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US12232957B2	Stent for the positioning and anchoring of a valvular prosthesis in an implantation site in the heart of a patient The present invention relates to a stent (10) for the positioning and anchoring of a valvular prosthesis (100) in an implantation site in the heart of a patient. Specifically, the present invention relates to an expandable stent for an endoprosthesis used in the treatment of a narrowing of a cardiac valve and/or a cardiac valve insufficiency. So as to ensure that no longitudinal displacement of a valvular prosthesis (100) fastened to a stent (10) will occur relative the stent (10) in the implanted state of the stent (10), even given the peristaltic motion of the heart, the stent (10) according to the invention comprises at least one fastening portion (11) via which the valvular prosthesis (100) is connectable to the stent (10). The stent (10) further comprises positioning arches (15) and retaining arches (16), whereby at least one positioning arch (15) is connected to at least one retaining arch (16) via a first connecting land (17). The stent (10) moreover comprises at least one auxiliary retaining arch (18) which connects the respective arms (16′, 16″) of the at least one retaining arch (16) connected to the at least one positioning arch (15).
US12232955B2	Modular valve replacement systems and associated devices and methods of use The present technology relates to modular valve replacement systems for treating valve-related cardiac disorders. In select embodiments, the modular valve replacement system includes a fixation device and a permanent valve assembly. The fixation device and the permanent valve assembly are delivered separately, enabling use of smaller delivery systems and facilitating less-invasive implant techniques. The fixation device is implanted first and provides a mounting fixture for the subsequently delivered permanent valve assembly. In some embodiments, the permanent valve assembly is at least partially mechanically isolated from the fixation device after the permanent valve assembly is attached to the fixation device. In some embodiments, the fixation device includes a temporary valve assembly that prevents regurgitation until the permanent valve assembly is implanted.
US12232953B2	Artificial valve The present invention relates to an auxiliary artificial valve for implantation in blood vessel of a mammal patient. The artificial valve is provided with at least a first moving part and a second moving part configured to move between an closed position and an opened position, and a casing comprising at least one hinge, wherein the at least first moving part and second moving part are configured to be movably attached to the casing by means of said at least one hinge.
US12232949B2	Method of endogenous stem cell activation for tendon/ligament osseointegration Tendon and ligament injuries are common in orthopaedic clinical practice and cause substantial morbidity in sports and in routine daily activities. While surgical reconstruction is effective, the majority of patients suffer from a prolonged period of recovery because of limited regeneration capacity of the tendon-bone interface. Here, the Inventors have established an approach for promoting tendon/ligament integration. By first recruiting endogenous stem cells to the site of injury, bone morphogenic proteins (BMPs), are then delivered in vivo to promote repair. Significant acceleration of healing via the above methods and compositions leads to fast recovery and return to normal activities, thereby providing new therapeutic avenues for treatment of injuries involving the tendon-bone interface.
US12232945B2	Preloaded DMEK holder A Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty (DMEK) holder for placement within a vial for supporting a corneal tissue inserter is provided. The DMEK holder includes a top and an opposite bottom, at least one support member extending between the top and the bottom, with a bottom portion of the at least one support member sized and shaped to fit against a bottom inner surface of the vial to thereby support the corneal tissue inserter within the vial, and a first annular member having an opening sized and shaped such that a bottom end of the corneal tissue inserter is insertable through the opening and the first annular member separates the corneal tissue inserter from an inner surface of the vial and positions the corneal tissue inserter within the vial away from inner surfaces of the vial to thereby improve retrieval of the corneal tissue inserter by a surgeon.
US12232944B2	Chitosan tubular member and method of producing Provided is a medical device formed entirely from or formed partially from a polymer, e.g., a polysaccharide such as chitosan. In some embodiments, the medical device may be formed as a tubular member formed from a sheet of a chitosan material. This chitosan tube may be used to wrap around tissue, such as a nerve or tendon to help with the regeneration or healing process of the nerve or tendon, as applicable.
US12232933B2	Dressing for providing low oxygen environment A dressing includes an application site covering and an oxygen scavenger provided with or positioned with respect to the application site covering so as to remove oxygen from a volume beneath the application site covering and around an application site covered by the application site covering. The application site covering and the oxygen scavenger are configured to maintain gas pressure beneath the application site covering around the application site that is above a therapeutic negative pressure while the oxygen scavenger is consuming oxygen beneath the application site covering.
US12232932B2	Medicated thread drainage therapy apparatus The present disclosure belongs to the field of treatment devices, and specifically relates to a medicated thread drainage treatment device. The treatment device includes a first treatment unit used for postoperative pain relief and drainage; a second treatment unit used for promoting quick healing of a wound; a third treatment unit used for preventing deep venous thrombosis; and an electropneumatic, negative-pressure, electric stimulation multipurpose therapy apparatus connected with the first treatment unit, the second treatment unit, and the third treatment unit and providing electropneumatic pressure, negative pressure, and electric energy. The present disclosure is used for postoperative quick healing and recovery; promotion of clinical use guidelines will greatly reduce and even eliminate the postoperative complications, particularly postoperative complications of pulmonary embolism, thus saving patients' lives.
US12232923B2	Automated orthodontic treatment planning using deep learning A method of the invention comprises obtaining training dental CT scans, identifying individual teeth and jaw bone in each of these CT scans, and training a deep neural network with training input data obtained from these CT scans and training target data. A further method of the invention comprises obtaining a patient dental CT scan, identifying individual teeth and jaw bone in this CT scan and using the trained deep learning network to determine a desired final position from input data obtained from this CT scan. The (training) input data represents all teeth and the entire alveolar process and identifies the individual teeth and the jaw bone. The determined desired final positions are used to determine a sequence of desired intermediate positions per tooth and the intermediate and final positions and attachment types are used to create three-dimensional representations of teeth and/or aligners.
US12232920B2	Dental veneer method and system There is disclosed a standardized system for the preparation of an area of a tooth for fitting a dental veneer, and the subsequent installation of the dental veneer onto the tooth, in the prepared area. The system uses a grinding oscillating tip, which is specific for a prefabricated or stock veneer, the prefabricated or stock veneer corresponding to the shape of grinding tip (the tip has the shape of the prefabricated or stock veneer).
US12232915B2	Personal care system, device, and method thereof A personal care product (e.g., an electric toothbrush) may include a treating portion (e.g., cleaning elements) configured to clean one or more teeth of a user of the personal care product. The personal care product may include a handle used for gripping the personal care product. A communication interface may be configured to receive signals from one or more digital devices. The received signals may include a user profile. The user profile may include an identity (e.g., identity of the user profile) and/or instructions for operating the personal care product. A processor may be configured to receive the user profile from the communication interface. The processor may be configured to cause the personal care product to perform operations according to the instructions of the user profile.
US12232914B2	Flossing device A dental floss appliance comprising a U-shaped frame; a plurality of movable fasteners held by the frame; and a plurality of dental floss sections strung between the fasteners.
US12232913B2	Denture, reference denture, and denture manufacturing method A denture including a denture base where artificial teeth are fixed, the denture base includes a reference denture base member to which the artificial teeth are fixed and an adjusting member formed of a cured body of a curable denture base material, the adjusting member being joined to the reference denture base member, the adjusting member includes an anterior adjusting member that is joined to a mucosal surface of a base anterior region to form an anterior region together with the base anterior region, and a posterior adjusting member that is joined to a mucosal surface of a base posterior region to form a posterior region together with the base posterior region, and at least parts of base edge side distal end regions in the anterior region and the posterior region are formed of the anterior adjusting member and the posterior adjusting member, respectively.
US12232909B2	Methods of performing an ultrasound procedure Portable ultrasound systems and methods, the portable ultrasound system can include a handheld computer, a case holding the handheld computer, a probe head coupled to the case, and a communicating means for communicating between the probe head and the handheld computer. The handheld computer can include a display. The case can include an anterior opening framing the display of the handheld computer. The case can include a rechargeable battery integrated into the case opposite the anterior opening. The probe head can include an array of ultrasonic transducers powered by the battery.
US12232908B2	Lined variable braided differential durometer multi-lumen shaft with a cross-shaped inner profile An imaging catheter is provided. In one embodiment, the imaging catheter includes a flexible elongate member that includes a proximal portion formed of a first material embedded with a first braid with a first braid pitch; a distal portion formed of a second material embedded with a second braid with a second braid pitch, wherein the second material is a lower durometer than the first material and wherein the second braid pitch is a higher per inch count than the first braid pitch such that the distal portion is more flexible than the proximal portion; a primary lumen extending between the proximal portion and the distal portion; and a plurality of secondary lumens extending between the proximal portion and the distal portion; and an imaging component coupled to the distal portion of the flexible elongate member.
US12232905B2	Acoustic sensor assembly An acoustic sensor is configured to provide accurate and robust measurement of bodily sounds under a variety of conditions, such as in noisy environments or in situations in which stress, strain, or movement may be imparted onto a sensor with respect to a patient. Embodiments of the sensor provide a conformable electrical shielding, as well as improved acoustic and mechanical coupling between the sensor and the measurement site.
US12232899B2	Portable three-dimensional digital radiography (DR) system Disclosed is a portable three-dimensional DR system. The portable three-dimensional DR system includes a support mechanism, an X-ray generator, a stand and a flat panel detector. The support mechanism includes a support tube, a transmission component, a drive component and a support pole slidingly provided in the support tube. The X-ray generator is detachably provided on the support pole, the transmission component is used for driving the X-ray generator to move in the direction of closing to or far from the support tube, the drive component is used for driving the X-ray generator to rotate, the flat panel detector is provided on the stand, and the stand is placed on a horizontal plane.
US12232898B2	Cable management system and method for C-arm imaging systems A C-arm x-ray imaging device includes a base, a carriage operably connected to the base and having at least one axis of movement with respect to the base, a C-arm movably connected to the carriage, the C-arm including a cable management system having a housing disposed on the carriage, the housing defining an interior, a number of cables extending from the base into the interior of the housing, a cable chain having a first end secured within the interior of the housing and a second end affixed to the C-arm, the cable chain defining a channel therein that receives the number of cables to direct the number of cables from the base to the C-arm. The cable management system operate to retain the number of cables in alignment with the C-arm in any orientation of the C-arm relative to the base.
US12232897B2	System and method for mitigating trace triggering of channels in X-ray detector An X-ray detector is provided. The X-ray detector includes multiple detector sub-modules. Each detector sub-module includes a semiconductor layer and multiple detector elements. A plurality of detector elements is disposed on the semiconductor layer. Wiring traces extending from the plurality of detector elements to readout circuitry, where each detector element is coupled to a respective wiring trace. One or more of the wiring traces extend over one or more detector elements of the plurality of detector elements. Processing circuitry is configured to perform coincidence detection to determine which detector element of the plurality of detector elements is associated with a location of an X-ray hit when the X-ray coincidently hits one of the detector elements of the plurality of detector elements and one or more of the wiring traces coupled to respective detector elements of the plurality of detector elements.
US12232895B2	Mobile CT imaging system comprising a mobile CT imaging machine with an on-board digital radiography imager and/or an on-board ultrasound imager An imaging system for imaging an object, the imaging system comprising: a housing having a center opening; a CT imaging unit mounted to the housing, the CT imaging unit comprising: a rotatable disc extending around the center opening; an X-ray emitter mounted to the rotatable disc and configured to emit an X-ray beam; and an X-ray detector mounted to the rotatable disc in alignment with the X-ray beam; and a digital radiography imager comprising a detector plate mounted to the rotatable disc, the detector plate being configured to assume (i) a retracted position in which the detector plate is not aligned with the X-ray beam, whereby to permit the X-ray beam to contact the X-ray detector, and (ii) an extended position in which the detector plate is aligned with the X-ray beam, whereby to permit the X-ray beam to contact the detector plate.
US12232894B2	Digital display for a medical imaging system bore A medical imaging system that includes a gantry having an inner bore surface that defines a bore for receiving a patient, wherein a digital display is attached to the inner bore surface of the bore. The system also includes a patient bed for moving the patient into the bore. Further, visual content is displayed on the display that has a calming effect on the patient.
US12232893B2	System and method for packaging and preparing a radiofrequency ablation kit A system for packaging a kit for a radiofrequency ablation procedure protects a radiofrequency ablation kit without compromising its sterile barrier system through the hazards of handling, distribution, and storage. The system includes: an introducer tray configured to hold at least one introducer; a probe tray configured to hold at least one radiofrequency ablation probe; an outer carrier tray, a pouch configured to hold a tubing kit; and a dispenser carton. The introducer tray and the probe tray are held within the outer carrier tray, and the outer carrier tray and the pouch are configured to be held within the dispenser carton. A method of packaging a radiofrequency ablation kit is further described.
US12232891B2	Systems and methods for image data acquisition The present disclosure provides a system and method for image data acquisition. The method may include acquiring physiological data of a subject. The physiological data may correspond to a motion of the subject over time. The method may include obtaining a trained machine learning model configured to detect feature data represented in the physiological data. The method may include determining, based on the physiological data, an output result of the trained machine learning model that is generated based on the feature data. The method may include acquiring, based on the output result, image data of the subject using an imaging device.
US12232888B2	Multi-site noninvasive measurement of a physiological parameter A patient monitor can noninvasively measure a physiological parameter using sensor data from different measurement sites on a patient. The patient monitor can combine all sensor data from different measurement sites into a raw or minimally processed data form to generate a single, robust measurement of the physiological parameter. An optical sensor of a patient monitor can include multiple photodetectors each configured to generate a signal when detecting light attenuated by the patient's tissue. A measurement of a physiological parameter can be determined based on at least in part on the multiple signals from the multiple photodetectors.
US12232884B2	Robot for mimicking posture of user and real-time posture monitoring system including the same Disclosed are a robot that may allow a user to monitor a state and a posture of the user in real time to perceive a state of health and the posture and receive useful contents that are helpful, and effectively help the health and correction of the posture of the user, and a real-time posture monitoring method.
US12232874B2	Electrode apparatus for diagnosis of arrhythmias An apparatus includes an end effector having loop members with electrodes thereon and is usable with catheter-based systems to measure or provide electrical signals. The end effector can include three loop members that are non-coplanar when expanded unconstrained that become contiguous to a planar surface when the loop members are deflected against the surface, a mechanical linkage that joins the loop members at a distal vertex of the end effector, electrodes having surface treatment to enhance surface roughness of the electrodes, twisted pair electrode wires, a bonded spine cover, and/or any combination thereof.
US12232870B2	Systems and methods of optical transcutaneous oxygenation monitoring Systems and methods of optical transcutaneous oxygenation monitoring. The oxygenation monitor comprises a photoluminescent oxygen-sensitive probe, a photon source positioned to direct photons at the probe, a photodetector positioned to detect light emitted from the probe when the photon source directs photons at the probe, a controller in electrical communication with the photon source and the photodetector, the controller being configured to execute a program stored in the controller to calculate a level of oxygen adjacent the probe from an electrical signal received from the photodetector. The photon source, the photodetector, and the controller are disposed in or on a support structure.
US12232865B2	Computation of a breathing curve for medical applications A computer-implemented medical method of determining a breathing signal of a patient is disclosed. The method includes determining a motion trajectory of a structure associated with at least one body part of the patient, the motion trajectory being indicative of a respiratory movement of the structure, acquiring surface data representative of a position of a surface region of the patient, computing an intersection of the determined motion trajectory and the acquired surface data, and determining a breathing signal of the patient based on the computed intersection. The breathing signal is indicative of a breathing state of the patient.
US12232864B2	Systems and methods for estimating 3D position and movement from tactile signals Systems and methods are provided for estimating 3D poses of a subject based on tactile interactions with the ground. Test subject interactions with the ground are recorded using a sensor system along with reference information (e.g., synchronized video information) for use in correlating tactile information with specific 3D poses, e.g., by training a neural network based on the reference information. Then, tactile information received in response to a given subject interacting with the ground can be used to estimate the 3D pose of the given subject directly, i.e., without reference to corresponding reference information. Certain exemplary embodiments use a sensor system in the form of a pressure sensing carpet or mat, although other types of sensor systems using pressure or other sensors can be used in various alternative embodiments.
US12232860B2	Method and system for high-resolution multi-parametric quantitative magnetic resonance imaging A method for fast high-resolution multi-parametric quantitative magnetic resonance imaging comprises: designing a fast high-resolution multiple overlapping-echo imaging pulse sequence; determining sampling parameters of the pulse sequence; constructing a deep neural network for reconstructing high-resolution multi-parametric quantitative magnetic resonance images; generating training samples of the deep neural network; using the training samples to train the deep neural network to obtain trained deep neural networks; scanning a real imaging object using the pulse sequence under the sampling parameters to obtain k-space data of the real imaging object; pre-processing the k-space data of the real imaging object to obtain image domain data of the real imaging object; and inputting the image domain data of the real imaging object into the trained deep neural networks for the reconstructing to obtain the high-resolution multi-parametric quantitative magnetic resonance images of the real imaging object.
US12232855B2	Measurement device and measurement method A measurement device 100 includes a light source that irradiates a subject with light, a drive control unit that intermittently drives the light source, a light receiving element that receives scattered light of the light from the subject and generates an electric signal, and an amplifier that amplifies the electric signal with an integration circuit.
US12232850B2	Doorway system that utilizes wearable-based health state verifications Disclosed herein is a doorway that facilitates passage from an inside to an outside, and which includes a barrier that moves between opened and closed positions based on commands sent by a computer. Sensors measure signals indicating whether a first user is on the outside, and whether a second user on the inside. The computer detects that the first user is on the outside and receives, from a device of the first user, an indication indicating the first user is healthy. The computer detects whether the second user is on the inside, and commands the barrier to move to the opened position if: (i) the second user is not on the inside, or (ii) the second user is on the inside and the computer receives, from a device of the second user, an indication indicating the second user is healthy.
US12232848B2	System and method of facial analysis A system for facial analysis includes a camera, a data storage device and a data processing system. The camera takes video of a subject's face, and the data storage device receives and stores the video. The data processing system extracts a pose of the subject's face, and a representation of the subject's facial gesture state. The pose includes the angle and position of the subject's face. The representation includes facial keypoints that are a collection of points on the subject's face. The system then concatenates each data stream to align the data streams in time, extracts a plurality of facial syllables from the aligned data streams, and compiles the facial syllables into a series of state sequences. Based on the series of state sequences, the system extracts a behavioral fingerprint for the subject that provides a summary of the subject's state over a given period of time.
US12232845B2	Tactile stimulation device The present disclosure is directed to a tactile stimulation device. The tactile stimulation device can include at least one pneumatic switch, an applicator connected to the at least one pneumatic switch, and a controller operatively connected to the at least one pneumatic switch. The controller is configured to control the at least one pneumatic switch to connect the applicator to at least one of high pressure, vacuum pressure, and atmospheric pressure to stimulate a nerve ending of a user.
US12232841B2	Sharing continuous glucose data and reports In some example embodiments, there is provided a method, which includes sending a message to a server, wherein the message includes a request for a share code to enable another user to access, via a first computer, analyte data obtained from a host-patient associated with a receiver and/or an analyte report for the host-patient associated with the receiver; receiving, in response to the sending, the share code generated by the server, wherein the share code comprises a checksum portion, a password portion, and an identifier portion indicative of the host-patient; generating a user interface view including the share code; and displaying the user interface view including the share code, wherein the share code enables the other user to access, via the first computer, the analyte data and/or the analyte report. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
US12232840B2	Surgical instrument steering inputs A surgical instrument includes an input device supported by a housing and coupled to a shaft. The input device comprises a drive shaft comprising a first bore, a capstan comprising a second bore, and a set screw coupling the capstan to the drive shaft. The set screw extends through at least a portion of the first bore of the drive shaft and the second bore of the capstan. The first bore of the drive shaft and the set screw are in threaded engagement with each other.
US12232838B2	Method of robotically performing a neurovascular procedure A method of performing a neurovascular procedure includes the steps of providing an access catheter having an access catheter hub; coupling the access catheter hub to a hub adapter, movably carried by a support table; driving the access catheter in response to movement of the hub adapter along the table until the access catheter is positioned to achieve supra-aortic vessel access; removing the access catheter and access catheter hub from the hub adapter; and coupling a procedure catheter hub having a procedure catheter to the hub adapter.
US12232836B2	Apparatus, systems and methods for dynamic online kinematic adaptation of medical robots In a robotic medical system comprising a staging kinematic chain coupled to a plurality of independently articulable robotic arms capable of motion with one or more degrees of freedom, a first configuration of robotic arms may be determined based on a first inverse kinematic model including the robotic arms and assuming a static staging kinematic chain. The first configuration may effectuate desired poses of instruments coupled to the robotic arms. A set of control parameter values associated with the robotic arms may be determined based on the first configuration, and, when a determined control parameter value falls outside a corresponding control parameter range, a staging kinematic chain pose and a second configuration of the robotic arms to effectuate the desired poses of the instruments may be determined. The second configuration is determined using a second inverse kinematic model that includes the robotic arms and assumes a mobile staging kinematic chain.
US12232835B2	Systems and methods for robotic medical system integration with external imaging A medical robotic system and method of operating such comprises taking intraoperative external image data of a patient anatomy, and using that image data to generate a modeling adjustment for a control system of the medical robotic system (e.g., updating anatomic model and/or refining instrument registration), and/or adjust a procedure control aspect (e.g., regulating substance or therapy delivery, improving targeting, and/or tracking performance).
US12232829B2	Systems and methods for operating an end effector Systems and methods for operating an end effector include an end effector for grasping a material, a drive system coupled to the end effector, a user interface, and a processor. The processor is configured to actuate the drive system to clamp the material using the end effector and in response to detecting successful clamping of the material, display a timer on the user interface. The timer provides an indication of when conditions will be safe to proceed with stapling of the material clamped by the end effector.
US12232828B2	On-board tool tracking system and methods of computer assisted surgery A number of improvements are provided relating to computer aided surgery utilizing an on tool tracking system. The various improvements relate generally to both the methods used during computer aided surgery and the devices used during such procedures. Other improvements relate to the structure of the tools used during a procedure and how the tools can be controlled using the OTT device. Still other improvements relate to methods of providing feedback during a procedure to improve either the efficiency or quality, or both, for a procedure including the rate of and type of data processed depending upon a CAS mode.
US12232827B2	Techniques for patient-specific milling path generation Surgical systems, computer-implemented methods, and software programs for generating a milling path for a bone. The implementations involve obtaining a virtual model of the bone, a resection volume defined relative to the virtual model of the bone, and a reference guide defined with respect to the resection volume. Section planes are successively arranged along the reference guide, and each section plane intersects the reference guide and intersects the resection volume. A section path is generated within each section plane and is defined relative to the resection volume. Transition segments are generated to connect section paths of section planes. The milling path is then generated by combining the section paths and the transition segments.
US12232824B2	Reciprocal optical tracking system and methods thereof Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, tracker devices, central processor devices, and optical tracking systems that facilitate improved optical tracking in surgical environments are disclosed. With this technology, background images are captured within an acquisition sequence. The background images are used to analyze the quality of current images that are captured in the acquisition sequence and to determine an angular position of optical sensor modules of optical tracker devices with respect to light sources coupled to a reference frame that can be integral with an opposing one of the tracker devices. Using multiple tracking devices facilitates a reciprocal angular position determination that is more accurate and can withstand occlusion of an optical sensor module. This technology generates alerts when fiducials are obscured at the tracker device and facilitates improved accuracy with respect to pose data used by surgical applications for automated manipulation of surgical tools and surgical visualization.
US12232822B2	Intraoperative angle measurement apparatus, system, and method A surgical device for intraoperative angle measurements during surgery. The surgical device includes a shaft having a bone probe configured to remain in contact with cortical bone of the patient while a user orients the shaft to a desired orientation. The device includes a housing having an electronic circuit configured to measure an orientation angle. The electronic circuit may include: an input device configured to receive user input data; a measurement circuit configured to measure a change in orientation of the shaft in relation to a reference axis; a control circuit coupled to the input device and measurement circuit and configured to determine the orientation angle of the shaft relative to the reference axis; and an output device configured to communicate the orientation angle to the user. The device includes a power supply configured to provide power to the electronic circuit.
US12232821B2	Needle guidance using fiber optic shape sensing Disclosed herein is a system, apparatus and method directed to placing a medical instrument in a patient body, where the system includes the medical instrument having a first optical fiber, a console and an interconnect having a second optical fiber to receive incident light from the console and propagate the incident light to the medical instrument. The interconnect includes a predetermined bend along its length, such that logic of the console may determine a positioning and an orientation of the medical instrument relative to the predetermined bend. Additionally, the logic may generate a display of the medical instrument based on the reflected light signals and the determination of the positioning and the orientation of the medical instrument relative to the predetermined bend, where the display may be rendered as an overlay on an ultrasound image.
US12232819B2	Robotically controllable field generators for tracking an medical instrument Certain aspects relate to systems with robotically controllable field generators and applications thereof. A robotic medical system may include a robotic arm coupled to an electromagnetic (EM) field generator configured to generate an EM field, and the first robotic arm may be configured to move the EM field generator. The medical system may also include a medical instrument configured for insertion into a patient. The medical instrument may comprise an EM sensor and one or more processors. The processors may: determine a position of the EM sensor within the EM field; and adjust a position of the EM field generator by commanding movement of the first robotic arm based on the determined position of the EM sensor.
US12232818B2	System and method for optic shape sensing and electrical signal conduction A medical device operating as a stylet is described. The medical device can include an insulating layer (or sheath) encapsulating both a multi-core optical fiber and a conductive medium. The optical fiber can include a cladding and a plurality of core fibers spatially arranged within the cladding. Each of the core fibers can include a plurality of sensors distributed along a longitudinal length of that corresponding core fiber and each of these sensors can be configured to: (i) reflect a light signal of a different spectral width based on received incident light, and (ii) change a characteristic of the reflected light signal for use in determining a physical state of the multi-core optical fiber. The conductive medium can provide a pathway for electrical signals detected at a distal portion of the conductive medium. The conductive medium may be concentric to the cladding, but separate and adjust thereto.
US12232813B2	Ophthalmic image processing device, ophthalmic image processing program, and ophthalmic image processing system A control section of an ophthalmologic image processing apparatus acquires an ophthalmologic image captured by an ophthalmologic image capturing apparatus. The control section acquires, for the acquired ophthalmologic image, evaluation information indicating an appropriateness for acquiring medical data including at least any of an analysis result relating to a disease of a subject eye, an analysis result relating to the structure of the subject eye, and an image converted from the acquired ophthalmologic image. The control section acquires the medical data based on the acquired ophthalmologic image. The control section changes a medical data acquisition method according to whether or not the evaluation information on the ophthalmologic image satisfies a criterion.
US12232812B2	Fundus camera and control method of the same A fundus camera for reliably performing fundus imaging in a state where no miosis has been caused in the pupil of a subject eye, and a corresponding method. The fundus camera includes a camera main body configured to image the fundus of a subject eye, an anterior ocular segment image acquiring unit configured to repeatedly acquire an anterior ocular segment image of the subject eye at least before the imaging of the fundus by the camera main body, a pupil diameter detecting unit configured to repeatedly detect the pupil diameter of the subject eye based on the anterior ocular segment image repeatedly acquired by the anterior ocular segment image acquiring unit, and an imaging control unit configured to cause the camera main body to image the fundus in a case where the pupil diameter detected by the pupil diameter detecting unit reaches a predetermined first threshold value or more.
US12232808B2	Optotype calibration method An optotype calibration method is disclosed. The optotype calibration method includes steps of: (a) when a first optotype and a second optotype located outside an observable area, moving the observable area from an original position until the first optotype or the second optotype appears in the observable area; (b) adjusting a focus mechanism to make the first optotype and the second optotype close to each other; (c) moving the observable area back to the original position; and (d) repeating the steps (a)˜(c) until the first optotype and the second optotype align with each other.
US12232806B2	Compact laser-steering end effector A compact laser-steering end effector includes a frame, at least two active mirrors, and a pair of actuators. The frame has a greatest dimension in a plane orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of no more than 13 mm, and the mirrors are mounted proximate to the distal end of the frame. The actuators are mounted to the frame and configured to respectively change the tilt of the active mirrors relative to the frame. A pathway is provided through the frame to deliver a laser beam to the mirrors, and wherein the mirrors are positioned and configurable via the actuators to reflect the laser beam off of each mirror en route to an external target.
US12232804B2	Configuring perimeter of balloon electrode as location sensor An expandable balloon, which is coupled to a distal end of a shaft for insertion into an organ of a patient, includes an expandable membrane, one or more electrodes and one or more respective conductive coils. The one or more electrodes are disposed over an external surface of the membrane. The one or more respective conductive coils are each disposed proximate a respective RF ablation electrode. The one or more conductive coils are configured as magnetic sensors.
US12232796B2	Electrosurgical techniques for sealing, short circuit detection, and system determination of power level Disclosed is a method of detecting a short circuit in the jaws of an end effector of a surgical instrument. The method includes applying a sub-therapeutic electrical signal to an electrode located in the jaws of the end effector. The sub-therapeutic electrical signal comprises a sequence of exploratory waveforms comprising pulsed current and voltage waveforms. The method includes detecting a shorted electrode when a measured electrical parameter in the jaws of the end effector is less than a predetermined value and modifying electrical current applied to the shorted electrode by the RF generator.
US12232793B2	Vapor ablation systems and methods A vapor delivery system and method is provided that is adapted for treating prostate tissue. The vapor delivery system includes a vapor delivery needle configured to deliver condensable vapor energy to tissue. In one method, the vapor delivery system is advanced transurethrally into the patient to access the prostate tissue. The vapor delivery system includes a generator unit and an inductive heating system to produce a high quality vapor for delivery to tissue. Methods of use are also provided.
US12232792B2	Device and method for electroporation based treatment The present invention relates to medical devices and methods for treating a lesion such as a vascular stenosis using non-thermal irreversible electroporation (NTIRE). Embodiments of the present invention provide a balloon catheter type NTIRE device for treating a target lesion comprising a plurality of electrodes positioned along the balloon that are electrically independent from each other so as to be individually selectable in order to more precisely treat an asymmetrical lesion in which the lesion extends only partially around the vessel.
US12232789B2	Methods and devices for utilizing bondable materials The invention primarily relates to fastening and stabilizing tissues, implants, and/or bondable materials, such as the fastening of a tissue and/or implant to a bondable material, the fastening of an implant to tissue, and/or the fastening of an implant to another implant. This may involve using an energy source to bond and/or mechanically to stabilize a tissue, an implant, a bondable material, and/or other biocompatible material. The invention may also relate to the use of an energy source to remove and/or install an implant and/or bondable material or to facilitate solidification and/or polymerization of bondable material.
US12232784B2	Trochanteric nail with locking opening A trochanteric nail for insertion in an intramedullary canal of a bone for treating bone fractures. The nail may include an elongate body having a head portion and a stem portion. One or more openings may be provided in the head portion for receiving an anchoring member, such as a bone screw, for fastening the nail within the bone. An intermediate opening may also be provided in the stem portion for receiving an anchoring member. A distal area of the nail may include or be free from anchoring members. In addition, a set of nails may be provided with each nail of the set of nails having a different length in which the intermediate opening is the same distance from the proximal end for each nail.
US12232782B2	Minimally invasive surgical system A multi-stage minimally invasive surgical procedure and associated instruments are disclosed. First, the surgical site is prepared. After preparation, the bone screws or anchors are attached to the bone. Subsequent to insertion of the screws, a rod or connecting member is positioned within the yoke portion of the bone screw. Caps are then placed in a pre-lock position within the yokes. The bone screws may be compressed together or distracted along the rod or connecting member, thereby setting the final spacing of the bones or bone segments. Finally the caps are moved to a final lock position to fix the screws to the rod or connecting member to maintain the bones in position relative to each other.
US12232779B2	Surgical instrument Disclosed is an apparatus for operation that can be inserted into an incision hole in spinal endoscopic surgery. An apparatus for operation includes a rod, a rotating part rotatably connected to the rod, and a bending part connected to the rotating part and bendable, in which the bending part includes a plurality of links being in rolling contact with each other, and a plurality of wires connecting the plurality of links.
US12232774B2	Adjustable strut assemblies for external fixation systems Length-adjustable strut assemblies for external fixation systems, and corresponding external fixation systems, are disclosed. The strut assemblies include an elongate first and second end members, an elongate intermediate member, and first and second adjustment mechanisms. The intermediate member comprises a threaded rod fixedly coupled within an axial cavity thereof, and is rotatably fixed and axially translatably within an axial cavity of the first end member. An end portion of the second end member is received within the axial cavity of the intermediate member, and the second end member comprises an axial cavity threadably coupled with the threaded rod. The first adjustment mechanism is configured to selectively axially fix the intermediate member relative to the first end member. The second adjustment mechanism is configured to selectively rotate the second end member with respect to the threaded rod to axially translate the second end member relative to the intermediate member.
US12232769B2	Cannula seal assembly Gas-tight seal assemblies for use during minimally invasive surgery include various aspects. A wiper seal includes a sealing portion and a surrounding flex portion. Upper and lower faces of the sealing portions are angled with reference to an inserted instrument, the upper face's angle being more acute with reference to the instrument's shaft than the lower face's angle. The flex portion is corrugated, support ribs are in one or more corrugation grooves, and the support ribs allow the groove to easily collapse but resist the groove widening. The support ribs also prevent the sealing portion from inverting. An instrument insertion guide is positioned over the sealing portion and moves laterally with the sealing portion. A latch piece removably secures the seal assembly to a cannula. An anti-inversion piece prevents the wiper seal from inverting when an instrument is withdrawn. An assembly may include various combinations of the seal assembly, a cannula, a surgical instrument, an obturator, an endoscope, and a teleoperated medical device. The seal assembly may rotate within a cannula. The seal assembly may be used during manual or teleoperated surgery.
US12232767B2	Cannula assembly In examples, a method of operating a surgical device comprises disengaging an obturator from a funnel portion of a cannula; removing a shaft portion of the obturator from a cannula lumen of the cannula; disengaging a seal cartridge from the funnel portion of the cannula; and removing the seal cartridge from the funnel portion after removing the shaft portion of the obturator from the cannula lumen.
US12232761B2	Rotary surgical shaver A handheld rotary medical device with a shaver configured to remove cartilage is disclosed. The handheld rotary medical device may include an inner drive shaft, an elongated, tubular, outer housing encapsulating the inner drive shaft such that the inner drive shaft is positioned within the outer housing and a shaver at a distal end of the inner drive shaft. The shaver may include a plurality of teeth extending radially outward from an outer surface of the inner drive shaft. The medical device may include slots or grooves in the outer housing useful for cleaning the tissue from the teeth of the shaver.
US12232760B2	Intravascular device An intravascular device can comprise a carrier and an expansion apparatus. The device can be used for intravascular treatment of atherosclerotic plaque. The carrier can be reversibly expandable and collapsible within a vessel and can have ribbon strips extending between opposite ends in a longitudinal direction of the carrier. The ribbon strips can each be formed with a plurality of elongated protrusions thereon. The expansion apparatus can be used to actuate the ribbon strips each with the plurality elongated protrusions to pierce a luminal surface of the plaque with lines or patterns of microperforations which act as serrations for forming cleavage lines or planes in the plaque.
US12232756B2	Dual bone forceps The dual bone forceps may be considered tandem locking forceps wherein the forceps are coupled to each other so that the surgeon may use one for clamping the bone graft plate adjacent the graft site while clamping the other forceps to a supporting bone structure above, below, or lateral to the graft site during the procedure. The dual bone forceps includes a bone graft plate clamping forceps having clamping jaws at the anterior end and flat handles terminating in locking jaws at the posterior end. The dual bone forceps also includes an anchoring forceps having an elongate hook blade and a shortened anvil blade at the anterior end and locking handles at the posterior end. A linking bar extends non-coplanar from the shortened anvil blade to the pivot of the bone graft plate clamping forceps to maintain the two forceps linked to each other, but spaced apart in different planes.
US12232755B2	Lesion crossing shock wave catheter The present invention provides a catheter for treating occlusions in blood vessels. An exemplary catheter for treating occlusions in blood vessels comprises a tubular inner member including a base segment with a first lumen defining a fluid inlet port, and a second lumen defining a fluid outlet port. An extension segment is distal to the base segment. The extension segment has a reduced cross-section. An emitter assembly includes a first insulated wire extending through the second lumen and a second insulated wire, and a conductive sheath wrapped circumferentially around the first insulated wire, the second insulated wire, and the extension segment. A cap or balloon is sealably attached to the distal end of the catheter and surrounds the emitter assembly, said cap or balloon being fillable with conductive fluid.
US12232740B2	Tissue clip devices, systems, and traction methods The present disclosure pertains to medical devices. More particularly, the present disclosure pertains to tissue clip devices and related systems and methods. In an embodiment, a tissue clip may include a grasper including jaws at a first end, and a spring portion at a second end, and a longitudinal axis extending along a length of the grasper from the first end to the second end, wherein the spring portion is configured to bias the jaws toward each other. A wedge may be slidably disposed between the jaws such that an apex of the wedge is oriented toward the spring portion. A filament may be coupled to the wedge at a first end of the filament and may extend through a channel of the spring portion of the grasper to a second end of the filament.
US12232739B2	Surgical cutting tools and cutting tool attachment mechanisms, and related systems and methods A cutting tool and an attachment mechanism configured to removably securely couple the cutting tool and a cutting instrument together. The cutting tool comprises a tang end portion, a tip end portion, and a cutting edge on the tip end portion. The attachment mechanism comprises a first and second clamping members with first and second engagement surfaces, respectively. The second clamping member further comprises a pair of axially-spaced projections extending and a pair of laterally-spaced projections extending past the second engagement surface. The attachment mechanism further comprises an adjustment mechanism configured to selectively adjust the distance between the first and second engagement surfaces. The tang end portion comprises an axially extending coupling slot and a pair of elastically-deformable securement members at lateral sides that extend laterally outward as they extend axially from the tang end portion toward the tip end portion.
US12232737B2	Occluding anatomical structures An elongate resilient tube of a mesh of shape memory alloy is used to therapeutically occlude an opening in body tissue. The tube is compressible so that it can be delivered to the opening in the body within a catheter. The tube self-expands as it is released from the catheter to contiguously form, sequentially an outer perimeter structure and an inner perimeter structure disposed within the outer perimeter structure to conformingly engage an inner side of the outer perimeter structure, a plate shaped structure, and a flexible connector between them. J-shaped hooks extend from the perimeter structure to flexibly engage tissue of the body opening without piercing the tissue.
US12232732B2	Anastomosis devices Implantable medical devices for connecting tissue layers or occluding body conduits and tissue structures include apposition portions, a central region, and a covering material. The methods of using the devices include endoscopic deployment, and the devices may include self-expanding frameworks that facilitate a secure connection between the tissue structures. In some embodiments, one or more tethers are used to longitudinally contract the device in situ.
US12232730B2	Implantable flow connector A method of implanting and securing an implantable flow connector in a body of a patient for providing communication of a first space within the body of the patient with a second space within the body of the patient. The method includes providing a flow connector having a lumen having a first orifice and a second orifice, inserting a retention device into the first space within the body, subsequently inserting the flow connector through an opening in the retention device so the second portion of the flow connector extends into the first space within the body and placing the second space within the body over the retention device.
US12232721B2	Methods, systems, and devices for positioning sutures for closing an opening in tissue A closure system for closing an opening in tissue, the closure system including a closure device and a knot replacement device configured to position a suture lock on a suture. The closure device includes a housing, a needle actuation handle cooperating with the housing, a first hollow needle selectively movable by the needle actuation handle and operatively cooperating with a suture anchor frictionally engaged with a slot and a lumen of the first hollow needle and coupled to a suture. A portion of the suture anchor rests along an outer surface of the first hollow needle as the first hollow needle is advanced through tissue adjacent the opening.
US12232716B2	Implant having adjustable filament coils A device having one or more adjustable loops or coils associated with an implant body for use in soft tissue reconstructions is provided. One exemplary embodiment of a device includes a body and a suture filament, with the filament being used to form a self-locking sliding knot disposed on a top side of the body and a plurality of adjustable coils that are substantially disposed on the body's bottom side. Terminal ends of the filament located above the body's top side can be passed through an opening of a Lark's Head knot from opposite sides, thus forming a self-locking sliding knot, and then the terminal ends can be tensioned to adjust a circumference of the coils. Changing a coil's circumference changes a location of a ligament graft disposed on the coil. Other configurations of devices and systems, as well as methods for performing ACL repairs, are also provided.
US12232712B2	Devices and methods for endoscopic patch delivery Systems and methods of delivering a patch to a target site of a patient are described herein. The patch may comprise a biomaterial such as chitosan or extracellular matrix and may be biocompatible and/or bioresorbable. The system may include an endoscope, a patch, and one of an instrument or a cap, the patch being coupled to the respective instrument or cap and detachable therefrom. Methods of delivering the patch to the target site may include introducing an endoscope into a gastrointestinal tract of a patient, e.g., the patch being in a folded or crimped configuration, navigating a distal end of the endoscope proximate a target site; and applying the patch to the target site while releasing the patch from the endoscope.
US12232711B2	Systems and methods for tracking robotically controlled medical instruments Systems and methods are described herein for tracking an elongate instrument or other medical instrument in an image.
US12232710B2	Oscillating syringe system A syringe is coupled to a biopsy needle through a coupling structure that includes a motor-driven element such as a gear to rotate the needle. The motor can oscillate back and forth to cause the needle to oscillate. Structures are described to permit one-handed operation of the device and automatic motor activation based on attaining a desired plunger position. Non-electric motors are described along with a mechanism for axial oscillation of the needle.
US12232709B2	Biopsy needle and puncture biopsy device The present invention provides a biopsy needle and a puncture biopsy apparatus. The biopsy needle includes: an inner needle assembly, including a first plug-in portion plugged in with a fastener; an outer needle assembly, including a second plug-in portion plugged in with the fastener; and the fastener, including a third plug-in portion plugged in with the first plug-in portion, and a fourth plug-in portion plugged in with the second plug-in portion. According to the biopsy needle and the puncture biopsy apparatus provided in the present invention, the biopsy needle can be assembled and disassembled in a simple and fast way, helping reduce preparation time and preparation work for a surgery, thereby improving surgery efficiency.
US12232708B2	Vaginal speculum and related methods Disclosed is speculum and related methods to comfortably dilate a woman's vaginal canal during a pelvic exam.
US12232706B2	Endoscopic light source and imaging system A light source includes a first LED in communication with a first DAC; a second LED in communication with a second DAC; a third LED in communication with a third DAC; a color sensor capable of sensing light in the visible light spectrum; and one or more processors configured for: receiving color intensity values from the color sensor, determining whether the color intensity values are balanced to achieve white light, adjusting the current to the second DAC and third DAC until the color intensity levels are balanced to achieve white light at a combined intensity level, setting a new red LED current value, a new green LED current value, and a new blue LED current value to adjust the combined intensity level toward a target intensity level, and repeating the setting step until the target intensity level is achieved.
US12232702B2	Endoscope with rotary drum and operating method An endoscope with a rotating drum or a rotation module, in particular for use as a sterile disposable instrument, having an elongate rigid and/or flexible shaft tube which at a distal end mounts the rotating drum, so as to be rotatable about at least one first axis of rotation, an optical imaging system being arranged in the rotating drum, with the at least one first axis of rotation running approximately transversely to a longitudinal axis of the shaft tube and with the endoscope having at least one control line for rotating the rotating drum. Here, the at least one control line of the rotating drum runs on an outer side/outer face of the shaft tube, and is fastened to the rotating drum at at least one lever distance (a) from the at least one first axis of rotation.
US12232701B2	Disposable section of endoscope handle, endoscope handle, and endoscope A disposable section of an endoscope handle, an endoscope handle, and an endoscope are provided. The disposable section of an endoscope handle includes: a housing provided with a connecting portion that is detachably connected to a reusable section of the handle; an inserting unit including a proximal end located at a distal end of the housing; and a first transmission assembly including: a first traction wire, a second traction wire, and a first connecting element, where the first traction wire and the second traction wire are located in the inserting unit; proximal ends of the first traction wire and the second traction wire are connected to the first connecting element; a proximal end surface of the housing forms a linear movement path that is orthogonal to an axial direction of the proximal end surface; and the first connecting element is movable along the linear movement path.
US12232699B2	Manifold for a multiple viewing elements endoscope There is provided herein an integrated manifold for the tip of a multiple viewing elements endoscope which combines the functionalities of the front holder, side holder/cage and fluid channeling components into a single part. The manifold includes square slots that are equipped with tracks. Square shaped lens assemblies having protrusions are used in the endoscope tip, such that the protrusions allow the optical assemblies to slide into the tracks of the square slots. This ensures gapless placement of viewing elements with no deviation in their position and field of view.
US12232689B2	Medical image processing apparatus, endoscope system, and medical image processing method An object of the present invention is to provide a medical image processing apparatus, an endoscope system, and a medical image processing method that are capable of causing a user to appropriately recognize an operation state of an assistance function. A medical image processing apparatus according to a first aspect of the present invention includes an image acquiring unit that acquires a chronological medical image; a recognizing unit that performs recognition of a region of interest in the acquired medical image; a reporting unit that performs reporting of a result of the recognition in at least one style and that, in response to a predetermined condition being satisfied after start of a reporting state of performing the reporting, is switched to a non-reporting state of not performing the reporting; and a switching notifying unit that provides a notification indicating that switching from the reporting state to the non-reporting state is to occur.
US12232685B2	Cleaner The present disclosure relates to a cleaner capable of easily separating a filter module from a main body of the cleaner and separating and assembling the separated filter module again. Disclosed is a cleaner including: a main body; a suction motor disposed in the main body and configured to generate a suction force so as to suction air; a dust separator separating dust from air by generating a cyclone flow in air introduced by the suction motor; and a filter module having a filter for filtering air discharged from the suction motor and being detachable from the main body. Here, the filter module is configured to be easily separated from the main body of the cleaner and assembled, such that the filter disposed inside the filter module may be easily cleaned or replaced.
US12232680B2	Clean dish verification using a camera assembly in a dishwasher appliance A dishwasher appliance includes a tub defining a wash chamber for receipt of a load of articles for washing, a door providing selective access to the wash chamber, and a camera assembly mounted with a view of the load of articles. A controller is configured to determine that a cleaning cycle has been completed, obtain a first image using the camera assembly, determine that the door has been opened, obtain a second image using the camera assembly, determine that a predetermined number of articles from the load of articles has been removed from the wash chamber based at least in part on the first image and the second image, and provide a user notification that the load of articles is dirty in response to determining that the predetermined number of articles has been removed from the wash chamber.
US12232679B2	Dishwasher with drain assembly A dishwasher for treating dishes according to a cycle of operation, the dishwasher comprising a chassis, a tub supported by the chassis and at least partially defining a treating chamber for receiving dishes, a structural element extending from the chassis along the tub and defining a socket; and a drain line extending between an inlet and an outlet and received in the socket.
US12232674B2	Anchoring and release system to secure a liquid releasing tube into a low-flow device A scrub body, a scrub anchoring system, and a method for securing and releasing a tube coupler into and from a scrub body are provided. The scrub body can comprise two portions, or regions, within a single, unibody sponge-like material or as two similar or dissimilar layers within the sponge-like material. The scrub body includes an anchoring pocket extending into the scrub body between the portions, regions or layers, to accommodate a tube coupler releasably secured inside the anchoring pocket. The scrub body with anchoring pocket can be discarded when worn out while the more expensive tube coupler can be readily removed from the anchoring pocket and re-inserted into a new scrub body to provide the same low-flow liquid releasing tube into a new scrub body.
US12232667B1	Automatic induction mouthwash dispenser An automatic induction mouthwash dispenser, including a water tank, a main body, a power supply device, and a deflector device. The main body is connected to a control switch and an electric control board; a first inlet pipe is movably assembled inside the water tank; the deflector device is connected to a second inlet pipe and an outlet pipe; a second induction device is arranged inside the main body, and a first induction device is arranged on a side of the main body.
US12232659B2	Reconfigurable water distribution system for a walk-in tub bathing installation with a single pump for multiple functions A reconfigurable water distribution system for a walk-in tub bathing installation including two or more types of discharge ports for discharging water. The system includes a single motorized pump having an input connected to a suction port of the bathing installation, and an output port delivering pressurized water. A pipe system selectively connects the pump to the two or more types of discharge ports to selectively direct the pressurized water to the different ones of the types of discharge ports. The system selectively enables the bathing installation to perform a plurality of different functions using a single pump.
US12232657B2	Toilet paper stand with integral cleansing solution dispenser A toilet paper stand and cleansing solution dispenser (100) includes a base (110); a cleansing solution reservoir (120); a toilet paper stand shaft (102); a toilet paper holder (140); a cleansing solution dispensing pump (150); a dispenser (104); a plurality of motion sensors (204); and a plurality of batteries. The toilet paper stand shaft (102) includes a lower shaft end (102a); and an upper shaft end (102b). The cleansing solution reservoir (120) is connected to the base (110). The toilet paper stand shaft (102) is extended upward from the base (110). The lower shaft end (102a) and the upper shaft end (102b) are connected. The lower shaft end (102a) is connected to the base (110). The toilet paper holder (140) is connected to the toilet paper stand shaft (102) to hold a roll of toilet paper (142). The toilet paper holder (140) is laterally extended from the toilet paper stand shaft (102). The dispenser (104) dispenses a cleansing solution through the cleansing solution dispensing pump (150). The cleansing solution dispensing pump (150) is located at the base (110) near the cleansing solution reservoir (120). The motion sensors (204) are located on the upper shaft end (102b) and connected with the dispenser (104) to provide a touchless dispense of the cleansing solution. The batteries are configured to power the cleansing solution dispensing pump (150) to provide pressure on the cleansing solution in the cleansing solution delivery tube (160) to dispense the cleaning solution stored in the cleansing solution reservoir (120) from the dispenser (104).
US12232653B1	High speed blending method with liquefaction function A blending system with safely and fast stirring a sauce is disclosed. The blending system monitors a temperature of the sauce to start heating the sauce if the sauce is at a frozen state. Then after the sauce quits from the frozen state, the blending system stirs the sauce with a relatively low speed at first, and then stirs the sauce with a relatively high speed.
US12232652B2	Multi-purpose handheld kitchen appliance A multi-purpose handheld kitchen appliance includes a controller configured to customize various aspects of the appliance based upon a type of attachment coupled to the appliance, e.g., to controllably vary a motor speed, to selectively disable an activation control, and/or to rotate a display based on a type of attachment and/or a gyroscope input.
US12232650B2	Fry basket A basket for deep frying food items includes a bottom. Opposed side walls and opposed end walls extend from the bottom. om the bottom and extend between the opposed side walls, the opposed side walls and the opposed end walls forming a top opening into an open interior defined by the opposed side walls, the opposed end walls, and the bottom. A plurality of dividers extend upwards from the bottom between the opposed end walls. The plurality of dividers define a plurality of lanes. Each lane includes an equal cross-sectional area in a lateral dimension.
US12232648B2	Toaster and convection oven with variable controls A toaster and convection oven includes a housing having an internal heating compartment, a heating mechanism in thermal communication with the heating compartment and configured to heat the heating compartment, a user interface including a plurality of user controls to be manipulated by a user, the user controls allowing the user to program a dual cook mode including a first cooking mode and a second cooking mode, and a control unit operatively connected to the user interface and to the heating mechanism. The control unit is configured to receive a signal from the user interface and to control operation of the heating mechanism in dependence upon the signal to run the first cooking mode and the second cooking mode sequentially without further input from the user.
US12232647B2	Stowable countertop cooking system A cooking system positionable on a support surface including a housing having an internal heating compartment and an opening formed in said housing for accessing said internal heating compartment. The housing is movable between a first position and second position. The opening is arranged within a first plane when said housing is in said first position, and the opening is arranged within a second plane when said housing is in said second position, said first plane and said second plane being distinct.
US12232642B2	Duvet cover The present disclosure provides duvet covers and methods for covering duvets. The duvet cover defines a cavity for receiving a duvet insert, the cavity accessible via an opening at a first edge of the duvet cover. The duvet cover comprises at least one cord inside the cavity within the duvet cover, the at least one cord extending between a second edge of the duvet cover, remote from the first edge of the duvet cover, and the first edge of the duvet cover; and a plurality of holders attached on the inside of the duvet cover, the plurality of holders holding the at least one cord such that pulling on a portion of the at least one cord, proximate to the opening, causes at least a part of the second edge the duvet cover to be brought closer to the first edge of the duvet cover.
US12232640B2	Buoyant cup holder A buoyant, floatable drink holder is provided. The drink holder may be a disc shaped body which defines a central opening to hold a cup. The drink holder is wide enough relative to the cup diameter such that it stabilizes the cup when floating in the water and prevents it tipping to the side. As configured, the drink holder allows a user to place a cup in the holder and place the cup and holder in the water, whereby the holder floats the cup on the water and stabilizes it for convenient and reliable access to a drink while in the water without having to constantly hold the drink.
US12232634B1	Playyard The present playyard includes an endless frame, an endless sidewall within the frame, and a floor within the sidewall. The sidewall and floor form the shape of a receptacle having an open top and a closed bottom defined by the floor. Each of the frame, sidewall and floor takes the shape of a hexagon. The frame is a scissoring frame. The frame includes upper and lower junctions. The upper junction engages the sidewall. A strap engages the lower junction to a periphery of the floor, an inner portion of the floor, and the sidewall.
US12232627B2	Apparatus for convertible and selectable mattress firmness Provided for is a mattress comprising a first layer comprising a first firm layer and a first soft layer, a second layer comprising a second firm layer and a second soft layer, where the second layer and the first layer are in horizontal adjacent contact. The mattress may further comprise a base layer comprising a base top layer and a base bottom layer, where the base layer and the first layer are in vertical adjacent contact, and where the base layer and the second layer are in vertical adjacent contact. The mattress may further comprise a cover comprising a cover top, a cover bottom, and a zipper, where the zipper may separate the cover top from the cover bottom, where a band may be disposed on an inside surface of the cover top, where the band may mask a gap between the first layer and the second layer.
US12232626B2	Bedding system, kit and method A bedding system includes a chassis having a bottom wall, opposite first and second side walls extending upwardly from the bottom wall and opposite first and second end walls extending upwardly from the bottom wall. The walls define a cavity. A coil pack is positioned in the cavity. The coil pack includes a plurality of springs. A first cover is positioned over the coil pack. The first cover is attached to the chassis by a first zipper. A comfort layer is positioned over the first cover. The comfort layer is attached to the chassis by a second zipper. A second cover is positioned over the comfort layer. The second cover is attached to the chassis by a third zipper. In some embodiments, kits and method of use are disclosed.
US12232623B1	Systems and methods for modular seating having universal slots Provided herein are modular seating systems for assembling a customizable seating configuration, having: a plurality of frame components, each having: a frame body having legs; a top end having; a groove along each one of the four sides; a corner block at each one of the four corners; a plurality of attachment components, each having: an attachment body; an insert part configured to fit into a groove of the frame components; wherein each attachment component of the plurality of attachment components is configured to associate with any one of the frame components of the plurality of frame components by inserting the insert part of an attachment component into the groove of one of the four sides of the frame body of a frame component.
US12232622B2	Folding step stool A folding step stool includes a stool surface and a support structure for supporting the stool surface. The support structure is a foldable structure and comprises at least three support shafts. The stool surface is hinged to a rear side of a connecting line of tops of two adjacent support shafts. After being folded, the support structure is located on one side of a plane formed by the two support shafts hinged to the stool surface. After being turned, the stool surface is located on the other side of the plane formed by the two support shafts to which the stool surface is hinged, and the two support shafts are able to abut against the two support shafts to which the stool surface is hinged. The invention solves the problem that step stools in the prior art still have a large size after being folded.
US12232620B2	Polyvalent folding chair with counterweight A folding chair has a front leg assembly and a rear leg assembly rotatably mounted to the front leg assembly, the rear leg assembly foldable between an unfold extended configuration and a folded compact configuration wherein the rear leg assembly extends about parallel to the front leg assembly. The folding chair has a backrest mounted to the front leg assembly. The folding chair has a seat rotatably mounted to the front seat assembly, the seat being movable between a seating position and an upright position. The hair has a counterweight and damping components damping the pivotal motion of the seat when reaching the seating position and the upright position.
US12232618B2	Slim-profile, all-linkage, wall-proximity reclining mechanism allowing a wood-to-floor recliner seating unit A simplified, compact, recliner mechanism is provided which can be adapted to many types of recliner design. A front linkage assembly and a rear linkage assembly provide the desired movement of the seat and back when moving from the TV position to the fully reclined position, obviating the need for a track and roller design. Moreover, a front pivot link and a rear pivot link are provided and oriented in a manner that allows the desired forward seat movement as the recliner moves from the closed position to the TV position. The geometries of the front linkage assembly, the rear linkage assembly, the front pivot link and the rear pivot link allow a slim profile design allowing great flexibility in the design of the recliner.
US12232616B2	Wall and ceiling track system for mounting devices The presently claimed invention contemplates a track for mounting devices onto a structure with a support surface on a rear side of the track configured to be installed on a structure. The track further comprises a first rear-facing hook and a second rear-facing hook that bends toward the rear side of the track. The first and second rear-facing hooks are disposed on opposite ends of the support surface.
US12232614B2	Slide rail assembly A slide rail assembly includes a first rail, a second rail, a slide assisting device, an elastic member and a working member. The second rail and the first rail are movable relative to each other. The elastic member is arranged on the second rail. During a process of the second rail being moved relative to the first rail along an opening direction, the working member is configured to contact the elastic member in an initial state in order to drive the slide assisting device to move along the opening direction to a predetermined position. When the slide assisting device is located at the predetermined position, the elastic member releases an elastic force through a predetermined space of the first rail, such that the elastic member is no longer in the initial state with the working member no longer contacting the elastic member.
US12232602B1	Quick-switching waist buckle for tool bag The present disclosure provides a quick-switching waist buckle for a tool bag, including: a female component and a subcomponent fixed to the female component, the female component is a detachable buckle structure, the female component is fixed to the belt, the detachable subcomponent is fixed to the female component and used for fastening the tool bag. The fixing method between the female component and the belt can ensure that it will not separate from the belt, and the pressing unit can prevent the female component from sliding on the belt. The female component is fixed by pulling and fastening between the front and rear side plates for easy disassembly from the belt when needed. The front side plate on the female component and the fixing plate on the subcomponent can be quickly fixed by blind insertion.
US12232601B1	Laptop support device A laptop support device defines a forward direction, a rearward direction, a rightward direction, a leftward direction, an upward direction, and a downward direction, and includes a main body shaped as a planar structure and comprising an upper surface that faces the upward direction and that is configured to hold a laptop computer, and a tension support strap configured to be attached to the main body that is configured to wrap around a user such that the tension support strap is tensioned between the main body and the user.
US12232575B2	Shoe last extension as an origin A method for locating critical control points on a part or combination of parts during a manufacturing process involves mating, directly or indirectly, a jig extension to the part or parts. A pattern on the jig extension defines an origin point that is used to track the position of the part or parts during manufacturing, such as during location-sensitive operations. The jig extension may be a shoe last extension which connects to a shoe or shoe component via a shoe last.
US12232572B2	Method for measuring foot size and shape by using image processing A method for acquiring information of a foot, the method includes: acquiring an image captured by simultaneously photographing a user's foot and an item having a standardized size; and calculating information of the user's foot from the image. The calculating the information of the user's foot from the image includes: calculating positions of vertices of the item from the image; and calculating a region where the user's foot is located in the image. The calculating the positions of the vertices of the item from the image includes: calculating one or more feature points corresponding to a corner in the image; and selecting the vertices of the item among the one or more feature points, and the one or more feature points are calculated by using brightness values of pixels in the image.
US12232567B2	Footwear heel counter for easier foot entry or removal A shoe has an upper with a foot receiving shoe opening. A heel counter is located at a rear portion of the upper and includes a rigid heel cup. The heel cup has a lower portion, a midportion, and an upper portion having a curvature extending from a top edge of the heel cup and that is curved downward towards the shoe opening. On a vertical cross-section, the heel cup has a S wave shape. A compressible layer is located along an inner wall of the heel cup and is configured to curve around a portion of a user's ankle above the user's heel once donned. The compressible layer may be compressed during donning of the shoe and may at least partially expand to secure the foot within the shoe once donned.
US12232560B2	Footwear article for walking Footwear articles for walking are provided. In one example, a footwear article may include a midsole with a lower surface of constant curvature extending from a heel of the midsole to a toe of the midsole, wherein the lower surface maintains the constant curvature throughout a stance phase of a walking gait. In this way, a smooth step-to-step transition and a smaller range of oscillation of the center of mass of the wearer is achieved, and energy expenditure during walking is reduced. In turn, a wearer of the footwear article may smoothly walk for extended periods of time with reduced fatigue.
US12232557B2	Helmet with ventilation control A helmet comprises a shell defining a shell ventilation aperture and an inner liner securable within the shell. The inner liner defines an inner liner ventilation aperture and a recessed track. A ventilation control includes a slider plate and a boss disposed on the slider plate. The boss is configured to be frictionally retained within the recessed track while providing for the slider plate to be reversibly displaced along the recessed track from a first position in which the slider plate blocks a flow of air through the inner liner ventilation aperture to a second position in which the slider plate permits the flow of air through the inner liner ventilation aperture. The slider plate is configured to be reversibly displaced between the first and second position by a force applied upon a lower surface of the slider plate from within the helmet.
US12232553B2	Mounting structure of helmet A mounting structure of a helmet is disclosed. The helmet includes a helmet body. The helmet body is provided with a mounting platform. The mounting platform includes a mounting bracket and an adapter. The mounting bracket is formed with two lateral buckles for being respectively clamped into the vent holes at the sides of the helmet and a forward buckle for being inserted into the jack at the front side of the helmet. The mounting bracket is mounted on the helmet body by clamping the two lateral buckles into the respective vent holes and inserting the forward buckle into the jack. The adapter is detachably mounted on the mounting bracket. The adapter is formed with a T-shaped buckle for inserting the terminal device. The mounting structure can mount a variety of terminal devices with the mounting platform, realize a variety of functions, is quick to be assembled and disassembled.
US12232547B2	Tracking and alert method and system for worker productivity and safety An exemplary method and system is disclosed that facilitates the monitoring of worker's productivity and safety, for example, at a construction site and other like labor-intensive occupation and settings. The exemplary method and system provides wearable-based motion sensing and/or proximity sensing between worker and construction equipment. A study discussed herein suggests that sensing at two or more torso locations can provide 95% accuracy in classifying worker's action or motion at a construction site. In some embodiments, as discussed herein, the acquired sensed data are transmitted, over a mesh network, e.g., established between the wearable devices, to a cloud infrastructure to facilitate the real-time monitoring of action and actions that such sites.
US12232545B2	Swaddling sleep sack The sleep sack can include a back panel, a front panel, and a flap. The sleep sack is used by placing the front panel over the back panel. The front panel extends from the shoulder to under the arm of the infant or toddler. The sleep sack is used by placing the flap over the front panel once placed. The flap extends from the shoulder to under the arm of the infant or toddler. The flap can be releasably attached to an outer surface of the sleep sack to adjust the compression of the torso of the infant or toddler.
US12232543B2	Age verification with registered cartridges for an aerosol delivery device An electronic nicotine delivery systems (“ENDS”) device may include aerosol delivery devices such as smoking articles that produce aerosol. The device may include a cartridge for the aerosol production. The cartridge is assigned a unique identifier that is approved for a user or that user's device such that the cartridge and/or the device only operate when approved. The unique identifiers help with user identification, tracking, and age verification.
US12232539B2	Calibrated dose control Methods and vaporizer apparatuses that estimate, measure and/or predict the amount of vapor and/or material (including active ingredients) released by the vaporizer apparatus. In particular, described herein are electronic vaporizers and methods of using them that determine a dose/amount of vapor and/or a material in the vapor based primarily or exclusively on the electrical and thermal properties, e.g., power or energy applied to the vaporizing element (e.g., heating coil) and the temperature of the material immediately before and as it is vaporized. Dose information may be used to control operation of the device and/or reported to the user.
US12232537B2	Aerosol generating device An aerosol generating device and a controlling method thereof are provided. An aerosol generating device includes: a battery configured to supply power for generating an aerosol from an aerosol generating material; a converter configured to convert a supply voltage from the battery into a constant voltage of a predetermined level; a heater configured to heat the aerosol generating material using the supply voltage; a detection circuit configured to detect a change in resistance of the heater by applying the constant voltage output from the converter and performing a current sensing on the heater with a resistance value; and a controller configured to control the heater for generating the aerosol by switching between a monitoring mode for performing the detection of the change in the resistance of the heater using the constant voltage and a heating mode for heating the heater using the supply voltage.
US12232535B2	Mouthpiece with inner and outer tubular sections A mouthpiece for attachment to a hollow tubular filter portion of an aerosol-generating article is provided, the mouthpiece including: an inner tubular section having a minimum outer diameter, which is smaller than an inner diameter of the hollow tubular filter portion; an outer tubular section having a maximum inner diameter, which is larger than an outer diameter of the aerosol-generating article; a central airflow channel arranged along a longitudinal axis of the mouthpiece, the airflow channel including a Venturi portion, the Venturi portion including an inlet portion and an outlet portion, the inlet portion being configured to converge in a downstream direction and the outlet portion being configured to diverge in a downstream direction; and a hinge section configured to attach the mouthpiece to an aerosol-generating device. A system including the mouthpiece, and a method for attaching the mouthpiece to the hollow tubular filter portion are also provided.
US12232533B2	Inductive heating assemblies for generating an aerosol An inductive heating assembly for generating an aerosol from an aerosol precursor material in an aerosol provision system, the inductive heating assembly including: a susceptor; and a drive coil arranged to induce current flow in the susceptor to heat the susceptor and vaporize aerosol precursor material in proximity with a surface of the susceptor, and wherein the susceptor includes regions of different susceptibility to induced current flow from the drive coil, such that when in use the surface of the susceptor in the regions of different susceptibility are heated to different temperatures by the current flow induced by the drive coil.
US12232530B2	Vaporizer device with more than one heating element Various embodiments of a vaporization device are described that include one or more features, such as for generating a combined inhalable aerosol. In some embodiments, the vaporization device can include one or more heaters that are configured to heat one or more vaporizable materials. Various embodiments of heating elements and heating systems for use in vaporization devices are also described.
US12232529B2	Vaporizer including positive temperature coefficient of resistivity heater A vaporizer device includes a housing including an air inlet, a heating element within the housing and a heat exchanger. The heating element includes a nonlinear positive temperature coefficient of resistance material. The heat exchanger is thermally coupled to the heating element and arranged to receive airflow from the air inlet. The heat exchanger is configured to transfer heat between the heating element and the airflow to produce a heated airflow. The heated airflow exiting the heat exchanger is configured to vaporize a vaporizable material. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US12232526B2	Connectors for forming electrical and mechanical connections between interchangeable units in an aerosol delivery system The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices. In various implementations, the aerosol delivery devices comprise a control device that includes a battery, a control component, and an outer housing that defines receiving chamber, and a cartridge that includes a mouthpiece portion, a tank that contains a liquid composition, and a heater configured to heat the liquid composition. The cartridge and the control device each include at least one connector configured to provide a magnetic and an electrical connection between the cartridge and the control device such that the cartridge can be removably and operatively received into the cartridge receiving chamber of the control body, wherein the at least one connector of the cartridge is located on the mouthpiece portion.
US12232524B2	Aroma delivery system for aerosol delivery device The present disclosure provides an aerosol precursor consumable, and an aerosol delivery device that comprises a control unit that defines a receiving chamber, and a removable and replaceable aerosol precursor consumable, at least a portion of the consumable configured to be received into the receiving chamber. The aerosol precursor consumable comprises a housing defining an outer wall, an aerosol precursor composition reservoir located in the housing and configured to contain an aerosol precursor composition, an atomizer located in the housing, and at least one aroma diffuser. The atomizer is configured to vaporize the aerosol precursor composition to generate an aerosol for oral delivery to a user, and the at least one aroma diffuser is configured to diffuse an aroma composition for olfactory delivery to the user.
US12232519B2	Cannabis oil injector and cannabis joints manufacturing machine therewith A cannabis joints manufacturing machine comprises a plurality of different cannabis joints manufacturing stations, each for performing on one cannabis cone at a time a step among a sequence of steps for manufacturing a cannabis joint; one of the cannabis joints manufacturing stations including a cannabis oil injector; the plurality of different cannabis joints manufacturing stations being positioned side-by-side according to the sequence of steps for manufacturing a cannabis joint; and a cannabis cone support for receiving a plurality of cannabis cones and for sequentially moving together the plurality of cannabis cones between each of the plurality of different cannabis joints manufacturing stations.
US12232516B2	Materials and methods for extending shelf-life of foods A food with an extended shelf-life and a method of extending shelf-life of food is provided herein. The extended shelf-life is provided by treating the food with isothiocyanate, a non-aromatic cyclic ketone, a boronic acid, a ligand and their precursors.
US12232511B2	Frozen food catching device A frozen food catching device removably connected to at least a portion of a handle of a frozen food, the frozen food catching device including a food catching base to receive the frozen food that has melted, a plurality of walls disposed on at least a portion of a perimeter of the food catching base to prevent the frozen food from moving away from the food catching base, and a handle receiving aperture disposed at a center of the food catching base to receive the handle therethrough.
US12232510B2	Methods of making frozen confectionary products and re-using components utilized therein A method of dispensing a frozen confectionary product from a dispensing machine. The method can include loading one or more tubes comprising a frozen confectionary or a component of a frozen confectionary from a storage tray onto a serving station located in the dispensing machine; positioning the container in the serving station under the one or more tubes; dispensing the frozen confectionary or component of the frozen confectionary into the container; optionally placing a spoon into the container; and conveying the frozen confectionary product to an outlet located on the dispensing machine. A method of supplying a dispensing machine with frozen confectionaries and/or components of frozen confectionaries is also provided.
US12232501B2	Underhung pan shaker with multiple modes of movement An automated pan shaker has a central longitudinal axis and a central lateral axis. The automated pan shaker includes a shaker assembly that is configured to induce a plurality of modes of movement in the baker pan. The pan shaker assembly includes a carriage assembly, a clamping assembly supported by the carriage assembly and an actuation assembly. The carriage assembly resides below the conveyor belt of the automated pan shaker. The actuation assembly further includes an actuator post connected to the carriage assembly, a first actuator assembly that includes a first actuator linkage connected to the actuator post, and a second actuator assembly that includes a second actuator linkage connected to the actuator post.
US12232500B2	Rolled stuffing food forming apparatus and method thereof The present utility invention provides a rolled stuffing food forming apparatus, which uses a stuffing-filling unit in cooperation with an U shape forming assembly to simulate the manual work preferably, then, in the conventional art, the technical issues which are occurred in the automatic equipments when simulating the manual work are solved.
US12232497B2	Mixed bacteria for promoting nodulation and nitrogen fixation of Robinia pseudoacacia and application thereof A mixed bacteria for promoting nodulation and nitrogen fixation of Robinia pseudoacacia and their application are provided. The mixed bacteria includes Kocuria sp. X-22, Microbacterium sp. X-26, and Bacillus sp. X-28, all of which have been preserved in China Center for Type Culture Collection, and the preservation numbers respectively are: CCTCC No: M 2019237; CCTCC No: M 2019238; CCTCC No: M 2019239. The mixed bacteria are watered directly around the seedlings of Robinia pseudoacacia. Compared with the single bacteria control group and the sterile control group, the disclosure can produce synergistic superimposing effects, significantly improve the nodulation rate and symbiotic nitrogen fixation of the Robinia pseudoacacia, and promote the photosynthesis of the Robinia pseudoacacia.
US12232496B2	Methods and system for stimulating root exudation in plants Provided is a plant exudate, methods for obtaining a plant exudate by inducing the plant to secrete an exudate and systems for the collection of a plant exudate which include: one or more plant container including at least two discrete compartments each configured to accommodate a split root of a plant, the compartments being a root stimulating compartment including one or more input being in fluid communication with at least a source of a plant root stimulant, and a root exudate harvesting compartment, and a root exudate collection compartment in fluid communication with the root exudate harvesting compartment.
US12232495B2	Method for producing an antimicrobial composite material and antimicrobial composite material The invention relates to a method for producing an antimicrobially effective composite material (10), in which at least one molybdenum and/or tungsten containing inorganic compound is bound to at least one further material. Furthermore, the invention relates to an antimicrobially effective composite material (10), which includes at least one molybdenum and/or tungsten containing compound, which is bound to at least one further material.
US12232494B2	Aqueous compositions comprising solubilzed lipo-chitooligosaccharides The present disclosure provides aqueous solutions comprising one or more solubilized LCOs, as well as methods of deagglomerating, emulsifying and solubilizing LCOs in aqueous solutions.
US12232491B2	Seed coating This invention relates to a coating for seeds comprising a polymeric material, a method of making and using the coating for improving the adherence of seeds to sloped surfaces, and seeds containing said coating. The invention also relates to a horticulture system for distributing the coated seeds to landscaping and/or agricultural surfaces.
US12232490B2	Avian impact mitigation system In multiple embodiments, the avian impact mitigation system may generally include a pliable mesh that is disposed vertically in front of a window by attaching to a building and hanging down from the attachment points. In some embodiments, the system also includes one or more weighted masses that are attached to a bottom portion of the pliable mesh via one or more deformable members. In many embodiments, the combination of the one or more weighted masses attached to the pliable mesh by the one or more deformable members allows for a gentle and gradual transference of the bird's kinetic energy to the one or more weighted masses by absorbing and dispersing the kinetic energy to decelerate the bird safely and rebound the bird away from the window without making contact with the window.
US12232489B2	Device for performing electrostatic weeding A method for weed control, including: (a) providing an electrode coupled to a power source via a power provision arrangement; and (b) delivering an electrostatic shock on or near a weed plant via the electrode. A device for performing electrostatic weeding, including: (a) an electrode; (b) a handle, coupled to the electrode; and (c) a power provision arrangement operationally coupled to a power source, the power provision arrangement being in electrical communication with the electrode; wherein the electrode is adapted to provide an electrostatic shock to a weed plant so as to damage or destroy the weed plant.
US12232485B2	Protective collar for pet The present disclosure discloses a protective collar for a pet, including: a basically fan-shaped sheet material body, wherein the sheet material body includes a front part, a rear part, a first side end, and a second side end; the front part extends from the first side end to the second side end, and the rear part extends from the first side end to the second side end; a radius of the front part is greater than a radius of the rear part; and a closing mechanism, wherein the closing mechanism attaches the first side end to the second side end, so that the sheet material body is enclosed to form a basically conical protective collar; the front part is semi-transparent or transparent.
US12232483B2	Animal toilet An animal toilet includes a body portion, and a partition portion. The body portion has a bottom face part and a side face part, and is in a box shape. The partition portion is in a plate shape, and divides the inside of the body portion vertically. The partition portion has a through hole that allows urine to pass therethrough. The thickness of the partition portion in a surrounding part around the through hole is smaller than the thickness of the partition portion in a remaining part that is the part other than the surrounding part. The surrounding part around the through hole inclines downward toward the through hole.
US12232482B2	Hybrid tomato variety ‘VT19077601’ Hybrid tomato variety designated ‘VT19077601’ is disclosed. ‘VT19077601’ is a hybrid tomato variety exhibiting stability and uniformity.
US12232481B2	Pepper hybrid SVHJ5816 and parents thereof The invention provides seeds and plants of pepper hybrid SVHJ5816, pepper line SJRFD13-T125, and pepper line HJA-FD18-4956V. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid SVHJ5816, pepper line SJRFD13-T125, and pepper line HJA-FD18-4956V and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a pepper plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid pepper hybrid SVHJ5816, pepper line SJRFD13-T125, and pepper line HJA-FD18-4956V comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US12232472B2	Maize inbred 1PGAW08 A novel maize variety designated 1PGAW08 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 1PGAW08 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 1PGAW08 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety 1PGAW08 or a locus conversion of 1PGAW08 with another maize variety.
US12232470B1	Maize inbred 1PMWQ41 A novel maize variety designated 1PMWQ41 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 1PMWQ41 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 1PMWQ41 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety 1PMWQ41 or a locus conversion of 1PMWQ41 with another maize variety.
US12232466B1	Sorghum inbred PH2015FW A novel sorghum variety designated PH2015FW and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a plant comprise crossing sorghum variety PH2015FW with another plant. Sorghum seed, plants and plant parts produced by crossing sorghum variety PH2015FW with another plant are described. Methods for producing a plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH2015FW include one or both of backcross conversion and transformation. Hybrid sorghum seed, plants or plant parts produced by crossing the sorghum variety PH2015FW or a locus conversion of PH2015FW with another sorghum variety are disclosed.
US12232461B2	Light emission source LED component, horticultural light, and horticultural lighting fixture A lighting fixture for facilitating plant growth and a light emitting component. The fixture includes a single light emission source LED device which provides at least two emission peaks in the wavelength range of 300-800 nm and at least one of the emission peaks has Full Width of Half Maximum (FWHM) at least 50 nm or higher. The emission peaks of the LED match well with a plant photosynthesis response spectrum and is therefore particularly suitable for high efficiency artificial lighting.
US12232459B2	Controller-operated vertical farming system using transportable modules The present invention is a vertical farming system including a set of transportable farming modules, each module having a plurality of vertically arranged farming tiers. Each tier includes a distinct aqueous input, a distinct aqueous drain output, and a distinct aqueous overflow output.
US12232457B1	Robotic transport for grow systems A grow system. The system includes growing plants in grow modules that are individually moveable. The plants grow in trays where roots never touch the water supply. The plumbing to the grow modules is a low flow, one way flow continual drip system that is hands free. A mobile robot can navigate around a growspace, bring any grow module from one location to another, and perform growspace operations. The growspace is a control space with data source zones and a control space manager. The control space manager can collect data and control different variables across different data source zones in order to determine optimal policies and conditions for data source growth and generation.
US12232450B2	Autonomous navigation system and the vehicle made therewith An autonomous agricultural vehicle including a wheel-set operably connected with a power source, a processing unit having a memory unit, and a controller operable to receive and transmit signals to the processing unit, wherein the controller is operable to control the wheel-set. The autonomous agricultural vehicle further including a wireless communication system electrically connected with the processing unit, a global positioning satellite receiver electrically connected with the processing unit, a first perception sensor electrically connected with the processing unit, wherein the first perception sensor is operable to detect environmental features, and a second perception sensor electrically connected with the processing unit, wherein the second perception sensor is operable to detect a feature of a tree. Wherein the processing unit is operable to navigate an environment utilizing signals from the global positioning satellite receiver, and wherein the processing unit is operable to navigate the environment utilizing signals from the first and second perception sensors in a GPS denied environment.
US12232449B2	Flexible catcher assembly for berry harvester An over the row berry harvester provides flexible cushioned elements and surfaces to limit bruising of the fruit harvested. A chassis defines a picking tunnel that passes over rows of plants. A picking system removes fruit from the plants as the harvester moves along the rows. A catching system configured to receive fruit removed from the plants. The catching system includes groups of catch assemblies with soft surfaces on each side of the picking tunnel, each of the catch assemblies at least partially overlapping adjacent catch assemblies. Each of the catch assemblies has a lightweight frame with an aperture and a membrane over molded to bond to the frame and extend across the aperture. The harvest also includes soft surfaces assemblies with membranes stretched between edge frame elements.
US12232446B2	Harvesting system including modular units A harvesting system includes at least one modular unit coupled to a harvester includes a drying unit to dry a harvested material introduced into the harvester including at least one rotating drum, a number of appendages extending from the at least one rotating drum, at least one sensor to determine at least one environmental state within the drying unit, and at least one environmental state adjustment device to adjust at least one environmental attribute within the drying unit. The modular unit also includes a collection unit to collect the harvested material into a unit, a first conveyor mechanism to convey the harvested material from the drying unit to the collection unit, and a control system to control at least the harvester, the drying unit, the collection unit, the first conveyor mechanism, the sensor, and the environmental state adjustment device based on a signal received from the at least one sensor.
US12232445B2	Harvesting header having a hydraulic fluid loop and related systems and methods A harvesting header includes a header frame structured to be coupled to the crop-harvesting machine, a hydraulic pump carried by the header frame, at least one tool carried by the header frame, a hydraulic fluid loop carried by the header frame, a fluid inlet structured to receive hydraulic fluid from the crop-harvesting machine, and a fluid outlet structured to deliver hydraulic fluid to the crop-harvesting machine. The hydraulic fluid loop is structured to circulate hydraulic fluid within the header from the hydraulic pump to the tool(s) and back to the hydraulic pump. Related methods of operating a harvesting header and a non-transitory computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US12232444B2	Cleaning fan airflow control system A cleaning fan on an agricultural harvester generates airflow along an airflow path through a fan duct. A movable flap is mounted relative to the fan duct and controlled to divert the airflow path in a side-to-side transverse direction relative to a front-to-back longitudinal axis of the agricultural harvester.
US12232443B2	Height adjustment device and robotic mower comprising a height adjustment device A height adjustment device may include a height adjustment screw having outer threads and being oriented substantially vertically and arranged rotatably in relation to a chassis, and an adjustment nut connected to a bracket and comprising inner threads for engagement with the threads of the adjustment screw, such that a rotary movement of the height adjustment screw results in a vertical linear movement of the bracket. The adjustment nut may include a first part and a second part which together enclose the adjustment screw, and the first part may be adapted to be attached to the second part. A robotic mower may include the height adjustment device.
US12239034B2	Resistive random access memory device having needle-like-shaped top electrode region and method for fabricating the same A RRAM device is provided. The RRAM device includes: a bottom electrode in a first dielectric layer; a switching layer in a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer, wherein a conductive path is formed in the switching layer when a forming voltage is applied; and a needle-like-shaped top electrode region in a third dielectric layer over the second dielectric layer. The needle-like-shaped top electrode region includes: an oxygen-rich dielectric layer, wherein a lower end of the oxygen-rich dielectric layer is a tip; and a top electrode over the oxygen-rich dielectric layer.
US12239033B2	Resistive random access memory device A memory cell includes: a first electrode; a resistive material layer comprising one horizontal portion and two vertical portions that are respectively coupled to ends of the horizontal portion; and a second electrode, wherein the second electrode is partially surrounded by a top boundary of the U-shaped profile and the first electrode extends along part of a bottom boundary of the U-shaped profile.
US12239029B2	Superconductor-to-insulator devices A device includes a superconductor layer and a piezoelectric layer positioned adjacent to the superconductor layer. The piezoelectric layer is configured to apply a first strain to the superconductor layer in response to receiving a first voltage that is below a predefined voltage threshold and to apply a second strain to the superconductor layer in response to receiving a second voltage that is above the predefined voltage threshold. While the device is maintained below a superconducting threshold temperature for the superconductor layer and is supplied with current below a superconducting threshold current for the superconductor layer, the superconductor layer is configured to 1) operate in a superconducting state when the piezoelectric layer applies the first strain to the superconductor layer and 2) operate in an insulating state when the piezoelectric layer applies the second strain to the superconductor layer.
US12239022B2	Assembly of piezoelectric material substrate and supporting substrate A bonded body includes a supporting substrate, a silicon oxide layer provided on the supporting substrate, and a piezoelectric material substrate provided on the silicon oxide layer and composed of a material selected from the group consisting of lithium niobate, lithium tantalate and lithium niobate-lithium tantalate. The surface resistivity of the piezoelectric material substrate on the side of the silicon oxide layer is 1.7×1015Ω/□ or higher.
US12239009B2	Organometallic compound, organic light-emitting device including the same and electronic apparatus including the organic light-emitting device An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1: M(L1)n1(L2)n2 Formula 1 wherein, Formula 1, M is a transition metal, L1 is a ligand represented by Formula 2 as provided herein, L2 is a ligand represented by Formula 3 as provided herein, and n1 and n2 are each independently 1 or 2.
US12239007B2	Polymer, organic solar cell comprising polymer, perovskite solar cell comprising polymer The present invention relates to a polymer, an organic solar cell comprising the polymer, and a perovskite solar cell comprising the polymer. The polymer according to the present invention has excellent absorption ability for visible light and an energy level suitable for the use as an electron donor compound in a photo-active layer of the organic solar cell, thereby increasing the light conversion efficiency of the organic solar cell. In addition, the polymer according to the present invention has high hole mobility, and is used as a compound for a hole transport layer, and thus can improve efficiency and service life of the perovskite solar cell without an additive.
US12239006B2	Organic device having a first display area, and a second display area including a second electrode surrounding each of first and second adjacent transmission areas An organic device may include a substrate, first electrodes disposed on the substrate, organic layers respectively disposed on the first electrodes, and a second electrode disposed on the organic layers. When the organic device is viewed in a direction normal to the substrate, the organic device may include a first display area that includes the second electrode at a first occupancy, and a second display area that includes the second electrode at a second occupancy lower than the first occupancy. The second display area may include the second electrode, and transmission areas each surrounded by the second electrode in plan view. The transmission areas may include a first transmission area, and a second transmission area adjacent to the first transmission area via the second electrode. The first transmission area may have a first shape, and the second transmission area may have a second shape different from the first shape.
US12239005B2	Display device and system A display device having a photosensing function is provided. A display device having a biometric authentication function typified by fingerprint authentication is provided. A display device having a touch panel function and a biometric authentication function is provided. The display device includes a first substrate, a light guide plate, a first light-emitting element, a second light-emitting element, and a light-receiving element. The first substrate and the light guide plate are provided to face each other. The first light-emitting element and the light-receiving element are provided between the first substrate and the light guide plate. The first light-emitting element has a function of emitting first light through the light guide plate. The second light-emitting element has a function of emitting second light to a side surface of the light guide plate. The light-receiving element has functions of receiving the first light and converting the first light into an electric signal and functions of receiving the second light and converting the second light into an electric signal. The first light includes visible light, and the second light includes infrared light.
US12239004B2	Display panel, packaged evaporation shadow mask, display device and preparation method A display panel includes a display area and a non-display area; the display area includes multiple first sub-pixel minimum repeating units; the multiple first sub-pixel minimum repeating units are sequentially and periodically arranged in a first direction, and in the first direction, a center distance between any two adjacent ones of the multiple first sub-pixel minimum repeating units is d1; the non-display area includes a first offset mark A1 and a second offset mark A2 arranged in the first direction; a center distance L1 between the first offset mark A1 and the second offset mark A2 is an integral multiple of the center distance d1 between the first sub-pixel minimum repeating units.
US12239002B2	Display substrate and display device A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a display region and an opening located in the display region, the opening penetrates through the display substrate, and the display substrate includes a base substrate, a driving circuit layer, a light-emitting component layer, an encapsulation layer, and a touch control layer. The driving circuit layer includes a first signal line at least partially surrounding the opening; the light-emitting component layer is provided on a side of the driving circuit layer away from the base substrate; the encapsulation layer is provided on a side of the light-emitting component layer away from the base substrate; the touch control layer includes a touch control electrode and a touch control compensation electrode at least partially surrounding the opening; the first signal line at least partially overlaps with the touch control compensation electrode.
US12239001B2	Display device A display device includes a display area including a first display area and a second display area adjacent to each other; a driving circuit, at least part of the driving circuit being disposed in the second display area; first pixel circuit units disposed in the first display area; first light emitting elements disposed in the first display area and electrically connected to the first pixel circuit units; second pixel circuit units disposed in the second display area; second light emitting elements disposed in the second display area and two or more of the second light emitting elements are electrically connected to a second pixel circuit unit; and a light blocking layer overlapping at least one of the second light emitting elements in a plan view.
US12238997B2	Display substrate and display device A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes repeating units, each repeating unit includes one first color sub-pixel, one second color sub-pixel pair and one third color sub-pixel, the second color sub-pixel pair includes two second color sub-pixels. In each repeating unit, a distance, along the first direction, between a center of the third color sub-pixel and a center of the second color sub-pixel pair is a first distance; two adjacent repeating units located in a same repeating unit group include a first repeating unit and a second repeating unit, a distance between a center of a second color sub-pixel pair in a third repeating unit adjacent to both the first repeating unit and the second repeating unit and a center of a third color sub-pixel in the first repeating unit is a second distance, and the first distance is different from the second distance.
US12238995B2	Display panel with substrate having a through hole including therein a conductive part and a resin part, a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device including the display panel A display panel including: a substrate having a through hole, a conductive part disposed on an inner surface of the through hole and a resin part in the through hole and adjacent to the conductive part; a circuit layer disposed at a first side of the substrate; and a pad disposed at a second side of the substrate and electrically connected to the circuit layer by the conductive part, wherein a width of the through hole is larger near the first side or the second side of the substrate than at a center of the through hole.
US12238991B2	Display substrate comprising sub-pixels in fan-out wiring region and preparation method therefor A display substrate and a preparation method therefor, and a display apparatus are provided. The display substrate includes a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area, the display area including a first display region, a second display region and a fan-out wiring region, the second display region being located between the first display region and the fan-out wiring region; the first display region including a plurality of first sub-pixels, the first sub-pixel including a first pixel circuit and a first light emitting element; the second display region including a plurality of second sub-pixels, the second sub-pixel including a second pixel circuit and a second light emitting element; the fan-out wiring region including a plurality of data fan-out lines and a plurality of third sub-pixels, the third sub-pixel including a third light emitting element.
US12238987B2	Display device A display device includes a display area having a pixel, a non-display area, and a non-display sub-region including a first area and a bending area, along a first direction, and a first power line which is in the non-display area and the first area and transmits a power voltage to the pixel, the first power line including a first and a second power connection portion spaced apart from each other in the first direction, and a first power path portion and a second power path portion which are spaced apart from each other along a second direction and connect the first and second power connection portions to each other. The length of the non-display sub-region is smaller than the length of the non-display area, and the first power path portion is closer to the outer edge of the non-display sub-region than the second power path portion.
US12238983B2	Display substrate and manufacturing method thereof, and display device A display substrate and a manufacturing method and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes: a first electrode pattern, a connecting electrode pattern, a second electrode, a light-emitting functional layer and a first dummy electrode pattern. The first electrode pattern is includes a plurality of first electrodes spaced apart from each other. The second electrode is connected with the connecting electrode pattern, the second electrode and the first electrode pattern are spaced apart from each other. The first dummy electrode pattern includes a plurality of first dummy electrodes; the connecting electrode pattern surrounds the first electrode pattern, the first dummy electrode pattern is located between the connecting electrode pattern and the first electrode pattern, and at least two of the plurality of first dummy electrodes are each of a block shape and are spaced apart from each other.
US12238982B2	Display device including light-blocking layer and sensor layer A display device includes: a substrate including a display area having a plurality of pixel areas and a non-display area surrounding at least one side of the display area; a light-blocking layer disposed on a first surface of the substrate and including light transmissive areas to allow incident light to pass therethrough; a circuit-element layer disposed on the light-blocking layer and including a plurality of conductive layers; a light-emitting element layer disposed on the circuit-element layer and including light-emitting elements; and a sensor layer disposed on a second surface of the substrate opposing the first surface to sense the light passing through the light transmissive areas. The light-blocking layer is electrically coupled to at least one of the plurality of conductive layers.
US12238976B2	Display panel and display device The disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes: a base substrate, a transistor array layer, a pixel defining layer, touch electrodes. The area of opening region of first color sub-pixel is smaller than that of opening region of third color sub-pixel, the area of opening region of second color sub-pixel is smaller than that of opening region of third color sub-pixel. An orthogonal projection of second capacitor in first color sub-pixel and an orthogonal projection of touch electrodes have a first auxiliary overlap area, an orthogonal projection of second capacitor in second color sub-pixel and orthogonal projection of the touch electrodes have a second auxiliary overlap area, an orthogonal projection of second capacitor in third color sub-pixel and orthogonal projection of touch electrodes have a third auxiliary overlap area. The first and/or second auxiliary overlap area is larger than the third auxiliary overlap area.
US12238975B2	Display substrate and display apparatus A display substrate and a display apparatus are provided. The display substrate includes: a base, and a plurality of sub-pixel regions arranged in a matrix on the base. Each sub-pixel region includes a display region and a transparent region; and the boundary of the transparent region in each sub-pixel region is non-linear.
US12238974B2	Display substrate and method for manufacturing the same, display panel, and display apparatus A display substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of first electrodes, a first pixel defining layer, and a second pixel defining layer disposed on the base substrate, and light-emitting layers disposed in a plurality of second opening regions. The first pixel defining layer includes a plurality of first opening regions, and each of the first opening regions exposes at least a portion of a first electrode. The second pixel defining layer includes the plurality of second opening regions, each second opening regions corresponds to at least two first opening regions, and the orthogonal projections of the at least two first opening regions on the base substrate are located within the orthogonal projection of the second opening region on the base substrate. The light-emitting layers overspreads the plurality of second opening regions in a plane perpendicular to a thickness direction of the base substrate, respectively.
US12238973B2	Display substrate and preparation method thereof, and display apparatus A display substrate includes a driving circuit layer arranged on a base and a light emitting structure layer arranged on one side, away from the base, of the driving circuit layer; the light emitting structure layer includes an anode, a pixel definition layer, an organic light emitting layer, a cathode, and an auxiliary electrode; the pixel definition layer has a first pixel opening exposing the anode and a second pixel opening exposing the auxiliary electrode; the organic light emitting layer connected to the anode and the cathode connected to the organic light emitting layer are arranged in the first pixel opening; the organic light emitting layer separated from the auxiliary electrode and the cathode located on one side, away from the base, of the organic light emitting layer are arranged in the second pixel opening; and the cathode is connected to the auxiliary electrode in the second pixel opening.
US12238972B2	Display device A display device includes: a substrate; a pixel defining layer disposed on the substrate and that includes a pixel opening; an emission layer that overlaps the pixel opening of the pixel defining layer; and an anti-reflection layer that overlaps the pixel defining layer along a direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate and is disposed along a portion of an edge of the pixel opening.
US12238967B2	Display device and method of manufacturing the display device A display device includes: a substrate including an opening area, a display area surrounding the opening area, and a non-display area between the opening area and the display area; a first insulating layer on the substrate, the first insulating layer including a first recess or a first opening overlapping the non-display area; a second insulating layer on the first insulating layer, the second insulating layer including a second opening exposing a first upper surface of the first insulating layer between the first recess or the first opening and the opening area; a conductive pattern between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer, the conductive pattern including a first layer and a second layer; and a display element on the second insulating layer and overlapping the display area, the display element including a first electrode, an emission layer, and a second electrode.
US12238963B2	Display device and method of manufacturing the same A display device having an optical panel with improved light extraction efficiency and light conversion efficiency is provided. The display device includes a first substrate, first to third light-emitting elements arranged on the first substrate, an encapsulation layer covering the first to third light-emitting elements, a first light blocking layer arranged on the encapsulation layer, the first light blocking layer including first openings respectively corresponding to the first to third light-emitting elements, a reflective layer arranged on the first light blocking layer, the reflective layer corresponding to an inner surface of each of the first openings, a first color conversion layer, a second color conversion layer, and a light transmission layer respectively located in first openings, a second light blocking layer on the first light blocking layer including second openings overlapping the first openings, and first to third color filter layers located in the second openings.
US12238962B2	Electroluminescent device having light transmitting region of non-through-hole structure A display device assembly including a glass substrate and a display device disposed on the glass substrate, the display device including a first portion and a second portion having a light transmittance greater than the first portion, in which the display device includes at least one display pixel, and a lower portion of the glass substrate has a recess vertically corresponding to the second portion of the display device.
US12238959B2	Rollable display device A rollable display device having a normal display status and an expanded display status is disclosed. The rollable display device includes a display layer and an optical layer. The display layer has a greater display area when the rollable display device is in the expanded display status than in the normal display status. The optical layer is attached to the display layer through an adhesive, and the optical layer includes a base layer and a functional layer disposed between the base layer and the adhesive. The functional layer is in contact with the adhesive.
US12238958B2	Organic electroluminescence module, encapsulating method thereof, and display device An organic electroluminescence module, an encapsulating method, and a display device are provided. The organic electroluminescence module includes a substrate, an organic electroluminescent device disposed on the substrate, a first encapsulation layer disposed on a side of the organic electroluminescent device away from the substrate, and a second encapsulation layer disposed on a side of the first encapsulation layer away from the substrate. The first encapsulation layer is capable of preventing a gas generated by the second encapsulation layer from entering the organic electroluminescent device.
US12238956B2	Display substrate, method for manufacturing the same and display device A display substrate, a method for manufacturing the same and a display device. In the display substrate, a sealant region includes: a corner sealant region, a lead-in sealant region, and a first sealant region on a first side of a display area. The corner sealant region is provided with an encapsulation base layer. A non-display area is provided with a second power line, a gate drive circuit and multiple first signal lines configured to provide signals to the gate drive circuit. The second power line includes a power line corner portion and a first power line portion, the first power line portion overlaps the first sealant region, and the first power line portion extends in a first direction. A target portion of each first signal line is at least located in the corner sealant region.
US12238955B2	Display device and electronic apparatus A display device includes: a first substrate including a display area including display elements arranged in a matrix; a second substrate including a transparent material; and a seal portion placed so as to surround a periphery of the display area, wherein the seal portion includes a core including a light shielding material and a covering member including a sealing material, and the first substrate and the second substrate are sealed while a surface of the covering member in the seal portion serves as a contact surface.
US12238953B2	Display device including concave shaped auxiliary electrode A display device includes a substrate including a plurality of sub-pixels; a planarization layer disposed on the substrate and including a trench adjacent to the plurality of sub-pixels; a plurality of light emitting elements disposed in the plurality of sub-pixels and sharing an organic layer and a cathode; and an auxiliary electrode disposed in the trench and connected to the cathode. A side surface of the auxiliary electrode has a concave shape. The organic layer has an open portion that is disconnected by the auxiliary electrode. Therefore, it is possible to minimize current leakage through the common layer and prevent an increase in resistance of the cathode by the auxiliary electrode.
US12238952B2	Light emitting diode, method of manufacturing the same, and light emitting device The present disclosure provides a light-emitting diode, including a first electrode, a light-emitting functional layer and a second electrode which are stacked, the first electrode is a transparent electrode, the second electrode includes a metal electrode layer and a semiconductor auxiliary layer, the metal electrode layer is attached to the light-emitting functional layer, the semiconductor auxiliary layer is located on a surface of the metal electrode layer away from the light-emitting functional layer. The metal electrode layer is made of a magnesium-silver alloy, a thickness of the metal electrode layer is between 3 nm and 5 nm, and the semiconductor auxiliary layer is made of IZO, a thickness of the semiconductor auxiliary layer is between 100 nm and 130 nm. The present disclosure further provides a light emitting device and a method of manufacturing a light emitting diode. The light-emitting diode has high color rendering index and low power consumption.
US12238951B2	Organic electroluminescent device and array substrate An organic electroluminescent device comprises an anode, a first organic light emitting layer, an exciton control layer, a second organic light emitting layer, and a cathode that are successively stacked, wherein the first organic light emitting layer comprises a hole transport type host material and a first doped material; the exciton control layer is provided on the surface of the first organic light emitting layer away from the anode; the exciton control layer comprises a first hole transport material and a first electron transport material; the second organic light emitting layer comprises an electron transport type host material and a second doped material; the cathode is provided on the side of the second organic light emitting layer away from the anode; and one of the first doped material and the second doped material is a fluorescence-doped material, and the other is a phosphorescence-doped material.
US12238947B2	Solid-state imaging device, method of manufacturing solid-state imaging device, and electronic equipment A solid-state imaging device (1) according to the present disclosure includes a photoelectric conversion portion (30) including a first electrode (31), a photoelectric conversion layer (34) electrically connected to the first electrode (31), and a second electrode (35) provided on a surface on a light incidence side of the photoelectric conversion layer (34). The photoelectric conversion layer (34) has a protrusion region (34a) that protrudes from the second electrode (35) when seen in a plan view.
US12238946B2	Perovskite/silicon heterojunction tandem solar cell and preparation method thereof The present invention relates to the technical field of solar cells, and particularly relates to a perovskite/silicon heterojunction tandem solar cell and a preparation method thereof. The solar cell includes a silicon-based sub-cell and a perovskite sub-cell laminated on the silicon-based sub-cell, where intermediate layers or recombination junctions formed by a p-type heavily-doped amorphous silicon layer and an n-type heavily-doped amorphous silicon layer are arranged between the silicon-based sub-cell and the perovskite sub-cell. According to the present invention, through the use of the p-type heavily-doped amorphous silicon layer and the n-type heavily-doped amorphous silicon layer as a carrier recombination junction, on the one hand, the preparation and equipment costs are greatly reduced, and on the other hand, the photocurrent density and conversion efficiency of the tandem cell can be improved.
US12238945B2	Dynamic urea bond-based passivators of perovskite Disclosed is a passivated perovskite structure containing a perovskite layer; and a hindered urea bond-based Lewis acid-base containing layer adjacent the perovskite layer. Also disclosed are solar cells containing the passivated perovskite structure.
US12238941B2	Semiconductor device having gate isolation layer A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first region and a second region, first active fins that extend in a first direction in the first region, second active fins that extend in the first direction in the second region, a first field insulating layer between the first active fins and that extend in a second direction, a second field insulating layer between the second active fins and extending in the second direction, a gate line that extends in the second direction on the second field insulating layer, the gate line linearly along with the first field insulating layer, a gate isolation layer between the first field insulating layer and the gate line, and gate spacers that extend in the second direction, the gate spacers in contact with both sidewalls of each of the first field insulating layer, the gate line, and the gate isolation layer.
US12238939B2	Memory device having two memory stacks over one bottom electrode A memory device includes a first bottom electrode, a first memory stack, and a second memory stack. The first bottom electrode has a first portion and a second portion connected to the first portion. The first memory stack is over the first portion of the first bottom electrode. The first memory stack includes a first resistive switching element and a first top electrode over the first resistive switching element. The second memory stack is over the second portion of the first bottom electrode. The second memory stack comprises a second resistive switching element and a second top electrode over the second resistive switching element.
US12238938B1	Random number generators including magnetic-tunnel-junction layer stacks Structures for a random number generator that include magnetic-tunnel-junction layer stacks and methods of forming such structures. The structure comprises a write line, first and source lines, a first transistor connected by the first source line to a first end of the write line, and a second transistor connected by the second source line to a second end of the write line. The structure further comprises a plurality of magnetic-tunneling-junction layer stacks disposed on the write line between the first and second ends of the write line.
US12238935B1	Embedded memory adjacent to non-memory A process integration and patterning flow used to pattern a memory array area for an embedded memory without perturbing a fabricating process for logic circuitries. The fabrication process uses a pocket mask (e.g., a hard mask) to decouple the etching process of a memory array area and non-memory area. Such decoupling allows for a simpler fabrication process with little to no impact on the current fabrication process. The fabrication process may use multiple pocket masks to decouple the etching process of the memory array area and the non-memory area. This fabrication process (using multiple pocket masks) allows to avoid exposure of memory material into a second pocket etch chamber. The process of etching memory material is decoupled from the process of etching an encapsulation material. Examples of embedded memory include dynamic random-access memory and ferroelectric random-access memory.
US12238934B2	Method of fabricating semiconductor device comprising ferroelectric layer A method for fabricating a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes depositing a ferroelectric layer over the substrate; performing a first ionized physical deposition process to deposit a top electrode layer over the ferroelectric layer; patterning the top electrode layer into a top electrode; and patterning the ferroelectric layer to into a ferroelectric element below the top electrode.
US12238930B2	Semiconductor memory device with increased reliability and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes: a stacked body with insulating layers and conductive layers alternately stacked along a first direction; a semiconductor layer disposed along the first direction in the stacked body; a first insulating film disposed along the first direction between the stacked body and the semiconductor layer; a second insulating film disposed along the first direction between the stacked body and the first insulating layer; a third insulating film disposed along the first direction between the stacked body and the second insulating film; and a fourth insulating film having a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being disposed between the conductive layers and the third insulating film, and the second portion being disposed along a second direction that intersects the first direction between the conductive layer and the insulating layer and being connected to the first portion, and average concentrations of deuterium in the first portion of the fourth insulating film, the third insulating film, the second insulating film, and the first insulating film are lower in an order of the second insulating film>the first insulating film>the first portion>the third insulating film.
US12238929B2	Memory device A memory device includes a first conductor and a charge storage film extending along a first direction; a first semiconductor of a first conductive type; a second and third semiconductor each of a second conductive type; and a stack comprising a second conductor, a first insulator, and a third conductor sequentially stacked along the first direction and each extending along a second direction. The first conductor, the charge storage film, the first semiconductor, and the stack are arranged in this order along a third direction. The second semiconductor is in contact with the first semiconductor and the second conductor, between the second conductor or the first insulator and the charge storage film.
US12238928B2	Three-dimensional flash memory with reduced wire length and manufacturing method therefor A three-dimensional flash memory is provided, and technique to suppress interference caused by an inter-cell insulation layer in a vertical cell and to form a stable vertical channel layer, a technique to reduce a length of wire than a conventional three-dimensional flash memory for overcoming problems of deterioration of chip characteristics such as operation speed and power consumption and difficulty of wiring technique in the manufacturing process, and a technique to improve horizontal density of channel layers and ONO layers are proposed.
US12238924B2	Semiconductor device having STI region Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes a semiconductor substrate including first and second circuit regions a first trench extending in a first direction and formed between the first and second circuit regions, wherein the first trench includes a first inner wall positioned on the first circuit region side and a second inner van positioned on the second circuit region side, and a plurality of second trenches extending in a second direction different from the first direction and firmed in the first circuit region such that the second trench communicates with the first trench at the first inner wall; and a first insulating film formed on the first and second inner walls such that the second inner wall is covered with the first insulating film without being exposed.
US12238912B2	Electromagnetic energy mitigation assemblies and automotive vehicle components including the same This application discloses electromagnetic energy mitigation assemblies and automotive vehicle components comprising the electromagnetic energy mitigation assemblies. An electromagnetic energy mitigation assembly includes a first electrically conductive layer and a second electrically conductive layer. First and second permalloy layers are along respective first and second opposite sides of the first electrically conductive layer. Third and fourth permalloy layers are along respective third and fourth opposite sides of the second electrically conductive layer. An electromagnetic noise suppression layer is sandwiched between the second and third permalloy layers. An automotive vehicle component includes an electromagnetic energy mitigation assembly configured to be positioned relative to one or more batteries of an automotive vehicle for providing electromagnetic shielding for the one or more batteries. The electromagnetic energy mitigation assembly includes a first electrically conductive layer. First and second permalloy layers are along respective first and second opposite sides of the first electrically conductive layer.
US12238908B2	Vehicle power module assembly A vehicle power module assembly including first and second power modules is provided. The first power module may include a first lock feature extending from a lower portion of a first minor side at a first central axis. The second power module may include a second lock feature at an upper portion of a second minor side at a second central axis. The lock features may be sized for interlock with one another to secure the power modules to one another. The first lock feature may be a loop element defining a through-hole and the second lock feature may be a wedge. The through-hole may be sized for the wedge to extend therein and to interlock the first power module and the second power module to one another. The first lock feature may be a flexible hook element and the second lock feature may be a slot.
US12238904B2	Cooling system with common modular manifolds A cooling system for a modular power control system (MPCS) is provided. The MPCS comprises modules. Each module has a chassis with a first manifold segment for first common manifold and a second manifold segment for second common manifold. When the modules are mounts to each other, the first manifold segments align to form the first common manifold and the second manifold segments align to form the second common manifold, providing two fluid channels between endcaps. The chassis of at least two modules further have a first opening providing a fluid interface region between the first common manifold and a module specific flow path, and a second opening providing a fluid interface region between the module specific flow path and the second common manifold. The module specific flow path provides at least one fluid branch between the first common manifold and the second common manifold.
US12238903B2	Water-cooled heat dissipation module assembly A water-cooled heat dissipation module assembly capable of cooling a power module of a vehicle driving inverter system using a battery or fuel cell. The water-cooled heat dissipation module assembly includes a housing unit provided in the form of a housing having an opening portion at least partially opened at one side thereof. The housing unit and at least a part of a rim region of the cooling unit are made of a plastic material, and the housing unit and the cooling unit are joined to each other by plastic welding using a laser.
US12238899B2	Thermal management of high heat flux multicomponent assembly An electronic package includes a thermal interface for dissipating heat from an electronic component array including a plurality of electronic components secured to a substrate. The thermal interface includes a thin heat spreading layer for transferring heat input from the electronic components along directions transverse to heat flux. The heat spreading layer is part of a laminate structure that is efficiently utilized by spreading thermal energy across an input plane.
US12238895B2	Intelligent low pressure two-phase cold plate with flow stabilization for datacenter cooling systems Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a cold plate includes an evaporator to remove heat from at least one computing device using a two-phase fluid and using a buffer to perform flow stabilization represented by different volumes or different flow rates of a two-phase fluid that is enabled to flow between an evaporator and a condensing or compressor unit located external to a cold plate.
US12238892B2	Immersion cooling for integrated circuit devices A two-phase immersion cooling system for an integrated circuit assembly may be formed utilizing boiling enhancement structures formed on or directly attached to heat dissipation devices within the integrated circuit assembly, formed on or directly attached to integrated circuit devices within the integrated circuit assembly, and/or conformally formed over support devices and at least a portion of an electronic board within the integrated circuit assembly. In still a further embodiment, the two-phase immersion cooling system may include a low boiling point liquid including at least two liquids that are substantially immiscible with one another.
US12238890B2	Expansion frame and server including the same An expansion frame includes a main body, a cable gathering component fixed to the main body and having a cable management space, two mount cages, a cable organizer including a mount part and a cable organization part connected to each other, four circuit boards, and four connection cables. The mount cages are located on a side of the cable gathering component. The mount part is located between the mount cages. The cable organization part extends from the mount part towards the cable gathering component and has a cable gathering hole connected to the cable management space. Two of the circuit boards are disposed on one of the mount cages, and other two of the circuit boards are disposed on the other of the mount cages. The connection cables are connected to the circuit boards, disposed through the cable gathering hole and extend into the cable management space.
US12238882B2	Components of an electronic device and methods for their assembly Various components of an electronic device housing and methods for their assembly are disclosed. The housing can be formed by assembling and connecting two or more different sections together. The sections of the housing may be coupled together using one or more coupling members. The coupling members may be formed using a two-shot molding process in which the first shot forms a structural portion of the coupling members, and the second shot forms cosmetic portions of the coupling members.
US12238880B2	Retractable screen mobile device A retractable screen mobile device comprises a main unit, a retractable unit, an elastic element, a constant force spring, and a flexible display screen. When the retractable unit is in a retracted state, the flexible display screen is supported by a first supporting surface of the main unit; when the retractable unit is in an outstretched state, the flexible display screen is supported by the first supporting surface of the main unit and a second supporting surface of the retractable unit.
US12238876B2	Size-adjustable structure for mounting and protecting electronic device and tank A structure for securely mounting and protecting electronic devices within a housing or tank includes two supporting plates connected to two mounting pieces. The supporting plate defines a first hole, and the mounting piece defines a second hole. A fastener through the first hole and the second hole will position and hold the mounting piece on the supporting plate. The two mounting pieces position the electronic device. The mounting pieces are adjustable relative to the supporting plate, so the distance between two mounting pieces is fully adjustable to fit and hold electronic devices of different sizes. A tank or housing using the structure is also disclosed.
US12238874B2	Electric device The electric device has a first seal part, including, between a first case and a second case, a groove portion prepared at one side and a projection portion prepared at another side, where those portions are joined by sealing material; a second seal part, including, between the opening part of the first case and a peripheral part of the connector, a groove portion prepared at one side and a projection portion prepared at another side, where those portions are joined by the sealing material; and a third seal part, including, among the first case, the second case, and the peripheral part of the connector, a groove portion prepared at one side and a projection portion prepared at another side, as a combination, or a projection portion prepared at one side and a groove portion prepared at another side, as a combination, where those portions are joined by the sealing material.
US12238871B2	Method for manufacturing component embedded circuit board A component embedded circuit board includes a printed circuit board, a dielectric layer, and an antenna structure laminated in that order. The printed circuit board includes a first opening and a first circuit layer, and the first circuit layer includes at least one first connecting pad. A second opening is defined in the dielectric layer. A conductive structure is embedded in the dielectric layer. The second opening penetrates the dielectric layer. The antenna structure includes a first ground layer. A component is embedded in the first opening. One end of the conductive structure is connected to the first ground layer, and the other end of the conductive structure is connected to the first connecting pad. The second opening corresponds to the first opening. A gap is generated by the second opening and the component. A method for manufacturing the package circuit structure is also disclosed.
US12238867B2	Temporary storage and reflow frame substrate system A temporary storage and reflow frame substrate system includes a substrate frame, a substrate loading and unloading station, a first conveying unit, and a second conveying unit. The substrate frame is suitable for loading the substrate. The substrate loading and unloading station includes a robotic arm, a feeding and discharging unit and a returning unit, the substrate frame is suitable for connecting to the feeding and discharging unit and the returning unit, the robotic arm is suitable to place the substrate into or remove the substrate from the substrate frame. The first conveying unit is connected to the feeding and discharging unit and is suitable for conveying the substrate frame. The second conveying unit is connected between the first conveying unit and the returning unit, in order to return the substrate frame to the returning unit, thereby loading and unloading the substrate at the substrate loading and unloading station.
US12238860B2	Printed circuit board, display device comprising the printed circuit board, and image display system A printed circuit board, a display device and an image display system are provided. The printed circuit board is configured to drive a display panel and includes a polygonal outline including a first side and a second side, and the extension direction of the first side and the extension direction of the second side intersect and are not perpendicular to each other. The printed circuit board includes a first interface configured to be electrically connected to a controller; and a second interface configured to be electrically connected to the display panel. The length extension direction of the first interface forms a first included angle with respect to the extension direction of the first side, and the length extension direction of the second interface forms a second included angle with respect to the extension direction of the second side, each included angle is not greater than 20 degrees.
US12238859B2	Wiring circuit board Provided is a wiring circuit board that includes a first insulating layer, a conductive pattern disposed on the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer disposed on the first insulating layer and covering the conductive pattern, and a third protective layer disposed between the conductive pattern and the second insulating layer and protecting the conductive pattern. The third protective layer consists of a metal oxide.
US12238856B2	Heat sink with adaptive curvature to mitigate thermal runaway for a circuit component A heat sink component includes a cold plate including a first surface configured to engage a circuit component and a second surface opposing the first surface, and a plurality of fins extending transversely from the second surface of the cold plate. The first surface includes a non-planar surface portion and a planar surface portion surrounding the non-planar surface portion. The non-planar surface portion of the cold plate provides an adaptive contour to complement a surface of a circuit component that experiences thermal warpage due to change in temperature during operation.
US12238854B2	Printed circuit board assembly embedded thermal management system using phase change materials An electronic assembly comprises a printed circuit board including a plurality of stacked layers, wherein the stacked layers comprise a plurality of conductive layers, a plurality of dielectric layers respectively interposed between the conductive layers, and one or more phase change material layers interposed between at least one pair of the dielectric layers or at least one pair of the conductive layers. During a phase change, the one or more phase change material layers are configured to absorb thermal energy at a phase transition temperature to provide enhanced cooling of the printed circuit board. In some embodiments, the printed circuit board can be a metal core printed circuit board.
US12238853B2	Heat sink and electronic device A heat sink includes: a first heat dissipation module in thermal contact with the first heat source; a heat dissipation base in thermal contact with the second heat source, where the heat dissipation base is fixed on the circuit board, the first heat dissipation module is floatingly fixed on the heat dissipation base, and the heat dissipation base is provided with a first opening; and a second heat dissipation module, disposed between the first heat dissipation module and the heat dissipation base, where the second heat dissipation module is fixed on the heat dissipation base, the second heat dissipation module is provided with a second opening corresponding to the first opening, and the first heat dissipation module sequentially runs through the second opening and the first opening to be in thermal contact with the first heat source.
US12238848B2	EUV light source target metrology Disclosed is an apparatus for and method of aligning a target composed of a target material and a conditioning beam provided to condition the target by changing the target's shape, mass distribution, etc., in which the conditioning beam includes structured light in the form of an inhomogeneous distribution of a propagation mode such as a polarization mode across a spatial mode of the target.
US12238846B2	Induction device An induction device includes an induction unit including a sensor unit, which is arranged above the induction unit in a mounted position and includes a plurality of presence sensor elements arranged in a distributed manner and configured to detect a sensor parameter in the form of a presence parameter of an object. A control unit is provided to analyze the sensor parameter.
US12238844B2	Cooktop A cooktop appliance apparatus for use in cooking includes a controller for controlling operation of the fan system based on an average power level supplied to a heating system, and based on a temperature measure associated with one or more subsystems. The appliance includes a hardware-implemented safety module having two or more temperature actuated safety circuits. The appliance includes a user interface adapted to receive a user input with respect to operating parameters of the heating system, the user input including a heating control mode and a set temperature. The appliance includes a controller adapted to identify a cooking vessel on an induction cooktop.
US12238843B2	Lighting apparatus A lighting apparatus includes an external controller, a first LED module, a second LED module, a rectifier, a power switch, a manual switch, a light housing and an allocation module. The external controller converts an external signal of an external wall switch to a light intensity signal. The external controller is coupled to the external wall switch. The wall switch is a continuous switch for a user to select a continuous value from a range. The first LED module and the second LED module emit lights of different color temperatures. The rectifier for converts an AC power to a DC power. The power switch is coupled to the rectifier for generating a driving current corresponding to the light intensity signal. The manual switch selects a color temperature setting.
US12238842B2	Defining one or more groups in a configurable system based on device name similarity A system (1) for configuring a configurable system that comprises a plurality of devices that have been given names is configured to obtain the names given to the plurality of devices, determine which of the plurality of devices have similarities in their names and determine a group (56) comprising a subset of the plurality of devices based on the similarities. The subset comprises multiple devices which have similarities in their names (52-53). The system is further configured to define the group in the configurable system by configuring the configurable system.
US12238840B2	Lighting control method, lighting control device and lighting device Disclosed is a lighting control method and a lighting control device for a light source having LEDs, and a lighting device and includes acquiring the number of LEDs and a control curve for controlling changes in brightness and color of the light emitted from each LED over time, the control curve defines the same brightness cycle and color cycle for each LED, the brightness cycle indicates a brightness period and a brightness curve of the change in brightness over time within each period, determining a time offset on the control curve according to the number of LEDs and the brightness change period, determining the starting timings of the remaining LEDs on the control curve according to the starting timing of the first LED and the time offset, and controlling each LED from the starting timing on the control curve, to emit light according to the brightness and color determined.
US12238836B2	Lighting apparatus A lighting apparatus includes a bridge circuit, a current source, a first LED module, a second LED module and a switch. The bridge circuit is used for rectifying an input AC power to generate a DC power. The current source receives the DC power to generate a driving current. The first LED module emits a first light of a first color temperature. The second LED module emits a second light of a second color temperature. The switch is coupled to the current source to change at least a resistance parameter corresponding to a current ratio between the first LED module and the second LED module to generate a mixed light of a mixed color temperature.
US12238830B2	Lighting apparatus A lighting apparatus includes a filter tuner, a bridge rectifier, multiple types of LED modules, a monitor circuit, and a current source. The filter tuner is connected to a manual switch and an external AC power. The filter tuner changes a conductive angle of the external AC power to an adjusted AC input. The bridge rectifier receives the adjusted AC input to generate a DC output. Multiple types of LED modules are disposed for emitting lights of multiple color temperatures. The monitor circuit monitors the conductive angle to generate a control signal. The current source, according to the control signal, generates multiple corresponding driving currents respectively supplied to the multiple types of LED modules to mix a desired color temperature. The desired color temperature is associated with the conductive angle according to a predetermined relation.
US12238828B2	Removable electric grill controller with mount The present disclosure related to an electric grill's housing, controller, and a mounting bracket which mounts the controller to the housing. The mounting bracket is generally hollow and forms a thermal barrier between the controller and the housing, wherein the thermal barrier protects the controller from heat generated in the housing. As a result, the controller does not require insulation and may include lower temperature rated components. Moreover, the mounting bracket may have metallic tabs which interface with spring elements on the controller, thereby fastening the controller to the bracket. These spring elements and metallic tabs may be in electric communication with the housing, thereby allowing the controller to act as an electric ground with respect to the housing.
US12238827B2	Base structure and wafer placing device A base structure includes a base, a first conductor layer, and a via conductor. The base has a first surface. The first conductor layer is positioned along the first surface in the base. The via conductor includes a first part and a second part in a section that includes the via conductor and that extends in a first direction perpendicular to the first surface. The length of the first part in the first direction is larger than the thickness of the first conductor layer. The length of the second part in the first direction is larger than the thickness of the first conductor layer. The second part is continuous with the first part, and at least a portion of the outer edge of the second part is displaced from the outer edge of the first part when viewed in the first direction.
US12238826B2	Semiconductor-manufacturing apparatus member and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor-manufacturing apparatus member includes an upper plate that has a wafer placement surface having a concave shape or a convex shape, that contains an electrostatic electrode, and that is composed of ceramics; an intermediate plate that is joined to a surface of the upper plate opposite the wafer placement surface with a first metal joining layer interposed therebetween; and a lower plate that is joined to a surface of the intermediate plate opposite the surface that is joined to the upper plate with a second metal joining layer interposed therebetween, wherein a thermal expansion coefficient of the intermediate plate is larger than thermal expansion coefficients of the upper plate and the lower plate.
US12238825B2	Method for providing an elastic content filtering security service in a mesh network The present disclosure distributes processing capabilities throughout different nodes in a wireless network. Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure increase the efficiency of communications in a wireless network because they help minimize the need to forward communications to other nodes in the network. Apparatus and methods consistent with the present disclosure perform a function of elastic content filtering because rating information may be stored in different memories of different mesh nodes according to rules or profiles associated with a wireless mesh network as responses to requests are sent back along a route in a wireless mesh network in a manner that may not increase an amount of network traffic. When, however, network traffic dips below a threshold level, additional messages may be sent to certain mesh nodes that update rating information stored at those certain mesh nodes.
US12238822B2	Automated subscription management for remote infrastructure Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automated subscription management for remote infrastructure are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining subscription data related to at least one subscription for hardware infrastructure provided by a service provider, wherein the subscription data is obtained by the hardware infrastructure at a remote location; obtaining usage data and deployment data for the hardware infrastructure that is associated with the at least one subscription; processing the subscription data, the usage data and the deployment data using an artificial intelligence-based framework to identify a time period for initiating performance of one or more actions to automatically adjust the at least one subscription, wherein the artificial intelligence-based framework identifies the time period based on historical subscription data related to one or more other subscriptions; and causing the performance of the one or more actions to be initiated within the identified time period.
US12238816B2	WiFi station and associated passive scanning method The application discloses a WiFi station and an associated passive scanning method, including receiving an RF signal within a specific frequency band to generate a baseband signal; detecting whether the baseband signal includes a first preamble corresponding to a first channel and generating a first detecting result accordingly; detecting whether the baseband signal includes a second preamble corresponding to a second channel and generating a second detecting result accordingly; according to the first detecting result and the second detecting result, determining to use a center frequency of the first channel or a center frequency of the second channel to perform frequency shifting on the baseband signal, to generate the frequency-shifted baseband signal.
US12238815B2	Method and system for using a situational network A network system for accessing situation related information is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a network connection for receiving an indication of an occurrence of a situation; a situational network formed based on the occurrence of the situation, the situational network including a plurality of participant devices determined to be geographically proximate to the situation, each of the participant devices corresponding to a participant in the situational network; a second network connection for presenting a roll call query to each of the plurality of participant devices soliciting a reply related to a status of the participant; a plurality of network connections established for receiving a status response from the participant devices; and a database for aggregating the status responses from responsive participants into a roll call list.
US12238813B2	Bearer connection handling of a communications network The disclosure relates to a network management entity (ME) in a communications network (CN), the network management entity (ME) being configured to; receive (S10) a request message (REQm), transmitted by a network serving entity (SE), indicating deletion of a bearer connection for a user equipment (UE, 600), transmit (S40) a release message (RELm) towards a network entity (NE), receive (S50) a complete message (COMPm +IDU) transmitted by the network entity (NE), confirming that the user equipment (UE, 600) is released, and comprising information regarding data usage (IDU), and transmit (S60) a response message (RESPm +IDU) towards the network serving entity (SE), acknowledging deletion of the bearer connection of the user equipment (UE, 600), in response to receiving the complete message (COMPm +IDU). The disclosure also relates to methods performed in a network management entity (ME).
US12238812B2	Support of service continuity for handover between SNPN and PLMN A method and apparatus for support of service continuity for handover between stand-alone non-public network (SNPN) and public land mobile network (PLMN) is provided. A session management function (SMF) of a first network transmits, to a user plane function (UPF) of the first network, a duplication request for the UPF of the first network to duplicate downlink (DL) data and send the duplicated DL data to both a next generation radio access network (NG-RAN) of the first network and a non-3GPP interworking function (N3IWF) of the first network. The SMF of the first network further transmits, to the N3IWF of the first network, a data buffering request for the N3IWF of the first network to buffer the duplicated DL data.
US12238810B2	Communications method, apparatus, and system Embodiments of this application disclose a communications method, apparatus, and system, and relate to the communications field, so that an access network device reserves a context of a V2X terminal, thereby ensuring that the V2X terminal implements PC5 interface communication. The method includes: A core network device obtains capability information indicating that the V2X terminal supports PC5 interface communication. The core network device maintains or skips releasing a signaling connection between the V2X terminal and the core network device based on the obtained capability information after completion of V2X terminal registration.
US12238807B2	DRX parameter configuration method, processing method, network node, and user equipment Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a DRX parameter configuration method, a DRX processing method, a network node, and a user equipment. The DRX parameter configuration method is applied in the network node and includes: determining (101) one or more service types corresponding to a User Equipment (UE) based on the characteristic information of the UE; configuring (102) a DRX parameter for each of the one or more service types; and transmitting (103) the DRX parameter to the UE. With the embodiments of the present disclosure, requirements of data transmission under different application scenes can be met.
US12238805B2	Method and apparatus for positioning based on sounding reference signal in supplementary uplink in RRC_Inactive state in mobile wireless communication system A method and apparatus for positioning in a mobile communication system are provided. Method for positioning includes transmitting a UECapabilityInformation, receiving a RRCRelease, transmitting, a positioning SRS in RRC_INACTIVE state and stopping transmission of the positioning SRS in RRC_INACTIVE state if a first time point is reached. The first time point is determined based on the second information in the RRCRelease message.
US12238804B2	Setting a different BWP earlier in a connection establishment process to a wireless network by a UE when transitioning from an idle or inactive state A network node in a wireless network sends a selected BWP toward a UE, the selected BWP to be used by the UE during a connection procedure used to connect the UE to the wireless network after the UE enters an idle or inactive state. The selected BWP is different from an initial BWP that would have been used by the UE during the connection procedure. The network node receives from the user equipment a message for connection to the wireless network using the selected BWP. The UE receives the selected BWP and uses the selected BWP to send, while in one of an idle state or an inactive state, a message for connection to the wireless network using the selected BWP (e.g., and not the initial BWP).
US12238802B2	Managing MCG fast recovery A UE communicating in DC with an MN and an SN detects a master cell group (MCG) failure associated with the MN. In response to detecting the MCG failure, the UE performs an MCG recovery procedure by transmitting an MCG failure information message to the SN, receiving an MCG failure recovery message from the SN, and transmitting an MCG failure recovery complete message to the MN.
US12238800B2	Multi-link communication method and apparatus A STA in a STA MLD sends an information frame on a link corresponding to the station, and the information frame is used to indicate a STA in an awake state in the STA MLD. An AP MLD receives the information frame, and sends a downlink message frame on a one or more links corresponding to a part of or all of STAs in the awake state in the STA MLD.
US12238799B2	Multi-link re-setup and link change This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to an extreme high throughput (EHT) signaling structure. A device may establish a communication channel with one or more station devices (STAs). The device may generate an extreme high throughput signal field (EHT-SIG) of a header, wherein the EHT-SIG field comprises information associated with resource allocations (RUs). The device may generate a frame comprising the header. The device may assign a first RU to a first station device. The device may assign a second RU to the first station device, wherein the first RU or the second RU is an aggregation of a 26-tome RU and a neighboring RU. The device may cause to send the frame to the first station device.
US12238783B2	Random access reception and message 3 transmission for new radio (NR) based satellite communication Embodiments disclosed herein include methods and apparatuses that enable the UE to transmit message 3 in an NTN network. A gNB can include, a time duration indicating the time at which the UE should transmit message 3. The network can ensure that the UE has adequate time to apply the timing advance, assemble and transmit message 3. The UE can compute time of UL grant application based on a timing advance. The time of application of the UL grant can be determined by the UE and by the gNB according to a specified rule.
US12238778B2	Method and device for wireless communication The present application discloses a method and a device for wireless communications, comprising: receiving a first signaling; and transmitting a first signal; herein, the first signaling is used to indicate a first identifier and a second identifier; the first identifier and the second identifier are both used to determine the first node; the first signal carries a target identifier, the target identifier being either the first identifier or the second identifier; when the target identifier is the first identifier, the first signal carries a first message; when the target identifier is the second identifier, the first signal carries a second message; a first logical channel is used for bearing the first message. The present application determines the target identifier in a rational way to enhance the resource utilization ratio.
US12238777B2	Method for performing random access procedure in next generation wireless communication system and apparatus therefor Disclosed in the present application is a method for a terminal performing a random access procedure in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method for performing a random access procedure comprises the steps of: transmitting, to a base station, a plurality of random access signals corresponding to a plurality of different beams in a transmission interval corresponding to the corresponding random access signal; receiving a random access response signal corresponding to one random access signal of the plurality of random access signals; and transmitting and receiving a signal to and/or from the base station, using a beam corresponding to the one random access signal, wherein the plurality of random access signals comprise identifier information of the terminal.
US12238775B2	Beam specific channel sensing failure This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support beam specific channel sensing. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication includes performing a channel sensing operation prior to transmitting a first transmission via a first beam of a plurality of beams. The method also includes determining a beam specific channel sensing failure for the first beam based on performing the channel sensing operation. The method further includes transmitting channel sensing failure information indicating a channel sensing failure for the first beam and based on the beam specific channel sensing failure and one or more previous beam specific channel sensing failures. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US12238767B2	Channel occupancy information multi-access reporting User equipments (UEs) may be configured to perform channel occupancy information multi-access reporting. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive a sidelink configuration message identifying the first UE and one or more other UEs as members of a multicast group and a resource to be used for sidelink communications amongst the multicast group, and receive channel occupancy information (COI) from at least one of the one or more UEs within the multicast group, the COI indicating an occupied condition of the resource determined by the at least one of the one or more UEs during a sensing operation performed with respect to the resource. Further, the UE may select a period of time to transmit a sidelink communication based at least in part on the COI.
US12238764B2	Listen before talk failures on a plurality of bandwidth parts of a cell A wireless device receives, from a base station, configuration parameters indicating a plurality of bandwidth parts of a cell. Power measurements that indicate a listen before talk (LBT) failure on each of the plurality of bandwidth parts are performed. a radio link failure of the cell is declared in response to the power measurements indicating the LBT failure on each of the plurality of bandwidth parts.
US12238761B2	Multi-link channel access In a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, a transmitting multi-link device (MLD) may defer the transmission of a PPDU on a first link, even if a back-off counter of a non-primary link reaches zero, as long as a back-off counter of a primary link does not reach zero. When the transmission of the PPDU is deferred, the back-off counter may be kept at zero.
US12238759B2	Method and apparatus for performing prioritization procedure in NR V2X Provided are a method for performing wireless communication by a first device and an apparatus supporting same. The method may comprise: receiving, from a base station, information related to a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for a sidelink (SL) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgment (ACK) report; transmitting, to a second device through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), a first sidelink control channel (SCI) for scheduling of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) and a second SCI; transmitting, to the second device through the PSSCH, the second SCI and data; generating the SL HARQ-ACK report for the data.
US12238758B2	Methods and systems for aligning transmissions for intra-band carrier aggregation in sidelink communications A user equipment may be configured to implement a procedure for aligning transmissions for intra-band carrier aggregation in sidelink communications. In some aspects, a user equipment may send one or more first transmissions to a second UE via a first sidelink component carrier, a first transmission of the one or more first transmissions including first user data. Further, the user equipment may send one or more second transmissions to a third UE via a second sidelink component carrier, the one or more first transmissions aligned with the one or more second transmissions and a second transmission of the one or more second transmissions including second user data and a repetition of a portion of the second user data.
US12238757B2	Discontinuous reception alignment with respect to prioritization Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first network node (e.g., a first user equipment (UE)) may determine a first sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX) priority assigned to the first network node, wherein the sidelink DRX priority is based on one or more criteria associated with the first network node. The first network node may communicate on a sidelink channel using a first set of one or more DRX configurations based on the first sidelink DRX priority assigned to the first network node, wherein the first set of one or more DRX configurations are at least partially aligned in time with a second set of one or more DRX configurations of a second network node (e.g., a second UE) assigned a second sidelink DRX priority that is equivalent to the first sidelink DRX priority. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12238756B2	Communication method, communication system, and storage medium A communication method of the present disclosure includes detecting or estimating a decrease in throughput of a first communication terminal mounted on a first vehicle that is remotely driven, and reducing a communication speed of a second communication terminal with which the first communication terminal shares a communication resource in response to detection or estimation of the decrease in the throughput.
US12238751B2	Sidelink resource allocation using interference cancellation capabilities Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of capability information that indicates interference cancellation (IC) capability information associated with at least one UE. The UE may receive sidelink control information (SCI) that indicates sidelink resource reservation information in a resource selection window. The UE may transmit an indication of one or more reserved resources for a sidelink communication, the one or more reserved resources being based at least in part on the IC capability information and the sidelink resource reservation information. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12238749B2	Apparatuses and methods involving communications utilizing different protocols in a common channel Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to communicating signals to receivers utilizing different protocols. As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments, a set of signals are generated to include data configured in accordance with a first protocol and data configured in accordance with a second protocol. The set of signals are communicated over the wireless channel, by using the data corresponding to the first protocol for communicating with receivers operating in accordance with the first protocol and using the data corresponding to the second protocol to communicate with receivers operating in accordance with the second protocol.
US12238747B2	Sidelink resource allocation for enhanced mobility A method by a wireless device (110) includes sending, to a network node (160) having an associated coverage area, a request for a sidelink (SL) resource pool configuration for a V2X application associated with the wireless device (110). The request includes one or more geographical area identifiers associated with one or more respective SL resource pool configurations. The method further includes receiving, in response to the request, a SL resource pool configuration from the network node (160).
US12238743B2	Acknowledgement of group common dci for MU-MIMO A configuration to enable a UE to acknowledge receipt of group common DCI. The apparatus receives, from a base station, group common DCI. The group common DCI being for a set of UEs. The set of UEs including the UE. The apparatus determines whether the group common DCI includes at least one DAI. The apparatus transmits an ACK or a NACK in response of the determination of the group common DCI including the DAI. The apparatus communicates, with the base station, based on the group common DCI.
US12238740B2	Beam management in radio systems A wireless device receives, from a base station, one or more messages comprising configuration parameters indicating: a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set; a plurality of reference signals (RSs); and an uplink transmission configuration indication (TCI) state comprising a configuration of one or more RSs of the plurality of RSs. The wireless device receives a downlink control information comprising an SRS resource indicator (SRI) and an uplink TCI indicator (UL-TCI), where: the SRI indicates one or more SRS resources of the SRS resource set; and the UL-TCI indicates an uplink transmission configuration indication state. In response to the SRI being equal to a predefined value, the wireless device determines an uplink spatial domain transmission filter based on the one or more SRS resources of the SRS resource set. The wireless device transmits, via a physical uplink shared channel, a transport block with the uplink spatial domain transmission filter.
US12238736B2	Method and apparatus for receiving physical downlink shared channel Embodiments of the present application disclose a method for configuring a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The method includes receiving, by a terminal device, a time domain resource allocation list for at least one Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) transmission through RRC signaling; and not expecting, by the terminal device, to receive a PDSCH aggregation factor when at least one time domain resource allocation in the time domain resource allocation list includes a Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC) repetition number.
US12238735B2	Target system information scheduling method and apparatus This application provides a communication method and apparatus, applicable to the communication field, and in particular, to scheduling terminal devices corresponding to different bandwidth sizes or different capabilities. The method includes: A terminal apparatus receives first indication information from a network apparatus. The terminal apparatus receives target system information and/or target downlink control information from the network apparatus on a target frequency domain resource, where a bandwidth size of the target frequency domain resource is less than or equal to a bandwidth size supported by the terminal apparatus, and the target downlink control information is used to schedule the target system information.
US12238728B2	Data transmission method and apparatus based on a repeat transmission scheme Example data transmission methods and apparatus related to the field of communications technologies are described. One example method includes receiving, by a terminal based on a first transmission scheme, data sent by a network device, wherein the first transmission scheme is a data transmission scheme in which different redundancy versions (RV) of a same transport block (TB) are simultaneously transmitted by using two transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states.
US12238724B1	Instruction-based multi-thread multi-mode PUSCH and PUCCH encoders for cellular data devices A cellular modem processor can include dedicated processing engines that implement specific, complex data processing operations. To implement PUSCH and PUCCH encoding, a cellular modem can include a pipeline having multiple processing engines, with each processing engine including functional units that execute instructions corresponding to different stages in the encoding process. Flow control and data synchronization between instructions can be provided using a hybrid of firmware-based flow control and hardware-based data dependency management.
US12238722B2	Communication devices and methods for providing multihop transmission Example methods and apparatus for multihop transmission are described. One example method includes receiving a scheduling request by a network device from a User Equipment (UE) for a multihop transmission. The network device sends a first message to one or more UEs in response to the scheduling request, wherein the first message indicates one or more sidelink resources and/or sidelink resource allocation information for the one or more UEs to perform a multihop transmission.
US12238721B2	Data transmission method and terminal device Embodiments of this disclosure provide a data transmission method and a terminal device. The data transmission method includes receiving first uplink resource allocation information sent by a network side device. The first uplink resource allocation information is used to indicate a first uplink resource. The data transmission method further includes sending a first medium access control protocol data unit (MAC PDU) over the first uplink resource. The first MAC PDU is a PDU obtained through packet assembly on target data based on the first uplink resource. The target data includes at least data content of a second MAC PDU. The second MAC PDU is a previously generated MAC.
US12238717B2	Configuring cellular sidelink control channel with frequency hopping and multi-beam diversity Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for configuring a cellular sidelink control channel with frequency hopping and multi-beam diversity. A cellular base station may select a cellular sidelink control channel configuration that includes one or more of frequency hopping or multi-beam diversity. The cellular base station may provide cellular sidelink control channel configuration information to a wireless device. The cellular sidelink control channel configuration information may indicate the selected cellular sidelink control channel configuration that includes one or more of frequency hopping or multi-beam diversity.
US12238715B2	Method and apparatus for using indication information of time domain resource allocation Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for using indication information of time domain resource allocation. The method comprises receiving from a network node indication information of time domain resource allocation for a first type of message. The method further comprises determining a location of time domain resource for a first type of message based at least in part on the indication information and/or configuration information.
US12238714B2	Information determination method and device, and storage medium Provided are an information determination method and device and a storage medium. The information determination method includes determining a time domain resource allocation (TDRA) table with a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) related symbol served as a reference point of a start length indicator value (SLIV).
US12238710B2	User equipment indication of code block mapping type preference for physical downlink shared channel In a wireless communication system, dynamic changes of a code block (CB) to resource element (RE) mapping type may improve decoding performance in some scenarios. A user equipment may provide an indication of a preferred CB mapping type. A base station may transmit a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) based on a first dynamic CB mapping type in one or more slots. A UE may receive the PDSCH and determine a second CB mapping type that is preferred by the UE based on a metric. The UE may transmit an indicator of the second CB mapping type, for example, as a one-bit or two-bit indicator, which may be coupled with a channel state information (CSI) report or signaled in uplink control information (UCI) independently from a CSI report. The base station may consider the indicator when selecting a new dynamic CB mapping type for the UE.
US12238707B2	Methods of uplink transmission cancellation A method, system and apparatus for uplink transmission cancellation are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes receiving a cancellation indication of uplink resources to be cancelled, determining protected uplink resources to be protected from cancellation, and cancelling transmissions on uplink resources indicated to be cancelled other than uplink resources determined to be protected from cancellation.
US12238706B2	Methods for information transmission Methods for information transmission are provided in implementations of the disclosure. The method includes reporting a first message through a first uplink (UL) resource, where the first message is used for indicating that M consistent UL listen before talk (LBT) failure are triggered on M secondary cells (SCells), a trigger moment of each of the M consistent UL LBT failure is earlier than a transmission moment corresponding to the first UL resource, the M SCells belong to a same cell group (CG), and M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1.
US12238705B2	Method and device in user equipment and base station for radio communications The present disclosure provides a method and device in user equipment and base station for radio communications. A first node receives a first signaling and a second signaling; transmits a first radio signal on the first channel. The first signaling and the second signaling respectively comprise first configuration information and second configuration information, and the first configuration information and the second configuration information are respectively for a first channel and a second channel; the first radio signal comprises a first sub-signal and a second sub-signal; a first bit block and a second bit block are respectively used to generate the first sub-signal and the second sub-signal. When control information is carried on an uplink physical-layer data channel, the above method can respectively control transmission reliability of the control information and the uplink physical-layer data channel more flexibly, thus improving transmission efficiency.
US12238703B2	Reference signal transmission method, apparatus, and system This application provides example reference signal transmission methods, apparatuses, and systems. An example method includes determining a first transmission parameter in at least two transmission parameters, where any two of the at least two transmission parameters are different, and the first transmission parameter is used to determine a first transmission resource for a first reference signal. The first reference signal is sent to a second communication apparatus on the first transmission resource.
US12238702B2	Cross-carrier scheduling for sidelink communications A first wireless device may receive, from a base station, one or more configuration parameters. The one or more configuration parameters may indicate a first search space of a first cell for scheduling resources of a sidelink carrier and a second search space of a second cell for scheduling resources of the sidelink carrier. The first wireless device may monitor the first search space and the second search space. The first wireless device may receive, based on the monitoring, sidelink downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a sidelink resource of the sidelink carrier. The first wireless device may transmit, to a second wireless device, a sidelink transmission via the sidelink resource.
US12238692B2	Information sending and detecting method and device Provided is an information sending method, including: a base station determining a transmission configuration parameter associated with a first control region, where the first control region is used for transmitting a common control message; and determining first indication information according to the transmission configuration parameter, and sending the first indication information at a preset position of a second control area. A time domain symbol set corresponding to the second control area is a subset of a time domain symbol set corresponding to the first control area. Further provided is an information detection method, including: receiving first indication information used for indicating a transmission configuration parameter of a first control area, and detecting the common control information according to the first indication information. Further provided are an information sending device and an information detecting device.
US12238691B2	Time domain resource format configuration method, communication apparatus, and communication system A time domain resource format configuration method is provided. In addition to configuring time domain resources for an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node based on a downlink-flexible-uplink time domain resource format, an IAB donor may further configure time domain resources for the IAB node based on an uplink-flexible-downlink time domain resource format, so that the time domain resources can be flexibly configured for the IAB node, to improve utilization and a throughput of the time domain resources in an IAB network.
US12238689B2	Reception device and method, and transmission device and method The present technology relates to a reception device and method and a transmission device and method that enable provision of a low power consumption wireless communication system that can be used regardless of location. A terminal on a transmission side transmits a control frame containing transmission-related information regarding a transmission time and a transmission frequency that are determined on the basis of an internal time and a terminal ID on a transmission side. Then, after transmitting the control frame, the terminal on the transmission side transmits a data frame containing predetermined data in accordance with the transmission time and the transmission frequency. The present technology can be applied to wireless communication systems.
US12238688B2	Packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) packet duplication using split configuration Provided herein are a method performed when deactivating a packet duplication and returning to a split bearer operation and an apparatus therefor. The method comprises receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message including information related to a secondary radio link control (RLC) entity for returning to the split bearer operation among more than two RLC entities associated with a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity, wherein the secondary RLC entity belongs to a cell group different from a cell group of a primary RLC entity, and performing the split bearer operation using the primary RLC entity and the secondary RLC entity in case that the packet duplication is deactivated.
US12238687B2	Uplink multi-TTI scheduling in TDD system Systems and methods are disclosed for transmission and reception of an uplink grant during a gap created in radio resources assigned by a previous multiple Transmit Time Interval (multi-TTI) uplink grant in a system operating according to a Time Division Duplexing (TDD) scheme. In one embodiment, a method of operation of a wireless device operating according to a TDD scheme in a cellular communications network includes: receiving a first uplink grant from a radio network node that assigns first radio resources for a first multiple transmit time interval uplink transmission, the first radio resources comprising a set of consecutive subframes; and interrupting an uplink transmission on the first radio resources during a gap in the first radio resources assigned for the first multiple transmit time interval uplink transmission, the gap comprising a time domain gap within the set of consecutive subframes.
US12238686B2	Systems and methods for enhancement on sidelink power control Systems and methods for sidelink (SL) power control within wireless communication systems are disclosed herein. A user equipment (UE) selects a parameter set to use to calculate a transmit power of one or more channels to be transmitted according to an SL session with a peer UE from a plurality of parameter sets each configured for use according to a distance between the UE and the peer UE. A UE determines whether an SL pathloss based calculation is to be used to calculate a transmit power of a channel according to an SL session with a peer UE, wherein that calculation is configured to be used depending on a distance between the UE and the peer UE. UE selection of a number of physical SL feedback channel (PSFCH) transmissions to match a UE capability and determinations regarding whether to perform PSFCH reception or PSFCH transmission are also discussed.
US12238681B2	Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods for transmitting transport blocks with selected encoding parameters A method of transmitting uplink data by a communications device in a wireless communications network, the method comprising receiving an indication of first communications resources allocated for a transmission of data by the communications device and associated with encoding parameters, determining that first uplink data is available for transmission, selecting the first communications resources for the transmission of the first uplink data, selecting encoding parameters different from the encoding parameters associated with the first communications resources, forming a transport block comprising the first uplink data in accordance with the selected encoding parameters, and transmitting, using the first communications resources, the transport block and an indication of the selected encoding parameters.
US12238680B2	Sidelink assisted multi-link communication Aspects described herein relate to sidelink-assisted virtual multi-link. In one aspect, for example, a relay node may serve as an additional virtual antenna panel for a UE by receiving downlink data from a base station via an access link, or receiving uplink data from the UE via a sidelink. The relay node may forward the downlink data to the UE via sidelink, or the uplink data to the base station via the access link. In another aspect, a base station may determine, for a UE, quasi-colocation (QCL) information and a grant for one or both of one or more access link resources or one or more sidelink resources. The base station may further transmit, to the UE, the QCL information and the grant on a downlink communication channel.
US12238675B2	Method for transmitting, by apparatus, CPM in wireless communication system supporting sidelink, and apparatus therefor Disclosed are, according to various embodiments, a method for transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), a first collective perception message (CPM) in a wireless communication system supporting a sidelink, and an apparatus therefor. Disclosed are the method and the apparatus therefor, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining first object information on surrounding objects through a sensor; receiving a second CPM including second object information; and transmitting the first CPM including the first object information and location information for the UE, wherein the second CPM further includes information on a location reliability of the second object information, the position information of the UE is corrected by applying an offset, based on the first object information and the second object information being object information for the same object, and the offset is determined by applying a ratio between a first position reliability related to the position information of the UE and the second position reliability included in the second CPM to a distance between an object position based on the first object information and an object position based on the second object information.
US12238673B1	Systems and methods for automatically determining a location characteristic of a wireless access point A method for automatically determining a location characteristic of a wireless access point includes (1) receiving, via an array of at least three antenna elements of the wireless access point, a first neighboring wireless communication signal from a first neighboring wireless access point, (2) determining a location of the first neighboring wireless access point, and (3) determining the location characteristic of the wireless access point at least partially based on (a) the location of the first neighboring wireless access point and (b) difference in phase of the first neighboring wireless communication signal between the least three antenna elements of the wireless access point.
US12238672B2	Carrier phase measurement-based position estimation Disclosed are techniques for communication. In an aspect, a wireless node transmits an indication of a capability of the wireless node to support carrier phase measurements of positioning reference signals (PRSs) at one or more carrier frequencies for position estimation of user equipments (UEs). In an aspect, a position estimation entity receives the indication and transmits a message associated with carrier phase measurement-based PRS procedure of a UE. In an aspect, the UE receives the message and determines a subset of plurality of wireless nodes for a carrier phase measurement-based PRS procedure. In an aspect, the UE transmits at least one measurement report associated with the carrier phase measurement-based PRS procedure to a position estimation entity.
US12238658B2	Beam training method and related device Example beam training methods and apparatus are described. In one example method, a first terminal apparatus sends a first message to a second terminal apparatus, where the first message includes a request for a first list, the first list includes an identifier of at least one sidelink synchronization signal, and the at least one sidelink synchronization signal is a sidelink synchronization signal that is not used by the second terminal apparatus within a preset time range and/or that is not used by another terminal apparatus within an area in which the second terminal apparatus is located. The first terminal apparatus receives a second message from the second terminal apparatus, where the second message includes the first list. A first sidelink synchronization signal is determined based on the identifier of the at least one sidelink synchronization signal in the first list. The first sidelink synchronization signal is used for beam training.
US12238657B2	Method and device for transmitting S-SSB in NR V2 An operating method of a first device in a wireless communication system is presented. The method comprises the steps of: generating a sidelink synchronization signal block (S-SSB), wherein symbols related to the S-SSB include three or more contiguous symbols related to a sidelink primary synchronization signal (S-PSS), three or more contiguous symbols related to a sidelink secondary synchronization signal (S-SSS), and 11 or more PSBCH symbols related to a PSBCH, the S-PSS is mapped to symbols after a first symbol from among the symbols related to the S-SSB, the S-SSS is mapped to symbols after symbols related to the S-PSS from among the symbols related to the S-SSB, and the PSBCH is mapped to the first symbol from among the symbols related to the S-SSB and to symbols after symbols related to the S-SSS; and transmitting the S-SSB to a second device.
US12238653B2	Power headroom report based on dynamic pathloss estimation A base station transmits, to a wireless device, one or more configuration parameters comprising a pathloss reference signal update parameter that enables an activation command to update pathloss reference signals of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The base station receives, from the wireless device and based on the one or more configuration parameters comprising the pathloss reference signal update parameter, a power headroom report computed based on a pathloss estimation of a pathloss reference signal associated with a PUSCH pathloss reference signal identifier mapped to a sounding reference signal resource indicator (SRI)-PUSCH power control parameter set with an index equal to zero.
US12238652B2	Method of power control for uplink transmission A method for uplink transmission by a UE includes obtaining information regarding a plurality of power control sets each having a plurality of power control parameters, wherein a value of at least one parameter in a first power control set is different from a value of the at least one parameter in a second power control set; obtaining information associating at least one of the power control sets with at least one operational property of the UE; and when at least one of the operational properties is in effect on the UE, transmitting a PUSCH using the parameters of the power control set associated with the at least one operational property in effect.
US12238644B2	Wireless communication method, base station, and wireless communication system A radio communication method of connecting a base station with a plurality of terminal stations, the base station including a plurality of radio communication units compatible with a plurality of communication standards or communication schemes, the method including collecting, from each of the plurality of terminal stations, communication quality information representing a communication quality of the terminal station, collecting, from each of the plurality of terminal stations, communication performance information representing a communication performance of the terminal station, collecting, from each of the plurality of terminal stations, identifier information that identifies the terminal station, calculating, based on the communication quality information, the communication performance information and the identifier information that are collected, a setting policy including a setting for each of the plurality of radio communication units, and a switching policy of setting a condition for switching the plurality of radio communication units, and setting, for each of the plurality of radio communication units, the terminal station to be connected based on the setting policy and the switching policy that are calculated.
US12238642B2	System and method to detect and manage wireless tethering According to one configuration, a gateway establishes a wireless communication link with a first communication device. The first communication device has access to a remote network via a path including the wireless communication link and a communication link though the gateway. The communication management hardware receives a notification indicating attributes of a wireless interface of the first communication device. The gateway or other suitable entity monitors for presence of wireless communications from the wireless interface advertising availability of a wireless service provided by the first communication device. In response to detecting the availability of or actual use of the wireless service as advertised by a wireless communication transmitted from the first communication device, the gateway controls a bandwidth provided to the first communication device to access the first communication device.
US12238639B2	Enabling fifth-generation proximity services in fifth-generation systems Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for authorizing fifth generation (5G) proximity services (ProSe) for fifth-generation systems (5GS). Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US12238637B2	Method and apparatus for access processing of user equipment, electronic device, and computer storage medium A method for determining a network access level for a user equipment is provided. In the method, a residence parameter of the user equipment on a target edge computing node of a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) system is obtained. The target edge computing node is one of a plurality of network levels in the V2X system. The one of the plurality of network levels of the target edge computing node is determined as the network access level of the user equipment when the residence parameter meets an access condition of the target edge computing node, so that the user equipment is configured to access a core network of the V2X system through any edge computing node belonging to the determined network access level during movement of the user equipment.
US12238635B2	Network provisioning Systems and methods for provisioning and managing a network are disclosed. One method can comprise determining location information of one or more access points and selecting a routing device based upon the location information. Communication can be established between the one or more access points and the select routing device to define a mobility group comprising the one or more access points.
US12238633B2	Access control at a relay user equipment A relay user equipment (UE) configured to operate as a relay between a remote UE and a network component performs a method. The method includes determining at least one relay capability of the relay UE and performing a relay access control operation that indicates to the remote UE whether the remote UE is permitted to use the relay UE as the relay.
US12238632B2	Service configuration method, communication apparatus, and communication system This application provides a service configuration method, a communication apparatus, and a communication system. An AF configures a service request to an AMF by using an NEF, so that the AMF may request URSP configuration from a PCF when target UE is located in a target area. In this way, the PCF can effectively configure a URSP in a scenario in which an application service is dynamically deployed.
US12238631B2	Communication system and method for operating 5G mesh network for enhanced coverage and ultra-reliable communication A communication system that includes a processor to control switch from a primary communication path to a secondary communication path based on a presence of signal obstruction in the primary communication path, the primary communication path is between a radio access network (RAN) node and at least one UE via a first set of edge devices, the secondary communication path is between the RAN and the at least one UE via a second set of edge devices. The processor further decreases a gain of an active path, which corresponds to the primary communication path, until the active path is dormant, and increases a gain of a dormant path, which corresponds to the secondary communication path, until the dormant path is active, the decrease in the gain of the active path and the increase in the gain of the dormant path is based on the control of the switch.
US12238621B2	Method and wireless unit for V2X communication A system and apparatus are disclosed herein for vehicle to everything (V2X) wireless communication. A V2X wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive a vehicle to everything (V2X) message including configuration information and a road side unit (RSU) address. The WTRU may then transmit a message to the RSU according to the configuration information including multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS) data. The configuration information may include a MBMS service descriptor. One or more of the V2X messages may include priority information, WTRU type information, or both.
US12238618B1	Method of geo-based interior information search and software system Method and system consist of a mobile application installed on a mobile device with geo-positioning device, internet or wireless network connection; a hosting server configured with software and database and communicates with the mobile application. Mobile user submits a request to identify an object within a structure to the hosting server; the hosting server identifies location of the onsite user to determine the location of the structure, the host server searches a database and sends back information to the software application on user's mobile device and displays the location of the requested object with an identifier and related information on user's mobile device.
US12238617B2	Measurement model based on uplink signals with reciprocity to downlink beam In an aspect, a network component (e.g., BS, server, etc.) obtains measurement information associated with uplink signal(s) from UE(s), with the uplink signal(s) having reciprocity with one or more downlink beams of wireless node(s) (e.g., TRP, reference UE, etc.). The network component determines (e.g., generates or refines) a measurement (e.g., RFFP-P) model based on the measurement information. The network component provides the measurement (e.g., RFFP-P) model to a target UE. The target UE receives at least one signal (e.g., PRS) on the one or more downlink beams from the wireless node(s). The target UE processes the at least one signal (e.g., predicts target UE location) based at least in part on the measurement (e.g., RFFP-P) model.
US12238614B2	System of networked communication devices for providing recreational activity safety A method for providing information sharing among user devices for improving recreationalist safety through networking of user devices includes communicating device location based on an activity status identifier and the location of the devices.
US12238613B2	Methods and systems for service transfer Methods and systems for service transfer are disclosed. A movement of a user device may be detected by one or more sensors implemented in the user device. A transfer of service may occur based on the movement of the user device.
US12238612B2	Systems and methods for intelligent audio output Systems and methods for a media guidance application that adjusts output parameters of media assets delivered to output devices based on user preferences of users near the output devices. For example, the media guidance application may adjust the volume to be higher at a speaker near a first user who enjoys a particular media asset and lower at a speaker near a second user who dislikes the media asset.
US12238610B2	Systems and methods for processing geographical zones Systems and methods for processing geographical zones are provided. The method involves operating at least one processor to: define a bounding box surrounding a geographical zone; iteratively partition the bounding box into a plurality of bounding boxes by, starting with the bounding box in the first iteration: determine whether the bounding box contains more than a predetermined maximum number of vertices; divide the bounding box into two additional bounding boxes if the bounding box contains more than the predetermined maximum number of vertices, repeat the steps of determining and dividing the bounding box for the additional bounding boxes in the next iteration until each additional bounding box does not contain more than the predetermined maximum number of vertices; generate a binary tree data structure representing the geographical zone; search the binary tree data structure to determine whether a vehicle is located within one of the bounding boxes.
US12238606B2	Method for V2X service, and server using same A server for a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) service receives, from a first V2X device, a subscription request for requesting subscription of the V2X service, and sets a subscription area for the first V2X device. The server publishes, to the first V2X device, at least one V2X message published by at least one second V2X device associated with the subscription area.
US12238603B2	Positioning enhancements for narrowband mobile devices Disclosed are techniques for performing positioning measurements at a mobile device during a positioning session with a serving cell. In an aspect, the mobile device determines to trigger a coverage-enhanced (CE) mode before a positioning session timeout for the positioning session expires, continues performance of the positioning measurements during the positioning session with the serving cell while the mobile device remains connected to the serving cell due to the triggered CE mode, determines whether the positioning measurements have been completed or the positioning session timeout has expired, and responsive to the determination that the positioning measurements have been completed or that the positioning session timeout has expired, reports, to a network entity in the wireless communications network, actual handover measurements to enable the network entity to make a handover determination.
US12238601B2	User device and base station apparatus A user device comprises a communication unit configured to perform communication to which dual connectivity is applied, wherein a master cell group and a secondary cell group are configured in the dual connectivity, a control unit configured to detect occurrence of a failure in the master cell group, and a transmission unit configured to transmit information related to the occurrence of the failure in the master cell group to a master node of the master cell group, wherein the control unit changes a primary cell to another cell by performing handover to a different RAT (Radio Access Technology).
US12238598B2	Dynamic client segregation in 802.11ax networks Systems and methods for dynamic client segregation in 802.11ax networks includes determining, for each access point of a plurality of access points in a network, a ratio comprising a number of fully uplink multi-user capable client devices to a total number of client devices connected to the access point; and steering, based on at least the ratio, client devices of the network to particular access points of the plurality of access points.
US12238593B2	Method and apparatus for secondary base station change in mobile wireless communication system A method and apparatus for secondary base station change in a mobile communication system are provided. Method for secondary node change includes receiving conditional reconfiguration information from the base station, performing evaluation based on the configuration generated by a second base station and transmitting a second response message with an identifier indicating which conditional reconfiguration is executed.
US12238591B2	UE assisted data forwarding in conditional handover A method for use by a communication device, wherein the method includes the steps of: receiving a handover command from one of a plurality of network cells which provides a communication service for the communication device, creating measurement data upon receiving the handover command, logging the measurement data and the end of the measurement after an execution condition to perform handover to another one of the plurality of network cells is fulfilled, and transmitting the logged measurement data to the other one of the plurality of network cells.
US12238587B2	Third party charging in a wireless network Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. Third party charging may be performed to provide services for a wireless device. One or more policies may be determined for the wireless device based on charging information.
US12238586B2	Methods and devices to determine the quality of service mechanisms for vehicle-to-everything mobile device communications A method performed by a WTRU may comprise determining application layer information and receiving QoS policy configuration information. A QoS mechanism may be determined based on the application layer information and the received QoS policy configuration information. A QoS value applicable to the determined QoS mechanism may then be determined for a data packet. Subsequently, the determined QoS value may be transmitted to another WTRU over a PC5 interface, with or without the data packet. The QoS mechanism may be determined as one of a PPPP mechanism or a QFI mechanism. The QoS policy configuration information may be received via a gNB. In an embodiment, the application layer information may include an application identifier, a PSID or an ITS-AID. The QoS policy configuration information may indicate a mapping of V2X application IDs to respective QoS mechanisms.
US12238585B2	Client device and network node for indication of quality-of-service (QOS) non-fulfillment The disclosure relates to early detection and indication of a Quality-of-Service (QoS) non-fulfillment in one or more radio links serving an application. A client device monitors for a QoS non-fulfillment in the one or more radio links based on a QoS monitoring configuration associated with the application. The QoS monitoring configuration may be received from a network node and/or derived based on a predefined rule. Upon detection of a QoS non-fulfillment of one or more QoS requirements obtained from the QoS monitoring configuration, the client device provides a QoS non-fulfillment indication to the application. The QoS non-fulfillment indication gives the application an early warning about QoS non-fulfillment on the one or more radio links. Thereby, allowing the application to take precautionary actions to counteract possible negative consequences of the QoS non-fulfillment. Furthermore, the disclosure also relates to corresponding methods and a computer program.
US12238584B2	Adaptive radio access network bit rate scheduling The described technology is generally directed towards adaptive radio access network bit rate scheduling. Minimum bit rates for user equipment can be adjusted in a manner that accounts for the impact of the minimum bit rates on network performance. Ranges of minimum bit rates can be established for user equipment, and minimum bit rates can be adjusted within the ranges. A minimum bit rate can be decreased when it produces a relatively higher impact on network performance, and the minimum bit rate can be increased when it produces a relatively lower impact on network performance.
US12238582B2	Communication device and communication method There is provided a communication device that transmits a wireless signal using a plurality of bands.The communication device that transmits data in a plurality of bands includes: a first queue for each band that stores data to be transmitted in each band; a second queue common to at least two bands of the plurality of bands, the second queue storing data to be transmitted with high priority; and a control unit that controls transmission of the data stored in the first queue and the second queue. The communication device transmits information regarding the first queue and the second queue. The second queue stores the retransmission data together with information regarding a band of first transmission.
US12238581B2	Method and transition device for enabling communication of data in a wireless network A method and transition device for enabling communication of data between a remote radio unit and a central baseband unit in a wireless network. When detecting a first interface configuration used by the remote radio unit and a second interface configuration used by the baseband unit, the transition device configures interface functions, based on the first and second interface configurations. The interface functions are selected from a set of predefined interface functions associated with different interface configurations. The transition device then establishes a data flow between the remote radio unit and the central baseband unit over the transition device, and performs conversion between the first interface configuration and the second interface configuration for data communicated in the data flow, using the selected interface functions.
US12238578B2	Load-balancer for saturated wireless Load balancing for saturated wireless may be provided. A computing device may determine that an Access Point (AP) has reached a saturation point. A first Service Device (SD) having a first SD coverage area that overlaps an AP coverage area associated with the AP may be identified. Then a license to operate within a frequency spectrum segment for the first SD coverage area may be obtained. A plurality of user devices may be moved from the AP to the first SD. The first SD may then service the plurality of user devices using at least a portion of the frequency spectrum segment.
US12238573B2	Code block group-based retransmission and feedback for semi-persistent scheduling communications Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first device may obtain information indicative of a configuration to provide code block group (CBG)-based feedback for one or more semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) communications scheduled for the first device. The first device may then monitor for the one or more SPS communications in one or more CBGs of a TB in accordance with one or more SPS communication configurations. Based on the monitoring of the semi-persistent scheduling communications, the first device may generate one or more feedback bits associated with the one or more SPS communications, and may communicate, with a second device, the one or more feedback bits associated with the one or more SPS communications in accordance with the configuration to provide CBG-based feedback.
US12238571B2	Tracking QoS violated events A method in a network node comprises: detecting a Quality of Service (QoS) Violated Event in respect of a particular QoS flow of a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session; and sending a corresponding QoS violated event report to any one or more of: a Session Management Function (SMF) of the network; a Policy Control Function (PCF) of the network; an Application Function (AF) of the network; and a third party service provider.
US12238568B2	System and method for provisioning a portable virtual RAN across a plurality of RAN hardware platforms A virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN) system (300) for provisioning a virtual Radio Access Network (RAN) that is portable across one or more RAN hardware platforms is provided. The virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN) system (300) includes a waveform development kit (WDK) (302), and a waveform execution environment (304). The waveform development kit (302) defines at least one portable Radio Access Network (RAN) application into a form that is instantiated on a RAN hardware (326). The waveform execution environment (304) (i) monitors real-time schedulable resources in real-time, and (ii) collects one or more statistics and monitors the one or more statistics for network automation. The waveform execution environment (304) includes a RAN hypervisor (314) that virtualizes at least one attribute of a spectral resource required to provision the RAN that is portable across at least one hardware platform of the one or more RAN hardware platforms in the RAN hardware.
US12238564B2	RRM measurement restriction on CLI measurement Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs for a coordination mechanism between a network and a user equipment (UE) that is configured to perform cross-link interference (CLI) measurements. In one aspect, a method includes generating a message that indicates a capability of a user equipment (UE) whether to support simultaneous reception of at least one signal associated with cross-link interference (CLI) measurement and at least one signal associated with a serving cell or a neighbor cell of the UE. The method further includes transmitting the message to an access node (AN).
US12238562B2	Reporting of puncturing based interference plus noise covariance matrix measurements Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network node, a measurement configuration indicating one or more punctured resources of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) that can be used for measurements associated with estimating an interference plus noise covariance (INC) matrix at the UE. The UE may receive, from the network node, a reporting configuration indicating one or more INC matrices at the UE to be reported. The UE may transmit, to the network node, a report indicating the one or more INC matrices at the UE based at least in part on receiving the reporting configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12238559B2	Measurement gap pattern use and management for wireless communication systems A user equipment (UE) device is configured for performing a signal measurement for wireless communication in a new radio (NR) network. The UE is configured to determine a frequency range (FR) of a serving cell configured to send a signal that is measured by the UE using a signal measurement. The UE configures a measurement gap (MG) pattern to perform the signal measurement. Configuring the measurement gap includes determining that the frequency range of the serving cell includes frequencies of a second frequency range (FR2), determining that a measurement object (MO) configuration for the FR2 is available, setting a measurement gap repetition periodicity (MGRP) value for the signal measurement, and setting a measurement gap length (MGL) value for the signal measurement. The UE performs a signal measurement using the MGRP value and the MGL value.
US12238558B2	Cell global identifier reporting in a wireless communication system A wireless device (111) is configured to receive, from a network node (101), in a measurement reporting configuration information element (127) of a measurement configuration or a measurement identity information element (129) of a measurement configuration, an indication (128) of for which cell the wireless device (111) (111) is to report a cell global identifier, CGI. In embodiments in which the indication (128) is received in the measurement reporting configuration information element (127), for instance, the wireless device (111) may add a reporting configuration indicated by that information element to a list of reporting configurations at the wireless device (111), e.g., as opposed to updating an existing reporting configuration. Regardless, the wireless device (111) may also be configured to report a CGI for the cell indicated by the received indication (128).
US12238548B2	Systems and methods for communications node upgrade and selection Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for intelligent node type selection in a telecommunications network. In one implementation, a customer set is obtained for a communications node in the telecommunications network. The customer set includes an existing customer set and a new customer set. A set of customer events is generated for a node type of the communications node using a simulator. The set of customer events is generated by simulating the customer set over time through a discrete event simulation. An impact of the customer events is modeled for the node type of the communications node. The node type is identified from a plurality of node types for a telecommunications build based on the impact of the customer events for the node type.
US12238546B2	Autonomous user equipment (UE) beam failure recovery (BFR) abort Techniques discussed herein can facilitate autonomous user equipment beam failure recovery abort aspects. One example aspect is a baseband processor configured to, when executing instructions stored in a memory, perform operations comprising: detecting a beam failure of a downlink (DL) beam; determining that a beam recovery abort condition is satisfied after detecting the beam failure; aborting a random access channel (RACH) transmission when the beam recovery abort condition is satisfied; and maintaining a connection with the DL beam after aborting the RACH transmission.
US12238543B2	Low-power wide area network integrated sensing and communication method based on channel sensing and reinforcement learning The invention provides a low-power wide area network integrated sensing and communication method based on channel sensing and reinforcement learning, and the method comprises the steps: receiving an uplink signal transmitted by a terminal node through a gateway receiver, demodulating the uplink signal through employing a soft demodulation algorithm, and obtaining a bit log-likelihood ratio; the deep reinforcement learning model completes channel reconstruction of the corresponding link during communication according to the bit log-likelihood ratio; and calculating the current optimal network configuration according to the reconstructed channel so as to distribute the current optimal network configuration to each terminal node during next downlink transmission. According to the method, the key environment information is mined by using the deep reinforcement learning model, so that the gateway can allocate optimal network configuration to different terminal nodes according to the current network environment condition, and the decoding capability of the gateway is improved.
US12238536B2	Method for configuring radio units in hierarchical network and electronic device using the same A method and an electronic device for configuring radio units in a hierarchical network are provided. The method includes: obtaining information of a first coverage radio unit, a second coverage radio unit, and a first capacity radio unit belonging to the first coverage radio unit, wherein the information comprising a coverage of the second coverage radio unit and a coverage of the first capacity radio unit; configuring a bandwidth of the first capacity radio unit such that the bandwidth of the first capacity radio unit is not overlapped with the bandwidth of the first coverage radio unit; and reducing a power of the first capacity radio unit in response to the coverage of the first capacity radio unit being overlapped with the coverage of the second coverage radio unit and the bandwidth of the first capacity radio unit being overlapped with the bandwidth of the second coverage radio unit.
US12238530B2	Using unlicensed and licensed spectrum Methods and apparatus are provided. In an example aspect, a method in a network node is provided, the method comprising monitoring unlicensed spectrum access attempts for transmissions to and/or from at least one User Equipment, UE, in a first group of UEs configured to use unlicensed spectrum to send uplink transmissions and/or receive downlink transmissions and, in response to the monitoring, causing the UEs in the first group to use licensed spectrum to send uplink transmissions and/or receive downlink transmissions.
US12238526B2	System, method, and apparatus for providing optimized network resources Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing optimization of network resources. The system is operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment, analyze the electromagnetic environment, and extract environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment. The system extracts the environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment by including customer goals. The system is operable to use the environmental awareness with the customer goals and/or user defined policies and rules to extract actionable information to help the customer optimize the network resources.
US12238518B2	Method for authenticating a user on a network slice Provided is a method to operate a secure chip card for connecting to a user equipment operating in a cellular network comprising a plurality of network slices, wherein for at least one network slice a slice authentication server is operational, the secure chip card comprising a secured memory with at least one slice authentication application.
US12238513B2	Methods and systems and secure connections for joining wireless networks The subject matter describes devices, networks, systems, media, and methods to create secure communications between wireless devices and cellular networks, where the wireless devices communicate with the cellular networks via multi-hopping methods in wireless networks.
US12238511B2	Communication method and apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium A communication method includes receiving, by a terminal device comprising a processor, indication information from a master node. The indication information is used to indicate that a key used for signaling transmission performed between the terminal device and a first secondary node by using a second signaling radio bearer (SRB) is a first key. The first key is used for signaling transmission performed between the terminal device and the master node by using a first SRB. The first secondary node and the master node share one central unit. The communication method also includes determining, by the terminal device, based on the indication information, that the first key is used for signaling transmission performed between the terminal device and the first secondary node by using the second SRB.
US12238510B2	Light-based spatial audio metering Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for visualizing sound coverage in a venue. An embodiment operates by receiving audio content from an audio source, determining audio signal properties of the audio content, where the audio signal properties comprise one or more spectral, temporal, spatial components (e.g., energy, spectrum or directivity), receiving an audio system configuration of loudspeakers or sound beams of a venue, visualizing the audio signal based on a mapping of an intersection of a unique volumetric beam of colored light, representing the spectral, temporal, spatial components, with a portion of the venue and displaying the visualized audio signal as a virtual representation of sound coverage of the portion of the venue.
US12238507B2	Assigning room impulse responses (RIRs) to zones around a user A wearable electronic device (WED) includes a display that displays a virtual image on a physical object located in an area around a user and speakers that play sound as binaural sound that originates from the virtual image. One or more processors scan the area around the user to locate the physical object, divide the area around the user into different zones, assign room impulse responses (RIRs) to the zones, and process the sound with the RIRs.
US12238501B2	Speaker unit The present disclosure provides a speaker unit, which includes a frame, and a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system fixed on the frame. The vibration system includes a diaphragm and a voice coil that drives the diaphragm to vibrate and sound. The speaker unit further includes a magnetic front cover fixed on the frame for improving the BL value of the voice coil. The speaker unit of the present disclosure improves the BL value of the voice coil.
US12238500B2	Speaker with better acoustic performance structure A speaker includes: a frame, a vibration system, including a diaphragm, a voice coil, and a flexible circuit board, and a magnetic circuit system, wherein the voice coil includes a first lead wire and a second lead wire, the flexible circuit board includes a first surface facing the diaphragm and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the first lead wire and the first surface are located at one side of the flexible circuit board, the second lead wire and the second surface are located at another side of the flexible circuit board, the flexible circuit board includes a first pad on the first surface and a second pad on the second surface, the first lead wire is connected to the first pad, the second lead wire is connected to the second pad. Compared with the related art, the speaker disclosed by the present disclosure has better acoustic performance.
US12238499B2	Sounding unit The sounding unit provided by the present invention includes a frame, a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system. The vibration system includes a diaphragm, a voice coil and an FPC. The diaphragm consists of a dome with a protruded platform and a suspension. The FPC includes an internal fixed part, an external fixed part, and an elastic part. The internal fixed part includes a first fixed part, a second fixed part, and a third fixed part. The voice coil includes an upper end surface and a lower end surface. The upper end surface is fixed to the protruded platform. The lower end surface is fixed to the third fixed part. The bonding strength between the FPC and the voice coil in the sounding unit is improved, and the vibration stability of the sounding unit is enhanced.
US12238496B2	Method of waking a device using spoken voice commands Disclosed herein are systems and methods for processing speech signals in mixed reality applications. A method may include receiving an audio signal; determining, via first processors, whether the audio signal comprises a voice onset event; in accordance with a determination that the audio signal comprises the voice onset event: waking a second one or more processors; determining, via the second processors, that the audio signal comprises a predetermined trigger signal; in accordance with a determination that the audio signal comprises the predetermined trigger signal: waking third processors; performing, via the third processors, automatic speech recognition based on the audio signal; and in accordance with a determination that the audio signal does not comprise the predetermined trigger signal: forgoing waking the third processors; and in accordance with a determination that the audio signal does not comprise the voice onset event: forgoing waking the second processors.
US12238491B2	Control method for a blocked receiver and device, and electronic device A receiver control method and device, and an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes at least one receiver, wherein the at least one receiver is electrically connected to a baseband circuit, and a feedback circuit is arranged between at least one receiver and the baseband circuit. The receiver control method includes: detecting the at least one receiver; and in a case of detecting that a first receiver of the at least one receiver is blocked, adjusting an electrical signal gain of the feedback circuit corresponding to the first receiver to reduce an electrical signal input to the first receiver.
US12238486B2	Management of audio performance in a vehicle A system for managing audio performance in a vehicle includes an audio unit having one or more speakers and one or more microphones respectively positioned in and/or around the vehicle. The speakers transmit an audio signal within the vehicle. A command unit is in communication with the audio unit. The command unit has a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory on which instructions are recorded. The command unit is adapted to receive the audio signal through the one or more microphones and determine whether at least one audio quality parameter of the audio signal meets a predefined threshold. The command unit may be adapted to take at least one remedial action when the audio quality parameter is below the predefined threshold.
US12238481B2	Acoustic activity detection Acoustic activity detection is provided herein. Operations of a method can include receiving an acoustic signal at a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) microphone. Based on portions of the acoustic signal being determined to exceed a threshold signal level, output pulses are generated. Further, the method can include extracting information representative of a frequency of the acoustic signal based on respective spacing between rising edges of the output pulses.
US12238479B2	MEMS speaker and manufacturing method for same The present invention provides a MEMS speaker including a substrate sidewall enclosing a cavity. The substrate sidewall includes a first surface and a second surface, a sounding assembly that is arranged on the first surface of the substrate sidewall and also seals the cavity at the opening of the first surface, and a bracket disposed in the cavity. The sounding assembly includes a first sounding assembly and the second sounding assembly. Each sounding assembly includes a driving part and a flexible diaphragm. The flexible diaphragm closes the gap formed between the free ends of adjacent driving parts and between the free ends of the driving parts and the substrate sidewall. The present invention also provides a manufacturing method of MEMS speaker. The MEMS speakers provided by the present invention have high-quality acoustic performance.
US12238476B2	Speaker module The invention provides a speaker module for a mobile terminal with a sound output port. The speaker module includes a speaker box. The speaker box includes a sound output opening for side surface sound. The speaker module also includes a horn barre. The horn barrel has openings arranged at both ends. A sectional area along the sound output direction of the horn barrel changes gradually. By designing a variable sectional surface with different areas or lengths and widths on the horn barrel for stakeout, the size of the variable sectional surface is directly related to the sound quality of each part of the horn barrel. The horn barrel widens the frequency band range. Compared with the related art, the present invention can realize multi-level resonance, has a small volume, is convenient to widen the frequency band range and has flexible avoidance space.
US12238473B2	Apparatus and method for performing active occlusion cancellation with audio hear-through Adaptive occlusion cancellation is performed in an ear-wearable device using an adaptive filter. An adaptive gain of the adaptive filter is used to determine a leakage path estimate between an external source and an eardrum of the user through the ear-wearable device. The leakage path estimate is used to update an adaptive hear-through filter of the ear-wearable device. The updated adaptive hear-through filter is used for hear-through processing in the ear-wearable device.
US12238469B2	Headphones with increased back volume This disclosure includes several different features suitable for use in circumaural and supra-aural headphones designs. Designs that include earpad assemblies that improve acoustic isolation are discussed. User convenience features that include automatically detecting the orientation of the headphones on a user's head are also discussed. Various power-saving features, design features, sensor configurations and user comfort features are also discussed.
US12238465B2	Systems and methods of secure communication of data from medical devices Disclosed systems and methods include electronic devices attached to a patient or object that transmit data to other devices over a secure communication channel. The devices can track and/or monitor object(s) and/or patient(s) and transmit the tracked and/or monitored data to other electronic devices. Such data can include monitored patient physiological parameter(s) received and/or sensed by the device, for example. A master of the two devices transmits a communication signal to another device that, in response, initiates a secure wireless communication channel, causes one or more modules on the device to be powered, and, when powered, transmits the tracked and/or sensed physiological data over the secure wireless communication channel to the master device. Some example master devices transmit the communication signal with an instruction to the device to activate an onboard power source that later may be disconnected after the tracked and/or physiological data is transmitted.
US12238460B2	Imaging apparatus, control device, and communication method An imaging apparatus configured to notify an external control device of information in the imaging apparatus, the imaging apparatus includes: a communication circuitry configured to perform data communication with the control device; and the control circuitry configured to control the communication circuitry to transmit notification data to the control device in response to an event indicating that a state in the imaging apparatus changes, wherein the control circuitry is configured to control the communication circuitry, based on a preset thinning interval, to restrict transmission of the notification data to a specific event when the communication circuitry periodically transmits image data to the control device, the specific event occurring at the thinning interval among a plurality of events each occurring in the imaging apparatus, the image data being generated in the imaging apparatus.
US12238459B2	Rendezvous assistance apparatus, rendezvous assistance system, and rendezvous assistance method An object is to provide a technique that allows a first mobile unit to provide an appropriate display that makes it possible to easily identify a second mobile unit in a rendezvous of the first mobile unit and the second mobile unit. A For the rendezvous of the first mobile unit and the second mobile unit, a rendezvous assistance apparatus includes a first controller that performs control to cause a first display of the first mobile unit to display a first display object on the basis of the first receive information received by the first mobile unit, the first display object indicating the position of at least part of the second mobile unit accompanied with the first image or a landscape of the outside of the first mobile unit corresponding to the first image.
US12238456B2	Virtual expo booth previews One example method for virtual expo booth previews includes joining a virtual expo hosted by a video conference provider, the virtual expo including a plurality of virtual expo booths; presenting a graphical representation of the virtual expo and one or more virtual expo booths of the plurality of virtual expo booths; receiving an input indicating a first expo booth of the plurality of virtual expo booths; receiving, from the video conference provider, one or more multimedia streams associated with the first virtual expo booth; and presenting the one or more multimedia streams.
US12238455B2	Method and apparatus for initiating and managing chat sessions During a communication session facilitated by a first communication service between a first device and a second device, a processor may receive a request to execute a feature not supported by the first communication service. The processor may also identify a second communication service that does support the feature. Further, the processor may then cause the communication session to transition from the first communication service to the second communication service.
US12238452B2	Electronic device for processing video and method for operating the same Disclosed is an electronic device including a display module and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain a first video frame and a bypass control value for the first video frame and determine whether to perform frame rate conversion (FRC) processing using the first video frame based on the bypass control value. Based on a determination that the bypass control value is set to a first value indicating bypass of the FRC processing, the processor is configured to display the first video frame. Based on a determination that the bypass control value is set to a second value indicating the FRC processing, the processor is configured to generate an interpolation frame using the first video frame and a second video frame after the first video frame, and display the first video frame, the interpolation frame, and the second video frame.
US12238449B2	Infrared imager and related systems An infrared imaging apparatus having thin-film spatial filters in a stacked array to filter and collate light generated internally by the infrared imaging apparatus such that the light generated impacts a detection area of the imaging apparatus at or near a critical angle. The index of refraction of the detection area being subject to change when irradiated with infrared light such that the amount of light generated internally and reflected to a light detector attached to the imaging apparatus varies with the intensity of the irradiating infrared light.
US12238446B2	Location-based frame skipping The techniques described herein implement an automated frame skipping approach used to generate a reduced set of frames for processing. In one example, the automated frame skipping approach is used to more efficiently generate a stitched map of a geographical area being surveilled by an aerial vehicle, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). A stitched map is an image mosaic that is created using the reduced set of frames such that the geographical area being surveilled by the aerial vehicle is accurately depicted.
US12238442B2	Image sensor performing selective multiple sampling and operating method thereof Disclosed is an image sensor including a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels including a first photodiode and a second photodiode, each of which outputs a first pixel signal based on a first conversion gain using the second photodiode in a first period, outputs a second pixel signal based on a second conversion gain using the second photodiode in a second period, outputs a third pixel signal based on the first conversion gain using the first photodiode in a third period, and outputs a fourth pixel signal based on the second conversion gain using the first photodiode in a fourth period, an ADC circuit that performs sampling on a reset signal and an image signal of each of the first to fourth pixel signal. A sampling count and the number of sampling bits are adjusted differently from each of the first to fourth period.
US12238441B2	Imaging sensor and imaging apparatus The processing unit of the sensor includes a time counter and pixel counters. The number of lines is reduced by sharing output lines with the pixel counters and the time counter. In addition, readout time is reduced by transposing an output sequence of pixel count values and time count values across Bayer units depending on a state of saturation of a pixel.
US12238435B2	Imaging device and electronic device An imaging device having a function of processing an image is provided. The imaging device has an additional function such as image processing, can hold analog data obtained by an image capturing operation in a pixel, and can extract data obtained by multiplying the analog data by a predetermined weight coefficient. Difference data between adjacent light-receiving devices can be obtained in a pixel, and data on luminance gradient can be obtained. When the data is taken in a neural network or the like, inference of distance data or the like can be performed. Since enormous volume of image data in the state of analog data can be held in pixels, processing can be performed efficiently.
US12238431B2	Image sensor for improved optical imaging An imaging device capable of producing images or data with relatively high spectral diversity, allowing for creation of information-rich feature vectors, is provided. Among other things, such information-rich feature vectors may be applied to a range of artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. The imaging device may include a substrate having a baseline spectral responsivity function, multiple pixels forming a cell fabricated on the substrate, and spectral filters each configured to filter light based on a transmission function corresponding to a substantially broad portion of the baseline spectral responsivity function. The spectral filters may be notch filters. Each of the multiple pixels in the cell may be configured to receive light through each of the spectral filters. The transmission function of each of the spectral filters may be substantially different for each of at least a majority of the multiple pixels in the cell.
US12238430B2	Camera system for capturing three dimensional images Systems and methods described below provide for rapid imaging of an object and reconstruction of a 3D image of the object. The imaging system is configured to obtain numerous images of an object from many angles around the object. The imaging system includes a camera rig which supports several cameras, with the viewing angle of each camera directed to the object. The camera rig is rotatable about the object, or vice-versa, in order to obtain images around the entirety of the object. The location of each camera is used by an imaging processing system to match adjacent images to be stitched together, avoiding the need to compare edges of a number of images to match an image to an adjacent image.
US12238425B2	Shutter speed determination device and imaging device A shutter speed determination device includes a motion detector and controller. The motion detector, on a block-by-block basis having a specified block size, performs detection processing of a motion vector for image data obtained by capturing a subject image. The controller, while reducing the block size, causes the motion detector to execute the detection processing repeatedly, each time executing the detection processing the controller finds a motion vector related value that changes in a same direction as a direction in which a magnitude of the motion vector changes, the controller determines a shutter speed used when capturing the subject image thereafter, based on the motion vector related value found.
US12238424B2	Reference frame selection for multi-frame image processing pipelines and other applications A method includes obtaining, using at least one processing device of an electronic device, multiple image frames having different exposure levels. The method also includes determining whether a moving saturated region is present in at least some of the image frames. The method further includes selecting one of the image frames as a reference frame, where the selected image frame depends on whether the moving saturated region is present in at least some of the image frames. The selected image frame may have a first exposure level when the moving saturated region is present in at least some of the image frames, and the selected image frame may have a second exposure level longer than the first exposure level when the moving saturated region is not present in the image frames.
US12238422B2	Method of constructing front panorama of shelving from arbitrary series of frames based on shelving 3D model The present invention relates to methods for visual display of images of real shelvings with products for analysis of shelving contents. There are provided methods for constructing a shelving front panorama. A method comprises: capturing color image frames of the shelving, displaying the shelving and its contents; reconstructing a shelving 3D model based of depth data and capturing device position data for each frame; determining a projection plane corresponding to the shelving front edge; stitching the color image frames of the shelving by projective transformation of each color image frame of the shelving onto the projection plane. The resulting shelving front panorama displays the shelving and its contents. The disclosure eliminates the need for observing frontal orientation of each shelving image frame when capturing images of the shelving; the capturing can be made along an arbitrary path.
US12238421B2	Image capture apparatus remotely controllable by an operation apparatus and related control method An image capture apparatus, remotely controllable by an operation apparatus, includes an image capturing unit capturing an image, a communication unit communicating with the operation apparatus, an image processing unit detecting an object in the image, and a control unit performing framing control of the image including the object, based on a framing operation from the operation apparatus, after the communication unit transmits the image to the operation apparatus, and a delay acquisition unit acquiring a delay time in the communication processing. The image processing unit calculates a framing control amount based on a predicted movement amount of the object in the delay, an actual movement amount of the object before and after the delay, and a framing operation amount from the operation apparatus. The control unit performs the framing control based on the framing control amount, and the delay acquisition unit acquires the delay time, before shooting, in advance.
US12238420B2	Video surveillance system and video surveillance method A video surveillance system includes: a detection unit that detects a predetermined event on the basis of an image captured by a first imaging apparatus; and a control unit that controls a second imaging apparatus such that the second imaging apparatus captures an image of a predetermined position after the detection of the predetermined event.
US12238417B2	Photographing device, control method thereof, and movable platform A photographing device, its control method, and a movable platform can include: acquiring a real-time video frame; duplicating the real-time video frame to obtain two real-time video frames; outputting one of the two real-time video frames for display and perform a stability augmentation processing on the other of the two real-time video frames; and saving the stability augmentation processed real-time video frame.
US12238415B2	Camera having video stream indicator An image sensor comprises: a control block generating a video interface enabled signal, a video interface for receiving the video interface enabled signal, a pixel array for providing a video stream to the video interface, an output port for receiving the video stream from the video interface and outputting the video stream to outside of the image sensor, a stream indicator pin for receiving the video interface enabled signal from the control block when the video interface is receiving the video interface enabled signal from the control block, where a terminal of the video interface receiving the video interface enabled signal is connected to the stream indicator pin by a conductor, and they are sealed in a package of the image sensor.
US12238410B2	Trimming video within a messaging system Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for trimming video. The program and method provide for providing a capture user interface for capturing a video to generate a media content item; displaying a preview user interface for previewing and editing the captured video to generate the media content item, the preview user interface including an interface element for selecting to trim the captured video or to set a playback option for the media content item; receiving, via the interface element, user input selecting to trim the captured video; and displaying a preview bar within the preview user interface, the preview bar including a set of frames of the captured video and front and back handles respectively positioned in front and in back of the set of frames, each of the front and back handles being selectable to trim video.
US12238409B2	Electronic device for obtaining image at user-intended moment and method for controlling the same The disclosure relates to an artificial intelligence (AI) system that simulates a function, such as cognition and judgment, of a human brain using a machine learning algorithm, such as deep learning, and an application thereof. According to an embodiment, an electronic device may include a touchscreen, a camera, a memory, and a processor, where the processor may receive information about an image capturing situation from a user, may obtain a target image based on the information about the image capturing situation using a first artificial intelligence module stored in the memory, may obtain feature information included in the target image using a second artificial intelligence module stored in the memory, may store the feature information in the memory, and may store an image related to the feature information in the memory based on obtaining the image related to the feature information through the camera.
US12238408B2	Display method performed by electronic device and electronic device A display method and an electronic device (600) are provided. The electronic device (600) includes a body and a camera module (30) detachably connected to the body, the body has a display screen (31), and the method includes: acquiring, by using the camera module (30), image information in a case that the camera module (30) is attached to a first region of the display screen (31); and displaying the image information in a second region of the display screen (31), where the second region is a region other than the first region in the display screen (31).
US12238403B2	Photographing control method, apparatus, and control device A method includes obtaining a photographed image from a photographing device carried by a movable object, determining a target object in the photographed image to track the target object, determining location estimation information of the target object based on shooting information of the photographing device, and in response to a disappearance of the target object in the photographed image, controlling the photographing device to search for the target object around a location associated with the location estimation information.
US12238399B2	Electronic device including camera According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include: a housing, a plurality of cameras disposed on a surface of the housing, a light source disposed adjacent to at least one of the plurality of cameras on the surface of the housing, and a camera cover disposed on the housing, wherein the camera cover is disposed to cover at least a portion of the plurality of cameras and/or the light source. The camera cover may include a first light emitting area corresponding to the light source and configured to emit a part of light emitted from the light source to the outside, a first incident area corresponding to a first camera among the plurality of cameras and configured to allow and/or guide external light to be incident on the first camera, and at least one second light emitting area positioned closer to the first incident area than the first light emitting area, wherein the at least one second light emitting area is configured to emit another part of the light emitted from the light source to the outside.
US12238398B2	Imaging lens assembly, camera module and electronic device An imaging lens assembly includes optical elements and a light path folding mechanism. The light path folding mechanism is disposed on the optical axis to fold an optical axis at least once, and includes a light folding element, a light blocking structure and a nanostructure layer. The light folding element includes a reflecting surface, an incident surface and an exit surface. The reflecting surface is configured to fold an incident light path towards an exit light path. The light blocking structure is disposed on at least one of the incident surface and the exit surface, and includes a main light blocking portion located on a peripheral portion closest to the optical axis on a cross section passing through the optical axis. The nanostructure layer is continuously distributed over at least one of the incident surface and the exit surface and the main light blocking portion.
US12238395B2	Dynamic topology generation for branching narratives A playback application is configured to dynamically generate topology for an interactive media title. The playback application obtains an initial topology and also collects various data associated with a user interacting with the feature. The playback application then modifies the initial topology, based on the collected data, to generate a dynamic topology tailored to the user. The dynamic topology describes the set of choices available to the user during playback as well as which options can be selected by the user when making a given choice. In addition, the playback application also selectively buffers different portions of the interactive media title, based on the collected data, in anticipation of the user selecting particular options for available choices.
US12238392B2	Computing system with device attestation feature In one aspect, an example method includes (i) encountering, by a media player of a media presentation system, a trigger to transmit a network communication to a computing device; (ii) generating, by the media player, an attestation watermark indicative of an authenticity of the media player using a cryptographic key; (iii) attaching, by the media player, the attestation watermark to the network communication; and (iv) based on encountering the trigger, transmitting, by the media player, the network communication having the attached attestation watermark to the computing device, the authenticity of the media player being verifiable by the computing device using the attestation watermark.
US12238389B2	Systems and methods to enhance segment during trick play Systems and methods are provided herein for including supplemental content with segments based on the complexity of the segment. This may be accomplished by a system receiving complexity information related to a media asset and user information related to a viewer to determine if one or more segments of the media asset is complex for the user. If the system receives a trick play command, from the user, during a segment categorized as complex, the system can use the complexity information and user information to generate supplemental content, facilitating better user understanding of the complex segment.
US12238388B2	Systems and methods for graphical data presentation during a sporting event broadcast Systems and methods for graphical data presentation during a sporting event broadcast are disclosed. A server platform is constructed and configured in network communication with at least one input device and at least one display device. The at least one input device transmits input data with time code related to the sporting event to the server platform in real time or near real time. The server platform processes the input data according to a production sequencing of the sporting event, thereby creating processed data. The server platform creates and integrates the processed data with a video presentation of the sporting event based on the production sequencing of the sporting event. The at least one display device displays a customized graphical presentation of the processed data with the video presentation.
US12238387B2	Systems and methods for IP-based asset package distribution for provisioning targeted advertisements Embodiments are related to faster provisioning of targeted advertisements at a set-top box (STB) via an Internet Protocol (IP) connection between the STB and a remote server. The disclosed IP-based advertisement distribution system enables targeted advertisements to be pulled from the remote server efficiently, causing the advertisements to be made available within a short time frame (e.g., less than one day from the time when the advertisements are available). The disclosed methods enables a STB to determine whether to retain existing targeted advertisements, discard them, or provision newly-available advertisements. The targeted advertisements can depend on various factors such as demographic information of an owner of the STB, lifestyle information of the owner of the STB, etc.
US12238385B2	Systems and methods for fast, intuitive, and personalized language learning from video subtitles A vocabulary level of a user in a language to be learned is identified. During playback of a media asset on a first device, subtitles in the language are extracted for at least a portion of the media asset. The extracted subtitles may contain a single word, or a plurality of words in the language in question. Based on the vocabulary level, a subset of words from the extracted subtitles are predicted to be new to the user. The predicted new words are then generated for display on a second device associated with the user, along with an explanation of each word of the subset of words.
US12238379B2	Determining a distribution of digital content using information associated with the submission of questions, answers and ratings Determining a distribution of digital content using information associated with the submission of questions, answers and ratings to optimize user participation and content distribution. Users can create and submit content including questions and answers for distribution to other users. The system uses information including whether or not answers provided by a user are accepted by other users and the alignment of a user's ratings with the ratings provided by other users for the same answers to determine how widely to distribute the content submitted by an individual user.
US12238378B2	Display device Disclosed is a display device for more easily providing information on a character in a current scene to a user upon receiving a character search request. The display device includes a display configured to display an image, a wireless communication interface configured to receive character information of characters relating to the image, and a controller configured to control the display to display thumbnails of the characters based on the character information, wherein the controller controls the display to display an indicator on a thumbnail of a matching character most similar to a face image of a character in a current scene among the thumbnails of the characters.
US12238373B2	Apparatus, systems and methods for accessing information based on an image presented on a display Systems and methods are operable to control operation of a portable media device based on machine readable information of a graphical artifact shown on a display concurrently with presentation of a video portion of a media content event. A portable media device, using a portable media device provisioned with an image capture device, captures at least one image that includes the display that is presenting the graphical artifact and the video portion of the media content event, identifies the graphical artifact in the captured at least one image, determines the machine readable data based on the identified graphical artifact, and operates the portable media device to perform at least one operation based on the determined machine readable data.
US12238372B2	Cross-media measurement device and method A method of identifying media content presented on a display device includes determining a selected input source providing a video signal to the display device, and then selecting a first set of content identification rules when it is determined that the selected input source is a first input source, and selecting a second set of content identification rules when it is determined that the selected input source is a second input source. The method further comprises applying the selected first set or second set of content identification rules to the video signal in order to generate content identification data for the media content presented on the display device. Application of the content identification rules includes waiting for a trigger event and applying an algorithm to one or more frames of the video signal following the trigger event.
US12238370B2	Determination of availability of chunks of data for network streaming media data An example device for transporting media data includes: a memory configured to store media data; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: determine that a manifest file for a media presentation includes data representing a delta time value for a resynchronization element of a segment of the media presentation; determine a multiple of the delta time value; determine a number of chunks of the segment that are currently available for retrieval using the multiple of the delta time value; send a request to a server device for the chunks of the segment that are currently available, wherein the request omits chunks of the segment that are not currently available; and store data of chunks received in response to the request in the memory.
US12238368B2	Sink device, digital system and method of controlling CEC communication A method of controlling consumer electronics control (CEC) communication between a sink device and a plurality of source devices connected through high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) cables may include; generating cable connection information by monitoring whether the HDMI cables are respectively connected to a HDMI port among a plurality of HDMI ports of the sink device, generating CEC error information by monitoring whether a voltage of an internal CEC node is fixed, wherein CEC lines included in connected HDMI cables are commonly connected to the internal CEC node and the connected HDMI cables indicate present connection to the plurality of HDMI ports, and executing a user guide to diagnose a stuck state of the CEC lines of the connected HDMI cables in response to the cable connection information and the CEC error information.
US12238366B2	Real-time objects insertion into content based on frame identifiers Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for inserting objects in real-time into content based on frame identifiers. An example embodiment operates by identifying a first object in a frame of a content and generating an identifier for the first object in the frame. The identifier includes an array of numbers representing context and visual features of the first object in the frame. The example embodiments further operates by identifying a second object based on the array of numbers representing the first object and inserting the second object into the frame of the content.
US12238364B2	Apparatus and method for providing multimedia content An electronic device may include: a display; at least one processor operatively connected with the display; and a memory configured to store a plurality of contents and operatively connected with the at least one processor, and the memory may store instructions that, when being executed, cause the at least one processor to: acquire a plurality of contents related to a first category from the memory; classify the plurality of contents into one or more groups, based on context information of the plurality of contents; identify at least one first content corresponding to a designated type from the one or more groups; generate a highlight content by using the at least one first content; generate a teed including the highlighted content and the plurality of contents, based on the one or more groups; and arrange the highlight content on an upper end of the feed to output on the display.
US12238361B2	System and method for receiving a signal A wideband receiver system comprises a wideband analog-to-digital converter (ADC) module and a digital frontend (DFE) module. The wideband ADC is configured to concurrently digitize a band of frequencies comprising a plurality of desired channels and a plurality of undesired channels. The DFE module is coupled to the digital in-phase and quadrature signals. The DFE module is configured to select the plurality of desired channels from the digitized band of frequencies, and generate an intermediate frequency (IF) signal comprising the selected plurality of desired channels and having a bandwidth that is less than a bandwidth of the band of frequencies, where the generation comprises frequency shifting of the selected plurality of desired channels. The IF signal may be a digital signal and the DFE is configured to output the IF signal via a serial or parallel interface.
US12238360B2	Information processing device, information processing method, and storage medium An information processing device of an embodiment includes a first acquisition unit that acquires first information of output content to be output by each of a plurality of shared moving objects used by a plurality of users, a providing unit that provides second information obtained by associating the first information with the shared moving object to a terminal device of the user, and a reception unit that receives an application for use of the shared moving object which is transmitted by the terminal device.
US12238359B2	Methods and apparatus for live text-based conversation between small and large groups An apparatus comprises at least one processing device that includes a processor coupled to a memory. The at least one processing device is configured to receive from each of a plurality of user devices one or more corresponding messages relating to a live event, to process the received messages to determine relevance of the respective received messages to a current state of the live event, to select a subset of the received messages based at least in part on their respective determined relevance, and to control presentation of the selected subset of the received messages on at least one display at the live event. The processing, selecting, and controlling are implemented at least in part utilizing one or more algorithms, illustratively comprising at least a wall population algorithm configured to drive a video wall in a venue of the live event to support a live text-based conversation between performers and fans.
US12238358B2	Remote image processing method and apparatus A remote image processing method, applied to a remote server, includes: obtaining a recommended bit rate, where the recommended bit rate matches an environment parameter of a network in which the remote server is located, and the network environment parameter is used to represent a capability of transmitting an amount of data by the network in a unit time; and generating, based on the recommended bit rate, adjustment parameters corresponding to different regions in a to-be-processed image, and processing the corresponding regions by using the adjustment parameters, to obtain a single-frame image used for display, so that an amount of data included in the single-frame image matches the recommended bit rate.
US12238356B2	Control information for a wirelessly-transmitted data stream Control information for configuring an audiovisual device to present multimedia content according to a first service type may be generated. A method may include generating first control information for configuring an audiovisual device to decode a multimedia stream, generating first data that indicates a structure of the first control information, and transmitting the first data and the first control information. The first control information may be generated according to a first protocol version. Second data and second control information may be similarly generated and transmitted according to a second protocol version. Disclosed techniques may facilitate receiving devices to determine whether they support received wireless transmissions and decode the transmissions based on the control information.
US12238354B2	Methods and apparatus to perform media device asset qualification Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to perform media device asset qualification are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, and at least one processor to execute instructions to at least identify a first set of candidate media device assets for disqualification, the candidate media device assets including A) a signature and B) a media identifier that identifies media, generate a hash table using a second set of the candidate media device assets, determine one or more counts of matches between C) a first signature and a first media identifier of a first candidate media device asset of the second set and D) respective signatures and media identifiers of multiple ones of the second set using the hash table, the multiple ones of the second set not including the first candidate media device asset, and load the first signature into a reference database as a reference signature.
US12238350B2	Systems and methods for associating program actors with program genres Methods and systems for calculating, storing, and allowing electronic searches for metadata associated with media titles. The metadata includes scores specific to each actor and each genre of a media title, where the scores indicate the degree to which an actor's performance in that title corresponds to a particular genre. Electronic searches for particular actors' performance in a specific genre thus return more accurate results that more correctly reflect how well the actors' performances reflect that genre.
US12238347B2	Incident category selection optimization This disclosure describes techniques that enable a categorization controller to detect activation of a portable recording device that is configured to capture a real-time multimedia stream of the current event. The categorization controller may further identify a set of categories that are likely associated with the real-time multimedia stream, determine an ordered ranking of the set of categories, and generate a ranked category dataset for delivery to the portable recording device. In doing so, the portable recording device may present the ordered ranking of the set of categories at a user interface.
US12238346B2	Condition-dependent unsymmetrical quad-tree partitioning A method for processing a video includes determining characteristics regarding a current video block; determining an operational state regarding unsymmetrical quad-tree (UQT) splitting based on the determination of the characteristics, wherein the operational state indicates that whether the UQT splitting is enabled or disabled and/or indicates how to split the current video block into four partitions using the UQT splitting; and performing a conversion between the current video block and a bitstream representation of the current video block based on the operational state of UQT splitting.
US12238340B2	High level syntax for video coding and decoding A method of decoding video data from a bitstream, the bitstream comprising video data corresponding to multiple slices, wherein the bitstream comprises a header comprising syntax elements to be used when decoding one or more slices; —wherein the decoding comprising parsing the picture header; parsing at least one APS ID related syntax element prior to syntax elements relating to decoding tools; and decoding said bitstream using said syntax elements.
US12238334B2	Transformations for signal enhancement coding Measures are provided to encode a signal. An input frame (102) is received and down-sampled to obtain a down-sampled frame (103). The down-sampled frame (103) is passed to an encoding module (104) which encodes the down-sampled frame (103) to generate an encoded frame (105). A decoded frame is obtained from a decoding module (106) which generates the decoded frame by decoding the encoded frame (105). A set of residual data (113) is generated by taking a difference between the decoded frame and the down-sampled frame (103) and is encoded to generate a set of encoded residual data. The encoding comprises transforming the set of residual data into a transformed set of residual data. The set of encoded residual data is output to a decoder to enable the decoder to reconstruct the input frame. Measures are also provided to decode a signal.
US12238331B2	Bit-width control for bi-directional optical flow A method for controlling bit-width for bi-directional optical flow (BDOF) for video coding includes encoding a first reference picture and a second reference picture, the second reference picture being different than the first reference picture, wherein the first reference picture is displayed before a current picture and the second reference picture is displayed after the current picture. A motion refinement of a coding unit (CU) is calculated by minimizing a difference between a first prediction L0 and a second prediction L1. First gradient values for the first prediction L0 and second gradient values for the second prediction L1 are calculated. A final bi-prediction of the CU is calculated. Also disclosed are an associated apparatus and an associated non-transitory computer readable storage medium.
US12238328B2	Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method An encoder includes circuitry and memory connected to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: corrects a base motion vector using a correction value for correcting the base motion vector in a predetermined direction; and encodes a current partition to be encoded in an image of a video, using the base motion vector corrected. The correction value is specified by a first parameter and a second parameter, the first parameter indicating a table to be selected from among a plurality of tables each including values, the second parameter indicating one of the values included in the table to be selected indicated by the first parameter. In each of the plurality of tables, a smaller value among the values is assigned a smaller index. Each of the plurality of tables includes a different minimum value among the values.
US12238322B2	End-to-end watermarking system Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for jointly training an encoder that generates a watermark and a decoder that decodes a data item encoded within the watermark. The training comprises obtaining a plurality of training images and data items. For each training image, a first watermark is generated using an encoder and a subsequent second watermark is generated by tiling two or more first watermarks. The training image is watermarked using the second watermark to generate a first error value and distortions are added to the watermarked image. A distortion detector predicts the distortions based on which the distorted image is modified. The modified image is decoded by the decoder to generate a predicted data item and a second error value. The training parameters of the encoder and decoder are adjusted based on the first and the second error value.
US12238318B2	Determination of secondary transform for intra prediction A method for video decoding in a decoder is provided. Coding information of a block to be reconstructed is decoded from a coded video bitstream. The coding information indicates intra prediction information for the block. Responsive to the block being coded with a directional mode, the directional mode is determined based on a nominal mode and an angular offset, the coding information indicating the nominal mode and the angular offset, a first non-separable transform set of one or more non-separable transforms for the block is determined based on the nominal mode, a non-separable transform in the first non-separable transform set is determined based on a non-separable transform index indicated by the coding information, and the block is reconstructed based on the directional mode and the non-separable transform.
US12238316B2	Determining capability to decode a first picture in a video bitstream A method and decoder for determining that a decoder conforming to a first profile is capable of decoding a first picture of a video bitstream conforming to a second profile is provided. The method includes obtaining an indicator value, the indicator value indicating conformance to a profile. The method includes determining whether the first picture in the video bitstream is a still picture. The method includes responsive to the indicator value indicating conformance to the second profile and the first picture is determined to be a still picture, determining that the decoder conforming to the first profile is capable of decoding the first picture of the video bitstream.
US12238315B2	Methods and systems for constructing merge candidate list including adding a non-adjacent diagonal spatial merge candidate A decoder includes circuitry configured to receive a bitstream, determine whether a merge mode is enabled for a block, construct a merge candidate list including adding a non-adjacent diagonal spatial candidate to the merge candidate list, and reconstruct pixel data of the block and using the merge candidate list. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US12238314B2	Prediction using extra-buffer samples for intra block copy in video coding A method of visual media processing is provided. The method includes determining a size of a buffer to store reference samples for prediction in an intra block copy mode, and performing a conversion between a current video block of visual media data and a bitstream of the current video block. The conversion is performed using the reference samples stored in the buffer, and in the intra block copy (IBC) mode. The IBC mode is based on motion information related to a reconstructed block located in same video region with the current video block without referring to a reference picture.
US12238313B2	Video compression system and server Disclosed in the present disclosure are a video compression system and a server. The video compression system includes a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a hardware detection module, a write control module, a read control module, and an First In First Out (FIFO) array module; the CPU is configured to send a first enable signal to the hardware detection module, the read control module, and the selection switch; the selection switch is configured to select to write test data into the FIFO array module through the hardware detection module based on the first enable signal; the hardware detection module is configured to write test data into the FIFO array module based on the first enable signal; and the read control module is configured to read the test data from the FIFO array module based on the first enable signal and transmit the test data to the hardware detection module.
US12238312B2	Load balancing method for video decoding in a system providing hardware and software decoding resources A load balancing method for video decoding. The load balancing includes first determining which hardware devices are suitable for the new decoding process, and determining the current load of each of the suitable hardware devices. From the suitable devices potential devices are selected having a current load less than a threshold and overloaded devices are selected having a load greater than or equal to the threshold. If there are no suitable devices, then the decoding process is implemented by software decoding. If the list of potential hardware devices includes only one potential hardware device, then the decoding process is implemented on the hardware device. If the list of potential hardware devices includes more than one potential hardware device, then it is determined how many decoding processes are currently running on each potential hardware device, and the new decoding process is implemented on the potential hardware device having the fewest processes.
US12238301B2	Chroma intra prediction method and device Chroma intra prediction methods and devices are provided. The method comprises parsing bitstream data corresponding to a current chroma block, and determining that a prediction mode corresponding to the current chroma block is DM; before determining a set of chroma prediction modes based on at least one modified candidate mode, acquiring a linear mode corresponding to the current chroma block; determining an intra prediction mode of the current chroma block from the set of chroma prediction modes, wherein the set of chroma prediction modes comprises at least one of the DM, LM, LM_T or LM_L, wherein when a luma prediction mode corresponding to the DM is one of a DC mode, Planar mode, VER mode or HOR mode, the set of modes comprises an angular mode with an index number 66; and determining a reconstructed value of the current chroma block according to the intra prediction mode.
US12238300B2	Weighted angular prediction coding for intra coding A method of decoding JVET video that includes receiving a bitstream indicating how a coding tree unit was partitioned into coding units, and parsing said bitstream to generate at least one predictor based on an intra prediction mode signaled in the bitstream, the intra prediction mode selected from a plurality of intra prediction modes for calculating a prediction pixel P[x,y] at coordinate x,y for the coding unit. A number of intra prediction modes available for coding the coding unit are reduced by replacing two or more non-weighted intra prediction modes by a weighted intra prediction mode.
US12238297B2	Method for constructing MPM list, method for obtaining intra prediction mode of chroma block, and apparatus This application discloses a method for constructing an MPM list, a method for obtaining an intra prediction mode of a chroma block, and an apparatus. In a specific implementation, a MIP mode is used for a current block, and the method for constructing an MPM list includes: obtaining intra prediction mode information of a neighboring block; determining, based on the intra prediction mode information of the neighboring block, whether an intra prediction mode of the neighboring block is the MIP mode; and skipping using the intra prediction mode of the neighboring block for MPM list construction of the current block if the intra prediction mode of the neighboring block is not the MIP mode; or using the intra prediction mode of the neighboring block for MPM list construction of the current block if the intra prediction mode of the neighboring block is the MIP mode.
US12238287B2	Image decoding method for residual coding based on transform-skip-related flag in image coding system, and apparatus therefor An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: obtaining a dependent quantization available flag; obtaining a TSRC available flag, on the basis of the dependent quantization available flag; determining a residual coding syntax for a current block, on the basis of the TSRC available flag; obtaining residual information of the determined residual coding syntax for the current block; deriving a residual sample of the current block, on the basis of the residual information; and generating a reconstructed picture, on the basis of the residual sample, wherein the dependent quantization available flag is a flag regarding whether dependent quantization is available, the TSRC available flag is a flag regarding whether TSRC is available, and the TSRC available flag is obtained on the basis of the dependent quantization available flag having a value of 0.
US12238286B2	Method for encoding/decoding image signal, and device for same A video decoding method according to the present disclosure may include partitioning a current picture into a plurality of tiles, decoding partitioning information representing a slice type, wherein the partitioning information represents whether a rectangular slice is applied and decoding first width information and first height information of a slice when the partitioning information represents that the rectangular slice is applied.
US12238285B2	Method and device for encoding/decoding image, and recording medium for storing bitstream An image encoding/decoding method is disclosed. An image decoding method of the present invention may comprise identifying a region by partitioning an image, and determining a prediction mode of the region on the basis of at least one of a size of the region, a partition shape, and a coding parameter of the region. The determined prediction mode of the region may be determined as a prediction mode of all coding blocks included in the region.
US12238284B2	Image decoding method Complexity of coding/decoding of a video is reduced. An image decoding apparatus (31) includes a CN information decoder (10) configured to hierarchically split a coding node by at least any of binary tree split and ternary tree split. The CN information decoder refers to a method of splitting an immediately higher node, which is a node one generation higher than a target node, to restrict a method of splitting the target node.
US12238282B2	Image decoding device, image decoding method, and program An image decoding device, includes a filter unit using, as an input, a decoded signal prior to the filtering process and output a filtered decoded signal. The filter unit performs clipping processing on the decoded signal prior to the filtering process such that the absolute value of a differential value between a reference pixel value and a pixel value of the decoded signal prior to the filtering process is less than or equal to a predefined threshold value, and to generate the filtered decoded signal through the linear weighted addition of the value after the clipping processing is performed and the pixel value of the decoded signal prior to the filtering process; and a large-small relationship between the threshold value for a luma signal and the threshold value for a chroma signal are defined such that the large-small relationship is unchanged when an internal bit depth is changed.
US12238276B2	Coefficients coding in transform skip mode Methods and apparatus for video processing are disclosed. The processing may include video encoding, video decoding, or video transcoding. One example method includes performing a conversion between a current block of a video and a bitstream of the video. The bitstream conforms to a rule that specifies that a context index offset is used for including a first sign flag of a first coefficient in the bitstream. The rule specifies that a value of the context index offset is based on whether a first coding mode is applied on the current block in the bitstream.
US12238273B2	Video coding system A video coding system including an acceleration device including input circuitry configured, for each of a first plurality of video frames to be encoded, to receive an input including at least one raw video frame and at least one reference frame, and to divide each of the first plurality of video frames to be encoded into a second plurality of blocks, and similarity computation circuitry configured, for each one of the first plurality of video frame to be encoded: for each the block of the second plurality of blocks, to produce an intra-prediction hint and an intra-prediction direction. Related apparatus and methods are also provided.
US12238271B2	Applications for detection capabilities of cameras In one embodiment, a system receives pixel data from a pair of regions of an image generated by an imaging device, the pair of regions includes a first region and a second region, where the first region includes a first plurality of pixels and the second region includes a second plurality of pixels. The system determines a plurality of pixel pairs, where a pixel pair includes a first pixel from the first plurality of pixels and a second pixel from the second plurality of pixels. The system calculates a plurality of contrasts based on the plurality of pixel pairs. The system determines a contrast distribution based on the plurality of contrasts. The system calculates a value representative of a capability of the imaging device to detect contrast based on the contrast distribution. The system determines a reduction in contrast detectability of the imaging device based on the value.
US12238270B2	Multifocal plane based method to produce stereoscopic viewpoints in a DIBR system (MFP-DIBR) Some embodiments of an example method may include receiving an input image with depth information; mapping the input image to a set of focal plane images; orienting the set of focal plane images using head orientation information to provide stereo disparity between left and right eyes; and displaying the oriented set of focal plane images. Some embodiments of another example method may include: receiving a description of three-dimensional (3D) content; receiving, from a tracker, information indicating motion of a viewer relative to a real-world environment; responsive to receiving the information indicating motion of the viewer, synthesizing motion parallax by altering multi-focal planes of the 3D content; and rendering an image to the multi-focal plane display using the altered multi-focal plane rendering.
US12238264B2	Method and device for three-dimensional light detection and ranging (LiDAR), and three-dimensional measuring device thereof A three-dimensional imaging apparatus includes: a housing having a first opening and a second opening; a first imaging device configured to collect a first set of image data, the first imaging device being mounted within the housing and having an optical axis through the first opening of the housing and a first field of view configured with respect to the optical axis; and a second imaging device configured to collect a second set of image data, the second imaging device being mounted within the housing and having a scanning plane through the second opening of the housing and a second field of view configured with respect to the scanning plane. The optical axis of the first imaging device and the scanning plane of the second imaging device form an angle. The first field of view and the second field of view do not overlap.
US12238255B2	Image forming apparatus establishes reconnection with terminal device using identification information so that communication with the terminal device is resumed An image-forming apparatus includes a controller, a storage, and a communicator. The controller establishes a connection with a terminal device through the communicator by QUIC, stores, in the storage, identification information for identifying the connection and key information to be used for encryption of transmission/reception information transmitted and received to and from the terminal device, performs communication of the transmission/reception information with the terminal device through HTTP/3, and establishes, when the connection with the terminal device is disconnected, a connection with the terminal device using the identification information and the key information so that the communication of the transmission/reception information with the terminal device is resumed.
US12238254B2	File provision system, file generation apparatus, and file provision method A file provision system includes a file generation apparatus and a file relay apparatus. The file generation apparatus includes first circuitry. The first circuitry provides a user terminal with device identification information identifying the file generation apparatus and access destination information indicating an access destination to the file relay apparatus. The first circuitry transmits the device identification information of the file generation apparatus to the file relay apparatus. The file relay apparatus includes second circuitry. The second circuitry receives the device identification information from the user terminal in response to an access from the user terminal. The second circuitry transmits the data file received from the file generation apparatus corresponding to the received device identification information to the user terminal as a source of the access or transfer the data file to a transfer destination designated by the user terminal as the source of the access.
US12238252B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus includes: a document conveyor that conveys a document; an image reader that reads an image of the conveyed document; at least one main memory; a data transfer circuit; and one or more controllers, whereas the controllers determine whether to read an image of each page in a first reading mode or a second reading mode, the first reading mode being a mode in which conveyance of the next document is started before reading of an image of a previous page is completed, the second reading mode being a mode in which conveyance of the next document starts after reading of the document of a previous page is completed, and when there is a possibility that preparation regarding image data transfer of the next page is not completed during reading in the first reading mode, the first reading mode is switched to the second reading mode.
US12238240B2	Method and device for displaying video playback interface, terminal device, and storage medium This disclosure discloses a display method and apparatus for a video playing interface, a terminal device, and a storage medium. The display method of the video playing interface includes: receiving, in a screen locking state of a terminal device, a video playing instruction of a user for a screen locking interface of the terminal device; and switching, in response to the video playing instruction, from the screen locking interface to a video playing interface displayed according to a video playing program in the screen locking state, wherein through the video playing program, a video list is displayed or video data is played in the video playing interface in the screen locking state.
US12238235B2	Mobile device system including sub-application that executes in response to host application execution A mobile computing device system includes a first host application on a mobile computing device and a sub-application on the mobile computing device that is configured to selectively execute in response to execution of the first host application by the mobile computing device. A first user interface is displayed by the first host application on the mobile computing device by the first host application. The sub-application is configured to execute a method including determining a location of the mobile computing device, and if the mobile computing device is determined to be at a location within a predetermined geographic area, then generating an alert message including digital content associated with the first geographic area, and displaying the alert message on the first user interface. If the mobile computing device is not determined to be at a location within the predetermined first geographic area, then not displaying the alert message on the first user interface.
US12238233B1	Grip shield for cell phones A grip shield is provided for a cell phone accessory to enhance its functionality. The grip shield is secured to a rim of an extendible accordion accessory to provide a backstop for the user's hand, a downwardly extending flange for reducing catching on pockets and pocketbook items, as well as enhancing the aesthetics of the device.
US12238232B1	Blockchain-based asset authentication methods and systems Systems and methods for blockchain-based asset authentication are described. The disclosed embodiments leverage the traceability and immutability of blockchains (or distributed ledgers, in general) to enable the authentication and ownership of assets, e.g., luxury goods. In an example, this is achieved by first pairing an authentication chip with a physical product, and writing a transaction correlated with the first pairing to a blockchain. The product being acquired (reacquired) results in the blockchain being updated (e.g., an updated transaction being written to the blockchain) and the (subsequent) owner being provided with a digital passport that can be added to the owner's digital Web3 wallet. The described embodiments advantageously enable digital identities to be associated with physical goods, which adds value for customers making a long-term investment in a luxury good, and promotes sustainability and transparency in manufacturing and retail processes.
US12238226B2	Secure distribution of a client certificate private key to client-based services Described is a system for secure distribution of a client certificate private key to client-based services. The system implements a specialized technique to minimize exposure of a key-encryption-key (KEK) that may be used to secure the client certificate private key that is managed by a certificate manager (CM). A client-based service generates a one-time secret message that is encrypted with the symmetric key and provided to the CM as part of a request to access the private key. The CM authenticates the request originates from a trusted before decrypting the private key with the KEK that remains known only to the CM. The CM then encrypts the decrypted private key with the secret message and provides the client-based service access to private key that is encrypted with the secret message.
US12238222B2	Systems and methods for efficient and secure processing, accessing and transmission of data via a blockchain network The invention provides improved methods and systems for storing, sharing retrieving, writing and accessing data (content) on a blockchain. The invention may form part of a protocol for storing, searching and accessing the data. An embodiment of the invention comprises the step of processing at least one blockchain transaction (Tx) comprising: a protocol flag; a discretionary public key (DPK); and a discretionary transaction ID (DTx ID). These are discretionary in the sense that they are not required as part of the underlying blockchain protocol but in accordance with the present invention. This combination of features enables portions of data to be identified, retrieved and shared on a blockchain, and also to be linked/associated with one another when provided in a plurality of transactions. It enables a graph or tree-like structure to be constructed, which reflects the hierarchical relationships between portions of data, facilitating their processing, searching and sharing.
US12238221B2	Cryptographic system memory management In one example, a system for managing encrypted memory comprises a processor to store a first MAC based on data stored in system memory in response to a write operation to the system memory. The processor can also detect a read operation corresponding to the data stored in the system memory, calculate a second MAC based on the data retrieved from the system memory, determine that the second MAC does not match the first MAC, and recalculate the second MAC with a correction operation, wherein the correction operation comprises an XOR operation based on the data retrieved from the system memory and a replacement value for a device of the system memory. Furthermore, the processor can decrypt the data stored in the system memory in response to detecting the recalculated second MAC matches the first MAC and transmit the decrypted data to cache thereby correcting memory errors.
US12238216B2	Systems and methods for secure streaming across a distributed platform Disclosed is a system and associated methods for secure media stream distribution across different platforms associated with different Internet domains. A first node of a first platform receives a first request from a device, performs a first verification based on credentials provided by the device matching stored credentials, generates a first signed token, and provides the first signed token with a second link for the device to access the requested media stream from a second network node of a second platform. The second network node determines that the device was verified at the first network node based on a second stream request from the device including the first signed token, generates a second token that uniquely identifies the device in the second domain, and streams requested stream data to the device in response to performing a second verification based on requests for the stream data including the second token.
US12238213B1	Methods and systems for verifying a worker agent A method for verifying a worker agent includes receiving, by a core node, from a worker agent, a capability description describing a plurality of tasks and, for each of the plurality of tasks, (i) at least one parameter of the task and (ii) an outcome expected to be produced by performing the task. The method includes generating, based on the capability description, a plurality of request-output pairs, each representing a particular request and a corresponding baseline output expected to be produced upon processing the request. The core node receives, from the worker agent, a plurality of outputs, each of the plurality of outputs generated by the worker agent and corresponding to one of the plurality of request-output pairs. The core node compares the plurality of baseline outputs to the plurality of actual outputs to produce comparison output and determines whether to approve the worker agent based on the comparison output.
US12238211B2	Performing deduplication based on encrypted storage blocks generated using a secure enclave Deduplication can be performed based on encrypted storage blocks generated by a secure enclave. For example, a secure enclave can generate a first encrypted storage block and a second encrypted storage block using an encryption key. The first encrypted storage block can be an encrypted version of a first storage block and the second encrypted storage block can be an encrypted version of a second storage block. The secure enclave can then provide the first encrypted storage block and the second encrypted storage block to a supervisory program executable on a processor that is separate from the secure enclave. The supervisory program can be configured to initiate deduplication of the first storage block and the second storage block in response to determining that the first encrypted storage block matches the second encrypted storage block.
US12238207B2	Secure processor for post-quantum cryptography algorithm CRYSTALS-KYBER A secure processor for a post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithm CRYSTALS-KYBER, includes a communication unit, a management unit, a processing unit, and a storage unit. The communication unit is configured to receive and transmit data for the secure processor; the management unit is configured to control the processing unit according to the data; the processing unit is configured to process the data to form encrypted data, decrypted data and key data; and the storage unit is configured to store all data. The secure processor can efficiently and rapidly realize key generation, encryption and decryption of a KYBER algorithm under KYBER1024, KYBER768 and KYBER512 security levels, makes data encryption more complicated, and ensures security of the data.
US12238205B1	Method of providing secure communications to multiple devices and multiple parties Systems and methods for automatically disseminating a private key are presented. A first message requesting a key proxy instance is received from a first user device. The first message comprises a first symmetric key. A key proxy server is directed to allocate a key proxy instance for communication with the first user device based on a device public key that corresponds to the first user device. A unique URL corresponding to the key proxy instance is received from the key proxy server. A second message comprising the unique URL is sent to the first user device. The second message is encrypted using the first symmetric key and signed using a server private key. A third message comprising the URL of the key proxy instance is received from the first user device and forwarded to a second user device.
US12238204B1	Systems and methods for implementing transparent end-to-end network public-key encryption A network packet can be received at a host and it can be determined if such packet has a valid cryptographic public key for a destination host. If there is no known valid cryptographic public key, it is determined whether the network packet is a first network packet sent to the destination host, and if so, a queue is designated for network packets addressed to the destination host and a key management server is queried for a valid cryptographic public key associated with the destination host. Otherwise, the network packet is placed in a queue designated for the destination host until a valid cryptographic public key associated with the destination host becomes available. Upon a valid cryptographic public key associated with the destination host becoming available, the network packet is processed, encrypted and sent to the destination host.
US12238203B2	Sharing keys with authorized users Methods, systems, and devices for sharing keys with authorized users are described. In some cases, the first device may transmit, to the server, a request for a certificate for the first device to communicate with a memory device. The server may generate the certificate using a first private key of a first public-private key pair. The first device may receive the certificate and generate a content message that is signed by a second private key of a second public-private key pair. In some cases, the memory device may receive the content message and the certificate and validate the certificate using a first public key of the first public-private key pair. In such cases, the first device may establish a connection with the memory device in response to the memory device validating the certificate.
US12238196B2	Linearity test system, linearity signal providing device, and linearity test method A linearity test system for a chip, a linearity signal providing device, and a linearity test method for the chip are provided. The linearity test method for the chip includes steps as follows: providing a reference clock signal and a receiver input signal to a chip under test, wherein the reference clock signal and the receiver input signal have a phase difference in time domain; and determining a linearity of a phase interpolator of the chip under test based on a plurality of phase signals of the chip under test corresponding to the reference clock signal and the receiver input signal.
US12238194B2	Multi-stage burst detection for communications systems Systems and methods are described that enable user terminals to eliminate or reduce the number of dummy bursts (or bursts with no data) they send. The systems and methods use two burst detectors, a first burst detector that analyzes the physical structure of the signal, and a second burst detector that analyzes the informational structure of the signal. Output from the first burst detector can be used to control operation of a signal decoder that decodes received signals. The second burst detector analyzes output from the signal decoder to determine the second burst indicator. In other words, the first burst detector can be implemented prior to decoding the received signal to provide a first estimate related to the presence or absence of a burst. This can then be used to limit the amount of processing performed by the signal decoder.
US12238192B2	Conveying motion data via media packets A device includes a memory configured to store instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to receive a media packet and to determine, based on a field of the media packet, whether the media packet includes motion data. The one or more processors are also configured to execute the instructions to, based on the media packet including motion data, extract the motion data from the media packet.
US12238190B2	Method of performing communication load balancing with multi-teacher reinforcement learning, and an apparatus for the same A server may be provided to obtain a load balancing artificial intelligence (AI) model for a plurality of base stations in a communication system. The server may obtain teacher models based on traffic data sets collected from the base stations, respectively; perform a policy rehearsal process including obtaining student models based on knowledge distillation from the teacher models, obtaining an ensemble student model by ensembling the student models, and obtaining a policy model by interacting with the ensemble student mode; provide the policy model to each of the base stations for a policy evaluation of the policy model; and based on a training continue signal being received from at least one of the base stations as a result of the policy evaluation, update the ensemble student model and the policy model by performing the policy rehearsal process on the student models.
US12238186B2	Wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) driven edge service discovery and selection A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may send a discovery request to a first edge enabler server (EES) instance to obtain edge application server (EAS) information. The WTRU may receive a discovery response from the first EES instance. The discovery response may indicate a list of EAS information and/or registrar EES information for one or more EAS instances in the list of EAS information. The WTRU may select an EAS instance based on one or more of the list of EAS information or the registrar EES information for the one or more EAS instances. A second EES instance of the plurality of EES instances may be the registrar EES of the selected EAS instance.
US12238185B2	Generating service-to-service dependency map from DNS and authentication logs A distributed computing system is provided, and configured to execute a domain name service (DNS) log analyzer configured to identify a dependency of a first service executed on a first VM at a first server, on a second service executed on a second VM at a second server, via one or more DNS logs of a DNS server. The system is further configured to execute an authentication log analyzer configured to identify a dependency of the first service on a third service executed at a third server, via the one or more token authentication logs of an authentication server. The system is further configured to execute a dependency map generator configured to generate a service-to-service dependency map including the dependency between the first service and the second service, and the dependency between the first service and third service.
US12238184B2	Network management for executing a service using a plurality of entities A communication system executes a sharing process, an acquisition process, a determination process, a deployment process, and an execution process. The sharing process is a process of sharing a shared key for a plurality of entities including a communication apparatus and at least one edge server, between the plurality of entities. The acquisition process is a process of acquiring performance information, which indicates a performance of the plurality of entities, from the plurality of entities. The determination process is a process of determining services to be assigned to the plurality of entities based on the performance information. The deployment process is a process of deploying the assigned services to the plurality of entities. The execution process is a process of executing the deployed services at the plurality of entities using the shared key.
US12238179B2	Systems and methods of message-based packets A system for transmitting data is described, among other things. An illustrative system is disclosed to include one or more circuits to perform transmitting message-based data over packets. The circuits are capable of identifying a first message, transmitting a first portion of the first message in a first packet, the first packet including a bit indicating the first packet is message-based, and transmitting an end portion of the first message in a second packet, the second packet including a first bit indicating the second packet is message-based and a second bit indicating the second packet comprises the end portion of the first message.
US12238177B1	Mid-link forensic system for remote application environment The present disclosure provides an electronic inspection method and system comprising user endpoints, end-link servers belonging to a tenant, and a mid-link server. The mid-link server connects the user endpoints with an end-link server through tunnels. The mid-link server models an interaction in the tunnels using a model of an application layer. The mid-link server receives communication from the user endpoints through the tunnels, differentiates between a data object, and stores the data object based on a plurality of policies and context developed. The mid-link analyzes the model and the data object in the tunnels and determines the context according to a policy. The mid-link server performs the electronic inspection between a plurality of end-link servers and a plurality of user endpoints by inspecting the data object from the plurality of tunnels.
US12238176B2	Method and device for controlling home device A method by which a server controls plural devices includes receiving a trigger signal generated by a sensor in a home in response to a mobile device being present at a specific location in the home, determining devices corresponding to the specific location by using the trigger signal, receiving context information indicating a situation of a user from the mobile device, selecting context information related to operations of the determined devices from among the received context information by using keywords respectively related to the devices, each of the operations corresponding to each of the devices, and providing the selected context information to the devices respectively so that each of the devices performs the operations.
US12238173B2	Using wireless charging to redistribute power resources within a mesh network A system and method of using wireless charging to redistribute power resources within a mesh network. The method includes monitoring, by a processing device of a control node of the mesh network, a plurality of nodes of the mesh network to obtain a power distribution (PD) report comprising a plurality of battery levels associated with the plurality of nodes. The method includes identifying a first node of the mesh network having a first battery in a first deficit power state based on the PD report. The method includes identifying a second node of the mesh network having a second battery in a second surplus power state based on the PD report. The method includes transmitting a message to the second node of the mesh network to cause the second node to wirelessly charge the first battery of the first node.
US12238169B2	Network attached device for accessing removable storage media Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and computer readable media to access data on removable storage media via a network attached access device. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving one or more user provided, in the removable storage media access device, receiving data over a packet communication network for storage on a removable storage medium. After receiving the data, the method provides preparing the data for storage on the removable storage medium. After preparing the data, the method provides writing the data to the removable storage medium.
US12238167B2	Synchronization method and electronic device A synchronization method and an electronic device are provided. The synchronization method includes receiving, in a case that a first electronic device is in communication connection with a second electronic device, a running interface of a first application sent by the second electronic device. The synchronization method further includes receiving, in a case that the first electronic device runs the first application, target application data of the first application sent by the second electronic device. The synchronization method also includes synchronizing the target application data to the first application run on the first electronic device.
US12238165B2	Automated configuration change of virtual machines in a computing node group Techniques are described for providing managed computer networks, such as for managed virtual computer networks overlaid on one or more other underlying computer networks. In some situations, the techniques include facilitating replication of a primary computing node that is actively participating in a managed computer network, such as by maintaining one or more other computing nodes in the managed computer network as replicas, and using such replica computing nodes in various manners. For example, a particular managed virtual computer network may span multiple broadcast domains of an underlying computer network, and a particular primary computing node and a corresponding remote replica computing node of the managed virtual computer network may be implemented in distinct broadcast domains of the underlying computer network, with the replica computing node being used to transparently replace the primary computing node in the virtual computer network if the primary computing node becomes unavailable.
US12238162B2	Method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and apparatus for load balancing of network processing unit The invention relates to a method, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and an apparatus for load balancing of a network processing unit (NPU). A central processing unit (CPU) is coupled to the NPU and the NPU has multiple cores. The method, which is performed by the CPU, includes: reassigning a data stream processed by a first core in the NPU, which is under a high load, to a second core in the NPU, which is under a low load, where the low load is lower than the high load. The data stream is distinguished from other data streams by at least its quintuple, and the quintuple is composed of a source Internet Protocol (IP) address, a source port, a destination IP address, a destination port and a protocol type.
US12238151B2	Method and system for supporting sharing of experiences between users, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium A method for supporting experience sharing between users is provided. The method includes the steps of: acquiring spatial information on a shared content for experience sharing; providing a user with the shared content in a virtual space created with reference to the spatial information on the shared content; and in response to the user creating an authored content in the virtual space, sharing the authored content with respect to a location matched with a location where the authored content is created in the virtual space.
US12238147B2	Forwarding session initiation messages A second device (e.g., a session border controller (SBC) receives, from a first device (e.g., a video teleconference server) of an IP communication network, an invitation (e.g., a session initiation protocol (SIP) message) to create a session between the first device and a third device (e.g., a computer of a person participating in the teleconference) of the network. The invitation includes a session description, e.g., in session description protocol (SDP) format. The second device determines whether to forward the invitation toward the third device based on a datastore comprising i) prior invitations received by the second device to create sessions between devices of the network, and ii) results of the prior invitations. Upon determining to forward the invitation, the second device forwards the invitation.
US12238144B2	Information processing apparatus, method, and storage medium The present disclosure is directed to providing an information processing apparatus in which a management application is executed sets a first schedule for determining timing for transmitting an instruction to shift to a predetermined power supply state in which a request via a network fails to a management target device and a second schedule for determining timing for transmitting a request according to a setting of a security policy to the management target device via the network, and executes processing so that timing for transmitting a request based on the second schedule regarding the setting of the second schedule does not overlap with a period during which a request fails due to an instruction to be transmitted based on the first schedule.
US12238142B2	Method and apparatus for controlling network service of internet of things terminal, and storage medium A method and an apparatus for controlling a network service of an Internet of things terminal, and a related storage medium are disclosed. In the method, after receiving a uniform resource locator (URL) sent by an Internet of things terminal in an authentication process, a network management device obtains a manufacturer usage descriptions (MUD) file based on the URL, and parses the MUD file to obtain content of at least one field included in the MUD file, where the MUD file includes at least one of: a first-type field or a second-type field, the first-type field is used to describe a security isolation requirement, and the second-type field is used to describe a quality assurance requirement.
US12238139B2	System for secure channel selection for multi-factor authentication using non-fungible electronic resources Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for secure channel selection for multi-factor authentication using non-fungible electronic resources. An example system may receive, from a user input device, a request from a user to access resources. The example system may then determine and subsequently validate a first authentication channel to be used to verify user identity. The example system may check if the user possesses an NFT for the first authentication channel, retrieves relevant authentication channel descriptors, and compares the authentication channel information with the authentication channel descriptors to determine a match. If the channel is deemed valid, the example system may initialize verification of the user identity via the first authentication channel.
US12238136B2	Malware data clustering In various embodiments, systems, methods, and techniques are disclosed for generating a collection of clusters of related data from a seed. Seeds may be generated based on seed generation strategies or rules. Clusters may be generated by, for example, retrieving a seed, adding the seed to a first cluster, retrieving a clustering strategy or rules, and adding related data and/or data entities to the cluster based on the clustering strategy. Various cluster scores may be generated based on attributes of data in a given cluster. Further, cluster metascores may be generated based on various cluster scores associated with a cluster. Clusters may be ranked based on cluster metascores. Various embodiments may enable an analyst to discover various insights related to data clusters, and may be applicable to various tasks including, for example, tax fraud detection, beaconing malware detection, malware user-agent detection, and/or activity trend detection, among various others.
US12238125B2	Detection and mitigation of recursive domain name system attacks A method and system for detecting domain name system (DNS) recursive cyber-attacks are presented. The system includes learning a plurality of baselines of at least rates and rate invariants of DNS features; monitoring DNS traffic directed to and from a DNS resolver, wherein the DNS resolver is communicatively connected between at least one client and at least one name server; analyzing the monitored DNS traffic using at least one detection function to detect an anomaly based in part on at least one baseline of the plurality of learnt baselines; and upon detection of at least one anomaly, performing at least one mitigation action to filter out incoming DNS queries to a domain name under attack.
US12238123B2	System and method to identify cyber threat intelligence from a group of information A system to identify cyber threat intelligence from a group of information is disclosed. The system includes a processing subsystem including a data sourcing module to fetch information. The processing subsystem includes a data processing module to extract textual information from the information. The processing subsystem includes a machine learning module including an entity analysis module to fragment the textual information to obtain entities. The entity analysis module is to analyze a label assigned to each of the entities to generate a first threat score. The machine learning module includes a semantic analysis module to summarize the entities to obtain a summarized text. The semantic analysis module is to evaluate sentiments pertaining to the summarized text. The semantic analysis module is configured to analyze the sentiments to generate a second threat score. The machine learning module includes a classifier module to classify the textual information categories.
US12238121B2	Assessing behavior patterns and reputation scores related to email messages A computer-implemented method includes generating behavior patterns based on historical behavior of a plurality of emails. The method further includes receiving an email message from a sender, wherein the email message is withheld from delivery to a recipient. The method further includes extracting a plurality of features from the email message. The method further includes determining whether content of the email message matches at least one criterion for suspicious content. The method further includes determining a reputation score associated with the sender based on a comparison of the extracted features with the behavior patterns, wherein the extracted features include an identity of the sender. The method further includes responsive to the content of the email message not matching the at least one criterion for suspicious content and the reputation score meeting a reputation threshold, delivering the email message to the recipient.
US12238120B1	Embedded intrusion prevention system for industrial controllers An intrusion prevention system can be embedded in an industrial controller to detect possible attacks on the corresponding physical system of the industrial controller. The intrusion prevention system can analyze the payload of network packets received at the industrial controller and predict what harm the payload of the network packet could cause to the physical system if executed by the industrial controller. To predict how the payload of a network packet may affect the physical system, the intrusion prevention system can perform a simulation with the payload of the network packet. The simulation can incorporate a model of the physical system, a copy of the logic used by the industrial controller and information relating to the current state of the system. The result of the simulation can be new predicted states for the physical system that can be evaluated to determine if a safety violation has occurred.
US12238118B2	Privacy preserving validation and commit architecture A method of scheduling and validating a multiple-participant process, the method including: submitting, by a submitting node associated with a participant in the multiple-participant process, a proposed transaction by sending a cryptographically-protected message to one or more recipient nodes, wherein the cryptographically-protected message includes at least an unencrypted submessage readable by an external node and a cryptographically-protected submessage to preserve privacy from at least the external node; determining, by the external node, an order of the proposed transaction relative to other transactions; by way of at least some of the recipient nodes, validating the cryptographically-protected message; receiving a confirmation of validity of the cryptographically-protected message from at least some of the recipient nodes; finalizing the proposed transaction, as a confirmed transaction, based on receiving one or more confirmations from at least some of the recipient nodes that satisfy a confirmation condition; and writing the confirmed transaction to a distributed ledger according to the order determined by the external node.
US12238117B2	Autonomous compute storage device signature/application system An autonomous compute storage device system includes an autonomous compute storage device signature/application provisioning system coupled to a storage device. The storage device retrieves an autonomous compute signature from the autonomous compute storage device signature/application provisioning system and, as part of a storage operation being performed in a storage subsystem in the storage device, stores data in a memory subsystem that is accessible to the storage device. If the storage device determines that the autonomous compute signature matches the data that was stored in the memory subsystem, it retrieves an autonomous compute application from the autonomous compute storage device signature/application provisioning system, and executes the autonomous compute application to perform compute operations that are associated with the data that was stored in the memory subsystem and generate at least one compute operation result.
US12238116B1	Systems and methods for communication control in a restricted environment A method for managing wireless device communications includes establishing active, persistent, and repetitive communications with a wireless device operating in a coverage area of a local wireless network. In an example, the local wireless network is an overlay to a portion of a macro wireless network. The repetitive communications include placing a call to the wireless device, completing a call connection to the wireless device, sending a message to the wireless device, receiving and processing a response to the message from the wireless device, and persistently repeating a call function of the placing a call, completing a connection, sending a response, and receiving and processing the response until a specified termination event. In an example, the termination event is a power off of the wireless device.A restricted device category may change dynamically. For example, a device 20 that incorporates a camera may be classified in the restricted category in some local wireless network applications (e.g., an operatic performance where photographs and video are prohibited) but classified as an allowed device in other local networks. Alternatively, a device having a camera may have its data functions locked to the local wireless network 10 but other functions (voice and text) are allowed.
US12238110B2	Access management for cancelled requests in a distributed environment Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to methods, apparatuses, computer-readable media, and systems for network monitoring of communication requests for authorization to an access device. One embodiment is directed at dual message model in a distributed environment with an electronic access device receiving a cancellation signal and generating and sending a reversal message with cancellation information embedded in the data elements of the reversal message to a processor computer, where the cancellation data may be read and saved by the processor computer before the authorization request message is forwarded to be authorized by an authorization entity. The method further comprises generating a cancellation message after the reversal message has processed, where the cancellation message is sent via a transport computer to clear and reconcile the authorization status of the cancelled authorization request with any necessary authorizing or regulatory entities in the network.
US12238107B2	Access control method, device, apparatus and readable storage medium The present application provides an access control method, device, apparatus, and readable storage medium. The method comprises: receiving and parsing an access request, and determining a subject and an object corresponding to the access request; by using a security access strategy, obtaining a first result of whether the subject has permission to access the object, and determining whether a match access control linked list exists; when the access control linked list exists, by using the access control linked list, obtaining a second result whether the subject has permission to access the object; when the second result is obtained, by using the second result, performing control processing on the access request; or when the second result is not obtained, by using the first result, performing control processing on the access request.
US12238103B2	Air gap-based network isolation device A network isolation device includes an internal network interface to connect the network isolation device to an internal network and an external network interface to connect the network isolation device to an external network. The network isolation device further includes an airgap device that operates to (i) close an air gap to connect the internal network to the external network, (ii) open the air gap to disconnect the internal network from the external network. The device further includes a signal receiver that receives a signal from a signal source, and based on the signal, performs an authentication process to determine whether the signal or the signal source are authorized. In response to determining that the signal or the signal source is authorized, the receiver operates the airgap device to close the air gap and connect the internal network to the external network.
US12238100B1	Termination switch for controlled-environment facility resident communication and/or media devices A controlled-environment facility resident communication and/or media device master control employs a controlled-environment facility vendor datacenter, a centralized investigative data aggregation and analysis system, or the like, to provide a controlled-environment facility management portal to a controlled-environment facility administrator, presenting an option to disable controlled-environment facility resident communication and/or media devices operating in a controlled-environment facility. The controlled-environment facility vendor datacenter, or the like, disables access to controlled-environment facility resident communication and/or media devices operating in the controlled-environment facility, in response to selection of the option to disable devices operating in the facility, sends a message to devices operating in the facility to disable all application programs on a respective device, and disable access to devices operating in the controlled-environment facility.
US12238099B2	Systems and methods for generating contextual labels In one embodiment, an apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media include instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to perform operations including receiving a user credential from a remote access client within a network and communicating the user credential to an authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) server within the network. The operations also include receiving a user attribute from the AAA server and generating a contextual label based on the user attribute. The contextual label includes routing instructions associated with traffic behavior within the network. The operations further include advertising a control message, which includes the contextual label, to the remote access client.
US12238098B1	System for cross-domain identity management (SCIM) proxy service A system for cross-domain identity management (SCIM) proxy service is described. A first SCIM endpoint receives, from a first SCIM client, a first message that includes a SCIM resource. The first SCIM endpoint is associated with a customer of the SCIM proxy service. The SCIM proxy service is configured as a first SCIM service provider for the first SCIM client. The first message is validated. The first SCIM proxy service determines that a third-party application is in scope for the SCIM resource, where the SCIM proxy service is configured as a second SCIM client for the third-party application. The SCIM proxy service transforms the SCIM resource to create a transformed SCIM resource that is applicable for the third-party application. The SCIM proxy service transmits a second message to a second SCIM endpoint of the third-party application, the second message including the transformed SCIM resource.
US12238097B2	Reducing the number of keys used to secure in-vehicle networks An electronic control unit (ECU), or node, is configured to use a single key for all virtual ECUs (V-ECUs) having a message to transmit. The ECU also may include a security peripheral that includes the stored shared key. The security peripheral may further include a policy enabling it to detect if a request from the V-ECU is valid, in which case it generates a MAC. The security peripheral is also used to store information in a MAC Generate Allow List (MGAL), which may define the policy about when the V-ECU can transmit. The ECU may include a crypto-engine, which stores shared keys from other nodes used to verify MACs transmitted by other nodes.
US12238096B2	Systems and methods for improved electronic data security An electronic data protection (EDP) computing device for protecting sensitive data of a user during a computer interaction between the user and a business entity computing device associated with a business entity is provided. The EDP computing device is configured to receive interaction data for the computer interaction from the business entity computing device. The interaction data includes an interaction identifier, a business entity identifier, and a user identifier in lieu of a protected data object. The EDP computing device generates a token request message using the interaction data and a request token and transmits the token request message to the user computing device, prompting the user to pick a user account. The EDP computing device receives a response token identifying an account selected to complete the computer interaction, retrieves the protected data object, and completes the computer interaction using the protected data object.
US12238095B2	Mutual secure communications A sending device may send data intended for a target device. An intermediate device may intercept the data sent from the sending device and forward the communications to the target device. Security data (e.g., a security certificate for authentication) along with an encrypted version of the security data may be sent at the application layer such that it passes from the sending device, through the intermediate device, and to the target device without being analyzed or modified by the intermediate device. The target device may use the encrypted security data and the security data to verify the identity of the sending device.
US12238094B2	Authentication as a service An illustrative method for authenticating a user is disclosed. A security threshold is received from a third party. Environmental conditions associated with a device are assessed to determine a suitable subset of a plurality of biometric authentication modalities for authenticating the user and an unsuitable subset not available for authenticating the user. The plurality of biometric authentication modalities are displayed, where the suitable subset is selectable by the user and the unsuitable subset are not selectable by the user. A selection of a biometric authentication modality from the suitable subset is received, and user authentication data for the selected biometric authentication modality is received. The user authentication data is compared with previously-determined biometric data, an authentication score is determined based on the comparison, the authentication core is compared to a security threshold, and the user is authenticated in response to determining the authentication score satisfies the security threshold.
US12238092B1	Proximity-based system for automatic application or data access and item tracking A system and method provide automatic access to applications or data. A portable physical device, referred to herein as a Personal Digital Key or “PDK”, stores one or more profiles in memory, including a biometric profile acquired in a secure trusted process and uniquely associated with a user that is authorized to use and associated with the PDK. The PDK wirelessly transmits identification information including a unique PDK identification number, the biometric profile and a profile over a secure wireless channel to a reader. A computing device is coupled to the reader. An auto login server is coupled to the reader and the computing device and launches one or more applications associated with a user name identified by the received profile.
US12238089B2	Vehicle network security In response to detecting a trigger event a computer in a vehicle such as a gateway device can retrieve a static identifier of an electronic control unit (ECU) via a vehicle network. The vehicle in the computer can then receive, in response to a request to a server computer, a salt string, and generate a temporary ECU identifier for the ECU based on the salt string and the static identifier. The temporary ECU identifier can then be deployed to the vehicle network.
US12238085B1	Using a certificate-based protocol to enforce compliance of devices with specifications A device management service may enforce compliance of remote devices with device specifications by disabling or enabling use of client certificates by applications installed on the devices. The device management service receives configuration data from an agent installed on the remote device. If the device management service determines that the device is no longer compliant with specifications for the device, then the device management service may prevent subsequent use of client certificate(s) by applications on the device to establish certificate-based connections. For example, the device management service may disable or revoke a client certificate or may instruct the device to disable or remove the client certificate. If the device becomes compliant at a subsequent time, then the device management service may enable the client certificate or cause a new client certificate to be sent to the device.
US12238084B2	Single-exchange authentication of a communications device Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented, in whole or in part, to authenticate a communications device. In an embodiment, the method may include accessing a prepackaged group of computer instructions and invoking an authentication operation of the communications device. The method may additionally include determining availability of a cellular communications channel to communicate with a client server and initiating a browser session to pass hardware-specific parameters to and from the client server. The method may further include receiving an outcome of the authentication operation, in which invoking of the authentication operation and receiving the outcome of the authentication operation occur during a single exchange between a client application and the prepackaged group of computer instructions.
US12238081B2	Edge device representation learning Techniques are disclosed in which an edge user computing device pre-processes a stream of user data prior to using the stream of data to train a machine learning model at the edge device. The edge device receives the stream of user data, where the stream of data includes a first set of characteristics associated with the edge device and a second set of characteristics associated with a plurality of user requests received from a user of the edge device. The edge device repeatedly generates, using the stream of data, sets of pre-processed user data by performing pre-processing techniques on characteristics included in the stream of data. The edge device repeatedly trains, using the sets of pre-processed data, a baseline model to generate a device-trained model, where the baseline model is trained at the edge device without providing user data included in the stream of data to a server computer system.
US12238074B2	Secure communication between non-paired devices registered to the same user A method of establishing communication with a second device via wireless communication channel that is not natively secure. The method includes performing mutual authentication between the first and second devices by receiving via the communication interface from the second device a FIDO public certificate of the second device and using a FIDO public key of the second device. The FIDO public key of the second device having been registered by the second device with a FIDO relying party in connection with a user identity associated with both the first device and the second device. The FIDO public key of the second device having been fetched by the first device from the FIDO relying party in connection with FIDO registration of the first device with the FIDO relying party in connection with the user identity. The method may include negotiating a shared secret used to engage in ongoing communication.
US12238073B2	Method for fraud prevention and tracking a communication path with smart contracts A method for tracking communication, comprising: receiving a notification pertaining to a communication protocol and associated with a communication between an initiating device and a receiving device; implementing a security protocol embedded within the communication protocol by: establishing, on a distributed ledger, a smart contract for tracking communication along a channel to a subsequent operator of a sequence of operators forming a communication path between the initiating and receiving device, the channel being at least a segment of the communication path, and registering the smart contract with a governing contract associated with an originating operator in communication with the initiating device over a local channel and configured to govern communication along the communication path; and transferring the notification to the subsequent operator along the at least segment of the communication path.
US12238070B2	Cloud-based web application and API protection from untrusted users and devices Systems and methods include, responsive to determining a user can access an application via a cloud-based system, wherein the application is in one of a public cloud, a private cloud, and an enterprise network, and wherein the user is remote over the Internet, obtaining a predetermined inspection profile for the user with the inspection profile including a plurality of rules evaluated in an order; performing inspection of the access using the plurality of rules in the order; and responsive to results of any of the plurality of rules, one or more of monitoring, allowing, blocking, and redirecting the access, via the cloud-based system.
US12238068B2	Service server capable of performing internet access management services according to grades and the operating method thereof Disclosed are a service server capable of performing Internet access management services according to grades and the operating method thereof, which when a request for permission to access a web page is received from a client terminal, confirm an access authority degree set in the client terminal based on unique identification information of the client terminal, determine whether the client terminal is a terminal having an authority capable of accessing the web page based on access authority degree, and control whether the client terminal accesses the web page based on a determination result.
US12238067B2	Automatically generating security rules for a networked environment based on anomaly detection A computer implemented method of automatically generating security rules for a networked environment based on anomalies identified using Machine Learning (ML), comprising receiving one or more feature vectors each comprising a plurality of operational parameters of a plurality of objects of a networked environment, identifying one or more anomaly patterns in the networked environment by applying one or more trained ML models to the one or more feature vectors trained to identify patterns deviating from normal behavior of the plurality of objects, parsing each anomaly patterns to a set of behavioral rules by traversing the anomaly pattern through a tree-like decision model, and generating one or more security rules for the networked environment according to the set(s) of behavior rules. Wherein the one or more security rules are applied to increase security of the networked environment.
US12238064B1	Software defined perimeter integration for software defined cellular telecommunications networks Integrating a software defined perimeter (SDP) for network applications in a 5G/6G telecommunications network includes receiving a registration request from a radio access network (RAN) component of the network into an access and mobility management function (AMF) of the network. The request routes to an SDP controller in the core network component and the SDP controller in turn transmits an authentication request over a virtual private network (VPN) coupling between a main controller and the SDP controller, on behalf of user equipment (UE) and an end user associated with the UE. Finally, responsive to the authentication, the SDP controller generates both an SDP encapsulating a set of network resources of the network supporting microservices accessible by the UE, and a secure tunnel between the UE and a gateway in a data plane of the network that moderates subsequent data flows between the UE and the microservices.
US12238063B2	Business service providing method and system, and remote acceleration gateway A border gateway receives a first overlay packet sent by a remote acceleration gateway, where a first service request packet is encapsulated in the first overlay packet, a source Internet Protocol (IP) address of the first service request packet is an IP address of a client, and a destination IP address is a public IP address associated with a virtual machine; the border gateway decapsulates the first overlay packet to obtain the first service request packet, encapsulates the first service request packet to generate a second overlay packet, and sends the second overlay packet to a virtual forwarding device, implementing transparent transmission of a source address of a service request packet.
US12238060B2	Integrating structured data containers via templates for communication platform Techniques for generating structured data containers via templates associated with a communication platform are described herein. For example, the communication platform may in response to receiving a request from a first user, generate an object in a virtual space, wherein the request is received via a template or workflow and the object contains at least one field of a plurality of fields. The networking system may generate a structured data container associated with the communication platform, wherein the structured data container comprises the plurality of fields. The communication platform may receive, from a second user, an input to at least one field and may associate the input to at least one field of the plurality of fields of the structured data container. The communication platform may then present, via a graphical interface and to the first user, the input to the at least one field of the plurality of fields.
US12238058B2	Systems and methods for message filtering Message filtering and management systems in a chat forward task facilitation communication system are described. One implementation involves receiving one or more pre-filtering inputs from a member, where the inputs include task associations to identify message types to hide or display from a real-time chat interface based on the task associations. A set of messages are processed in real-time using a filtering algorithm to associate one or more tasks with messages of the set of messages, where the one or more tasks correspond to a set of tasks performable by the representative on behalf of the member. A first message is displayed based on the one or more pre-filtering inputs and a first task association with the first message, and a second message is hidden or not displayed based on the one or more pre-filtering inputs and a second task association with the second message.
US12238050B2	Digital financial management having chat support platform with multiple virtual chat communication sessions conducted in parallel A computing device, a computer program product, and a computer-implemented method for delivering enhanced financial services and, more particularly, for facilitating enhanced communication between a user and a financial institution via a client device. A digital financial management platform for the client device includes a chat support platform that facilitates multiple active virtual chat communication sessions involving the same user that are conducted simultaneously.
US12238045B2	Frequency-band state processing method and frequency-band state processing device A frequency-band state processing method and device are provided. The frequency-band state processing method at a UE side includes: receiving, by a UE, control signaling sent by a network device; wherein the control signaling includes at least one BWP identifier and a state configuration indication, and the state configuration indication includes an activation indication or a deactivation indication; configuring, by the UE according to the state configuration indication, a BWP state of a BWP corresponding to the BWP identifier included in the control signaling.
US12238044B2	Serving cell activation and deactivation A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. According to one or more embodiments, a method is performed by a wireless device The method includes: determining an activation or a deactivation of a first serving cell associated with a first physical channel; sending a corresponding Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest, HARQ, acknowledgment, ACK, in a second physical channel, a subcarrier spacing configuration of the first physical channel being different from a subcarrier spacing of the second physical channel; and performing a procedure related to the first serving cell based at least in part on a time offset, k, the time offset, k, being based at least in part on a reference physical channel.
US12238043B2	Transmission methods and devices, and terminal, base station, communication system, and storage medium Provided are transmission methods and devices, a terminal, a base station, a communication system and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a first index, acquiring first information, and in response to determining that the first index satisfies a first preset rule according to the first information, determining that content to be transmitted includes a first message.
US12238042B2	Method, apparatus and system for determining spatial relationship information, and information element transmission method and apparatus Disclosed are a method, apparatus and system for determining spatial relationship information, and a storage medium. The method includes: transmitting first control signaling, wherein the first control signaling is used for indicating spatial relationship information of at least one control channel resource; and determining the spatial relationship information of the at least one control channel resource according to a predetermined rule and the first control signaling. Further disclosed are an information element transmission method and apparatus, and a storage medium.
US12238039B2	Transport block descriptor for packet grouping Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitter network node may generate a grouping descriptor, for a transport block, that indicates grouping information for a plurality of protocol data units (PDUs) in the transport block. The transmitter network node may transmit the grouping descriptor with the transport block. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12238032B2	Acquisition of quasi-co-location information using transmission configuration indicators Presented are systems, methods, apparatuses, or computer-readable media for acquisition of quasi-co-location information using transmission configuration indicators. A wireless communication device may receive an indication of a plurality of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states, from a wireless communication node. The wireless communication device may acquire all configured quasi co-located (QCL) information of a first set of TCI states from the plurality of TCI state. The wireless communication device may acquire a partial portion or no portion of configured QCL information of the second set of TCI states from the plurality of TCI states.
US12238029B2	Collision handling of reference signals A user equipment (UE) can include processing circuitry configured to decode control information of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) received via a resource within a control resource set (CORESET) occupying a subset of a plurality of OFDM symbols within a slot. At least one of the symbols in the subset coincides with a pre-defined symbol location associated with a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) of a PDSCII. The DM-RS can be detected within the slot, the DM-RS starting at a symbol location that is shifted from the pre-defined symbol location and following the subset of symbols. Downlink data scheduled by the PDCCH and received via the PDSCH can be decoded, where the decoding is based on the detected DM-RS.
US12238022B2	Resource mapping method and device Disclosed by the present application are a resource mapping method and apparatus and device, comprising: determining to-be-sent data hosted on a data-channel physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH)/physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); mapping said to-be-sent data to a virtual resource block (VRB); mapping the virtual resource block to a physical resource block (PRB) in resource block (RB) bundle units. Using the present application, it is possible to prevent the problem of the size of a virtual resource block bundle being inconsistent with the size of a physical resource block bundle, thus causing it to be impossible to map the virtual resource block to the physical resource block.
US12238018B2	Method and device for transmitting information related to measurement A method and a device for transmitting information related to measurement are provided. The method includes that a user equipment (UE) receives a measurement configuration message sent by a base station, where the measurement configuration message includes a measurement target and threshold information. Further, the UE acquires a measurement result corresponding to the measurement target, determines whether the measurement result of the measurement target corresponding to the threshold information satisfies corresponding threshold information, and determines indication information according to the determination result. Moreover, the UE sends message 1 (Msg1) or message 3 (Msg3) to the base station, where the Msg1 or the Msg3 includes the indication information.
US12238014B2	Identifying unmanaged cloud resources with endpoint and network logs Techniques and mechanisms for identifying unmanaged cloud resources with endpoint and network logs and attributing the identified cloud resources to an entity of an enterprise that owns the cloud resources. The process collects data from sources, e.g., endpoint and network logs, with respect to traffic in a computer network and based at least in part on the data, extracts relationships related to the traffic. The process applies rules to the relationships to extract destinations in the computer network that provide cloud resources in a cloud environment, wherein the cloud resources are owned by an enterprise. One or more users or business entities of the enterprise are identified as accessing the cloud resources.
US12238011B2	Computer-implemented method for adapting at least one pre-defined frame delay Provided is a computer-implemented method for adapting at least one pre-defined frame delay, wherein the corresponding at least one frame is communicated via at least one network switch of at least one computing unit in a frame-based computer network, including the steps a. receiving input data from the at least one network switch of the at least one computing unit; wherein b. the input data includes at least one information associated with the at least one frame and/or at least one network switch; c. deriving at least one current frame delay of the at least one frame from the at least one information; d. adapting the at least one pre-defined frame delay depending on the at least one current frame delay; and e. providing the at least one adapted frame delay. Also provided is a corresponding computer program product and monitoring unit.
US12238009B1	Distributed rate limiting Techniques for performing distributed rate limiting in networks in a cloud environment are described for determining an amount of network bandwidth available to be processed by flow control nodes within a cloud network for a first time period, determining a bandwidth allocation for traffic classes for the first time period, determining, a portion of the bandwidth allocation for the flow control nodes, providing, data to the flow control nodes, where the data indicates the portion of the bandwidth allocation for the traffic classes, and receiving, second data that indicates an amount of network traffic routed during the first time period by individual ones of the flow control nodes.
US12238007B2	Establishing a packet forwarding control protocol session There is provided a method performed by a session management function (SMF) node of a network for establishing a PFCP session. A plurality of service functions (SFs) are selected (102) to connect in a service function chain for handling the PFCP session. Each of the plurality of SFs is capable of activating a feature of the PFCP session and is supported by a user plane function (UPF) node. The selection is based on a load of each of the plurality of SFs. For each UPF node that supports one or more of the selected plurality of SFs, transmission of a request is initiated (104) to the UPF node to establish the PFCP session with the UPF node. The request comprises an indication of the one or more of the selected plurality of SFs that the UPF node supports.

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