first scan signal generator based on the light emission control signal generator to supply an initialization voltage to the pixel. |
| US12230212B2 |
Driving controller and display device including the same
Disclosed is a display device which includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a voltage generator providing a driving voltage to the plurality of pixels, and a driving controller. The driving controller includes an overcurrent protecting circuit. The overcurrent protecting circuit includes a first logic circuit comparing a limit current with a sensing current to generate a first comparison result, a second logic circuit comparing a load with a limit load to generate a second comparison result and comparing the driving voltage with a limit voltage to generate a third comparison result. When the first comparison result indicates the sensing current is greater than or equal to the limit current, the second comparison result indicates the load is greater than the limit load and the third comparison result indicates the driving voltage is greater than the limit voltage, a driving voltage controller maintains the driving voltage. |
| US12230209B2 |
Display device
Embodiments disclose a display device including a display panel including a first display region having a plurality of first pixels, and a second display region having a plurality of second pixels and a plurality of light-transmitting regions, a plurality of data lines through which data signals of the plurality of first pixels and the plurality of second pixels are output, a plurality of gate lines through which gate signals of the plurality of first pixels and the plurality of second pixels are output, and a gate driving unit including a plurality of stages configured to output the gate signals to the plurality of gate lines and a dummy stage connected in parallel to at least one of the plurality of stages. |
| US12230207B2 |
Pixel of a display device, and display device
A pixel of a display device includes a first transistor including a gate connected to a first node, a first terminal, and a second terminal connected to a second node, a first storage capacitor connected between the first node and the second node, a second storage capacitor connected between the first node and the second node, a second transistor including a gate connected to the first node, a first terminal, and a second terminal connected to the first node, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a fifth transistor, a sixth transistor including a gate receiving an emission signal, a first terminal connected to a line of a first power supply voltage, and a second terminal connected to the first terminal of the first transistor, and a light emitting element including an anode connected to the second node, and a cathode connected to a line of a second power supply voltage. |
| US12230197B2 |
Display pixel comprising light-emitting diodes for a display screen
A display pixel including a light-emitting diode, a circuit for driving the light-emitting diode, and first, second, third, and fourth conductive pads. The light-emitting diode is powered with a first voltage received between the first and second pads. The driver circuit controls the light-emitting diode based on first and second binary signals. The first signal is received between the third and second pads and alternates between a second voltage lower than the first voltage, and a third voltage, lower than the second voltage. The second signal is received between the fourth and second pads and alternates between the second voltage and the third voltage. The display pixel comprises a circuit for delivering a power supply voltage of the driver circuit, based on the first and second signals. |
| US12230193B2 |
Light-emitting device
A light-emitting device is provided. The light-emitting device includes a data input circuit, a driving transistor, a light-emitting component, a storage capacitor, and an electrostatic protection circuit. The driving transistor has a control terminal and a first terminal. The light-emitting component is coupled to the first terminal of the driving transistor. The storage capacitor is coupled between the data input circuit and the control terminal of the driving transistor. The electrostatic protection circuit is coupled to a node between the data input circuit and the storage capacitor. The light-emitting device of the disclosure can reduce electrostatic discharge generated by the storage capacitor to reduce the risk of the light-emitting device being damaged by static electricity. |
| US12230190B2 |
Macro-pixel display backplane
A micro-light emitting diode (micro-LED) display backplane includes a plurality of macro-pixels. Each macro-pixel includes: a contiguous two-dimensional (2-D) array of bitcells storing display data bits for driving a set of micro-LEDs of a 2-D array of micro-LEDs; and drive circuits configured to generate, based on the display data bits stored in the contiguous 2-D array of bitcells, pulse-width modulated (PWM) drive signals for driving the set of micro-LEDs of the 2-D array of micro-LEDs. In one example, the plurality of macro-pixels is grouped into a plurality of sub-arrays, where each sub-array of the plurality of sub-arrays includes a set of macro-pixels and a local periphery circuit next to the set of macro-pixels. The local periphery circuit includes, for example, a buffer, a repeater, a clock gating circuit for gating an input clock signal to the sub-array, and/or a sub-array decoder for selecting the sub-array. |
| US12230186B2 |
Pixel driving circuit capable of operating in low-definition mode and high-definition mode using same pixel memory, and display device comprising same
Provided is a pixel driving circuit operatable in a low-definition mode and a high-definition mode using the same pixel memory, and a display device including the same. The pixel driving circuit may include a driving line configured to connect between an emitter and a positive power source or between the emitter and a negative power source, a first transistor connected in series on the driving line and turned on in response to a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal, a first driving unit and a second driving unit that are connected in series on the driving line and electrically connected in parallel to each other, and a second transistor connected between a reference voltage source, which is connected to apply a reference voltage to the first driving unit and the second driving unit, and the second driving unit and turned on or off in response to a display mode selection signal. |
| US12230185B2 |
Display apparatus and driving method thereof
A display apparatus includes: a display panel; a backlight unit including a plurality of backlight blocks; and a processor configured to drive the backlight unit to output light, wherein the processor may be further configured to: adjust a first image having a first resolution to a second image having a second resolution that is smaller than the first resolution, divide an image area corresponding to a first backlight block among the plurality of backlight blocks in the second image having the second resolution into a plurality of image areas, acquire current information corresponding to the first backlight block and a second backlight block adjacent to the first backlight block, based on the plurality of image areas, and drive the backlight unit based on the acquired current information. |
| US12230181B2 |
Redundant sub-pixels in a light-emitting diode display
A display device includes light-emitting diode (LED) devices to implement an array of pixels, where pixels in the array are each associated with a respective first set of LED devices to implement a first set of sub-pixels and a respective second set of LED devices to implement a redundant second set of sub-pixels for the corresponding pixel. Controller circuitry is provided to alternatively enable the first set of LED devices or the second set of LED device to implement the sub-pixels of the corresponding pixel. |
| US12230180B2 |
Display panel, display device and driving method
A display panel, a display device and a driving method. The display panel includes a display region and a peripheral region. The display region includes a subpixel unit array having a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns of subpixel units, and the peripheral region includes a gate drive circuit. The display region further includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines. The gate drive circuit comprises a plurality of shift register units, and the plurality of gate lines are electrically connected with the plurality of shift register units. The gate drive circuit comprises two shift-register-unit scanning groups, in the shift-register-unit scanning groups, a (k+1)th shift register unit and a (k)th shift register unit form one shift register unit group. |
| US12230178B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: at least one first pixel including a first drive transistor and a first initialization transistor configured to initialize the first drive transistor; at least one second pixel including a second drive transistor and a second initialization transistor configured to initialize the second drive transistor; a first initialization line connected to the first drive transistor via the first initialization transistor; a second initialization line connected to the second drive transistor via the second initialization transistor; and a first temperature detection transistor connected to the second initialization line, the first temperature detection transistor including a gate connected to the first initialization line. |
| US12230176B2 |
Holographically displaying three-dimensional objects
Methods, apparatus, devices, subsystems, and systems for holographically displaying three-dimensional objects are provided. In one aspect, an optical device includes: an optical guiding device configured to guide light to propagate along a first direction within the optical guiding device; an in-coupling diffractive structure configured to diffract the light to propagate in the optical guiding device; and out-coupling diffractive structures configured to diffract at least part of the light out of the optical guiding device along a second direction different from the first direction. The out-coupling diffractive structures are configured to have gradually increased diffraction efficiencies for the light along the first direction away from the in-coupling diffractive structure. A first diffraction efficiency of the in-coupling diffractive structure is no smaller than a first threshold, and a second diffraction efficiency of each out-coupling diffractive structure is no greater than a second threshold that is no greater than the first threshold. |
| US12230167B2 |
Adhesive label for a multi-part container, system and method for applying an adhesive label to a multi-part container
An adhesive label for a multi-part container having a threaded member and a container body includes a first, sheet-like label portion adapted to be attached to the threaded member of the container, and a second label portion adjacent the first label portion and adapted to be attached to the container body of the container. The second label portion has a comb-like structure with strip-shaped fixing elements such that the adhesive label couples the threaded member to the container body relative to a condition applied to the container and opposes movement of the threaded member relative to the container body. |
| US12230163B2 |
Lumbar spine stretch limiter assembly
A lumbar spine stretch limiter assembly for an anthropomorphic test device functions to limit the ultimate stretching of an elastic lumbar spine member during crash test simulations such as far side impact crash simulations. The lumbar spine stretch limiter assembly includes a belt assembly including one or more belts coupled to the thoracic spine and sacrum and disposed between the elastic lumbar spine member and a lumbar mounting wedge. During far side impact crash simulations, a portion of the belt assembly is brought into contact with the stretching elastic lumbar spine member to prevent further elongation of the lumbar spine member beyond a maximum allowable limit corresponding to a natural response of the lumbar spine region of a human to improve reproducibility of head excursion data and to prevent or minimize damage to the elastic lumbar spine member during far side impact crash simulations. |
| US12230160B2 |
Evaluation model for endoscopic endonasal surgery, simulated dura mater unit, and operative technique evaluation method
The object is to provide an evaluation model that can evaluate how much external force is being applied to a brain organ and/or a cranial bone during an endoscopic endonasal surgery. The object can be achieved by an evaluation model for endoscopic endonasal surgery including: a simulated head part; and a distortion sensor, in which the simulated head part includes a simulated cranium part, the simulated cranium part includes a simulated nasal cavity, and the distortion sensor is arranged in a part of the simulated head part. |
| US12230156B2 |
System for navigating an aircraft based on infrared beacon signals
A system for facilitating navigation of an aircraft comprises one or more processors and a memory coupled to the processors. The memory stores data into a data store and program code that, when executed by the processors, causes the system to detect an infrared site signal indicating a site code transmitted by one or more infrared beacons that form a beacon network around a site. The site code represents a site. In response to detecting the infrared site signal, the system determines the site indicated by the site code. The system searches for two or more infrared beacon signals and detects the two or more infrared beacon signals. In response to detecting the two or more infrared beacon signals, the system determines a location of the aircraft based on the two or more infrared beacon signals. |
| US12230153B2 |
Themed aerial vehicle entertainment platform for providing dynamically-coordinated show
A themed aerial vehicle entertainment system or platform useful for generating crowd-pleasing shows or displays through the use of dynamically-coordinated show systems. Instead of use of a fixed flight plan, the new entertainment platform is configured to include one or more UAVs that is enclosed within or supports thematic cladding such as the outer shell of a spacecraft or flying character, and the show is dynamically coordinated to present a cohesive performance. Onboard show effects provided by onboard or UAV supported show system components such as high brightness lights are dynamically adjusted in the new system/platform to ensure the best show appearance to the audience while providing safer operations. The dynamic adjustments may involve selecting or generating a second script or “B show” in a contingent manner based on the current location or timing of movement of the UAV along a flight plan. |
| US12230151B2 |
Flight route generation device and flight route generation method
A flight route generation device is configured to generate a plurality of flight routes for a flight vehicle to fly over a plurality of working areas in a one-time flight. The flight route generation device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire the working-area information for designating a plurality of working areas intended for a plurality of operations to be performed by a flight vehicle during its flight and the interregional information for determining a plurality of interregional flight routes along which the flight vehicle is permitted to fly over a plurality of working areas, and a generator configured to generate a plurality of intraregional flight routes for the flight vehicle to fly through the plurality of working areas based on the working-area information and a plurality of interregional flight routes based on the interregional information to prevent the flight vehicle from entering into a flight-prohibited area. |
| US12230149B2 |
Unmanned aerial vehicle authorization and geofence envelope determination
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for unmanned aerial vehicle authorization and geofence envelope determination. One of the methods includes determining, by an electronic system in an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), an estimated fuel remaining in the UAV. An estimated fuel consumption of the UAV is determined. Estimated information associated with wind affecting the UAV is determined using information obtained from sensors included in the UAV. Estimated flights times remaining for a current path, and one or more alternative flight paths, are determined using the determined estimated fuel remaining, determined estimated fuel consumption, determined information associated wind, and information describing each flight path. In response to the electronic system determining that the estimated fuel remaining, after completion of the current flight path, would be below a first threshold, an alternative flight path is selected. |
| US12230148B2 |
Artificial intelligence system for estimating excess non-sapient payload capacity on mixed-payload aeronautic excursions
A system for selection of physical asset transfer paths using mixed-payload aeronautic excursions includes a client-interface module operating on at least a server, the client-interface module, configured to receive an initial location, a terminal location, and a description of at least an element of non-sapient payload, a path-selection module operating on the at least a server configured to identify at least an aeronautic path from the initial location to the terminal location and a plurality of aeronautic excursions traversing the at least an aeronautic path and select an aeronautic excursion of the plurality of aeronautic excursions based on a plurality of excess non-sapient payload storage estimations corresponding the plurality of aeronautic excursions, and a capacity estimation artificial intelligence module operating on the at least a server, the capacity estimation artificial intelligence module designed and configured to generate the plurality of excess non-sapient payload storage estimations. |
| US12230146B2 |
Efficient VTOL resource management in an aviation transport network
A transport network management system identifies a service objective for a plurality of VTOL aircraft and retrieves VTOL data including locations of the plurality of VTOL aircraft. An estimate of demand for transport services to be provided at least in part by one of the VTOL aircraft is generated and routing data for the plurality of VTOL aircraft is determined based on the estimated demand and the service objective. Routing instructions based on the routing data are sent to at least a subset of the VTOL aircraft. |
| US12230141B2 |
Watercraft share-ride system, a watercraft share-ride method, and a computer for a watercraft
A watercraft share-ride system includes a cloud server, an owner terminal, and a user terminal. The owner terminal provides first share-ride condition information of an owner to the cloud server. The user terminal provides second share-ride condition information of a user to the cloud server. The cloud server provides watercraft information of the owner to the user terminal when the first share-ride condition information and the second share-ride condition information match. The cloud server acquires share-ride request information corresponding to the watercraft information when the watercraft information is selected by the user terminal. |
| US12230140B2 |
Actively modifying a field of view of an autonomous vehicle in view of constraints
Methods and devices for actively modifying a field of view of an autonomous vehicle in view of constraints are disclosed. In one embodiment, an example method is disclosed that includes causing a sensor in an autonomous vehicle to sense information about an environment in a first field of view, where a portion of the environment is obscured in the first field of view. The example method further includes determining a desired field of view in which the portion of the environment is not obscured and, based on the desired field of view and a set of constraints for the vehicle, determining a second field of view in which the portion of the environment is less obscured than in the first field of view. The example method further includes modifying a position of the vehicle, thereby causing the sensor to sense information in the second field of view. |
| US12230139B2 |
Predicting traffic violation hotspots using map features and sensors data
System and methods for determining traffic violation hotspots based on roadway feature and/or sensor data. Traffic violation hotspots include, for example areas where traffic violations are more likely to occur such as traffic light jumping, wrong way driving, over speeding, not wearing seatbelt, avoiding stop signs and red lights, distracted driving, passing other vehicles in a no-passing zone, among others. Traffic violation data from one region is used to train a model that is applied to a second region for which traffic violation data does not exist or is limited. |
| US12230138B2 |
Mine collision detection and avoidance
There is provided a method including the steps of receiving mine operations data from a set of data sources in a mine, the mine operations data, processing the mine operations data to detect a set of events meeting at least one operator attention triggering condition, mapping the set of events to a mine model on the basis of location information associated with the events in the set of events, determining an affected location area of the set of events mapped to the mine model, and generating an operator attention indicator dependent on density of events in the affected location area for display for the set of events in the affected location area in the mine model to an operator to adjust operation of one or more mine operations devices. |
| US12230137B2 |
Multispace parking pay stations including payment improvements
Disclosed herein are multispace parking pay stations comprising: at least one processor, a memory, a communications element, a printer, and a computer program including instructions executable by the at least one processor to create an application comprising: a software module receiving a unique identifier associated with a parking customer, the parking customer having executed a mobile payment for parking in a space associated with the pay station; a software module transmitting the unique identifier to a central parking management server and querying the central parking management server with the unique identifier to identify the parking customer and verify the mobile payment; and a software module generating and sending instructions to the printer to print a payment verification for the parking customer. |
| US12230136B2 |
Room presence methods and systems
A method for delegating conference rooms using room presence detection includes identifying a human in a digital image using a trained machine learning model; updating room presence information; and determining a next-available conference room. A room presence computing system includes a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: identify a human in a digital image using a trained machine learning model; update room presence information; and determine, by analyzing the room presence information, a next-available conference room. A non-transitory computer readable medium includes program instructions that when executed, cause a computer to: identify a human in a digital image using a trained machine learning model update room presence information; and determine, by analyzing the room presence information, a next-available conference room. |
| US12230134B2 |
Systems and methods for public transit arrival time prediction
Arrival/Travel times for public transit exhibit variability on account of factors like seasonality, dwell times at bus stops, traffic signals, travel demand fluctuation, spatial and temporal correlations, etc. The developing world in particular is plagued by additional factors like lack of lane discipline, excess vehicles, diverse modes of transport and so on. This renders the bus arrival time prediction (BATP) to be a challenging problem especially in the developing world. Present disclosure provides system and method that implement recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for BATP (in real-time), wherein the system incorporates information pertaining to spatial and temporal correlations and seasonal correlations. More specifically, a Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) based Encoder-Decoder (ED) model with one or more bi-directional layers at the decoder is implemented for BATP based on relevant additional synchronized inputs (from previous trips) at each step of the decoder. The system further captures congestion influences on travel time prediction. |
| US12230127B1 |
Traffic-prediction validation module
A traffic-prediction validation module includes memory storing a program of computer instructions, and at least a first processor. The at least a first processor is configured to execute the program of instructions to obtain first traffic related information gathered from a plurality of traffic probe devices, receive a traffic-flow prediction, determine a selected subset of the plurality of traffic probe devices based on characteristics of the plurality of traffic probe devices, generate a ground truth based on a subset of the first traffic related information, wherein the subset of the first traffic related information is obtained from the selected subset of the plurality of traffic probe devices, and determine whether the traffic-flow prediction is valid based on the ground truth. |
| US12230125B2 |
Suction device, information transmission method, and non-transitory computer readable medium
A suction device includes a heating unit that heats a base material and generates an aerosol; a communication unit that receives, through a communication link, information indicating a profile stipulating an operation of the heating unit; and a control unit that controls the operation of the heating unit in accordance with the information indicating the profile. The information indicating the profile includes a combination of information indicating time and information indicating a parameter pertaining to the operation of the heating unit at said time. |
| US12230123B2 |
Extracting the resistor-capacitor time constant of an electronic circuit line
A system and a memory device including a driver circuit, to perform first operations including driving a resistor-capacitor (RC) sensor circuit of an electronic device to a drive voltage using a representative copy of a current that drives an electronic circuit line of the electronic device. The system and memory device including the RC sensor circuit, coupled to the driver circuit, to perform second operations including determining a first sample voltage by sampling a first representative voltage generated at the RC sensor circuit, and determining a second sample voltage by sampling a second representative voltage generated at the RC sensor circuit. The ratio of the first sample voltage and the second sample voltage is indicative of an RC time constant of the electronic circuit line. |
| US12230121B2 |
Security system
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for expanding the functionality of a security system are disclosed. The security system may be integrated with a vehicle security system. For example, a vehicle security node of a vehicle may transmit a signal that may be received by the security system. The security system may authenticate the vehicle security node and integrate the vehicle security node into its network. Various information may be communicated in both directions between the security system and the vehicle security node. The vehicle security node may communicate with an alarm panel that may include a dock for connecting a portable device. |
| US12230117B2 |
Autonomous home security devices
An aerial vehicle is programmed or configured to respond to reports of events or conditions within spaces of a facility. The aerial vehicle travels to a location of a reported event or condition and captures data using onboard sensors. The aerial vehicle independently determines whether the reported event or condition is occurring, or is otherwise properly addressed by resources that are available at the location, using images or other data captured by the onboard sensors. Alternatively, the aerial vehicle transmits a request for additional resources to be provided at the location, where necessary. A map of the location generated based on images or other data captured by the onboard sensors may be utilized for any purpose, such as to make one or more recommendations of products that are appropriate for use at the facility. |
| US12230116B2 |
Method and system for generating flood early warning information in smart city based on internet of things
The present disclosure provides a method and system for generating flood early warning information in smart city based on Internet of Things (IoT). The method includes: obtaining precipitation information of a target area within a target time period through a meteorological management platform, and obtaining road ponding information of each road in the target area; obtaining environmental information of each road in the target area through a geographic information system; obtaining drainage capacity information of the target area through a water affairs platform; and determining the flood early warning information based on the precipitation information, the drainage capacity information, the road ponding information, and the environmental information, wherein the flood early warning information includes a first flood early warning information and a third flood early warning information. |
| US12230111B2 |
Control access utilizing video analytics
A computer-implemented method including receiving, by a monitoring system that is configured to monitor a property and from a touchless doorbell device that includes a camera and a motion sensor, an image, analyzing, by the monitoring system, the image, based on analyzing the image, determining that the image likely includes a representation of a person, and based on determining that the image likely includes a representation of a person, performing a monitoring system action. |
| US12230108B2 |
Gaming system and method with bingo or keno game determined based on a sporting event
Gaming systems and methods which utilize the results of a sporting event to determine an outcome of a bingo game. |
| US12230103B2 |
Zone dependent payout percentage
Various embodiments include game configurations that are specific to a location. |
| US12230100B2 |
System and platform for deidentified and decentralized social gaming via the blockchain
A system, method, device, and platform for performing a gaming utilizing blockchain. A player profile is created in response to information received from a player. Gaming information is received from the player associated with the one or more games. Selections are assigned to the player for the one or more games utilizing player profile and the gaming information. Winners and a host with each of the one or more games of the one or more games are compensated once the one or more games are completed. The player profile, the gaming information, the selections, and the winners are documented utilizing the blockchain. |
| US12230097B2 |
Lottery games on an electronic gaming machine
Method and apparatus are described which are used to provide enhanced functionality on gaming devices associated with the play of wager-based games. A secondary processor, separate from a game controller on the gaming device, can be used to provide the enhanced functionality. In one embodiment, the secondary processor can be used to control a display interface on a video display, such as a video display used to play a wager-based game on the gaming device. The display interface can be used to purchase items, such as a lottery ticket, under control of the secondary processor. After purchase, the lottery ticket can be dispensed from the gaming device using a printer. After the lottery ticket is dispensed, it can be reinserted into the gaming device and validated. If any winnings are associated with the lottery ticket, it can be credited to the electronic gaming machine. |
| US12230091B2 |
Bill processing device
The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a banknote processing device that may separate and process normal banknotes and rejected banknotes during replenishment/collection and easily confirm the number of replenished or collected normal banknotes. The present invention for implementing this includes: a determination unit that determines whether or not a replenished or collected banknote is normal; a temporary storage unit in which the banknote determined as a normal banknote by the determination unit is temporarily stored; a counterfeit banknote cassette in which a replenished rejected banknote and a collected rejected banknote rejected by the determination unit are stored; a banknote storage unit in which a replenished banknote or a banknote to be collected, which is determined as a normal banknote by the determination unit, is stored; a replenishment/collection cassette in which a banknote to be replenished in the banknote storage unit or a normal banknote collected from the banknote storage unit is stored; and a transport path through which the banknote is transported. |
| US12230081B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method
An information processing apparatus in the present invention includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a first biometrics information group including biometrics information on a first person detected from a first image captured in a first area from a registered biometrics information group including biometrics information on a plurality of registrants; and a matching unit that matches biometrics information on a second person detected from a second image captured in a second area that is different from the first area against biometrics information included in the first biometrics information group. |
| US12230080B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method
An information processing apparatus in the present invention includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a first biometrics information group including biometrics information on a first person detected from a first image captured in a first area from a registered biometrics information group including biometrics information on a plurality of registrants; and a matching unit that matches biometrics information on a second person detected from a second image captured in a second area that is different from the first area against biometrics information included in the first biometrics information group. |
| US12230076B2 |
Control device and notification method
An aspect of the present invention relates to a control device for an exhaust gas post-treatment device that includes a filter that collects a particulate substance in exhaust gas of an engine and an oxidation catalyst provided upstream of the filter, and that is configured to regenerate the filter by an action of the oxidation catalyst, the control device including a notification unit configured to, in a case in which forced regeneration for forcibly increasing a temperature of the exhaust gas is carried out, when the number of times it is estimated that the temperature of the exhaust gas is lower than a light-off temperature for a period of time equal to or longer than a prescribed period of time exceeds a prescribed threshold, issue a notification indicating that there is a problem in an operation state of the engine. |
| US12230067B2 |
Security, tracking device, and luggage recovery
Various methods, computer systems, and machine learning models for luggage tracking and recovery are disclosed. The methods and computer systems may include matching first travel information including a passenger name and an International Air Transport Association (IATA) license plate number for a luggage item of a passenger in a flight manifest with second travel information from a created B-Type message that includes a reference indicator representative of a non-routine routed luggage item. The methods and computer systems may include generating an anomalous luggage item manifest record for the non-routine routed luggage item associated with the flight manifest; retrieving third travel information of the non-routine routed luggage item generated by a baggage handling system prior to or after the created B-Type message; and locating the non-routine routed the luggage item. Thereafter, the luggage item may be routed to its intended destination. |
| US12230066B2 |
Security, tracking device, and personal identifiable information
Various methods, computer systems, and computer readable media for handling luggage are disclosed. These methods, systems, and media may include obtaining, by at least one processor, a first baggage information message associated with an arrival of a checked luggage item of a passenger in a manifest, and extracting from the first baggage information message an IATA license plate number and the PNR number. Disclosed methods, systems, and media may further include retrieving a personal identifiable information in a PNR database in communication with a computer system associated with the air carrier using the extracted PNR number; and obtaining a second baggage information message created by a baggage handling system that includes the IATA license plate number and a primary identifier (ID) that links to a security screening image (SSI) of the checked luggage item. |
| US12230060B2 |
System and method for determining human emotions
The present invention provides a system and method for determining human emotions. The system includes an input device for receiving at least one image of a human face and at least one processor for: processing the at least one image to generate a heat map of the at least one image as a first identifying data; processing the heat map to generate a second identifying data relating to emotional conditions based on heat; processing the at least one image to generate a third identifying data relating to emotional conditions based on muscle movement; and processing the at least one image to generate a fourth identifying data relating to truthfulness. The first, second, third and fourth identifying data are then collectively processed to generate a final emotion identifier for display on an output device. |
| US12230059B2 |
Methods and apparatus for facial recognition using non-visible light
Aspects of the present disclosure include methods for generating a sampled profile including a plurality of sampling points having a plurality of characteristic values associated with the detected non-visible light, identifying one or more macroblocks each includes a subset of the plurality of sampling points, calculating a number of occurrences of the local pattern value within each subset of the plurality of the sampling points for each of the one or more macroblocks, generating a first array including a plurality of weighted values by calculating the plurality of weighted values based on the numbers of occurrences of the local pattern value and corresponding sizes of the one or more macroblocks, assigning a unique index to each of the plurality of weighted values, generating a second array of the unique index by ranking the plurality of weighted values, and generating a third array including a plurality of ranking distances. |
| US12230058B2 |
Systems, methods, and storage media for creating image data embeddings to be used for image recognition
Disclosed implementations include a method, apparatus and computer media for learning an optimal graph in the form of a tree topology defining a sequence that can be used by a learning network for image recognition. Image data representing the image of an object is received and N landmarks are detected on the image using a deep regression algorithm, wherein N is an integer. A weighted, fully connected, graph is constructed from the landmarks by assigning initial weights for the landmarks randomly. An optimized tree structure is determined based on the initial weights. A sequence is generated by traversing nodes of the tree structure and a series of embeddings representing the object image are generated based on the sequence. The embeddings can be processed by a neural network to generate an image recognition signal based on the embeddings. |
| US12230055B2 |
Methods for creating personalized items using images associated with a subject and related systems and computers
Methods for creating personalized items using images associated with a subject are provided. The method includes receiving and processing at least one image of a subject; translating the processed at least one image into a personalized illustration having features that substantially resemble features of the subject, wherein translating the processed at least one image comprises extracting a plurality of core shapes from a face of the subject in the at least one image and assembling the extracted plurality of core shapes into a face of the personalized illustration; and manipulating the personalized illustration of the subject for placement in a personalized item such that the manipulated personalized illustration appears as an integral part of an existing template of the personalized item. |
| US12230054B2 |
Determining display zoom level
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method (100) is described. The method comprises identifying (102) a specified facial gesture from imaging data of a user. The method further comprises determining (104) whether the specified facial gesture is indicative of a specified zoom level to be used for displaying the user's face. In response to determining that the specified zoom level is to be used instead of a previously-determined zoom level used for displaying the user's face, a display showing a video feed of the user's face is caused to change a displayed size of at least a portion of the user's face on the video feed based on a difference between the specified zoom level and the previously-determined zoom level. |
| US12230053B2 |
Automatic face and human subject enhancement algorithm for digital images
An apparatus includes a memory configured to store images and a processor. The processor is configured to receive an input image. The processor is further configured to partition a human mask in the input image using a segmentation algorithm. The processor is also configured to generate a skin map based on identifying skin in the input image using the human mask. In addition, the processor is configured to process an output image with brightening applied using the skin map. |
| US12230049B2 |
Multi-segment text search using machine learning model for text similarity
Systems and methods may be provided for performing a search on an input text block. The input text block may be split into a plurality of input text segments. A text similarity algorithm may be used to find similar stored text segments to each of the plurality of input text segments. |
| US12230047B2 |
Systems and methods for reading flat cards
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods that enable scanning of any type of card regardless of the shape and design of a given card and/or a font, a shape and a format with which characters such as numbers, letters and symbols are printed on the cards including cards with non-embossed characters printed thereon. In one example, a method includes scanning a card, the card including at least an account number associated with a user of the card and an identifier of the user; detecting, by applying a machine learning model to the card after scanning the card, at least the account number printed on the card; and completing a task using the account number. |
| US12230038B2 |
Apparatus and method for predicting trajectory of surrounding vehicle
An apparatus for predicting a trajectory of a surrounding vehicle includes a storage configured to store a high definition map, a lane Selection Network (LSN), and a Trajectory Prediction Network (TPN) and a controller that extracts lane information around a target vehicle, traveling around a host vehicle, based on the high definition map, inputs the lane information around the target vehicle and previous trajectory information of the target vehicle to the LSN to detect reference lane information, and inputs the reference lane information and the previous trajectory information of the target vehicle to the TPN to acquire future trajectory information of the target vehicle. |
| US12230037B2 |
Device and method for recognizing obstacles for a vehicle
A device for recognizing an obstacle of a vehicle includes a camera for acquiring an image, a detection device for extracting an object by applying a convolutional neural network to the image, a center calculation device for estimating a center point and a region outside the center point of the extracted object, an uncertainty determination device for determining whether the estimated center point and region outside the center point are uncertain, and a condition determination device for determining whether travel is possible based on the determined uncertainty. |
| US12230036B2 |
System and method to help determine intent of third-party autonomous vehicle
Particular embodiments described herein provide for a system and method for determining an intent of a third-party autonomous vehicle by an autonomous vehicle. The method can include identifying the third-party autonomous vehicle, identifying a third-party autonomous vehicle behavior signature associated with the third-party autonomous vehicle, capturing sensor data related to the third-party autonomous vehicle, analyzing the captured sensor data to determine behaviors of the third-party autonomous vehicle, and using a third-party autonomous vehicle behavior signature to determine if the behaviors of the third-party autonomous vehicle indicate a specific intent of the third-party autonomous vehicle. The third-party autonomous vehicle behavior signature can be created by identifying behaviors of the third-party autonomous vehicle and associating the behaviors with an intent of the third-party autonomous vehicle. |
| US12230030B2 |
Object filtering and information display in an augmented-reality experience
Systems and methods for providing scene understanding can include obtaining a plurality of images, stitching images associated with the scene, detecting objects in the scene, and providing information associated with the objects in the scene. The systems and methods can include determining filter tags or query tags that can be selected to filter the plurality of objects, which can then be provided as information to the user to provide further insight on the scene. The information may be provided in an augmented-reality experience via text or other user-interface elements anchored to objects in the images. |
| US12230028B1 |
Integrated hyperspectral stereoscopic remote sensing, tracing and prediction of greenhouse/pollution gas
Disclosed in the present invention is a method for whole-time space-air-ground integrated hyperspectral stereoscopic remote sensing, tracing and prediction of greenhouse/pollution gas, comprising: performing remote sensing of multi-source heterogeneous data: utilizing a hyperspectral stereoscopic remote sensing device, a hyperspectral imaging device, a hyperspectral unmanned aerial vehicle remote sensing device, a hyperspectral greenhouse gas remote sensing device based on grating light splitting and a night hyperspectral stereoscopic remote sensing device to perform the remote sensing of the multi-source heterogeneous greenhouse/pollution gas data; performing tracing and early warning of greenhouse/pollution gas components: progressively realizing tracing of greenhouse/pollution gas components at different locations based on the multi-source heterogeneous greenhouse/pollution gas data, and performing emission early warning according to a traced result; and performing stereo fusion and prediction of the multi-source heterogeneous data: performing data feature fusion based on the multi-source heterogeneous greenhouse/pollution gas data, and performing prediction of the greenhouse/pollution gas components at a future moment based on a fusion result. The system can complement the deficiencies of existing greenhouse/pollution gas monitoring and tracing technologies. |
| US12230020B2 |
Techniques for dynamic time-based custom model generation
Techniques are disclosed for dynamic time-based custom model generation as part of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environment. A custom model generation service may receive a set of training data and a time-based constraints for training a machine learning model. The custom model generation service may subsample the training data and generate a set of optimized tuned hyperparameters for a machine learning model to be trained using the subsampled training data. An experimental interval time of training is determined and the machine learning model is trained on the subsampled training data according to the optimized tuned hyperparameters over a set of training intervals similar to the experimental time interval. A customized machine learning model trained in the time-based constraint is output. The hyperparameter tuning may be performed using a modified mutating genetic algorithm for a set of hyperparameters to determine the optimized tuned hyperparameters prior to the training. |
| US12230013B2 |
Fully automated SEM sampling system for e-beam image enhancement
Disclosed herein is a method of automatically obtaining training images to train a machine learning model that improves image quality. The method may comprise analyzing a plurality of patterns of data relating to a layout of a product to identify a plurality of training locations on a sample of the product to use in relation to training the machine learning model. The method may comprise obtaining a first image having a first quality for each of the plurality of training locations, and obtaining a second image having a second quality for each of the plurality of training locations, the second quality being higher than the first quality. The method may comprise using the first image and the second image to train the machine learning model. |
| US12230008B2 |
Image processing apparatus and operating method thereof
An image processing apparatus, including a processor configured to execute instructions stored in a memory to: obtain characteristic information of a first image, divide the characteristic information into a plurality of groups, input each group into a respective layer of a plurality of layers included in a convolutional neural network and perform a convolution operation using one or more kernels to obtain a plurality of pieces of output information, generate an attention map including weight information corresponding to each pixel included in the first image, based on the plurality of pieces of output information, generate a spatially variant kernel including a kernel corresponding to the each pixel, based on the attention map and a spatial kernel including weight information according to a position relationship between the each pixel and a neighboring pixel, and generate a second image by applying the spatially variant kernel to the first image. |
| US12230007B2 |
Training method for multi-object tracking model and multi-object tracking method
An embodiment of the present disclosure discloses a training method for a multi-object tracking model and a multi-object tracking method. The multi-object tracking method comprises: constructing an object graph according to objects to be tracked in a current frame, wherein the vertexes of the object graph correspond to the objects to be tracked, and edge features of the edges between the two vertexes comprise an attribute relationship between the two vertexes; performing graph matching on the object graph and a tracklet graph to calculate matching scores between the object to be tracked and the tracked tracklet in the tracklet graph, wherein the vertexes of the tracklet graph correspond to tracked tracklets, and the edge features of the edges between the two vertexes comprise an attribute relationship between the two vertexes; and determining the matched tracklet of the object to be tracked according to the matching scores. |
| US12230006B2 |
Removal of artifacts from images captured by sensors
There is provided a vehicle sensor system, comprising: a plurality of sensors with mostly overlapping field of views that simultaneously acquire temporary images, a processing circuitry that: analyzes the temporary images to identify at least one blocked image area in at least one temporary image of the plurality of temporary images which is less or not blocked in at least one spatially corresponding image area of at least one other temporary image of the plurality of temporary images, selects visual data from the at least one spatially corresponding image areas over corresponding visual data from the at least one blocked images area, merges the plurality of temporary images into a final image using the selected visual data and excludes the at least one blocked image area, and an output interface that forwards the final image to a vehicle controller. |
| US12230005B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method and recording medium
An information processing apparatus (2) includes: a reducing unit (211) that generates a second image (IMG2) by reducing a first image (MG1) in which a target object is included; a first extracting unit (212) that extracts, as a first key point, a key point (KP) of the target object from the second image; a setting unit (213) that sets a target area (TA) that designates a part of the first image based on the first key point; and a second extracting unit (214) that extracts, as a second key point, a key point of the target object from a target image (IMG1_TA) of the first image that is included in the target area. |
| US12230003B2 |
Three-dimensional data decoding method and three-dimensional data decoding device
A three-dimensional data decoding method includes: obtaining three-dimensional space information including encoded three-dimensional points; calculating an angle formed by a line segment connecting a predetermined position in the three-dimensional space information and a first base point and a line segment connecting the first base point and a second base point different from the first base point; determining whether the angle calculated satisfies a predetermined condition; and decoding the encoded three-dimensional points included in the three-dimensional space information when the angle calculated is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition, and not decoding the encoded three-dimensional points included in the three-dimensional space information when the angle calculated is determined not to satisfy the predetermined condition. |
| US12230002B2 |
Object-based volumetric video coding
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for object-based volumetric video coding are disclosed. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a point annotator to receive point cloud data associated with an object and annotate points of the point cloud data with an object identifier of the object. The disclosed example apparatus also includes a projector to project the point cloud data onto projection planes to produce texture images and geometry images. The disclosed example apparatus further includes a patch generator to generate a patch based on the object identifier, the patch including the texture images and the geometry images of the object, the patch associated with the object identifier of the object. The disclosed example apparatus also includes an atlas generator to generate an atlas to include in encoded video data, the atlas including the patch. |
| US12230001B2 |
Encoder, decoder and related methods
There is disclosed an encoder, a decoder, related methods, and non-transitory storage units storing instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the methods.At an encoder (300), after a spatial transformation stage (304), there is obtained a spatially transformed version (306) of input image information (302) having multiple bands and, for each band, multiple transform band coefficients. After the generation of precincts (311), each comprising transform coefficients covering a predetermined spatial area of the input image information (302), there is provided a component transformation stage (320, 325), to apply one component transformation (CTr) selected (327) out of a plurality of predetermined component transformations, to each band (102′) of each precinct (311). Hence, there is obtained a spatially transformed and color transformed version (323) of the input image information (302), which is subsequently quantized and entropy encoded. |
| US12230000B2 |
Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding a point cloud representing a 3D object
At least one embodiment relates to a method comprising obtaining an occupancy information indicating if blocks of a 2D regular grid defined over a projection plane are associated with depth information of an orthogonal projection of at least one point of a point cloud onto said projection plane; embedding said occupancy information in an image storing said depth information; and encoding said image. |
| US12229999B2 |
Systems and methods for sharing analytical resources in a camera network
Example implementations include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for sharing analytical resources in a camera network, comprising capturing a video clip comprising a set of image frames via a first camera having only non-artificial intelligence (A.I) features, wherein the first camera is part of a camera network. The implementations further include identifying, in the camera network, a second camera that has an A.I feature. The implementations further include determining whether the second camera has bandwidth to analyze the video clip. The implementations include transmitting, via the first camera, the video clip to the second camera for analysis using the A.I feature, in response to determining that the second camera has bandwidth. The implementations include receiving, by the first camera from the second camera, metadata comprising results of the analysis using the A.I feature and generating, for display on a user interface, the video clip with the metadata. |
| US12229998B2 |
Electronic apparatus and controlling method thereof
An electronic apparatus is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes: a memory storing a first pattern image and a second pattern image, a communication interface comprising communication circuitry configured to communicate with an external terminal apparatus, a projection part including a projection lens, and a processor configured to: control the projection part to project the first pattern image on a screen member comprising a reflector located on a projection surface, and based on receiving a first photographed image which photographed the screen member from the external terminal apparatus through the communication interface, acquire transformation information based on the first photographed image and the first pattern image, control the projection part to project the second pattern image on the projection surface, and based on receiving a second photographed image which photographed the projection surface from the external terminal apparatus through the communication interface, perform color calibration based on the characteristic of the projection surface based on the second photographed image, the second pattern image, and the transformation information. |
| US12229995B1 |
Fine calibration parameter validation
A method and system for calibration parameter validation. The method includes performing a camera calibration generating a calibration result, applying a coarse pass-fail criteria to the calibration result and rejecting the camera if the calibration result does not pass the coarse pass fail-criteria. The method further includes applying a fine pass-fail criteria based upon at least information stored at a central repository to the calibration result if the calibration result passes the coarse pass-fail criteria, rejecting the camera if the calibration result does not pass the fine pass fail-criteria, accepting the camera if the calibration result passes the fine pass fail-criteria, and entering the calibration result into the central repository. The information stored at the central repository includes key performance indicator/key performance metric information for one or more measured parameters of the calibration result. |
| US12229994B1 |
Depth sensor evaluation
Disclosed are various embodiments for evaluating performance metrics (e.g., accuracy, depth precision, curvature accuracy, coverage, data acquisition time, etc.) of sensors (e.g., cameras, depth cameras, color cameras, etc.) according to captured image data. One or more reference boards having different types of reference structures (e.g., three-dimensional shapes, materials, three-dimensional patterns (e.g., waves, steps, etc.), gaps, etc.) that are used to evaluate the performance properties of a sensor. A reference board is attached to a robotic arm and positioned in front of a sensor. The robotic arm positions the reference board in front the sensor in different viewpoints while the sensor captures image data associated with the reference board. The captured image data is compared with ground truth data associated with the reference board to determine performance metrics of the sensor. |
| US12229985B2 |
Vehicle pose management
A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive an image frame from a camera, the image frame showing a vehicle, determine a two-dimensional bounding box around the vehicle in the image frame, determine a first three-dimensional point that is an intersection between (a) a ray extending from the camera through a center of the two-dimensional bounding box and (b) a first plane that is parallel to a ground plane, determine a second three-dimensional point on the vehicle, and determine an orientation of the vehicle based on the first three-dimensional point, the second three-dimensional point, and the ground plane. The ground plane represents a surface on which the vehicle sits. |
| US12229979B2 |
Real-time ground fusion method and system based on binocular stereo vision, and intelligent terminal
A real-time ground fusion system is based on binocular stereo vision and an intelligent terminal. The method for accomplish real-time ground fusion includes: S1 of obtaining a disparity map about a same road scenario, and converting a disparity map in a target region into a 3D point cloud; S2 of performing pose conversion on a current frame and a next frame adjacent to the current frame, and performing inverse conversion on a 3D point cloud of the current frame; and S3 of repeating S2 with each frame in the target region as the current frame, so as to achieve ground fusion. Through the conversion and fusion of adjacent frames, holes caused by the projection of the disparity map can be filled to assist driving and output accurate height data, thereby improving comfortableness. |
| US12229976B2 |
Method of characterizing a surface texture and texture characterization tool
The present disclosure relates generally to evaluating the surfaces of a building. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a method of characterizing a surface texture of a building surface. The method includes illuminating a first area of the building surface from a single direction and capturing an image of the first area using a camera while the first area is illuminated. The first image includes a first group of digital pixel values. The method further includes calculating a first set of values that characterize a first surface texture of the first area based on a first group of digital pixel values of the image, and comparing the first set of values to a second set of values that characterize a second surface texture, so as to produce a comparator value. |
| US12229974B2 |
Systems and methods for spatial analysis of analytes using fiducial alignment
Systems and methods for spatial analysis of analytes are provided. A data structure is obtained comprising an image, as an array of pixel values, of a sample on a substrate having a identifier, fiducial markers and a set of capture spots. The pixel values are used to identify derived fiducial spots. The substrate identifier identifies a template having reference positions for reference fiducial spots and a corresponding coordinate system. The derived fiducial spots are aligned with the reference fiducial spots using an alignment algorithm to obtain a transformation between the derived and reference fiducial spots. The transformation and the template corresponding coordinate system are used to register the image to the set of capture spots. The registered image is then analyzed in conjunction with spatial analyte data associated with each capture spot, thereby performing spatial analysis of analytes. |
| US12229973B2 |
Method for registering virtual models of the dental arches of an individual with a digital model of the face of said individual
The invention relates to a method for registering non-radiographic virtual models of a mandibular arch and a maxillary arch of an individual with a non-radiographic digital model of the face of said individual, comprising: fastening a mandibular marker rigidly on the mandibular arch of the individual, said mandibular marker defining a first frame of reference, providing a non-radiographic virtual model of the mandibular arch and a non-radiographic virtual model of the maxillary arch, digitising at least one portion of the surface of the teeth or a prosthetic device integral with said arch and at least one rigid portion of said marker by means of an intra or extra-oral camera, so as to produce a digital recording of said portions of the mandibular arch and the marker in a same second frame of reference, from said recording and the virtual models of the mandibular arch and the mandibular marker, matching the digital model of the mandibular marker with the marker, and the virtual model of the mandibular arch with said arch, and localizing the virtual model of the mandibular arch in the first frame of reference, acquiring a non-radiographic digital model of the face of the patient, and localizing the digital model of the face in the first frame of reference, so as to register the virtual models of the maxillary and mandibular arches with said digital model of the face. |
| US12229968B2 |
Trajectory data processing method and device, and storage medium
A trajectory data processing method is provided to a trajectory data apparatus. The method includes: obtaining trajectory data in a target geographical range, the trajectory data including moving trajectories of a plurality of moving objects, generating a feature map layer of the trajectory data, the feature map layer at least including a trajectory flow map layer, a moving speed map layer, and a travel direction map layer, fusing map layers in the feature map layer to obtain a fused feature map layer; displaying the fused feature map layer; and in response to obtaining a selection instruction of any pixel position on the fused feature map layer, displaying a trajectory flow at the pixel position and a moving speed and a travel direction of a moving object at the pixel position. |
| US12229966B2 |
Systems and methods for classification of arterial image regions and features thereof
In part, the disclosure relates to methods, and systems suitable for evaluating image data from a patient on a real time or substantially real time basis using machine learning (ML) methods and systems. Systems and methods for improving diagnostic tools for end users such as cardiologists and imaging specialists using machine learning techniques applied to specific problems associated with intravascular images that have polar representations. Further, given the use of rotating probes to obtain image data for OCT, IVUS, and other imaging data, dealing with the two coordinate systems associated therewith creates challenges. The present disclosure addresses these and numerous other challenges relating to solving the problem of quickly imaging and diagnosis a patient such that stenting and other procedures may be applied during a single session in the cath lab. |
| US12229964B2 |
Probabilistic segmentation of volumetric images
A method for automated segmentation of volumetric images comprising the steps of: receiving a coarse volumetric image comprising a jaw/tooth structure in terms of voxels; defining each voxel a distinct anatomical identifier based on a probabilistic distribution for each of a tooth/non-tooth class; applying the defined coarse image through a coarse model for a coarse output; combining coarse output with the coarse volumetric image; and generating a probabilistic segmentation from applying the combined coarse output/image through a fine model; and converting the probabilistic to a polygonal mesh for each defined class applying a volume-to-mesh algorithm. |
| US12229958B2 |
System and method for predicting a need for arthroplasty
A system and method configured to better identify patient-specific anatomical landmarks, measure anatomical parameters and features, and predict the patient's need for surgery within a predetermined time period. In some embodiments, the system and method is configured to predict the likelihood or risk that a patient will require total hip arthroplasty. In some embodiments, the present invention includes machine learning technology Some embodiments of the present invention include a first ML machine configured to received medical images as inputs and identify anatomical landmarks as outputs; a measurement module to measure joint space width, hip dysplasia angles, and/or leg length differential; and a second ML machine configured to receive the anatomical measurements and patient demographic data as inputs and produce a risk or likelihood that the patient will require surgery within a certain time frame. |
| US12229956B2 |
Method and system for processing cardiovascular image for detection of cardiovascular legions
A method for processing a cardiovascular image for detection of cardiovascular lesions is provided, which is performed by one or more processors of a computing device. The method includes receiving a cardiovascular image, acquiring a first image mask corresponding to at least a part of blood vessels included in the cardiovascular image, acquiring a centerline image mask corresponding to centerlines of at least the part of blood vessels included in the cardiovascular image, extracting a first image patch from the cardiovascular image, extracting a second image patch from the centerline image mask, generating a refined third image patch by performing, based on the first image patch and the second image patch, a local refinement, and generating, based on the refined third image patch and the first image mask, a refined second image mask. |
| US12229950B2 |
Dynamic interventional three-dimensional model deformation
A controller for assisting navigation in an interventional procedure includes a memory that stores instructions and a processor (310) that executes the instructions. When executed by the processor (310), the instructions cause the controller to implement a process that includes obtaining (S410) a three-dimensional model generated prior to an interventional procedure based on segmenting pathways with a plurality of branches in a subject of the interventional procedure. The process also includes determining (S470), during the interventional procedure, whether a current position of a tracked device (250) is outside of the pathways in the three-dimensional model. When the current position of the tracked device (250) is outside of the pathways in the three-dimensional model, the process includes deforming (S480) the three-dimensional model to the current position of the tracked device (250). |
| US12229947B2 |
OCT-based retinal artery/vein classification
An optical coherence tomography (OCT) unit provides a mechanism/method for automatic artery and vein identification. The method may be embodied by specialized algorithm or by a machine learning model, such as a support vector machine or neural network. The present method may identify a vascular configuration that forms a vortex structure in the deep capillary plexus (DCP) of an OCT-based (e.g., OCTA) image of a retina. The identified vortex may then be designated a vein, and other vascular structures from other plexuses, such as from the superficial vascular plexus (SVP), that connect to the identified vortex structure are likewise designated veins. Additional criteria, some based on the vein designations, may be used to identify arteries. |
| US12229941B2 |
Manufacturing method of a component carrier, handling system, computer program and system architecture
A method for manufacturing a component carrier. The method includes (a) supplying a semifinished or finished component carrier to an automatic or semi-automatic optical inspection device and (b) performing an automatic or semi-automatic optical inspection by capturing a first image with a first illumination; capturing a second image with a second illumination; comparing a data set indicative of the first image and/or the second image with a reference data set; and identifying potential defects; (c) performing a quality classification of the semifinished or finished component carrier by generating a virtual third image indicative of the component carrier under a virtual different third illumination having a third spectral composition different from both the first spectral composition and from the second spectral composition; processing the three images; classifying the potential defects in true defects and false defects; and (d) taking action based on the quality classification. Further described is a system architecture. |
| US12229937B2 |
Underwater camera biomass prediction aggregation
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for underwater camera biomass prediction aggregation. In some implementations, an exemplary method includes obtaining images of fish captured by an underwater camera; providing data of the images to a trained model; obtaining output of the trained model indicating the likelihoods that the biomass of fish are within multiple ranges; combining likelihoods of the output based on one or more ranges common to likelihoods of two or more fish to generate a biomass distribution; and determining an action based on the biomass distribution. |
| US12229930B2 |
Distortion-based filtering for image classification
Methods and systems for image filtering include detecting a distortion level of input images, using a distortion detection model that is trained using confidence values generated by a pre-trained image classifier with a set of distorted training images. An analysis is performed on input images having a detected distortion level that is lower than a threshold, with input images having an above-threshold detected distortion level being filtered out. |
| US12229928B2 |
Apparatus and method for dynamic range transforming of images
An image processing apparatus comprises a receiver (201) for receiving an image signal which comprises at least an encoded image and a target display reference. The target display reference is indicative of a dynamic range of a target display for which the encoded image is encoded. A dynamic range processor (203) generates an output image by applying a dynamic range transform to the encoded image in response to the target display reference. An output (205) then outputs an output image signal comprising the output image, e.g. to a suitable display. The dynamic range transform may furthermore be performed in response to a display dynamic range indication received from a display. The invention may be used to generate an improved High Dynamic Range (HDR) image from e.g. a Low Dynamic Range (LDR) image, or vice versa. |
| US12229921B2 |
Image processing apparatus and method of processing multi-frames using the same
An image processing apparatus, including a memory configured to store one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to cause the image processing apparatus to: identify, in a previous frame, a prediction sample corresponding to a current sample of a current frame, generate a prediction frame for the current frame by changing a sample value of a collocated sample of the previous frame according to a sample value of the prediction sample, derive a weight by comparing a sample value of the current sample with the sample value of the prediction sample, apply the weight to a collocated sample of the prediction frame to obtain a weighted prediction frame, and obtain a current output frame by processing the current frame and the weighted prediction frame through a neural network comprising a convolution layer. |
| US12229917B2 |
System and methods for filtering medical images
Methods and systems are provided for training machine learning models to filter medical images with a reduced incidence of filtering artifact inclusion. In one example, training data may be generated by applying a filter to a medical image to produce a filtered medical image, wherein a subregion of the filtered medical image includes a filtering artifact, displaying the filtered medical image via a display device, receiving a selection of the subregion of the filtered medical image from a user input device, blending, in the subregion, pixel intensity values from the filtered medical image with pixel intensity values from the medical image, to produce a blended image, wherein a visibility of the filtering artifact is attenuated in the blended image, and displaying the blended image via the display device. |
| US12229916B2 |
Super-resolution reconstruction method and apparatus for three-dimensional contrast-enhanced ultrasound images
Disclosed are a super-resolution reconstruction method and an apparatus for three-dimensional contrast-enhanced ultrasound images, a computer readable storage medium and an electronic device. The method includes: performing at least one thinning operation on a first three-dimensional local image sequence, the thinning operation being configured to enhance motion trajectories of microbubbles; and performing an image reconstruction operation based on the first three-dimensional local image sequence subjected to the at least one thinning operation, so as to generate three-dimensional super-resolution images. The super-resolution reconstruction method for the three-dimensional contrast-enhanced ultrasound images, by means of performing thinning operations (for example, respectively performing a first thinning operation and a second thinning operation) on the first three-dimensional local image sequence, highlights motion trajectories of microbubbles, thereby improving a signal-to-noise ratio of an image. Compared with a prior method, the reconstruction efficiency and precision of the three-dimensional super-resolution imaging are improved. |
| US12229912B2 |
Image analysis and gaze redirection using characteristics of the eye
In a method for performing gaze redirection, a video stream of a user is received, each video frame from the video stream including a depiction of a gaze of the user. For each video frame from the video stream, an estimated gaze direction of the gaze of the user in that video frame is determined. A field of view (FOV) for a virtual representation associated with the user in a virtual environment is determined. An updated video frame including a modified gaze direction of the user different from the estimated gaze direction of the gaze of the user is generated. |
| US12229911B2 |
Editing a virtual reality space
An editing terminal includes a simple display data acquisition unit that acquires simple display data from an item management server, an item selection processing unit that receives selection of an item from a plurality of items displayed using the simple display data, a three-dimensional data acquisition unit that acquires three-dimensional data of a selected item from the item management server, and an editing processing unit that displays an editing space on an editing screen on the basis of editing space information, receives an input of operation information regarding editing of the editing space using the three-dimensional data of the selected item, transmits the operation information to an editing server, and displays the editing space after editing on the editing screen. |
| US12229909B2 |
Method and system for display of an electronic representation of physical effects and property damage resulting from a parametric natural disaster event
A method is provided for displaying an augmented reality (AR) representation of physical effects and property damage resulting from a parametric earthquake event. The method includes scanning, using one or more sensors of a user device, a scene in proximity to a user. The method also includes identifying a background and objects in the scene. The method further includes creating an AR background for the background of the scene and AR objects for the objects in the scene. In addition, the method includes receiving at least one seismic characteristic from the user through the display of the user device. The method additionally includes displaying at least one seismic effect on the AR objects and the AR background in the scene based on the at least one received seismic characteristic. |
| US12229906B2 |
Surgeon head-mounted display apparatuses
An augmented reality surgical system includes a head mounted display (HMD) with a see-through display screen, a motion sensor, a camera, and computer equipment. The motion sensor outputs a head motion signal indicating measured movement of the HMD. The computer equipment computes the relative location and orientation of reference markers connected to the HMD and to the patient based on processing a video signal from the camera. The computer equipment generates a three dimensional anatomical model using patient data created by medical imaging equipment, and rotates and scales at least a portion of the three dimensional anatomical model based on the relative location and orientation of the reference markers, and further rotate at least a portion of the three dimensional anatomical model based on the head motion signal to track measured movement of the HMD. The rotated and scaled three dimensional anatomical model is displayed on the display screen. |
| US12229899B2 |
Tracking device, head-mounted display device, and virtual reality system
A tracking device, communicatively connected to a HMD device (head-mounted display device), is disclosed. The tracking device includes a client processor and a client memory. The client processor is configured to obtain an initial map from the HMD device. The client memory is configured to store the initial map. The client processor is further configured to update the initial map stored in the client memory to generate a client map according to a host bundle adjustment data sent by the HMD device. |
| US12229896B2 |
Modelling of underground worksite
A method includes the steps of receiving a three-dimensional input model of an underground tunnel system of a worksite, determining an initial first location in the input model for a virtual probe, determining distances between the first location and tunnel walls on the basis of the input model; determining tunnel heading on the basis of processing the determined distances, relocating the virtual probe at a second location in the input model along with the determined tunnel heading, and generating a logical tunnel model indicative of path of the virtual probe travelling in the input model, on the basis of determined locations of the virtual probe being relocated in the input model. |
| US12229895B1 |
Virtual reality detection and projection system for use with a head mounted display
A Virtual reality system which comprises a head mounted display and positional tracking to determine the position and orientation of the head mounted display. A player wearing the head mounted display would view a virtual world. External physical objects such as a cup can be identified and displayed inside the virtual world displayed inside the head mounted display so that a player can drink out of the cup without having to remove the head mounted display. |
| US12229888B2 |
Display method and display device for providing surrounding information based on driving condition
A display method is a display method performed by a display device that operates in conjunction with a mobile object, and includes: determining which one of first surrounding information, which is video showing a surrounding condition of the mobile object and is generated using two-dimensional information, and second surrounding information, which is video showing the surrounding condition of the mobile object and is generated using three-dimensional data, is to be displayed, based on a driving condition of the mobile object; and displaying the one of the first surrounding information and the second surrounding information that is determined to be displayed. |
| US12229886B2 |
Historical crop state model, predictive crop state map generation and control system
Historical and seasonal data is obtained by an agricultural work machine. The historical data provides historical values of agricultural characteristics, which may or may not be geolocated, and the seasonal data provides seasonal values of agricultural characteristics corresponding to a current season. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that predicts an agricultural characteristic, such as crop state, at different locations in the field based on a relationship between the historical values of agricultural characteristics in the historical data and based on the seasonal values of agricultural characteristics in the seasonal data at those different locations. The predictive map can be output and used in automated machine control. |
| US12229884B1 |
Streamlined construction of 3D building and navigation network
A 3D building model generator has a server that constructs a 3D texture model for each floor in a building by extruding a 2D floor plan to 3D using user-inputted heights, and adding photos captured by a smartphone or mobile device as textures to image planes for surfaces in the 3D model. The server displays on the smartphone a floor-plan portion, or a virtual 3D display based on the camera orientation with a facing wall highlighted and confirmed by a smartphone user. The user moves mapping points overlaid upon the photo to wall corners to map the photo to the facing surface in the model. The user flags rooms and exits such as doors and elevators as walkable. The server stacks the 3D texture model for the floors and connects them into a walkable network of the rooms and exits that are flagged as walkable. Hashing removes duplicate floorplans. |
| US12229883B2 |
Three-dimensional object part segmentation using a machine learning model
Systems and techniques are provided for part segmentation. For example, a process for performing part segmentation can include obtaining a three-dimensional capture of an object. The method can include generating one or more two-dimensional images of the object from the three-dimensional capture of the object. The method can further include processing the one or more two-dimensional images of the object to generate at least one two-dimensional bounding box associated with a part of the object. The method can include performing three-dimensional part segmentation of the part of the object based on a three-dimensional point cloud generated from the one or more two-dimensional images of the object and the at least one two-dimensional bounding box and based on semantically labeled super points which are merged into subgroups associated with the part of the object. |
| US12229880B2 |
Method for rendering relighted 3D portrait of person and computing device for the same
The disclosure provides a method for generating relightable 3D portrait using a deep neural network and a computing device implementing the method. A possibility of obtaining, in real time and on computing devices having limited processing resources, realistically relighted 3D portraits having quality higher or at least comparable to quality achieved by prior art solutions, but without utilizing complex and costly equipment is provided. A method for rendering a relighted 3D portrait of a person, the method including: receiving an input defining a camera viewpoint and lighting conditions, rasterizing latent descriptors of a 3D point cloud at different resolutions based on the camera viewpoint to obtain rasterized images, wherein the 3D point cloud is generated based on a sequence of images captured by a camera with a blinking flash while moving the camera at least partly around an upper body, the sequence of images comprising a set of flash images and a set of no-flash images, processing the rasterized images with a deep neural network to predict albedo, normals, environmental shadow maps, and segmentation mask for the received camera viewpoint, and fusing the predicted albedo, normals, environmental shadow maps, and segmentation mask into the relighted 3D portrait based on the lighting conditions. |
| US12229879B2 |
Image rendering method and related apparatus, terminal and storage medium
An image rendering method and a related apparatus, terminal and storage medium that: obtains a low-resolution first shadow map and a high-resolution second shadow map of a target virtual object, determines a first texel range of each texel and a central point in the first shadow map, performs scaling processing, based on the central point, on the first texel range by using a scaling coefficient to obtain a second texel range, and performs shadow rendering on the target virtual object according to the second texel range. A shadow map-based image rendering process is implemented, and since a calculation amount of determining a map position according to a low-resolution map is relatively small, image rendering efficiency is improved. Additionally, rendering of a high-resolution shadow map is completed, generation of edge aliasing is avoided, and an image rendering effect is improved. |
| US12229876B1 |
System and method to convert two-dimensional video into three-dimensional extended reality content
System and method are provided to detect objects in a scene frame of two-dimensional (2D) video using image processing and determine object image coordinates of the detected objects in the scene frame. The system and method deploy a virtual camera in a three-dimensional (3D) environment to create a virtual image frame in the environment and generate a floor in the environment in a plane below the virtual camera. The system and method adjust the virtual camera to change a height and angle relative to the virtual image frame. The system and method generate at an extended reality (XR) coordinate location relative to the floor for placing the detected object in the environment. The XR coordinate location is a point of intersection of a ray cast of the virtual camera through the virtual frame on the floor that translates to the image coordinate in the virtual image frame. |
| US12229875B2 |
Recording medium, display data generation apparatus, and display data generation method
A program causes a display data generation apparatus to function as a moving image acquirer that acquires imaging data indicating a moving image of an environment including a device, an estimator that estimates a position and an orientation of an imager capturing the moving image based on an object in the moving image, a log acquirer that acquires log data indicating a log of an operation of the device and an object position corresponding to the object, and a display controller that generates display data for displaying the moving image and a model moving image to be played synchronously. The model moving image is acquired by projecting, at the position and in the orientation, a three-dimensional model of the device placed with respect to the object position while changing the three-dimensional model based on the log. |
| US12229874B1 |
Dynamic occlusion for augmented reality interface
Devices and techniques are described for dynamically disabling occlusion in augmented reality. Point cloud data representing a physical 3D environment may be generated. An occupancy grid including a plurality of cells representing the 3D physical environment may be generated including first occupancy data for a first cell of the occupancy grid. The first occupancy data may indicate that the first cell is occupied based on a point of the point cloud data being present in the first cell. First data representing a placement of a first 3D virtual object may be received, the placement corresponding to a first set of the plurality of cells. A first number of the first set of the plurality of cells with occupancy data indicating occupancy may be determined. The first 3D virtual object may be rendered on a display of the mobile device in front of any physical objects in the 3D physical environment. |
| US12229870B2 |
Apparatus and method for acceleration data structure refit
Apparatus and method for acceleration data structure refit. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a ray generator to generate a plurality of rays in a first graphics scene; a hierarchical acceleration data structure generator to construct an acceleration data structure comprising a plurality of hierarchically arranged nodes including inner nodes and leaf nodes stored in a memory in a depth-first search (DFS) order; traversal hardware logic to traverse one or more of the rays through the acceleration data structure; intersection hardware logic to determine intersections between the one or more rays and one or more primitives within the hierarchical acceleration data structure; a node refit unit comprising circuitry and/or logic to read consecutively through at least the inner nodes in the memory in reverse DFS order to perform a bottom-up refit operation on the hierarchical acceleration data structure. |
| US12229868B2 |
Ray tracing in computer graphics using intersection testing at selective resolution
Ray tracing, and more generally, graphics operations taking place in a 3-D scene, involve a plurality of constituent graphics operations. Responsibility for executing these operations can be distributed among different sets of computation units. The sets of computation units each can execute a set of instructions on a parallelized set of input data elements and produce results. These results can be that the data elements can be categorized into different subsets, where each subset requires different processing as a next step. The data elements of these different subsets can be coalesced so that they are contiguous in a results set. The results set can be used to schedule additional computation, and if there are empty locations of a scheduling vector (after accounting for the members of a given subset), then those empty locations can be filled with other data elements that require the same further processing as that subset. |
| US12229867B2 |
Graphics architecture including a neural network pipeline
One embodiment provides a graphics processor comprising a block of execution resources, a cache memory, a cache memory prefetcher, and circuitry including a programmable neural network unit, the programmable neural network unit comprising a network hardware block including circuitry to perform neural network operations and activation operations for a layer of a neural network, the programmable neural network unit addressable by cores within the block of graphics cores and the neural network hardware block configured to perform operations associated with a neural network configured to determine a prefetch pattern for the cache memory prefetcher. |
| US12229866B2 |
Block matching window search instruction using a graphics processing unit (GPU) texture pipeline
Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a graphics processing unit (GPU). The apparatus may obtain a first indication of a first image including a set of first image sections with a plurality of first subsections and a second indication of a second image including a set of second image sections with a plurality of second subsections. The apparatus may also compare one first image section with one second image section. Further, the apparatus may calculate a magnitude of difference between one first subsection and each of the multiple second subsections. The apparatus may also output a third indication of at least one of: (1) a lowest magnitude of difference between the one first subsection and each of the multiple second subsections or (2) a set of coordinates for a second subsection that corresponds to the lowest magnitude of difference. |
| US12229863B2 |
Computer implemented method and programmable system for rendering a 2D/3D model
The invention relates to a computer implemented method for rendering a 2D/3D model. The method comprises the step of providing a memory unit and a first effect unit, the memory unit configured to store data regarding the model and send the data into at least the first effect unit, the first effect unit configured to receive the sent data, render the model based on the received data and generate a first rendering result; generating a second effect unit for performing a rendering process; arranging the second effect unit such that the second effect unit is configured to receive at least one of the first rendering result and the data from the memory unit; detecting a change of the data stored in the memory unit; and rendering, by the first and second effect units, the 2D/3D model. |
| US12229861B2 |
Systems and methods for cross-application authoring, transfer, and evaluation of rigging control systems for virtual characters
Various examples of cross-application systems and methods for authoring, transferring, and evaluating rigging control systems for virtual characters are disclosed. Embodiments of a method include the steps or processes of creating, in a first application which implements a first rigging control protocol, a rigging control system description; writing the rigging control system description to a data file; and initiating transfer of the data file to a second application. In such embodiments, the rigging control system description may be defined according to a different second rigging control protocol. The rigging control system description may specify a rigging control input, such as a lower-order rigging element (e.g., a core skeleton for a virtual character), and at least one rule for operating on the rigging control input to produce a rigging control output, such as a higher-order skeleton or other higher-order rigging element. |
| US12229859B2 |
Surface animation during dynamic floor plan generation
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for surface animation during dynamic floor plan generation. An apparatus includes a display configured to receive touch input, a processor coupled to the display, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to receive a user input associated with a surface of a structure presented on the display, generate, in response to the user input, a two-dimensional representation of the floor plan comprising a line segment representing the surface of the structure, determine at least one three-dimensional element associated with the line segment representing the surface on the two-dimensional representation of floor plan, and gradually highlight the surface shown on the display where the geometric plane that the line segment defines intersects with the at least one three-dimensional element associated with the line segment. |
| US12229850B2 |
Image processing device and image processing method
An image processing device performs a filtering operation on image data according to a set of filter data, and includes a data reconstruction circuit, a memory and an intelligent processor. The data reconstruction circuit reconstructs data of blocks in the image data to generate first reconstruction data, and reconstructs the set of filter data to generate second reconstruction data. The memory stores the first reconstruction data and the second reconstruction data. The intelligent processor executes a depthwise convolution operation according to the first reconstruction data and the second reconstruction data to generate feature map data. Two adjacent of the multiple blocks have partially same data, and quantities of columns in the second reconstruction data are associated with a channel count of the depthwise convolution operation. |
| US12229848B2 |
Image processing device, image processing method, production system, product manufacturing method, and storage medium
In order to provide an image processing device capable of supporting installation of an imaging unit, an image processing device includes: an image acquiring unit configured to acquire an image; a feature information extracting unit configured to extract feature information from the image; and a first generation unit configured to generate installation support feature information used for supporting installation of the imaging unit on the basis of the feature information extracted by the feature information extracting unit. |
| US12229837B2 |
Platform for autonomous management of risk transfer
Autonomous management of risk transfer is provided using an automated underwriting processor that creates a contract block by compiling the request into a computational graph-based format, links the contract block to the requester, stores the contract block into memory, retrieves a plurality of available underwriting agreements from memory, and creates an offer list by perform computational graph operations on the contract block to determine viable risk-transfer agreements; and presenting the offer list to the requester. |
| US12229835B2 |
Cloud-based vehicular telematics systems and methods for generating hybrid epoch driver predictions
Method and system for generating a hybrid epoch score for a user. In some examples, a computer-implemented method includes: receiving, from at least one of a mobile device associated with the user and a server, prior telematics data indicative of the operation of a vehicle by the user during one or more prior trips in a prior epoch; receiving, from the mobile device, recent telematics data indicative of the operation of the vehicle by the user during one or more recent trips in a current epoch; generating a prior epoch score based at least in part upon the prior telematics data; generating a partial current epoch score based at least in part upon the recent telematics data; and generating a hybrid current epoch score based at least in part upon the prior epoch score and the partial current epoch score. |
| US12229833B1 |
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for reformatting an electronic prescription transaction
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for partitioning prescription transaction costs in an electronic prescription transaction by determining a credit amount to be applied to prescription transaction, based on an alternative cash price. In circumstances which an associated prescription claim is rejected or determined to be likely rejected, such as due to a requirement for prior authorization, a patient may still be motivated to purchase a prescription via a cash transaction, particularly with the credit amount applied. The prescription transaction may be reformatted to indicate a cash transaction and include the credit amount, and may exclude benefit information. The credit amount and a reformatted prescription transaction may be transmitted to the pharmacy computer or other third party computer. |
| US12229832B2 |
Wealth management systems
The present disclosure provides systems that help wealth management business teams improve performance in client understanding, client advising and client servicing. Systems according to some embodiments achieve this by assisting both operational and intellectual tasks of agents within the wealth management team, and also by enabling the collaborative and learning capacities of the enterprise team ensemble. |
| US12229830B1 |
Customizable exchange-traded contracts
A method for trading a financial instrument via an exchange computing system includes receiving, from a user interface, data indicative of an order to trade the financial instrument, and one or more parameter values to customize parameters for the order, the parameters including at least one of a price, a quantity, an expiration time, a settlement time, an order type, a product type, a strategy identification, hedge information, an equity, and an index. The method includes adding one or more legs to the order, transmitting a request for clearing information associated with the one or more legs, receiving, from the user interface, data indicative of the clearing information including a matching level and a contra party, configuring the order, and executing the order by matching the order to an offer that satisfies the parameter values and the clearing information. |
| US12229828B2 |
Methods and systems for mass quoting at low latency
Disclosed herein are automated trading engine embodiments that operate on market data and re-engineer trading logic to operate on computational resources that are capable of providing highly parallelized and pipelined processing operations to improve tick to trade latency. As an example, logic resources for the automated trading engine can implement market making strategies that post and cancel quotes on markets. These logic resources can include logic for scheduling the transmissions of quotes to the markets according to various criteria. |
| US12229824B2 |
Break the glass for financial access
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media utilized for revoking access to a financial account held by a customer of a financial institution. One method includes determining, by at least one processing circuit, an access level based on information stored in an account database and an adverse event experienced by a customer. The method further includes authorizing, by the at least one processing circuit, a designee of the customer comprising the access level for at least one future payment request. The method further includes transmitting, by the at least one processing circuit, an alert message corresponding to the authorization of the designee for the access level. The method further includes in response to receiving an input from a user device, withdrawing, by the at least one processing circuit, the access level. |
| US12229823B1 |
Virtual salesperson system and method
A virtual salesperson system and method for tablet computers such as Apple's iPad can be used by the customer (as opposed to most applications which are for the dealer, or on a central kiosk) to provide the customer a tour of a showroom and each vehicle, highlighting key features and other content at the discretion of the OEM, such as videos tours conducted by their spokesperson. In at least one embodiment, the customer can also search inventory, potentially at this dealer and other ‘friendly’ dealerships with whom this dealer has a trading relationship. Other sales tools such as build and price, payment estimation, etc are available as well. |
| US12229820B2 |
Information processing system, information processing method, program, and recording medium
An information processing system includes a first service server that provides a first service. The system includes a communication circuitry and a control circuitry. The communication circuitry communicates with a user terminal of a user not having a first account of the first service and with a second service server that provides a second service different from the first service. The control circuitry sends a purchase request screen to the user terminal when a purchase request for a commodity or service has been received from the user terminal, inquires of the second service server whether or not the user has a second account associated with predetermined identification information of the user when the identification information is entered on the purchase request screen, and sends display information for registering the first account and performing linking processing of the first account and the second account when the user has the associated account. |
| US12229819B2 |
Integration of customer-stored information with media enabled shopping systems
A media enhanced shopping cart system comprises a shopping cart comprising a frame, a basket, a handle, a base tray, a plurality of wheels, a read component for performing a proximity scan of the shopping cart, a locationing component for determining a location of the shopping cart within a store based on the scan, and a display component for displaying at least one advertisement for a product based on the location of the shopping cart within the store, wherein the locationing component is further operable to determine a location of the product within the store relative to the shopping cart based on the scan, and wherein the display component is further operable to display an indication of the location of the advertised product relative to the location of the shopping cart. |
| US12229816B2 |
Heuristic account fraud detection engine
A heuristic engine includes capabilities to collect an unstructured data set and detect instances of transaction fraud in a financial account. By providing a heuristic algorithm with unstructured transaction sets and indications of particular instances of transactions that correlate with past fraudulent activity allows prevention of future occurrences of fraud. Such heuristic algorithms may learn from past indications of fraudulent activity and improve accuracy of detection of future fraud detections. |
| US12229815B2 |
Method, device, and computer program product for user behavior prediction
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device, and a computer program product for user behavior prediction. In some embodiments, at a client, a first user behavior embedding engine in the client generates behavior prediction information of a target user based on feature information of the target user. The client sends the behavior prediction information of the target user to a server, and receives information about a target item recommended for the target user from the server. Such method enables user privacy-related information to be processed only locally, thereby not only ensuring user privacy and security, but also significantly reducing overall resource overhead. |
| US12229813B2 |
System and method for providing three-dimensional, visual search
A system and method determines that an object within an image frame being captured via use of an imaging system is an object of interest. The determined object of interest is used to extract from a three-dimensional information obtained via use of a three-dimensional (3D) data obtaining component of the imaging system a 3D information for the object of interest. At least a part of the 3D information for the object of interest is caused to be provided to a cloud-based visual search process for the purpose of locating one or more matching products from within a product database for the object of interest with the located one or more matching products being returned to a customer as a product search result. |
| US12229809B2 |
Method and computer-readable medium for providing service information including bill customized to user
The present invention relates to a method and a computer-readable medium for providing service information including a bill customized to a user, in which when company information and industry information are received from the user through a first interface, one or more higher-order keywords are derived based on the company information and the industry information, a plurality of information to which one or more lower-order keywords matching an initial logical relation for a specific higher-order keyword selected by the user are mapped are provided to the user through a second interface according to the initial logical relation between one or more lower-order keywords that are set to each of the one or more higher-order keywords, and the user changes the initial logical relation that is preset to the specific higher-order keyword through a third interface so as to additionally receive a plurality of information matching the changed logical relation. |
| US12229808B2 |
Control method, fund management system, recording medium, and data structure
A control method of a fund management system including a plurality of servers that hold a distributed ledger, and executed by one of the plurality of servers, includes: receiving transaction data, the transaction data pertaining to payment processing for payment of a token from one or more applicants of crowdfunding to a management account, and storing the transaction data that is received in the distributed ledger held in each of the plurality of servers; determining, using a smart contract, whether or not a target condition of the crowdfunding is met; and outputting information indicating a result of the determining. |
| US12229800B2 |
Augmented reality guest recognition systems and methods
Systems and methods presented herein include a venue system that includes a guest recognition system configured to recognize one or more guests in a venue, and a guest experience analysis system configured to receive data relating to the recognized one or more guests from the guest recognition system, to generate guest experience information relating to the recognized one or more guests based at least in part on the received data relating to the recognized one or more guests, and to transmit the guest experience information relating to the recognized one or more guests to an augmented reality display device for display on an augmented reality display of the augmented reality display device. |
| US12229799B2 |
Apparatus, systems and methods for acquiring commentary about a media content event
A query session system and method is operable to determine a current location of a consumer conversation acquisition system when the consumer conversation acquisition system is a mobile electronic device or determine a current operation of the consumer conversation acquisition system when the consumer conversation acquisition system is stationary. Stored state information corresponding to the determined location or operation is accessed that identifies one of a receptive state of the consumer, an unreceptive state of the consumer, or optionally an indeterminate state of the consumer. The query session is presented to the consumer when the consumer is the receptive state. A query session presents a series of audible questions to the consumer that pertain to a subject media content event that the consumer has previously consumed. Responses of the consumer to each one of the presented audible questions of the query session are acquired and are saved. |
| US12229798B2 |
System and method for individualized exposure estimation in linear media advertising for cross platform audience management and other applications
A system and method for advertisement exposure forecasting are described herein, which advantageously provide viewer-level advertisement exposure forecasting for linear media platforms. Based on historical viewing data, a viewing proportion estimation model is trained for each of a plurality of viewers/devices. A plurality of viewing proportions is determined with respect to a plurality of future programs for each of the plurality of viewers/devices. Based on the plurality of viewing proportions, a reach and frequency of an advertising campaign are determined based on advertisement spot counts for each future program that is involved in the advertising campaign. |
| US12229797B2 |
System and method for processing of promotions in connection with digital purchasing
A system and method for processing promotions in connection with digital purchasing. Data associated with a digital purchase request made by a consumer (the data comprising a token, an amount associated with the transaction, a promotional code for each item included in the digital purchase request associated with a promotion, a default transaction amount, and a single default promotional code) is received from a merchant server. The single default promotional code is assigned to all items included in the digital purchase request that are associated with promotions. Using the token, account information associated with the consumer is retrieved from a database. For each promotional code received, promotional information is retrieved. The retrieved promotional information is displayed. The digital purchase request is submitted for processing using the single default promotional code. |
| US12229791B2 |
Method and system for generating delivery estimates
Embodiments of a method and system for determining delivery estimates for shipping a parcel include: retrieving historical delivery data from a plurality of shipping carriers; generating cross-carrier delivery features based on normalizing the historical delivery data; generating a cross-carrier delivery prediction model based on the cross-carrier delivery features; retrieving parcel data for the parcel based on a tracking number S140; generating parcel features based on normalizing the parcel data S150; determining a delivery estimate for the parcel based on processing the parcel features with the cross-carrier delivery prediction model S160; and responding to the delivery estimate S170. |
| US12229788B1 |
System and method for performing product analytics for machine learning platforms
A system and method for generating product analytics insights for machine learning platforms is disclosed. The system and method can receive a log file including data derived while executing a software program. Software packages and the package sub-modules logged in the log file may be categorized into a plurality of package categories. A notebook in which the software code is written, and identified in the log file, may be categorized into a notebook category. A consumable insight may be generated based on: the categorized software packages and package sub-modules, and the categorized notebook. A natural language summary may be generated describing the consumable insight. The natural language summary may be transmitted for display on a graphical user interface (GUI) in response to a user query. |
| US12229786B2 |
Method for identifying authenticity of an object
A method for identifying authenticity of an object, the method includes maintaining, in an identification server system, a reference image of an original object, the reference image and provided to represent all equivalent original objects, receiving, in the identification server system, one or more input images of the object to be identified, and generating, by the identification server system, a target image from the one or more input images. The method further includes aligning, by the identification server system, the target image with the reference image and analysing, by the identification server system, the target image in relation to the aligned reference image for identifying authenticity of the object. |
| US12229785B2 |
Method for determining the carbon footprint of a product in production processes of a production plant
The present invention is in the field of computer-implemented methods for determining the carbon footprint of a product in a production process in a production plant, in particular of a product in interconnected production processes. Certain embodiments of the present invention relate to a computer-implemented method for determining the carbon footprint of a product produced in production process of a production plant. |
| US12229784B2 |
Systems and methods for utilizing feedback data
A system can receive a first set of data. The first set of data can include information indicating a first set of user sessions and for each of the first set of user sessions having an associated summary and a corresponding agent indicated intent. The system can also, based on the first set of data, determine a set of utterances and for each of the set of utterances a corresponding set of intents. Additionally, the system can receive a second set of data. The second set of data including information indicating a second set of user sessions and for each of the second set of user sessions having an associated determined utterance and corresponding interaction of a user. Moreover, the system can validate a corresponding intent of one or more utterances of the set of utterances, based on the second set of data. |
| US12229783B2 |
Intelligent self-serve diagnostics
The systems and methods relate to a self-serve diagnostic experience that enables users to help themselves when issues or problems emerge with a customer workload. The systems and methods provide an interactive interface that guides users through a troubleshooting journey. Users may enter a problem with a customer workload using the interactive interface and may receive one or more insights automatically generated by one or more detectors based on an analysis of the backend telemetry data for the customer workload. The insights may provide contextual information about the issues and recommendations for steps to fix the issues. The interactive interface may also provide a visual overview of a plurality of resources, the resource dependencies, and the resource health for the plurality of resources. The systems and methods may also guide users in building one or more detectors for troubleshooting the one or more issues. |
| US12229782B2 |
Network based features for financial crime detection
Disclosed is an example approach in which network and non-network features are used to train a predictive machine learning model that is implemented to predict financial crime and fraud. Graphical network features may be generated by applying financial entity risk vectors to a network model with representations of various types of networks. The network model may comprise transactional, non-social, and/or social networks, with edges corresponding to linkages that may be weighted according to various characteristics (such as frequency, amount, type, recency, etc.). The graphical network features may be fed to the predictive model to generate a likelihood and/or prediction with respect to a financial crime. A perceptible alert is generated on one or more computing devices if a financial crime is predicted or deemed sufficiently likely. The alert may identify a subset of the set of financial entities involved in the financial crime and present graphical representations of networks and linkages. |
| US12229781B2 |
Systems and methods for improved detection of network fraud events
A method and system for detecting fraudulent network events in a payment card network are provided. A plurality of scored payment card transaction authorization requests is received, originating from a plurality of merchants, and data structures for each of a plurality of merchant groups are generated. Each data structure sorts the scored authorization requests into fraud score range stripes. The data structures are parsed over a plurality of time periods, and at least one cumulative metric is calculated for each merchant group for each of the time periods in each fraud score range stripe. A plurality of ratio striping values is determined for each merchant group, and a set of feature inputs is generated using the ratio striping values. A second fraud detection model is applied to the scored authorization requests. Parameters of the second fraud detection model are configured to change based on the generated set of feature inputs. |
| US12229779B2 |
Method, system, and computer program product for detecting group activities in a network
Provided is a method for detecting group activities in a network. The method may include receiving interaction data associated with a plurality of interactions. For each account identifier associated with at least one interaction, a value may be determined for each of a first set of categories, and a vector may be generated based on the value for each category. The length of each vector may be determined. At least one relational graph may be generated based on the interaction data. Each relational graph may be associated with a respective category of a second set of categories. At least one cluster of nodes may be determined based on the relational graph(s). A score for each cluster may be determined based on the length of the vector associated with the account identifier of each node of the cluster of nodes. A system and computer program product are also disclosed. |
| US12229778B2 |
Systems and methods for building blockchains for verifying assets for smart contracts
Systems and methods build blockchains and verify assets for smart contracts. A system includes a memory, a blockchain, a set of nodes, a set of verifiers, a set of miners, and a consensus protocol. The memory can have a block data structure representing a transaction for an asset having an identifier and at least one verifiable characteristic. The consensus protocol can include rules for: receiving the stake at risk from the verifiers, providing the reputational score to the verifiers, verifying the verifiable characteristic of the asset by the verifiers, cryptographic verification by the miners, adding the new block to the blockchain by the miners, providing the reward to the miners, and distributing the copy of the blockchain to each node. |
| US12229776B2 |
Cash handling system and cash transaction method
A cash handling system and a cash transaction method are provided. The cash handling system includes at least one order terminal and a cash payment terminal. The cash payment terminal communicates with the order terminal. The order terminal captures a first image, and at least one piece of first face data is included in the first image. The order terminal obtains order data and generates client data according to the order data and the at least one piece of first face data. The at least one piece of first face data is linked to the order data. The cash payment terminal obtains the client data, and the client data includes the order data and the at least one piece of first face data. The cash payment terminal captures a second image. When specific face data appears in the second image, the cash payment terminal performs a payment operation according to specific order data linked to the specific face data. |
| US12229769B2 |
Method and system for presenting representations of payment accepting unit events
A mobile device presents representations of payment accepting unit events on a display, by identifying a payment accepting unit that is available to accept payment, displaying a visual indication of the payment accepting unit, and accepting user input to receive selection of the payment accepting unit and trigger payment, establishing a wireless communication path including the mobile device and the payment accepting unit, enabling user interaction with the user interface to complete the transaction, exchanging information with the available payment accepting unit via the one or more radio transceivers in conjunction with the transaction, and displaying an updated user interface of the mobile payment application. |
| US12229767B2 |
Method and system for presenting representations of payment accepting unit events
After sending a request to a payment module, via a first communication capability (e.g., BLE), to initiate a transaction with a payment accepting unit associated with the payment module, a mobile device with one or more processors, memory, one or output devices, and two or more communication capabilities obtains a notification from the payment module via the first communication capability. The notification indicates an event at the payment accepting unit associated with the payment module. In response to obtaining the notification, mobile device provides a representation of the notification to a user of the mobile device via the one or more output devices of the mobile device. For example, a message is displayed on a display of the mobile device, a vibration alert is produced by a vibration mechanism of the mobile device, an aural alert is produced by a speaker of the mobile device, and/or the like. |
| US12229766B2 |
Cryptographic digital asset architecture with selectively-lockable dynamic evolution
A method of distributing geolocation-influenced digital collectables includes instructing the creation of a plurality of first cryptographic tokens representing digital assets with at least one attribute configured to evolve over time; receiving a request to lock the evolution of the digital asset; receiving an indication of a geolocation of the token holder at the time the request to lock is received; and generating, based at least in part on the geolocation, a second cryptographic token having at least one attribute derived from the evolutionary state of the digital asset defined by the first cryptographic token at the time the request to lock was received. |
| US12229764B2 |
Method and system for communication between blockchains on heterogeneous blockchain networks
A system for communicating between blockchains on heterogeneous blockchain networks. The system can include a sending blockchain configured to transmit a first message via a sending blockchain protocol, wherein the sending blockchain forms a part of a sending blockchain network. The system can include a sending adapter node configured to receive the first message from the sending blockchain, and translate the first message from the sending blockchain protocol to an adapter protocol. The system can include a receiving adapter node configured to receive the first message from the sending adapter node, and translate the first message from the adapter protocol to a receiving blockchain protocol. The system can include a receiving blockchain configured to receive the first message from the receiving adapter node, and validate the first message, wherein the receiving blockchain forms a part of a receiving blockchain network. |
| US12229763B1 |
Systems and methods for payment financing at point of sale
A system for dynamically revising a merchant page by one or more processors communicatively coupled to webservers hosting merchant pages may be configured to receive from a webserver a transaction amount and a unique identifier of a user interacting with the page without an input of a credit card number of the user and without the webserver accessing the credit card number in a data storage, identify, using the unique identifier and without receiving personally identifiable information from the webserver, a user profile including at least one dataset corresponding to a credit card of the user, and upon identifying an attribute of an alternative payment option for the user based on the user profile, generate an instruction to the webserver to dynamically render the page by displaying at least one interactive element including the alternative payment option based on an indicator of the credit card of the user. |
| US12229759B2 |
Systems and methods for one-click payments
Systems and methods for one-click payments are disclosed. A method may include a backend for a financial institution: receiving, from a user electronic device, enrollment of a user in a payments process; generating a token comprising an identification of an API exposed to the backend; communicating the token to the user electronic device; receiving, from a content provider, enrollment of the content provider in the payments process; receiving, at the API, an identifier for the content provider, a cost for content provided by the content provider, and the user identifier; transferring the cost from the user account to the content provider account; and notifying the content provider of completion of the transfer, wherein the content provider is configured to make the content available to the user electronic device after completion of the transfer. |
| US12229756B2 |
Systems and methods for encryption and decryption service for electronic transaction monitoring and reporting
A method for electronic transaction monitoring and reporting includes: determining whether the received transaction request is encrypted, upon determining that the received transaction request is not encrypted, sending a failure alert to the merchant, determining a receiving acquirer processor for the transaction request, and transmitting the transaction request to the determined acquirer processor. |
| US12229753B2 |
Method and system for mobile cryptocurrency wallet connectivity
The method 10 for mobile cryptocurrency wallet connectivity can include facilitating a blockchain transaction S100 and establishing an initial connection between a mobile client and a web client S200. The system 20 for mobile cryptocurrency wallet connectivity can include a browser 110, one or more websites 120, a web client 130, a mobile application 140, and a backend server 150. |
| US12229745B2 |
Systems and methods for location-based applications for vehicles
Methods and systems for location-based triggering of an electrically switchable glass of a vehicle for use in interactive applications. In some aspects, a system may be used to initiate an interactive application at the vehicle via electrically switchable glass of the vehicle. The system determines that the vehicle is at a location configured for an interactive application, and based on the location of the vehicle, triggers opacity of a portion of the electrically switchable glass. The system determines, based on a position and orientation of the electrically switchable glass, an image projector device having an angle of projection closest to perpendicular to a plane of the electrically switchable glass. The system may calibrate parameters of the image projector device and generate an image for projection using data corresponding to the interactive application. The system projects the first image onto the electrically switchable glass using the image projector device. |
| US12229740B2 |
Dynamic quick link generation system
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a trigger to generate a quick link and accessing user action information associated with a set of user device interactions with a user interface. The method also includes determining at least one qualifying user device interaction of the set of user device interactions using the user action information. Additionally, the method includes generating at least one quick link that automatically performs an action associated with the at least one qualifying user device interaction upon manipulation of the at least one quick link by a user in the user interface. Further, the method includes populating the user interface with the at least one quick link. |
| US12229739B2 |
System and method to management a cryptographic banking network
The present solution relates to a system and methods to management a network where participate at least a bank, at least a client, and at least a regulatory body, whereas a series of operating protocols of said network, comprising; the creation of a cryptographic asset mirror of cryptocurrency, a management interactive node of said cryptographic asset. A crypto-assets clearance chamber for this solution is also disclosed. |
| US12229733B2 |
Electronic consignment note management system for marine plastic debris based on blockchain technology
An electronic consignment note management system for marine plastic debris based on blockchain technology, which belongs to the field of marine plastic debris management, and comprises a cloud management platform deployed at the central node of the blockchain and service sites deployed at other nodes, wherein the cloud management platform is used for supervising the handover process of marine debris among service sites, and verifying the electronic identity of a service site that issued an marine debris transshipment order request by a blacklist and whitelist mechanism, wherein for an electronic identity beyond the validity period, a credit evaluation model is used to update the status and validity period of the electronic identity, and the marine debris transshipment order request issued by the service site in a blacklist is rejected. |
| US12229727B2 |
Core decision engine for managing software development lifecycles
Systems and methods for tracking and verifying software capabilities may include obtaining, by a computer from a reporting database, a set of project requirements associated with a software under development, the set of project requirements replicated from a project database to the reporting database, obtaining, from the reporting database, a set of testing results generated by a test program applied to code of the software under development, the set of testing results replicated from a testing database to the reporting database, extracting, from the reporting database, each project requirement associated with the software under development and each testing result generated for the code of the software under development, wherein the computer extracts each project requirement and each testing result according to a set of mapping pre-configurations, and generating, by the computer, an email message combining the project requirement and the testing result to transmit to a set of recipients. |
| US12229726B2 |
Systems and methods to generate units of work in a collaboration environment
Systems and methods for generating units of work in a collaboration environment are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information including work units records describing units of work assigned to individual users within the collaboration environment, individual sets of work unit records being defined by a record hierarchy, individual units of work including one or more digital content items; obtain user input information conveying user input on, or relating to, individual digital content items of the individual units of work; generate one or more work unit records based on the user input information, such that responsive to the user input information conveying first user input by a first user on, or relating to, a first digital content item, generate a second work unit record describing a second unit of work, the second work unit record being subordinate to a first work unit record; and/or perform other operations. |
| US12229725B2 |
System for social versioning
A system for generating of posts, the system including: a server; and a network connection for the server; the server to: maintain a database of users and corresponding user behavior when generating a post on a specific topic; match a first user generating a current post and a topic of the current post to user behavior in the database; based on the matching user behavior from the database, identify different versions during development of the current post; and dictate distribution of different versions of the post based on the matching user behavior from the database. |
| US12229724B2 |
Data collaboration between separate computer-aided dispatch systems
A computer communication system promotes collaboration between organizations by enabling secure sharing of information between organizations having separate databases. The system provides a portal generator for creation of one or more portals or channels through which data of each organization can be shared. The portals can be setup for planned or emergency events within a given region, e.g., a municipality, with tasks associated with each event. Users can register to become members of each portal, with membership being assigned automatically or with respect to predetermined criteria. In some embodiments, permissions of each member can be altered to ensure selected access to data within the channel based on the organization with which the member associates. After being registered, members can receive real-time updates on event progress from members within their organization and/or external to their organization. |
| US12229721B2 |
Systems and methods for automatically generating and transmitting a digital components acquisition request
A system and method for automatically generating and transmitting a digital components acquisition request includes obtaining a digital sourcing requisition that includes a digital itemization of a plurality of physical components required for completing a plurality of real-world tasks; retrieving, from a governing artifacts database, a governing digital artifact record based on a plurality of key-value attribute pairs selectively extracted from the digital sourcing requisition; assessing the digital itemization of the plurality of physical components of the digital sourcing requisition against a plurality of multi-attribute data tuples associated with the governing digital artifact record; automatically generating a digital components acquisition request based on one or more assemblies of items transitively associated with pairwise matches generated during the assessing; and automatically transmitting the digital components acquisition request for physically sourcing items from a remote source of items. |
| US12229720B2 |
Creation and arrangement of items in an online concierge system-specific portion of a warehouse for order fulfillment
A warehouse from which shoppers fulfill orders for an online concierge system maintains an online concierge system-specific portion for which the online concierge system specifies placement of items in regions. To place items in the online concierge system-specific portion, the online concierge system accounts for co-occurrences of different items in orders and measures of similarity between different items. From the co-occurrences of items, the online concierge system generates an affinity graph. The online concierge system also generates a colocation graph based on distances between different regions in the online concierge system-specific portion. Using an optimization function with the affinity graph and the colocation graph, the online concierge system selects regions within the online concierge system-specific portion for different items to minimize an amount of time for shoppers to obtain items in the online concierge-system specific portion. |
| US12229716B1 |
Event determination and presentation
Described is a system and method for presenting event information to a user and, if necessary, obtaining confirmation of different aspects (user, item, action) of the event. In some implementations, an event includes a user, an action, and an item. For example, an event may include a user picking an item from an inventory location, a user placing an item into a tote associated with the user, etc. If the aspects of the event cannot be determined with a high enough degree of confidence, a user interface may be generated and sent to the user requesting confirmation of one or more of the aspects of the event. |
| US12229713B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for automatically palletizing and depallitizing items
Method, apparatuses, and computer program products for automatically determining a placement location or removal location for one or more items is disclosed. An example method comprising generating a plurality of three-dimensional pallet cells for a pallet; generating one or more three-dimensional item cells for each item of a plurality of items; determining a placement location comprising one or more three-dimensional pallet cells for one or more items of the plurality of items; and causing one or more indications describing the placement location for the one or more items of the plurality of items. |
| US12229710B2 |
Data logger for acquiring and recording sensor data associated with a transport container
A data logger for acquiring and recording sensor data associated with a transport container includes a first sensor, a memory for the storage of sensor data acquired by the first sensor, a radio-frequency module for wirelessly transmitting the sensor data, a battery, a second sensor for sensing a transport mode of the transport container, and an energy management circuitry that is connected with the second sensor and with the radio-frequency module. The energy management circuitry is configured to switch between a plurality of operation modes including a default operation mode in which the radio-frequency module sends sensor data according to a defined time pattern that is independent of a transport mode. The operation modes further include at least one transport operation mode in which the radio-frequency module sends sensor data according to a time pattern that is dependent on the transport mode sensed by the second sensor. |
| US12229706B2 |
Systems and methods for concept intervals clustering for defect visibility regression
Systems and methods for making predictions relating to products manufactured via a manufacturing process. A processor receives a plurality of input vectors associated with a plurality of output values and a plurality of time intervals. The processor clusters the plurality of input vectors based on the time intervals associated with the input vectors. The processor trains a machine learning model for each time interval of the plurality of time intervals, where the training of the machine learning model is based on the input vectors associated with the time interval, and the output values associated with the input vectors. The processor further trains a classifier for selecting one of the plurality of time intervals for input data received for a product. In one embodiment, the machine learning model associated with the time interval selected by the classifier is invoked to predict an output based on the input data. |
| US12229701B2 |
Techniques for communication process flow and data platform integration
Methods, systems, apparatuses, devices, and computer program products are described. A communication process flow management service that manages a communication process flow may receive an indication of a segment of entities from a second service that manages a data model for multiple entities. Based on an action of the communication process flow, the communication process flow management service may request schema of the data model or additional attribute data associated with the segment from the second service. The communication process flow management service may receive the schema or the additional attribute data and use it to determine a set of communications to be transmitted to one or more entities of the segment. The communication process flow management service may transmit the set of communications in accordance with the communication process flow. |
| US12229700B2 |
Generating a global workflow sequence for multiple workflow stages
A planning and scheduling system, which handles generation of a global workflow sequence for multiple workflow stages of a workflow unit, determines a first workflow sequence for a primary workflow stage of the workflow unit for a plurality of product items. The one or more second workflow sequences are generated for one or more secondary workflow stages of the workflow unit concurrently based on a transformation of the determined first workflow sequence. A global workflow sequence is obtained for the primary workflow stage and the one or more secondary workflow stages based on at least the determined first workflow sequence for the primary workflow stage and the generated one or more second workflow sequences. A set of operations for the plurality of product items is executed based on the obtained global workflow sequence to maximize a performance score for the executed set of operations on the plurality of product items. |
| US12229697B2 |
Computation of containment relationships
An example operation may include one or more of generating, by a blockchain node, an asset containment world-state by execution of a linear-time ingestion algorithm, detecting, by the blockchain node, an asset aggregation or disaggregation event, updating, by the blockchain node, the world-state based on the asset aggregation or disaggregation event, and computing supply-chain metrics based on the updated world-state. |
| US12229692B2 |
Systems and methods for coherent monitoring
Systems and methods are provided for intelligently monitoring environments, classifying objects within such environments, detecting events within such environments, receiving and propagating input concerning image information from multiple users in a collaborative environment, identifying and responding to situational abnormalities or situations of interest based on such detections and/or user inputs. |
| US12229690B2 |
System and method for determining expected loss using a machine learning framework
A computing device for predicting an expected loss for a set of claim transactions is provided. The computing device predicts, at a first machine learning model, a claim frequency of the set of claim transactions over a given time period and trained using historical frequency data and based on a segment type defining a type of claim, each type of segment having peril types. The computing device also predicts, at a second machine learning model, claim severity of the set of claim transactions during the given time period, the second machine learning model trained using historical severity data and based on the segment type and the corresponding peril types. The computing device then determines the expected loss for the set of claim transactions over the given time period by applying a product of prediction of the first machine learning model and the second machine learning model. |
| US12229686B2 |
Detecting digital human face image manipulations
Systems, devices, methods and instructions are described for detecting GAN generated images. On embodiment involves receiving an images, generating co-occurrence matrices on color channels of the image, generating analysis of the image by using a convolutional neural network trained to analyze image features of the images based on the generated co-occurrence matrices and determining whether the image is a GAN generated image based on the analysis. |
| US12229680B2 |
Neural network accelerators resilient to conductance drift
A method comprises receiving an input signal for processing in one or more neurons of a neural network, wherein the neural network has zero bias neurons and includes a plurality of resistive processing unit (RPU) weights and each neuron has an activation function. The method also includes applying an arbitrary amplification factor to activation function outputs of the one or more neurons in the neural network, wherein the arbitrary amplification factor is based on a dynamic range of components in the neural network and compensates for conductance drift in values of the RPU weights. The method also includes performing a calculation with the neural network using the amplified activation function outputs of the one or more neurons. |
| US12229675B2 |
Adaptive optimization with improved convergence
Generally, the present disclosure is directed to systems and methods that perform adaptive optimization with improved convergence properties. The adaptive optimization techniques described herein are useful in various optimization scenarios, including, for example, training a machine-learned model such as, for example, a neural network. In particular, according to one aspect of the present disclosure, a system implementing the adaptive optimization technique can, over a plurality of iterations, employ an adaptive learning rate while also ensuring that the learning rate is non-increasing. |
| US12229674B2 |
Method and illumination apparatus of the adaptive optics in reflection microscopy
A method for training a mathematical model which describes a light propagation in a reflection microscopy includes radiating a light distribution I0 into an excitation path of a microscope, modulating the light distribution I0 to form a light distribution IA in the excitation path via an optical modulator, reflecting the light distribution IA at a location of a sample in a detection path of the microscope, modulating the light distribution IA to form a light distribution ID in the detection path via a further optical modulator, recording a reflected light distribution ID, repeating the above steps n-fold to generate an n-fold 3-tuple (MA, MD; ID), transferring the n-fold 3-tuple (MA, MD; ID) to a computer to implement a mathematical model F for a light propagation in reflection microscopy, and ascertaining the mathematical model F which describes the light propagation in reflection microscopy based on the n-fold 3-tuple (MA, MD; ID). |
| US12229673B2 |
Sparsity-aware datastore for inference processing in deep neural network architectures
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that prefetches compressed data and a sparsity bitmap from a memory to store the compressed data in a decode buffer, where the compressed data is associated with a plurality of tensors, wherein the compressed data is in a compressed format. The technology aligns the compressed data with the sparsity bitmap to generate decoded data, and provides the decoded data to a plurality of processing elements. |
| US12229672B2 |
Detecting domain changes with domain classifiers in autonomous vehicles
One example method includes gathering, by a domain adversarial neural network model deployed in an autonomous vehicle operating in a domain, a dataset that comprises unsegmented and unlabeled image data about the domain, sampling the dataset to create an adapted domain dataset, detaching a domain classifier from the domain adversarial neural network, using the domain classifier as a domain change detector model to predict a class of the unsegmented and unlabeled image data in the adapted domain dataset, and based on the class, either: determining that the domain is changed or is unknown; or, determining that the domain has not changed. |
| US12229667B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating shared encoder
A method and an apparatus for generating a shared encoder are provided, which belongs to a field of computer technology and deep learning. The method includes: sending by a master node a shared encoder training instruction to child nodes, so that each child node obtains training samples based on a type of a target shared encoder included in the training instruction; sending an initial parameter set of the target shared encoder to be trained to each child node after obtaining a confirmation message returned by each child node; obtaining an updated parameter set of the target shared encoder returned by each child node; determining a target parameter set corresponding to the target shared encoder based on a first preset rule and the updated parameter set of the target shared encoder returned by each child node. |
| US12229663B2 |
Deep learning system
A system for determining intents associated with human utterances at a voice response system is provided. The system may involve a machine learning classifier and a deep learning classifier. The machine learning classifier may receive labeled training data. The labeled training data may be sample utterances. Each sample utterance may be assigned an intent. The intent may be the label of the utterance. The intent may be included in a predefined plurality of intents. The machine learning classifier may include a feature engineering and extraction module. The feature engineering and extraction module may identify features specific to each intent. The machine learning classifier may label previously unlabeled utterances received in a production environment. The newly labeled utterances received in the production environment may be used as training data to train a deep learning classifier. After being trained, the deep learning classifier may receive and label previously unlabeled utterances. |
| US12229660B2 |
Crossbar array apparatuses based on compressed-truncated singular value decomposition (C-TSVD) and analog multiply-accumulate (MAC) operation methods using the same
A compressed-truncated singular value decomposition (C-TSVD) based crossbar array apparatus is provided. The C-TSVD based crossbar array apparatus may include an original crossbar array in an m×n matrix having row input lines and column output lines and including cells of a resistance memory device, or two partial crossbar arrays obtained by decomposing the original crossbar array based on C-TSVD, an analog to digital converter (ADC) that converts output values of column output lines of sub-arrays obtained through array partitioning, an adder that sums up results of the ADC to correspond to the column output lines, and a controller that controls application of the original crossbar array or the two partial crossbar arrays. Input values are input to the row input lines, a weight is multiplied by the input values and accumulated results are output as output values of the column output lines. |
| US12229652B2 |
Two-terminal metastable mixed-conductor memristive devices
Methods for setting a resistance include applying a voltage across a memristive device, that exceeds a threshold based on a difference in chemical potential between a first material and a second material, to change a resistance of the memristive device. The memristive device includes a barrier layer of the second material that is formed between two metastable layers of the first material. |
| US12229648B2 |
Training data generating device, method, and program, and crowd state recognition device, method, and program
At least one processor generates a crowd state image as an image in which a person image corresponding to a person state is synthesized with previously-prepared image at a predetermined size. The previously-prepared image is an background image that include no person. The at least one processor specifies a training label for the crowd state image. The at least one processor outputs a pair of crowd state image and training label. |
| US12229639B2 |
Acceptance status classification of product-related data structures using models with multiple training periods
Techniques are provided for acceptance status classification of product-related data structures using models with multiple training periods. One method comprises obtaining data for a given product-related data structure; evaluating first features related to the given product-related data structure using the obtained data; applying the first features related to the given product-related data structure to one or more models trained using multiple different training periods to obtain a plurality of second features, wherein each of the second features indicates a prediction related to an acceptance status of the given product-related data structure by at least one model for a respective training period; and aggregating at least the second features to obtain a classification related to an aggregate acceptance status of the given product-related data structure. A weighting of at least some of the first and second features can be learned during a training phase. |
| US12229637B2 |
Data exchange between a qubit in a quantum isolation zone and a storage entity outside of the quantum isolation zone
A quantum isolation zone (QIZ) controller executing on a quantum computing device determines that a transfer of information is to occur between a first qubit allocated to a first QIZ of a plurality of QIZs implemented on the quantum computing device, and a storage entity outside of the first QIZ, the first QIZ inhibiting access to the first qubit by the storage entity. A second qubit that is available to be allocated to a service agent executing in the first QIZ is identified. Qubit metadata is modified to allocate the second qubit to the service agent. The service agent is instructed that the second qubit is available to facilitate the transfer of information between the first qubit and the storage entity outside of the first QIZ. |
| US12229634B2 |
Stark shift cancellation
Systems and techniques that facilitate Stark shift cancellation are provided. In various embodiments, a system can comprise a control qubit that is coupled to a target qubit. In various cases, the control qubit can be driven by a first tone that entangles the control qubit with the target qubit. In various aspects, the control qubit can be further driven by a second tone simultaneously with the first tone. In various cases, the second tone can have an opposite detuning sign than the first tone. In various instances, the first tone can cause a Stark shift in an operational frequency of the control qubit, and the second tone can cancel the Stark shift. |
| US12229632B2 |
Systems and methods to generate samples for machine learning using quantum computing
A hybrid computer comprising a quantum processor can be operated to perform a scalable comparison of high-entropy samplers. Performing a scalable comparison of high-entropy samplers can include comparing entropy and KL divergence of post-processed samplers. A hybrid computer comprising a quantum processor generates samples for machine learning. The quantum processor is trained by matching data statistics to statistics of the quantum processor. The quantum processor is tuned to match moments of the data. |
| US12229619B2 |
Method and system for backscatter communication using pre-defined templates
Various embodiments herein relate to methods and systems for backscatter communication using pre-defined templates. In accordance with at least one embodiment, there is provided a backscattering communication system, comprising a transmitting unit, a backscattering tag, and a receiving unit. The transmitting unit is configured to transmit a signal comprising a transmitted frame including a pre-defined data payload. The backscattering tag is configured to: receive, from the transmitting unit, the signal comprising the transmitted frame; encode tag data over the pre-defined data payload to generate a modified data payload; and transmit a backscattered signal comprising a backscattered frame including the modified data payload. The receiving unit is configured to: receive, from the backscattering tag, the backscattered signal; and decode the modified data payload, in the backscattered frame, to recover the tag data, wherein the decoding is based on prior knowledge of the receiving unit of the pre-defined data payload. |
| US12229616B1 |
Asset management with tags using media intelligence
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for asset tagging and management. Users connect any asset to the platform by scanning a tag affixed to the asset. Tagged assets are registered to a user's account. The platform deploys Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL) in order to promote efficient and effective management of a user's tagged assets, in addition to providing organizational, repair, and maintenance services for any tagged assets. The system incorporates image data, video data, and/or audio data to manage the tagged assets. |
| US12229614B2 |
Card device and method for manufacturing card device
A card device and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The card device includes a first substrate, a circuit board, a sensing module and a second substrate. The circuit board is disposed on the first substrate, and the circuit board includes an accommodating recess. The sensing module is disposed in the accommodating recess. The sensing module includes a sensing unit and a protective layer formed on the sensing unit, and the sensing unit is electrically connected to the circuit board. The second substrate is disposed on the circuit board. The second substrate includes an opening, and the opening exposes the protective layer. |
| US12229612B1 |
Contactless card with dynamic protection against covert radio frequency reading
A contactless card may include: a first card portion and a second card portion; a manipulation area between the first card portion and the second card portion, wherein the contactless card may be manipulatable about the manipulation area; a chip storing information; and an antenna in communication with the chip comprising a first antenna portion in the first card portion and a second antenna portion in the second card portion, wherein the first antenna portion and the second antenna portion are electrically connected when the contactless card is in a first orientation such that the information can be read by radio frequency communication from the chip via the antenna, and the first antenna portion and the second antenna portion are electrically disconnected when the contactless card is in a second orientation such that the information cannot be read by radio frequency communication from the chip via the antenna. |
| US12229611B2 |
Alarm system component with unpowered event detection
A component 1 for use in an alarm system includes a component controller 2 and a monitoring module 4. The component controller 2 is configured to control the component 1 when power is supplied to the component 1. The monitoring module 4 includes a power source 6 and is configured to monitor the component 1 when power is not supplied to the component 1, determine occurrence of a predetermined event 12 and to store an indication of the occurrence of the event. |
| US12229604B2 |
Shared resource interference detection involving a virtual machine container
Shared resource interference detection techniques are described. In an example, a resource detection module supports techniques to quantify levels of interference through use of working set sizes. The resource detection module selects working set sizes. The resource detection module then initiates execution of code that utilizes the shared resource based on the first working set size. The resource detection module detects a resource consumption amount based on the execution of the code. The resource detection module then determines whether the detected resource consumption amount corresponds to the defined resource consumption amount for the selected working set size. |
| US12229601B2 |
Electronic apparatus and controlling method thereof
Provided herein are an electronic apparatus and a controlling method thereof. An electronic apparatus according to the disclosure includes a communicator, a memory storing information on a recipe wherein a plurality of unit functions for provision of a service are combined, and a processor configured to, based on receiving information for a unit function that can be performed at each electronic apparatus from each of a plurality of electronic apparatuses through the communicator, identify a plurality of electronic apparatuses matched to the plurality of unit functions included in the recipe based on the received information, and control the communicator to transmit a signal for performing each matched unit function to each of the plurality of identified electronic apparatuses. |
| US12229597B2 |
Electronic device and method for controlling electronic device
An electronic device and a method for controlling the electronic device where a plurality of program areas corresponding to a host operating system and a plurality of virtual machines and a shared area corresponding to the host operating system and the plurality of virtual machines are allocated to a memory of the electronic device; and based on a request to install, in a second area among the plurality of program areas, a second application program corresponding to a first application program stored in a first area among the plurality of program areas, at least a part of data relating to the first application program is transferred from the first area to the shared area. |
| US12229596B2 |
Method of storing electronic data, resource reservation system, and terminal apparatus
A method of storing electronic data performed by a terminal apparatus communicable with an information processing terminal is provided. The method includes: receiving, during a use of a first resource, a notification indicating that reservation of a second resource selected by a user is completed, from the information processing terminal; and in response to receiving the notification indicating that the reservation of the second resource is completed, starting a storing process of storing electronic data output by an electronic device during the use of the first resource. |
| US12229593B2 |
Synchronizing scheduling tasks with atomic ALU
A method of synchronizing a group of scheduled tasks within a parallel processing unit into a known state is described. The method uses a synchronization instruction in a scheduled task which triggers, in response to decoding of the instruction, an instruction decoder to place the scheduled task into a non-active state and forward the decoded synchronization instruction to an atomic ALU for execution. When the atomic ALU executes the decoded synchronization instruction, the atomic ALU performs an operation and check on data assigned to the group ID of the scheduled task and if the check is passed, all scheduled tasks having the particular group ID are removed from the non-active state. |
| US12229591B2 |
System and method of scheduling processes for execution on a resource
A system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium coupled to the processor. The non-transitory computer readable medium includes code that requests, via a process, access to the processor using an access request, determines, at the process, a resource-grant status of the access request, and positions the process into an optimum execution schedule based upon a grant-status assessment of the resource-grant status. When a result of the grant-status assessment is that the access request is granted, the process performs an entropic assessment of entropic information associated with the resource-grant status of the process. When the access request entropy of the entropic information is below an optimum entropy access request threshold, an access request time associated with the access request entropy is designated as an optimum request time. |
| US12229590B2 |
Device and method of performing content channel generation
A content channel generation device comprises a resource unit assignment circuit, for assigning scheduled station(s) as node(s) of a full binary tree according to a search algorithm; a node computing circuit, for determining first node connection information of the full binary tree, and to determine second node connection information of a smallest full binary tree according to a smallest binary tree algorithm and the first node connection information; a load balance circuit, for determining user field numbers corresponding to content channels according to a load balance function and the second node connection information; a user field generation circuit, for generating a traversal result of the smallest full binary tree according to a traversal algorithm and the second node connection information, and for generating user fields corresponding to the content channels according to the traversal result, to generate the content channels. |
| US12229588B2 |
Migrating workloads to a preferred environment
Migrating workloads to a preferred environment, including: predicting, for each of a plurality of environments, a performance load on each of a plurality of environments that would result from placing one or more of a plurality of workloads on the environment; determining a preferred environment for each of the plurality of workloads by determining a placement of each of the plurality of workloads that results in a best fit for the plurality of workloads; and deploying each of the plurality of workloads in the corresponding preferred environment. |
| US12229586B2 |
Task context switch for neural processor circuit
A neural processor includes neural engines for performing convolution operations on input data corresponding to one or more tasks to generate output data. The neural processor also includes a data processor circuit coupled to external system memory. The data processor circuit includes a buffer for storing the output data from the neural engines. The neural processor further includes a task manager coupled to the data processor circuit. The task manager receives a context-switch task. The context-switch task specifies a switch of the data processor circuit from handling an outgoing task to an incoming task. The task manager sends configuration data of the context-switch task to cause the data processor circuit to transmit the output data corresponding to the outgoing task from the buffer to the external system memory. The data processor circuit also fetches data corresponding to the incoming task from the external system memory to the buffer. |
| US12229574B2 |
Logical network platform install and upgrade in a virtualized computer system
An example method of deploying a logical network platform in a virtualized computing system, the virtualized computing system including a host cluster and a virtualization management server connected to a physical network, the host cluster having hosts and a virtualization layer executing on hardware platforms of the hosts is described. The method includes receiving, at the virtualization management server, a declarative specification describing a proposed state of the logical network platform; deploying, by the virtualization management server, a network manager of the logical network platform in response to the proposed state in the declarative specification; and deploying, by the virtualization management server in cooperation with the network manager, binaries to the hosts in the host cluster. |
| US12229572B2 |
Scalable specification and self-governance for autonomous databases, cluster databases and multi-tenant databases in cloud and on-prem environment
A computer program product, system, and computer implemented method for scalable specification and self-governance for autonomous databases, cluster databases, and multi-tenant databases in cloud and on-prem environments. The approach disclosed herein enables management of a consolidated databases using a template-based process that allows for the consolidated databases (CDBs) and pluggable databases (PBDs) to be reconfigured automatically. In some embodiments, the approach instantiates one or more monitoring modules and one or more CDB/PDB configuration managers. These elements can detect relevant changes in the conditions in which CDB instances and open PDBs operate and adjust the configurations thereof in response. The configurations are specified in and adjusted using one or more corresponding templates, where the template comprise a set of rules that may have various interdependencies and specify how to determine what value a particular configuration setting should be to automatically configuration and reconfigure CDB instances and open PDBs. |
| US12229567B2 |
Fault isolation in a director processor slice or board
One or more aspects of the present disclosure relate to isolating faults corresponding to a thread or thread group to avoid dropping a director processor slice or board. In embodiments, an execution flow corresponding to a slice on a director board of a storage array is monitored. For example, the execution flow includes a thread or a thread group. Additionally, an exception event corresponding to the execution flow is identified. Further, the execution flow is isolated based on an analysis of the exception event. |
| US12229566B2 |
Application programming interface to indicate accelerator error handlers
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to execute one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) to perform one or more operations for one or more accelerators within a heterogeneous processor. In at least one embodiment, one or more processors are to perform one or more instructions in response to one or more APIs to indicate one or more functions to be performed in response to one or more errors from one or more accelerators within a heterogeneous processor. |
| US12229561B1 |
Processing of data synchronization barrier instructions
A system may include multiple processors. One of the processors may receive an indication of a data synchronization barrier (DSB) instruction in another processor that follows a translation look-ahead buffer invalidate (TLBI) instruction to invalidate an entry of a translation look-ahead buffer. The processor may determine whether instructions are pending in the processor for which the virtual addresses used for memory accesses have been translated to physical addresses before receiving the DSB indication. If there are such pending instructions, the processor may provide, after these instructions retire, an indication to the other processor as a response to the DSB indication. |
| US12229559B2 |
Facilitating per-CPU reference counting for multi-core systems with a long-lived reference
Facilitating per-CPU reference counting for multi-core systems with a long-lived reference is provided herein. A system includes a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations include determining a first quantity of releases associated with an object in a data structure of the system and determining a second quantity of acquisitions associated with the object. The first quantity of releases can be distributed among respective first counters of processing elements of a group of processing elements. The second quantity of acquisitions can be distributed among respective second counters of the processing elements of the group of processing elements. Further, the operations can include, based on the second quantity of acquisitions and the first quantity of releases being determined to be a same value, implementing a removal of the object from the data structure. |
| US12229557B2 |
Atomic operation predictor to predict whether an atomic operation will complete successfully
In an embodiment, a processor comprises an atomic predictor circuit to predict whether or not an atomic operation will complete successfully. The prediction may be used when a subsequent load operation to the same memory location as the atomic operation is executed, to determine whether or not to forward store data from the atomic operation to the subsequent load operation. If the prediction is successful, the store data may be forwarded. If the prediction is unsuccessful, the store data may not be forwarded. In cases where an atomic operation has been failing (not successfully performing the store operation), the prediction may prevent the forwarding of the store data and thus may prevent a subsequent flush of the load. |
| US12229551B2 |
Digital twin auto-coding orchestrator
Apparatus and methods to automatically create and implement update and migration workflows are provided. A digital twin auto-coding orchestrator may receive an updated version of a software program. The auto-coding orchestrator may gather infrastructure hardware data and version data. The auto-coding orchestrator may analyze the data. The auto-coding orchestrator may generate a workflow and code to update the older version to the updated version with the least amount of disruption and downtime. The auto-coding orchestrator may implement the workflow and update the software program to the updated version. |
| US12229549B2 |
Scalable code testing and benchmarking
A method or system for testing and benchmarking commits made on source code. The system extracts commits from a history of a first code history that records a sequence of commits made thereon. The extracted commits are then combined into a sequence of patches, each of which includes changes made during consecutive commits. The system also establishes a connection with a system under test (SUT) having a second code repository corresponding to a historical version of the first code repository before the extracted commits were made, and sequentially applies the sequence of the patches to the second code repository. Performance of the SUT is monitored during the application of the sequence of the patches to determine whether the SUT performs as expected after the application of each patch. |
| US12229536B1 |
Deduplication of shared dependencies in micro frontends
Described are systems and methods for deduplicating shared dependencies for micro-frontend applications. Embodiments of the present disclosure can provide hosting of shared dependencies on a networked resource, such as a content delivery network (CDN), and import statements of the shared dependencies can be replaced with calls to a network identifier specifying a network location where the shared dependencies are hosted. Accordingly, the shared dependencies can be natively imported from the network location and shared among the micro-frontend bundles. |
| US12229532B2 |
Systems and methods for creating software from library and custom components
Methods and systems are disclosed that automate and institutionalize many aspects of the process of creating software. Embodiments automate aspects of pricing, software creation, and delivery using a manufacturing-styled approach to development that reuses existing code and other existing software design features. |
| US12229527B2 |
Methods and systems for providing subtitles
Systems and methods are described for providing subtitles for a media content item. Subtitles are obtained, using control circuitry, for the media content item. Control circuitry determines whether a character component of the subtitles should be replaced by an image component. In response to determining that the character component of the subtitles should be replaced by an image component, control circuitry selects, from memory, an image component corresponding to the character component. Control circuitry replaces the character component of the subtitles by the image component to generate modified subtitles. |
| US12229526B2 |
Smart translation systems
A smart translation system that translates the input content received from an application based on translation metadata and the application is disclosed. It is initially determined if a translation of the input content exists in a user cache. If it is determined that the translation of the input content exists in the user cache, the translation is retrieved from the user cache. Else, if it is determined that the translation of the input content does not exist in the user cache, the domain and language contexts of the input content are determined and an automatic translation engine is selected based on the contexts and the translation metadata. The translated content is presented to the user via the application while maintaining the look and feel of the application. |
| US12229524B2 |
Systems and methods for hierarchical multi-label multi-class intent classification
Methods and systems are described herein for efficiently labeling user utterances, which may encompass any communication received from a user within a conversational interaction, and identifying novel user intents for large amounts of data. A machine learning model may be used, which is trained on embeddings of utterance data, and which may employ methods like prototypical networks and hierarchical local binary classification for hierarchical multi-label multi-class classification. |
| US12229515B2 |
Adaptive knowledge graph representation learning method for integrating graph structure with text information
The present invention discloses an adaptive knowledge graph representation learning method for integrating a graph structure with text information, including: (1) sampling a neighbor triple of each of a head entity and a tail entity in a target triple; (2) calculating semantic representations of the target triple, and neighbor triples of its head and tail entities; (3) calculating structure representations of the head and tail entities of the target triple; (4) splicing the semantic representation of the target triple with the structure representations of its head and tail entities, inputting a spliced result into an adaptive classification layer, and calculating a classification result and a classification loss; and (5) optimizing the foregoing module based on an optimization algorithm of gradient descent, until a loss value converges, to obtain a final spliced result between the semantic representation of the target triple and the structure representations of its head and tail entities. The present invention can simultaneously capture the semantic representation and graph structure representation of the knowledge graph, and adaptively integrate and fully utilize the semantic and structure information, thereby imparting better robustness to a knowledge graph with insufficient information. |
| US12229509B2 |
Contextual impact adjustment for machine learning models
Methods, systems, and computer program products for detecting contextual bias in text are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes identifying, by a machine learning network, a protected attribute in one or more data samples; processing the identified data samples using a first sub-network of the machine learning network, wherein the first sub-network is configured to determine a plurality of contexts of the protected attribute across the identified data samples; determining an impact of each of the plurality of contexts on a second sub-network of the machine learning network, wherein the second sub-network of the machine learning network is configured to classify a given data sample into one of a plurality of classes; and adjusting the second sub-network of the machine learning to account for the impact of at least one of the plurality of contexts on the second sub-network. |
| US12229508B1 |
Unusual score generators for a neuro-linguistic behavioral recognition system
Techniques are disclosed for generating anomaly scores for a neuro-linguistic model of input data obtained from one or more sources. According to one embodiment, generating anomaly scores includes receiving a stream of symbols generated from an ordered stream of normalized vectors generated from input data received from one or more sensor devices during a first time period. Upon receiving the stream of symbols, generating a set of words based on an occurrence of groups of symbols from the stream of symbols, determining a number of previous occurrences of a first word of the set of words, determining a number of previous occurrences of words of a same length as the first word, and determining a first anomaly score based on the number of previous occurrences of the first word and the number of previous occurrences of words of the same length as the first word. |
| US12229505B2 |
Structural information preserving for graph-to-text generation
A method, computer program, and computer system for training a graph-to-text generation network is provided. Encoded graph information corresponding to a target sentence is received, and the encoded graph information is decoded based on a biaffine attention score. One or more loss values are determined based on the decoded information, whereby the text-to-graph generation network is trained by minimizing the one or more loss values. A first loss value is generated by reconstructing one or more triple relations based on the biaffine attention score, and a second loss value predicts the graph as a linearized sequence. |
| US12229502B2 |
Method, system, and computing device for facilitating private drafting
A method for facilitating private drafting is described. A request to edit a section of a document in a draft mode is received from a first user of a plurality of users collaborating on the document. An edit for the section of the document in the draft mode is received from the first user. A result of the edit is displayed on a computing device of the first user but not on computing devices of other users of the plurality of users. A request to publish the edit is received from the first user. In response to the request to publish the edit, the result of the edit is displayed on computing devices of the other users of the plurality of users. |
| US12229501B2 |
Populating values in a spreadsheet using semantic cues
A method includes obtaining a table having a first descriptor that is applicable to each cell from a plurality of cells, and a plurality of second descriptors each applicable to a respective cell from the plurality of cells, executing a search function using at least the first descriptor as an input, wherein the search function identifies at least a first data set that is potentially relevant to the plurality of cells, displaying a first candidate data value for a first cell from the plurality of cells, wherein the candidate value is based on the first data set and the respective second descriptor for the first cell, and in response to selection of the first candidate data value, populating the plurality of cells with information from the first data set. |
| US12229500B2 |
Autocomplete prediction engine providing automatic form filling from email and ticket extractions
A method is provided. The method is executed by an autocomplete prediction engine implemented as a computer program within a computing environment. The autocomplete prediction engine executes automated communication mining on a communication. The method includes processing the communication to extract intents and entities related to each intent. The method includes providing the intents and the entities into forms using a language model to provide a conversational or natural language understanding of the communication. |
| US12229495B2 |
Intelligent personal micro-location search and enhanced communication agents
Systems and methods providing personal, intelligent real-time micro-location communications and information agents for search and other communications. Smart, intelligent sending and receiving agents automatically disambiguate, resolve, and enhance micro-location and other terms and shortcodes in search requests and other communications to automatically provide intelligent, personalized, micro-location search results and communications. Sending and receiving agents analyze and enhance terms included in search requests and communications based on micro-location and other terms, which may include one or more imbedded shortcodes. The intelligent agents and imbedded shortcodes are designed for voice search to facilitate to communications and use more precise micro-locations for proximity and other searches and communications, including current and projected location of one or more users or devices. The smart agents further use known or ascertainable information about the users, search, communications, and use, including the identity of the users and any and all contexts of the use. |
| US12229492B2 |
Alternating positioning of primary text
Methods and systems of displaying substring pairs where visual characteristics delineate adjacent substring pairs from each other, specifically in the case of at least one of the primary text string and the secondary text string, the placement of the first substring alternates position on an electronic display above and below the second substring. The method may comprise receiving a plurality of the primary substrings, a plurality of the secondary substrings, and a plurality of visual characteristics, displaying, on an electronic display, the primary substrings and the secondary substrings arranged into substring pairs, and one of the visual characteristics in each of the correspondence areas. Additional desired visual effects may be achieved through the use of specific demarcations, demarcation placements, and substring modifications. |
| US12229477B2 |
Designing a mechanism
A method for designing a mechanism including rigid bodies and mechanical joints including obtaining input parameter values which represent the mechanism in an input state. The method also includes determining output parameter values which represent the mechanism in an output state. The determining includes minimizing an objective function under constraints. The objective function penalizes a distance between the output dimensional values and the input dimensional values. The constraints include a first constraint representing verification of the closure equation by the output parameter values. The constraints further include a second constraint representing mobility of the mechanism in the output state. This forms an improved solution for designing a mechanism comprising rigid bodies and mechanical joints. |
| US12229474B2 |
Position detection system that outputs artificial sound imitating sound that occurs when stationery is used
Disclosed is a position detection system that includes an electronic pen and a detecting circuit configured to detect a position indicated by the electronic pen on an input surface of a touch sensor in which a plurality of sensor electrodes are arranged in a planar shape, the position detection system receives a selection of a category of a stationery to be imitated, detects a pen state representing a state of the electronic pen with respect to the input surface and an operation state representing a state of an operation of the electronic pen, and outputs, in response to an input operation performed by the electronic pen to indicate the position, an artificial sound imitating a sound occurring when the stationery is used, according to the selection of the category that is received. |
| US12229472B2 |
Hearing augmentation and wearable system with localized feedback
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques, including devices and system implementing the techniques, to provide feedback to a user of an event when the user is wearing a wearable device. For example, the wearable device may provide high quality noise canceling audio playback to the user, lowering the user's situation awareness. The techniques include measuring ambient sound using two or more microphones on the wearable device. The measured ambient sound is used to determine a related event worth relaying to the user. Based on the location attribute and sound properties, the nature and/or classification of the event may be ascertained using pattern recognition algorithms according to user threshold settings. Insignificant events that the user prefers to ignore will be ruled out by the algorithm. Upon determining the event that merits the user's attention, the wearable device provides feedback to the user indicating the nature and location of the event. |
| US12229471B2 |
Centrally controlling communication at a venue
One example may include a method that includes initiating an audio recording to capture audio data, comparing the audio data received from a microphone of a mobile device to an audio data range, determining whether the audio data is above an optimal level based on a result of the comparison, and queuing the audio data in an audio data queue when the audio data is above the optimal level. |
| US12229468B1 |
Automatic input style selection for an external display device
An electronic device, a method and a computer program product for providing a current input style and enabling a conversion of original inputs into modified inputs. The method includes identifying from device data received from an external display device, a first external display input style of the external display device and determining if the current input style of an electronic device corresponds to the first external display input style. In response to determining that the current input style of the electronic device does not correspond to the first external display input style, the method further includes converting original inputs received at the electronic device using the current input style into modified inputs corresponding to the first external display input style. The method further includes communicating the modified inputs to the external display device. |
| US12229467B2 |
Intelligent orchestration of video or image mirroring using a platform framework
Embodiments of systems and methods for methods for the intelligent orchestration of video or image mirroring using a platform framework are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: receive a notification, via a platform framework, of a communication session; and in response to the notification, apply a video or image mirroring operation, via the platform framework, to at least a portion of content shared during the communication session. |
| US12229466B2 |
Image displaying device
An image displaying device includes a planar display panel and a light penetrating unit. The planar display panel displays a plane image. The planar display panel at least includes a first pixel group, a second pixel group and a third pixel group. The second pixel group is located between the first pixel group and the third pixel group. When vision passes through the light penetrating unit toward the planar display panel, the vision acquires a second distance of a second imaging position within the plane image relevant to the second pixel group relative to the planar display panel being greater than a first distance of a first imaging position within the plane image relevant to the first pixel group relative to the planar display panel and a third distance of a third imaging position within the plane image relevant to the third pixel group relative to the planar display panel. |
| US12229460B2 |
Systems and methods for providing indications during online meetings
One disclosed method involves a computing system determining a keyword of interest for an online meeting being presented via a user interface, determining that content of the online meeting corresponds to the keyword of interest, and causing, in response to the content of the online meeting corresponding to the keyword of interest, the user interface to output an indication that the content of the online meeting being presented is potentially of interest. Another disclosed method involves a computing system determining data indicative of a number of client devices, from a plurality of client devices participating in an online meeting, for which a user interface for the online meeting is presented in an active window, and causing, based at least in part on the data, a first client device, from the plurality of client devices, to output an indication that content of the online meeting being presented is potentially of interest. |
| US12229449B2 |
Background operations in memory
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to performing background operations in memory. A memory device can be configured to perform background operations while another memory device in a memory system and/or on a common memory module is busy performing commands received from a host coupled to the memory system and/or common memory module. An example apparatus can include a first memory device, wherein the first memory device can include an array of memory cells and a controller configured to perform a background operation on the first memory device in response to detecting a command from a host to a second memory device. |
| US12229444B2 |
Command scheduling for a memory system
Methods, systems, and devices for command scheduling for a memory system are described. A memory system may be configured to analyze a received command during an initialization procedure for one or more components. In some examples, the memory system may initialize an interface and one or more processing elements as part of an initialization procedure upon transitioning from a first power mode to a second power mode. Accordingly, the command may be analyzed while the processing elements are being initialized such that, upon the processing elements being fully initialized, the command may be processed (e.g., executed). |
| US12229442B2 |
Storage device and method of operation thereof
A storage device, including a printed circuit board including a connector including a plurality of pins capable of being coupled to an external host device, a controller socket, a first slot, a second slot, a third slot, and a fourth slot; a first universal flash storage (UFS) device, a second UFS device, a third UFS device, and a fourth UFS device, wherein each UFS device of the first to fourth UFS devices is removably installed in a corresponding slot of the first to fourth slots; and a storage controller mounted in the controller socket, and configured to control the first to fourth UFS devices, wherein the first UFS device and the second UFS device are configured to communicate with the storage controller through a first channel, and the third UFS device and the fourth UFS device are configured to communicate with the storage controller through a second channel. |
| US12229441B2 |
Memory system and method for controlling nonvolatile memory
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller acquires, from a host, write data having the same first size as a data write unit of the nonvolatile memory and obtained by dividing write data associated with one write command having a first identifier indicating a first write destination block in a plurality of write destination blocks into a plurality of write data or combining write data associated with two or more write commands having the first identifier. The controller writes the acquired write data having the first size to the first write destination block by a first write operation. |
| US12229440B2 |
Write sharing method for a cluster filesystem
Computer technology for use with a computer data storage system including a plurality of client computers and a plurality of collector nodes. A file consists of data blocks with each block resides on one of the persistent storage device. Data received at client computers are buffered and then transferred to selected collector nodes depending on which data blocks the data belong to. Location-aware collector node selection is performed by selecting collector nodes, from the plurality of collector nodes, by querying a file system allocation subsystem to determine selected collector nodes for the given data block that owns a persistent storage device on which the given block is allocated. Data for each data block is then sent to and stored in its selected collector nodes. |
| US12229436B2 |
Memory controller comprising multiple buffer memories, and handling of read after write hazards
A memory storage device includes: a memory controller configured to receive data from an outer device, and a nonvolatile memory connected to the memory controller, wherein the memory controller includes: a first buffer memory configured to store the data; a second buffer memory different from the first buffer memory; and a memory interface configured to provide the data provided from the first buffer memory to the nonvolatile memory, wherein the nonvolatile memory is configured to store the data, and provide a write done signal to the memory interface after storing the data, and wherein the memory controller is configured to copy the data stored in the first buffer memory to the second buffer memory in response to the write done signal, and remove the data stored in the first buffer memory after copying the data stored in the first buffer memory to the second buffer memory. |
| US12229434B2 |
Operation method of host device and operation method of storage device for migration of data
An operation method of a host device configured to control a storage device includes receiving initial mapping information from the storage device, performing initial migration based on the initial mapping information such that source data present in a first region of the storage device migrate to a second region, receiving first dirty information about first dirty data of the source data from the storage device, performing first migration on the first dirty data based on the first dirty information, receiving second dirty information about second dirty data of the source data from the storage device, and performing second migration on the second dirty data based on the second dirty information, and a size of the first dirty information is different from a size of the second dirty information. |
| US12229430B2 |
Scheduling replication based on coordinated checkpoints
Coordinated checkpoints among storage systems implementing checkpoint-based replication, including orchestrating one or more coordinated lightweight checkpoints for a source dataset stored across two or more source storage systems; and coordinating a replication of the one or more coordinated lightweight checkpoints from the two or more source storage systems to two or more target storage systems. |
| US12229429B2 |
Storage array aware dynamic slicing of a file system
Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems for efficiently performing one or more backups of assets stored on a shared storage. In one or more embodiments, the assets are sliced into a plurality of slices and the size of the slices is determined based on a maximum recommended number of connections that can be used and either a previous backups number of connections used, or the total number of connections currently used. The recommended number of connections to use is also calculated based on system telemetry. By changing the size of the slices, one or more embodiments of the invention may ensure that the backup is performed as efficiently as possible. This may result in better utilization of system and network resources as well as a better backup and recovery performance. |
| US12229428B2 |
Providing non-volatile storage to cloud computing services
Providing persistent storage to transient cloud computing services, including: creating a cloud computing instance, wherein the cloud computing instance is created on on-premises cloud infrastructure; and storing, in non-volatile storage in a storage system that is communicatively coupled to the on-premises cloud infrastructure, data associated with the cloud computing instance. |
| US12229427B2 |
Electronic device and operation method of electronic device for managing storage space
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a storage device configured to include a first partition, a second partition, and a third partition, and a processor configured to configure the second partition as a first volume and the third partition as a second volume, and attach or detach the second volume to or from a file system to manage a storage space of the storage device. |
| US12229425B2 |
Systems and methods for data transfer for computational storage devices
Provided are systems, methods, and apparatuses for managing memory. The method can include: establishing a connection via an interface, between a host device and a storage device; and transferring data, via the interface, between first memory associated with the host device and second memory associated with the storage device by performing a data operation on the second memory by an application executed by the host, where the storage device includes a processing element that accelerates the data operation by performing at least one offload function on the data operation. |
| US12229423B2 |
Read collision avoidance in sequential mixed workloads
A data storage device processes a mixed workload including a plurality of superblocks to be written to and read from a plurality of memory dies, where each of the plurality of superblocks to be apportioned among the plurality of memory dies. The data storage device writes a first data stripe associated with a first superblock to the plurality of memory dies according to a sequential write pattern, and reads the first data stripe associated with the first superblock from the plurality of memory dies according to a sequential read pattern. The sequential write pattern causes the controller to write to the plurality of memory dies in a first order of memory dies. The sequential read pattern causes the controller to read from the plurality of memory dies in a second order of memory dies different from the first order of memory dies, thereby reducing read collisions. |
| US12229419B2 |
Page buffer supporting different bit line forcing operations using a dynamic latch
In one aspect, a page buffer includes a first latch configured to store program verification information; a second latch configured to store first bit line forced information; and a dynamic latch configured to store second bit line forced information. The first bit line forced information is different from the second bit line forced information. The dynamic latch includes a control switch coupled to the second latch. And the dynamic latch is configured to store information through a capacitor to which the control switch is coupled. |
| US12229416B2 |
Hold-up capacitor failure handling in data storage devices
A data storage device includes a plurality of hold-up capacitors configured to provide back-up power for a non-volatile memory, a controller, and a write cache. The controller is configured to detect one or more failed hold-up capacitors of the plurality of hold-up capacitors; and in response to detecting the one or more failed hold-up capacitors: perform one or more quiesce operations and determine a count of the one or more failed hold-up capacitors. Based on the count of the one or more failed hold-up capacitors, the controller is configured to reallocate the write buffers of the write cache for use in one or more subsequent write operations. |
| US12229410B2 |
Solid state drive management method and solid state drive
A solid state drive management solution is provided, and includes: detecting that a usage status of a first storage space of an SSD meets a preset condition, where the first storage space works in a first mode; and enabling, based on the detection result, the first storage space to work in a second mode to obtain a second storage space, where a quantity of bits that can be stored in a cell in the first storage space is greater than a quantity of bits that can be stored in a cell in the second storage space. |
| US12229407B2 |
Electronic device comprising heterogeneous memories and method for transferring compression data between heterogeneous memories thereof
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a volatile memory for storing user data, a non-volatile memory, and a processor operatively connected to the volatile memory and the non-volatile memory. The processor may be configured to store first compressed objects, which are obtained by compressing some of the user data in a page unit, in an empty area of the volatile memory, to move a second compressed object, which satisfies a specified condition, from among the first compressed objects to a temporary buffer set in the volatile memory, and to move third compressed objects, which are stored in the temporary buffer, to the non-volatile memory in a compressed state when the temporary buffer is filled to have a specified size or more. |
| US12229406B2 |
Speed bins to support memory compatibility
Methods, systems, and devices for speed bins to support memory compatibility are described. A host device may read a value of a register including serial presence detect data of a memory module. The serial presence detect data may be indicative of a timing constraint for operating the memory module at a first clock rate, where the timing constraint and the first clock rate may be associated with a first speed bin. The host device may select, for communication with the memory module, a second speed bin associated with a second clock rate at the host device and the timing constraint, where the host device may support operations according to a set of timing constraints that includes a set of values. The timing constraint may be selected from a subset of the set of timing constraints, where the subset may be exclusive of at least one of the set of values. |
| US12229392B2 |
Electronic device and method for configuring screen of display in electronic device
According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include a flexible display; and a processor configured to: identify screen size information about the flexible display, control the flexible display to operate the flexible display in a first state of displaying an activated menu window and an activated content window, based on the screen size information indicating a first screen size of the flexible display, and control the flexible display to operate the flexible display in a second state of displaying the activated menu window and a plurality of activated content windows, based on the screen size information indicating a second screen size of the flexible display. |
| US12229389B2 |
Interactive playback of a video conference
Systems and methods for interactive playback of a video conference are provided. A request is received for a playback of a video conference between a plurality of participants of a plurality of client devices that each generated one of a plurality of source video streams, where each source video stream was presented during a live stream of the video conference according to a particular layout in a user interface (UI) on a first client device of the plurality of client devices. Playback of the video conference is caused at a second client device, wherein causing playback of the video conference comprises transmitting, to a second client device, each source video stream of the plurality of source video streams for visual rendering according to the particular layout in a UI on the second client device; and capturing a first set of user interaction events associated with one or more time points during playback of the video conference, wherein each user interaction event of the first set is visually rendered at a corresponding time point during playback of the video conference. |
| US12229386B2 |
Shortcut commands for applications
In some embodiments, a method includes: receiving, by a computing device, shortcut commands from a plurality of applications, the shortcut commands provide access to features of different applications of the plurality, and the plurality including both active and inactive applications in execution; generating, by the computing device, a list of shortcut commands in response to a transition of a first application of the plurality from a state of inactive use to a state of active use, the list including a shortcut command from at least one inactive application of the plurality; and causing, by the computing device, display of a user interface that includes the list to enable access to a feature of an inactive application in response to selection of at least one shortcut command of the list. |
| US12229384B2 |
Access control interface for managing entities and permissions
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a customer a central location to manage permissions provided to third-parties and devices to access and use customer information maintained by a financial institution are described. The central location serves as a central portal where a customer of the financial institution can manage all access to account information and personal information stored at the financial institution. Accordingly, the customer does not need to log into each individual third-party system or customer device to manage previously provided access to the customer information or to provision new access to the customer information. A user additionally is able to have user data and third-party accounts of the user deleted from devices, applications, and third-party systems via a central portal. |
| US12229381B2 |
Presenting entity activities
An entity-centric approach has been proposed to provide a consistent user experience in accessing a unified software applications suite effortlessly. Entities are connected with one another. The entities and the connectivity between them are reflected in all three functional layers of 3-tier client-server architecture. Every entity has a set of attributes and each attribute represents a data item or record of a particular type. The data items or records are represented in the form of card(s) as determined by contextualization and access control engines. The connection between two or more entities in the context of communication/interaction, collaboration and productivity, can be referred to as an activity. The activities of the entities can be represented in a timeline or swimlane mode. The timeline mode represents the recent activities between two entities as a vertical timeline chart, in reverse chronological order. The swimlane mode represents activities of multiple entities, in parallel. A timeline chart is dedicated to each entity in its corresponding lane. With a date-lock option in swimlane mode, the timeline chart in each lane is locked for a particular date or time period. |
| US12229380B2 |
Detecting manually applied pressure
A detector is shown for detecting manually applied pressure. A substrate defines a position of activation and electrodes are mounted on this substrate. A processing device is energized such that the electrodes are configured to identify a position of applied pressure by detecting a change in resistance in response to a first energizing signal received from the processing device. Furthermore, the electrodes are configured to confirm this position of applied pressure by detecting a change in capacitance in response to a second energizing signal received from the processing device. The electrodes comprise a first electrode located on an upper surface which detects the change in capacitance, and second and third electrodes which detect the change in resistance. |
| US12229373B2 |
Liquid crystal handwriting panel, handwriting device, and method for controlling same
Provided is a liquid crystal handwriting panel. The liquid crystal handwriting panel includes: a first substrate and a second substrate that are opposite to each other, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; wherein the first substrate includes: a first base substrate, a touch electrode layer on a side of the first base substrate, and a first drive electrode layer on a side of the first base substrate; the second substrate includes: a second base substrate, a second drive electrode layer on a side of the second base substrate, and a shielding layer on a side of the second base substrate. |
| US12229370B2 |
System and method for display synchronization
A method of operating a display includes performing a non-synchronized touch scan pattern on a display with a controller coupled to the display. The non-synchronized touch scan pattern schedules touch scans independent of a refresh rate of the display. Upon the controller detecting a first synchronization pulse from a display controller coupled to the controller and the display, a first pulse-checking timer is started. Upon detecting a second synchronization pulse from the display controller and before the first pulse-checking timer expires, a first display refresh rate for the display is obtained from an interval between the first synchronization pulse and the second synchronization pulse. A synchronized touch scan pattern is performed with the controller, and is scheduled to avoid touch scans coinciding with refreshes of the display performed at the first display refresh rate. |
| US12229359B2 |
Display device and driving method with variable frequency of display according to fingerprint sensing
A display device includes: a display panel including a sensing area having display pixels and sensing pixels; a sensing panel overlapping with the display panel, the sensing panel including sensing electrodes; a fingerprint sensor overlapping with the sensing panel, the fingerprint sensor having light emitting elements of the display pixels and light receiving elements of the sensing pixels; a panel driver configured to drive the display panel; and a sensor driver configured to drive the sensing panel and the fingerprint sensor, wherein the panel driver and the sensor driver are configured to vary a driving mode according to an operation of the fingerprint sensor. |
| US12229356B2 |
Position indicator
A position indicator includes a pen-shaped body; control circuitry housed in the pen-shaped body and configured to generate position detection signals and generate additional information about the position indicator; a first receiver; a second receiver different from the first receiver; a first transmitter provided near a distal end of the pen-shaped body and configured to transmit the position detection signals to a sensor of a position detection system; and a second transmitter, which is different from the first transmitter and configured to transmit wireless signals to the position detection system. The control circuitry, in response to a control signal from the position detection system received by the first receiver or the second receiver, controls transmission of the position detection signals and transmission of the additional information via a transmitter selected from the first transmitter and the second transmitter, to the position detection system. |
| US12229336B2 |
Systems and methods for calibrating an eye tracking system
Disclosed herein are various methods of calibrating relative orientation between imaging sensor and spatial orientation sensor, and relative orientation between imaging sensors. |
| US12229334B2 |
Video display device and video display method
A video display device comprising; a display; an exercise amount detection sensor configured to detect an exercise amount of a viewer while the viewer is viewing content displayed and output sensor information; a timer that measures a viewing time; and a processor. The processor: acquires the viewing time from the timer; calculates the exercise amount of the viewer based on the sensor information acquired within a predetermined period of viewing time; compares the exercise amount with an exercise facilitation threshold for determining whether to facilitate exercise for the viewer; displays a specific object within a display area of the display when the exercise amount falls below the exercise facilitation threshold; and moves the specific object from an inside of the display area to an outside thereof in accordance with an external coordinate system expressing a position in a real space associated with a two-dimensional coordinate system in the display area. |
| US12229333B2 |
Technique for visualizing interactions with a technical device in an XR scene
A computer-implemented method for visualizing interactions in an extended reality (XR) scene, the computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a first dataset representing an XR scene including a technical device; displaying the XR scene on an XR headset or a head-mounted display (HMD); providing a room for a user wearing the XR headset or HMD for interacting with the XR scene, wherein the room includes a set of optical sensors including at least one optical sensor at a fixed location relative to the room; detecting optical sensor data of the user as a second dataset while the user is interacting with the XR scene in the room; and fusing the first dataset and the second dataset to generate a third dataset. |
| US12229332B1 |
Tracking system and method
A tracking system is provided. A head-mounted display device is adapted to be mounted on a head of a user and comprises a camera and a processor. The camera obtains a body image includes a body portion of the user. The processor is configured to: determine a relative position between a body motion sensor of a body tracker and the body portion of the user based on the body image; and perform a target tracking of the body portion based on the relative position and sensor data of the body motion sensor of the body tracker. A body tracker is adapted to be mounted on the body portion of the user and comprises a body motion sensor. The body motion sensor obtains the sensor data. The sensor data indicates a movement and/or a rotation of the body portion. |
| US12229331B2 |
Six degree of freedom tracking with scale recovery and obstacle avoidance
A virtual reality or mixed reality system configured to preform object detection using a monocular camera. The system configured to make the user aware of the detected objects by showing edges or lines of the object within a virtual scene. Thus, the user the user is able to avoid injury or collision while immersed in the virtual scene. In some cases, the system may also detect and correct for drift in the six degree of freedom pose of the user using corrections based on the current motion of the users. |