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US12239572B2 |
Wound treatment device
An improved method and device are provided for treating wounds. The device generally comprises a wound chamber and/or deployment system. The provided assembly substantially improves wound treatment. |
US12239569B2 |
Catamenial fluid removal
The invention provides a device for aspirating uterine fluid of a woman in her period, enabling her, without using tampons, pads or synthetic hormones, to be free of menstrual flow for six or more hours and to be involved in even the most demanding activities entirely undisturbed. |
US12239567B2 |
Apparatus and methods for receiving discharged urine
A system suitable for collecting and transporting urine away from the body of a person or animal may include an assembly having a fluid impermeable casing having a fluid reservoir at a first end, a fluid outlet at a second end, and a longitudinally extending fluid impermeable layer coupled to the fluid reservoir and the fluid outlet and defining a longitudinally elongated opening between the reservoir and the outlet. The assembly can further include a fluid permeable support disposed within the casing with a portion extending across the elongated opening, and a fluid permeable membrane disposed on the support and covering at least the portion of the support that extends across the elongated opening, so that the membrane is supported on the support and disposed across the elongated opening. The assembly can further include a tube having a first end disposed in the reservoir and a second, fluid discharge end. |
US12239563B2 |
Adjustable circumferential length lumbar sacral brace
An adjustable length brace includes an elongate body encircling portion having a free end having an adjustable length; and an end portion releasably attachable to the free end of the body encircling portion. The length of the brace may be adjusted by adjusting the length of the body encircling portion by adjusting the length of the free end of the body encircling portion, and connecting the end portion to the free end of the body encircling portion to adjust the length of the brace. |
US12239559B2 |
Sweat pad and methods of using same
The present disclosure provides devices for preventing or absorbing fluid (e.g., sweat) and/or odors from the intergluteal cleft of a subject. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides devices for treating or preventing hemorrhoids and methods of using same. |
US12239554B2 |
Hybrid stent
A stent includes a high radial force segment and a highly flexible segment, where the diameters of the high radial force segment and the highly flexible segment are substantially the same. The stent may further be placed with an additional stent segment, where the additional stent segment has a radial force similar to the radial force of the highly flexible force segment. |
US12239549B2 |
Tube twister engaging fill tube
A surgical implant fill system can include a fill tube and a tube twister. A flange of the fill tube can be keyed to the tube twister so that the fill tube does not rotate independent from the tube twister when the flange is engaged with the tube twister. A release mechanism secures the flanged end to the tube twister. Visual and tactile indications can be provided on the tube twister to show the direction of the dispensing end of the fill tube. |
US12239547B2 |
Intervertebral implant
An intervertebral spacer and stabilization implant includes a plate having sockets configured for retaining a fastener passable through the socket and into an adjacent vertebral body. One or more connecting projections extend from a side of the plate, to mate with projections extending from a spacer body. A plurality of teeth project from at least one of the upper or lower surfaces of the spacer body, and a chamber is formed through the spacer body to enable bone fusion between the vertebrae. The combined plate and spacer may be inserted to lie completely within the intervertebral space, or a portion of the plate may overlie a vertebral body. |
US12239545B2 |
Expandable vertebral body replacement device and method
An expandable vertebral body device, system, instrument, and methods of assembly and using the device, system, and instrument are disclosed. The vertebral body device includes a body with a first end and a second end, a first rotating member rotatably coupled to the first end, a second rotating member rotatably coupled to the second end, a first extension member moveably coupled to the first end, and a second extension member moveably coupled to the second end. The expandable cage system comprises a vertebral body device and an insertion instrument. Methods for assembling and using the vertebral body device and instrument are also disclosed. |
US12239543B1 |
Method and apparatus for placement of a reduced vertebral body replacement device during a surgical operation on the cervical portion of the spine including into a transcorporeal void
A method of providing a Vertebral Body Replacement (VBR) device for placement into a cervical spine between two endplates of a single vertebra during the course of an anterior spinal surgical procedure upon the cervical spine, wherein the VBR device has been given a PLR product code from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). |
US12239541B2 |
Artificial knee joint
An artificial knee joint includes: a femoral component including a medial condyle and a lateral condyle; and a tibial component including an inner sliding surface that receives the medial condyle and an outer sliding surface that receives the lateral condyle. A curvature radius of each of the inner sliding surface and the outer sliding surface in a medial-lateral direction increases from an anterior side toward a posterior side within a predetermined range in an anterior-posterior direction. In the medial-lateral direction, the inner sliding surface and the outer sliding surface are positioned inward such that a middle point between a lowest point of the medial condyle and a lowest point of the lateral condyle in a knee extended position is shifted inward relative to a center of the tibial component by 2 to 10% of a width of the tibial component. |
US12239539B2 |
Joint replacement prosthesis with trans-cortical stems
Provided is a novel joint replacement prosthesis that includes a base component, and one or more modular stems. The base component includes a bone-facing surface including one or more stem connectors configured for receiving and forming connections with the one or more modular stems inserted from the bone-facing surface side. |
US12239532B2 |
Cardiac valve repair system and methods of use
Systems and methods for native heart valve repair includes an anchor. The anchor includes an anchor body configured to transition from a first configuration, in which the anchor body is straightened for transvascular delivery to the native heart valve, to a second configuration comprising at least two turns for implanting at the native heart valve. Two or more of the at least two turns in the second configuration have a diameter smaller than a major axis of the native heart valve. |
US12239531B2 |
Transcatheter delivery system with wheel actuation
A delivery device for a collapsible prosthetic heart valve, the delivery device including an inner shaft, a distal sheath disposed about a portion of the inner shaft and forming a compartment with the inner shaft, the compartment being adapted to receive the prosthetic heart valve, the inner shaft and the distal sheath being movable relative to one another, and a handle including a frame having a longitudinal axis, a proximal end and a distal end, the handle further including a deployment actuator and a hub, each of the deployment actuator and the hub being independently capable of opening and closing the compartment, the hub further including a hub actuator coupled to the inner shaft. |
US12239527B2 |
Method of absorbing or discharging water of ophthalmic medical device and ophthalmic medical device
This disclosure provides a method of absorbing or discharging water of an ophthalmic medical device capable of absorbing and discharging water, and an ophthalmic medical device. The method of absorbing or discharging water of an ophthalmic medical device of the present disclosure includes using an ophthalmic medical device including a plurality of electrodes, and generating an electroosmotic flow inside and/or outside the medical device. |
US12239526B2 |
Prosthesis with branched portion
Examples of prostheses are provided having an internal branch. A tubular graft body of the prosthesis defines a main lumen extending between an inflow end and an outflow end of the graft body. A stent structure is coupled along the graft body. A trough is at least partially defined by a trough wall extending into the main lumen from a sidewall of the graft body. A side branch defines a branch lumen and extends from the trough within the main lumen towards one of the inflow or outflow ends of the graft body. A branch lumen facing surface of the trough wall is a continuous surface with an outer surface of the sidewall of the graft body. A boundary of the trough may be configured to provide a smooth transition surface between the trough and the sidewall. |
US12239525B2 |
Apparatus for treating gerd
The present invention relates to a reflux disease treatment apparatus, comprising an implantable movement restriction device with an elongated shape that maintains cardia in the correct position and an implantable stimulation device adapted to engage with the cardia sphincter of a patient. The movement restriction device has a proximal and a distal end, wherein the distal end is adapted to stabilize and hold the distal end. The invention further comprises a control device for controlling the stimulation device to stimulate the cardia sphincter. The distal end can be further adapted to treat obesity, for example by stretching the wall of the stomach or filling out a volume of the stomach. |
US12239524B2 |
Esophageal stent including an inner liner
An example medical device is disclosed as an expandable stent. The stent includes a tubular scaffold having an inner surface, an outer surface, and a lumen extending therein. The expandable stent also includes a liner disposed within the lumen of the tubular scaffold. Further, the liner is radially spaced from a medial region of the tubular scaffold to define a tissue ingrowth region along an uncovered portion of the medial region. Additionally, the liner extending along the tissue ingrowth region is configured to limit the amount of tissue ingrowth along the medial region of the scaffold. |
US12239523B2 |
Catheter with integrated embolic protection device
A prosthetic heart valve delivery catheter includes an embolic filter to provide integrated embolic protection to inhibit the release of emboli into the aorta, the aortic arch or branch vessels, and other vasculature during transvascular heart valve replacement procedures. The embolic filter will usually be fixedly or movably attached to a shaft of the delivery catheter proximal of the prosthetic heart valve. |
US12239517B2 |
Absorbent article with main and auxiliary absorption layers
An absorbent article in which an absorber includes an upper auxiliary layer disposed on an uppermost portion and a main absorption layer disposed on a back surface side of the upper auxiliary layer, and the upper auxiliary layer includes a super absorbent nonwoven fabric having a surface exposed to an uppermost surface of the absorber and having a Klemm water absorptiveness of 100 mm or more. |
US12239515B2 |
Three dimensional nonwoven and absorbent articles having the same
The present disclosure relates to a three dimensional nonwoven comprising a protruded area comprising a first area having a first light reflectance and a second area having a second light reflectance. The three dimensional nonwoven comprises a recess comprising a third area having a third light reflectance, wherein the first light reflectance is different from the second light reflectance, as measured according to Light Reflectance Test. The present disclosure also related to an absorbent article comprising the three dimensional nonwoven. |
US12239508B2 |
Flexible patulous eustachian tube implant with integrated venting
An implant that may maintain position with a Eustachian tube of a patient, the implant includes an engagement body, an anchoring assembly, and a pressure balance assembly. The engagement body includes an exterior surface dimensioned to bear radially outward against the Eustachian tube. The anchoring assembly may lock the implant in the Eustachian tube. The pressure balance assembly includes a vented pathway that may transition between an occluded state and a vented state. The vented pathway may provide fluid communication between the proximal end and the distal end of the implant in the ventilated state while inhibiting fluid communication between the proximal end and the distal end of the implant in the occluded state. |
US12239502B2 |
Personal care system and method
In one embodiment, a personal care appliance includes an electric motor having a drive shaft. In response to a voltage signal, the drive shaft is oscillated in an oscillatory motion having an oscillation amplitude. A control circuit includes, in operable cooperation, a user interface, a processor, a pulse width modulation signal generator, and a power source. The control circuit supplies the voltage signal to the electric motor, the voltage signal having a frequency and a duty cycle. The control circuit varies the frequency and the duty cycle of the voltage signal in response to an oscillation adjustment input received from the user interface so that the oscillation amplitude of the drive shaft is varied along a substantially linear rate of change profile relative to the frequency. |
US12239499B2 |
Method of manufacturing a dental restoration
A method of manufacturing a dental restoration including a construction step (S2) of preparing construction data for a dental tool machine for machining the dental restoration from a workpiece. The construction data defines at least the geometry of the dental restoration within the workpiece. The method includes a starting step (S3) of starting machining of the dental restoration from the workpiece in accordance with the construction data. The method also includes a preparing step (S4) of starting preparing, before termination of the construction step (S2), the dental tool machine at least through equipping it with all the consumables essential for starting the starting step (S3), and completing preparing the dental tool machine before start of the starting step (S3). |
US12239494B1 |
Hand-held stereovision system for image updating in surgery
This invention provides a hand-held stereovision (HHS) system that is an efficient, accurate, and radiation-free imaging device to acquire intraoperative profiles of the exposed spine in prone position. The reconstructed intraoperative stereovision surfaces (iSV) are registered with preoperative CT (pCT; supine position) in a nonrigid fashion to generate updated CT images (uCT) and correct for vertebral posture and alignment changes. Updated CT images are uploaded to a commercial navigation system for surgical navigation. |
US12239489B2 |
Methods and systems for visualizing cardiac electrical conduction
Various methods and systems are provided for a medical imaging system. In one embodiment, a method comprises generating cardiac ultrasound images from ultrasound imaging data of a heart, generating a spatio-temporal map of electrical impulses in the heart based on contraction and elongation of cardiac muscles depicted in the cardiac ultrasound images, and outputting the spatio-temporal map of the electrical impulses in the heart to a display device. In this way, the spatio-temporal map of the electrical impulses in the heart may visually indicate an electrical conduction path through the heart. |
US12239486B2 |
Ultrasound imaging system using an array of transducer elements and an imaging method
The invention provides an ultrasound imaging system, comprising an array of transducer elements grouped into element groups, wherein the element groups comprise a plurality of first element groups (having a first orientation) and a plurality of second element groups (having a second orientation different from the first orientation). A first conductor is connected to each of the elements in each first element grouping and a second conductor is connected to each of the elements in each second element grouping. Each element group is adapted to be activated for transmission or reception by the application of a bias voltage, by way of a plurality of bias voltage circuits, and controlled by a plurality of transmit and receive circuits. The system is adapted to acquire first ultrasound data, wherein the bias voltage is applied to the first conductors of the array (or a sub-array) and the transducers receive a signal from a transmit and receive circuit. The system is further adapted to acquire second ultrasound data, wherein the bias voltage is applied to the second conductors of the array (or a different sub-array) and the transducers receive a signal from a transmit and receive circuit. Thus, the ultrasound system is adapted to acquire two separate ultrasound data (such as ultrasound images) corresponding to different views without requiring any physical movement of the array. |
US12239485B2 |
Systems and methods for body passage navigation and visualization
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for enhanced navigation and visualization of body passages. In particular, the systems and methods of the present disclosure provide enhanced navigation through the pulmonary peripheries, and enhanced visualization within larger pulmonary passages. |
US12239484B2 |
Medical imaging method
Methods and systems are provided for generating ultrasound probe motion recommendations. In one example, a method includes obtaining an ultrasound image of a source scan plane, the ultrasound image acquired with an ultrasound probe at a first location relative to a patient, entering the ultrasound image as input to a probe recommendation model trained to output a set of recommendations to move the ultrasound probe from the first location to a plurality of additional locations at which a plurality of target scan planes can be imaged, and displaying the set of recommendations on a display device. |
US12239483B2 |
Ultrasound transducer unit with friction guiding function
An ultrasound transducer unit (12), e.g. probe, is configured with a friction guiding function. The transducer unit (12) comprises a vibration generating means (20) at a tissue contact area, and has means for sensing a sliding direction of the transducer unit across a tissue surface (42) at which the contact area is incident. The tissue surface may be an external skin surface or an internal tissue surface, e.g. in case of a catheter. A control means is operable to control the vibration of the vibration generator to adjust a level of friction at the tissue contact area. This is used by the control means to implement a friction guiding function for guiding a user in sliding the unit across the incident surface, e.g. toward a target location (44), based on controlling the friction level responsive to sensed sliding direction, for instance providing lower friction when sliding is in a target direction, while leaving other directions with relative higher frictional resistance. |
US12239479B2 |
Systems and methods for non-invasive pressure measurements
An ultrasound imaging system may acquire ultrasound data from a heart. The ultrasound data may be analyzed to on-invasively provide a value for cardiac pressure, such as left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP). In some examples, the ultrasound data may be acquired from B-mode images, Doppler images, and/or strain measurements. In some examples, the ultrasound data may be acquired across an entire cardiac cycle of the heart. In some examples, the ultrasound data may include strain measurements and/or volume measurements of the left atrium. In some examples, the ultrasound data may be analyzed by a correlation algorithm, such as a partial least squares model and/or a neural network. |
US12239472B2 |
Systems and methods for controlling scatter in computed tomography data
A system and method for generating a computed tomography (CT) image of an object includes establishing a narrow-spectrum high-energy bin and other bins with wider-spectrum and lower-energies and acquiring a first dataset using the narrow-spectrum high-energy bin. The method also includes acquiring second or more datasets using the wide-spectrum, low-energy bins, reducing data attributable to scatter from the second or more datasets using the first dataset to create reduced-scatter datasets, and reconstructing CT images of the object from the reduced-scatter datasets. |
US12239466B1 |
Apparatus for measuring a parameter of a human body at an Abreu brain thermal tunnel (ABTT)
The physical and physiological events at one end of an Abreu Brain Thermal Tunnel (ABTT) are reproduced at the opposite end. Thus, the ABTT enables the direct transfer of outputs from a brain core to an ABTT terminus without significant barriers. Accordingly, apparatuses, systems, devices, mechanisms, and methods use the ABTT terminus and the ABTT to measure the temperature of the brain core. |
US12239465B2 |
Balloon catheter with diagnostic electrodes, far field detection electrodes, and guidewire
A medical apparatus includes a shaft, an expandable frame, a membrane, a diagnostic electrode, a reference electrode, and a processor. The shaft is configured for insertion into an organ of a patient. The expandable frame is coupled to a distal end of the shaft. The diagnostic electrode, which is disposed on an external surface of the expandable frame, is configured to sense diagnostic signals when in contact with tissue. The reference electrode is disposed on a surface of the expandable frame directly opposite the diagnostic electrode, wherein the reference electrode is electrically insulated from the tissue and is configured to sense interfering signals. |
US12239464B2 |
Catheter for monitoring pressure
A catheter insertable into a cavity of a patient for monitoring pressure including a first lumen for drainage from the cavity and an expandable balloon. The balloon has a liquid containing chamber to monitor pressure within the cavity of the patient as pressure on the outer wall of the balloon deforms the balloon and compresses the liquid within the balloon. An exit port provides passage of air from an interior of the balloon to outside the catheter. A membrane has plurality of pores dimensioned to enable passage of air but prevent passage of the liquid therethrough. A pressure sensor communicates with the liquid containing chamber for measuring pressure based on compression of liquid caused by deformation of the expanded balloon. |
US12239463B2 |
Systems, devices, and methods for analyte sensor insertion
An assembly and method for delivery of an analyte sensor including a reusable applicator having a proximal portion and a distal portion are disclosed. The reusable applicator can include a housing, a sensor carrier configured to releasably receive the first analyte sensor, a sharp carrier configured to releasably receive a sharp module, and an actuator movable relative to the housing. The actuator can include three positions: a first position with the sensor carrier and the sharp carrier are at the proximal portion of the reusable applicator, a second position with the sensor carrier and the sharp carrier are at the distal portion of the reusable applicator for delivery of the first analyte sensor, and a third position with the sensor carrier at the distal portion of the reusable applicator and the sharp carrier at the proximal portion of the reusable applicator after delivery of the first analyte sensor from the reusable applicator, wherein the first position, the second position, and the third position are different, and wherein the actuator is configured to be returned from the third position to the first position for delivery of another analyte sensor. |
US12239457B2 |
Method for monitoring adherence to medication
The present invention provides a method for monitoring adherence by a patient to a medication. The method comprises the steps of obtaining timing data in respect of each dose of a medication taken by a patient over a time interval, estimating the concentration of the medication in the patient's body over the time interval based on the dose timing data; determining the proportion of time over the time interval the concentration of the medication in the patient's body exceeds a target concentration; and calculating an adherence score for the patient based on the determined proportion of time the concentration of the medication in the patient's body exceeds the target concentration. |
US12239456B1 |
Millimeter wave radar system for sleep monitoring
Systems and methods relating to a millimeter wave radio-frequency (RF) sleep monitoring device are described. The device includes a surface transparent to RF signals through which a radar device enclosed in a housing transmits RF signals. An antenna array is enclosed within the housing and is oriented at a non-zero angle with respect to a vertical axis of the device. The antenna array receives the reflected RF signals through the surface. The reflected RF signals are used to generate sleep monitoring data such as a respiratory rate or motion data associated with a user. |
US12239455B2 |
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy system and method for diagnosing pain or infection associated with propionic acid
An MR Spectroscopy (MRS) system and approach is provided for measuring spectral information corresponding with propionic acid (PA), either alone or in combination with other measurements corresponding with other chemicals, to diagnose and/or monitor at least one of bacterial infection, such as associated with P. acnes, or conditions related thereto such as nociceptive pain associated with tissue acidity. An interfacing DDD-MRS signal processor receives output signals to produce a post-processed spectrum, with spectral regions corresponding with certain chemicals, including PA, then measured as biomarkers. A diagnostic processor derives a diagnostic value for each disc, and performs certain normalizations, based upon ratios of the spectral regions related to chemicals implicated in degenerative painful tissue pathology, such as PA and hypoxia markers of lactic acid (LA) and alanine (AL), and structural chemicals of proteoglycan (PG) and collagen or carbohydrate (CA). |
US12239453B2 |
System and method for automatic personalized assessment of human body surface conditions
A system and method for personalized diagnosis of human body surface conditions from images acquired from a mobile camera device. In an embodiment, the system and method is used to diagnose skin, throat and ear conditions from photographs. A system and method are provided for data acquisition based on visual target overlays that minimize image variability due to camera pose at locations of interest over the body surface, including a method for selecting a key image frame from an acquired input video. The method and apparatus may involve the use of a processor circuit, for example an application server, for automatically updating a visual map of the human body with image data. A hierarchical classification system is proposed based on generic deep convolution neural network (CNN) classifiers that are trained to predict primary and secondary diagnoses from labelled training images. Healthy input data are used to model the CNN classifier output variability in terms of a normal model specific to individual subjects and body surface locations of interest. Personalized diagnosis is achieved by comparing CNN classifier outputs from new image data acquired from a subject with a potentially abnormal condition to the healthy normal model for the same specific subject and location of interest. |
US12239449B2 |
System and method to detect stable arrhythmia heartbeat and to calculate and detect cardiac mapping annotations
A system and method for detecting a mapping annotation for an electrophysiological (EP) mapping system. The system includes a processor comprising a machine learning algorithm configured to receive a first heartbeat at an identified cardiac spatial location including a first set of attributes information corresponding to the first heartbeat; receive a second heartbeat at the identified cardiac spatial location including a second set of attributes information corresponding to the second heartbeat; compare the first set of attributes information with the second set of attributes information; and determine which of the first heartbeat and the second heartbeat has optimal characteristics based on the compared attribute information. |
US12239448B1 |
Generation of vital sign monitoring
Electrical impulses are received from a beating heart. The electrical impulses are converted to an ECG waveform. The ECG waveform is converted to a frequency domain waveform, which, in turn, is separated into two or more different frequency domain waveforms, which, in turn, are converted into a plurality of time domain cardiac electrophysiological subwaveforms and discontinuity points between these subwaveforms. The plurality of subwaveforms and discontinuity points are compared to a database of subwaveforms and discontinuity points for normal and abnormal patients or to a set of rules developed from the database. A bundle branches (BB) to J-Point (BB-J) interval is identified from the plurality of subwaveforms and discontinuity points based on the comparison. The ECG waveform with the BB-J interval annotated is displayed. |
US12239447B2 |
Multi-axial position sensors printed on a folded flexible circuit board
A position sensor includes a flexible substrate formed into a three-dimensional (3D) shape. At least first and second field-sensing coils are formed in first and second respective layers of the flexible substrate, such that in the 3D shape the first and second field-sensing coils have first and second respective axes that are not parallel to one another. |
US12239444B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting blink inhibition as a marker of engagement and perceived stimulus salience
The present systems and methods provide a mechanism to assess viewer behavior, features of stimuli, and the interaction between viewer behavior and stimuli. The systems and methods described herein for quantifying blink response and blink inhibition provide moment-by-moments measurements of viewer engagement by measuring what is or is not engaging enough to warrant viewers' inhibition of blinking. The present disclosure describes measures of visual scanning, eye movements, blink data, and blink timing data to derive a measure of how engaged a person is with what he or she is looking at. Blink-related data as a measure of viewer engagement provides a mechanism for determining the most engaging spatial and temporal aspects of a stimulus. |
US12239442B2 |
Analyte sensors with reduced interferent signal and methods
Analyte sensor comprises an electrode layer having an elongate body comprising a proximal end and a distal end. The electrode layer includes a first active working electrode area, a second electrode portion, and at least one gap electrically separating the first active working electrode portion and the second electrode portion. The first active working electrode area comprises at least one sensing spot with at least one analyte responsive enzyme disposed thereupon. Additional analyte sensors disclosed. |
US12239440B2 |
Probe and pulse photometry system
A probe connected to a pulse photometer include: a first light-emitting portion having a first light-emitting surface from which first light having a first wavelength used for calculating a concentration of a first light-absorbing substance in blood of a patient is emitted; a second light-emitting portion having a second light-emitting surface from which second light having a second wavelength that is used for calculating the concentration of the first light-absorbing substance is emitted; and a third light-emitting portion having a third light-emitting surface from which third light having a third wavelength that is not used for calculating the concentration of the first light-absorbing substance is emitted. A distance between a first reference point of the first light-emitting portion and a second reference point of the second light-emitting portion is shorter than a distance between a third reference point of the third light-emitting portion and the first reference point. |
US12239436B2 |
Mode control method and device using movement pattern characteristics of user
Disclosed in certain embodiments is a device including a sensor module, a display, a memory and a processor. The processor may be configured to obtain sensing data from the sensor module, analyze the movement pattern of a user on the basis of the obtained sensing data, estimate movement characteristic information on the basis of the analysis result of the movement pattern, identify the operation mode of the electronic device on the basis of the movement characteristic information, and analyze activity information about the user on the basis of the identified operation mode so as to display same using the display. A method thereof is also disclosed and various other embodiments are also possible. |
US12239430B2 |
Collection device for exhaled breath
The invention as disclosed herein provides a breath-condensate analysis cartridge suitable for incorporation into an exhalation device. The cartridge comprises a condensation zone to receive exhaled breath, the condensation zone having a peripheral region. An analysis chamber is included in which a condensed breath sample is analysed. The surface of the condensation zone acts. to create a fluid flow path in the peripheral region. A fluid flow path through the peripheral region links the condensation zone to the analysis chamber. A lip at least partially covers the peripheral region, the lip co-operating with the condensation zone to form a capillary to control fluid flow. |
US12239426B2 |
Systems and methods for controlling a volume of fluid within a portion of a patient's body
The present disclosure relates generally to controlling a volume of fluid within a portion of a patient's body. For example, the present disclosure can relate to the addition or removal of cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) from a portion of the patient's brain. The amount of fluid can be controlled by a system that includes a dual chamber probe and a volume control. One channel can include a drain element to drain the fluid from the portion of a patient's body. The other channel can include a volume changing element to facilitate the drainage of the fluid by changing a volume of the portion of the patient's body. The volume changing element can be coupled to a volume control, which can control the change of the volume of the portion of the patient's body (e.g., based on passive oscillation or active oscillation). |
US12239419B2 |
Systems for real time febrility detection and notification
Systems and processes are presented for real time health credentialing of individuals seeking entry to a facility requiring health credentialing for access. A system and process for real time detection of a febrile condition comprises providing a heat sensor operable to receive thermal radiation from a person. Optionally, the system provides a controller operable to selectively orient the thermal sensor incident to the facial region of a person within a zone of detection. Further, the system optionally processes the sensor temperature to conditionally determine a febrile condition. |
US12239417B2 |
Optoacoustic probe
An optoacoustic probe for optoacoustic imaging of a volume is provided that includes a housing extending from a distal end operable to contact the volume to a proximal end. The optoacoustic probe includes a light source configured to generate light that is transmitted along a light pathway to generate return signals when the light reacts with the volume, and a transducer assembly including a transducer configured to receive the optoacoustic return signals and an acoustic lens provided over the transducer. The optoacoustic probe also includes a steering assembly coupled within the housing and configured to steer the light pathway to generate the light along the light pathway at different scanning areas of the volume based on the return signals. |
US12239416B2 |
Light therapy diagnostic device and method for operating the same
A light therapy diagnostic device comprising a shaft, and an optical waveguide disposed in a lumen of the shaft and being movable forward and backward in a longitudinal direction, wherein: the optical waveguide guides a first light and a second light; the shaft has a lateral emission window which allows the first light and the second light to be emitted toward a lateral direction and a distal emission window which allows the first light to be emitted toward a distal direction; a first mirror is provided on a distal end part of the optical waveguide and reflects the first light toward a lateral direction of the shaft; and a second mirror is provided on an inner surface of the shaft, located distal to a distal end of the lateral emission window, and reflects the first light reflected by the first mirror toward a distal direction of the shaft. |
US12239412B2 |
Systems and methods for OCT-guided treatment of a patient
Provided herein are imaging systems for a patient comprising an imaging probe and an imaging assembly. The imaging probe comprises: an elongate shaft comprising a proximal end, a distal portion, and a lumen extending between the proximal end and the distal portion; a rotatable optical core comprising a proximal end and a distal end, wherein at least a portion of the rotatable optical core is positioned within the lumen of the elongate shaft; and an optical assembly positioned proximate the distal end of the rotatable optical core, the optical assembly configured to direct light to tissue and collect reflected light from the tissue. The imaging assembly is constructed and arranged to optically couple to the imaging probe. The imaging assembly is configured to emit light into the imaging probe and receive the reflected light collected by the optical assembly. The system is configured to provide treatment information, wherein the treatment information is used by an operator to plan a treatment and/or predict a treatment outcome. |
US12239408B2 |
Implants using ultrasonic backscatter for sensing physiological conditions
Described herein is an implantable device having a sensor configured to detect an amount of an analyte, a pH, a temperature, strain, or a pressure; and an ultrasonic transducer with a length of about 5 mm or less in the longest dimension, configured to receive current modulated based on the analyte amount, the pH, the temperature, or the pressure detected by the sensor, and emit an ultrasonic backscatter based on the received current. The implantable device can be implanted in a subject, such as an animal or a plant. Also described herein are systems including one or more implantable devices and an interrogator comprising one or more ultrasonic transducers configured to transmit ultrasonic waves to the one or more implantable devices or receive ultrasonic backscatter from the one or more implantable devices. Also described are methods of detecting an amount of an analyte, a pH, a temperature, a strain, or a pressure. |
US12239402B2 |
Rotatable carriage for an instrument holder
An instrument holder generally includes a carriage rotatable with respect to a carriage support, a light pipe extending axially through the carriage, and an electrical conductor extending through the carriage radially outward of the light pipe. The light pipe can transmit light energy and the electrical conductor can transmit electricity between a proximal end portion and a distal end portion of the carriage to a medical instrument. The rotatable carriage may include a sterile adapter assembly positioned at the proximal and/or distal end portions of the rotatable carriage. The sterile adapter assembly may include a roll disk rotatable with respect to the outer frame, an inner disk rotatable with respect to the roll disk, and a light pipe to transmit light energy through the roll disk. The inner disk can transfer movement of an actuator between the rotatable carriage and the instrument. |
US12239401B2 |
Positioning indicator system for a remotely controllable arm and related methods
A robotic system includes a base movable relative to a floor surface and a controllable arm extending from the base. The arm is configured to support and move a tool. The arm has a powered joint operable to position and/or orient the tool. The robotic system further includes a positioning indicator. A processor operates the positioning indicator to direct a manual repositioning of the base relative to the floor surface while the processor is operating the powered joint to maintain the position and/or orientation of the tool during the manual repositioning. |
US12239394B2 |
Medical tool with length conservation mechanism for actuating tension bands
An actuation assembly for a medical instrument connects four bands to three motorized degrees of freedom. The actuation assembly includes a first actuator, a second actuator and a third actuator. The first actuator is coupled to a first band and a second band, the first actuator being operable to pull in one of the first and second bands and feed out the other of the first and second bands. The third actuator is coupled to a third band and a fourth band, the third actuator being operable to pull in one of the third and fourth bands and feed out the other of the third and fourth bands. Each of the first, second, third, and fourth bands pass through a second actuator, and the second actuator is operable to increase the travel path of both the first and second bands or both the third and fourth bands. |
US12239392B2 |
Surgical tool and robotic system comprising such a surgical tool
Surgical tools and robotic systems adaptable for treating a left side or a right side of a patient with minimal interference with the patient and surrounding operative site are disclosed. In some embodiments, a surgical tool can include a body, an end-effector, a first connector, a second connector, and a third connector. The end-effector can extend from a distal end of the body and be movable relative to the body about a pivot axis. The first connector can rigidly secure the body to a planar mechanism. The second and third connectors can rigidly secure a distal part and a proximal part of a tracker, respectively, to the body. The first and second connectors can be symmetrical to each other with respect to a plane including a longitudinal axis of the body and the pivot axis and can be suited for attachment of either the tracker or the planar mechanism. |
US12239388B2 |
Camera tracking bar for computer assisted navigation during surgery
A camera tracking bar of a camera tracking system for computer assisted surgery navigation. The camera tracking bar includes a first set of stereo tracking cameras having first resolution, first field of view, and spaced apart on the camera tracking bar by a first baseline distance. The camera tracking bar also includes a second set of stereo tracking cameras having second resolution, second field of view, and spaced apart on the camera tracking bar by a second baseline distance that is less than the first baseline distance. The second set of stereo tracking cameras is positioned between the first set of stereo tracking cameras, and the resolution and/or the field of view of the second set of stereo tracking cameras is different from the resolution and/or the field of view of the first set of stereo tracking cameras. A communication interface provides camera video streams to the camera tracking subsystem. |
US12239386B2 |
Method for determining a position of a laser focus of a laser beam of an eye surgical laser, as well as treatment apparatus
A treatment apparatus, a computer program, and a computer-readable medium for carrying out a method for determining a position of a laser focus of a laser beam of an eye surgical laser of a treatment apparatus by a control device of the treatment apparatus, in which the laser beam of the treatment apparatus is emitted into or onto a human or animal eye and in which at least two Purkinje images of the laser beam on the eye are captured by an optical capturing device of the treatment apparatus, and in which the position of the laser focus in or on the eye is determined by the control device considering the captured Purkinje images and considering an opening angle of the laser beam. |
US12239385B2 |
Universal tool adapter
A tool adapter, consisting of an adapter arm having a proximal end terminating with a connection and a distal end having a circular coupling, the circular coupling having a center and defining an axis orthogonal to the circular coupling and passing through the center. The adapter also has a tool grip rotatingly connected to the circular coupling so as to permit rotation of the tool grip about the axis, the tool grip being configured to fixedly retain a tool along the axis. |
US12239384B2 |
Computer-based platform for implementing an intra-operative surgical plan during a total joint arthroplasty
A method includes receiving by a controller, a surgeon-specific surgery profile for an implantation of an implant into a joint, implant profiles, a patient-specific post-surgery desired functional profile of the joint after the implantation, and bone registration data for a first bone member and a second bone member of a patient are inputted into a surgical plan model to generate a surgical plan. The surgical plan model is designed to achieve the patient-specific post-surgery desired functional profile based at least in part on a plurality of dependencies between a plurality of surgical parameters, the implant profiles, at least one functional parameter representative of the expected functional performance of the joint, and movement-related data of the joint. The surgical plan is outputted on a graphical user interface (GUI) on a surgery assistant device to facilitate the implantation. |
US12239380B2 |
Control unit, system and method for controlling hybrid robot having rigid proximal portion and flexible distal portion
A control unit for a robot system including a robot with a rigid proximal portion having a remote center of motion (RCM), a flexible distal portion, and an image acquisition device. The control unit includes a processor that receives images from the image acquisition device; generates a first deployment path to a first target position based on the images; generates a second deployment path to a second target position from the first target position based on the images; generates first guidance information for positioning the rigid proximal portion along the first deployment path; generates second guidance information for positioning the flexible distal portion along the second deployment path; and deploys the first guidance information to the rigid proximal portion for guiding the rigid proximal portion to the first target position, and deploys the second guidance information to the flexible distal portion for guiding the flexible interface distal portion to the second target position. |
US12239379B2 |
Ophthalmic apparatus, method for controlling ophthalmic apparatus, and storage medium
An ophthalmic apparatus includes an inspection unit configured to inspect an eye to be inspected, a driving unit configured to drive the inspection unit, and a control unit configured to start control of the inspection unit and the driving unit based on an inspection protocol in response to a predetermined condition, the inspection protocol defining a series of control procedures for performing a plurality of inspections including an alignment adjustment for aligning the inspection unit with the eye to be inspected, wherein the control unit is configured to display results of the plurality of inspections and display information for accepting an instruction to retry a part of the plurality of inspections on a display unit. |
US12239374B2 |
Method of manufacturing a tear flow measurement device
A lacrimal tear flow measurement device, and methods of manufacture and use, are described that includes a polymer microcapillary tube or similar structure having at least one end coated on the outside with soft silicone rubber and one end treated on the inside to be hydrophobic. The hydrophobic end keeps liquid from escaping or entering that end while allowing air to pass. The rest of the tube's insides may be hydrophilic or a neutral hydrophobe. As a Schirmer's test strip replacement, the entrance end of the device can be touched to the lacrimal lake of a patient's eye to collect suck up, or merely collect, tear fluid within the collection tube for weighing, volume measurement, or other analysis. Long-term collection devices for wear between doctors' visits can have a bypass channel allowing liquid to flow back onto the eye. |
US12239368B2 |
Electrosurgical instrument
An electrosurgical instrument having a radiating tip portion capable performing tissue ablation using microwave energy and electroporation (e.g. non-thermal irreversible electroporation) in a minimally invasive manner. The electrosurgical instrument may be used to perform microwave ablation and electroporation separately (e.g. sequentially) or simultaneously. The radiating tip portion may be dimensioned to be suitable for insertion into a pancreas via a surgical scoping device, to provide a rapid and accurate alternative to known RF ablation techniques. By enabling tumours within the pancreas to be treated using a minimally invasive procedure, it may be a viable option to use ablation and/or electroporation treatment for both curative as well as palliative reasons. |
US12239366B2 |
Catheter insertion
Devices, systems, and methods of the present disclosure can overcome physical constraints associated with catheter introduction to facilitate the use of a catheter with a large distal portion as part of a medical procedure benefitting from such a large distal portion, such as, for example, cardiac ablation. More specifically, devices, systems, and methods of the present disclosure can compress an expandable tip of a catheter from an expanded state to a compressed state along a tapered surface of an insertion sleeve for advancement of the expandable tip into vasculature of a patient. The tapered surface of the insertion sleeve can, for example, apply compressive forces at an angle against the advancing expandable tip. As compared to other approaches to the application of compressive force to an expandable tip, compressing the expandable tip using an angled force can reduce the likelihood of unintended deformation of the expandable tip. |
US12239365B2 |
Electroporation for obesity or diabetes treatment
Endolumenal devices and methods can be used for the treatment of health conditions including obesity and diabetes. In some embodiments, the methods and systems provided herein can cause weight loss or control diabetes by reducing the caloric absorption of an individual. For example, this document provides several devices and methods for treating obesity and diabetes by using electroporation to modulate the duodenal mucosa. In addition, this document provides devices and methods for bypassing portions of the gastrointestinal tract to reduce nutritional uptake. |
US12239364B2 |
Printed proximal electrodes of an expandable catheter for use as a common electrode
A catheter includes a shaft, an expandable frame, a first set of electrodes, and a second set of electrodes. The shaft is configured for insertion into an organ of a patient. The expandable frame is fitted at a distal end of the shaft. The first set of electrodes is disposed over a distal portion of the expandable frame, and configured to be placed in contact with a tissue in the organ. The second set of electrodes is disposed on a proximal portion of the expandable frame, and configured to be inter-connected to form a common electrode. |
US12239358B2 |
Devices and methods for fractional treatment of tissue
A tissue treatment device and method comprising a plurality of spaced-apart elongated electrodes configured to receive radio frequency (RF) signal from an RF energy source and for be inserted into tissue at a plurality of depths. The elongated electrodes having a first polarity and a single flat electrode located having a second polarity. The single flat electrode is located in vicinity of the elongated electrodes and configured for contacting the tissue surface and for receiving the RF signal from the RF energy source. An actuating mechanism connected to the plurality of elongated electrodes and configured to move the elongated electrodes in two opposite directions into and out of the tissue. A controller as part of the treatment device configured to apply fractional treatment to the tissue, vary spatial density of the fractional treatment over a treatment period, operate the actuating mechanism to selectively move different elongated electrode sub-groups of the plurality of elongated electrodes according to a treatment time pattern. |
US12239353B2 |
Energy module for driving multiple energy modalities through a port
An energy module connectable to a surgical instrument is disclosed. The energy module can include a circuit, which can include a first amplifier and a second amplifier coupled to a port of the energy module to which a surgical instrument is connectable. The first amplifier can be configured to generate a first drive signal at a first frequency range and the second amplifier can be configured to generate a second drive signal at a second frequency range. The circuit can be configured to control the amplifiers to deliver the first drive signal, the second drive signal, and/or a combination of the first and second drive signals to a surgical instrument connected to the port. |
US12239352B2 |
Removable split cannula for placement of electrodes
A method of inserting an electrode into a cranial cavity of a cranium can include determining a length, between a target within the cranial cavity and a proximal end of a multipiece cannula, of the electrode for insertion of the electrode to the target. A distal end of the electrode can be inserted through a multipiece cannula supported by an instrument holder of a surgical arm. The surgical arm can be positioned such that a distance from the target to the proximal end of the cannula is equal to the length. The electrode can be fed through the cannula and through the anchor bolt into the cranial cavity. Feeding of the electrode through the cannula and into the cranial cavity can be stopped when the length of the electrode fed into the cavity reaches the length between the proximal opening of the multipiece cannula and the target. |
US12239351B2 |
Mixing and delivery device for bone cement and associated methods
Implementations described herein include a bone cement mixing and delivery device including a cylindrical container defines a chamber and has an injection passage disposed at the distal end thereof. A plug can be removably disposable in the injection passage. The mixing screw is rotatably disposable in the chamber and has a screw thread extending along an outer surface of the mixing screw as well as a return passage extending through the mixing screw from the proximal end to the distal end thereof. In a mixing mode of the device, a mixing rod engages and rotates the mixing screw about the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical container causing material disposed in the chamber to be moved distally and return to the proximal end of the chamber through the return passage of the mixing screw. In an injection mode of the device, the plug can be removed from the injection passage and an injection rod occludes the return passage of the mixing screw. The injection rod engages and rotates the mixing screw about the longitudinal axis moving material disposed in the chamber through the injection passage. |
US12239343B1 |
Respiratory obstruction removal device
A respiratory obstruction removal device, which includes a face mask and a negative pressure generating device. The negative pressure generating device includes a grip section, an extendable tubular body, and an annular interface, connected in sequence. The extendable tubular body has a variable volume cavity. The face mask includes an upper part that fits with the annular interface, a lower part that corresponds to a face of a patient, and a connecting body that links the upper and lower parts. The respiratory obstruction removal device also includes a first one-way valve located on the annular interface and a second one-way valve for unidirectional expulsion of gas to the outside. The grip portion and the extendable tubular body are detachably connected. This design is efficient and easy to carry and transport, suitable for emergency use in different scenarios. |
US12239339B2 |
Collapsible handle design for debriders
A medical device for debridement can include an elongate housing, a shaft extending through the housing and distally therefrom, a drive to manipulate the cutter, and a collapsible handle than can to couple with the housing. An elongate grip of the handle can turn aft and be at least partially disposed in the elongate housing for use of the device with pen grip. The elongate grip of the handle can turn fore and extend distally from the housing for use of the device with pistol grip. |
US12239337B2 |
Endoscopic instrument
An endoscopic instrument is provided and includes a housing including an elongated shaft assembly extending distally therefrom. The elongated shaft assembly includes inner and outer shaft members. The inner and outer shaft members are removably coupled to the housing and the outer shaft member is movable with respect to the inner shaft member. An end effector is operably supported at the distal end of the outer shaft member and includes a pair of jaw members configured for treating tissue. A bushing operably couples to the inner and outer shaft members of the shaft assembly and selectively and releasably couples to the housing. The bushing includes one or more mechanical interfaces configured to engage one or more slots defined through the inner shaft member and one or more slots defined through the outer shaft member to release the inner and outer shaft members from the housing. |
US12239336B2 |
Surgical instruments, control assemblies, and surgical systems facilitating manipulation and visualization
A surgical instrument includes a housing, a shaft extending from the housing, an end effector assembly extending from the shaft and configured to rotate and/or articulate relative to the housing, a motor disposed within the housing and operably coupled to the end effector assembly to rotate and/or articulate of the end effector assembly relative to the housing, and a sensing assembly configured to sense movement of the housing relative to a reference position and to drive the motor to rotate and/or articulate of the end effector assembly relative to the housing based upon the sensed movement. The sensing assembly is configured to operate in each of a standard mode, wherein movement of the housing effects rotation and/or articulation of the end effector assembly in a similar direction, and a reversed mode, wherein movement of the housing effects rotation and/or articulation of the end effector assembly in an opposite direction. |
US12239323B2 |
Left atrial appendage ligator
A left atrial appendage ligator having a ligature and operating handle. One end of the operating handle is fixedly connected with a support rod, the inner wall of the support rod is fixedly connected with a feeding pipe and locking pipe. A first sliding groove is formed in the inner side wall of the feeding pipe. The inner side wall of the first sliding groove is slidably connected with a first sliding block. The middle part of the first sliding block is fixedly connected with a feeding push rod. One end of the feeding push rod is fixedly connected with a first hook. One side of the first sliding block is fixedly connected with a return spring. The left atrial appendage ligator has a locking push rod, ligature, hanger knot and supporting component. The ligature is prearranged on a sleeve pipe portion to form the hanger knot to avoid knotting during the operation process. During operation, the knotting can be completed only by locking the hanger knot. The sleeve pipe portion serves as support for threading the other end of the ligature to avoid automatic locking. After the sleeve pipe portion is separated from the hanger knot, the hanger knot can be pulled for automatic locking. |
US12239321B2 |
Systems and methods for introducing and monitoring a negative pressure device for protecting an intestinal anastomosis
Systems and methods for monitoring a bypass device for protecting an intestinal anastomosis are provided. The system includes a pump, one or more fluid inlet lines fluidicly coupled to the pump and to a negative pressure chamber of the bypass device, and one or more sensors configured to measure data indicative of pressure within the negative pressure chamber. A controller operatively coupled to the pump and the one or more sensors may be programmed to actuate the pump to generate a vacuum within the negative pressure chamber to thereby pull intestinal tissue towards the bypass device to anchor the bypass device at a target location upstream of the intestinal anastomosis. The controller further may compare the pressure within the negative pressure chamber with a predetermined pressure range and, if the pressure falls outside the predetermined pressure range, adjust the pump to maintain the vacuum within the predetermined pressure range. |
US12239320B2 |
Method of using reinforced flexible circuits with multiple sensors to optimize performance of radio frequency devices
A method implemented by a surgical instrument is disclosed. The surgical instrument includes first and second jaws and a flexible circuit including multiple sensors to optimize performance of a radio frequency (RF) device. The flexible circuit includes at least one therapeutic electrode couplable to a source of RF energy, at least two sensing electrodes, and at least one insulative layer. The insulative layer is positioned between the at least one therapeutic electrode and the at least two sensing electrodes. The method includes contacting tissue positioned between the first and second jaws of the surgical instrument with the at least one therapeutic electrode and at the least two sensing electrodes; sensing signals from the at least two sensing electrodes; and controlling RF energy delivered to the at least one therapeutic electrode based on the sensed signals. |
US12239312B2 |
Anchors and locks for percutaneous valve implants
A method for locking an intrabody implant over a thread passing through the implant. The method includes advancing a lock body, which includes at least one rotatable element, to the implant over the thread. Subsequently to advancing the lock body to the implant, the rotatable element is rotated such that the lock body grips the thread proximally to the implant. |
US12239306B2 |
Surgical system and methods for stabilization and fixation of fractures, joints, and reconstructions
In various embodiments, a targeting guide is disclosed. The targeting guide includes a handle defining a targeting hole and a targeting tower configured to be coupled to the handle. The targeting tower defines at least a first guide hole and a second guide hole. Each of the first and second guide holes are sized and configured to receive a respective first guide pin and second guide pin therethrough. The first and second guide pins are configured to indicate alignment of a k-wire inserted through the targeting hole defined by the handle. Methods of using a targeting guide are also disclosed. |
US12239299B2 |
Full core biopsy device
A biopsy device includes coaxially disposed inner and outer needles in which the outer needle tip is configured for obtaining a tissue sample. The inner surface of the outer needle includes a tissue retention feature which includes a countersink having a predetermined length from the distal cutting edge of the outer needle. |
US12239294B2 |
Illumination corrected near-infrared (nir) imaging for image guided surgery
Technology described herein can be embodied in a method of displaying a visual representation of a portion of a surgical scene. The method includes receiving data representing information captured using a first sensor of a camera associated with a surgical device, the information being indicative of a first quantity representing an amount of fluorescence emitted from the portion of the surgical scene. The method also includes obtaining information indicative of a second quantity representing an amount of excitation signal causing the fluorescence to be emitted from the portion of the surgical scene, and generating a normalized fluorescence signal as a function of the first quantity and the second quantity. The method further includes generating the visual representation of the portion of the surgical scene based on the normalized fluorescence signal, and presenting the visual representation on a display device associated with the surgical device. |
US12239293B2 |
Endoscope for sensing trocars, compatible cannulas, instruments and accessories
Disclosed are systems and methods for an endoscope or other surgical instruments to automatically sense when it's placed inside or outside of a trocar or a cannula. Operational setting of the endoscope may be adjusted as a function of the detected environmental condition to improve the function of the endoscope and the safety of a surgical procedure. The endoscope may include a sensor to sense a tag embedded in a trocar or cannula. The endoscope may transmit sensing information to a controller of a surgical robotic system to indicate that the endoscope has been inserted into the trocar or cannula. The controller may generate configuration information corresponding to the sensed state. The controller may transmit the configuration information to the endoscope to configure the endoscope to operate in the state. In another aspect, the endoscope may wirelessly communicate with another surgical instrument to receive operational information from the surgical instrument. |
US12239291B2 |
Medical systems, device, and related methods thereof
A medical device comprising a handle extending between a first end and a second end, a first actuator coupled to the first end of the handle, a first shaft coupled to the second end of the handle, and a second shaft extending from the first shaft, the second shaft including a first articulation section and a second articulation section, wherein an articulation of the first actuator relative to the handle is configured to articulate the first articulation section, an articulation of the handle relative to the first shaft is configured to articulate the second articulation section, and the first articulation section and the second articulation section are restricted to articulating only in a first plane. |
US12239289B2 |
Endoscope instrumentation drive system
An instrument drive system configured to attach to an instrument channel of an endoscope assembly and manage a relative feed position of an instrument using two drive wheels and a device application in a controller. The instrument drive system is attached directly to the instrument channel of the endoscope assembly. operation of the instrument drive system is proximate to the endoscope assembly and an inputs-controls and a deflection control thereof. |
US12239285B2 |
Station device and operating method of station device
An operating method of a station device for discharging dust from a cordless vacuum cleaner includes detecting occurrence of an event requesting discharging dust from a dustbin included in the cordless vacuum cleaner to the station device, and performing a dust discharge operation for discharging dust in the dustbin to a collector of the station device based on detecting of the occurrence of the event. The performing a dust discharge operation includes transmitting, to the cordless vacuum cleaner via short-range wireless communication, a control signal for operating a first suction motor of the cordless vacuum cleaner, and operating a second suction motor of the station device in cooperation with the first suction motor. |
US12239280B2 |
Brush for autonomous cleaning robot
An autonomous cleaning robot includes a drive configured to move the robot across a floor surface, a brush proximate a lateral side of the robot, and a motor configured to rotate the brush about an axis of rotation. The brush includes a hub configured to engage the motor of the robot and arms each extending outwardly from the hub away from the axis of rotation and each being angled relative to a plane normal to the axis of rotation of the brush. Each of the arms include a first portion extending outwardly from the hub away from the axis of rotation and a second portion extending outwardly from the first portion away from the axis of rotation. An angle between the first portion of each of the arms and the plane is larger than an angle between the second portion of the each of the arms and the plane. |
US12239278B2 |
Vessel rinsing apparatus, drain receptacle, interchangeable nozzle assembly, and faucet system including same
A vessel rinsing apparatus including a mounting base, a fluid discharge member including a plurality of nozzles, a valve member operably coupled to the fluid discharge member and configured to control water flow through the nozzles, and an escutcheon supported by the mounting base. |
US12239277B2 |
Domestic dishwasher having at least one air drying device
A household dishwasher includes a dishwasher cavity for accommodating an item to be washed held on or in a loading unit and at least one rotatable fan wheel arranged in the dishwasher cavity and designed to take in and blow out air, said at least one rotatable fan wheel being suspended movably, in particular pivotably, in particular at least relative to a vertical axis. |
US12239274B2 |
System comprising a dishwasher and method for operating a dishwasher
A system includes a dishwasher, an image capturing device designed to capture an image of washware arranged in the washing chamber, with the image including a plurality of sub-images, each of which having different spectral information of the washware. An illumination unit illuminates the washware in the washing chamber, and an image analysis unit receives the captured image from the image capturing device and to carry out a chemical analysis of soiling on the washware based on the plurality of sub-images of the received image and to ascertain a dirt characteristic of soiling as a result of the chemical analysis. A control device carries out a washing program for washing the washware in the washing chamber. The control device receives the dirt characteristic from the image analysis unit and adapts the washing program for washing the washware as a function of the received dirt characteristic. |
US12239273B2 |
Cover assembly for mounting in a domestic dishwasher
A cover assembly for mounting in a domestic dishwasher, for example, is proposed. The cover assembly includes a pivoting cover which is mounted on a support component and is to close an opening, wherein the pivoting cover has a cover part and a closure part which is movable relative to the cover part. The cover part has sealing faces which, on closing of the pivoting cover, come into sealing contact with sealing counter-faces encircling the opening. There are formed on the closure part engagement formations which, in a closed pivot position of the pivoting cover, can be brought into and out of holding-closed engagement with engagement counter-formations by relative movement between the closure part and the support component. The cover part is mounted on the closure part and is supported via the closure part on the support component. |
US12239270B2 |
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for a distributed robotic network of data collection and insight generation
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for a distributed network of data collection and insight generation by server are disclosed herein. According to at least one non-limiting exemplary embodiment, the server may be configured to receive data from a network of data sources, receive an application from an application creator, and execute the application based on the data from the network of data sources to generate at least one insight, wherein the network of data sources may comprise mobile robots, stationary devices, IoT (Internet of Things) devices, and/or public data sources. The at least one insight may be utilized by robots to improve efficiency of operation or by humans to gain useful insights to the environment in which the data sources operate. |
US12239267B2 |
Four-direction scrubbing carpet shampooer
A four-direction carpet shampooer is disclosed. Example embodiments include: a first brush configured to rotate on a first axis; a second brush configured to rotate on a second axis, the second axis being different from the first axis; a direction of travel sensor to detect the shampooer direction of travel; and a rotation changing actuator configured to reverse the rotation of the first brush on the first axis and to reverse the rotation of the second brush on the second axis when the direction of travel sensor indicates the shampooer direction of travel has changed. Example embodiments also include a shampooer cleaning station comprising: a first brush configured to rotate on a first axis; a second brush configured to rotate on a second axis, the second axis being different from the first axis; and a hair grinding system including protrusions configured to remove hair from a brush roll of a carpet shampooer, and a grinder to grind up the hair and dispose the ground-up hair into a waste water reservoir. |
US12239266B2 |
Extractor cleaning machine
A handheld extractor that includes a housing, a supply tank adjacent a first side of the housing, and a recovery tank adjacent a second side of the housing. A cleaning chamber is in the third side of the housing. A fluid flow path is between the supply tank and the cleaning chamber. The cleaning chamber receives a suction nozzle and a suction source provides suction through a hose and the second fluid flow path to extract the cleaning fluid from the supply tank, along the fluid flow path into the cleaning chamber, through the hose and into the recovery tank to flush the cleaning fluid through the hose to clean the hose when the suction nozzle is received in the cleaning chamber. |
US12239264B2 |
Detachable toilet seat
An improved toilet seat includes an upper body includes an upper sitting surface; a lower body coupled with the upper body, where the lower body includes a lower contact surface; and at least one slideable clamp positioned between the upper sitting surface and the lower contact surface, where the at least one slideable clamp includes a clamp arm and clamp paddle coupled to the clamp arm, and where the clamp arm is configured to move between a first position and a second position. |
US12239261B2 |
Combination whisk and spatula assembly
A combination whisk and spatula assembly includes a handle that has a flattened base and the handle is standable in an upright position having the flattened base resting on a horizontal support surface. A whisk is coupled to and extends away from the handle such that the whisk can be manipulated for mixing a fluid food material. A cup extends around the whisk and the cup captures fluid dripping from the whisk when the handle is stood upon the flattened base. A pair of blades is each coupled to the whisk and each of the blades has a curved profile. In this way each of the blades can be scraped against an inside surface of a mixing bowl for removing fluid food material from the inside surface of the mixing bowl. |
US12239258B2 |
DC cooking appliance
A DC powered cooking appliance which uses an induction or a resistance based DC heating element and excludes AC powered heating elements and preferably does not rely on directly connected combustion powered heating elements. Some embodiments include wattage of 1500 watts or less, voltages of 40 or 48 volts or more and are installed on a boat, van, rv or bus such that an inverter of that boat, van, rv or bus is not electrically connected to the cooking appliance. |
US12239256B2 |
Outdoor cooking appliance control system
A battery-operated wireless control system for outdoor cooking and heating appliances is disclosed. The system may include an electronic controller paired to a wireless temperature probe and a wireless monitor device capable of storing and recharging the wireless temperature probe. The electronic controller may control the operation of a fuel supply assembly, a fan assembly, and a spark generating assembly included in the appliance. |
US12239251B2 |
Drinking vessel lid with magnetic sealing mechanism
A lid for a drinking vessel including a lid base, a movable arm, and an actuator. The base defines a drinking opening. The arm is coupled to the base and located in an interior of the base. The actuator is accessible from an exterior of the base. A first and second magnet unit are coupled to one of the arm or actuator. A third magnet unit is coupled to the other of the arm or actuator. The arm is movable between a sealed position, in which the drinking opening is sealed, and an open position, in which the drinking opening is not sealed. The actuator is movable between a first and second position. A magnetic force maintains the arm in the open position while the actuator is in the second position, and a magnetic force maintains the arm in the sealed position while the actuator is in the first position. |
US12239243B2 |
Nursing pillow
A nursing pillow has three cushionable inserts of at least two different firmnesses. The user may install or remove any of the inserts through an opening in the outer shell of the pillow. A thermal therapy pocket is joined to an inner panel of the outer shell of the pillow, and is oriented vertically so as to face the torso of the mother. |
US12239242B2 |
Foldable bassinet
A foldable bassinet includes an upper bassinet frame, a pair of leg structures opposite to each other, and a bottom board. Each leg structure has an upper tower portion and a lower ledge portion. The upper bassinet frame is disposed through the upper tower portion of each leg structure to make each leg structure pivotable relative to the upper bassinet frame between a supporting position and a folding position. The bottom board is detachably configured between the two lower ledge portions and defines a containing space cooperatively with the upper bassinet frame and the leg structures. When the bottom board is detached from the two lower ledge portions, the leg structures are rotatable from the supporting position to the folding position to be folded inwardly relative to the upper bassinet frame. |
US12239241B2 |
Infant highchair
An infant highchair includes a standing frame including a support platform, a seat pivotally connected with the standing frame and having a seating surface, and a locking mechanism operable to lock the seat in position. The seat is rotatable between a first and a second position, the first position allowing a child to sit in contact with the seating surface, and the second position being suitable to receive installation of a removable child seat over the seat while disabling seating of a child on the seating surface, the seating surface moving around the support platform when the seat rotates relative to the standing frame, the second position of the seat uncovering the support platform so that a removable child seat is installable over the seat at least partially supported in contact with the support platform. The locking mechanism is operable to lock the seat in the first and second position. |
US12239240B2 |
Extendable seating interconnected mechanism and seating supporting frame
An extendable seating interconnected mechanism and a seating supporting frame, including an interconnected assembly, a seating frame, and a backrest mount, wherein the backrest mount is rotatably connected to the interconnected assembly and the seating frame, respectively; the interconnected assembly includes a mounting plate and a driving link, wherein the mounting plate includes a lateral-plate part and a supporting part; the driving link is rotatably connected between the seating frame and the lateral-plate part; an end of the supporting part is connected to the lateral-plate part; and an opposite end of the supporting part is rotatably connected to the backrest mount. The interconnected mechanism and the seating supporting frame optimize and simplify the structure, leading to a compression of the height of the seating supporting frame; different seating positions may be adjusted smoother by connecting the extendable and retractable footrest mechanism and interconnected assembly, which improves the seating comfort. |
US12239238B1 |
Cushion
A cushion is provided, which relates to the technical field of home and outdoor patio leisure products, including a cover, a soft core, a power supply unit, a sounder, and a luminescent strip; the cover wraps around the soft core, the sounder is arranged in the soft core, and the luminescent strip is arranged inside the margin edge strip and/or a decorative edge of the side of the cover and powered by the power supply unit. The cushion has the function of helping soothing, relaxing, sleep and regulating the atmosphere, and has the characteristic of easy finding and positioning. The combination of the sounder and the luminescent strip not only enriches the functions of the cushion, but also improves the convenience of use. |
US12239232B2 |
Bed sensors
A mattress system can include a foam layer positioned proximate a mattress top and having a head end, a foot end, and opposite lateral ends, a mattress core positioned under the foam layer, and a sensor strip. The sensor strip can include a carrier strip and a plurality of sensors attached to the carrier strip and spaced apart from each other in a longitudinal direction of the carrier strip. The carrier strip can be configured to be releasably attached to the foam layer. The carrier strip can also extend between the opposite lateral ends of the foam layer. |
US12239230B2 |
Adjustable firmness mattress assemblies
A mattress assembly generally includes a tension adjustable and stretchable fabric panel coupled to a rail system. Axial tension of the stretchable fabric panel can be adjusted to change a firmness property associated with the mattress assembly. |
US12239227B2 |
Stools, chairs, and methods using the same
An apparatus that supports a user in a variety of positions to comfortably perform tasks, such as applying one or more tattoos to skin of a subject is herein disclosed. The apparatus can be reconfigured to optimally position and support the arms and/or chest of the user. A method for using a stool can involve rotating armrests of the apparatus from a stowed position to a deployed position. The armrests can support the user's forearms while supporting the user's chest such that the user can comfortably perform tasks in front of a chest support of the stool. |
US12239226B2 |
Device for supporting and fixing shelves of furniture
A device for supporting and fixing a shelf to a side of a furniture item has a casing with an inner cavity, a pin positioned in the inner cavity, and an elastic member urging against the pin such that a tip of the pin protrudes from an edge of the casing in one position. The pin is retractable into the inner cavity of the casing when a force is applied to the pin such that the pin tilts within the inner cavity. |
US12239225B2 |
Magnetic invisible shelf support
A system for binding horizontal and vertical panels is provided. The system comprises a casing comprising a barrel and a cover, the casing inserted into an end of a horizontal panel. The system also comprises a cylindrical metal insert embedded into a first surface of a vertical panel. The system also comprises a sliding metal pin inside the casing that receives attraction with a magnet placed on a second surface of the horizontal panel proximate the casing. The pin moves, based on the received attraction and after the end of the horizontal panel is placed against the vertical panel at a location of the insert, the movement of the pin based on movement of the magnet. The pin also protrudes partially, based on the movement through a first hole in the cover, into a second hole in the insert. |
US12239222B2 |
Weapon lock
A weapon lock includes a latch pivotably coupled to a housing about a latch pivot axis, and includes a base arm, receiver and retainer arms extending transversely away from the base arm, and a pivot limit extension extending longitudinally away from the base arm. A weapon rack is configured to carry the weapon lock and includes upper and lower plates with upper and lower arrays of mounting apertures and pivotably coupled to one another via a hinge. A weapon cabinet is configured to carry the weapon rack and includes an enclosure having a rear wall to which a mounting backplane of the weapon rack is fastened with tamper-evident security fasteners, and having sidewalls, top and bottom walls, and doors hingedly coupled to the sidewalls. |
US12239220B2 |
Storage rack for storing containers
A storage rack includes a base frame and a shelf movable upward with respect to the base frame. A hoist is attachable to and detachable from the base frame and placeable on the base frame. The shelf includes an engaged portion engageable with a hook of the hoist. |
US12239217B2 |
Manual toothbrush
An oral care implement comprises a head and a handle, the head being repeatedly attachable to and detachable from the handle. The head is at least partially made from a material having a density from about 0.5 g/cm3 to about 1.2 g/cm3, while the handle is at least partially made from a material having a density from about 2.1 g/cm3 to about 3.1 g/cm3. |
US12239214B2 |
Sealant application assembly and methods of use
A sealant application nozzle comprises a manifold with a incurvate face; bristles extending outward from the incurvate face; and channels within the manifold culminating in outlets exiting through the incurvate face to dispose sealant onto the incurvate face and base of the bristles. |
US12239213B2 |
Oral cavity treatment device
A tooth sensitivity treatment device and an applicator tip thereof. The tooth sensitivity treatment device may be configured to dispense a sensitivity formulation onto a user's teeth. The tooth sensitivity treatment device may further be configured to massage the sensitivity formulation onto the user's teeth after dispensing. The applicator may have a bottom end, a top end, and a longitudinal axis extending therebetween. The applicator may include an application portion that is not intersected by the longitudinal axis. The application portion may have an outer surface that is oriented at an oblique angle relative to the longitudinal axis. The applicator may include a resilient material component and a rigid material component that are integrally coupled together. The resilient material component may form the entirety of the application portion to increase flexibility while massaging the sensitivity formulation onto the user's teeth. |
US12239212B2 |
Hands-free carrying device
A hands-free carrying device includes an elongated main body member having a top wall, a bottom wall, a first end, a second end and a pair of side walls. The bottom wall is curved to receive and engage the forearm of a user, and a connector is positioned along the top wall. The connector forms a releasable loop for engaging the handle of an infant carrier perpendicularly relative to the user's forearm and positions the seating area of the infant carrier parallel to the user's forearm. The device includes a moisture wicking outer layer, a padded middle layer, and a rigid inside layer. The outer layer is removeable, and the connectors are secured directly onto the inside layer and extend through openings in the middle and outer layers. |
US12239210B2 |
Cosmetic product application tip including beads spiralling over an axisymmetric main body
A cosmetic-product application tip including a main body having an axisymmetric general shape around a main axis defining a longitudinal direction. In the application tip, beads are formed at the surface of said main body from which each of the beads projects extending while spiralling around the main axis. In addition to the foregoing, an applicator includes such a tip and a set including such an applicator and a bottle. |
US12239209B2 |
System for dispensing a cosmetic product
The invention relates to a system (10) for dispensing a product, comprising a dispenser that can house at least two cartridges, each of which includes a reservoir containing a base product, a first base product comprising at least 0.1 wt.-% particles having a density differential relative to the medium containing same, preferably of at least 0.5 g/cm3, in particular particles having a density greater than or equal to 2 g/cm3, and a thickening agent. The dispenser allows at least two base products to be dispensed in adjustable proportions, the viscosity of the first base product being preferably greater than 2 Pa·s and more preferably greater than or equal to 4 Pa·s. |
US12239200B1 |
UV nail lamp with rechargeable battery pack
A nail lamp for curing UV-curable nail gel uses light emitting diodes (LEDs) that emit ultraviolet light and are relatively lower power. The nail lamp is powered from an exterior power source, such as a wall socket, or by a rechargeable battery pack. A battery compartment of the nail lamp holds the battery pack, which is removable without disassembling the nail lamp. The nail lamp is easily transportable to different locations and can be used even when a wall socket is unavailable. A curing time of the nail lamp is user-selectable. The nail lamp can also include one or more detection sensors to detect a person's hand or foot in a treatment chamber and automatically turn on or off the LEDs. |
US12239194B1 |
Wig and hair piece organizer
A wig and hair piece holder/organizer is provided. The organizer includes four larger pockets to hold wigs. The four larger pockets have transparent covers with a central zipper for opening and closing the transparent cover for each individual pocket. A wig is placeable within the pocket and also can be hooked to or hung from an included grommet for each pocket. On a right side of the organizer, a top section of the organizer is divided into two individual pockets that include elastic holders for holding hair extensions and hair pieces. A set of four smaller pockets are integrated into the holder beneath the two top individual pockets on the right hand side. The back panel is made of satin. Further, the holder can be folded on itself and/or rolled to a compact storage state even while holding multiple wigs and/or hair extensions and styling tools. |
US12239192B2 |
Jewelry
This disclosure includes jewelry that has an arcuate first body with opposite first and second ends, each end defining an opening. An arcuate second body has an end with a hinge element in the opening of the first end of the first body to provide pivot capability between the first and second bodies. An arcuate third body has an end with a hinge element in the opening of the second end of the first body to provide pivot capability between the first and third bodies. |
US12239189B2 |
Zonal dynamic lacing system
An article of footwear includes an upper and a sole structure attached to the upper. The article of footwear also includes a cable lock disposed within the sole structure adjacent to a bottom surface of the sole structure. The article of footwear includes a first cable having a first section extending from the cable lock to a first anchor point on the upper and a second section extending from the cable lock to a second anchor point on the upper. The article of footwear further includes a second cable having a first section extending from the cable lock to a grip and a second section extending from the cable lock to the grip, whereby the cable lock is operable to retract the first section and the second section of the first cable when the first section and the second section of the second cable are extended. |
US12239186B2 |
Structure and procedure for making a shoe with knitted upper
A procedure for making a shoe including steps of weaving/construction of an upper, forming the upper in which two previously constructed stockings are a tube that is closed on one side while the other end of the tube remains open, subjecting the upper to a steam jet that dampens and softens a thermosetting polymer yarn, and passing the upper through a high-temperature kiln. Construction of the sole entails inserting the upper into a shoe-tree of a mould, positioning the shoe-tree with the upper and closure between two rings of the mould for polyurethane injection. Because of the presence of the arch structure a barrier that limits the passage thereof to the inner part of the upper, with filling of the mould, passage of predetermined quantities of polyurethane only through the slots of the arch structure permitting joint points to be created between the sole and upper and with the inner. |
US12239185B2 |
Midsole system with graded response
A sole structure for an article of footwear comprises a midsole system with a plurality of cushioning units, each having multiple cushioning layers configured to work together as a system to absorb a compressive load, such as a dynamic compressive load due to impact with the ground, in stages of progressive cushioning according to the relative stiffness values of the layers. Various midsole systems disclosed include isolated cushioning units, linked cushioning units, sole layers having stanchions interfacing with the midsole system, midsole systems with sole layers having keyed and unkeyed portions overlying a bladder, and midsole systems with vertically-stacked cushioning units disposed in inverted relationship to one another. |
US12239182B2 |
Size adaptive protective headgear
Disclosed is a size adaptive protective headgear including a protective shell including a first and a second front cut extending respectively from a first and second side edge of the protective shell, the first and second front cut enabling expansion and contraction of a front section of the protective shell, and a first and a second rear cut extending respectively from a first and second side edge of the protective shell, the first and second rear cut enabling expansion and contraction of a rear section of the protective shell. |
US12239181B2 |
Helmet for reducing concussive forces during collision and facilitating rapid facemask removal
An improved design for a helmet to reduce injuries caused by helmet-to-helmet collisions. Certain embodiments include novel quick release features that permit the detachment of a facemask from a helmet in 30 seconds or less so as to attend to an injured player in a rapid fashion. Other aspects relate to impact energy absorbing constructions employing an inner layer, an outer layer spaced apart from the inner padding layer, at least one layer that includes an array of polygonal structures, and at least one layer having a shock-absorbing elastomer, a visco-elastic polymer, an impact dispersing gel, or shape memory material. Still other embodiments include a wireless device with a sensor module coupled to the football helmet generating sensor data in response to an impact to the football helmet. |
US12239177B1 |
Garment with multiple regions
A liner includes a fabric body that covers at least a hip area and an abdomen area of a wearer or the hip area and buttocks area of a wearer. The fabric body having at least a first region and a second region each having a different modulus than another of the several regions. The first region is an abdominal region or a buttocks region. The second region is selected from the following group of regions, namely a first abdominal border region, a second abdominal border region, a buttocks region if the buttocks region is not the first region, a bottom buttocks surrounding region, a top buttocks surrounding region, a side buttocks surrounding region, a side hip region, a waist whittler region, a waist transition region, a super waist whittler region, an abdominal region if the abdominal region is not the first region and any combination thereof. |
US12239175B2 |
Tactile device
A tactile device includes a wearing portion to be worn on a subject, a tactile stimulus generation portion that provides a tactile stimulus to a body surface of the subject, and a positioning portion that makes a place where the wearing portion is worn constant. The tactile stimulus generation portion is fixed to the wearing portion. The wearing portion is worn on an arm of the subject. A tactile stimulus is provided to a body surface of the arm of the tactile stimulus generation portion. The positioning portion is, for example, a glove integrally formed with the wearing portion. |
US12239169B2 |
Aerosol generating device
An aerosol generating device includes: a cartridge including a liquid storage and an atomizer; and a main body including a battery, a puff sensor, and a controller configured to perform pulse width modulation (PWM) control for supplying power from the battery to the atomizer, wherein the controller performs the PWM control at a first duty ratio during a puff period and performs the PWM control at a second duty ratio lower than the first duty ratio during a non-puff period between puff periods. |
US12239167B2 |
Apparatus for generating aerosol from an aerosolizable medium, an article of aerosolizable medium and a method of operating an aerosol generating apparatus
A method of operating an aerosol generating apparatus is disclosed. The method comprises: sensing, at a first sensor of a sensor arrangement, a first indicia of an article comprising aerosolisable medium; sensing, at a second sensor of the sensor arrangement spaced a predetermined distance from the first sensor, a second indicia of the article; determining a distance between the first indicia and the second indicia; and operating the aerosol generating apparatus based at least on the distance between the first indicia and the second indicia. |
US12239166B2 |
Aerosol provision article and system
An article for use with an aerosol provision system. The article comprises an aerosol-generating chamber including an inlet and an outlet to facilitate air flow through the aerosol-generating chamber, and an aerosol-generating component located in the aerosol-generating chamber such that a variation in air speed proximate to a majority of a surface of the aerosol-generating component is less than 25%. |
US12239165B2 |
Aerosol provision device
A support for a heater component of an aerosol provision device defines an axis and is configured to engage an end of the heater component to hold the heater component substantially parallel to the axis at a predetermined distance from a coil. The support defines a channel to receive a wire of a temperature sensor, and the channel defines an opening into a space between the heater component and the coil. An aerosol provision device is also described which comprises: a heater component configured to heat aerosol generating material; a first support, wherein the first support defines an axis and is configured to engage a first end of the heater component; a second support, wherein the second support is configured to engage a second end of the heater component; and at least one coil configured to heat the heater component. The first and second supports hold the heater component substantially parallel to the axis at a predetermined distance from the at least one coil. |
US12239162B2 |
Smoking substitute component
Aerosol delivery component with a tank, and a wall separating the tank from a vaporizer, with a vent channel extending through the wall from a first opening at the chamber to a second opening at the tank and positioned such that any leakage of liquid through the channel is discharged on the vaporizer, or wherein the first opening has a greater cross-sectional area than the second opening. |
US12239158B2 |
Aerosol-generating article with laminated wrapper
An aerosol-generating article is provided, including: an aerosol-forming substrate including plant material cut filler and between about 6 percent and about 20 percent of an aerosol-former, the plant material cut filler including at least 25 percent of plant lamina per weight of total plant material; and a laminated wrapper including a heat conductive layer and a heat insulating layer, the laminated wrapper being arranged at least partly wrapped around the aerosol-forming substrate and having a thickness of between 30 micrometers and 100 micrometers, and the heat conductive layer and the heat insulating layer overlapping along an axial direction of the aerosol-generating article. |
US12239157B2 |
Method and apparatus for increased recovery of oil from lemons and other citrus fruits using desorption
A two stage system for extraction of oil from whole citrus fruit is provided. The first stage is known in the art and includes a first plurality of toothed rollers which convey citrus as the teeth penetrate and rupture oil glands. The oil passes into a first water pan. A novel second stage uses a second plurality of toothed rollers to continue the penetration and rupturing of oil glands. The second plurality of rollers are positioned in an isolated second pan to partially submerge the citrus. A middle phase liquor with extremely low oil concentration is transferred into said second pan to initiate desorption of oil from the citrus. The desorption technique in one embodiment increases yield by 4% or more. This technique is expected to increase yield even more as the recovery by the first stage is reduced. |
US12239153B2 |
Sweetening composition and method of making and using same
There is provided a sweetening composition including particles, the particles including a high intensity sweetener, a non-sucrose bulk sweetener and a low digestible carbohydrate polymer. |
US12239148B2 |
Method of making value egg products
Formed, ready-to-cook or ready-to-eat egg products are prepared by mixing a liquid egg composition comprising liquid egg in an amount sufficient so that the liquid egg composition is flowable at 35° F. with solid food inclusions, wherein at least 50% of the solid food inclusions have a longest dimension size of from 0.6 to 12 cm. At least about 50% of the solid food inclusions are at a temperature of less than 34° F. at the time of mixing. The resulting extrudable egg-based matrix comprises from 50 wt % to 90 wt % of the solid food inclusions, and is formed into a predetermined shape to provide a shaped, ready-to-cook or ready-to-eat egg product that is self-supporting for at least two minutes at an ambient temperature of 40° F. The shaped, ready-to-cook egg product may then be cooked. |
US12239146B2 |
Meat analogues and meat analogue extrusion devices and methods
A meat analogue may include a macrostructure of connected sheared fibers oriented parallel to one another and gaps positioned between the sheared fibers. The macrostructure may not include meat and may include a vegetable protein. An extrusion system may include an extruder and a die. The extrusion system may produce a meat analogue. A meat analogue may include a plant protein. The extruder may be connectable to the die. The extrusion system may be configured to direct a material including a vegetable protein from the extruder to the die and through a fluid path extending through the die. The die may be configured to inject a fat or a fat analogue into the material such that the fat or the fat analogue is embedded but visually distinct from the material including the vegetable protein when the fat or the fat analogue and the material exit the die. |
US12239144B2 |
Encapsulation
An encapsulated flavor, comprising a core material, flavor material and a coating material, the core material comprising a finely-divided native starch, xanthan gum and konjac, the combined weight proportion of the xanthan gum and konjac present in the encapsulated flavour being from about 4% to about 16%, and the relative weight proportions of xanthan gum to konjac being from about 20:80 to about 80:20. The encapsulated flavors may be completely gelatin-free, while retaining the desirable qualities of gelatin. |
US12239143B2 |
Center-filled confectionery product; coated product; and methods of making
Disclosed are coated center-filled hard confectionery products exhibiting enhanced flavor release profiles and a multisensorial effect. The center-filled hard confectionery product comprises a center-fill region comprising an effervescent composition, at least one hard confectionery shell region comprising a hard boiled candy, at least a coating region, wherein the hard confectionery shell region, and optionally the center-fill region, the coating region, or a combination thereof, comprises at least one flavorant. |
US12239136B2 |
Mixtures and compositions comprising Paenibacillus strains or fusaricidins and chemical pesticides
The present invention relates to novel mixtures comprising, as active components, at least one isolated bacterial strain, which is a member of the genus Paenibacillus, or a cell-free extract thereof or at least one metabolite thereof, and at least one chemical pesticide. The present invention also relates to compositions comprising at least one of such bacterial strains, whole culture broth or a cell-free extract or a fraction thereof or at least one metabolite thereof, and at least one chemical pesticide. The present invention also relates to a method of controlling or suppressing plant pathogens or preventing plant pathogen infections by applying such composition. The present invention also relates to mixtures of fusaricidins which are pesticidal metabolites produced by the abovementioned strains, and chemical pesticides. |
US12239135B2 |
Copper microbe stopper
An embodiment of the invention includes a handle-like mechanism configured to be continuously placed in contact with a plurality of different surfaces. A first copper material placed on an outside surface of the handle-like mechanism to be an intermediary surface between the handle-like mechanism and additional outside surfaces. A portion of the handle-like mechanism is not covered by the first copper material. A second copper material/adhesive is placed over the portion of the handle-like mechanism that is not covered by the first copper material to enable the handle-like mechanism to retain its intended function. |
US12239133B2 |
Herbicidal composition
At present, many herbicidal compositions have been developed and used, but there are many types of weeds to be controlled, and their development lasts for a long period of time. Accordingly, it has been desired to develop a herbicidal composition having a wider herbicidal spectrum, high activity and residual activity and thereby capable of controlling undesired plants for a long period of time.The present invention provides a herbicidal composition comprising as active ingredients (a) tolpyralate and (b) pyroxsulam. |
US12239131B2 |
Plant growth regulator concentrate and use thereof
The invention relates to a liquid concentrate comprising a plant growth regulator like prohexadione dissolved in an ionic liquid, the ionic liquid comprising an organic base and a strong acid. The ionic liquid may comprise an amine, amide, imine, imide or urea. The strong acid preferably is ethephon. |
US12239128B2 |
Methods and systems for spraying a pest control composition
An aerosol dispensing system includes a container having a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) composition disposed therein, and an overcap assembly having an actuator and an exit orifice, the overcap assembly being coupled to the container. The pest control composition is sprayed wherein the pest control composition is sprayed at a spray rate of between about 1.8 g/s and about 2.6 g/s and at a temperature of less than −20° C. at least 18 inches from an exit orifice of the dispensing system. |
US12239125B2 |
Compositions for organ preservation
The invention relates to the field of preserving the viability of organs or tissues to be transplanted into a recipient in need of such a transplantation. In particular, the invention relates to use of a sigma 1 receptor agonist compound in preservation solutions and preservation solutions comprising a sigma 1 receptor agonist compound. |
US12239124B2 |
Compositions for cryopreservation of a biological material
The present application discloses a liquid composition for cryopreservation of a biological material comprising a polar aprotic solvent, a monohydric or polyhydric alcohol, an unbranched polysaccharide, a branched polysaccharide; and polyvinyl alcohol. Further provided are uses of said liquid composition for cryopreservation of abiological material and methods for preserving a biological material using said liquid composition. |
US12239114B1 |
Lure with reflectors
A lure having a body with a line tie and one or more hooks attached to the body. The body includes pockets which are reflective such as by attaching a reflective material to the back wall of the pockets to make the lure more visible to a fish. Some prior art lures are not designed to reflect light or reflect light in one or a small number of directions. |
US12239113B2 |
Livestock management
Livestock may be managed by a variety of systems, processes, and techniques. In particular implementations, the properties of water may be monitored by automated techniques and treated water may be provided to animals. In certain implementations, sick, or potentially sick, livestock may be provided with treated water to improve their health. The automated techniques may include monitoring the movements and/or water consumption of the livestock and predicting which ones may be sick based on their movements and/or water consumption. In some implementations, a water trough may contain multiple segments. The water properties in the segments may be maintained at different states. |
US12239110B2 |
Skimmer for aquariums
A skimmer (1) for aquariums comprises a base (10) and a container (20) which is provided with at least two lateral connectors (21, 22) which comprise a main connector (22) and an auxiliary connector (21). The skimmer further comprises a cup (30), in which the foam is collected. The base comprises at least four openings, a first opening (11) and a second opening (12) opening inside the container (20) and being connected to a third opening (13) and a fourth opening (14), respectively, so that the skimmer can operate at least in two different configurations: a first single-pump configuration and a second double-pump configuration. |
US12239103B2 |
Pet toy
A device for containment and release of items therein, such as a device configured for engagement with one or more pets, such as dogs. The disclosure also relates to methods of using the device to release items for the entertainment and engagement of pet(s). In one embodiment, a device for containing and releasing items therein comprises: a body defining an inner chamber and at least one closable opening; and a pull element attached to the body, the pull element being configured to open the opening of the body when a pull force is exerted on the pull element. |
US12239098B2 |
Determining the location of an animal
Approaches for determining a location of an animal based on RSSI. An embodiment includes a method, comprising: receiving a first reading of an electronic animal identification tag attached to an animal from a first electronic tag reader; calculating a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) for the first reading; and determining a location of the animal based on the RSSI. Another embodiment includes a method, comprising: receiving a first reading of a first electronic animal identification tag attached to a first animal; calculating a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) for the first reading; receiving a second reading of a second 10 electronic animal identification tag attached to a second animal; calculating an RSSI for the second reading; and determining the location of the first animal based on the RSSI of the first reading and the RSSI of the second reading. |
US12239097B2 |
Cat tower assembly
A self-supporting structure for the play and relaxation of cats is disclosed. A first, second and third cylindrical tower define respectively a first, second and third length from a first, second and third bottom end opposite a first, second and third top end. A flat triangular base defines a bottom side opposite a top side. The flat triangular base is configured to be attachable at each of its triangular ends respectively to the first bottom end, the second bottom end and the third bottom end of the cylindrical towers. A second diameter and a third diameter of their respective cylindrical towers are each less than a first diameter of the first cylindrical tower. The second length added to the third length is less than the first length. The second and third cylindrical tower are configured to be disposed inside the first cylindrical tower during shipping. |
US12239095B2 |
Granule for detecting occult blood in pet urine and method for preparing the same
A granule for detecting occult blood in pet urine including 50-70 parts by weight of an adsorbent, 50-60 parts by weight of a filler, 3-5 parts by weight of an antibacterial agent, 5-10 parts by weight of a deodorant, 2-4 parts by weight of cumene hydroperoxide, and 2-4 parts by weight of an indicator. |
US12239091B2 |
Tomato plant designated ‘MX20-06’
The disclosure relates to the plants, plants parts, and plant cells of tomato variety designated ‘MX20-06’, methods for producing a tomato plant by crossing ‘MX20-06’ with itself or another tomato plant, plants derived from ‘MX20-06’, including single locus conversions of ‘MX20-06’ and allopolyploid plants produced from ‘MX20-06’, tomato fruit of ‘MX20-06’, methods of using ‘MX20-06’ as a rootstock or scion, and composite plants comprising ‘MX20-06’ as a rootstock or scion. |
US12239085B2 |
Soybean cultivar 10330716
A soybean cultivar designated 10330716 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 10330716, to the plants of soybean cultivar 10330716, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 10330716, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 10330716. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 10330716. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 10330716, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 10330716 with another soybean cultivar. |
US12239084B2 |
Soybean cultivar 15110716
A soybean cultivar designated 15110716 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 15110716, to the plants of soybean cultivar 15110716, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 15110716, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 15110716. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 15110716. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 15110716, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 15110716 with another soybean cultivar. |
US12239082B2 |
Soybean cultivar 16220644
A soybean cultivar designated 16220644 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 16220644, to the plants of soybean cultivar 16220644, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 16220644, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 16220644. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 16220644. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 16220644, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 16220644 with another soybean cultivar. |
US12239079B1 |
Soybean variety 5PCKH01
A novel soybean variety, designated 5PCKH01 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PCKH01, cells from soybean variety 5PCKH01, plants of soybean 5PCKH01, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PCKH01. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PCKH01 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PCKH01, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PCKH01, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PCKH01. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PCKH01 are further provided. |
US12239076B1 |
Maize inbred 1PGYL72
A novel maize variety designated 1PGYL72 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 1PGYL72 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 1PGYL72 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 1PGYL72 or a locus conversion of 1PGYL72 with another maize variety. |
US12239072B1 |
Maize inbred 1PERC07
A novel maize variety designated 1PERC07 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 1PERC07 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 1PERC07 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 1PERC07 or a locus conversion of 1PERC07 with another maize variety. |
US12239069B1 |
Maize inbred PH48FK
A novel maize variety designated PH48FK and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH48FK with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH48FK 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 PH48FK or a locus conversion of PH48FK with another maize variety. |
US12239068B1 |
Maize inbred 1PETD43
A novel maize variety designated 1PETD43 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 1PETD43 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 1PETD43 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 1PETD43 or a locus conversion of 1PETD43 with another maize variety. |
US12239067B2 |
Maize inbred 1PGGG27
A novel maize variety designated 1PGGG27 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 1PGGG27 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 1PGGG27 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 1PGGG27 or a locus conversion of 1PGGG27 with another maize variety. |
US12239064B2 |
Panel-modular layered wall system for shaping spatial structures
The panel-modular layered wall system for shaping spatial structures is characterised by the fact that: the arrangement of horizontal layers configured by means of joined sideways panels of various shapes, filled with the substrate, whose surfaces are planted with plants according to the principle of bipolarity, preferably using transparent or opaque panels, which are mounted on cantilevers with a variable supporting angle, always forms the horizontal arrangement of panels, placed a maximum of three (when with plants and more when without) on the flat or bent frame of the module in the shape of a rhombus, a rectangle and a trapezium made of a closed profile with a rectangular cross-section, where the frames of modules joined together along the perimeter by means of couplers form the vertical load-bearing frame, sloping load-bearing frame, arched-barrel load-bearing frame, spherical load-bearing frame, cylindrical load-bearing frame and sloping cylindrical load-bearing frame, which, together with the use of silos filled with the substrate, joining individual panels and layers, forms self-supporting layered wall structures in six variants, which can be configured with each other. |
US12239062B1 |
Planter container
The planter container may be a plurality of interconnecting planter sections comprising a base pot, a double-sided lid, a planter pot, a watering tray, a domed lid, and a pinch grip container. The plurality of interconnecting planter sections may be operable to form an enclosure for a plant. The planter container may be configured to protect the plant as the plant grows from a seed or transplanted seedling through the entire life of the plant. The planter container may be home for the plant from beginning to end—for the life of the plant. The plurality of interconnecting planter sections may provide water to the plant, may support the plant, may permit light to reach the plant, and may be extensible to accommodate growth of the plant. The planter container may further comprise a universal coupling lid for coupling recycled plastic containers. |
US12239061B2 |
System and a method to monitor moving parts in machines
Disclosed is a system for monitoring parts in a machine is provided. The system includes a base unit, and an electronic circuitry. The base unit includes a generator for generating controllable frequency, an impedance unit to resonate impedance with a matching frequency, a controller for modulating the impedance with commands, a first electrode to emit an alternating electric field, a mixer, and a communication unit for communicating the data and commands over a communication network. Further, the controller decodes changes in the impedance. The electronic circuitry includes a coupling electrode, a harvester for converting the alternating electric field into a DC energy, an analyzer to analyze the change in impedance of the provided alternating electric field caused by the parts of the machine, further the analyzer outputs the analyzing results as data, a modulator for modulating the alternating electric field with the data, wherein the modulated data is forked out by the mixer and processed by the controller, a floating electrode coupling to ground potential. |
US12239058B1 |
Irrigation device and kit
An irrigation device and kit are provided comprising a water collection means having at least one inlet, a body having at least one outlet, an adapter to secure the body to the water collection means, and a gasket comprising a filter. The water collection means extends above the soil's surface and has a cap, the at least one inlet, and a collector. The body has a first and second end separated by a sidewall to define a reservoir in communication with the water collection means, any of which may extend below the soil surface. Water collected above the soil's surface may be transported from the water collection means through the filter to the reservoir and distributed through the at least one outlet disposed on the sidewall to the root system. |
US12239055B2 |
Autonomous ground surface treatment systems, vehicles, and methods
A ground surface treatment vehicle and systems and methods using the same. In some embodiments, the vehicle may be adapted to autonomously or semi-autonomously identify and optionally treat target areas such as divots on turf surfaces. The vehicle may identify the target area via onboard or remote sensors and autonomously treat the target area by providing a treating material such as infill, seed, particulate matter, and liquids. |
US12239053B2 |
System for moderating energy absorption at the earth's surface with a programmable forcing network of climate control panels
A dynamic controllable system for moderating energy absorption at the earth's surface includes a series of panel units mounted above the earth's surface over land and water masses or on buildings. Each panel unit supports rotatable shafts, with panels joined to or integrally formed with the shafts. Each panel (forcing) has a radiation reflective surface and a radiation emissive surface opposite the radiation reflective surface. The panels are selectively rotated into a predetermined one cardinal positions: reflective, emissive and neutral, or into an intermediate position between cardinal positions. The programmable controller receives various data including top of atmosphere satellite data, air temperature and relative humidity at panel units, weather data, time of day, position of panel units, radiation insolation, and combinations thereof. Responsive to real-time data, both local and regional, the programmable controller directs rotational orientation of panels, causing a desired reflection of shortwave and longwave radiation away from the earth's surface. |
US12239049B2 |
Header with flexible cutter bar assembly
A header for harvesting agricultural crops includes a cutter bar assembly coupled to a header frame, the cutter bar assembly flexible upwardly and downwardly relative to the header frame between opposite ends thereof for contouring to the field. The cutter bar assembly includes a guard bar extending across a front portion of the header frame between the opposite ends thereof, the guard bar split into at least a first lateral section and a second lateral section operatively coupled at a guard bar joint. A protruding element extending from the first lateral section is received by a receiving element on the second lateral section at the guard bar joint to horizontally align the first and second lateral sections of the guard bar between the opposite ends of the header frame while allowing relative lateral movement therebetween during upward and downward flexing of the cutter bar assembly. |
US12239047B2 |
Machine operational state and material movement tracking
An apparatus, a system and a method indirectly detect the operational state of a machine among a plurality of operational states and track the movement of a material through a plurality of machines. |
US12239040B2 |
Methods of using drift reduction adjuvant compositions
A method to reduce bag rupture in a spray dispensed from a nozzle involves detecting one or more bags rupturing from an initial spray pattern of the spray dispensed from the nozzle, the one or more bags comprising a thin membraned semi-spherical protrusion extending from the spray, where the initial spray pattern is a region of the spray initially exiting the nozzle that forms a continuous sheet-like portion. The spray includes an agricultural spray including water, at least one polymer, and at least one perforation-aid type adjuvant. The agricultural spray exhibits fewer fine droplets exhibiting a diameter less than about 150 μm formed via the bag rupture approach to droplet formation. |
US12239039B2 |
Efficient transplanting device with automatic pick-up and supplementation function
An efficient transplanting device with an automatic seedling pick-up and supplementation function includes a seedling pick-up device, a seedling discharging device, and a seedling supplementation device. The seedling discharging device is used to discharge plug seedlings for transplantation; the seedling pick-up device is used to transfer the plug seedlings and the seedling supplementation device is used to supplement the plug seeding. A seedling pick-up photoelectric sensor, a detection camera, and a controller are provided for the operations of plug seedling pick-up, supplementation and discharge of the plug seedlings. |
US12239038B2 |
Apparatus and methods for measuring soil conditions
An apparatus for measuring a soil condition includes a shank configured to engage with a drawbar, an array of movable pads carried by the shank, and a plurality of sensors. Each of the movable pads are spaced at different distances from a point at which the shank is configured to engage the drawbar. Each sensor is coupled to at least one movable pad of the array of movable pads and configured to measure deflection of the at least one movable pad relative to the shank as the shank is dragged through soil by the drawbar. A method of measuring a property of soil includes dragging the shank through soil and measuring deflection of the movable pads relative to the shank as the shank is dragged through soil. |
US12245528B2 |
Memory device with composite spacer
A memory device includes a first metal structure, a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure, a second metal structure, a first spacer, and a second spacer. The MTJ structure is over the first metal structure. The second metal structure is over the MTJ structure. The first spacer is over a first sidewall of the second metal structure. The second spacer is over a second sidewall of the second metal structure. The second spacer has a top surface higher than a top surface of the first spacer. |
US12245527B2 |
Non-stoichiometric resistive switching memory device and fabrication methods
Providing for a resistive switching memory device is described herein. By way of example, the resistive switching memory device can comprise a bottom electrode, a conductive layer, a resistive switching layer, and a top electrode. Further, two or more layers can be selected to mitigate mechanical stress on the device. In various embodiments, the resistive switching layer and conductive layer can be formed of compatible metal nitride or metal oxide materials having different nitride/oxide concentrations and different electrical resistances. Further, similar materials can mitigate mechanical stress on the resistive switching layer and a conductive filament of the resistive switching memory device. |
US12245524B2 |
Superconducting switch
An example electric circuit includes a superconductor component having a first terminal at a first end and a second terminal at a second end. The superconductor component includes a first portion coupled to the first terminal, a second portion coupled to the second terminal, and a third portion coupling the first portion and the second portion. The third portion has a curved shape such that the first portion of the superconductor component is proximate to, and thermally coupled to, the second portion of the superconductor component. The example electric circuit further includes a coupling component coupled to the third portion of the superconductor component, and a gate component configured to generate a resistive heat that exceeds a superconducting threshold temperature of the superconductor component, where the gate component is separated from the superconductor component by the coupling component. |
US12245522B2 |
Coherent quantum information systems
An apparatus includes a first superconductor layer, an insulating layer, and a second superconductor layer, wherein the second superconductor layer is a spin triplet superconductor (STS) layer. In some embodiments, the first superconductor layer is also a STS layer. In some embodiments, the second superconductor layer includes UCoGe. In some embodiments, the insulating layer includes uranium oxide. In some embodiments, the uranium oxide is created by exposing the second superconductor layer to an oxidizing gas, with or without heating. In some embodiments, the first superconductor layer, the insulating layer and the second superconductor layer form a Josephson junction. |
US12245514B2 |
Vibration device and electronic apparatus
A vibration device includes a vibration plate, a piezoelectric element, and a wiring member. The vibration plate has conductivity. The piezoelectric element is disposed on the vibration plate. The wiring member is disposed to oppose the vibration plate via the piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric element body, a first external electrode, and a second external electrode. The piezoelectric element body has a first main surface and a second main surface facing away from each other in an opposing direction of the vibration plate and the wiring member. The first external electrode is disposed on the first main surface and electrically connected to the vibration plate. The second external electrode is disposed on the second main surface and electrically connected to the wiring member. The vibration plate includes a first projection projecting toward the wiring member and electrically connected to the wiring member. |
US12245512B2 |
Low-voltage soft actuator capable of linear motion in air
The present invention relates to an actuator including: a first ionic polymer layer disposed on underside of a first electrode layer; a second ionic polymer layer disposed on top of a second electrode layer; and a porous conducting interlayer disposed between the first ionic polymer layer and the second ionic polymer layer. |
US12245510B2 |
Piezoelectric compositions and uses thereof
Piezoelectric composites are described. A piezoelectric composite can include a polymeric matrix, piezoelectric additive(s), and polyol. Methods of making and using the piezoelectric composite are also described. |
US12245509B2 |
Method for manufacturing vibration device
A method for manufacturing a vibration device includes preparing a base wafer including a plurality of fragmentation regions, placing vibration elements at a first surface of the base wafer, producing a device wafer in which a housing that accommodates each of the vibration elements is formed in each of the fragmentation regions by bonding a lid wafer to the base wafer, forming a first groove, which starts from the lid wafer and reaches a level shifted from the portion where the base wafer and the lid wafer are bonded to each other toward a second surface of the base wafer, along the boundary between adjacent fragmentation regions of the device wafer, placing a resin material in the first groove, and forming a second groove, which passes through the device wafer, along the boundary to fragment the device wafer. |
US12245505B2 |
Compound for organic electronic element, organic electronic element using the same, and an electronic device thereof
Provided are a compound for use in an organic electronic element that improves luminous efficiency, stability, and lifespan of the element, a composition comprising the compound, an organic electronic element employing the compound, and an electronic device thereof. |
US12245504B2 |
Organic electroluminescent materials and devices
Provided are novel organic compounds having a structure of Formula I: Also provided are formulations having these organic compounds. Further provided are OLEDs and related consumer products that utilize these organic compounds. |
US12245503B2 |
Heterocyclic compound, light-emitting device including the same, and electronic apparatus including the light-emitting device
Provided are a heterocyclic compound represented by Formula 1, a light emitting device including the same, and an apparatus including the light-emitting device. The light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; an interlayer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer; and at least one of the heterocyclic compound represented by Formula 1. |
US12245491B2 |
Display panel and a display apparatus including the same
A display panel includes: a substrate comprising a display area and a corner area, the corner area located outside the display area and having curved sides or polygonal sides; a plurality of pixels in the display area in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction; a driving portion in the corner area and comprising a plurality of normal stages and a plurality of dummy stages between the plurality of normal stages, the plurality of normal stages being configured to output electrical signals to the plurality of pixels; and an alignment mark in the corner area, wherein the corner area includes a notch area that is defined based on the alignment mark, and some of the plurality of dummy stages are in the notch area. |
US12245488B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device includes a display panel including a bending portion, a first non-bending portion, and a second non-bending portion spaced from the first non-bending portion with the bending portion therebetween in a first direction, an input sensing part on the first non-bending portion, and including a sensing electrode, a signal line on the second non-bending portion, electrically connected to the sensing electrode, and including a first portion extending substantially parallel to the first direction, and a second portion extending in a second direction that is different from the first direction, and located between the sensing electrode and the first portion, an electronic part on the second non-bending portion, and not overlapping the signal line, and a reinforcing member on the second non-bending portion, at least partially surrounding the electronic part, and overlapping the first portion while not overlapping the second portion in a plan view. |
US12245486B2 |
Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus
An electro-optical device is provided and includes a first light-emitting element configured to emit light in a first wavelength region, a second light-emitting element configured to emit light in a second wavelength region shorter than the first wavelength region, a third light-emitting element configured to emit light in a third wavelength region shorter than the second wavelength region, a first filter configured to transmit light in the first wavelength region and light in the second wavelength region and absorb light in the third wavelength region, and a second filter configured to transmit light in the first wavelength region and light in the third wavelength region and absorb light in the second wavelength region. |
US12245485B2 |
Display apparatus including light-emitting device and light-receiving device
A high-resolution display apparatus having a function of sensing light is provided. The display apparatus includes a display portion in which a first arrangement pattern and a second arrangement pattern are repeatedly arranged in this order in a first direction. In the first arrangement pattern, a first subpixel, a second subpixel, and a third subpixel are repeatedly arranged in this order in a second direction. In the second arrangement pattern, a fourth subpixel and a fifth subpixel are repeatedly arranged in this order in the second direction. The first to fourth subpixels each include a light-emitting device. The fifth subpixel includes a light-receiving device. |
US12245484B2 |
Display module and display device
Display module and display device are provided. The display module includes a display panel, first dimming areas and a second dimming areas. The display panel includes a display array including a plurality of sub-pixels with pixel gaps between adjacent sub-pixels. Both a first dimming area and a second dimming area include at least one of the plurality of sub-pixels. The first dimming area includes a first dimming layer with a refractive index of n1, a second dimming layer with a refractive index of n2. A contact interface between the first dimming layer and the second dimming layer includes a first dimming structure. The second dimming area includes a third dimming layer with a refractive index of n3, and a fourth dimming layer with a refractive index of n4. A contact interface between the third dimming layer and the fourth dimming layer includes a second dimming structure. |
US12245482B2 |
Display device
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a display device includes a display panel divided into a display area, a non-display area, a bending area, and a pad area and bent in one direction in the bending area; a plurality of pixels disposed in the display area; at least one gate driver disposed in the non-display area and configured to supply a gate voltage to the plurality of pixels; flexible films connected to a plurality of pads disposed in the pad area; and at least one electrostatic discharge (ESD) circuit disposed in the pad area and connected to the at least one gate driver through a discharge line. |
US12245480B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device has a peripheral region and includes a substrate, a first metal layer, and a protrusion structure. The first metal layer is disposed on the substrate and comprises a first portion and a second portion. The protrusion structure is disposed on the substrate and in the peripheral region. The first portion is not overlapped with the protrusion structure, the second portion is overlapped with the protrusion structure, and an end of the second portion is located in the protrusion structure and higher than the first portion in a normal direction of the substrate. |
US12245475B2 |
Display device and manufacturing method thereof
A display device includes: a substrate; a transistor disposed on the substrate; a first electrode connected to the transistor; an emission layer disposed on the first electrode; a second electrode disposed on the emission layer; a common voltage line connected to the second electrode; and a third electrode and a fourth electrode disposed between the common voltage line and the second electrode. |
US12245469B2 |
Display device having improved light emission efficiency
A display device includes a first substrate on which a thin film transistor is disposed, a planarization layer disposed on the first substrate, where the planarization layer includes a plurality of protrusions, a first electrode disposed on the planarization layer, a pixel defining layer disposed on the first electrode, where the pixel defining layer includes a plurality of insulating patterns corresponding to the protrusions, a light emitting layer disposed on the first electrode and the pixel defining layer, and a second electrode disposed on the light emitting layer. |
US12245464B2 |
Display panel and display apparatus including the same
A display panel includes: a substrate including a main display area, a component area, and a peripheral area; a main sub-pixel at the main display area on the substrate; a main pixel circuit connected to the main sub-pixel, and including a main storage capacitor; an auxiliary sub-pixel at the component area on the substrate; an auxiliary pixel circuit at the peripheral area on the substrate, and including an auxiliary storage capacitor; and a connecting line connecting the auxiliary sub-pixel to the auxiliary pixel circuit. A capacity of the auxiliary storage capacitor is greater than a capacity of the main storage capacitor. |
US12245462B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: a substrate including an opening area, a display area, and a non-display area arranged between the opening area and the display area; a first thin-film transistor arranged on the substrate and including a first semiconductor layer including a silicon semiconductor; a first insulating layer covering the first semiconductor layer and defining a lower contact hole overlapping the non-display area, a second thin-film transistor arranged on the first insulating layer and including a second semiconductor layer including an oxide semiconductor; a second insulating layer covering the second semiconductor layer and defining an upper contact hole overlapping the lower contact hole; a display element overlapping the display area, a lower conductive layer overlapping the lower contact hole; and an upper conductive layer arranged on the second insulating layer and connected to the lower conductive layer through the lower contact hole and the upper contact hole. |
US12245460B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes a substrate including a component area including a first auxiliary display area and a transmission area and a main display area, a first main pixel circuit disposed in the main display area, a first main conductive line disposed in the main display area and electrically connected to the first main pixel circuit, a first auxiliary pixel circuit disposed in the first auxiliary display area, a first auxiliary conductive line disposed in the first auxiliary display area and electrically connected to the first auxiliary pixel circuit, and a first connection line disposed in the component area, at least partially overlapping the transmission area, and electrically connecting the first main conductive line to the first auxiliary conductive line. |
US12245459B2 |
Light-emitting device including a light-emitting diode and a protective diode and display device
This light-emitting device includes: a light-emitting diode including a light-emitting layer of quantum dots or an organic light-emitting material; and a protection diode located adjacent to, and connected in parallel with, the light-emitting diode, wherein the protection diode is operated in reverse bias to protect the light-emitting diode. |
US12245457B2 |
Display device layer aligned with display panel and display device having the same
A display device includes a window; a display panel including: a flat portion corresponding to the display area, and a bending portion extending from the flat portion and at which the display panel is bendable; a circuit substrate connected to the display panel at the bending portion; and a protection film disposed facing the window with the display panel therebetween. The window and the display panel each include a first side surface corresponding to the bending portion, and remaining side surfaces except for the first side surface, and the remaining side surfaces of the window and the display panel are respectively aligned with each other to define a total planar area of the window being equal to a total planar area of the flat portion. |
US12245453B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area, a light emitting structure disposed on the substrate in the display area, a thin film encapsulation layer disposed on the light emitting structure, an optical structure including a first refractive pattern and a second refractive pattern, and a partition wall disposed on the substrate in the non-display area and surrounding the second refractive pattern. The first refractive pattern is disposed on the thin film encapsulation layer, and overlaps the light emitting structure. The second refractive pattern covers the first refractive pattern, has a refractive index smaller than a refractive index of the first refractive pattern, and includes an organic material. |
US12245450B2 |
Electrode, method of manufacturing the same, light-emitting device and display device
An electrode, a method of manufacturing the same, a light-emitting device, and a display device are provided, the electrode includes: a reflective layer; and two double-layer adjusting units stacked on the reflective layer, each including an insulating layer and a conductive layer sequentially arranged and directly contacted in a direction away from the reflective layer. For at least one unit, a via hole is provided in the insulating layer, an electrode lead formed integrally with the conductive layer is provided in the via hole, and electrically connected to the reflective layer through the electrode lead. In each unit, a difference between a thickness of the conductive layer and a thickness of the insulating layer does not exceed a set threshold configured to control the thickness of the insulating layer. The conductive layer farthest from the reflective layer locates on different levels in light-emitting regions of different types of light-emitting devices. |
US12245447B2 |
Transistor substrate and manufacturing method
According to one embodiment, a transistor substrate includes a substrate, a light source and a sensor element. The light source is mounted on the substrate. The sensor element is mounted on the substrate. The sensor element includes a pixel electrode, a switching element, a common electrode and an organic photo detector layer. The switching element is electrically connected to the pixel electrode. The common electrode is opposed to the pixel electrode. The organic photo detector layer is provided between the pixel electrode and the common electrode. The light source is provided in a same layer as the organic photo detector layer. |
US12245445B2 |
White light source including LED and phosphors
According to one embodiment, a white light source includes a combination of a light emitting diode and phosphors. One of the phosphors is at least a cerium activated yttrium aluminum garnet-based phosphor. There is no light emission spectrum peak at which a ratio of a largest maximum value to a minimum value is greater than 1.9. The largest maximum value is largest among at least one maximum value present in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 500 nm in a light emission spectrum of white light emitted from the white light source. The minimum value is adjacent to the largest maximum value in a longer wavelength side of the light emission spectrum. |
US12245444B2 |
Upright photovoltaic cell with front contacts
A method for fabricating an upright photovoltaic cell comprises growing one or more epitaxial layers on a substrate, thereby forming a diffused active junction on the substrate and one more additional active junctions above the diffused active junction. The method further comprises selectively etching an areal region of the one or more epitaxial layers, thereby forming a mesa on the substrate and exposing a substrate-contact region parallel to the areal region at a base of the mesa. The method further comprises depositing contact material onto the substrate-contact region, to form the first contact, and concertedly onto a mesa-contact region of the mesa, to form the second contact. |
US12245440B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor includes an active pattern with a lower pattern and sheet patterns spaced apart from the lower pattern in a first direction, a source/drain pattern on the lower pattern, the source/drain pattern being in contact with the sheet patterns, and gate structures on opposite sides of the source/drain pattern, the gate structures being spaced apart from each other along a second direction and including gate electrodes that surround the sheet patterns, wherein the source/drain pattern includes a first epitaxial region having at least one of antimony and bismuth, the first epitaxial region having a bottom part in contact with the lower pattern, but not with the sheet patterns, and a thickness of the bottom part increasing and decreasing away from the gate structures in the second direction, and a second epitaxial region on the first epitaxial region, the second epitaxial region including phosphorus. |
US12245438B2 |
Dense piers for three-dimensional memory arrays
Methods, systems, and devices for dense piers for three-dimensional memory arrays are described. In some examples, a memory device may include pier structures formed in contact with features formed from alternating layers of materials deposited over a substrate. For example, a memory device may include alternating layers of a first material and a second material. In some examples, the alternating layers may be formed into a pair of interleaved comb structures. Pier structures may be formed in contact with the cross sectional patterns, and may provide mechanical support of cross-sectional pattern of the remaining material. In some examples, the piers may further act as a separator between memory cells or other features of the memory device. For example, the piers may extend into at least a portion of the interleaved comb structures, and may accordingly act as barriers during subsequent depositions of materials. |
US12245434B2 |
Method of making a three-dimensional memory device using composite hard masks for formation of deep via openings
A method includes forming an alternating stack of first and second layers, forming a composite hard mask layer over the alternating stack, forming openings in the hard mask, and forming via openings through the alternating stack by performing an anisotropic etch process that transfers a pattern of the openings in the composite hard mask layer through the alternating stack. The compositing hard mask includes a first cladding material layer which has higher etch resistance than upper and lower patterning films of the composite hard mask. |
US12245431B2 |
Vertical memory structure with air gaps and method for preparing the same
The present disclosure provides a vertical memory structure including a semiconductor stack, a contact plug, gate electrodes and air gap structures. The semiconductor stack includes a lower semiconductor pattern structure filling a recess on a substrate and protruding from an upper surface of the substrate in a first direction substantially perpendicular to the upper surface of the substrate. The contact plug is disposed over the lower semiconductor patterns structure. The contact plug includes a lower portion and a middle portion over the lower portion. A width of the middle portion is less than a width of the lower portion. The gate electrodes are surrounding a sidewall of the semiconductor stack. The air gap structures are disposed at outer sides of the plurality of gate electrode respectively. |
US12245426B2 |
Staircase formation in a memory array
Methods, systems, and devices for staircase formation in a memory array are described. A first liner material may be deposited on a tread above a first contact surface and a portion of the first liner material may be doped. A second liner material may be deposited over the first liner and a portion of the second liner material may be doped. After doping the portions of the liner materials, the undoped portions of the liner materials may be removed so that the materials above a second contact surface can be at least partially removed via a first removal process. The doped portion of the first liner material may then be cut back so that a second removal process can expose the second contact surface and a third contact (while the first contact surface is protected from the removal process by the liner materials). |
US12245425B2 |
Three dimensional memory device containing resonant tunneling barrier and high mobility channel and method of making thereof
A three-dimensional memory device containing a plurality of levels of memory elements includes a memory film containing a layer stack that includes a resonant tunneling barrier stack, a semiconductor barrier layer, and a memory material layer located between the resonant tunneling barrier stack and the semiconductor barrier layer, a semiconductor channel, and a control gate electrode. |
US12245424B2 |
One-time programmable memory capacitor structure and manufacturing method thereof
An OTP memory capacitor structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a bottom electrode, a capacitor insulating layer and a metal electrode stack structure. The bottom electrode is provided on the semiconductor substrate. The capacitor insulating layer is provided on the bottom electrode. The metal electrode stack structure includes a metal layer, an insulating sacrificial layer and a capping layer stacked in sequence. The metal layer is provided on the capacitor insulating layer and is used as a top electrode. The insulating sacrificial layer is provided between the metal layer and the capping layer. A manufacturing method of the OTP memory capacitor structure is also provided. By the provision of the insulating sacrificial layer, the bottom electrode formed first can be prevented from being damaged by subsequent etching and other processes, so that the OTP memory capacitor structure has better electrical characteristics. |
US12245423B2 |
Semiconductor device with conductive cap layer over conductive plug and method for preparinging the same
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate, word lines, mask layers, spacers, a conductive plug, a conductive cap layer, and a dielectric layer. The word lines are disposed over the semiconductor substrate. The mask layers are disposed over the plurality of word line, respectively. The spacers are disposed over opposite sidewalls of the word lines and opposite sidewalls of the mask layers, respectively. The conductive plug is disposed between the word lines. The conductive cap layer is disposed over the conductive plug. The dielectric layer is disposed over the word lines and the spacers. Each of the spacers includes an inner spacer, an outer spacer, and an air gap. The inner spacer is in contact with the respective word line and the respective mask layer. The air gap is disposed between the inner spacer and the outer spacer. |
US12245422B2 |
Semiconductor device and a method making the same
Embodiments of the present application provide a semiconductor structure and a method for manufacturing the same. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate, with word lines arranged at intervals in the substrate, and trenches between adjacent word lines; a bit line contact layer, wherein the bottom surface of the bit line contact layer is in contact with the bottom surface of the trench, and the bit line contact layer has a non-planar contact portion in the direction away from the bottom surface of the trench; the conductive layer is in contact with the non-planar contact portion of the bit line contact layer. The embodiments of the present application are beneficial in reducing the resistance of the bit line itself including the bit line contact layer and the conductive layer, thereby helping to improve the electrical performance of the semiconductor structure. |
US12245421B2 |
Semiconductor device with bit line contacts of different pitches
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate defining a plurality of trenches; and a plurality of bit line contacts disposed on the substrate, wherein at least one of the plurality of bit line contacts is disposed within one of the trenches defined by the substrate, wherein the plurality of trenches has a first row and a second row, and a pitch of the first row is different from a pitch of the second row. |
US12245420B2 |
Method for forming semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device and a method of forming the same include a substrate, bit lines, contacts, a dielectric layer, storage node pads and a capacitor structure. The bit lines are disposed on the substrate and include a plurality of first bit lines and at least one second bit line. The contacts are disposed on the substrate and alternately and separately disposed with the bit lines. The dielectric layer is disposed over the contacts and bit lines. The storage node pads are disposed in the dielectric layer and respectively contact the contacts. The capacitor structure is disposed on the storage node pads and includes a plurality of first capacitors and at least one second capacitor located above at least one second bit line. Therefore, the semiconductor memory device can achieve more optimized device performance. |
US12245415B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor device having protrusion of word line
The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a substrate; forming a conductive layer on the substrate; patterning the conductive layer to form a first metallization layer and a second metallization layer extending along a first direction, wherein the first metallization layer has a first protruding portion protruding toward the second metallization layer; and forming a first channel layer within the first metallization layer and a second channel layer within the second metallization layer. |
US12245413B2 |
Three-dimensional semiconductor structures
Methods, devices, systems, and apparatus for three-dimensional semiconductor structures are provided. In one aspect, a semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate, multiple conductive layers vertically stacked on the semiconductor substrate, and multiple transistors. The multiple conductive layers include a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a third conductive layer that are sequentially stacked together. The multiple transistors include a first transistor and a second transistor in the first conductive layer and a third transistor in the third conductive layer. Each transistor includes a first terminal, a second terminal, and a gate terminal. First terminals of the first, second, and third transistors are conductively coupled to a first conductive node in the second conductive layer. |
US12245406B2 |
Tank for heat dissipation and a cooling system including the same
A cooling system (100), comprising: multiple cooling tanks (101), each of the cooling tanks (101) being configured to accommodate a liquid coolant; a set of connection pipes (106) configured to fluidly connect the multiple cooling tanks (101); a set of inlet pipes (102) fluidly connected to the multiple cooling tanks (101) to supply the liquid coolant into the multiple cooling tanks (101); a set of outlet pipes (103) fluidly connected to the multiple cooling tanks (101) to release the liquid coolant carrying the heat absorbed from the computing devices (520) out of the multiple cooling tanks (101); a heat exchanger (104) that fluidly connects to each of the set of inlet pipes (102) and each of the set of outlet pipes (103); and a coolant pump (105) that fluidly connects to each of the set of outlet pipes (103). |
US12245405B2 |
Fastening systems for manifolds of datacenter racks
A system comprising an adapter plate to couple a plurality of different types of cooling manifolds to one or more racks in a datacenter is disclosed. Additionally, a system comprising an adapter plate to adaptively couple a cooling manifold to a plurality of different types of server racks is disclosed. |
US12245404B2 |
Using the casing of a cooling coil as the only casing of an air handler of a data center
An air handler for cooling a data center has an outer side formed by a tube support sheet. The tube support sheet has a plurality of holes. A plurality of tubes of a cooling coil are aligned with the plurality of holes and are orthogonal to the tube support sheet. The air handler has a fan plate with a fan hole. A fan motor is mounted to the fan plate adjacent to the fan hole. The tube support sheet is attached to a top sheet and the fan plate and is perpendicular to both the top sheet and the fan plate. The plurality of tubes pass through a plurality of fin sheets that are oriented parallel to the tube support sheet. The fan motor powers a fan that is adapted to draw air from the hot aisle of the data center over the plurality of tubes of the cooling coil. |
US12245401B2 |
Disconnects
A non-circular disconnect, comprising: a male body to insert into a non-circular female disconnect; a male poppet, wherein: when the non-circular disconnect is not inserted into the non-circular female disconnect, the male poppet is held in place, via spring force, at an opening of the non-circular male body to create a seal to prevent leakage; and when the non-circular disconnect is inserted into the non-circular female disconnect, the male poppet is pushed inwards, to allow for liquid to flow through the non-circular disconnect, by a plunger in the non-circular female disconnect. |
US12245395B2 |
Techniques for small form factor device cooling
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed for techniques for small form factor device cooling. An apparatus includes a housing unit, a fan located within the housing unit, a plurality of inlets on the housing unit for directing air to the fan, and a plurality of exhaust ports on the housing unit for directing air away from the fan in multiple different directions. |
US12245392B2 |
Cover laminated with multilayer film, electronic device including the same, and method for manufacturing multilayer film
Disclosed is an electronic device including a cover defining a portion of an external appearance of the electronic device, a film layer attached to a first surface of the cover, at least one UV molding pattern layer disposed on the film layer, wherein the at least one UV molding pattern layer includes a first area, and a second area that is different from the first area, a thermally cured printing layer disposed on the first area of the at least one UV molding pattern layer, and a deposition layer including a first part disposed to overlap the first area of the at least one UV molding pattern layer, and a second part disposed in the second area of the at least one UV molding pattern layer. |
US12245390B1 |
Double-layer rack
A double-layer rack includes a PCIe card frame, a network card frame, a PCIe riser card and a network card connector assembly. The PCIe card frame is stacked on the network card frame. The network card frame has a network card accommodation space for selectively receiving one OCP network card, two OCP network cards or one data processing unit. The PCIe riser card is disposed in the PCIe accommodation space. The network card connector assembly is disposed in the network card accommodation space. The double-layer rack further includes a blocker component and a divider plate selectively and removably disposed on the network card frame, so that the network card accommodation space forms various accommodation space configurations for selectively receiving the one OCP network card, the two OCP network cards or the one data processing unit. |
US12245388B2 |
Power module
The present embodiment relates to a power module comprising: a power module frame including side plates and a lower plate; a bracket having bracket hooks coupled to the side plates; a light-emitting device coupled to the bracket; and a lever arranged on the lower plate, wherein the side plates include a bracket groove, to which the bracket hook is coupled, and a lever groove through which a part of the lever passes, the lever includes a first plate having a lever hook inserted in the lever groove, a second plate connected perpendicularly to the first plate, and a handle connected to the second plate. |
US12245385B2 |
Rollable electronic device
An electronic device according to various embodiments of the disclosure may include a first housing, a second housing, a flexible display, a bendable member, and a bending plate. The second housing may slide in a first housing to cause at least a part of the second housing to be drawn out of the first housing in an open state, and may slide in a second direction to cause the at least a part of the second housing to enter the first housing in a closed state. The flexible display may be disposed in a space formed by the first housing and the second housing, and may include a first area visible to an outside, and a second area extending from the first area, accommodated inside the flexible display in a closed state, and visible to the outside in an open state. The bendable member may be disposed on a rear side of the flexible display to support the flexible display in the closed state and in the open state, and may include a plurality of multi-bars disposed at predetermined intervals. The bending plate may be attached to the flexible display and the plurality of multi-bars. |
US12245384B2 |
Signal transmission circuit and electronic control device
A signal transmission circuit includes: a circuit board stored in a housing; a connector which is mounted on the circuit board and includes a first signal terminal and a first ground terminal; and an integrated circuit which is mounted on the circuit board and includes a second signal terminal and a second ground terminal. The first signal terminal and the second signal terminal are connected to each other by a signal wiring arranged on the circuit board. The first around terminal and the second ground terminal are connected to each other by a ground wiring arranged in a predetermined range including a portion immediately above or immediately below the signal wiring in the circuit board. At least a part of the ground wiring immediately above or immediately below the signal wiring has a high impedance structure formed to be wider than the signal wiring and narrower than a combined width of the first signal terminal and the first ground terminal. |
US12245383B2 |
Method of preparing a high density interconnect printed circuit board including microvias filled with copper
The present invention refers to a method of preparing a high density interconnect printed circuit board (HDI PCB) or IC substrates including through-holes and/or grate structures filled with copper, which comprises the steps of: a) providing a multi-layer substrate; b) forming a non-copper conductive layer or a copper layer on the cover layer and on an inner surface of the through-hole, respectively on an inner surface of the grate structure; c) forming a patterned masking film; d) electrodepositing copper; e) removing the masking film; and f) electrodepositing a copper filling. |
US12245379B2 |
Thermocompression bonding using metastable gas atoms
Methods and systems for low-force, low-temperature thermocompression bonding. The present application teaches new methods and structures for three-dimensional integrated circuits, in which cold thermocompression bonding is used to provide reliable bonding. To achieve this, reduction and passivation steps are preferably both used to reduce native oxide on the contact metals and to prevent reformation of native oxide, preferably using atmospheric plasma treatments. Preferably the physical compression height of the elements is set to be only enough to reliably achieve at least some compression of each bonding element pair, compensating for any lack of flatness. Preferably the thermocompression bonding is performed well below the melting point. This not only avoids the deformation of lower levels which is induced by reflow techniques, but also provides a steep relation of force versus z-axis travel, so that a drastically-increasing resistance to compression helps to regulate the degree of thermocompression. |
US12245377B2 |
Component carrier with embedded semiconductor component and embedded highly-conductive block which are mutually coupled
A component carrier includes a stack having at least one horizontal electrically conductive layer structure, at least one electrically insulating layer structure, a semiconductor component embedded in the stack, and at least one vertical via being laterally offset from the semiconductor component. The at least one horizontal electrically conductive layer structure electrically connects the vertical via to a bottom main surface of the semiconductor component. The component carrier is configured for a current flow from the vertical via to the horizontal electrically conductive layer structure, from the horizontal electrically conductive layer structure to the bottom main surface of the semiconductor component, from the bottom main surface of the semiconductor component to an upper main surface of the semiconductor component, and from the upper surface of the semiconductor component to the outside of the component carrier. |
US12245373B2 |
Printed circuit board and electronic device including same
A printed circuit board is provided. The printed circuit board includes a substrate, an electrically conductive pattern layer, and a thermally conductive ink layer. The substrate includes a first surface. The electrically conductive pattern layer is located on the first surface and includes a contact portion and a wire portion. The thermally conductive ink layer covers the wire portion and exposes the contact portion. The thermally conductive ink layer includes a thermally conductive powder and a colloidal adhesive, where a weight percentage of the thermally conductive powder is less than 10%, and a weight percentage of the colloidal adhesive is higher than 80%. An electronic device including the printed circuit board is further provided. |
US12245372B2 |
Information handling system and peripheral printed circuit board having non-homogeneous substrate material and integrated thermal solution
An information handling system and/or peripheral device includes a printed circuit board having at least one prepreg substrate coupled to at least one bio-based substrate to support operation of electronic components, such as mouse position sensor and scroll wheel rotation sensor, and having a layer of graphene between the prepreg substrate and the bio-based substrate. At end of life, the bio-based substrate is removed from the prepreg substrate, such as by melting of the biobased material, so that the prepreg substrate can be reused. In one embodiment, the prepreg substrate supports power and ground planes that bio-based substrates couple over so that the prepreg substrate can be reused along with the power and ground planes by coupling updated bio-based substrates over the reused prepreg substrate. |
US12245364B2 |
Wiring board and electronic device
A wiring board includes a plurality of insulating layers each being made of flexible insulating resin, and a conductor layer that is laminated on the plurality of insulating layers and that has a conductor pattern. The conductor layer includes a conductor pattern that has a certain shape in which a plurality of unit patterns are connected in plan view. The unit pattern includes a U-shaped pattern, an inverted U-shaped pattern that is arranged such that an opening side is located away from an opening side of the U-shaped pattern, and a straight line pattern that connects center portions of the U-shaped pattern and the inverted U-shaped pattern. |
US12245363B2 |
Electronic component module, and method of manufacturing the same
A cap including a side wall portion having conductivity, a lid portion, a thin portion formed at least around the lid portion, and a beam portion supporting the lid portion is formed, an exposed component and a sealing component are mounted on a module substrate, the cap is mounted on the module substrate so as to surround an exposed component, the sealing component and the cap are sealed with a sealing resin, the lid portion is ground so as to reduce its thickness until the thin portion disappears, a shield layer is formed on an outer surface of the sealing resin and a side surface of the module substrate, a translucent adhesive sheet is attached on a top surface of the sealing resin, the beam portion is cut by laser through the adhesive sheet, and the adhesive sheet is peeled together with a lid portion. |
US12245362B2 |
EMC filter for a control device
The invention relates to an EMC filter for a control device. The filter includes a multilayer circuit carrier comprising electrically conductive layers, in particular copper layers, and electrically insulating circuit board layers. According to the invention, the circuit carrier of the aforementioned type forms at least two filter capacitors, wherein in each case the filter capacitors are formed by electrically conductive layers that are formed in the circuit carrier and lie across from one another and/or extend parallel at a distance from each other. |
US12245361B2 |
Interconnect structure having conductor extending along dielectric block
An interconnect structure includes a dielectric block, a first conductive plug, a second conductive plug, a substrate, a first conductive line, and a second conductive line. The first conductive plug and the second conductive plug are surrounded by the dielectric block. The substrate surrounds the dielectric block. The first conductive line is connected to the first conductive plug and is in contact with a top surface of the dielectric block. The second conductive line is connected to the second conductive plug. |
US12245359B2 |
Heatsink techniques for optical and electrical modules
A module for use in a hardware platform for networking, computing, and/or storage includes a printed circuit board assembly; components disposed on a primary side of the printed circuit board assembly; a primary side heatsink for a pluggable module, wherein the primary side heatsink is disposed to one or more pivot points on the pluggable module, for applying a uniform and controlled external force against the pluggable module. The module further includes a cage attached to the printed circuit board assembly for supporting the pluggable module, wherein the one or more pivot points are external to the cage. |
US12245358B2 |
Circuit board with embedded electronic component and manufacturing method thereof
A circuit board includes a circuit substrate. The circuit substrate includes an insulating substrate and an electronic component embedded therein. The insulating substrate defines two first slots. A first phase change material fills in the two first slots and thermally connects to the electronic component. A first wiring layer is formed on a surface of the insulating substrate, the first wiring layer covers the two first slots and thermally connects to the first phase change material. A second wiring layer is formed on another surface of the insulating substrate. The second wiring layer includes a plurality of wiring portions and a wiring slot formed between adjacent wiring portions. The electronic component electrically connects to the second wiring portion. A second phase change material fills in at least one wiring slot and thermally connects a portion of the wiring portions together to form a heat dissipation zone. |
US12245345B1 |
System and method for voice-activated lighting control
A voice-activated light system that includes a microphone for receiving one or more voice commands (which may be referred to as a “voice microphone”), one or more light sources (such as LEDs) coupled to a controller and a light driver. The light driver is for driving the light sources and the controller is for detecting a voice command in order to control the mode of operation of the one or more light sources. The controller can have multiple control commands each for selecting a different mode of operation of the light source(s). The modes can be controlled by a common voice input term followed by a second voice command corresponding to a mode of operation of the light source. The system may include a second microphone which may be referred to herein as a “music microphone”. The commands can include “light show,” “slow pulse,” “steady on,” “blinking,” or “off”. |
US12245344B2 |
Indicating a likelihood of presence being detected via multiple indications
A method comprises determining (101) sensing input and determining (103) a likelihood that a human or animal is present based on the sensing input. The sensing input reflects changes in radio frequency signals received by one or more devices. The method further comprises controlling (105) a lighting device to render a light effect upon determining that the likelihood exceeds a presence detection threshold, and to continue to render the light effect for a subsequent predetermined period of time even when the likelihood changes by more than a predetermined value within the predetermined period. The method further comprises indicating (107) the likelihood to a user via an indication selected from a plurality of indications, e.g. by rendering the indication on the lighting device. A different indication of the plurality of indications is selected upon determining that the likelihood has changed more than the predetermined value. |
US12245341B2 |
Aerosol generating device having heater
Provided is an aerosol generating apparatus including: a heater configured to generate aerosol by heating a cigarette, the heater including a first electrically conductive heating element formed along a first path on an electrically insulating substrate, a second electrically conductive heating element formed along a second path on the electrically insulating substrate, and a temperature sensor track formed along a third path in a region between the first path and the second path; a battery configured to supply power to the heater; and a controller configured to control the power supplied from the battery to the heater and monitor a temperature sensed using the temperature sensor track. |
US12245339B2 |
Electrical heaters for exhaust aftertreatment systems and assemblies
An electrical heater assembly and an exhaust treatment assembly. The electrical heater assembly includes a heater body including an array of intersecting walls that form a plurality of channels extending in an axial direction. The intersecting walls and channels together define a honeycomb pattern of cells. A plurality of slots extend from an outer periphery of the heater body and terminate within the heater body. Each of the plurality of slots disconnects some of the cells of the heater body from each other to define a serpentine current-carrying path through the heater body. Each slot comprises a receptacle portion located between opposing portions of the slot. A plurality of slot separators located respectively in the receptacle portions. Each slot separator has dimensions greater than the opposing portions of the slot to provide support to the heater body in all directions perpendicular to the axial direction. |
US12245338B2 |
Support frame of thin electric heating band
A support frame of a thin electric heating band contains: a body, multiple first blades, multiple second blades, multiple fixing sheets, and multiple defining elements. The body includes a base and multiple supporting arms. Each first blade includes multiple first spaced recesses, and each second blade includes multiple second spaced recesses, such that the thin electric heating band is engaged in each first spaced recess and each second spaced recess, thus positioning the thin electric heating band. Each fixing sheet is stacked on each first blade and includes multiple spaced notches, and each spaced notch communicates with each first spaced recess laterally. Each first blade includes an air facing fringe and an air shadow fringe, and each defining element is fixed on the air shadow fringe of each first blade. |
US12245333B2 |
Terminal requesting network slice capabilities from non-3GPP access network
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), comprising a memory, and a processor to execute instructions from the memory, wherein the processor is configured to access a non-3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Access Network (AN), establish a link with a Non-3GPP Interworking Function (N3IWF) via the non-3GPP AN, request information from the N3IWF about network slicing capabilities of a 3GPP Radio Access Network (RAN), receive information from the N3IWF about network slicing capabilities of the 3GPP RAN, and determine whether to register with the 3GPP RAN based upon the network slicing capabilities of the 3GPP RAN. Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described for sending information about network slicing capabilities of a 3GPP RAN to a N3IWF, establishing a link between a WTRU operating on a non-3GPP AN and the N3IWF via the non-3GPP AN, and sending information from the N3IWF to the WTRU about network slicing capabilities of the 3GPP RAN. |
US12245328B2 |
UE behavior for failed registration request or service request for emergency services fallback
Solutions pertaining to user equipment (UE) behavior for failed registration request or service request for emergency services fallback in mobile communications are proposed. An apparatus implemented in a UE determines a failure in attempting to initiate a mobility registration request procedure or a service request procedure with a network to perform an emergency service fallback. In response to the determining, the apparatus performs one or more operations including at least a UE non-access-stratum (NAS) layer in a 5th Generation Mobility Management (5GMM) protocol informing an upper layer in the 5GMM protocol of the failure to cause the upper layer to attempt an emergency call in a different domain or via a different network. |
US12245324B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling access in next generation mobile communication system
An apparatus and a method to apply 5G communication systems to IoT networks is provided. The apparatus includes technologies, such as a sensor network, machine type communication (MTC), and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication may be implemented by beamforming, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), and array antennas. Application of a cloud radio access network (RAN) as the above-described big data processing technology may also be considered to be as an example of convergence between the 5G technology and the IoT technology. The disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling network access in a next generation mobile communication system. |
US12245323B2 |
User plane optimizations for 5G cellular internet of things
Disclosed herein is a method of operating a RAN node of a wireless communication network, the method comprising: receiving a connection resume request message from a wireless terminal at the RAN node instructing the RAN node to establish a connection with the wireless terminal; providing release information for the wireless terminal at the RAN node; receiving uplink data from the wireless terminal at the RAN node, wherein the uplink data is associated with the connection resume request message; and transmitting a connection release message to the wireless terminal after receiving the uplink data responsive to the release information for the wireless terminal, wherein the connection release message instructs the wireless terminal to release and/or suspend the connection. |
US12245322B2 |
Methods, architectures, apparatuses and systems for performing discontinuous reception on sidelink
The disclosure pertains to methods and apparatus using V2X enhancements to perform discontinuous reception. In an embodiment, a method implemented by a first WTRU, for a device-to-device (D2D) communication between the first WTRU and a second WTRU, the method may include any of comprising receiving, from the second WTRU, D2D control information comprising: (1) first information indicating one or more first transmission resources reserved for transmission of the D2D communication and (2) second information indicating if at least one second transmission resource is reserved for retransmission of the D2D communication; determining a sleeping period for the first WTRU that ends prior to a reception time of the retransmission of the D2D communication, wherein the sleeping period is based on the second information; and receiving the retransmission of the D2D communication, after an end of the determined sleeping period. |
US12245321B2 |
DRX operation in wireless communication system, operation method in dormant BWP and terminal using method
The present specification discloses a DRX operation method performed, by a terminal in which a PCell and a SCell are configured, in a wireless communication system. The DRX operation method comprises: receiving DRX configuration information from a base station; monitoring a PDCCH on the PCell based on the DRX configuration information; receiving dormant BWP configuration information from the base station, wherein the dormant BWP configuration information is information about a downlink BWP used as a dormant BWP on the SCell, from among at least one downlink BWP configured for the terminal; receiving, from the base station, DCI for notifying activation of the dormant BWP; and stopping monitoring a second PDCCH in the dormant BWP on the SCell, wherein a BWP inactivity timer is not used based on the activation of the dormant BWP, and the BWP inactivity timer may be a timer for transition to a default BWP. |
US12245318B2 |
Methods for enforcing limited mobility in mobile network
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for enforcing limited mobility in a mobile network. For example, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive (e.g., receive from a network) a mapping of physical cell identifications (PCIs) to area identifications (AIDs). The WTRU may determine a first PCI associated with a first neighbor cell. The WTRU may determine, based on the first PCI and the PCIs to AIDs mapping, whether the WTRU is allowed to access the first neighbor cell. The WTRU may perform cell selection or reselection with the first neighbor cell as a cell selection or reselection candidate. The WTRU may perform cell selection or reselection based on the WTRU determining that the WTRU is allowed to access the first neighbor cell. The WTRU may determine that the WTRU is allowed to access the first neighbor cell based on the first PCI and the PCIs to AIDs mapping. |
US12245317B2 |
Terminal state processing method, device and medium
This disclosure provides a terminal state processing method, a device and a medium. The method includes: in a case that a network is overloaded due to an excessive quantity of terminals receiving an MBMS service in an RRC_CONNECTED state, indicating, by a network side device, that a terminal receiving the MBMS service is to enter a specified RRC state, and/or indicating, by the network side device, a time duration for a terminal to receive the MBMS service in the specified RRC state. The terminal enters the specified RRC state in accordance with the indication, and/or receives the MBMS service in the specified RRC state during the indicated time duration. |
US12245309B2 |
Beam failure recovery for dormant bandwidth part
Example embodiments of the invention provide at least a method and apparatus to perform at least identifying, by a user equipment of a communication network, a beam failure occurred over at least one dormant bandwidth part for communication with at least one secondary cell of the communication network; and based on the identifying, determining to report the beam failure to the communication network for beam failure recovery by the communication network. |
US12245305B2 |
Maintaining concurrent services in a dual active mode
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may establish, using a first subscription of the UE, a first communication connection associated with a first service. The UE may establish, using a second subscription of the UE, a second communication connection associated with a second service. The UE may operate in a dual subscriber identity module (SIM) dual active (DSDA) mode based at least in part on establishing the first communication connection and establishing the second communication connection. The UE may perform an action to maintain concurrent services, including the first service and the second service, while operating in the DSDA mode. Numerous other aspects are described. |
US12245304B2 |
Power saving mechanisms for multi-link communications
Methods, systems, and devices related to related to digital wireless communication, and more specifically, to techniques related to the power saving mechanism for multi-link operation. In one exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes transmitting a link wakeup indication message to a wireless device over a first link of multiple links between the network node and the wireless device. The link wakeup indication message may indicate a request to transition at least one link of the multiple links between an active state and a power saving state. The method may also include, responsive to transmitting the link wakeup indication message, obtaining, by the network node, a link wakeup notification message from the wireless device indicating that at least one link of the multiple links has transitioned between the active state and the power saving state. |
US12245302B2 |
Methods for improving wireless connections for previously paired devices
Methods and systems for easily establishing or switching between wireless connections by sending a Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) command from a first BLE enabled device to a second BLE enabled device, where the BLE command causes the second BLE enabled device to attempt to establish a Bluetooth Classic connection with one or more source devices from a list of source devices that have previously been paired with the second BLE device. The first BLE device is configured to obtain or receive the list from the second BLE device, and in response to one or more triggers, send the BLE command. The list of previously paired source devices may be presented to a user via a display screen with touch-screen functionality, and in some examples, may utilize one or more algorithms to intelligently order the available source devices based on a variety of factors. |
US12245301B2 |
Extending use of a cellular communication capabilities in a wireless device to another device
Extending cellular telecommunication service from a first UE to another device. The first UE may register for cellular telecommunication service with a cellular network using a first cellular service account, using a cellular communication link via a cellular radio. A second device may be discovered and a communication link may be established between the first UE and the second device. The second device may be registered to use cellular telecommunication capability provided by the first UE. Communications between the second device and the cellular network may be conveyed via the communication link between the first UE and the second device and the cellular communication link. Conveying communications between the second device and the cellular network may provide use of the first cellular service account for cellular telecommunication service to the second device. |
US12245300B2 |
Application layer communications in cellular networks
A first application client on a first UE served by a first RAN (Radio Access Network) node, and a second application client on a second UE served by a second RAN node connect to a specific application server. The application server requests to establish a connection between the two application clients.The first RAN node identifies the second RAN node serving the second UE and a connection within RAN and passing through the first and the second RAN nodes is established between the first UE and the second UE. Application user data is conveyed between the first application client on the first UE and the second application client on the second UE through the serving RAN nodes.At least one of the two UEs may use a radio interface not allowing wireless communication with another UE.The first and the second RAN nodes may be the same node. |
US12245299B2 |
Target disambiguation in a computer mediated communication system
A computer mediated communication system includes a plurality of communication devices, a wireless transceiver, a computer system configured to wirelessly communicate with the communication devices via the wireless transceiver and mediate communications among the communication devices. The computer system a memory coupled with a processor. The processor parses, in response to an initiator providing an ambiguous input to the computer mediated communication system requesting a communication interaction, the processor: parses the ambiguous input for information about a desired target of the communication interaction; matches the information about the desired target against maintained target data to select a list of potential targets; computes likelihoods the potential targets of being the desired target; ranks the potential targets based on their respective likelihoods of being the desired target; and disambiguates the ambiguous input by communicatively coupling the initiator with at least one of the potential targets based on the ranking. |
US12245298B2 |
Storage medium and information processing apparatus
A non-transitory storage medium stores a program for causing a computer of an information processing apparatus to execute acquiring information about a radio wave environment between a first external device and a communication device, determining whether to transmit information to be used in connection to the first external device to the communication device based on the information about the radio wave environment, and transmitting, in response to a determination that the information to be used in the connection to the first external device is to be transmitted to the communication device, the information to be used in the connection to the first external device to the communication device. |
US12245296B2 |
Communication method and apparatus
A communication method and device is provided where a network device can learn of a synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block selected by a terminal device. The method includes receiving, from a network device, a first synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block located at a first frequency domain position, and receiving, from the network device, a second synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block located at a second frequency domain position, determining random access channel occasions corresponding to the second frequency domain position, determining, in the random access channel occasions corresponding to the second frequency domain position and based on a sending status of a synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block located at the second frequency domain position, a random access channel occasion to which the second synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block is mapped, and performing random access on the random access channel occasion to which the second synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block is mapped. |
US12245290B2 |
Random access channel (RACH) response (RAR) reception in an unlicensed radio frequency (RF) spectrum band
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses to enable a user equipment (UE) and a base station to improve reception of a random access response (RAR) by the UE in an unlicensed spectrum. A network may define a procedure for calculating a random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI) specific to unlicensed spectrum based on an extended RAR window. The calculation procedure may allow UEs transmitting in the window to calculate a unique RA-RNTI and identify a RAR addressed to the UE using the unique RA-RNTI. Additionally, or alternatively, a base station may transmit a RAR including timing information associated with a corresponding random access request. Accordingly, a UE may receive the RAR and compare the timing information with its own random access request in order to determine whether the RAR is addressed to the UE. Additionally, a UE may monitor a secondary cell or a sub-band for the RAR. |
US12245288B2 |
Method for receiving downlink signal on basis of random-access channel procedure in unlicensed band, and device therefor
The present disclosure provides a method for receiving a downlink signal on the basis of a random-access channel procedure (RACH procedure) by a terminal in an unlicensed band. Specifically, the method may comprise: on the basis of a power ramping counter, configuring transmission power for message A including a first physical random-access channel (PRACH) and a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); on the basis of the transmission power, transmitting message A to a base station; and receiving contention resolution-related message B from the base station in response to message A, wherein an increase is made on the basis that a transmission spatial beam for transmission of message A is configured to be identical to a transmission spatial beam related to transmission of a PRACH preceding message A. |
US12245285B2 |
Enhanced configuration for physical random access channel mask and random access response window
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may transmit, and a user equipment (UE) may receive, configuration information related to a random access procedure. For example, in some aspects, the configuration information may include a physical random access channel mask configuration based at least in part on a random access occasion density in a time and frequency domain in a cell served by the base station, a random access response configuration based at least in part on an indication transmitted from the UE to the base station, and/or the like. Accordingly, the UE may perform the random access procedure based at least in part on the configuration information, which may be indicated to the UE in system information, radio resource control signaling, and/or the like. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
US12245284B2 |
Method for 2-step random access and terminal
Embodiments of this disclosure provide a method for 2-step random access and a terminal. The method includes: receiving one or more pieces of configuration information for 2-step random access; and determining a transmission resource and/or a transmission mode based on the configuration information and assistance uplink transmission information, and performing uplink transmission. |
US12245282B2 |
Early transmission of mobile-terminated data
A wireless device receives a downlink message from a network node. The wireless device descrambles or decrypts the downlink message, or one or more fields of the downlink message, to obtain one or more parameters. The wireless device uses the one or more parameters to perform at least one action from any one or more of the following actions: receiving a mobile-terminated, MT, early data transmission, EDT, during a random access procedure; positively or negatively acknowledging the MT-EDT; and receiving a re-transmission of the MT-EDT. |
US12245277B2 |
Resource allocation for unlicensed spectrum sidelink communications
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network entity, an indication of multiple transmission occasions for a transmission of a sidelink communication in an unlicensed spectrum. The first UE may transmit, to a second UE, the sidelink communication in a selected transmission occasion of the multiple transmission occasions for the transmission of the sidelink communication in the unlicensed spectrum. Numerous other aspects are described. |
US12245275B2 |
Multi-beam LBT for NR-U at 60 GHz
A system and a method are disclosed for accessing a wireless medium for a NR-U deployed at 60 GHz. A directional CCA sensing is performed on a set of multiple beams in the medium in which each beam is oriented in a different direction. It is determined whether at least one beam of is busy and, if so, a back-off timer is initialized. The back-off timer is decreased by a predetermined amount based on a determination that all beams of the set of multiple beams are idle. The back-off timer is repeatedly decreased the predetermined amount based on a determination that all beams of the set of multiple beams are idle until the back-off timer equals a predetermined amount. Data is transmitted at least one beam of the set of multiple beams based on the back-off timer equaling the predetermined amount. |
US12245270B2 |
Initial access and channel access in new radio/new radio-unlicensed (NR/NR-U)
Methods, systems, and devices for addressing collisions of possible random access channel (RACH) occasions. A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may receive an indication of semi-static UL/DL information including configuration of RACH occasions in a remaining minimum system information (RMSI) and an indication of one or more actually transmitted synchronization signal (SS) blocks. The WTRU may then assess whether there are RACH occasions based on the configuration information and determine whether any of the RACH occasions are valid, wherein the RACH occasion may be valid based on Based on the RACH occasion is after all actually transmitted SS blocks indicated and/or whether an SS block override is disabled or enabled. The WTRU may transmit a RACH in one or more of the RACH occasions that have been determined to be valid. |
US12245268B2 |
Method, apparatus, computer program product and computer program
A method comprises determining in a medium access control MAC apparatus that data from a different logical channel is to be transmitted onto a shared channel. The method comprises causing an indication to be provided to a physical PHY apparatus that the data from the different logical channel is to be transmitted on the shared channel before packet data units associated with that different logical channel are provided to the physical apparatus. |
US12245266B2 |
Prioritization between feedback and collision indications
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may identify feedback indications and collision indications to transmit to a second UE. A feedback indication may indicate whether sidelink data was received and decoded successfully by the first UE, and a collision indication may indicate an expected conflict between the second UE and a third UE. In one aspect, the first UE may generate a feedback message including both feedback indications and collision indications, and the first UE may prioritize the feedback message based on the feedback indications, the collision indications, or both. In another aspect, the first UE may avoid including collision indications in a same feedback message as feedback indications. |
US12245256B2 |
Optimization of ranging sessions initiated by vehicle and pedestrian UES
A responder user equipment (UE) in separate ranging sessions may determine whether there is a collision between the ranging signals assigned to broadcast in the separate ranging sessions. A collision in the ranging signals is detected when the ranging signals have the same frequencies and broadcast times, e.g., the broadcast time of one ranging signal is within a predetermined amount of time for the other ranging signal. When a collision in the ranging signals is detected, the responder UE sends a message to the initiator UE indicating the possibility of a collision. Available times for broadcasting the ranging signals may be determined, e.g., by the responder UE or the initiator UE. The initiator UE may initiate a new ranging session based on the available times for broadcasting the ranging signal or may proceed with the ranging session with the possibility that the responder UE will not participate. |
US12245254B2 |
Dynamic antenna radiation pattern notification
A method at a UE for indicating change in physical state of the UE includes: determining a change of the UE from a first physical state of a plurality of physical states to a second physical state of the plurality of physical states; and transmitting one or more antenna system characteristics, corresponding to an antenna system of the UE, based on determining the change of the UE from the first physical state of the plurality of physical states to the second physical state of the plurality of physical states. |
US12245252B2 |
Default PDSCH beam setting and PDCCH prioritization for multi panel reception
Various embodiments herein are directed to set physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) default beam behavior for single transmission-reception point (TRP), single downlink control information (DCI) multi-TRP and multi-DCI multi-TRP operation, as well as physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) prioritization based on quasi-colocation (QCL) Type-D for multi-panel reception and single panel reception. |
US12245242B2 |
Dynamic scheduling offset adaptation in UE power saving
A method and apparatus for dynamically adapting scheduling parameter(s) to achieve power savings. A user equipment may be configured with one or more offsets between scheduled PDCCH and PDSCH transmissions. The user equipment may receive from a network an indication to dynamically change these offsets. If the user equipment sleeps through a first transmission of this indication, upon next receiving the indication the user equipment may update, for example, the offset in a time domain resource allocation table. The indication to dynamically change an offset may be an indication of an offset including fewer slots. A change to the offset, with which downlink transmission is expected by the user equipment, may be disabled. A network node may be configured to transmit downlink traffic to the user equipment according to a configured offset and/or according to an offset the network node indicated to the user equipment. |
US12245240B2 |
Method for transmitting a transmission indication signal, network device, and terminal
A method for transmitting a transmission indication signal includes: receiving a transmission indication signal on a part of time-frequency resources occupied by a network device. The transmission indication signal is used to instruct a terminal to perform a corresponding terminal behavior according to terminal behavior indication information, and the terminal behavior indication information is used to indicate the terminal behavior. |
US12245237B2 |
Semi-static pattern for change of cell for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH)
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for semi-static pattern for change of cell for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) are provided. One method may include configuring at least one user equipment (UE) with a configuration for more than one serving cell for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission within at least one physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) cell group, and configuring the at least one user equipment (UE) with a configuration for a time-domain pattern of an applicable physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) cell within the at least one physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) cell group. |
US12245234B2 |
On demand assistance for sidelink mode 1 communication
Method and apparatus for on demand assistance for sidelink communication. The apparatus receives, from a base station, an AN configuration for one or more ANs associated with the base station. The apparatus transmits, to the base station, an AR to request assistance with communication with a second UE from at least one AN associated with the base station. The apparatus receives, from the base station, a grant to schedule sidelink transmission with the second UE. The sidelink transmission with the second UE is assisted by at least one AN of the one or more ANs associated with the base station. The apparatus communicates via sidelink communication with the second UE, via the at least one AN, using allocated resources of the grant from the base station. |
US12245233B2 |
Sidelink cancellation with resumption
Aspects relate techniques for facilitating resumption of a sidelink transmission after cancellation of the sidelink transmission within resources that overlap with an additional transmission. A transmitting wireless communication device may receive control information from a network entity including a cancellation indication indicating overlapping resources between the resources scheduled for the sidelink transmission and resources scheduled for the additional transmission. Based on the cancellation indication, the transmitting wireless communication device may cancel the sidelink transmission within cancelled resources including at least the overlapping resources and transmit the sidelink transmission via remaining resources of the scheduled resources for the sidelink transmission outside of the cancelled resources. |
US12245232B2 |
Link service profile for predictive service control for providing communication services to mobile devices on a vehicle
Systems and methods for modifying application performance in view of link conditions are provided. An example method includes predicting respective link rates of at least one link of a plurality of links that deliver data to and from a vehicle while the vehicle is moving from an origination point to a destination point. The predicting is based on historical link characteristics. The method further includes generating a link service profile of the vehicle based on the predicted respective link rates and a route of the vehicle. In addition, the method includes receiving a request for information related to the link service profile from a mobile device and transmitting, to the mobile device, an indication based on the link service profile, thereby causing a modification of a behavior of an application executing at the mobile device based on the link service profile. |
US12245230B2 |
Method and apparatus for hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment codebook transmission and reception
The disclosure relates to a 5th Generation (5G) or 6th Generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving, by the UE, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), wherein the received PDCCH includes downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling one or more physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs), receiving, by the UE, one or more PDSCHs according to the received DCI, determining and transmitting, by the UE, a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) codebook for one or more PDSCHs according to the received PDSCHs and PDCCH. |
US12245229B2 |
Method and device for determining a transmission mode
A transmission mode determining method, an information configuration method, and a device are provided. The transmission mode determining method includes: determining, based on first preset information, a transmission mode of a physical downlink shared channel PSDCH scheduled by one downlink control information DCI; where the first preset information is carried in at least one of radio resource control RRC, a media access control control element MAC CE, and the DCI. |
US12245226B2 |
Trigger frame arranged to solicit transmission of distributed resource units, and methods for generating the trigger frame
Wireless communications comprises generating a trigger frame which has a first set of bits which directly indicates a resource unit (RU) arranged as a distributed RU is solicited to be transmitted in an uplink direction in a first frequency block and a second set of bits which directly indicates for one or more second frequency subblocks a spreading bandwidth of tones of the distributed RU or whether a second frequency subblock is a punctured subchannel. An access point (AP) transmits the trigger frame in a downlink direction to a non-AP station. The non-AP station generates and transmits in the uplink direction a Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) to the AP station with data modulated on the tones of the distributed RU based on the first set of bits and the second set of bits of the trigger frame. |
US12245224B2 |
Method for transmitting or receiving uplink channel in wireless communication system, and device therefor
A method of transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), an uplink channel in a wireless communication system comprises transmitting capability information related to a panel for a transmission of the uplink channel, receiving configuration information related to the transmission of the uplink channel, and transmitting the uplink channel based on the configuration information. Based on that the transmission of the uplink channel collides with a transmission of other uplink channel scheduled to the UE in a time domain, i) if a first panel related to the transmission of the uplink channel is different from a second panel related to the transmission of the other uplink channel, the uplink channel and the other uplink channel are simultaneously transmitted, and ii) if the first panel is the same as the second panel, the uplink channel is transmitted in a specific resource. |
US12245219B2 |
Systems and methods for multi-PxSCH signaling at high frequencies
This disclosure relates to techniques for performing wireless communications including signaling resource allocation for multiple transport blocks (TBs) on either PUSCH or PDSCH using a single control element, such as a DCI. In various scenarios, the multiple TBs may be scheduled either at contiguous or at non-contiguous dime-domain resources. Various mechanisms are disclosed for performing signaling the resource allocation for the multiple TBs without introducing excessive signaling overhead. |
US12245208B2 |
Methods and devices for configuring time domain resource allocation
Method, systems and devices for configuring time domain resource allocation (TDRA) of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) for a user equipment. The method includes receiving, by the user equipment, a radio resource control (RRC), the RRC configuring a TDRA type corresponding to a TDRA table. Another method includes sending, by a network base station, a RRC configuring a TDRA type corresponding to a TDRA table for the user equipment. |
US12245201B2 |
Indication of non-preferred resources for sidelink communications
Disclosed are systems and techniques for wireless communications. For instance, a first user equipment (UE) can determine one or more parameters associated with sidelink communications between the first UE and a second UE. The first UE can determine, based on the one or more parameters, one or more non-preferred resources associated with the sidelink communications. The first UE can transmit an indication of the one or more non-preferred resources associated with the sidelink communications. |
US12245200B2 |
Transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus and wireless communication method
Provided are a transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus and wireless communication methods related to resource configuration for sidelink communication, sidelink discovery or any other sidelink operation in NR. A transmitting apparatus, comprising: circuitry, operative to allocate resources for Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH) based on a common resource allocation reference and indicate the resource allocation via Physical Sidelink Control Channel (PSCCH) which is used by a receiving apparatus to obtain the allocated resources; and a transmitter, operative to transmit PSCCH and associated PSSCH on the allocated resources to the receiving apparatus. |
US12245199B2 |
Resource selection window for sidelink inter-UE coordination
A first wireless device receives, from a second wireless device, a first medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) requesting for an inter-UE coordination between the first wireless device and the second wireless device, wherein the first MAC CE indicates a start time and an end time of a selection window for a resource selection procedure of the second wireless device to select resources for one or more sidelink transmissions by the second wireless device. The first wireless device selects a preferred resource set or a non-preferred resource set during the selection window. The first wireless device transmits, to the second wireless device, a second MAC CE indicating the preferred resource set or the non-preferred resource set for the second wireless device to select resources for the one or more sidelink transmissions. The first wireless device receives the one or more sidelink transmissions. |
US12245193B2 |
Paging message reception
A wireless device may receive configuration parameters indicating monitoring occasions for a first downlink control information (DCI). The first DCI may comprise a paging early indication (PEI) indicating whether to monitor paging occasions for receiving a second DCI scheduling a paging message, and the first DCI may comprise a tracking reference signal (TRS) availability indication indicating whether a TRS is available. Based on determining not to monitor the monitoring occasions for the first DCI, the wireless device may determine that the TRS is unavailable and the wireless device may monitor the paging occasions for the second DCI. |
US12245191B2 |
Downlink control monitoring operations in wireless communication
Some aspects of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing mechanisms for downlink control information between an electronic device (for example, a UE) and a network for cell detection and measurement. For example, some aspects relate to an electronic device including a transceiver and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor monitors one or more paging occasions within a discontinuous repetition cycle (DRX) and can make a determination of one or more paging occasions within the DRX to not monitor. Each paging occasion may include a transmission by the network of downlink control information for one or more paging messages. |
US12245186B2 |
Method and apparatus for realizing uplink positioning, and storage medium
Provided are a method and an apparatus for implementing uplink positioning and a storage medium. The method includes: sending a first positioning instruction to a first measurement node set, where the first measurement node set includes at least three measurement nodes and a target node is located within a coverage range of the measurement nodes; receiving first positioning attribute information fed back by each measurement node and corresponding to the first positioning instruction, where the first positioning attribute information includes a measurement node identity and random access information of a cell where the measurement node is located; and sending a random access instruction carrying the first positioning attribute information to the target node, where the random access instruction is configured to trigger the target node to send a random access signal to the each measurement node to determine a communication distance between the target node and the each measurement node. |
US12245185B2 |
Sidelink positioning in presence of clock error
In one example, a method being performed by a first station and comprises: transmitting a first message including an indication of whether a clock reconfiguration event occurs at the first station; transmitting a first positioning reference signal (PRS); receiving from a second station a second PRS; and transmitting to the second station a second message including a first time when the first PRS is transmitted by the first station and a second time when the second PRS is received by the first station, to enable the second station to determine a roundtrip time (RTT) between the first station and the second station based on the first time, the second time, a third time when the second station receives the first PRS, a fourth time when the second station transmits the second PRS, and the indication. |
US12245184B2 |
User equipment (UE)-based positioning non-line of sight (NLOS) error mitigation
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for user equipment (UE)-based positioning non-line of sight (NLOS) error mitigation. For example, some embodiments described herein may provide for use of a blind-learning-type algorithm for channel bias distribution estimation for UE-based positioning. The UE may perform a calculation of a positioning of the UE using NLOS bias distribution received from a network node, as described elsewhere herein. |
US12245180B2 |
Method and network device for locating clock fault
A method for locating a clock fault includes that a network device locates a clock fault source based on whether first frequency offsets between a plurality of input clocks and a local clock exceed a frequency offset threshold, or based on whether second frequency offsets between the input clocks exceed a relative frequency offset threshold. |
US12245176B2 |
Device for fronthaul communication between a baseband unit and a remote unit of a radio access network
One embodiment is directed to a device for fronthaul communication between a baseband unit (BBU) and a remote unit (RU). A processor of the device is configured to receive, using a first fronthaul interface of the device, fronthaul data originating from said first one of the BBU and the RU. The fronthaul data is formatted according to a first fronthaul protocol when received using the first fronthaul interface. The processor is further configured to format at least some of the fronthaul data received using the first fronthaul interface so as to be formatted according to a second fronthaul protocol thereby producing reformatted fronthaul data and forward, using a second fronthaul interface of the device, the reformatted fronthaul data towards said second one of the BBU and the RU. |
US12245174B2 |
Method for acquiring time information about synchronization signal block in unlicensed band, and device for same
Disclosed is a method for a UE to acquire time information about a Synchronization Signal/Physical Broadcast Channel (SS/PBCH) block in an unlicensed band. In particular, the method is characterized by: receiving SS/PBCH blocks through a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a specific slot; detecting the respective phases of the plurality of OFDM symbols; detecting the sequence of PBCH Demodulation Reference Signals (DMRSs) included among the plurality of OFDM symbols; and acquiring time information about the SS/PBCH blocks on the basis of the respective phases of the plurality of OFDM symbols and the sequence of the PBCH DMRSs. |
US12245155B2 |
Scheduling multicast transmissions in a wireless network
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for scheduling delivery of buffered multicast data to wireless stations (STAs) associated with an access point (AP). In some implementations, a STA transmits, to the AP, a request frame including a multicast address of a multicast group. The AP transmits, to the STA, a Group Identification (ID) assigned to the multicast group. The AP transmits a beacon frame including a wake-up schedule indicating times at which one or more STAs belonging to the multicast group are scheduled to receive buffered multicast data from the AP. STAs that belong to the multicast group wake up at one of the indicated times for a Target Wake Time (TWT) Service Period (SP). STAs that do not belong to the multicast group remain in power save mode during the TWT SP. The AP transmits the buffered multicast data at the indicated time during the TWT SP. |
US12245152B2 |
Traffic management in restricted target wake time (TWT) service periods
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for managing data traffic in restricted target wake time (TWT) service periods (SPs). In some aspects, an access point (AP) may transmit a packet, at the beginning of a restricted TWT SP, that signals all non-member wireless stations (STAs) to defer access to the wireless medium for at least a threshold duration. Upon receiving the packet, any non-member STAs that are associated with the AP may set their network allocation vectors (NAVs) according to the duration indicated by a duration field of the received packet. In some implementations, low-latency STAs that are members of the TWT SP may not set their NAVs according to the duration field of the received packet. Instead, the low-latency STAs may access the wireless medium before the NAVs associated with the non-member STAs expire. |
US12245149B2 |
Techniques for discontinuous reception cycle based measurement gaps
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may establish a communication connection with a serving cell associated with a first discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle configuration, determine, based at least in part on at least one of a first on duration of a first DRX cycle indicated by the first DRX cycle configuration or a type of traffic of one or more communications received during the first DRX cycle, an autonomous measurement gap associated with a neighboring cell, and perform a measurement of the neighboring cell during the autonomous measurement gap. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
US12245148B2 |
Control of suspend/resume and deactivate/activate UICC features in device
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, an AT command that allows an application service provider to modify suspend/resume (S/R) and/or deactivate/activate (D/A) functionality specified in one or more elementary files of a UICC. The S/R and/or D/A functionality can be influenced by the application service provider without relying on SIM-OTA messages being forwarded by a mobile operator. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
US12245146B2 |
Service capability server / EPC coordination for power savings mode and paging
The present application is directed to one or more aspects with at least one aspect describing a method including a step of receiving device context information including a Power Saving Mode (PSM) Sync Flag from a core network node, where the PSM Sync Flag indicates a monitoring type of a device from among plural devices in the network. The method also includes a step of receiving a tracking area update or an attach request from the device on the network. The method further includes a step of sending a device availability notification request to a core network interworking function. |
US12245136B2 |
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for managing network communications
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for wireless communication are described. One or more peripheral devices may transmit a discovery beacon. The discovery beacon may indicate a first device state associated with the one or more peripheral devices. The discovery beacon may be received by one or more network devices. The one or more network devices may determine, based on the discovery beacon, a second device state associated with the one or more peripheral devices. |
US12245135B2 |
Communication device and communication method
A communication device and a communication method for allowing a communication terminal to be able to search for access points within a short time are provided. A communication device operating as an access point in a wireless network transmits a beacon signal at a predetermined beacon interval on an operation channel selected from available frequency channels. In addition, the communication device performs data transmission and data reception to/from a communication terminal subordinate thereto on the operation channel, and transmits a notification signal including information about the operation channel while switching channels at each predetermined cycle in available frequency channels other than the operation channel. |
US12245129B2 |
In-vehicle machine learning service discovery in perceptive wireless communications
A first UE and a second UE may exchange information relating to one or more machine learning data services. The one or more machine learning data services may be provided by the second UE. The first UE and the second UE may pair with each other for the one or more machine learning data services. The second UE may perform machine learning inference using at least one machine learning inference model, and may transmit the inference result (e.g., a link quality prediction) associated with a link between a network node and the first UE to the network node. The network node may switch (the direction of) the network node beam if the inference result predicts that the degree of link quality degradation associated with a current network node beam is going to be greater than a prespecified threshold. |
US12245123B2 |
Emergency data communications for citizen engagement
Disclosed herein are systems, devices, media, and methods for providing emergency data communications for citizen engagement. An embodiment operates by providing an emergency data submission link regarding an emergency notification to a plurality of communication devices. Emergency data submissions are received with the link, where each submission includes an emergency location. The embodiment verifies the submissions to generate a set of submitted emergency incidents, and displays the incidents within a graphical user interface (GUI) of an emergency response application. An embodiment operates by receiving emergency data related to a plurality of emergency incidents. The embodiment generates a heatmap that graphically represents a density of a plurality of emergency incidents. The embodiment identifies clusters of emergency incidents on the heatmap, and displays the heatmap within an interactive map within a GUI of an emergency response application accessed by an emergency service provider (ESP). |
US12245118B2 |
Systems and methods for improved network services management
A method for managing network services for a cellular network provider. The method includes receiving, via a GUI, a query input of an MSISDN number associated with a subscriber and querying a first external system using the MSISDN. In response to the query of the first external system, the method includes receiving a first set of subscriber information. The method includes querying a second external system using the MSISDN number to determine an IMSI number associated with the subscriber, and querying a third external system using the IMSI number. In response to the query of the third external system with the IMSI number, the method includes receiving a second set of subscriber information and populating one or more fields of the GUI with the first and second set of subscriber information. |
US12245112B2 |
Method for performing charging processing on guaranteed data service, system, and related device
A charging processing method is provided and includes: obtaining QoS of a guaranteed data service of a user and a guarantee status of the QoS, performing charging processing on charging data of the guaranteed data service based on the information, when the guarantee status of the QoS changes or a guarantee notification switch status of the QoS changes, disabling a counter in a timely manner, and separately processing charging data that exists before the change and charging data that exists after the change. In this way, an operator can accurately perform charging on the guaranteed data service “based on the guarantee status”, to improve user experience. In addition, the operator can obtain revenue corresponding to occupied network resources. |
US12245109B2 |
Identification and location of multiple personal area network devices
A method and Bluetooth mobile device are disclosed for geo-locating a plurality of target Bluetooth devices. In some embodiments, a method includes distinguishing between time delays associated with received response packets from different target Bluetooth devices based at least in part on Access Codes derived from unique lower address part (LAP) of the received response packets; and determining a location for each of the target Bluetooth devices based at least in part on the time delay associated with the response packet received from the target Bluetooth device. |
US12245105B2 |
Equipment identification system and method
An equipment identification system for identifying and operating one or more machines at a site. The system includes one or more connectivity modules, each connectivity module communicatively and physically coupled to one of the one or more machines. The system also includes a user device configured to communicate with the one or more connectivity modules via a network connection. In response to a user selection on an application hosted on the user device, one or more of the machines are identified by one or both of an audible signal or a visual signal. |
US12245098B2 |
Crowdsourced contact tracing
Systems and methods include the following. Information about a first electronic communication device is transmitted to at least one server and/or decentralized infrastructure. The information includes vicinity information. A status signal associated with a first user of the first electronic communication device is optionally transmitted. Contact proximity network information about a contact proximity network is received. The contact proximity network is based on the information from a plurality of electronic communication devices and information about the association between users and electronic communication devices. The contact proximity network information includes status signal information and interconnected nodes corresponding to different users and pairwise connections between users based upon their relative physical space and time proximity. A notification indicating a network-based proximity of a first user to a second user is provided, indicating a minimum number of connections between the first user and the second user during a specified time frame. |
US12245088B2 |
Method and apparatus for applying target network configuration by user equipment in wireless communication system
The present invention relates to a method of transmitting a signal by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. Especially, the method includes the steps of receiving a handover command containing configurations for a second network, from a first network; performing a random access procedure to the second network; re-establishing a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity associated with a signaling radio bearer (SRB) based on the configurations for the second network, after a random access procedure to the second network successes; transmitting a radio resource control (RRC) message to the second network using the re-established PDCP entity. |
US12245085B2 |
Method and device for group handover in communication system
Disclosed are a method and a device for group handover in a communication system. An operation method of a header terminal comprises the steps of: transmitting a configuration information message including a first indicator indicating a measurement reporting subject to member terminals participating in the sidelink groupcast communication; if the measurement reporting subject indicated by the first indicator is the header terminal, receiving, from the member terminals, measurement reporting messages including results of measurement operations performed for at least one neighboring base station; and transmitting a configuration reporting message including the results of the measurement operations to a serving base station accessed by the header terminal. |
US12245083B2 |
Device category in 3GPP communications
A user equipment (UE) device may communicate according to a new device category satisfying specified QoS (quality of service) requirements while also satisfying specified link budget requirements, and/or additional optimization requirements. The UE device may communicate with a cellular base station according to a first mode of operation associated with the new device category, and may switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a second mode of operation associated with a second (pre-existing) device category in response to the link budget requirements exceeding a specified value and the quality of service requirements not being sensitive. The UE device may also switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a third mode of operation associated with a third (pre-existing) device type in response to the link budget requirement not exceeding the specified value, or the QoS requirements being sensitive and a downlink throughput requirement exceeding a specified throughput value. |
US12245082B2 |
Flexible negotiation of parameters in setup exchanges for wireless communication sessions
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques that may allow a device participating in a setup procedure to efficiently propose a range of values for a negotiated parameter. The techniques may reduce setup time, for example, allowing a responder to accept a value within the proposed range which may eliminate overhead associated with some of the back and forth message exchange of typical negotiations. |
US12245081B2 |
Threshold-based reporting for efficient admission control support for wireless networks
According to an example embodiment, a method may include transmitting, to at least one integrated access backhaul (IAB) (e.g., relay) node within a wireless network, link capacity threshold information, wherein the at least one IAB node is requested to perform threshold-based reporting of updated link capacity based on the link capacity threshold information; and receiving, from a first IAB node of the at least one IAB node, an updated link capacity report that was triggered (e.g., caused to be generated and/or transmitted) at the IAB node based on a change of available link capacity of the IAB node with respect to the capacity threshold information, the updated link capacity report indicating updated available link capacity of at least one a child backhaul link or at least one access link of the first IAB node. |
US12245076B2 |
Efficient signaling in non-terrestrial and terrestrial network deployment
Methods, apparatus, and systems for reducing signaling overhead and power consumption while ensuring mobility of communication devices in non-terrestrial network deployment as well as terrestrial network deployment are disclosed. In one example aspect, a wireless communication method includes receiving, by a communication device from a wireless communication node, information comprising a configuration parameter that corresponds to a length of a discontinuous reception cycle of the communication device. The method also includes performing, by the communication device, an operation based on the configuration parameter. |
US12245074B2 |
Methods and apparatus directed to non-access stratum procedures in connection with layer 2 relaying
Methods and apparatuses directed to non-access stratum procedures in connection with layer 2 relaying are provided. A method implemented in a first WTRU, may comprise: receiving, from a second WTRU, a first sidelink transmission comprising a first information indicating an amount of time for the first WTRU to refrain from transmitting, to the second WTRU; determining to reselect to a third WTRU responsive to receiving the first information and based on a second sidelink transmission from the third WTRU; reselecting or autonomous reselecting to the third WTRU; establishing a connection with the third WTRU; and transmitting, to the third WTRU, a third sidelink transmission comprising a second information indicating congestion as a cause for the reselection. |
US12245072B2 |
Supporting a large number of devices in wireless communications
A method for receiving a backoff value at a wireless station is presented. A traffic indication map is received at the station, wherein a backoff number is implicitly assigned to the station based on a position of the station within the traffic indication map. The backoff value is determined by multiplying the backoff number by a predetermined time value. |
US12245069B2 |
Client device for indication of non-fulfillment of latency requirements
A client device and a corresponding method for detecting and indicating non-fulfilment of latency requirements of uplink data packets associated with an application are provided. The client device monitors transmissions of uplink data packets associated with the application, in a first layer, for non-fulfilment of latency requirements of the uplink data packets. The monitoring is based on a Quality-of-Service (QoS) monitoring configuration. Upon detection of a non-fulfilment of a latency requirement, the client device provides a first indication to a second layer. The first indication provides an early warning about non-fulfillment of latency requirements of uplink data packets. According to the application, the client device is allowed to take precautionary actions to counteract possible negative consequences of the non-fulfillment of latency requirements. |
US12245067B2 |
System and method for exchanging data between a ship terminal and a shore terminal
A system and method for exchanging data between a shore terminal and one or more ship terminals is illustrated. For this purpose, one or more data partitions are maintained in a message store at the shore terminal, wherein each data partition corresponds to a ship terminal from the one or more ship terminals. Further, one or more packets are received from enterprise applications running at the shore terminal. Packet comprises a payload and a meta-information, wherein the payload corresponds to data which is to be exchanged and the meta-information corresponds to an address associated with destination. Meta-information is used to store the received packets to their corresponding data partitions. Further, on establishing a stable network connection between the target ship and the message store, the payload is then transmitted from the data partitions at the message store to their corresponding destination. |
US12245061B2 |
Network access device and method for the same, medium and computer program product
The present disclosure relates to a network access device and method for the same, medium and program product. A network access device, comprising: a memory storing instructions; and a processor executing at least the following operations: monitoring changes in channel state between user equipment and a network access device; storing and updating the list of static user equipment from the user equipment, wherein a monitored change in a channel state during a first time period is smaller than a first threshold; grouping two or more user equipment in the list of static user equipment into at least one first sounding group based on sounding grouping criteria; and performing channel sounding, in the absence of the list of static user equipment, for the at least one first sounding group at a second channel sounding frequency lower than a first channel sounding frequency. |
US12245059B2 |
Transmission method and communication device
A transmission method includes: transmitting a PDCCH in a first CORESET, where the number of RBs in the first CORESET is less than or equal to the number of RBs in a second CORESET, and the second CORESET is configured by higher layer signaling in a PBCH. |
US12245052B2 |
Reinforcement learning (RL) and graph neural network (GNN)-based resource management for wireless access networks
A computing node to implement an RL management entity in an NG wireless network includes a NIC and processing circuitry coupled to the NIC. The processing circuitry is configured to generate a plurality of network measurements for a corresponding plurality of network functions. The functions are configured as a plurality of ML models forming a multi-level hierarchy. Control signaling from an ML model of the plurality is decoded, the ML model being at a predetermined level (e.g., a lowest level) in the hierarchy. The control signaling is responsive to a corresponding network measurement and at least second control signaling from a second ML model at a level that is higher than the predetermined level. A plurality of reward functions is generated for training the ML models, based on the control signaling from the MLO model at the predetermined level in the multi-level hierarchy. |
US12245051B2 |
Data collection reporting for non-terrestrial network cells
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for data collection for non-terrestrial networks (NTN). One aspect provides a method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes transmitting an indication of a capability of the UE to connect to a network via both terrestrial network (TN) cells and non-terrestrial network (NTN) cells and transmitting one or more data collection reports in accordance with the indicated capability. |
US12245044B2 |
System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data. |
US12245040B2 |
Provision of location-specific user information
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method, comprising: receiving user information provided by a user equipment, associating spatiotemporal information with the user information on the basis of location of at least one wireless access network device in communication with the user equipment, generating a proof of location indication transaction associated with the user information on the basis of the spatiotemporal information, and providing the proof of location indication transaction to a distributed ledger. |
US12245038B2 |
Sensor misbehavior detection system utilizing communications
Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, processes, and computer-readable media for wireless communications. For example, an example of a process includes detecting an object based on sensor data from at least one sensor of the network device. The process further includes receiving, by the network device, a vehicle-based message comprising message data related to the object. The process further includes comparing, by the network device, the sensor data and the message data and detecting, by the network device, malicious behavior based on the comparing. |
US12245037B2 |
Implementing confidence metrics in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for enhancing vehicle operations safety using coordinating vehicle platooning or enhancing platooning safety against location spoofing attacks. In one example, a source user equipment (UE) detects a potential spoofing event associated with location information being altered in an unauthorized manner, the source UE may transmit a request to a platoon control system (PCS) to join a vehicle platoon. In another example, a first UE associated with a lead vehicle in an existing platoon may detect a potential spoofing event associated with location information being altered in an unauthorized manner. The lead vehicle may transmit to a second UE of another vehicle in the platoon an indication of the detection and a request to exchange the respective roles in the platoon. The PCS may also monitor the conditions of the first and the second UEs, and arrange for the platoon reorganization. |
US12245035B2 |
User authentication at access control server using mobile device
A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by an access control server, an authentication request message comprising a credential or a token from an access device, after the access device receives the credential or the token from a portable device of a user. The method also includes responsive to receiving the authentication request message, transmitting, by the access control server, a challenge message to a user device associated with the user; generating, by the access control server, an authentication indicator. The method also includes transmitting, by the access control server, an authentication response message including the authentication indicator to the access device. |
US12245030B2 |
Blockchain secured polyphonic radio (PR) wireless mesh networks using pulse-based communications (PBC) methods and apparatus
A networking architecture that incorporates the security of Blockchain distributed ledgers as an authentication layer, while connecting mesh nodes using secure, pulse-based wide-band and ultra wide-band communication technology to provide a nearly undetectable, unbreakable, and dynamic wireless communication mesh architecture that can securely transmit data, voice and video over short ranges, in one embodiment, up to 1 Km, is disclosed. |
US12245028B1 |
Intelligent interface mechanism for an electronic system
Disclosed is an intelligent mechanism providing an electronic system with a customized and dynamically programmable user interface based on user or machine defined criteria. |
US12245027B2 |
Physical uplink channel handling based on channel security
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify a set of security levels for a set of physical uplink channels, wherein the set of physical uplink channels are overlapping in time. The UE may transmit one or more of the set of physical uplink channels based at least in part on the set of security levels for the set of physical uplink channels. Numerous other aspects are described. |
US12245016B2 |
Audio workstation control over computing networks
An audio mixing system including an on-site digital audio workstation and an off-site audio workstation may be provided. The on-site digital audio workstation may be configured to receive a number of audio data channels and may produce a multi-channel mix by mixing the number of audio data channels. The off-site audio workstation may be coupled, by a remote dynamic host configuration protocol server, to the digital audio workstation and may transmit mixing control data to the digital audio workstation, thereby changing properties of the multi-channel mix. |
US12245011B2 |
Active noise reduction acoustic unit and sound-producing unit
Disclosed are an active noise reduction acoustic unit and a sound-producing unit, the active noise reduction acoustic unit includes a casing; a baseplate which is arranged in the casing and separates the casing into a first accommodating cavity and a second accommodating cavity; the first accommodating cavity and the second accommodating cavity are in communication with each other, the second accommodating cavity being provided therein with a feedback microphone, and the feedback microphone being configured to pick up noise signals; and the first accommodating cavity is provided therein with a moving iron speaker which can vibrate and produce sound according to the noise signals. |
US12245008B2 |
Dynamic audio optimization
Systems and methods for dynamic audio optimization associated with digital content are provided. One or more audio profiles including one or more audio settings for one or more audio output devices available to a user may be stored in memory. An incoming audio stream associated with a current interactive session of the user and real-world audio within an identified real-world space where the user is located may be monitored. One or more audio deviations may be detected based on a comparison of the incoming audio stream and the real-world audio within the identified real-world space. An audio profile associated with the current interactive session may be automatically recalibrated to modify at least one of the audio settings. The audio output device may then process audio of the incoming audio stream in accordance with the at least one modified audio setting. |
US12244994B2 |
Processing of audio signals from multiple microphones
A first device includes a memory configured to store instructions and one or more processors configured to receive audio signals from multiple microphones. The one or more processors are configured to process the audio signals to generate direction-of-arrival information corresponding to one or more sources of sound represented in one or more of the audio signals. The one or more processors are also configured to and send, to a second device, data based on the direction-of-arrival information and a class or embedding associated with the direction-of-arrival information. |
US12244993B2 |
Wireless charging interface
A headset charging dock includes a headset mechanical support configured to hang a first headset by a headband of the first headset; and a wireless charging interface for the first headset, the wireless charging interface integrated in the headset mechanical support. |
US12244982B2 |
Mapping ports in a passive optical network
Mapping of ports to other network components is generated by physically bending a fiber optic cable and then determining which optical network terminals experience a signal power loss (or receive attenuated signals) based on the bending. The physical bending can be done using a bending tool and the optical network terminals that experience the signal power loss can be identified using a back-end database operation. Generally, the correspondence between the physical bending and the power loss at the downstream components and or upstream components of the network is used to create the mapping of the ports at the splitter level. |
US12244981B2 |
Identification device for connection cables in telecommunication-network jumper boards
Each of the opposite ends of a patch cord carries a connector (20), wherein the identifier device (ID) has a body (30) in a “U” shape, having a basic leg (31) to be seated against an upper face (21) of the connector (20) and provided with an outwardly facing housing (33) and with at least one projection (34) facing inwardly of the body (30) and to be fitted inside of a crimping cavity (25) of the connector (20), the body (30) further having two side legs (32) than can be seated against respective opposite side faces (22) of the connector (20) and incorporating an inner end tooth (35) to be seated against the lower face (23) of the connector (20); an identifier tag (40) positioned on the housing (33); and a cover (50) closing the housing (33) and retaining the identifier tag (40) within the latter. |
US12244975B2 |
Method and system for balancing the load of an image generator
A display system defining an expected position for a user with respect to a screen having first and second segments positioned so as to never simultaneously fall at least partially within a targeted field of view when the user is at the expected position, the system comprising: an image generator paired with a first projector covering the first segment and a second projector covering the second segment, the image generator being configured to generate a first image to be projected on the first segment and a second image to be projected on the second segment; a first module for determining that the first segment falls at least partially within the targeted field of view; and a second module for controlling hardware resources of the image generator to prioritize the generation of the first image when the first segment falls at least partially within the targeted field of view. |
US12244974B1 |
Vehicular projection system
A vehicular projection system is disclosed. The projection system may include a projector that is operatively connected to a vehicle, where the operation of the projector is facilitated by utilizing sensors operatively connected to the vehicle. In embodiments, the vehicle is powered by one or more rechargeable batteries and is equipped with numerous sensors. The sensors continually retrieve data from the area surrounding the vehicle and share collected data with a computer system associated with the vehicle. The computer system processes the data creating directions for the automotive controls of the vehicle which transport the vehicle to an appropriate location. |
US12244973B1 |
On-device motion detection
Systems and techniques are described for motion detection. In various examples, a camera device may initiate execution of a non-computer vision-based motion detection process. In some examples, the camera device may initiate execution of a computer vision-based classification process during the execution of the non-computer vision-based motion detection process. In various examples, first result data may be determined by the non-computer vision-based motion detection process. In various examples, the execution of the computer vision-based classification process may be terminated based at least in part on the first result data. |
US12244972B2 |
Substrate processing monitoring apparatus based on imaging video data, substrate processing apparatus, substrate processing monitoring method, and storage medium
A monitoring apparatus for a substrate processing apparatus includes: an imaging unit that captures an image of a nozzle of the substrate processing apparatus and a surface of a substrate held by a substrate holder of the substrate processing apparatus; a monitoring data generation unit that generates monitoring video data based on imaging video data captured by the imaging unit during an execution of a substrate process performed by the substrate processing apparatus including a first process and a second process; and a monitoring condition changing unit that changes a generation condition of the monitoring video data during the execution of the substrate process so that at least a resolution or a number of frames of the monitoring video data during an execution of the second process is different from the monitoring video data during an execution of the first process. |
US12244970B2 |
Method and system for providing at least one image captured by a scene camera of a vehicle
The present disclosure relates to a method of providing at least one image of at least one real object captured by at least one scene camera of a plurality of scene cameras mounted on a vehicle. The method includes: providing camera poses of respective scene cameras of the plurality of scene cameras relative to a reference coordinate system associated with the vehicle, providing user attention data related to a user captured by an information capturing device, providing at least one attention direction relative to the reference coordinate system from the user attention data, determining at least one of the scene cameras among the plurality of scene cameras according to the at least one attention direction and the respective camera pose of the at least one of the scene cameras, and providing at least one image of at least one real object captured by the at least one of the scene cameras. |
US12244967B2 |
Pixel-level based micro-feature extraction
Techniques are disclosed for extracting micro-features at a pixel-level based on characteristics of one or more images. Importantly, the extraction is unsupervised, i.e., performed independent of any training data that defines particular objects, allowing a behavior-recognition system to forgo a training phase and for object classification to proceed without being constrained by specific object definitions. A micro-feature extractor that does not require training data is adaptive and self-trains while performing the extraction. The extracted micro-features are represented as a micro-feature vector that may be input to a micro-classifier which groups objects into object type clusters based on the micro-feature vectors. |
US12244966B2 |
Providing template rooms within a virtual conferencing system
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing template rooms within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide for providing an interface to configure a template room for virtual conferencing; receiving, via the interface, an indication of user input specifying a configuration for the template room; accessing a data file comprising values for generating plural rooms based on the configuration for the template room; and providing, based on the configuration for the template room and on the data file, for virtual conferencing between plural participants across the plural rooms. |
US12244963B2 |
Vehicular vision system
A vehicular vision system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) installed in a vehicle that connects via a plurality of coaxial cables of the vehicle with a plurality of vehicular cameras of the vehicle. Each camera is operable to capture image data. The coaxial cables (i) carry image data captured by the respective camera from the respective camera to the ECU, (ii) carries camera control data from the ECU to the respective camera and (iii) connects a DC power supply of the ECU to the respective camera for powering the respective camera. The camera control data is carried by the respective coaxial cable from the ECU to the respective camera at a control data carrier frequency that is lower than an image data carrier frequency at which image data captured by the respective camera is carried by the respective coaxial cable from the respective camera to the ECU. |
US12244962B2 |
Systems and methods for generating time-lapse videos
Positions of an image capture device may be used to determine a position-based time-lapse video frame factor. Apparent motion between pairs of images may be used to determine a visual-based time-lapse video frame rate factor. A time-lapse video frame rate for a time-lapse video may be determined based on the position-based time-lapse video frame factor and the visual-based time-lapse video frame rate factor. |
US12244961B2 |
Video processing system
A video processing system includes: an object movement information acquiring means for detecting a moving object moving in a plurality of segment regions from video data obtained by shooting a monitoring target area, and acquiring movement segment region information as object movement information, the movement segment region information representing segment regions where the detected moving object has moved; an object movement information and video data storing means for storing the object movement information in association with the video data corresponding to the object movement information; a retrieval condition inputting means for inputting a sequence of the segment regions as a retrieval condition; and a video data retrieving means for retrieving the object movement information in accordance with the retrieval condition and outputting video data stored in association with the retrieved object movement information, the object movement information being stored by the object movement information and video data storing means. |
US12244960B2 |
Information display system, information display method, and non-transitory recording medium
An information display system includes circuitry to acquire detection information including information on a posture of a user and information on a line of sight of the user, project an image onto a projection destination located in a projection direction with respect to the user, and cause the image to be projected onto the projection destination based on the detection information and information on the projection direction. |
US12244957B2 |
Vehicular vision system with multiple cameras
A vehicular vision system includes first and second cameras disposed at a vehicle and having respective overlapping fields of view that include a road surface of a road along which the vehicle is traveling. Image data captured by the cameras is provided to an image processor and is processed to determine relative movement of a road feature present in the captured image data. The determined relative movement of the road feature relative to the vehicle in first image data captured by the first camera is compared to the determined relative movement of the road feature relative to the vehicle in second image data captured by the second camera, and at least a rotational offset of the second camera relative to the first camera is determined and the image data are remapped to at least partially accommodate misalignment of the second camera relative to the first camera. |
US12244950B2 |
Image sensor with switchable in-pixel binning during readout
First and second readout circuits, each having a respective floating diffusion node, are coupled to a photodetection element within a pixel of an integrated-circuit image sensor. Following an exposure interval in which photocharge is accumulated within the photodetection element, a first portion of the accumulated photocharge is transferred from the photodetection element to the first floating diffusion node to enable generation of a first output signal within the first readout circuit, and a second portion of the accumulated photocharge is transferred from the photodetection element to the second floating diffusion node to enable generation of a second output signal within the second readout circuit. A digital pixel value is generated based on the first and second output signals. |
US12244948B2 |
Imaging apparatus, and imaging system having a plurality of pixels for outputting a signal based on a generated signal charge
Pixels output a first signal based on signal charge of a part of photoelectric conversion units of multiple photoelectric conversion units, and a second signal based on signal charge of multiple photoelectric conversion units. An imaging apparatus outputs signals based on the first signals and signals based on the second signals by reducing the number of signals based on the first signals as compared to the number of signals based on the second signals. |
US12244936B2 |
On-sensor image processor utilizing contextual data
In some examples, a sensor apparatus comprises: an array of pixel cells each including one or more photodiodes configured to generate a charge in response to light, and a charge storage device to convert the charge to output a voltage of an array of voltages, one or more an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured the convert the array of voltages to first pixel data, and an on-sensor controller configured to input the first pixel data into a machine-learning model to generate output data comprising prediction data associated with one or more features of the first pixel data, generate, based on the prediction data, second pixel data, the second pixel data associated with one or more transformed features of the first pixel data, and send, from the sensor apparatus to a separate receiving apparatus, the second pixel data. |
US12244935B2 |
On-board tuning of image signal processor for cameras of autonomous vehicles
In one embodiment, a system configures an image signal processor (ISP) of an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) with a first set of ISP configuration parameters, where the ISP is used to process raw image data of an image sensor of the ADV based on the first set of ISP configuration parameters. The system determines whether one or more criteria is satisfied, where the one or more criteria corresponds to an expected change in a characteristic of ambient light being perceived by the image sensor of the ADV. In response to determining that the one or more criteria is satisfied, the system configures the ISP of the ADV with a second set of ISP configuration parameters, where the ISP is used to apply an image processing algorithm to raw image data based on the second set of ISP configuration parameters to generate an image. |
US12244927B1 |
Multi-aperture cameras with at least one two state zoom camera
Multi-cameras and in particular dual-cameras comprising a Wide camera comprising a Wide lens and a Wide image sensor, the Wide lens having a Wide effective focal length EFLW and a folded Tele camera comprising a Tele lens with a first optical axis, a Tele image sensor and an OPFE, wherein the Tele lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens element group G1, a second lens element group G2 and a third lens element group G3, wherein at least two of the lens element groups are movable relative to the image sensor along the first optical axis to bring the Tele lens to two zoom states, wherein an effective focal length (EFL) of the Tele lens is changed from EFLT,min in one zoom state to EFLT,max in the other zoom state, wherein EFLTmin>1.5×EFLW and wherein EFLTmax>1.5×EFLTmin. |
US12244921B2 |
Low power continuous dashcam recording
A system including an image sensor mounted on a vehicle, memory storing data captured by the image sensor, a buffer for temporarily storing data, an inertial measurement unit (IMU) that senses an impact on the vehicle, a switch connected to the image sensor, a main system on chip (SOC) connected to the image sensor via the switch, that stores data in the memory, the main SOC being in a dormant power mode while the vehicle is parked or idle, and in an active power mode while the vehicle is moving, and transitioning from dormant mode to active mode when the IMU senses that the vehicle suffers an impact, and a low-power secondary SOC microcontroller connected to the image sensor via the switch, that manages power of the system and stores data in the buffer, the buffer storing data that was captured prior to and upon the IMU detecting an impact. |
US12244920B2 |
Energy reduction in always-on intelligent sensing for wearable devices
A wearable device can include a first sensor configured to sense first data, a second sensor configured to sense second data, an energy utilization of the first sensor being less than an energy utilization of the second sensor, and a processor configured to perform a comparison between the first data and a threshold value, if the comparison passes the threshold value, cause the second sensor to sense the second data and process the second data, and if the comparison fails the threshold value, cause the second sensor not to sense the second data. |
US12244914B2 |
Camera assembly with concave-shaped front face
The various implementations described herein include a video camera assembly that includes: (1) a housing; (2) an image sensor positioned within the housing and having a field of view corresponding to a scene in the smart home environment; and (3) a concave-shaped front face positioned in front of the image sensor such that light from the scene passes through the front face prior to entering the image sensor; where the front face includes: (a) an inner section corresponding to the image sensor; and (b) an outer section between the housing and the inner section, the outer section having a concave shape that extends from an outer periphery of the outer section to an inner periphery of the outer section; and where the concave shape extends around an entirety of the outer periphery. |
US12244913B2 |
Connection device for an electric and/or electronic appliance with an appliance housing, as well as appliance housing assembly and sensor assembly
A connection device for an appliance with an appliance housing includes a main body having an appliance-side end, a connection-side end facing away from the appliance-side end, and a conduit extending from the appliance-side end to the connection-side end, a securing element securing the main body to a wall section of the appliance housing, and a conductor leading through the main body from the connection-side end to the appliance-side end. The main body has a first abutment surface facing the appliance-side end. The securing element has a second abutment surface facing the first abutment surface. The first abutment surface and the second abutment surface enclose therebetween a receiving region for clamping reception of the wall section of the appliance housing. |
US12244906B1 |
Systems and methods for automatic control of television or media device via a set top box
A media device control system is provided herein. The media device control system receives a first indication of a geographic location of a set-top box associated with a user and receives a second indication of data representing one or more vacation time periods based on the geographic location. The media device control system determines that the user is predicted to be on vacation within a period of time based on the data representing the one or more vacation time periods and the geographic location. The media device control system receives user input confirming that the user will go on vacation within the period of time. The media device control system causes the set-top box to transmit signals to activate a television during the period of time based on the user input indicating that the user will go on vacation within the period of time. |
US12244904B2 |
Media program having selectable content depth
Systems, devices, apparatuses, components, methods, and techniques for generating and playing a selectable content depth media program are provided. Media content items are edited to produce selectable depth media segments which are assembled into selectable depth media programs. A media-playback device is configured to navigate and play the selectable depth media program through interaction by a listening user. The user selects the desired content depth for each media segment. |
US12244902B2 |
Video stream playback control method, device, and storage medium
A method and an apparatus for controlling video stream playback, and a storage medium are provided. In playing a video stream in a playback region of a mobile display screen, the method includes: obtaining a playback mode switching instruction based on a detected trigger event of a playback mode configuration control; setting a playback mode of the video stream to a target playback mode instructed by the playback mode switching instruction; and in a case that the playback mode of the video stream is set to the automatic playback mode, playing a video content next to a current video content if it is detected that the current video content has been played. |
US12244900B2 |
Methods and systems for recommending content in context of a conversation
A media guidance application may monitor a conversation among users, and identify keywords in the conversation, without the use of wakewords. The keywords are used to search for media content that is relevant to the on-going conversation. Accordingly, the media guidance application presents relevant content to the users, during the conversation, to more actively engage the users. A conversation monitoring window may be used to present conversation information as well as relevant content. A listening mode may be used to manage when the media guidance application processes speech from a conversation. The media guidance application may access user profiles for keywords, select content types, select content sources, and determine relevancy of media content, to provide content in context of a conversation. |
US12244898B2 |
Automated content recommendation using a metadata based content map
A content recommendation system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a content surfacing software code providing a user interface. The hardware processor executes the content surfacing software code to receive an initiation signal identifying a user, and, in response, identify content items as desirable content items to the user based on the user and metadata describing each of the desirable content items. In addition, the content surfacing software code generates a networked map of nodes corresponding respectively to the desirable content items, where the distances between nodes are based on the similarity of the metadata describing the desirable content items corresponding to the nodes. The content surfacing software code further outputs the networked map for display to the user via the user interface, the nodes being displayed as thumbnail images depicting the desirable content and selectable by the user. |
US12244897B2 |
Playback optimization method and system
A method of optimizing playback, the method including: determining whether a player is in a freezing state; obtaining freezing information of the player when the player is in the freezing state; and determining a freezing type based on the freezing information, wherein the freezing type is used to instruct the player to perform a corresponding optimization operation. According to the present application, a freezing classification may be performed based on the freezing information to obtain refined freezing types, and different optimization strategies may be formulated respectively based on the freezing types to implement playback optimization, thereby improving playback optimization effect and optimization efficiency and improving playback experience. |
US12244896B2 |
Automated content identification for binge watching of digital media using auto-skip processing
“Binge watching” of multiple episodes of a program is improved by the player device automatically skipping repeated portions of the program. Opening and closing credit scenes, for example, can be automatically skipped to thereby allow the viewer to progress through the entire season of programming at an even faster rate than was previously thought possible. Programming to be skipped may be identified by detecting audio or other digital fingerprints in the content itself, for example. Content to be skipped may be identified to the playback device according to anchor points or other references in the programming itself. |
US12244886B2 |
Providing visual guidance for presenting visual content in a venue
Systems, methods, and computer program products can provide visual guidance on presenting content on a media surface of a venue. These systems, methods, and computer program products can operate by mapping visual content onto a media surface of the venue and a key feature unique to the visual content and/or the media surface being extracted. Thereafter, these systems, methods, and computer program products can retrieve an experiment metric corresponding to the visual content and/or the media surface and can determine a viewer location metric and/or a media surface metric based on the experiment metric and the key feature. These systems, methods, and computer program products can utilize the viewer location metric and/or the media surface metric to provide a hint of the attribute to a user. |
US12244885B2 |
Personalized content related to content being viewed
Provided herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for utilizing a personalized content system to enhance an effectiveness of content being shown to the user via personalized content associated with the content. This method allows the platform to present the most relevant personalized in-channel content to the users, in a user interface, which then correspondingly helps drive user interest. This method scans content to identify objects of interest located within the content, generates a query based on the identified objects of interest and a user profile, searches content sources for related content, associates the related content with an occurrence of a corresponding identified object of interest within the content and communicates, to the user device, the content and the related content for instantiation through a user interface of the user device. |
US12244883B2 |
System and method for generating a live output stream manifest based on an event
A system is provided for generating a live output stream manifest based on an event. Each of a set of discrete service engines ingest a portion of a programming schedule comprising a playlist of media content. Based on processing of source manifests encapsulated by the media content, a collection of disparate manifest units is obtained. The collection of disparate manifest units is stored as indexed disparate manifest units in a data store based on a set of indexing parameters. Based on an event including a set of indexed disparate manifest units retrieved from the data store, a live output stream manifest is generated during a current iteration in response to a client request comprising a set of client request parameters. The retrieval of the set of indexed disparate manifest units is performed just-in-time based on a query that corresponds to the set of client request parameters. |
US12244879B2 |
Media presentation description
A method for indicating repeat occurrences of advertisements in media content may include one or more of the following. The method may include inserting a first descriptor element for a media content in a media presentation description (MPD) associated with the media content. The method may include inserting a second descriptor element for a repeat occurrence of the media content in the MPD. The second descriptor element may indicate that, during the repeat occurrence of the media content, the media content be presented from the beginning. |
US12244875B2 |
Asserting and establishing provenance of media content during live streaming
Lightweight mechanisms provide a way to assert provenance when live streaming media content and establish provenance upon playback. For example, a provenance claim generator generates a key pair including a live-stream private key and live-stream public key. The claim generator signs, with a long-term private key reliably associated with a sender, manifest metadata including the live-stream public key, thereby producing a manifest signature. During live streaming, the claim generator signs respective portions of media content with the live-stream private key, producing portion signatures for the respective portions. A provenance claim validator receives the manifest signature and manifest metadata. The claim validator verifies the manifest metadata using a long-term public key (reliably associated with the sender) and the manifest signature. During live streaming, the claim validator verifies the respective portions of the media content using the live-stream public key and the portion signatures for the respective portions. |
US12244872B2 |
Wrapped reshaping for codeword augmentation with neighborhood consistency
An input image of a first bit depth in an input domain is received. Forward reshaping operations are performed on the input image to generate a forward reshaped image of a second bit depth in a reshaping domain. An image container containing image data derived from the forward reshaped image is encoded into an output video signal of the second bit depth. |
US12244869B2 |
Image reshaping in video coding using rate distortion optimization
Given a sequence of images in a first codeword representation, methods, processes, and systems are presented for image reshaping using rate distortion optimization, wherein reshaping allows the images to be coded in a second codeword representation which allows more efficient compression than using the first codeword representation. Syntax methods for signaling reshaping parameters are also presented. |
US12244867B2 |
Quantization parameter signaling
A quantization parameter signalling mechanism for both SDR and HDR content in video coding is described using two approaches. The first approach is to send the user-defined QpC table directly in high level syntax. This leads to more flexible and efficient QP control for future codec development and video content coding. The second approach is to signal luma and chroma QPs independently. This approach eliminates the need for QpC tables and removes the dependency of chroma quantization parameter on luma QP. |
US12244866B2 |
Device for transmitting point cloud data, method for transmitting point cloud data, device for receiving point cloud data, and method for receiving point cloud data
A method for transmitting point cloud data according to embodiments may comprise the steps of: encoding the point cloud data; and/or transmitting a bitstream including the point cloud data and signaling information. A method for receiving point cloud data according to embodiments may comprise the steps of: receiving a bitstream including the point cloud data and signaling information; decoding the point cloud data; and/or rendering the point cloud data. |
US12244864B2 |
Efficient implementation of matrix-based intra-prediction
A method for decoding a predetermined block of a picture using intra-prediction by reading, for each of predetermined intra-prediction blocks, from a data stream, a mode index identifying a matrix-based intra-prediction mode is disclosed. Samples of each predetermined intra-prediction block are predicted by computing a matrix-vector product between an input vector derived from reference samples and a prediction matrix associated with the identified matrix-based intra-prediction mode (k)—and associating components of an output vector obtained by the matrix-vector product onto sample positions of the predetermined block. Further predetermined intra-predicted blocks of the picture are predicted to obtain a prediction signal. A transformation flag is decoded from the data stream using context adaptive binary arithmetic coding, and a prediction residual is decoded and re-transformed using a reverse transformation based on the transformation flag to obtain a prediction residual signal. The prediction residual signal is used to correct the prediction signal. |
US12244863B2 |
Method and system for processing video content
Embodiments of the present disclosure provides systems and methods for processing video content. The methods include: reconstructing a chroma block based on a plurality of luma samples associated with the chroma block, wherein reconstructing the chroma block includes: determining whether the chroma block has non-zero chroma residuals; and in response to a determination that the chroma block has no non-zero chroma residuals, bypassing a process of averaging the plurality of luma samples, wherein the process of averaging is used for reconstructing the chroma block. |
US12244858B2 |
Scaling parameters for V-PCC
A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a bitstream comprising a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) patches in an atlas frame and a three-dimensional (3D) bounding box scale. The 2D patches are decoded. A point cloud is reconstructed by converting the 2D patches to a 3D patch coordinate system defined by each projection plane of the 3D bounding box. The 3D bounding box scale is applied to a 3D bounding box. |
US12244857B2 |
Image decoding method and apparatus
An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: acquiring image information including a block-based delta pulse code modulation (BDPCM) constraint flag indicating whether or not BDPCM is constrained with respect to an image; acquiring BDPCM-associated information regarding a current block on the basis of the BDPCM constraint flag; and generating reconstructed samples for the current block on the basis of the BDPCM-associated information. |
US12244852B2 |
Encoder for coded pictures having regions with common motion models
An encoder is configured to generate an encoded bitstream that can be decoded by a decoder that is configured to receive a bitstream. The bitstream includes a picture comprising a first contiguous region of a first plurality of coding blocks and a second contiguous region comprising a second plurality of coding blocks. The first plurality of blocks having a common motion model used to decode each of the blocks of the first region and the second plurality of blocks having local motion. |
US12244845B2 |
Image processing apparatus capable of converting image file such that all annotation information can be used, control method therefor, and storage medium
An image processing apparatus that is capable of converting an image file such that all annotation information recorded in the image file can be used. When converting a first-format image file including image data and annotation information on the image data to a second-format image file whose memory capacity of a predetermined area, where annotation information is recorded, is less than that of the first-format image file, the image processing apparatus, when the annotation information included in the first-format image file is not predetermined annotation information whose data amount is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, records the annotation information into the predetermined area in the second-format image file, and, when the annotation information included in the first-format image file is the predetermined annotation information, records link information on the annotation information in the predetermined area in the second-format image file. |
US12244841B2 |
Global motion for merge mode candidates in inter prediction
A video encoder is configured to encode a bit stream including a coded picture having a first contiguous region and a second contiguous region, the first contiguous region containing common motion, the second contiguous region containing local motion. The encoded bitstream is provided to a decoder which is configured to decode the first contiguous region of the coded picture to reconstruct the common motion by utilizing a motion model common to all of the coding blocks in the first region. A merge candidate list is selectively created and a merge candidate is selected to decode the first region based on the common motion model. The second contiguous region is decoded using individual motion information for each coding block in the second contiguous region. |
US12244834B2 |
Utilizing hierarchical structure for neural network based tools in video coding
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for video encoding and decoding. Video data including a current picture is received. A virtual reference frame is generated for the current picture based on hierarchical level associated with the current picture and a nearest decoded picture. The video data is decoded based on the generated reference frame. |
US12244830B2 |
Video or image coding based on mapping of luma samples and scaling of chroma samples
According to the disclosure of the present document, the granularity of value(s) of a chroma residual scaling factor can be controlled through explicit signaling of information on the value(s) of the chroma residual scaling factor. In addition, chroma residual scaling can be efficiently performed through implicit derivation of the information on the value(s) of the chroma residual scaling factor. |
US12244822B2 |
Method for acquiring motion vectors, prediction method and device
A method for acquiring motion vectors includes: obtaining a number of related motion vectors of a current block, wherein the number of related motion vectors are motion vectors of a related block of the current block, a prediction mode of the related block is the same as a current prediction mode of the current block, an encoding has been completed; determining weights of at least part of the number of related motion vectors; and calculating a weighted motion vector of the current block based on at least part of the number of related motion vectors and the weights of at least part of the plurality of related motion vectors. |
US12244811B2 |
Combined screen content coding mode
A method of visual media processing video, includes determining that palette mode is to be used for processing a first portion of a video block and intra block copy (IBC) mode is to be used for processing a second portion of the video block, and performing further processing of the first portion of the video block using the palette mode and the second portion of the video using the IBC mode, wherein indications of the first portion of the video block processed using the palette mode and indications of the second portion of the video block processed using the IBC mode are included in a palette index identifying the first portion of the video block and the second portion of the video block. |
US12244808B2 |
Method of deriving quantization parameter with differential and predicted quantization parameters
A method for encoding an image using intra prediction can include determining an intra prediction mode of a current block, generating a mode group indicator and a prediction mode index specifying the intra prediction mode of the current block, constructing a most probable mode (MPM) group including three intra prediction modes determined using a left and an above intra prediction mode of the current block. The method can further include generating a prediction block based on the intra prediction mode of the current block specified by the mode group indicator and the prediction mode index, generating a residual block of the current block, generating a quantization block by transforming and quantizing the residual block. The method can include scanning the quantized block using a scan pattern determined based on the intra prediction mode and the size of a transform unit, and entropy-encoding the scanned information of the quantized block. |
US12244807B2 |
Determining adaptive quantization matrices using machine learning for video coding
Techniques related to adaptive quantization matrix selection using machine learning for video coding are discussed. Such techniques include applying a machine learning model to generate an estimated quantization parameter for a frame and selecting a set of quantization matrices for encode of the frame from a number of sets of quantization matrices based on the estimated quantization parameter. |
US12244805B2 |
Chroma quantization parameter (QP) derivation for video coding
Techniques are described for decoding video data. A video decoder may determine chroma blocks in a chroma quantization group (QG) of the video data, determine a quantization parameter predictor that is the same for each of the chroma blocks of the chroma QG, determine an offset value that is the same for two or more of the chroma blocks of the chroma QG, determine a quantization parameter value for each of the two or more of the chroma blocks in the chroma QG based on the quantization parameter predictor and the offset value inverse quantize coefficients of one or more residual blocks for the chroma blocks based on the determined quantization parameter value, generate the one or more residual blocks based on the inverse quantized coefficients, and reconstruct the chroma blocks based on the one or more residual blocks. |
US12244804B2 |
Methods and apparatus of video coding in 4:4:4 chroma format
An electronic apparatus performs a method of coding video data. The method comprises: receiving, from the bitstream, the video data corresponding to a coding unit, wherein the coding unit is coded by intra-prediction mode or inter-prediction mode; receiving a first syntax element from the video data, wherein the first syntax element indicates whether the coding unit has been coded using adaptive color-space transform (ACT); processing the video data to generate residuals of the coding unit; in accordance with a determination based on the first syntax element that the coding unit has been coded using the ACT, performing a clipping operation that confines a dynamic range of the residuals of the coding unit within a predefined range; and applying an inverse ACT to the residuals of the coding unit after the clipping operation. |
US12244799B2 |
Image encoding method and apparatus and image decoding method and apparatus
An image encoding and decoding method and apparatus are provided. The image decoding method includes obtaining a difference quantization parameter for a current coding unit from a bitstream, based on an area of a predefined difference quantization parameter signaling unit; obtaining a quantization parameter for the current coding unit by using a predicted quantization parameter for the current coding unit and the difference quantization parameter for the current coding unit; obtaining at least one inverse-quantized coefficient by performing inverse-quantization on at least one coefficient obtained based on residual information of the current coding unit included in the bitstream, based on the quantization parameter for the current coding unit; obtaining a residual block of the current coding unit, based on the inverse-quantized coefficient; and obtaining a reconstructed block of the current coding unit, based on the residual block of the current coding unit. |
US12244798B2 |
Methods and apparatus to perform dirty region reads and writes to reduce memory bandwidth usage
An example apparatus includes image processing circuitry to determine an uncovered region of a background image in a current video frame relative to the background image in a previous video frame, the uncovered region obscured in the previous video frame by a first foreground region of the previous video frame, and the uncovered region uncovered in the current video frame based on movement of a second foreground region in the current video frame relative to the first foreground region of the previous video frame, and encoder circuitry to generate an updated frame portion by encoding the second foreground region and dirty blocks of the background image corresponding to the uncovered region without encoding static blocks of the background image, the static blocks not corresponding to the uncovered region, and store the updated frame portion in the at least one memory. |
US12244797B2 |
Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method
An encoder includes processing circuitry and a memory coupled to the processing circuitry. Using the memory, the processing circuitry is configured to: change values of pixels in a first block and a second block to filter a boundary between the first block and the second block. The pixels include type one pixels and type two pixels different from the type one pixels. The first set of filter coefficients applied to the type one pixels in the first block and the second set of filter coefficients applied to the type one pixels in the second block are selected to be asymmetrical with respect to the boundary. |
US12244796B2 |
Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method
A decoder comprises circuitry and memory. The circuitry, using the memory, in operation, determines a number of first pixels and a number of second pixels used in a deblocking filter process, wherein the first pixels are located at an upper side of a block boundary and the second pixels are located at a lower side of the block boundary, and performs the deblocking filter process on the block boundary. The number of the first pixels and the number of the second pixels are selected from among candidates, wherein the candidates include at least 4 and M larger than 4. Response to a location of the block boundary being a predetermined location, the number of the first pixels used in the deblocking filter process is limited to be 4. |
US12244795B2 |
Device and method for intra-prediction
The present application relates to the field of picture processing, for example still picture/image and/or video picture/image coding. In particular, the application relates to a device and corresponding method for intra-predicting a prediction block of a video image. The device is configured to select a directional intra-prediction mode from a set of directional intra-prediction modes, where each directional intra-prediction mode corresponds to a different intra-prediction angle. Further, the device is configured to select a filter from a set of filters based on the selected directional intra-prediction mode. Further, the device is configured to determine, for a prediction sample of the prediction block, a reference sample from a set of reference samples based on the selected directional intra-prediction mode, and apply the selected filter to the determined reference sample. |
US12244793B2 |
Method and apparatus with neural codec
A neural codec includes a first simulated predictor for predicting a first block corresponding to a target block within a current frame, wherein the first block is predicted in accordance with the target block of the to-be-predicted current frame and pixels of neighbor blocks adjacent to the target block being input to the first simulated predictor, a second simulated predictor for predicting a second block corresponding to a target block using a reference block of a frame determined based on a prediction mode, wherein the second block is predicted in accordance with the reference block of a reference frame adjacent to the current frame and the target block being input to the second simulated predictor, and a selection network configured to select, based on the prediction mode, one of the first block and the second block as a predicted block. |
US12244791B2 |
History-based motion vector prediction
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for processing history-based motion vector prediction (HMVP). A video coding device may generate a history-based motion vector prediction (HMVP) list for a current block. The video coding device derive an HMVP candidate from a previously coded block. The HMVP candidate may include motion information associated with a neighboring block of the current block, one or more reference indices, and a bi-prediction weight index. The video coding device may add the HMVP candidate to the HMVP list for motion compensated prediction of a motion vector associated with the current block. The video coding device use one HMVP selected from the HMVP list to perform motion compensated prediction of the current block. The motion compensated prediction may be performed using the motion information associated with the neighboring block of the current block, the one or more reference indices, and the bi-prediction weight index. |
US12244787B2 |
Control method of light field display
A control method of a light field display is provided. A control unit inputs a focal length signal to a zoom lens, so that the zoom lens is periodically switched among corresponding specific focal lengths. The control unit inputs a corresponding display signal to a display unit of a display module according to one of the specific focal lengths, and the display module generates one of image lights, the image lights respectively have different imaging distances corresponding to the specific focal lengths after passing through the zoom lens. The control unit inputs a corresponding response time signal to the display module according to one of the specific focal lengths, the one of image lights emitted by the display module passes through the zoom lens within one of response times, and the light field display projects the one of image lights to form an image at the corresponding imaging distance. |
US12244783B2 |
Image data encoding/decoding method and apparatus
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for decoding an image. A method includes receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding the image; dividing a first coding block into a plurality of second coding blocks; generating a prediction block of a second coding block based on syntax information obtained from the bitstream; and reconstructing the second coding block based on the prediction block and a residual block of the second coding block, the residual block being obtained by performing a dequantization and an inverse-transform on quantized transform coefficients from the bitstream. The first coding block has a recursive division structure. The first coding block is divided based on at least one of a quad tree division, a binary tree division or a triple tree division. |
US12244780B2 |
Printing system and sub printer
A printing system includes: a main printer configured to print an image sheet by sheet; a sub printer communicably connected to the main printer and configured to print an image sheet by sheet; and a storage medium that is configured to store image data of a plurality of images and from which the main printer is able to read out the image data. In response to changing of a state of the sub printer, the sub printer notifies the main printer of a changed state. The main printer regularly checks print situations of the main printer and the sub printer. In accordance with the print situations that are regularly checked, the main printer determines which of the printers is to be used for printing of an image for each of the image data of the plurality of images. |
US12244776B2 |
Image reading device and image reading method
An image reading device includes a tray, a paper feed roller that conveys a sheet, a first sensor that detects a front end and a rear end of the sheet, a second sensor that detects the front end of the sheet, and a scanner that reads an image on a front side of the sheet and reads an image on a back side of the sheet. A controller determines a first time duration that elapses from the detection of the front end of the sheet by the first sensor to the detection of the rear end of the sheet by the first sensor and operates the scanner to read the image on the back side of the sheet over a second time duration equal in length to the first time duration. The second time duration begins after the front end of the sheet is detected by the second sensor. |
US12244773B2 |
Multiple device conferencing with improved destination playback
Disclosed are systems and methods for providing a virtual conference using personal devices of the participants. In one embodiment, a proximity value is generated and encoded in audio streams from each device. A server can compare proximity values and enable a suitable microphone, while disabling the remaining microphones. Systems and techniques for improving capturing and synchronization of source audio and improved audio playback at destination are also disclosed. |
US12244771B2 |
Automatic multi-camera production in video conferencing
A video conference system has a multi-camera setup to allow automatic switching of video feeds without intervention from a video conference host. The video conference system obtains video feeds from multiple cameras at the same location and displays the video feed from one of the cameras in a primary area of a display. The video conference system determines a relevance score for each of the video feeds. The relevance scores are associated with a participant engagement score. The video conference system automatically displays a video feed in the primary area of the display based on a corresponding relevance score of the video feed. |
US12244770B2 |
Conferencing system, server, information processing device and non-transitory recording medium
A conferencing system that is connected to multiple information processing devices over a network and provides each of the multiple information processing devices with a conference screen, comprises: a first participant information obtaining unit that obtains first participant information corresponding to a first participant who participates in a video conference by using each of the multiple information processing devices; a second participant information obtaining unit that obtains second participant information related to a second participant who indirectly participates in the video conference together with the first participant; and a display controller that: displays the first participant information obtained by the first participant information obtaining unit in a predetermined display area on the conference screen; and displays the second participant information obtained by the second participant information obtaining unit in the predetermined display area on the conference screen. |
US12244769B2 |
Voice message callback action enabling and disabling
A callback action is enabled for a first user in association with a voice message (VM) that is in a shared VM inbox. A determination is made that the VM is not responded to within a response time. Responsive to determining that the VM is not responded to within the response time, the VM is reassigned from the first user to a second user. Responsive to reassigning the VM from the first user to the second user, the callback action is enabled for the second user and is disabled for the first user. |
US12244767B2 |
System and method for unified autodial campaign management
A system and method for enhanced outbound campaign management, comprising a campaign management console, a data services engine, a traffic shaper, an agent desktop, Control agent desktop, an autodialer, and a simple dialer which allows enterprises to conduct unified communications campaigns without differentiating between prior expressed written consent consumers, and those who have not provided prior expressed written consent, to being autodialed or receiving artificial or pre-recorded voice messages, allowing for compliance with regulations regarding such consent without splitting or bifurcating or otherwise hampering communications campaigns for the enterprise customers. |
US12244764B2 |
Captioned telephone service system for providing original number service and anti-spam function
A captioned telephone service (CTS) system for blocking spam calls includes a CTS server and a database. A CTS user's equipment is associated with a CTS number and an original phone number. The CTS server is configured to allow the user to elect to use an original number service and a call drop service. If the original number service is set, when the user places a phone call to a peer by using the CTS number, the original phone number, instead of the CTS number, is displayed as caller identification on a communications device of the peer. The CTS server assists the user to set up call forwarding and checks whether the call forwarding was successfully set. If the call drop service is set, the CTS server drops a call, directed to the CTS number. However, emergent calls or emergency related calls are excluded from the call drop service. |
US12244758B2 |
Systems and methods for processing calls
Methods and systems are described for authenticating calls. An example method may comprise receiving a message indicative of a call request. Header data associated with the message may be analyzed to determine an attestation value. A signature may be generated based on the attestation value. A signed message comprising the signature and at least a portion of the message may be sent. |
US12244755B2 |
Methods and interfaces for configuring a device in accordance with an audio tone signal
The present disclosure generally relates to interfaces and techniques for media playback on one or more devices. In accordance with some embodiments, an electronic device includes a display, one or more processors, and memory. The electronic device receives user input and, in response to receiving the user input, displays, on the display, a multi-device interface that includes: one or more indicators associated with a plurality of available playback devices that are connected to the device and available to initiate playback of media from the device, and a media playback status of the plurality of available playback devices. |
US12244744B2 |
Distributed ledger-based system, method and apparatus for managing tasks
A distributed ledger-based system, method and apparatus for managing tasks. An authorization record proposal is validated by a localized blockchain authorization network against a validated schema published by, in some cases, a core blockchain network. Once validated, it is published on a localized channel for use by other nodes to validate actions of the task as the task is being performed. Data relating to completed tasks may be shared in accordance with sharing information in the validated authorization record and the data may be deleted upon the occurrence of a predetermined condition. |
US12244743B2 |
Systems and methods for performing blockchain operations using multi-party computation cohort management groupings
Methods and systems described herein relate to an improved platform that provides secure, encrypted communications across distributed computer networks when coordinating cryptography-based digital repositories in order to perform blockchain operations in decentralized applications. More specifically, the methods and systems provide this improved platform by introducing additional abstraction layers into a production service for computing signatures during multi-party computation (MPC) signing procedures. |
US12244741B2 |
Physical unclonable function (PUF) security key generation
Systems and methods of generating a security key for an integrated circuit device include generating a plurality of key bits with a physically unclonable function (PUF) generator. Unstable bits of the plurality of key bits are identified, and a security key is generated based on the plurality of key bits, wherein the security key excludes the identified unstable bits. |
US12244740B2 |
Integrated circuit for adaptive PUF stabilization process
An IC for adaptive PUF stabilization process includes a PUF stabilizer and a non-volatile memory. The PUF stabilizer has PUF units, a statistic processor, a majority voting generator, and a dark-bit masker. The statistic processor is connected to the PUF units, and performs measurements on the PUF units to output results. The majority voting generator is connected to the statistic processor to accumulate the results into a statistic result, which is output as a PUF bit. The dark-bit masker is connected to the PUF units, and marks unstable PUF units bit as dark-bit and create dark-bit masks. The non-volatile memory is connected to the PUF stabilizer to store the dark-bit masks, and the dark-bits are replaced by specific bit sequences provided by the PUF stabilizer. This decreases bit error rates of the PUF measurement results, and allows customization of the quantity of dark bits per dark-bit mask used. |
US12244738B2 |
Methods, devices and systems for managing user authentication in IIoT environments using hardware tokens
Methods, devices, and systems are provided for user authentication on a gateway device to perform steps of, receiving a user request communicated via a local area network (LAN) from a user system or device connected to the LAN, checking whether the gateway device is operating in a disconnected operational mode in response to the user request, selectively initiating a user authentication protocol when the gateway device is operating in the disconnected operational mode, wherein the user authentication protocol uses secret information stored in a user hardware token uniquely assigned to a particular user, authenticating the administrator user using the user authentication protocol that requires administrator secret information stored in a master hardware token connected to a system or device operated by the administrator user, and selectively authenticating the particular user based at least in part on results of the user authentication protocol. |
US12244731B2 |
Unity protocol consensus
A novel structured random sample consensus protocol to greatly improve blockchain and distributed ledger technology throughput and scalability, while maintaining decentralization and high levels of security. The invention leverages small committees of fixed sizes, called “Clans,” threshold cryptography, and logical virtual districts, called “Tribes,” in order to deterministically random sample disparate nodes for sentiment analysis on a transactions validity, thereby only requiring a relatively small subset of nodes to validate any particular transaction or batch of transactions thus enabling much greater concurrency and parallel processing compared to other more linearized consensus algorithms, while maintaining high security. |
US12244726B2 |
Data system with information provenance
A secure, integrated data system and method users both blockchain and Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technologies to achieve information provenance for data, particularly, mobile health device data. Using a blockchain to record and enforce data access policies removes the need to trust a single entity with gatekeeping the health data. Instead, participants form a consortium and collectively partake in verifying and enforcing access policies for data stored in private data silos. Data access and computation takes place inside of TEEs, which preserves data confidentiality and provides a verifiable attestation that can be stored on the blockchain for the purpose of information provenance. |
US12244725B2 |
Systems and methods for token authentication
In some embodiments, an authentication system may be configured to process one or more tokens that incorporates one or more tailored-wavelength-range coded patterns, codes represented within a steganographic image, or “overlapping” codes. As an example, such a token may include (i) one or more invisible-ink-printed patterns printed using infrared ink corresponding to different tailored wavelength ranges within the infrared light spectrum, (ii) one or more steganographic images in which invisible-ink-printed patterns are interweaved within the steganographic images, (iii) visible-ink-printed patterns and invisible-ink-printed patterns printed substantially within the visible ink portions of the visible-ink-printed patterns, or (iv) other features, where the invisible-ink-printed patterns correspond to one or more authentication codes or other data for token authentication. |
US12244717B1 |
Processing access requests on a service-to-service basis using a third-party identification token
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for processing access requests on a service-to-service basis using a third-party identification token. In particular, the disclosed systems can identify that a user is authenticated for a first computer service based on detecting a third-party identification token. Further, the disclosed systems can generate, by the first computer service, an access request comprising a requested action and the third-party identification token to a second computer service. Additionally, the disclosed systems can determine, by the second computer service, whether the access request is authorized based on determining that an authorization policy defined at the second computer service authorizes the requested action by the first computer service and that the third-party identification token is valid. Moreover, the disclosed systems can provide, to the first computer service, a response to the access request in response to determining whether the access request is authorized. |
US12244714B2 |
System and method for managing secrets in computing environments
Systems and methods for sharing secrets including passwords, keys, and other confidential information used in computing environments. A secrets record generated at a secrets vault client device is encrypted using an application key associated with a computing environment. The encrypted secrets record is stored in the secrets vault server. The secrets vault client device configures a sharing client device and associated with an access token. The secrets vault client device hashes the access token and sends to the secrets vault server as a client identifier. The sharing client device performs a first-time authentication using a hashed access token with the secrets vault server. Upon successful authentication, the sharing client device requests secrets records from the secrets vault server using the client identifier. |
US12244712B2 |
Artificial intelligence pipeline non-fungible token and execution method thereof
The present disclosure relates to a non-transitory storage medium for storing program code and a method of executing an artificial intelligence (AI) pipeline non-fungible token (NFT). The program code is executed by a hardware processor to mint a blockchain-based NFT including ownership information of the AI pipeline, request an execution of the program code performing a predetermined function in an event node executing the AI pipeline according to a request of execution of an NFT owner, connect to at least one worker node to execute a target AI pipeline of the NFT, receive an execution result value of the worker node to record a proof-of-work for the execution result value in the event node, and collect the execution result value of the worker node on which the proof-of-work is performed is performed to change a blockchain state. |
US12244709B2 |
Updating keys used for encryption of storage circuitry
A data processing apparatus is provided that includes storage circuitry. Communication circuitry responds to an access request comprising a requested index with an access response comprising requested data. Coding circuitry performs a coding operation using a current key to: translate the requested index to an encoded index of the storage circuitry at which the requested data is stored or to translate encoded data stored at the requested index of the storage circuitry to the requested data. The current key is based on an execution environment. Update circuitry performs an update, in response to the current key being changed, of: the encoded index of the storage circuitry at which the requested data is stored or the encoded data. |
US12244707B2 |
System and method for sharing an incrementally trained machine learning (ML) model from an edge device to one or more other edge devices in a peer to peer network
A method for sharing an incrementally trained machine learning (ML) model from an edge device to other edge devices that are associated with a peer to peer network is provided. The method includes (i) receiving event data at an edge device from among one or more edge devices of the peer to peer network upon the occurrence of an event at the edge device, (ii) incrementally training a base version of a ML model at the edge device based on the received event data, (iii) generating, a unique persistent file format of the incrementally trained ML model at the edge device, (iv) optimizing a payload associated with the unique persistent file format to include one or more parameters with associated weights changing beyond a predetermined configurable threshold and (v) encapsulating the unique persistent file format with a unique metadata. |
US12244706B2 |
Method of securely communicating data
According to one aspect of the technique of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for securely communicating data. The method includes: (a) establishing a first encryption scheme, a data integrity checking scheme, an encryption key and an authentication key through a communication connection with a receiver; (b) generating a random key; (c) generating secure data including random key information obtained by encrypting the random key using the encryption key and the first encryption scheme; authentication information generated based on the random key, the data integrity checking scheme and the authentication key; and data information obtained by encrypting data using the random key and a second encryption scheme whose operation load is lower than that of the first encryption scheme; and (d) transmitting the secure data to the receiver. |
US12244701B2 |
OAM measurement device independent quantum key distribution system based on real-time tracking compensation and method thereof
The disclosure discloses an OAM measurement device independent quantum key distribution system based on real-time tracking compensation and method thereof, which comprises a user side Alice, a user side Bob and a measuring unit; the user side Alice and the user side Bob realize real-time monitoring and phase distortion compensation of the channel environment by using strong pulse lasers from the measuring unit; the measuring unit utilizes an M-Z interferometer formed by a Dove prism to realize the separation of odd/even orbital angular momentum order photons, and measure Bell states of the photons with orbital angular momentum; the disclosure realizes OAM measurement device independent quantum key distribution system based on real-time tracking compensation, and the user uses the orbital angular momentum state for coding, thereby having the characteristics of good stability, high code rate and strong expansibility. |
US12244698B2 |
Quantum channel synchronization
The present invention relates to a quantum key distribution method 2000 for distributing a secret key over a quantum communication channel between a transmitter and a receiver, the method comprising the steps of: synchronizing S2100 a clock between the transmitter and the receiver, distributing S2200 the secret key from the transmitter to the receiver, wherein the synchronizing step S2100 comprises: a first transmitting step S2120 for transmitting a N-th bit of the clock from the transmitter to the receiver, a second transmitting step S2130 for transmitting acknowledgement of reception of the N-th bit from the receiver to the transmitter, a first checking step S2140 for checking if the N-th bit is a most significant bit of the clock, and an incrementing step S2150 for incrementing the value of N if the first checking step S2140 indicates that the N-th bit is not the most significant bit of the clock. |
US12244691B2 |
Secure installation of application keys
The present disclosure includes methods, devises and systems for preparing and installing one or more application keys owned by application owners in a remote device. The present disclosure further proposes methods, devices and systems for secure installation of subsequent application keys on a device utilising corresponding key derivation functions to associate an application with a respective policy and identifier using significantly lmv bandwidth for transfer of keys for execution of the respective application on the device. |
US12244690B2 |
Online secret encryption
A method includes receiving, by a server computer, a thin client identifier from a thin client on a communication device. The server computer can then retrieve an encrypted first cryptographic key based on the thin client identifier. The encrypted first cryptographic key is a first cryptographic key that is encrypted with a second cryptographic key. The server computer can initiate the sending of the encrypted first cryptographic key to the thin client. The server computer then receives an encrypted secret from the thin client, the encrypted secret being a secret encrypted with the first cryptographic key. |
US12244689B2 |
Method and apparatus for vertical federated learning
This disclosure relates to a method for vertical federated learning. In multiple participation nodes deployed in a multi-way tree topology, an upper-layer participation node corresponds to k lower-layer participation nodes. After the upper-layer participation node and the k lower-layer participation nodes exchange public keys with each other, the upper-layer participation node performs secure two-party joint computation with the lower-layer participation nodes with a first public key and second public keys as encryption parameters to obtain k two-party joint outputs of a federated model. Further, the upper-layer participation node aggregates the k two-party joint outputs to obtain a first joint model output corresponding to the federated model. As such, a multi-way tree topology deployment-based vertical federated learning architecture is provided, improving the equality of each participation node in a vertical federated learning process. |
US12244688B2 |
Computer-implemented systems and methods for using a blockchain to perform an atomic swap
Techniques are provided for a computer-implemented security method implemented on one or more blockchains. The method comprises the steps of: applying a one-way function to a first secret value accessible to a first user to create a first veiled secret value; communicating the first veiled secret value from the first user to a second user; receiving a second veiled secret value from the second user, wherein the second veiled secret value is created by applying a one-way function to a second secret value accessible to the second user; and constructing a first blockchain transaction comprising the first veiled secret value and the second veiled secret value, the first blockchain transaction arranged to be unlockable to transfer control of a first resource upon provision of both the first secret value and the second secret value to the first transaction. |
US12244685B2 |
Carry-based differential power analysis and its application to testing for vulnerability of SHA-2 and HMAC-SHA-2 to side channel attack
In a general aspect, a method for testing vulnerability of a cryptographic function (CF) to a side-channel attack includes providing a plurality of input values to the function, where the CF, for each input value calculates a sum of the input value and a first value of the CF, and replaces a second value of the CF with the sum. The method further includes measuring a set of samples including a respective side-channel leakage sample for each input value. The method also includes iteratively performing a series of operations including splitting the set of samples into a plurality of subsets based on the input values, calculating a respective value for each subset based on samples of the subset, and comparing the respective values for different subsets to discover respective bit values of the first value and the second value from their least significant bits to most significant bits. |
US12244682B2 |
Impatient system for querying stateless computing platforms
A system and method for issuing requests to a stateless computing platform is described. In an example implementation, the system may include a stateless computing platform configured to receive and service a first set of requests and a second set of requests from a stateful server. The stateful server may be configured to determine the first set of requests in association with a client operation, issue the first set of requests to the stateless computing platform, determine whether a cumulative percentage of requests in the first set of requests serviced by the stateless computing platform meets a threshold, reissue a remainder of the requests in the first set of requests as the second set of requests to the stateless computing platform responsive to determining that the cumulative percentage of requests in the first set of requests serviced by the stateless computing platform meets the threshold, and monitor, in parallel, the first set and the second set of requests until the remainder of the requests in either of the first set or the second set of requests is serviced by the stateless computing platform. |
US12244679B2 |
Edge cache segment prefetching
Devices, computer-readable media, and methods for pre-loading video chunks of a video program at an edge server are disclosed. For example, a processor may receive a manifest file for a video program, determine a bitrate for a first segment of the video program, request a video chunk of the first segment at the first bitrate from an edge server in accordance with the manifest file, and request a subset of a video chunk of a second segment of the video program from the edge server. |
US12244677B2 |
System and method for remotely interacting with cloud-based client applications
Systems and methods for enabling various devices to remotely interact with cloud-based client applications are provided. A method comprises receiving a first request from a first client device of a user to initiate an interactive session with a cloud-based client application, reserving an application engine for executing the cloud-based client application remotely from the first client device, receiving interaction data from the first client device as the user engages with a first media data associated with the cloud-based client application, modifying the cloud-based client application executing within the application engine that is reserved based on the interaction data received from the first client device, receiving a second request from the first client device to end the interactive session with the cloud-based client application that is modified, and deallocating the application engine that is reserved, wherein the application engine that is reserved is delinked from the first client device. |
US12244676B2 |
Information processing system, method for controlling the same, mobile terminal, and method for controlling the same
An information processing system includes a controller configured to control information of which is notified to a mobile terminal. The controller performs control to cause a notification unit to notify the mobile terminal of first information in a case where the mobile terminal in a first environment has succeeded in authentication with the first authentication method, notify the mobile terminal of the first information and second information in a case where the mobile terminal in a second environment has succeeded in the authentication with the first authentication method, and notify the mobile terminal of the first information and the second information in a case where the mobile terminal in the first environment has succeeded in the authentication with the first authentication method and has further succeeded in authentication with the second authentication method. |
US12244673B2 |
Method and system for metaverse and physical world association and mapping
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining information regarding a metaverse object and data regarding network resources, deriving a mapping between the metaverse object and one or more of the network resources based on the information and the data, and providing a hybrid service design and orchestration (H-SDO) system with access to the mapping to facilitate selection of particular network resources for supporting one or more metaverse service requests relating to the metaverse object. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
US12244669B2 |
IoT device one tap activation
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for activating an IoT device using a single tap between a user device and the IoT device. Activation of the IoT device proceeds by adding the IoT device onto a wireless service provider account associated with a user and the user device. Billing may also be automatically set-up using this system by adding a billing charge to the wireless provider account. |
US12244665B1 |
System and method for data center routing
A system and a method of managing data transfer for a plurality of data centers may include identifying data transfer capacity and data transfer demand for each server of a plurality of data centers; calculating a data transfer distribution for the plurality of data centers that prioritizes data transfer between servers of a first data center of the plurality of data centers over data transfer between servers of the first data center and servers of the remaining data centers of the plurality of data centers based on the identified data transfer capacity and the data transfer demand; and allocating data transfers to the servers of the plurality of data centers. |
US12244661B2 |
Systems and methods for adaptive security and cooperative multi-system operations with dynamic protocols
Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are provided to facilitate adaptive security and cooperative multi-system operations in conformance with dynamic protocols. An implementation of the protocol that includes parameter constraints mapped to the defined event may be generated, defining an operation flow in response to detection of a defined event at a remote system and transforming the protocol into an executable process that applies to at least one remote system. References to metadata specifications may be transmitted that include specifications of interface elements and cause interface configuring in accordance with the specifications. Upon determination that responses satisfy the parameter constraints, access to a resource may be controlled in accordance with the protocol, or, upon determination that the responses fail to satisfy the parameter constraints, an alert may be transmitted that is indicative of at least one of the references and/or additional references to second metadata specifications. |
US12244659B2 |
Multimedia cloud service method, communication cloud system and computer readable storage medium
A multimedia cloud service method, a communication cloud system and a computer readable storage medium are disclosed. The method may include, receiving, by the signaling cloud system, a media service request; controlling, according to the media service request, by the signaling cloud system, the media control entity to process the media service rule; and establishing, according to the media service rule, by the media control entity, a media data interaction path between the terminal device and the media exchange entity. |
US12244654B2 |
Live editing a workbook with multiple clients
Live editing a workbook with multiple clients including receiving, by a table manager, a request by a first client on a first client computing system to edit a workbook in an exploration mode that displays edits to the workbook without altering the workbook; receiving, by the table manager from the first client, an exploration edit targeting the exploration of the workbook; applying, by the table manager, the exploration edit to the exploration of the workbook; and presenting, by the table manager to a second client on a second client computing system, the application of the exploration edit to the exploration of the workbook. |
US12244653B2 |
Inter-channel context transfer intermediary
Techniques described herein relate to inter-channel transfer at an automated contact center, in order to transfer communication sessions from a first channel to a second channel. In addition to channel transfer operations, communication session context data can be transferred from the first channel to the second channel and a communication session summary can be generated and provided to second channel devices. Furthermore, a communication session can be loaded in a second channel queue based on the communication session via the first channel. |
US12244652B2 |
Hosted confidential discussion system
Examples described herein generally relate to a system for providing a live multi-party session. The system may include a participant interface that displays a programmed screen including a plurality of questions on a participant device, each question including at least one selectable response. At least one of the selectable responses includes a text box configured to receive a freeform response and a display area configured to show responses to the question from other participants, each participant identified by a randomized name. The system may include a host user interface including: a navigation panel that displays a name of each of a plurality of programmed screens and indicates the programmed screen displayed to the participants; a participant panel indicating how many of the questions each participant has completed; and an response panel indicating, for each question, selected responses of the participants. |
US12244650B2 |
Resource protection and verification with bidirectional notification architecture
A method of verifying resource protection statuses for resources for address-based resources may include receiving a request for verification of resource protection from a client device for an address-based resource. The request includes an address of a resource. The intermediate system is programmed to receive resource protection verification requests from a plurality of client devices, and to receive resource protection verifications from a plurality of resource protection systems that are in communication with the intermediate system. The method also includes determining that none of the resource protection systems in the plurality of resource protection systems currently protect the resource; retrieving information that is securely stored for the resource and a user associated with the request; and sending the information to one or more of the plurality of resource protection systems as a request to protect the resource. |
US12244645B2 |
Identifying outlier application connections to services with controlled confidence level and in real-time
Techniques for identifying outlier application connections for computer security are described. These techniques include identifying one or more connections between a client application and one or more services, over a communication network, and determining to switch from an outlier connection learning phase to an outlier connection detection phase based on the identified or more connections, including determining, in real-time and based on a confidence level and a number of previously analyzed connections, to switch to the outlier connection detection phase. The techniques further include determining, based on the switch to the outlier connection detection phase, that a first connection of the identified one or more connections is an outlier connection, and acting to reduce a security risk relating to the first connection. |
US12244643B2 |
Software security agent updates via microcode
Systems and methods include a host system that is configured to execute a security agent that is configured to allow and block flows in a network, on the network interface, receive a script from a command & control server, and execute the script via an interpreter associated with the security agent, wherein the script is configured to any of disable behavior and modify behavior of the security agent at one or more hook points in the security agent. |
US12244640B2 |
Automatic retraining of machine learning models to detect DDoS attacks
In one embodiment, a device in a network receives an attack mitigation request regarding traffic in the network. The device causes an assessment of the traffic, in response to the attack mitigation request. The device determines that an attack detector associated with the attack mitigation request incorrectly assessed the traffic, based on the assessment of the traffic. The device causes an update to an attack detection model of the attack detector, in response to determining that the attack detector incorrectly assessed the traffic. |
US12244636B1 |
Computer-based systems configured for network characterization and management and methods of use thereof
A method includes scanning a network having a first and second host, obtaining, via the scanning, a first and second type information of the first and second host, respectively, the first or second type information including a device category, obtaining, via the scanning, a first and second scaling factor of the first and second host, respectively, calculating, a first criticality score of the first host based on the first type information and the first scaling factor, calculating a second criticality score of the second host based on the second type information and the second scaling factor, calculating a first host risk score (HRS) for the first host based on the first criticality score, calculating a second HRS for the second host based on the second criticality score, and applying a security patch on the first host prior to the second host first HRS is higher than the second HRS. |
US12244635B1 |
Computer-based systems configured for network characterization and management based on risk score analysis and methods of use thereof
A method includes scanning a plurality of hosts in a network to obtain risk information of each instance of vulnerability associated with each host during a period, calculating a vulnerability risk score (VRS) for each instance of the vulnerability based on the associated risk information, determining a number of vulnerabilities associated with each of the plurality of hosts during the period, obtaining a criticality score of each of the plurality of hosts, obtaining for each host, a representative VRS based at least in part on the VRS for each instance of vulnerability associated with the host, calculating a host risk score (HRS) for each host based on the representative VRS, the number of vulnerabilities and the criticality score of the host, calculating a network risk score (NRS) for the network based on the HRSs, and facilitating a security action based on the HRS for each host and the NRS. |
US12244634B2 |
Techniques for cybersecurity identity risk detection utilizing disk cloning and unified identity mapping
A system and method for detecting a permission escalation event in a computing environment is disclosed. The method includes: generating a cloned disk based on an original disk of a resource deployed in a computing environment; detecting an identifier of a first principal on the cloned disk; detecting a second principal in the computing environment, the first principal authorized to assume the first principal; storing a representation of the computing environment in a security database, including: a first principal node representing the first principal, and a second principal node representing the second principal, further associated with a permission; querying the representation to determine a permission of the first principal; determining that the second principal includes a permission which the first principal does not include based on a result of querying the representation; and generating a permission escalation event. |
US12244631B2 |
Method and system for detecting outliers in processes
A method for detecting outliers in processes running in a group of machines. A clustering stage, carried out at a first frequency, including fetching a list of software contained in all machines, calculating tf-idf value for each installed software and for each machine, performing clustering of the machines by applying a clustering algorithm and using a Jaccardian weighted distance method between machines based on the tf-idf values. A preliminary outliers detection stage, carried out at a second frequency greater than the first frequency, including fetching information of processes running in the machines, for each cluster calculating tf-idf values for each process, wherein if a tf-idf value is greater than a first predetermined threshold, the process is considered as outlier, for all clusters calculating itf-idf value for each process considered as outlier, and if a itf-idf value is lower than a second predetermined threshold, the process is confirmed as outlier. |
US12244628B2 |
Intelligent and proactive device vulnerability detection and protection
System and methods are provided for building intelligence around IoT devices that can prioritize an attack attack sphere, such that scanning and protection can be focused on risky spheres before others that may be less at risk. The attack spheres include specific device types, vendors, geographic locations, demographics, or organizations. Priority based vulnerability scanning and protection is utilized along with the concept of attack spheres to define priority zones which may be unique. Priority computation based on trend analysis and predictive analysis is used to determine the vulnerability of specific devices and groups of devices. This will significantly reduce the attack exposure and ensures the proactive damage control. |
US12244627B2 |
Techniques for active inspection of vulnerability exploitation using exposure
A system and method for performing active inspection of vulnerability exploitation in a cloud computing environment. The method includes receiving at least one network path to access a first resource, wherein the first resource is a cloud object is deployed in the cloud computing environment and having a known vulnerability, wherein the first resource is potentially accessible from a network which is external to the cloud computing environment; actively inspecting the at least one network path to determine if the first resource is accessible through the at least one network path from a network external to the cloud computing environment; and triggering the known vulnerability to determine if the first resource can be exploited with the known vulnerability, in response to determining that the first resource is accessible through the external network. |
US12244625B2 |
Application layer data protection for containers in a containerization environment
A container system monitors one or more activities of an application container in a container system by intercepting data from the one or more activities of the application container. The application container includes computer-readable instructions and initiated via a container service and isolated using operating system-level virtualization. The monitoring is performed at a layer between the app container and the container service. The container system also transmits a report of the intercepted one or more activities to a designated source. The container system inspects the intercepted one or more activities, and in response to the intercepted one or more activities violating a policy in a policy store, triggers an action specified in the policy. |
US12244616B2 |
Prioritizing assets using security metrics
This disclosure describes techniques for identifying the criticality of an asset in a network. In an example method, a first security metric of a first asset in a network, as well as network data that identifies data flows associated with a second asset in the network are identified. The second asset is a nearest neighbor of the first asset in the network. The method includes determining, based on the network data, a number of hosts in the network that exchanged data traffic with the second asset during a time period and generating a second security metric of the second asset based on the first security metric and the number of hosts. A security policy of the second asset is adjusted based on the security metric. |
US12244612B2 |
Automated incident response process and automated actions
An automated incident response process that is configured to monitor data from at least one internet connected apparatus, use artificial intelligence to determine if the data indicates a fault and perform a playbook of actions if a fault is determined. |
US12244611B2 |
Security content delivery based on tagged personas
Systems and techniques for security content delivery based on tagged personas are described herein. User data may be obtained for a user of a network file system. Attributes may be extracted from the user data to establish a user persona. Event data may be obtained for a security event experienced by the network file system. The security event may be associated with the user. A set of available remediation content items may be identified using the event data. A content item may be selected from the set of remediation content items using the user persona. A transmission medium may be determined for transmission of the content item to the user using the user persona. The content item may be transmitted to the user via the transmission medium. |
US12244609B2 |
Methods and systems for determining the authenticity of an identity document
The present disclosure provides a method for determining the authenticity of an identity document that includes receiving, by an electronic device, an image of an identity document. The document image includes facial image data and personal data of a person associated with the identity document and an identity document number. Moreover, the method includes extracting the personal data and the document number from the identity document image. The extracted personal data includes at least a surname and the extracted identity document number includes groups of characters that represent personal data and information about an entity. Furthermore, the method includes decoding a first group of the characters using a soundex coding algorithm, identifying a surname that corresponds to the decoded first group of characters, comparing the identified surname against the surname in the extracted personal data, and determining the authenticity of the identity document using a result of the comparison. |
US12244608B2 |
User verification systems and methods
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for verifying the presentation of content to a target audience using generated metrics indicative of a likelihood that the content was presented to actual human individuals within the target audience. In some instances, such a metric may be associated with a probability model estimating that a user (e.g., a user of a device) is human and not a bot and/or other automated service. Metrics consistent with aspects of the disclosed embodiments may be generated based, at least in part, on user information received from a user and/or associated devices and/or associated services. Consistent with various disclosed embodiments, metrics indicative of whether a user is human, content distribution decisions and user agency decisions may use such metrics. |
US12244605B2 |
System and method for geotagging users for authentication
An apparatus for geotagging users for authentication comprises a processor associated with a server. The processor is configured to generate a first geotag based on residence information associated with a first user and to transmit the first geotag to a first user device for assignment to a first avatar associated with the first user in a virtual environment. The processor is further configured to receive an interaction request to authorize an interaction between the first avatar and a second avatar associated with a second user. The processor is further configured to compare a first historical log to a second historical log to determine that the first avatar is associated with the first user. In response to determining that the first avatar is associated with the first user, the processor is further configured to conduct a first step in authorizing the interaction between the first avatar and the second avatar. |
US12244603B2 |
Encryption and decryption of data in a cloud storage based on indications in metadata
Provided are a method, a system, and a computer program product in which metadata associated with encrypted data is maintained in a cloud computing environment, where the metadata indicates whether reading of information in the encrypted data is restricted geographically. A controller provides a decryption code to a cloud server located in a geographical location. The decryption code is for decrypting the encrypted data. The controller provides the decryption code, based on a determination as to whether the metadata indicates whether the reading of information in the encrypted data is restricted geographically. |
US12244602B2 |
Automatic user group manager
A system of automatically managing assignments of users to user groups comprises a processor to implement instructions for an automatic user group manage (AUGM) to access to two or more users and the assignments of the users to the user groups, observe activity of the users, calculate user behavior signatures for one of at least two users of the users, at least one user of the users and one group of the user groups, or at least two groups of the user groups, calculate a numeric degree of variance between at least two of the user behavior signatures, compare the calculated degree of variance to at least one threshold, and determine if a behavior of one of the at least two users, the at least one user and the one group, or the at least two groups are similar or different. |
US12244601B2 |
Trusted and connected multi-domain node clusters
A system includes an orchestrator to receive a first request for resources for a workload of a tenant and to select a first node cluster in a first compute domain to be provisioned for the workload. The system also includes a first security manager to run in a trusted execution environment of one or more processors to receive attestation results for a second node cluster from a second security manager in a second compute domain, and to establish the first node cluster and the second node cluster as a trusted group of node clusters for the workload based, at least in part, on determining that a first compute node in the first node cluster meets one or more security requirements of a workload execution policy associated with the workload and that the attestation results indicate that a second compute node in the second node cluster meets the one or more security requirements. |
US12244599B2 |
Private cloud control
Management of IoT devices through a private cloud. An IoT device is coupled to a gateway. A request from the IoT device to connect to a private cloud, wherein the private cloud is used to manage IoT devices, is received at a private cloud control center agent. An identification of the IoT device is determined. The IoT device is onboarded, using the identification, for management through the private cloud. A device profile of the IoT device is generated. The flow of data to and from the IoT device is regulated through application of IoT rules according to the device profile of the IoT device. |
US12244594B2 |
Secure configuration management interfaces for networking devices
Devices, systems and methods are provided for remotely managing configuration of a networking device. One method of managing configuration of a networking device involves obtaining resources associated with one or more graphical user interface (GUI) displays of a web application for configuring the networking device, receiving a request to access the web application, and in response to the request, determining a representative value for the resources as a function of a current state of the resources, obtaining a reference value for the resources that reflects a validated state of the resources, and instantiating the web application using the resources when the representative value matches the reference value. |
US12244588B2 |
Secure communications via third-party systems through frames
Disclosed are methods, systems, and devices for facilitating secure and private communications, via a website or application of a third-party computing system (TPCS), between a user device and a service provider computing system (SPCS). The communications may be conducted via a frame in a website served by the TPCS. The TPCS may serve a website that incorporates a customizable SDK component provided by the SPCS. The communications allow the user to, for example, open a new account. The SDK component may be initialized via a script from the SPCS, and authenticated via a session token obtained from the SPCS via the TPCS. The SDK component may provide user information, input into the frame, to the SPCS via API calls to the SPCS. The user does not navigate away from the website while securely engaging the SPCS. The third-party/partner need not develop its own user interface, security protocols, etc. |
US12244584B1 |
System and method for performing tasks by providing a decentralized communication between entities
A system and method for performing tasks by providing decentralized communication between entities are disclosed. The system is a computer-implemented system comprised of a plurality of subsystems. The plurality of subsystems comprises an identity managing subsystem, an entity detection subsystem, a first data-exchange subsystem, an entity selection subsystem, and a second data-exchange subsystem. The system is configured to manage one or more unique digital identities for each entity of the at least two entities associated with the computer-implemented system based on registration and authentication of each entity on a decentralized network. The system is configured to enable a first entity associated with the at least two entities to detect one or more second entities for exchanging generic communication data and domain-specific communication data for performing the one or more tasks by providing the decentralized communication between the at least two entities. |
US12244583B1 |
Systems and methods for providing access rights of an enterprise account to an enterprise resource
Systems and methods for providing access rights may include a first computing system that receives a request to link an enterprise account of the first computing system to a second computing system. The first computing system may authenticate a user, receive a selection of one or more access rights, and one or more accounts of the enterprise account, via an application interface of the second computing system, and generate an access token for transmission to a computing device of the user, where the access token identifies the one or more access rights and the one or more accounts. The first computing system may transmit the access token to the computing device, to provide the computing device access to the one or more accounts according to the one or more access rights, of the first computing system, via the second computing system. |
US12244581B2 |
Computer-implemented methods, systems comprising computer-readable media, and electronic devices for narrative-structured representation of and intervention into a network computing environment
A computer-implemented method for narrative-structured representation of and intervention into a network computing environment. The method may include: attaching an enabled action program to an abstracted natural language narrative, where execution of the enabled action program causes pre-determined changes in the behavior and/or capabilities of an entity within the network computing environment; generating a representation of the abstracted natural language narrative that includes an enabled action link and an abstraction-toggle link for retrieval of a representation of an unabstracted natural language narrative; upon activation of the abstraction-toggle link, retrieving the representation of the unabstracted natural language narrative; and upon activation of the enabled action link, automatically implementing the pre-determined changes within the network computing environment. |
US12244579B2 |
Domain name encryption method, decryption method, and apparatus based on content delivery network
The present disclosure relates to a domain name encryption method, decryption method, and apparatus based on a content delivery network. The method comprises: receiving an access request for an initial server sent by a terminal; acquiring, in a case that the initial server needs to be redirected to a target server, a synthetic record domain name of the target server, the synthetic record domain name carrying a domain name resolution result of the target server; and encrypting the synthetic record domain name to obtain an encrypted synthetic record domain name, and sending the encrypted synthetic record domain name to the terminal. By encrypting the synthetic record domain name, an illegal user can be prevented from knowing data information about the domain name resolution result in the synthetic record domain name, which can improve the security of the data, and can significantly improve the processing efficiency of the domain name. |
US12244576B2 |
Methods to strengthen cyber-security and privacy in a deterministic internet of things
Methods to strengthen the cyber-security and privacy in a proposed deterministic Internet of Things (IoT) network are described. The proposed deterministic IoT consists of a network of simple deterministic packet switches under the control of a low-complexity ‘Software Defined Networking’ (SDN) control-plane. The network can transport ‘Deterministic Traffic Flows’ (DTFs), where each DTF has a source node, a destination node, a fixed path through the network, and a deterministic or guaranteed rate of transmission. The SDN control-plane can configure millions of distinct interference-free ‘Deterministic Virtual Networks’ (DVNs) into the IoT, where each DVN is a collection of interference-free DTFs. The SDN control-plane can configure each deterministic packet switch to store several deterministic periodic schedules, defined for a scheduling-frame which comprises F time-slots. The schedules of a network determine which DTFs are authorized to transmit data over each fiber-optic link of the network. These schedules also ensure that each DTF will receive a deterministic rate of transmission through every switch it traverses, with full immunity to congestion, interference and Denial-of-Service (DOS) attacks. Any unauthorized transmissions by a cyber-attacker can also be detected quickly, since the schedules also identify unauthorized transmissions. Each source node and destination node of a DTF, and optionally each switch in the network, can have a low-complexity private-key encryption/decryption unit. The SDN control-plane can configure the source and destination nodes of a DTF, and optionally the switches in the network, to encrypt and decrypt the packets of a DTF using these low-complexity encryption/decryption units. To strengthen security and privacy and to lower the energy use, the private keys can be very large, for example several thousands of bits. The SDN control-plane can configure each DTF to achieve a desired level of security well beyond what is possible with existing schemes such as AES, by using very long keys. The encryption/decryption units also use a new serial permutation unit the very low hardware cost, which allows for exceptional security and very-high throughputs in FPGA hardware. |
US12244574B2 |
Encoding / decoding system and method
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for: processing an unencoded data file to identify a plurality of file segments; mapping each of the plurality of file segments to a portion of a dictionary file to generate a plurality of mappings, wherein each of the plurality of mappings includes a starting location and a length, thus generating a related encoded data file based, at least in part, upon the plurality of mappings; and storing the related encoded data file on a cloud-based storage platform. |
US12244562B2 |
Algorithm to detect malicious emails impersonating brands
Techniques for an email-security system to screen emails, extract information from the emails, analyze the information, assign probability scores to the emails, and classify the emails as likely fraudulent or not. The system may analyze emails for users and identify fraudulent emails by analyzing the contents of the emails. The system may evaluate the contents of the emails to determine probability score(s) which may further determine an overall probability score. The system may then classify the email as fraudulent, or not, and may perform actions including blocking the email, allowing the email, flagging the email, etc. In some instances, the screened emails may include legitimate brand domain addresses, names, images, URL(s), and the like. However, the screened emails may contain a reply-to domain address that matches a free email service provider domain. In such instances, the email-security system may assign a probability score indicative that the screened email is fraudulent. |
US12244559B2 |
Seamless device address rotation
Techniques are provided that rotate a device address used to identify a wireless client device on a wireless network. The wireless client device and at least one network infrastructure component identify a plurality of device addresses associated with the wireless client device. In some embodiments, the plurality of device addresses are generated via a corresponding plurality of invocations of a stateful random number generator, such as a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator. |
US12244557B2 |
System and method for enabling real-time eventing
A method and system for real-time eventing including interacting with at least one configuration attribute according to instructions specified through an application programming interface (API); adding subscribers for an event channel; generating an event from operation of an application; publishing the event message to the event channel on an event router; processing the event message according to the at least one configuration attribute; identifying a subscriber to the event channel; and sending the event from the event router to the subscriber. |
US12244551B2 |
System, method, and program for specifying character-string-based comment art
A comment art management system according to one embodiment displays a target comment art including a character string of a plurality of lines on a plurality of viewer terminals including a target person terminal. The comment art management system includes: a receiving unit (communication unit) configured to receive specifying information for specifying the target comment art from the target person terminal; a specifying unit configured to specify the target comment art from a plurality of registered comment art based on the specifying information by referring to a database storing the plurality of registered comment art, each of the plurality of registered comment art including a character string of a plurality of lines; and a display control unit configured to display the specified target comment art superimposed on the main content displayed on the plurality of viewer terminals. |
US12244549B2 |
Off-platform messaging system
A method, to manage an event invitation in a computer network environment, comprises presenting, using one or more processors, an event invitation creation indicium to a first user on a user interface of a computing device. Responsive to user selection of the event invitation creation indicium, an event creation interface is presented to receive event details. Responsive to receipt of the event details, an event invitation message is generated for communication, via a messaging system, by the first user to a second user of the messaging system, the event invitation message including a join indicium that is user-selectable to join a group chat related to the event. Responsive to a message send input from the first user, the event invitation message is sent, via the messaging system, from the first user to the second user. A request is received, from the second user, a request to join the group chat related to the event. A group chat message thread, associated with an event group including at least the first user and the second user, is then stored within the messaging system. |
US12244548B2 |
Method and system for evaluating content on instant messaging application
A method for evaluating a content through an instant messaging application is provided. The method includes: sharing a screen of a user terminal associated with a first user account, through a chat room of the instant messaging application in which a plurality of user accounts including the first user account participate; selecting at least one content that is included in the shared screen; outputting the selected at least one content through the chat room; and receiving, through the chat room, an evaluation of the at least one content from at least one user account among the plurality of user accounts. |
US12244544B2 |
Cross-division duplex signaling
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for signaling cross-division duplex configurations. One of the methods includes identifying, by a first device and for a first link with a second device, a switch in a first bandwidth part to a second bandwidth part for the first link, the first link associated with a second link having a third bandwidth part; determining, by the first device, whether a bandwidth band between the second bandwidth part and the third bandwidth part satisfies a threshold guard band; and selectively determining to maintain the third bandwidth part for the second link or to switch the third bandwidth part to a fourth bandwidth part for the second link using a result of the determination whether the bandwidth band between the second bandwidth part and the third bandwidth part satisfies the threshold guard band. |
US12244543B1 |
Message 3 enhancement
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to, apparatuses methods and computer readable medium for Message 3 enhancement. In a method, a first apparatus transmits, to a second apparatus, a random access request in at least one of a non-subband non-overlapping full duplex (non-SBFD) resource or a subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) resource. The first apparatus receives, from the second apparatus, information indicating a part of at least one of the SBFD resource or the non-SBFD resource, wherein the part of the at least one of the SBFD resource or the non-SBFD resource is to be used for an additional Message 3 transmission. The first apparatus performs the additional Message 3 transmission to the second apparatus in the part of the at least one of the SBFD resource or the non-SBFD resource. |
US12244539B2 |
Spectrum management device, electronic device, wireless communication method to adjust usage of spectrum to prevent interference, and storage medium
A spectrum management device includes a processing circuit configured to: coordinate, according to a predetermined interference coordination principle, interference between one or more base station devices of a communication system to be added and one or more base station devices of an existing communication system managed by the spectrum management device; determine, according to an interference coordination result, coordinated system performance of the communication system to be added; and send the coordinated system performance of the communication system to be added to the electronic device that manages the communication system to be added, so that the electronic device determines whether to allow the spectrum management device to perform spectrum management on the communication system to be added. |
US12244538B2 |
Methods and apparatus for dynamic acknowledgement list selection in detection of uplink control channel formats
Methods and apparatus for dynamic acknowledgement list selection in detection of uplink control channel formats. In an exemplary embodiment, an apparatus includes a dynamic acknowledgement (ACK) list allocation circuit that generates a dynamic ACK list that includes one or two most likely ACK candidates, and a top-Q candidate CQI bits detector that dynamically allocates a detection branch to each of the one or two most likely ACK candidates to detect top-Q candidate CQI bits. The apparatus also includes a merger circuit that mergers the top-Q candidate CQI bits detected for the one or two most likely ACK candidates to generate a merged list, a top-Q CQI symbol generator that generates top-Q CQI symbols for the top-Q candidate CQI bits detected for the one or two most likely ACK candidates, and a joint detector that detects transmitted CQI bits and ACK bits. |
US12244534B2 |
Channel state information processing criteria
Some aspects of the present disclosure provide channel state information (CSI) processing criteria. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) generally includes receiving, from a base station via a first bandwidth part (BWP), control signaling that triggers reporting at least one of a first channel state information (CSI) report associated with the first BWP or a second CSI report associated with a second BWP that is non-active, determining, based on an indication of an active downlink (DL) BWP change, at least one occupation time of one or more CSI processing units (CPUs) associated with the first CSI report or the second CSI report, and taking one or more actions based at least in part on the at least one occupation time. |
US12244531B2 |
Systems and methods for using orthogonal demodulation reference signal ports with resource block reuse in a single cell
Orthogonal DMRS ports with resource block reuse in a single cell is provided. ABS comprises: a BBE and RUs. The BS transmits user data to each of a plurality of UEs on a PDSCH using a PRB allocation for the cell. The PRB and cell are the same for all UEs. The PRB comprises DMRS symbols. The BS transmits user data to each UE on the PDSCH using a respective non-intersecting subset of the RUs. No RU transmits user data on the PDSCH using the PRB to more than one UE. The BBE: determines non-intersecting sets of DMRS ports; assigns one set to each UE; and causes the BS to transmit UE-specific DMRS to UE on the DMRS ports in the set assigned to that UE using only a respective non-intersecting subset of RUs used for transmitting user data to that UE on the PDSCH using the PRB. |
US12244530B2 |
Receiving device, transmitting device, receiving method, and transmitting method
In the present invention, a mobile station is provided with: a control circuit that, on the basis of information that can specify the disposition of a first reference signal in a first system, determines the disposition of a second reference signal in a second system; and a receiving circuit that receives the second reference signal on the basis of the determined disposition. |
US12244528B2 |
Amplitude modulated phase tracking reference signals
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may transmit a request, for an uplink transmission or a downlink transmission, for amplitude modulated phase tracking reference signals; and communicate the uplink transmission or the downlink transmission based at least in part on the request. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
US12244524B2 |
Optimization function generation apparatus, optimization function generation method, and program
Provided is a technology for creating an optimization function for solving a bandwidth allocation plan problem for determining bandwidths to be allocated for respective paths under various constraints regarding the paths for which bandwidths are to be allocated, the optimization function relating to a variable that represents a quantum state. The technology includes: an input setting unit that sets a set Path of paths, a set Edge of edges, a maximum bandwidth Max, a bandwidth p.bandwidth required by a path p, and a set e.paths of paths that include an edge e, as input to a bandwidth allocation plan problem for creating a bandwidth allocation plan for paths so as to satisfy a condition of minimizing a bandwidth allocated for the paths of the set Path as a whole under a predetermined constraint condition; and an optimization function creation unit that creates the optimization function using the input. |
US12244523B2 |
Method and apparatus for beam management in communication system
An operation method of a first device may comprise: identifying a first MT CC operating in a multiplexing mode among one or more MT CCs formed by an IAB-MT constituting the first device; determining first beam preference information for the first MT CC; transmitting, to a second device which is an upper node of the first device, the first beam preference information; and performing beam-based communications with the second device based on the first beam preference information. |
US12244516B2 |
Architecture for high performing data plane applications with smart network interface on compute servers
A system for processing data, comprising a compute node having a first processor that is configured to receive a digital data message containing a request for computing services and to allocate processing resources on a network as a function of the request. A smart network interface controller (NIC) having a second processor that is configured to interface with the network and to send and receive data over the network associated with the computing services as a function of one or more policies. The smart NIC configured to receive policy update data and to implement the policy update data and to process the data that is sent and received over the network in accordance with the policy data. |
US12244515B1 |
Systems and methods for providing on-demand access to resources across global or cloud computer networks using artificial intelligence models
Systems and methods for providing on-demand access to resources across global or cloud computer networks are described herein. In particular, the systems and methods can use transformer models to estimate proxy resource capacities. These proxy resource capacities can be leveraged to satisfy certain conditions for executing blockchain actions, enabling resources to be used even when a current capacity of those resources does not satisfy the conditions. |
US12244507B2 |
Intelligent data forwarding in edge networks
Systems and techniques for intelligent data forwarding in edge networks are described herein. A request may be received from an edge user device for a service via a first endpoint. A time value may be calculated using a timestamp of the request. Motion characteristics may be determined for the edge user device using the time value. A response to the request may be transmitted to a second endpoint based on the motion characteristics. |
US12244503B2 |
Information handling system closed loop bandwidth prioritization
A host information handling system may aggregate a plurality of packets for transmission from the host information handling system to a plurality of client information handling systems. The host information handling system may then assign a priority value to each of the plurality of packets. The host information handling system may then determine that an aggregate size of the plurality of packets exceeds a threshold size. Based, at least in part, on the determination, the host information handling system may select a subset of the plurality of packets for transmission to the plurality of client information handling systems. The host information handling system may then transmit the selected subset of the plurality of packets to the plurality of client information handling systems. |
US12244502B1 |
Controlled message routing for transaction processing platforms
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for controlling message routing for transaction processing platforms. The routing of transaction messages mitigates service disruptions to client systems facilitating transactions with consumers. A connection management and transaction routing platform (CMTRP) system applies routing configurations, such as passthrough, throttling, and/or maintenance toggle configurations, to facilitate the routing of transaction messages. This routing may route message to different transaction processing platforms and/or different instances of transaction processing platforms. The CMTRP system also routes transaction messages when transaction processing functionality is being migrated from a first transaction processing platform to a second transaction processing platform and/or when a platform is undergoing maintenance. |
US12244498B2 |
Data transmission circuit and method, core, chip, electronic device and storage medium
A data transmission circuit and method, a core, a chip with a multi-core structure, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided. The data transmission circuit includes a receiver, a controller, a lookup table circuit and a selector. The receiver is configured to receive an original data packet from Fabric; the controller is configured to determine whether the original data packet needs to be relayed according to an original control bit, and control a first input terminal of the selector to be enabled in response to that the original data packet needs to be relayed; the selector is configured to send a new data packet to the Fabric via the first input terminal, wherein the new data packet includes the original data and a new header acquired by the lookup table circuit according to an original index. In this way, power consumption of the data transmission circuit is reduced. |
US12244497B2 |
Dynamic segment routing mapping server for a multiprotocol label switching network
A dynamic SRMS (DSRMS) in a MPLS network generates unique segment identifiers for nodes of the network lacking segment identifiers (SIDs). The DSRMS receives network information from other nodes of the network that may include, for example, Internal Gateway Protocol (IGP) routing information, advertised prefix values for the nodes, and label values used in MPLS routing. The DSRMS analyzes the information and identifies nodes of the network that are not associated with a SID. For each identified node, the DSRMS generates a unique SID and then announces the SID to other nodes within the network. Generating the unique SID may include executing a hashing function using the IP address of the identified node as an input. |
US12244496B2 |
IP-based forwarding of bridged and routed IP packets and unicast ARP
Disclosed herein are methods of forwarding data over an IP network. The methods may include receiving a packet from a source host connected to the IP network, identifying the IP address of a destination host designated in the packet, determining the location on the IP network where the destination host designated by the packet is connected, without reference to the MAC address specified in the packet, by using location-identification information stored on the IP network, and forwarding the packet to the location on the IP network where the destination host is connected without reference to the MAC address specified in the packet. Also disclosed herein are related network devices implementing such techniques and operations, as well as IP networks which include such network devices. |
US12244493B2 |
Securing multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) payloads
In some implementations, an egress network device of a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network may exchange Internet key exchange (IKE) messages with an ingress network device of the MPLS network to establish a security association between the egress network device and the ingress network device. The egress network device may receive an MPLS packet that includes an MPLS header, a secure MPLS data header, and an MPLS payload. The egress network device may process the MPLS header to determine a label associated with a label-switched path (LSP) and a secure function indicator. The egress network device may decrypt, using a secure function identified based on the secure MPLS data header, the MPLS payload to generate a decrypted packet. The egress network device may transmit the decrypted packet towards a destination device. |
US12244491B2 |
UE route selection policies for multi-port devices
A method for establishing a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) Session(s) is disclosed. In examples disclosed herein, a device (e.g., a wireless device) uses a unique Port Number(s) (e.g., an internal physical or logical Port Number) to search for a matching User Equipment (UE) Route Selection Policies (URSP) rule(s) having a Traffic Descriptor(s) that matches the unique Port Number(s). The device then determines whether there exists a matching PDU Session(s) associated with a Route Selection Descriptor(s) of the matching URSP rule(s). Accordingly, the device can reuse the matching PDU Session(s) in a presence of the matching PDU Session(s) or establish a new PDU Session(s) in an absence of the matching PDU Session(s). By using the unique Port Number(s) as the Traffic Descriptor(s) in the URSP rule(s), it is possible to simplify configuration of the device, especially for redundant traffic handling. |