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US12256654B2	Memory cell, method of forming the same, and semiconductor device having the same Provided are a memory cell and a method of forming the same. The memory cell includes a bottom electrode, a top electrode, and a storage element layer. The storage element layer is disposed between the bottom and top electrodes. An extending direction of a sidewall of the storage element layer is different from an extending direction of a sidewall of the top electrode. A semiconductor device having the memory cell is also provided.
US12256645B2	Chemical etch nonvolatile materials for MRAM patterning A method is provided. A substrate situated in a chamber is exposed to a halogen-containing gas comprising an element selected from the group consisting of silicon, germanium, carbon, titanium, and tin, and igniting a plasma to modify a surface of the substrate and form a modified surface. The substrate is exposed to an activated activation gas to etch at least part of the modified surface.
US12256644B2	Magnetoresistive sensor and manufacturing method thereof A magnetoresistive sensor and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The method includes: forming an initial reference layer in an annular shape, wherein the initial reference layer includes an anti-ferromagnetic layer and a ferromagnetic layer; performing a heat treatment on the initial reference layer, wherein the ferromagnetic layer is magnetized to have a magnetization direction oriented along a vortex path during a heating step of the heat treatment, and an exchange bias oriented along the vortex path is induced at an interface of the anti-ferromagnetic layer and the ferromagnetic layer during a cooling step of the heat treatment; patterning the initial reference layer to form separated reference layers, wherein the reference layers are respectively formed in a annular sector shape, and the reference layers are arranged along the vortex path; forming spacer layers and free layers to form magnetoresistive devices; routing the magnetoresistive devices to form the magnetoresistive sensor.
US12256641B2	Green energy harvesting methods for novel class of batteries and power supplies An energy harvesting device for powering electronic devices such as wireless sensors and IoT devices is described. The device relies on nature's fundamental forces to convert kinetic energy to electrical energy, acting as power source; while accounting for the Casimir force. Nanotechnology and MEMS are used to fabricate the device embedding a mechanical oscillator, electronic circuitry, energy harvester, and transducer integrated in the same packaging. The device supports mechanism to excite and ignite the oscillatory behavior via RF signal from a remote signal source that synthesizes the RF signal on a fix or mobile platform. Additionally, solar and RF signals may be added constructively to boost the output power of the device. The device scales from micron size to blades and racks formed from arrays of the connected devices to increase the output power of the aggregate system to any desired level for powering home appliances or computer networks.
US12256637B2	Organic optoelectronic device and display device Disclosed are an organic optoelectronic device includes an anode and a cathode facing each other and an organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein the organic layer includes at least one of a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, a light emitting layer, and an electron transport layer, and the light emitting layer includes a first host, a second host, and a phosphorescent dopant represented by Chemical Formula 4, and a display device including the same.
US12256635B2	Organic electroluminescent compound and organic electroluminescent device comprising the same An organic electroluminescent compound and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same provide an organic electroluminescent device having low driving voltage and/or excellent power efficiency and/or improved driving lifespan.
US12256634B2	Arylamine compound, light-emitting device including the same, and electronic apparatus including the light-emitting device Provided are an arylamine compound including a phenyl-naphthyl linker substituted with at least one deuterium and an amine group substituted with at least one carbazole group, a light-emitting device including the arylamine compound, and an electronic apparatus including the light-emitting device. The arylamine compound is the same as described in the present specification.
US12256630B2	Light-emitting device A light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an interlayer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer, wherein the emission layer includes: a first host, a second host, and a dopant, at least one of the first host and the second host is an organometallic compound, and the first host, the second host, and the dopant satisfy the following Equation (1): \|LUMO energy of H2−HOMO energy of H1\|≥0.9×T1 energy of D.
US12256624B2	Display panel and manufacturing method thereof A display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display panel comprises a first substrate, a driving circuit layer disposed on a side of the first substrate, a light-emitting device layer disposed on a side of the driving circuit layer away from the first substrate, a second substrate disposed on a side of the light-emitting device layer away from the driving circuit layer, and a stress releasing layer disposed on a side of the second substrate close to the light-emitting device layer. The stress releasing layer is disposed corresponding to the non-display region, and a concave section is disposed in the stress releasing layer.
US12256615B2	Transparent display device A transparent display device includes a substrate provided with a display area on which subpixels are disposed, a first non-display area disposed on one side of the display area, and a second non-display area disposed on another side of the display area. Power shorting bars are in the first non-display area over the substrate and extend in parallel in a first direction. Power lines are positioned in the display area over the substrate, extend in a second direction and are coupled to the power shorting bars. A first transmissive area is positioned between the power lines, and a second transmissive area is positioned between the power shorting bars, both of which have substantially the same shape. The shorting bars are coupled together on at least one end.
US12256613B2	Display substrate, method for fabricating same, and vapor deposition apparatus A display substrate, a method for fabricating the same, and a vapor deposition apparatus are provided. The display substrate comprises two first overlapping areas, and further comprises a light-emitting functional layer and an electrode layer. The light-emitting functional layer comprises two second portions respectively located in the two first overlapping areas and each comprising a plurality of first blocks. The electrode layer comprises two fourth portions respectively located in the two first overlapping areas and each comprising a plurality of second blocks. In one same first overlapping area, each of the first blocks does not overlap at least partially with one of the second blocks.
US12256612B2	Display panel and display device A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a display area, a light transmission area, a first frame area, a crack detection line in the first frame area, and two first connection lines. The first frame area surrounds the light transmission area and the display area surrounding the first frame area. At least a portion of the crack detection line extends along a circumferential direction of the light transmission area. The crack detection line is connected to the two first connection lines. Each first connection line of the two first connection lines includes a first end connected to the crack detection line and a second end away from the first end. A distance between two first ends of the two first connection lines is larger than a distance between two second ends of the two first connection lines.
US12256608B2	Display panel and display apparatus A display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a first display region and a second display region, an array substrate, a plurality of light-emitting structures, a plurality of pixel driver circuits and at least one isolation structure. The first display region is disposed around at least a portion of the second display region, and the second display region corresponds to a photosensitive device configured to collect light through the second display region. The plurality of light-emitting structures are located on the array substrate and disposed in both the first display region and the second display region. The plurality of pixel driver circuits are disposed in the array substrate, and the plurality of pixel driver circuits are disposed in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of light-emitting structures.
US12256607B2	Touch sensor and display apparatus A touch sensor and display apparatus are provided. The touch sensor includes a first opening region, first touch electrodes extending along a first direction and second touch electrodes extending along a second direction; the touch sensor has a first region, a second region and a third region which are sequentially laid out in the second direction, the first opening region is in the second region; an area of a first touch sub-electrode in the first region is less than that of a first touch sub-electrode in the third region, or an area of a second touch sub-electrode in the first region is less than that of a second touch sub-electrode in the third region; a distance between two adjacent second touch sub-electrodes in the first region in the second direction is less than a distance between two adjacent second touch sub-electrodes in the third region in the second direction.
US12256606B2	Display device, and electronic apparatus with layered partition between light emitting units In a display device, light emitting units each formed by stacking a first electrode, an organic layer, and a second electrode are formed in a two-dimensional matrix on a substrate, the first electrode is provided for each light emitting unit, partition walls are formed between adjacent ones of the first electrodes, the organic layer and the second electrode are stacked on the entire surface including a part over the first electrodes and a part over the partition walls, a filling layer filling recesses between the partition walls is formed on the second electrode, the partition walls include stacks each including at least two layers including a lower layer portion on the light emitting unit side and an upper layer portion located above the lower layer portion, and at least part of light entering from the light emitting units is totally reflected on surfaces of the upper layer portions of the partition walls.
US12256603B2	Display panel including a first conductive member in a first area and a second conductive member in a second area A display panel can include a first area including a first plurality of subpixels, a second area including a second plurality of subpixels, and at least one light-transmitting portion between adjacent subpixels among the second plurality of subpixels. Also, a first subpixel in the first area includes a first light emitting layer, a first thin film transistor including a first channel area, and a first conductive member disposed under and overlapping with the first channel area of the first thin film transistor, and a second subpixel in the second area includes a second light emitting layer, a second thin film transistor including a second channel area, and a second conductive member disposed under and overlapping with the second channel area of the second thin film transistor. The first conductive member in the first subpixel in the first area is on a higher layer than the second conductive member.
US12256602B2	Display device A display device is provided, wherein a metal reflective pattern formed at intervals between a plurality of pixel driving circuits is equivalent to or is similar to a first predetermined metal pattern in an area corresponding to the plurality of pixel driving circuits, thereby making reflectance of a transitional display area uniform, and thereby solving a technical problem of uneven brightness in a display device under dark conditions.
US12256599B2	Display apparatus having a transmissive region with auxiliary layer A display apparatus includes: a first substrate and a display unit. The display unit includes a display region and a transmissive region. The display unit further includes: an auxiliary layer disposed in correspondence with the transmissive region; and a second electrode disposed in correspondence with the display region and at least a portion of the transmissive region. The auxiliary layer includes a first material, the second electrode includes a second material, and the first material and the second material each satisfy Equation 1 below: ST2−ST1>0 mJ/m2, wherein, in Equation 1, ST1 is a surface energy of the first material at 25° C., and ST2 is a surface energy of the second material at 25° C.
US12256598B2	Display panels and display devices The present disclosure relates to a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a display module, at least one color layer, and a light absorption layer. The display module has a display face and a non-display face opposite to the display face. The at least one color layer is disposed at a side of the display module away from the display face. The light absorption layer disposed at a side of the at least one color layer away from the display module. A first through hole is defined in the light absorption layer. A second through hole is defined in the at least one color layer. The second through hole is located corresponding to and in communication with the first through hole. The first through hole and the second through hole are located corresponding to an external functional module.
US12256594B2	Light emitting diode and display device A light emitting diode and a display device including the light emitting diode. The light emitting diode includes a first electrode, a quantum dot light emitting layer, a carrier transport layer and a second electrode, in which the light emitting diode further includes a metal transition layer located between the carrier transport layer and the second electrode, and the second electrode includes a transparent conductive oxide material.
US12256593B2	Display device and method of manufacturing the same A display device includes a base substrate, a first transistor, a second transistor, an organic light emitting diode, and a capacitor electrically connected to the first thin film transistor. The first transistor includes a first semiconductor pattern below a first interlayer insulation layer and a first control electrode above the first interlayer insulation layer and below a second interlayer insulation layer. The second transistor includes a second control electrode above the first interlayer insulation layer and below the second interlayer insulation layer. A second semiconductor pattern is above the second interlayer insulation layer.
US12256592B2	Organic light emitting device, method of manufacturing same, and display panel Provided is an organic light emitting device, including a p-type host layer, an n-type host layer, and an interlayer disposed between the p-type host layer and the n-type host layer, wherein at least one of the p-type host layer and the n-type host layer includes a fluorescent dopant, and a preset distance is present between the fluorescent dopant and the interlayer; the p-type host layer and the n-type host layer are configured to form, together with the interlayer, a spatially separated exciplex under an action of driving voltage; and the fluorescent dopant is configured to absorb energy of singlet excitons generated by the exciplex to emit light.
US12256588B2	Perovskite solar cells with near-infrared sensitive layers The present disclosure is directed to perovskite-based solar cell device structures and compositions comprising one or more near infrared sensitive semiconducting materials. The near infrared sensitive semiconducting materials can extend the photoresponse spectra of the devices to the near infrared region, thereby improving the power conversion efficiency of the solar cell.
US12256586B2	Current control systems and methods A system that includes an energy device having an active region configured to generate or consume electrical energy provided by an electrical current is discussed. A current limiter is disposed between the energy device and a current collector layer. The current limiter controls the current flow between the energy device and the current collector layer. A plurality of electrochemical transistors (ECTs) are arranged in an array such that each ECT in the array provides localized current control for the energy device. Each ECT includes a gate electrode, a drain electrode, a source electrode, and a channel disposed between the drain and the source electrodes. An electrolyte electrically couples the gate electrode to the channel such that an electrical signal at the gate electrode controls electrical conductivity of the channel. The current collector layer is a shared drain or source electrode for the ECTs.
US12256582B2	Display panel, manufacturing method and display device The present disclosure provides a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device. The display panel includes: a base substrate including a display region, a wiring region surrounding the display region and a bonding region located at a side of the display region; a light-emitting element arranged in the display region and including a cathode; and a first line and at least one second line in the wiring region, the first line being coupled to the cathode of the light-emitting element, two ends of the second line being coupled to the first line in the bonding region, and the first line and the second line being coupled through at least two via holes at an opposite side of the bonding region.
US12256579B2	Phosphor, method of producing phosphor, light-emitting element, light-emitting device, and image display apparatus A phosphor in which at least some of an element M in a phosphor host crystal represented by Mα(L, A)βXγ is substituted with Eu as an activation material. M represents one or more (including at least Sr) of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, and Zn, L represents one or more of Li, Na, and K, A represents one or more of Al, Ga, B, In, Sc, Y, La, and Si, X represents one or more (except that X represents only N) of O, N, F, and Cl, α, β, γ, and δ satisfy 8.70≤α+β+γ+δ≤9.30, 0.00<α≤1.30, 3.70≤β≤4.30, 3.70≤γ≤4.30, and 0.00<δ≤1.30. In a fluorescence spectrum obtained by irradiation with light having a wavelength of 260 nm, when a fluorescence intensity at a wavelength of 569 nm is represented by I0 and a fluorescence intensity at a wavelength of 617 nm is represented by I1, I1/I0 is 0.01 or more and 0.4 or less.
US12256577B2	Solar cell Provided is a solar cell including: a semiconductor substrate having a substantially rectangular shape; and collector electrodes. The semiconductor substrate is sectioned into first, second, third, and fourth large sections by a first large sectioning line passing a center of a first side of the semiconductor substrate and substantially parallel to a second side of the semiconductor substrate and a second large sectioning line passing through a center of the second side of the semiconductor substrate and substantially parallel to the first side of the semiconductor substrate. The collector electrodes include finger electrodes. The finger electrodes provided on each of the first and third large sections extends in a first direction, and the finger electrodes provided on each of the second and the fourth large sections extends in a second direction.
US12256567B2	Semiconductor device with multiple gate electrodes featuring asymmetric contact widths A semiconductor device includes a first active pattern that extends in a first horizontal direction, a second active pattern which extends in the first horizontal direction, and is spaced apart from the first active pattern by a first distance in a second horizontal direction, a third active pattern which extends in the first horizontal direction, and is spaced apart from the second active pattern by a second distance greater than the first distance in the second horizontal direction, a first gate electrode which extends in the second horizontal direction on the first to third active patterns, a second gate electrode which extends in the second horizontal direction on the first and second active patterns, and is spaced apart from the first gate electrode in the first horizontal direction, a first gate contact and a second gate contact which extends in the second horizontal direction on the second gate electrode.
US12256566B2	Semiconductor device channel layers stacked vertically and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor device includes an active pattern on a substrate, source/drain patterns on the active pattern, a plurality of channel layers stacked on the active pattern to be vertically spaced apart from each other and connecting the source/drain patterns with each other, a gate electrode between the source/drain patterns to cross the active pattern and to surround the channel layers, and active contacts at opposite sides of the gate electrode to cover top surfaces of the source/drain patterns. A width of each of the active contacts is smaller than or equal to the largest width of each of the source/drain patterns. Each of the top surfaces of the source/drain patterns has an inclined surface that is inclined relative to a top surface of the substrate, and each of the active contacts includes a protruding portion that protrudes toward the inclined surface.
US12256565B2	Method for preparing recessed gate structure with protection layer A method for preparing a recessed gate structure includes forming a recessed structure, wherein the recessed structure includes a substrate with the recess extending into the substrate from a topmost surface of the substrate; forming a first functional layer to at least cover a sidewall of a recess of the recessed structure; forming a second functional layer to cover the first functional layer; performing a rapid thermal treatment to form an interfacial layer extending along an interface between the first functional layer and the second functional layer; and forming a conductive feature to fill up the recess.
US12256561B2	SiC MOSFET device and method for manufacturing the same The present application discloses an SiC MOSFET device, including an SiC epitaxial layer in which a trench gate is formed, wherein a first bottom doped region is formed below a bottom surface of a gate trench, a second deep doped region with spacing from the gate trench is formed in the SiC epitaxial layer, the first bottom doped region is connected to a source so that voltage borne by a gate dielectric layer on the bottom surface of the gate trench is determined by gate-source voltage; the second deep doped region extends downward from a top surface of the SiC epitaxial layer, and a bottom surface of the second deep doped region is located below a bottom surface of the first bottom doped region; a top of the second deep doped region is connected to the source. The present application further discloses a method for manufacturing an SiC MOSFET device.
US12256559B2	Source-body self-aligned method of a vertical double diffused metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor A source-body self-aligned method of a VDMOSFET is provided. A pad layer and an unoxidized material layer are sequentially formed on an epitaxial layer on a semiconductor substrate. A lithography process is then carried out for patterning. Later, a thermal oxidation process is employed such that the unoxidized material layer is oxidized to form oxidation layers. Then, a source ion implantation process is performed, and a wet etching is used to remove the oxidation layers before successively employing a body ion implantation process. By using the process method disclosed in the present invention, it achieves to form the source region and the body region which are self-aligned. Meanwhile, since process complexity of the invention is relatively low, process uniformity and process cost can be optimally controlled. In addition, the invention achieves to reduce channel length and on-resistance, thereby enhancing the reliability effectively.
US12256558B2	Technologies for fabricating a 3D memory structure A three-dimensional (3D) memory structure includes a memory array formed on a side of a substrate, a far-back-end-of-line (FBEOL) structure formed on the memory array, and a back-end-of-line (BEOL) structure formed on another side of the substrate opposite the side on which the memory array and the BEOL structure are formed. Methodologies to fabricate the 3D memory structure are also disclosed and include forming the memory array on the substrate, forming the FBEOL on the memory array, flipping the substrate, and forming the BEOL on the opposite side of the substrate. Alternative 3D memory structures and fabrication methodologies are also disclosed.
US12256553B2	On-die formation of single-crystal semiconductor structures Methods, systems, and devices for on-die formation of single-crystal semiconductor structures are described. In some examples, a layer of semiconductor material may be deposited above one or more decks of memory cells and divided into a set of patches. A respective crystalline arrangement of each patch may be formed based on nearly or partially melting the semiconductor material, such that nucleation sites remain in the semiconductor material, from which respective crystalline arrangements may grow. Channel portions of transistors may be formed at least in part by doping regions of the crystalline arrangements of the semiconductor material. Accordingly, operation of the memory cells may be supported by lower circuitry (e.g., formed at least in part by doped portions of a crystalline semiconductor substrate), and upper circuitry (e.g., formed at least in part by doped portions of a semiconductor deposited over the memory cells and formed with a crystalline arrangement in-situ).
US12256551B2	Method for forming semiconductor memory structure A method for forming a semiconductor memory structure includes following operations. A plurality of doped regions are formed in a semiconductor substrate. The doped regions are separated from each other. A stack including a plurality of first insulating layers and a plurality of second insulating layers alternately arranged is formed over the semiconductor substrate. A first trench is formed in the stack. The second insulating layers are replaced with a plurality of conductive layers. A second trench is formed. A charge-trapping layer and a channel layer are formed in the second trench. An isolation structure is formed to fill the second trench. A source structure and a drain structure are formed at two sides of the isolation structure.
US12256549B2	Boundary design to reduce memory array edge CMP dishing effect In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a plurality of transistor devices disposed on or within a substrate and a plurality of memory devices disposed on or within the substrate. A first isolation structure is disposed within the substrate between the plurality of transistor devices and the plurality of memory devices. A dummy gate structure is arranged on the first isolation structure and has a top surface that is vertically above top surfaces of the plurality of transistor devices and the plurality of memory devices.
US12256546B2	Integrated assemblies and methods of forming integrated assemblies Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a first structure containing semiconductor material, and having a second structure contacting the first structure. The first structure has a composition along an interface with the second structure. The composition includes additive to a concentration within a range of from about 1018 atoms/cm3 to about 1021 atoms/cm3. The additive includes one or more of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US12256545B2	Semiconductor devices and data storage systems including the same A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor structure that includes a substrate having a first region and a second region, gate electrodes stacked and spaced apart from each other in a first direction, extend at different lengths in a second direction on the second region, and include pad regions, interlayer insulating layers alternately stacked with the gate electrodes, channel structures penetrating the gate electrodes, extending in the first direction, and each including a channel layer, contact plugs penetrating the pad regions and extending in the first direction on the second region, and contact insulating layers between the gate electrodes and between ones of the contact plugs below the pad regions. The pad regions and the contact insulating layers protrude from the interlayer insulating layers toward the contact plugs in a horizontal direction.
US12256544B2	Three-dimensional memory device containing etch-stop structures and self-aligned insulating spacers and method of making the same Contact via openings are formed through a retro-stepped dielectric material portion in a three-dimensional memory device to underlying etch stop structures. The etch stop structures may include a stepped conductive or semiconductor etch stop plate overlying stepped surfaces in the staircase region. The contact via openings are extended through the etch stop structures. Alternatively, electrically conductive layers, including a topmost dummy electrically conductive layer in the staircase region, may be employed as etch stop structures. In this case, the contact via openings can be extended through the electrically conductive layers. Insulating spacers are formed at peripheral regions of the extended contact via openings. Contact via structures surrounded by the insulating spacers are formed in the extended contact via openings to a respective underlying electrically conductive layer.
US12256542B2	Three-dimensional memory device containing a pillar contact between channel and source and methods of making the same A memory die includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, a semiconductor material layer located over the alternating stack, a dielectric spacer layer located over the semiconductor material layer, a memory opening vertically extending through the alternating stack, through the semiconductor material layer, and at least partly through the dielectric spacer layer, a memory opening fill structure located in the memory opening and including a dielectric core, a vertical semiconductor channel having a hollow portion which surrounds the dielectric core and a pillar portion which does not surround the dielectric core, and a memory film, and a source layer located over the dielectric spacer layer and contacting the pillar portion. In one embodiment, a tubular spacer laterally surrounds the pillar portion, is laterally spaced from the pillar portion by a cylindrical portion of the memory film, and contacts a cylindrical sidewall of the semiconductor material layer.
US12256536B2	Semiconductor base plate and semiconductor device Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a semiconductor base plate and a semiconductor device. An array region includes a primary memory cell. A peripheral region includes an antifuse memory cell. The antifuse memory cell and the primary memory cell are formed by a same process.
US12256534B2	Semiconductor device having double bit capacity and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a trench, and a word line structure in the trench. The semiconductor substrate has a first active region and an isolation layer. The first active region includes a first sub-active region, a second sub-active region, and a first separation channel separating the first sub-active region from the second sub-active region. The word line structure is adjacent to the first active region and includes a word line insulating layer covering inner side surfaces of the trench, a word line electrode on the word line insulating layer, and a word line capping structure on the word line electrode. A depth of the first separation channel is substantially identical to a thickness of the isolation layer.
US12256533B2	Semiconductor memory device and method of fabricating the same The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor memory device and a fabricating method thereof, and the semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, bit lines, plugs and a spacer structure. The bit lines are separately disposed on the substrate, and the plugs are also disposed on the substrate to alternately arrange with the bit lines. The spacer structure is disposed on the substrate, between each of the bit lines and each of the plugs. The spacer structure includes a first air gap layer, a first spacer and a second air gap layer, and the first air gap layer, the first spacer and the second air gap layer are sequentially stacked between sidewalls of the bit lines and the plugs. Therefore, two air gap layers may be formed between the bit lines and the storage node contacts to improve the delay between the resistor and the capacitor.
US12256531B2	Method for forming buried bit lines in the bit line trenchs A semiconductor structure and a forming method thereof are provided. The method for forming a semiconductor structure includes providing a base including a semiconductor substrate and a well region located on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, in which the well region includes a plurality of active pillar columns arranged at intervals along a first direction, and each of the active pillar columns includes a plurality of active pillars arranged at intervals along a second direction, in which the first direction is perpendicular to the second direction; forming a plurality of bit line trenches by etching at least the well region and a partial thickness of the semiconductor substrate at bottoms of the active pillars; and forming buried bit lines in the bit line trenches.
US12256523B2	Board unit A board unit includes: a board stack including a first circuit board and a second circuit board that are supported while being spaced apart from each other; an electronic component mounted on the first circuit board; a first heat dissipation member that covers the board stack from outside of the first circuit board; a second heat dissipation member that covers the board stack from outside of the second circuit board; a first heat transfer portion that thermally connects the electronic component and the first heat transfer portion; and a second heat transfer portion that thermally connects the electronic component and the second circuit board. The electronic component has a body located between the first circuit board and the second circuit board, and the second heat transfer portion is partially provided at a position that corresponds to the body of the electronic component.
US12256521B2	Apparatus for cooling electronic circuitry components and photonic components An apparatus for cooling electronic circuitry components and photonic components. In examples of the disclosure at least one photonic component is positioned overlaying at least one electronic circuitry component. In examples of the disclosure there is also provided a spacer for spacing the at least one electronic circuitry component and the at least one photonic component, wherein the spacer for spacing are thermally insulating. In examples of the disclosure there is also provided a first heat transfer configured to remove heat from the at least one electronic circuitry component, and a second heat transfer configured to remove heat from the at least one photonic component.
US12256520B2	Wick sheet for vapor chamber, vapor chamber, and electronic apparatus A wick sheet for a vapor chamber includes a sheet body having a first body surface and a second body surface, a first vapor flow channel portion, a liquid flow channel portion provided on the second body surface, and the second vapor flow channel portion provided on the first body surface. The sheet body includes a land portion having the longitudinal direction being a first direction, and the first vapor flow channel portion is disposed around the land portion. The second vapor flow channel portion includes a vapor flow channel groove extending from one of side edges of the land portion to the other side edge in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.
US12256514B2	Power module with integrated gate driver and functional components within a single power module housing An apparatus comprises a power module housing. The power module housing includes a conductive substrate and a circuit board positioned overlying the conductive substrate. A gate driver is mounted to the circuit board. A power device is mounted to the conductive substrate and is controlled by the gate driver. The power module housing includes an insulation material electrically insulating the conductive substrate from the circuit board. A monitoring component is mounted to at least the conductive substrate and is operatively coupled to the gate driver and the power device.
US12256513B2	Reference electrical potential assembly and attachment assembly for printed circuit An assembly and an attachment assembly for an electrical circuit. The assembly having an electrically conductive flexible clip (30) which includes: an electrical circuit clamping conductor clamp; an electrical contact stub (42); an attachment (43) adapted to clamp the electrical contact stub (42) against an electrical contact surface.
US12256511B2	Universal mounting bracket A mounting bracket holds electronic device modules having various sizes and shapes. The mounting bracket includes a mounting plate. An adjustable clamp includes a fixed part attached to the mounting plate, and a movable part that is movable to any spacing from the mounting plate within a preset range and is securable anywhere within the preset range. The adjustable clamp holds an electronic device module against the mounting plate. A movable slat moves along the mounting plate to any distance from the fixed part within a fixed range and is securable to the mounting plate anywhere within the fixed range. The movable slat holds the electronic device module against the fixed part. The mounting bracket therefore holds electronic device modules of various sizes and shapes upon the electronic device module having a thickness within a range of thicknesses and a height within a range of heights.
US12256510B2	Sealing system for telecommunication closures A sealing system for a telecommunication closure includes an endcap having a plurality of slotted areas defined therein; and a plurality of sealing segment assemblies mounted to the endcap that when combined form a substantially continuous sealing perimeter around the endcap. Each sealing segment assembly is disposed in one of the plurality of slotted areas and includes an inner segment and an outer segment that when mated together are configured to seal at least one cable routed through a cable port opening.
US12256506B1	Wireless switching controller for media devices A wireless switching controller for media devices is provided, including a main body and a remote controller. The remote controller includes a first housing having a cavity, the main body includes a main device body and a clamping component, and the clamping component is rotatably connected to the main device body through a rotating shaft. The remote controller is communicated with the main device body through a wireless communication manner. The main device body is partially or completely detachably accommodated in the cavity, and a transmission unit is disposed between the remote controller and the main device body for transmitting electrical power.
US12256505B2	Electrified container, railcar, ship, connection pad, and/or semi-trailer system An electrified container assembly and system is herein disclosed. The assembly includes a container, a first photovoltaic sheet, a battery array, electrified corner castings, electrified twist-lock connectors, and a container controller. The container includes multiple walls. The first photovoltaic sheet is mounted to a first wall of container, and the first photovoltaic sheet generates electricity from sunlight. The battery array is mounted in the container and electrically coupled to the first photovoltaic sheet. Each electrified twist-lock connector is disposed in a respective electrified corner casting and is designed to transmit generated electricity, data, or both to an adjacent container or a connection pad. The container controller is used for controlling the first photovoltaic sheet, the battery array, and the plurality of electrified twist-lock connectors.
US12256504B2	Holding system for foldable display device and foldable display set including the same A foldable display set may include: a foldable display device; and a holding system on a rear surface of the foldable display device and configured to fold and unfold the foldable display device. The holding system may include: a motor configured to generate a rotational force; a rotational arm configured to be rotated by the rotational force of the motor to fold and unfold the foldable display device; a fixing plate spaced apart from the rotational arm with the foldable display device in an unfolded state; a moving plate on the fixing plate and configured to be moved with respect to the fixing plate by the rotational arm; and a magnetic unit fixed on the moving plate. The foldable display device in a folded state may be fixed to the magnetic unit via a magnetic force.
US12256502B2	Display device A display device includes: a panel assembly including a display panel; a bracket to which the panel assembly is attached; and a buffer layer between the panel assembly and the bracket, and the buffer layer includes: a first portion having a first elastic modulus; and a second portion surrounded by the first portion and having a second elastic modulus that is less than the first elastic modulus.
US12256495B2	Flexible printed circuit board and electronic device including the same According to various embodiments of the disclosure, an electronic device may include: a printed circuit board; a connector disposed on one surface of the printed circuit board and including a first contact portion and a second contact portion spaced apart from the first contact portion; and a flexible printed circuit board at least a part of which is connected to the connector. The flexible printed circuit board may include: two first areas formed on one surface of the flexible printed circuit board and each having a length in a width direction from one side or the other side of the one surface; and a second area formed between the first areas. Each of the first area and the second area may include a plurality of first terminals in contact with the first contact portion and disposed at intervals in the width direction of the flexible printed circuit board; and a plurality of second terminals in contact with the second contact portion and spaced apart from the plurality of first terminals in a longitudinal direction of the flexible printed circuit board. In the first area, one end of the plurality of first terminals may be formed at a same position in the longitudinal direction of the flexible printed circuit board, and the plurality of second terminals are spaced apart from the plurality of first terminals by a first length, respectively. In the second area, at least some of the plurality of first terminals may be spaced apart from at least some of the plurality of second terminals by a second length, respectively. The first length may be greater than the second length.
US12256493B1	Rapid implementation of high-temperature analog interface electronics A multi-layer ceramic wiring board is patterned with arrays of footprints for high-temperature surface mounted device active and passive components on one side of the board that is patterned with arrays of standard SMD footprints to enable placement and attachment of components including primary 2-terminal components and active components where the SMD pads are connected through vias and buried-layer interconnect traces to a multiple connection point arrays on the front and back side of the ceramic wiring board. Each pad is connected to multiple instances of the pad grid to connections to be made with a single post-fired print.
US12256491B2	Electronic component mounting substrate, electronic component mounted body, and method of manufacturing the same, as well as electronic apparatus An electronic component mounted body includes a substrate, a connection section provided on the substrate, an electronic component having a terminal connected to the connection section, and a solder that fixes the electronic component to the connection section. The connection section has a first region in which the terminal is fixed through the solder, and a second region lower in wettability than the first region, and the second region has an extension region extended to a peripheral edge of the connection section, and a spaced region that projects from the extension region toward the first region and that is provided to be spaced from the peripheral edge.
US12256490B2	Prepreg, laminate, and production methods therefor, as well as printed circuit board and semiconductor package Provided is a prepreg capable of attaining thermal expansion coefficient reduction and elastic modulus increase without increasing the filling ratio of an inorganic filler therein and/or without using a resin having a low thermal expansion coefficient, and thereby capable of reducing warpage thereof. Specifically, provided is a prepreg containing glass fibers and a thermosetting resin composition, and containing a layer of plural glass fiber filaments aligned to run nearly parallel to each other in one direction. Also provided are a production method for the prepreg, a laminate containing the prepreg and its production method, a printed circuit board containing the laminate, and a semiconductor package having a semiconductor device mounted on the printed circuit board.
US12256489B2	Circuit board including a buffer layer for improving A circuit board according to an embodiment comprises: an insulation layer; a circuit pattern disposed on the upper surface or under the lower surface of the insulation layer; and a buffer layer disposed on at least one surface of the upper surface and the lower surface of the insulation layer, wherein the buffer layer includes carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, the ratio of the nitrogen to the carbon ((carbon/nitrogen)100) is 5 to 15, and the ratio of the oxygen to the carbon ((carbon/oxygen)100) is 15 to 30.
US12256488B2	Circuit board structure Provided is a circuit board structure including a substrate, a loop-wrapping ground layer, an insulating structure, a first build-up layer, a top wiring layer, a bottom wiring layer, a first conductive via, and a plurality of second conductive vias. The aforementioned structure defines a signal transmitting structure. An equivalent circuit of the signal transmitting structure at least includes a first equivalent circuit, a second equivalent circuit, a third equivalent circuit and a fourth equivalent circuit, which correspond to different uniform transmitting sections respectively. The first equivalent circuit, the second equivalent circuit, the third equivalent circuit and the fourth equivalent circuit are connected in series with each other according to an ABCD transmission matrix series connection principle.
US12256486B2	Shield structure in electronic device and operation method thereof Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a package structure capable of allowing a shield used for noise attenuation to be used for other purposes, in an electronic device in which components are arranged at high density, and an operation method for preventing/reducing noise radiation or detecting in advance defects in a manufacturing process using the same. For this, an electronic device may include: a printed circuit board (PCB), and a package disposed on the printed circuit board. The package may include: a ground pad and at least one shield pad connected to the printed circuit board, a laminated structure comprising a plurality of laminated ground layers electrically connected to the ground pad by at least one via hole, at least one electronic component disposed on an uppermost surface of the plurality of laminated ground layers, a shield covering the at least one electronic component, wherein the at least one component is not exposed to the outside, and at least one switch device comprising a switch including a first terminal electrically connected to the shield through a first conductor wiring, a second terminal electrically connected to one of the plurality of ground layers through a second conductor wiring, and a third terminal electrically connected to the shield pad through a third conductor wiring and disposed on the uppermost surface and configured to selectively connect the first terminal to the second terminal or the third terminal wherein the shield is connected to one of the one ground layer or the shield pad.
US12256485B2	Pulse energy generator system Energy is generated from pulsed electric power sources applied to a gas medium that includes hydrogen. A sealed reactor chamber contains hydrogen. A plasma power supply, such as a DC, AC, or RF power supply, generates a plasma inside the chamber. The pulse energy generator systems use pulsed electric power for the conversion of molecular hydrogen into atomic hydrogen. An inner surface of the reactor chamber is coated with a catalyst to facilitate the reformation of molecular hydrogen from atomic hydrogen under conditions that release excess energy. The catalyst may include tungsten, nickel, titanium, platinum, palladium, and mixtures thereof. A plasma pulse controller connected to the plasma power supply turns the power supply on and off to generate plasma pulses inside the reactor chamber. A pulse time duration may range from 1 nanosecond to 1 millisecond and a dead time between pulses may range from 20 milliseconds to 0.3 seconds.
US12256476B2	Device for the inductive heating of a workpiece in a rolling mill A device (1) for inductive heating of a workpiece (2) in a rolling mill, the device (1) including: a converter (3) for creating an alternating voltage, a capacitor bank (6) electrically connected to the converter (3), and having a plurality of capacitors (7) connected in parallel, a working field (8), in which an upper coil (10) and a lower coil (11) are arranged. The workpiece (2) is able to be passed between the coils (10, 11) and is thereby inductively heated by cross-field heating. A housing (4) arranged next to, below or above the working field (8). The converter (3) and capacitor bank (6) are arranged in the housing (4). The coils (10, 11) are each electrically connected to the capacitor bank (6) by a flexible cable (12, 13). The cable (12, 13) is a coaxial cable (27), with one phase of the alternating voltage applied to an inner conductor (28) and the other phase of the alternating voltage applied to an outer conductor (29) of the coaxial cable (27). The cables (12, 13) are cooled by a fluid, such as air or water (21).
US12256474B2	Short circuit detection module A Short Circuit Detection module capable of detecting a fail related with the Short circuit condition in one or more LEDs contained in a series connection string comply with the failure mode (One out-All out) and can send a single failure signal to a body control module (BCM). The Short Circuit Detection module also includes a lamp driver circuit adapted to detect a change in LED current or voltage that is indicative of a LED light source failure and thereafter output the failure signal to the BCM.
US12256473B1	Systems and methods for changing a color temperature and brightness of a light Methods and apparatuses control light emitted from a mirror platform through an interaction with a user. A first signal is received from a capacitive sensor during the interaction. The capacitive sensor is incorporated on the back side of the mirror platform. The first signal is processed to obtain control parameters for at least two light sources. The at least two light sources are configured with the mirror platform and the at least two light sources produce light at different color temperatures. The control parameters are used to cause the at least two light sources to emit light at a color temperature established during the interaction.
US12256472B2	LED dimming method, dimming controller and system An LED dimming method, a dimming controller and system are disclosed. In a phase where a duty cycle of a PWM signal does not exceed a first threshold, every n periods of the PWM signal is taken as one set, taking a set as an output unit, and the duty cycle of the PWM signal is changed by incrementing or decrementing a average duty cycle by a first predetermined amount ΔP1 (0<ΔP1<0.2%), thereby adjusting an output current of an LED. In this way, the duty cycle of the PWM signal can be configured to increment by the first predetermined amount ΔP1 that is smaller than 0.2%. Moreover, when the first threshold is 10%, it can be ensured that each period of the PWM signal with duty cycle value within the range of 0-10% can be identified.
US12256468B2	Method and server for pushing data to MNO Provided is a method for pushing data to a mobile network operator (MNO), the method being suitable to be implemented by a server and comprising the following steps of: receiving, from the MNO, a message comprising at least one communication pattern associated with at least one device identifier identifying a type or a provider of a device; receiving, from a user, a request for downloading a subscription profile of the MNO; sending, in response to the request, the subscription profile to a device of the user; identifying, from the at least one communication pattern, a communication pattern applicable to the subscription profile according to device data obtained from the request; and pushing data comprising an identifier of the subscription profile and the applicable communication pattern to the MNO.
US12256465B2	Method of setting up network lock function of electronic device and electronic device using the same An electronic device according to an embodiment of the disclosure may include a communication module, a subscriber identification module, and at least one processor. The at least one processor may identify identification information of the subscriber identification module stored in the subscriber identification module when the subscriber identification module is identified as being first inserted, may configure a network service provider based on the identified identification information, may generate a signature by using lock information of the subscriber identification module, may identify network lock information when the signature is identified as being valid, and may set up a network lock function of the communication module based on the identified network lock information.
US12256462B2	UE assistance information report for sidelink DRX Methods and apparatuses in a wireless communication system. A method of operating a user equipment BS includes generating a first indicator requesting a report of a set of sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) configurations for SL communications among user equipments (UEs); transmitting a downlink signal including the first indicator; receiving an uplink signal including the report of the set of the SL DRX configurations based on the first indicator indicating that the report of the set of the SL DRX configurations is requested; and configuring, based on the report of the set of the SL DRX configurations, a network DRX configuration for a Uu interface between a UE and a network entity including the BS.
US12256459B2	Pre-configured dedicated resource for idle mode transmissions Methods, systems, and devices for providing pre-configured dedicated resources for communications during the RRC (radio resource control) idle state, thereby enabling significant energy savings during the communication of small data packets, are described. One exemplary method for wireless communication includes transmitting a first message comprising an indication of pre-configured terminal-specific dedicated resources for a communication between the network device and a terminal, and receiving information from the terminal over the pre-configured terminal-specific dedicated resources, wherein the terminal is in an idle mode and is without an established RRC connection. Another exemplary method for wireless communication includes receiving a first message comprising an indication of pre-configured terminal-specific dedicated resources for a communication between a network device and the terminal, and transmitting, while in the idle mode and without an established RRC connection, information over the pre-configured terminal-specific dedicated resources.
US12256452B2	Communication of segmented radio resource control messages A method, in a user device configured to communicate with a first base station via a radio link, for managing communication of a segmented radio resource control (RRC) message that includes N segments includes transmitting (212) a first M segments of the segmented RRC message to the first base station, M being an integer greater than zero and less than N, detecting (220), by processing hardware of the user device and before transmitting an (M+1)-th segment of the segmented RRC message, a failure of the radio link, and, after detecting the failure of the radio link, transmitting (264) at least a last N−M+1 segments of the segmented RRC message to either the first base station or a second base station.
US12256448B2	Trigger based configuration of wireless protocols in communication networks Systems, methods, and computer-readable media herein modify the utilized communication protocol of one or more wireless base stations and/or UE devices based on signal quality information or data rate information associated with one or more UE devices. The signal quality information or data rate information of the UE devices can be analyzed by a base station and the base station can respond to changes in signal quality or data rate of the UE devices by modifying the configuration of one or more base stations and/or UE devices from a first communication protocol to a second communication protocol quality of transmissions between the UE devices and a base station.
US12256445B2	Cloud hosted device instances method and apparatus Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to instantiate local and persistent core device instances within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data processing used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide systems and methods for cloud hosted device instances. The systems and methods provide a platform for creating cloud hosted device instances, each of which provides compute and memory resources for a device user. The systems and methods provide a core cloud service to centrally manage device data and deploy (and redeploy) local (or “lightweight”) device instances close to a device.
US12256442B2	Techniques for requesting uplink transmission resources for maximum permissible exposure reporting Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify a maximum permissible exposure (MPE) event associated with a beam, determine that a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for transmitting a scheduling request is unavailable based at least in part on the identification of the MPE event associated with the beam, and initiate, based at least in part on the determination that the PUCCH resource is unavailable, a physical random access channel (PRACH) procedure to transmit an uplink message. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12256441B2	Random access channel process using single carrier waveforms For a two-step random access channel (RACH) process, the base station determines a random access configuration to configure a user equipment (UE) with the two-step RACH process that includes a communication of a first message including a preamble portion and a payload portion, where the determining the random access configuration includes determining to exclude a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) from the payload portion based on satisfaction of conditions. The base station generates configuration information including the random access configuration indicating the two-step RACH process, the configuration information including a configuration for a transmission of the preamble portion and the payload portion without the DMRS based on the satisfaction of the conditions. The base station transmits the configuration information to the UE, and subsequently receives, based on the configuration information, a first RACH message that includes the preamble portion and the payload portion without the DMRS, using the single carrier waveform.
US12256436B2	Method and UE for power control for two-step random access procedure A user equipment (UE) implementing power control for a 2-step random access channel (RACH) procedure is provided. The UE determines a first transmission power of a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble to be used during a 2-step RACH procedure. The UE determines a second transmission power of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission to be used during the 2-step RACH procedure based on the first transmission power of the PRACH preamble. The UE then performs the 2-step RACH procedure based on the first transmission power of the PRACH preamble and the second transmission power of the PUSCH transmission. The UE switches to a 4-step RACH procedure from the 2-step RACH procedure based on a determination that the PRACH preamble was successfully detected and the PUSCH transmission was falsely detected, and performs the 4-step RACH procedure based on the first transmission power of the PRACH preamble.
US12256432B2	On-vehicle ultra-wideband system and method A wireless communication system for a vehicle includes a wireless access point (AP), an ultra-wide band (UWB) system, a communication link, a controller, and a vehicle system. The UWB system is in communication with the wireless AP via a communication link. The wireless communication system is operable to detect, via the wireless AP, a request for localized wireless communication. The UWB system requests the wireless AP to generate a clear to send (CTS) transmission, which includes selecting an ultra-wide band (UWB) channel, mapping the UWB channel to a plurality of WiFi channels, and transmitting, by the wireless AP, the CTS transmission to each of the plurality of WiFi channels. The UWB system then transmits a UWB message.
US12256427B2	Communication control method and user equipment A communication control method is a method performed in a user equipment. The communication control method includes the steps of: when a random access procedure is performed for a base station operated in an unlicensed band in which LBT before transmission is required, transmitting a message to the base station and then receiving a response to the message from the base station; and controlling the number of transmission occasions that allow the message to be transmitted before the response is received. The controlling of the number of the transmission occasions includes, when a failure occurs in an n-th (n≥1) random access procedure due to a failure of the LBT, causing the number of the transmission occasions in an (n+1)-th random access procedure to be larger than the number of the transmission occasions in the n-th random access procedure.
US12256424B2	Method and device for information transmission A method for information transmission includes that: a terminal device sends a first preamble and a first uplink data channel to a network device; the terminal device receives first downlink control information from the network device; and the terminal device determines at least one of the following based on a related parameter of the first DCI: a type of a random access channel (RACH) process; a content of the first DCI; a transmission mechanism for first data scheduled by the first DCI; or information carried in the first data scheduled by the first DCI. A device for information transmission is also provided.
US12256422B2	Automatic gain control for super-high order modulations Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for adapting or considering a receiver gain when using super-high order modulations for data transmissions. In one aspect, a network entity may transmit a tracking reference signal (TRS) in a first slot adjacent in time to a second slot allocated for one or more data transmissions associated with a high order modulation. A user equipment (UE) may receive the TRS and may adjust a receiver gain based on the TRS before receiving the one or more data transmissions associated with the high order modulation in the second slot. In another aspect, a UE may indicate (e.g., based on a receiver gain at the UE) a type of slot (e.g., shortened slot) or a maximum number of slots in which a network entity may transmit data transmissions with a high modulation order.
US12256421B2	Sidelink channel state information reporting for multiple remote user equipments This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support reporting of sidelink channel state information (CSI) for multiple remote sidelink user equipments (UEs). In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication includes obtaining an uplink control information (UCI) message resource allocation for sidelink CSI reporting. The method further includes receiving at least one sidelink CSI report from one or more sidelink UEs in communication with the UE and transmitting a UCI message with the UCI message resource allocation including one or more sidelink CSI reports of the at least one sidelink CSI report. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US12256417B2	Radio resource allocation policy configuration method, apparatus, and system The disclosure provides radio resource allocation policy configuration methods. One example method includes that a first network management unit obtains a first radio resource allocation policy which is used to describe a first proportion of a radio resource, available to each of one or more objects in a first subnetwork, to a first radio resource of the first subnetwork. The first network management unit determines a second radio resource allocation policy based on the first radio resource allocation policy, where the second radio resource allocation policy is used to describe a second proportion of a radio resource, available to each of one or more objects in a first cell, to a second radio resource of the first cell, the objects in the first cell include at least one object of the one or more objects, and the first cell is a cell of the first subnetwork.
US12256409B2	Data transmission using uplink carrier switching method Embodiments of the present application provide a data transmission method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium; and the method includes: a terminal device determines a first uplink carrier used by uplink data to be transmitted according to first information; where the first uplink carrier is a carrier of a normal uplink NUL or a carrier of a supplementary uplink SUL; and the terminal device sends the uplink data by using the first uplink carrier; where the first information is used to indicate at least one of time limit information, carrier information, resource information or service information used when selecting an uplink carrier. The method according to the embodiments of the present application can flexibly switch UL carriers or determine a carrier or a resource for uplink transmission, thereby giving the flexibility of uplink transmission to the terminal, and improving the efficiency of resource transmission.
US12256407B2	Reliability enhancement for PDCCH Systems and methods for PDCCH reliability are disclosed. The PDCCH may be improved by introducing multi-TRP, multi-beam or repeated, PDCCH transmission and reception. In some methods and systems, PDCCH is transmitted on multiple CORESETs (Control Resource Set), where each CORESET is associated with a TCI state. In some cases, it is beneficial if a UE can determine that multiple received DCIs are duplicates, in order not to duplicate the corresponding UE action. Methods and systems for DCI duplication determination are disclosed. In some methods and systems, PDCCH is transmitted in a single CORESET, where the CORESET is associated with multiple TCI states. Various ways to apply the different TCI states to different disjoint frequency parts of the CORESET or the whole CORESET are proposed. Furthermore, the TCI state used for PDCCH may be used for subsequent PDSCH reception as well, in some cases. The disclosure also presents methods and systems on how to apply multiple TCI states of a received PDCCH to a subsequent PDSCH reception.
US12256404B2	Method and apparatus for configuring beam in wireless communication system 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 terminal is provided. The method performed by a terminal includes receiving, from a base station, DCI scheduling a plurality of PDSCHs on a PDCCH, wherein the DCI includes information on a TDRA and information on a TCI state, identifying symbol offsets between the PDCCH and the plurality of PDSCHs based on the TDRA, in case that a first symbol offset between the PDCCH and a first PDSCH is less than a threshold, receiving, from the base station, the first PDSCH based on a default TCI state, and in case that a second symbol offset between the PDCCH and a second PDSCH is equal to or greater than the threshold, receiving, from the base station, the second PDSCH based on the TCI state.
US12256403B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting feedback information, method and apparatus for receiving feedback information, terminal, and medium A method for generating feedback information, applied to a terminal, includes receiving a first downlink control information, wherein a downlink physical channel scheduled by the first downlink control information is contained in a first channel group, and the first downlink control information is used to indicate the terminal to transmit a feedback information corresponding to two channel groups, and determining an order of the feedback information corresponding to the two channel groups in a feedback information codebook according to the first downlink control information.
US12256395B2	Information transmission method and apparatus This application provides an information transmission method and apparatus. A terminal receives downlink control information (DCI), wherein a format of the DCI corresponds to a time domain resource set, the time domain resource set comprises first time domain resource. The terminal determines the first time domain resource from the time domain resource set based on the format of the DCI and second information, wherein the second information is carried in the DCI, and the second information indicates the index of the first time domain resource in the time domain resource set. And the terminal performs information transmission on the first time domain resource and through a physical channel.
US12256384B2	Configuring sidelink transmission configuration indicator states In some implementations, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a second UE, sidelink configuration information indicating one or more transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for at least one sidelink channel between the first UE and the second UE.
US12256383B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving wireless signal in wireless communication system According to an embodiment of the present invention, a user equipment (UE) may receive one or more physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) each carrying downlink control information (DCI) including a field indicating a transmitting configuration index (TCI) state, and receive, based the one or more PDCCHs, one or more of a plurality of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs), wherein the plurality of PDSCHs may carry a same transport block (TB) in a plurality of TCI states, respectively, and the UE can determine, for each TCI state, whether a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) operation is enabled or disabled, and transmits HARQ-acknowledgement (ACK) information for the same TB through a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) associated with an HARQ operation-enabled TCI state.
US12256380B2	Communication method and apparatus for uplink multi-carrier MIMO transmissions The present disclosure relates to communication methods and apparatus. In one example method, a terminal sends, to a network device, a quantity of radio frequency channels supported on each of a plurality of carriers when the terminal performs uplink transmission on the plurality of carriers in time division multiplexing (TDM) mode. The terminal reports, to the network device, a quantity of radio frequency channels used on each carrier when the terminal performs uplink transmission in TDM mode, so that the network device can configure, for the terminal based on an actual capability of the terminal, the quantity of radio frequency channels used on each carrier in TDM mode.
US12256379B2	Dynamic change of mapping payload size to PUCCH configuration Aspects described herein relate to dynamically updating a mapping of uplink control information (UCI) payload size to the one or more physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource sets or the one or more PUCCH formats. For example, a base station or a user equipment (UE) may update the mapping when the UE is in a coverage enhancement condition. The base station or UE may dynamically update the mapping of UCI payload size to the one or more PUCCH resource sets or the one or more PUCCH formats. The UE may map a UCI payload to a selected PUCCH resource set or PUCCH format according to the updated mapping to generate a UCI. Based on the updated mappings, the UE can accordingly transmit UCI based on a selected PUCCH resource set or format, or a base station can receive the UCI based on the selected PUCCH resource set or format.
US12256378B2	Method and systems for multiple precoder indication for physical uplink shared channel communications Approaches for performing Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmissions include receiving, by a user equipment (UE) from a base station, an indicator of a plurality of precoders corresponding to M Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) repetitions, wherein M is an integer. A plurality of precoders corresponding to two or more of the M PUSCH repetitions are indicated. The UE configures the plurality of precoders based on the indicator and transmits one or more of the M Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) repetitions corresponding to one or more of the plurality of precoders. The indicator can be provided in higher layer signaling. One or more transmission rank indicator (TRIs) and transmission precoder matrix indicators (TPMIs) for the M PUSCH repetitions can be provided. The indicator can be provided in a scheduling downlink control indicator (DCI) communication. The indicator can also be provided within N sounding reference signal (SRS) resource indicator(s) (SRIs) of the scheduling DCI.
US12256377B2	Sidelink data transmission method for ultra-low latency and high reliability communication in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor A sidelink data transmission method for ultra-low latency and high reliability communication in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor are provided. A method for transmitting sidelink configuration information by a base station according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes transmitting first sidelink configuration information to a transmitting UE and a receiving UE, transmitting second sidelink configuration information to the transmitting UE and the receiving UE, receiving a result of repeated transmission of sidelink data from the transmitting UE or the receiving UE, determining at least one of whether the sidelink data is retransmitted or the number of repeated transmissions for next sidelink data to be transmitted, and transmitting downlink control information to the transmitting UE and the receiving UE.
US12256372B2	Method and device for multicast broadcast service acquisition A method for MBS acquisition is provided. The method includes receiving system information from a BS; determining a first CORESET configuration and a second CORESET configuration according to the system information, the first CORESET configuration determining a first set of CORESETs scheduling at least one MCCH, the second CORESET configuration determining a second set of CORESETs scheduling a plurality of MTCHs; receiving an MCCH message on the at least one MCCH provided through a first beam of a plurality of beams associated with the BS; and determining, according to the second CORESET configuration and the MCCH message, a plurality of MBS-specific CORESET groups in the second set of CORESETs, wherein each of the plurality of MBS-specific CORESET groups corresponds to a respective MBS session and includes at least two CORESETs configured to be provided through at least two different beams of the plurality of beams. A UE using the method is also provided.
US12256368B2	Dynamically managing system resources upon cancelation of a symbol allocation in slot format indicators Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first device (e.g., a user equipment (UE)) may receive a first indication associated with the first device, where the first indication indicates a communication direction for each of a plurality of time periods for a time interval. The first device may receive a second indication for a set of time periods, where the second indication indicates a cancelation of communications at the first device during the set of time periods, and where the second indication is based on a communication direction mismatch between the first indication and a third indication. The first device may communicate with a base station during the time interval based on the first indication and the second indication.
US12256367B2	Methods of sending paging signaling, paging methods, information sending methods and apparatuses thereof The present disclosure relates to a method of sending paging signaling, including: receiving first identifier information of a terminal in an authorized frequency band from a base station; sending paging signaling including the first identifier information to the base station. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, after receiving the first identifier information from the base stations, the core network may send paging signaling to these base stations sending the first identifier information, such that these base stations sending the first identifier information may further broadcast the paging signaling to page the terminal.
US12256365B2	Communication method and apparatus A communication method includes: a terminal device sends, to a network side device, information indicating that a first user identity of the terminal device and a second user identity of the terminal device are associated with the terminal device; and the terminal device receives, by using the first user identity, paging information corresponding to the second user identity of the terminal device. In the method, the terminal device receives a paging-related message or paging-related information in a cell corresponding to a single user identity, to monitor paging information of a plurality of user identities of the terminal device, so that the plurality of user identities of the terminal device can be effectively paged.
US12256363B2	User equipment tracking and paging area selection in wireless communication systems A method of predicting a location of a user equipment, UE, in a mobile communication network includes generating a list of potential target base stations by generating a transition count for each potential target base station including a count of transitions from the base station to the potential target base station within a predetermined time period, generating a plurality of relative transition frequencies based on the transition counts, and generating a transition probability for each respective potential target base station based on the relative transition frequency of the potential target base station from the base station.
US12256360B2	Method, apparatus, and system for wireless proximity detection Methods, apparatus and systems for wireless sensing and proximity detection are described. For example, a described method comprises: transmitting, by a first wireless device, a wireless signal through a wireless multipath channel in a venue; receiving, by a second wireless device, the wireless signal through the wireless multipath channel, wherein the received wireless signal differs from the transmitted wireless signal due to the wireless multipath channel and a movement of an object in the venue; obtaining a time series of channel information (TSCI) of the wireless multipath channel based on the received wireless signal; computing a first motion statistics based on a time-domain correlation of channel information (CI) in the TSCI; computing a second motion statistics based on a frequency-domain correlation of the CI in the TSCI; and detecting a proximity of the object to a target in the venue based on the first motion statistics and the second motion statistics.
US12256355B2	Mobile time-sync distribution This technology allows time synchronization in wireless networks with mobile stations. A wireless network controller transmits instructions to access points (“APs”) within the wireless network to monitor transmissions for time synchronization. One or more second APs observe fine time measurement (“FTM”) exchanges between a first AP and a mobile station. A particular second AP determines whether to perform a time synchronization with the first AP based on the detection of the FTM exchange or a determination that the station is moving toward the second AP. For time synchronization, the second AP determines the time that the first AP transmitted the FTM exchange and the time of transmission from the first AP to the second AP. The second AP synchronizes a second AP clock to the summation of the time of the transmission of the FTM exchange and the time of transmission from the first AP to the second AP.
US12256353B2	Cell synchronization and timing management in a wireless network Aspects of the disclosure provide techniques for enabling cell synchronization and timing adjustment management in layer 1 and layer 2 (L1-L2) centric mobility applications. A user equipment (UE) communicates with a network entity using one or more cells of a plurality of cells that are configured for mobility operations using layer 1 and layer 2 (L1-L2) centric signaling. The plurality of cells are grouped into one or more timing adjustment groups (TAGs). The UE updates timing advance of the plurality of cells per group according to the one or more TAGs.
US12256352B2	Method and apparatus for obtaining timing advance value A method and an apparatus for obtaining timing advance value. The method comprises: receiving (S101) a time domain signal, which contains at least part of a reference signal; extracting (SI 02), from the time domain signal, a first group of signal parts including at least one signal part, and a second group of signal parts including at least one signal part, wherein the first group of signal parts do not overlap the second group of signal parts; and determining (S103) a timing advance, TA, value based on an energy of a signal part in the first group of signal parts and an energy of a signal part in the second group of signal parts, wherein the energy of the signal part is based on correlation between the signal part and the reference signal. Therefore, the TA value may be obtained based on a time domain signal.
US12256351B2	Supporting QoS flow specific uncertainty attribute A method, network node and core network node are provided. According to one aspect, a network node configured to communicate with a wireless device via an access network is provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to receive at least one parameter from a core network node where the at least one parameter indicates a level of synchronization accuracy that is required for a time sensitive network, TSN, clock in a TSN, and implement one of a plurality of methods in the access network for distributing access network clock information to the wireless device and for determining downlink propagation delay information based on the level of synchronization accuracy for the TSN clock where each method is associated with a different level of synchronization accuracy for the access network clock.
US12256345B2	Relay operation with energy state modes Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A relay device may detect that a network has transitioned from a first energy state mode to a second energy state mode and the second energy state mode may be associated with a reduced network coverage area relative to a network coverage area associated with the first energy state mode. The relay device may activate a relaying function at the relay device based on detecting that the network has transitioned to the second energy state mode and a location of the relay device with respect to the reduced network coverage area. The relay device may communicate with a user equipment (UE) and a network entity of the network to relay transmissions between the UE and the network entity based at least in part on activating the relaying function.
US12256344B2	Uplink spatial filter and power control for joint channel estimation across physical uplink control channels A base station performs joint channel estimation for a set of physical uplink control channels (PUCCHs), where one or more PUCCHs of the set of PUCCHs comprises a corresponding DMRS from a user equipment (UE). The UE receives an indication to transmit the set of PUCCHs, one or more PUCCHs of the set of PUCCHs comprising a DMRS from the base station. The base station transmits, and the UE receives, spatial filter or power control information elements for each PUCCH of the set of PUCCHs. The UE transmits the PUCCHs comprising corresponding DMRS based on a same spatial filter with a same power control parameters, spatial filter or power control information element for a first PUCCH of the set of PUCCHs indicating the same spatial filter or same power control parameter, the set of PUCCHs having phase continuity.
US12256340B2	Power determination and signal transmission methods, apparatus, network device and storage medium Disclosed is a power determination method, including: a first communication node determines power information according to at least one of signaling information and an agreed rule, where the power information includes at least one of: first-type power information associated with a first-type channel or signal, second-type power information associated with a second-type channel or signal, or third-type power information associated with the first-type channel or signal; where an acquisition parameter of the first-type power information comprises the second-type power information, and an acquisition parameter of the third-type power information do not comprise the second-type power information; and where the first-type channel or signal is a channel or a signal between the first communication node and a second communication node, and the second-type channel or signal is a channel or a signal between the first communication node and one or more third communication nodes.
US12256336B2	Terminal and a radio communication method in next-generation mobile communication systems A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives a pathloss reference signal, and a control section that calculates a pathloss for transmission power control on the basis of layer 1 (L1)-reference signal received power (RSRP) for the pathloss reference signal when the pathloss reference signal is updated by a media access control-control element (MAC CE), and a measurement condition is met. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the pathloss can be appropriately calculated.
US12256335B2	Wireless communication device and method for controlling transmission power Disclosed is a wireless communication device that can suppress an increase in power consumption of a terminal while preventing the degradation of SINR measurement precision resulting from TPC errors in a base station. A terminal controls the transmission power of a second signal by adding an offset to the transmission power of a first signal; an offset-setting unit sets an offset correction value in response to a transmission time gap between a third signal transmitted the previous time and the second signal transmitted this time; and a transmission power control unit controls the transmission power of the second signal using the correction value.
US12256333B2	Wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) reachability A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive/transmit data by employing a discontinuous reception cycle, which may include an awake state and a sleep state. For example, while in an awake state, a WTRU may monitor a PDCCH for a subset of time instances. During the remaining time instances, the WTRU may enter a sleep state, in which the WTRU may switch its receiving circuitry off (e.g., to reduce power consumption). A WTRU may receive (e.g., may expect to receive) one or more transmissions, during an awake state, before entering a sleep state. The durations of an awake state and/or the durations of subsequent sleep states may be determined based on whether the WTRU receives a transmission during the awake state and/or what the transmission was for. The WTRU may modify the value of a sleep state timer based on previous sleep state and/or awake state timer values.
US12256331B2	Sidelink go-to-sleep indication Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit or receive a go-to-sleep (GTS) indication relating to sidelink communication. The UE may enter a sleep state based at least in part on the GTS indication. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12256329B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system. An operating method of a terminal in a wireless communication system may include receiving configuration information related to discontinuous reception (DRX) through radio resource control (RRC) signaling from a base station, wherein the configuration information related to the DRX includes information related to a cycle of the DRX and information related to a timer of a duration for monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) within the cycle of the DRX, receiving configuration information about downlink control information (DCI) related to an indication of wake up in the DRX, through RRC signaling from the base station, identifying the wake up in the DRX based on the DCI, and when the wake up is not identified in the DRX, performing periodic channel state information (CSI) reporting, based on whether information indicating the periodic CSI reporting is included in the configuration information about the DCI.
US12256328B2	Power consumption control method and device A power consumption control method includes obtaining, by a wireless access device, characteristic data of one or more first components, where the characteristic data indicates a running status of the wireless access device; determining, by the wireless access device, target power consumption statuses of a plurality of second components based on the characteristic data; and adjusting, by the wireless access device, power consumption statuses of the second components based on the target power consumption statuses.
US12256322B2	Device and method for supporting federated network slicing amongst PLMN operators in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate after a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long-term evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, an operating method of a terminal in a wireless communication system provide a method including performing a registration procedure for a first public land mobile network (PLMN), receiving a downlink (DL) non-access-stratum (NAS) transport message including slice roaming information from an access and mobility management function (AMF) of the first PLMN, transmitting an uplink (UL) NAS transport message to the AMF, and performing a PLMN selection procedure using the slice roaming information.
US12256320B2	Method and system for packet data network service slicing over a network infrastructure for real-time IP services A method and an orchestration server for packet data network service slicing over a network infrastructure for real-time IP services are provided. The method comprises providing an orchestration server that has knowledge of a whole connectivity status of a network infrastructure and that is configured to manage service nodes. The server receives a session request for a real-time IP service from a UE device located in a given region and requests to one or more service nodes of said given region whether it has/they have network resources. Each of the one or more service nodes compute a QoS measurement thereof in terms of KPIs including latency, jitter and bandwidth, the QoS measurement being computed by a software module that is implemented on a virtual machine deployed on the service node; and tag a plurality of interfaces. The orchestration server selects a given service node in view of said QoS measurement.
US12256319B2	Methods and systems for supporting unified location of a mobile device in a 5G network Location services for a user equipment (UE) are supported with a Network Exposure Function (NEF) serving as a focal point for any location request. An entity that needs the location of the UE sends a location request to the NEF in the home PLMN or Visited PLMN for the UE. The location request includes, e.g., a type of location request, a required location accuracy, a required response time or some combination of these. The NEF determines whether to use a Gateway Mobile Location Center (GMLC) or a serving Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) for the UE to obtain the UE location based on the content of the location request and sends the location request to the GMLC or serving AMF accordingly. Additionally, if the serving AMF is used, a serving base station may obtain the UE location and send the UE location to the serving AMF.
US12256318B2	Method and apparatus for authentication between core network devices in mobile communication system A communication method of a network function (NF) consumer in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the disclosure may include: receiving, from an NF repository function (NRF), a discovery response message in a discovery procedure, the discovery response message including NF set information including NF instance identifiers (IDs) for providing a service; transmitting, to the NRF, an access token request message including an NF producer instance ID; receiving, from the NRF, an access token response message including an access token; transmitting, to a service communication proxy (SCP), a service request message to be transmitted to an NF producer instance, the service request message including the token received from the NRF, a client credentials assertion (CCA) of the NF consumer, and the NF set information; and receiving, from the SCP, a service response message including a CCA of the NF producer instance.
US12256311B2	Hop-count indication in wireless systems Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for hop-count indication in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network. An IAB-node may adopt and indicate multiple values for hop-count. The hop-count may be conveyed by a number of different reference signals and channels. A resource pattern and/or a slot pattern may also be associated with the hop-count to simply signaling. By associating the patterns with the hop-count, an IAB-node may be able to infer the resource pattern used by another IAB-node.
US12256309B2	Multifrequency configuration and management for new radio-based smart repeaters The described technology is generally directed to over-the-air configuration and management of new radio multifrequency smart repeaters. To facilitate data forwarding, a smart repeater is configured via a first frequency to generate a forwarding layer that is logically above a physical layer of a mobile termination function (corresponding to a repeater link) and a physical layer of distributed unit function of the repeater equipment (corresponding to an access link, configured to use a second frequency). Via the forwarding layer, when traffic is received from a parent node, the traffic is forwarded via the access link to user equipment, and when traffic is received from a user equipment, the traffic is forwarded via the access link to a parent node. As one example, control plane signaling can be performed via the sub-six gigahertz band, and data plane signal forwarding can be performed via the millimeter wave band.
US12256305B2	Diverse pathway integration This disclosure includes a method, alone or in combination with other methods or steps described herein. The method may include defining, based on a multipath option and an identifier, a first connection with user equipment according to a first network provider over a path of a first network that comprises packet-switched signaling. The method may include defining, based on the identifier, a second connection with the user equipment according to a second network provider over a path of a second network that comprises the packet-switched signaling. The method may include receiving first data over the path of the first network and second data over the path of the second network. The method may include sending a combination of the first data and the second data to an application server. The method may include receiving, based on the combination, a response. The method may include sending the response to the user equipment.
US12256301B2	System for performance and inspection of facility maintenance and custodial processes A method for performing maintenance of a facility for use with a server, a plurality of communication sensors arranged throughout the facility, and a portable communication device, the method for use with a cleaning module, quality control module, and inspection module.
US12256296B2	Sidelink connection establishment design to support unicast and groupcast communication for NR V2X Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for sidelink connection establishment design to support unicast and groupcast communication for NR V2X in a wireless communication system. The apparatuses and methods include at least generating an announcement of support for a unicast or a groupcast communication for a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) service, generating one or more connection establishment request messages for a secure link establishment to a second UE, to support a V2X communication to enable the V2X service, where the one or more connection establishment request message includes: a first connection establishment request message that is transmitted over a PC5-S interface, and a second connection establishment request message that is transmitted over a PC5-RRC interface. The apparatuses and methods further include at least processing a response message from the second UE that accepts or rejects the connection establishment request message for the secure link establishment.
US12256294B2	Systems and methods for wireless physical condition instruction generation A system for wireless physical condition instruction generation includes a portable computing device in communication with a wireless receiver, the portable computing device designed and configured to receiving a first wireless signal from at least transmitter located at a subject device, wherein the first wireless signal identifies the subject device, determining a current device status of the subject device, generate at least a physical condition instruction regarding the subject device, determine that the at least a physical condition instruction has been performed, and update the current device status.
US12256289B2	Real-time remote guide system based on big data network The present invention relates to the technical field of remote guide, in particular to a real-time remote guide system based on a big data network, comprising a service terminal and a guide terminal. Scenic spots are explained in a real-time online mode. At the same time, a disabled person acts as a guide, and then transmits the positions of the tourists and the surrounding pictures to the guide through the positioning and shooting unit, to facilitate the guide for guiding the tourists and explaining the scenic spots. Thus, the guide does not bear the busyness of the travel for a long time, and jobs are provided for the disabled person.
US12256288B2	Creating a communication channel between user devices and local stores A user-to-entity communication channel is established for providing increased information regarding entities to the general population. Ambassadors for a entity are identified and selected based on location history of devices for which location reporting is authorized. The ambassadors may provide information regarding the entity to the public through the communication channel. Communications between the users and ambassadors may be reported to the entity owner for analysis by the entity owner.
US12256284B2	Controller device based varying virtual fencing A method for managing a virtual fence for a secondary device with respect to a controller device includes activating the controller device associated with a first object and a secondary device associated with a second object. The method includes establishing the virtual fence for the controller device and the secondary device, where the first virtual fence surrounds the secondary device and the controller device is positioned within the first virtual fence. The method includes receiving, from the controller device, a ping with location information for the controller device and the secondary device. The method includes, responsive to determining an adjustment to the first virtual fence is required, adjusting the first virtual fence based on a movement of the secondary device from a first location to a second location.
US12256281B2	Micro-location monitoring techniques In some implementations, methods for selecting a set of beacons that are to be monitored by a mobile device may be employed. Specifically, an optimal set of beacons to monitor may be provided to a mobile device depending on particular groups of beacons that are in proximity to the mobile device, the distance from the mobile device to each of the particular groups of beacons, and the mobile device's position/movements as provided by a tracking service such as GPS. These techniques may ensure that the mobile device is not blind to the closest and/or most relevant beacons.
US12256278B2	Bearer modification method and access network device A bearer modification method and an access network device. The method includes determining, by an access network device, that a terminal device completes a complete registration procedure, or determining that the terminal device does not complete the complete registration procedure, and waiting for the terminal device to complete the complete registration procedure, and modifying, by the access network device, a radio access bearer of the terminal device.
US12256276B2	Per-SSB beam switching for neighbor cell measurement in a synchronized network Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for receive beam switching for neighbor cell measurement. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes determining a first receive beam of a plurality of receive beams to use for reception during a first synchronization signal block (SSB) duration within a synchronization signal block set (SSBS) duration. The method includes determining a second receive beam of the plurality of receive beams to use for reception during a second SSB duration within the SSBS duration. The UE may measure one or more first signals transmitted by a serving cell and/or one or more neighbor cells with the first receive beam during the first SSB duration and measure one or more second signals transmitted by the serving cell and/or the one or more neighbor cells with the second receive beam during the second SSB duration.
US12256271B2	Radio communication system, radio station, radio terminal, communication control method, and computer-readable medium A radio network (6) and a radio terminal (4) are configured to, when the radio terminal (4) is using a first cell (10) served by a first radio station (1) as a primary cell and a second cell (20) served by a second radio station (2) as a secondary cell, change the secondary cell form the second cell (20) to a third cell (30) while keeping communication status information regarding the radio terminal (4) on the second cell (20). It is thus, for example, possible to enable a communication service in the secondary cell to be continued after the secondary cell is changed when the radio terminal which is simultaneously using a plurality of cells served by different radio stations changes the secondary cell from a cell of one radio station to a cell of another radio station.
US12256268B2	Binding indications for load balancing and redundancy for communications between network function instances in a 5G core network In a Fifth Generation (5G) network having an enhanced SBA (eSBA) architecture, a message with a header used to signal binding information (e.g. HTTP custom header for 3gpp-Sbi-Binding) may be received at a recipient NF (service) instance in a direct communication or via a service communication proxy (SCP) in an indirect communication. A binding indication comprising an address of an NF (service) instance may be obtained from the header. One or more alternative binding indications comprising one or more alternative addresses of one or more alternative NF (service) instances may also be obtained from the header. The one or more alternative NF (service) instances may be equivalent NFs (services) of the same NF (Service) Set as the NF (service) instance. The address may be used for communication of messages to the NF (service) instance, and the one or more alternative addresses may be used for load balancing or backup failure.
US12256263B2	Machine learning based adaptation of QoE control policy A node of a wireless communication network receives first data indicating a desired quality of experience level for user data traffic of a user of the wireless communication network. Based on a control policy and the desired quality of experience level, the node determines a rule for controlling the user data traffic. Further, the node obtains second data indicating an estimated quality of experience level for the user data traffic subject to control according to the rule. Based on the first data and the second data, the node adapts the control policy, e.g., using a reinforcement learning, RL, mechanism.
US12256258B2	RRC segmentation and QoE Methods for communicating a Quality of Experience (QoE) measurement are provided. In embodiments disclosed herein, a wireless device communicates the QoE measurement to a base station based on Radio Resource Control (RRC) segmentation. In this regard, the wireless device receives an indication that indicates whether the base station can support the RRC segmentation. Accordingly, the wireless device transmits the QoE measurement to the base station based on the RRC segmentation if the indication indicates that the base station can support the RRC segmentation. By transmitting the QoE measurement based on the RRC segmentation, the wireless device can communicate more QoE information to the base station in a larger QoE measurement file (e.g., 8000 kilobytes).
US12256257B2	Early measurement reporting of suspended secondary cell group (SCG) Embodiments include methods for a user equipment (UE) to perform measurements on a secondary cell group (SCG) in a wireless network while the SCG is suspended. Such methods include receiving, from a network node in the wireless network, a message including an indication that the SCG should be suspended and/or a first SCG measurement configuration to be used while the SCG is suspended. Such methods include suspending the SCG in response to the message, and performing measurements on the suspended SCG according to: the first SCG measurement configuration, when the first SCG measurement configuration was included in the message; or a second SCG measurement configuration applicable before the SCG was suspended, when the first SCG measurement configuration was not included in the message. Embodiments also include complementary methods for a network node, as well as UEs and network nodes configured to perform such methods.
US12256255B2	Roaming candidate selection with overlapping basic service set (OBSS) detection This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for wireless roaming. Some implementations more specifically relate to roaming candidate selection based on overlapping basic service set (OBSS) detection. In some aspects, a wireless station (STA) may identify one or more OBSSs based on wireless communications detected during an OBSS detection period and may roam to a new access point (AP) based on the identified OBSSs when a roaming condition is satisfied. In some implementations, the STA may store information associated with each identified OBSS in an OBSS table. When the roaming condition is satisfied, the STA may listen for beacon or probe response frames from other APs operating on its current wireless channel. If the STA receives beacon or probe response frames from one or more APs that match the OBSS table, the STA may roam to the matching AP with the highest candidate score.
US12256254B2	Hybrid measurement gap operation Apparatuses, systems, and methods for hybrid measurement gap operation. A network-side device may provide a hybrid measurement gap (MG) configuration to a wireless device, the hybrid measurement gap (MG) configuration scheduling measurement operation of the wireless device in accordance with hybrid measurement gap patterns. The wireless device may receive the hybrid measurement gap (MG) configuration, and thus perform measurement operation based on the hybrid measurement gap patterns as scheduled.
US12256247B2	Method for transmitting and receiving signal in wireless communication system and apparatus for supporting same Disclosed in various embodiments of the present disclosure are a method for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for supporting same. In an example of an embodiment, the method comprises: obtaining information on groups for at least one search space set related to physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring, the groups comprising a first group and a second group; and a step for carrying out the PDCCH monitoring for a preset period of time in accordance with a search space set related to the second group, on the basis of the information on the groups.
US12256244B2	Method for sidelink radio link monitoring and radio link failure Methods and apparatuses are described herein for monitoring radio links between wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) and determining of radio link failure, and may be used, among others, for New Radio (NR) vehicular communication (V2X); a mode whereby WTRUs can communicate with each other directly. A radio link between a WTRU and another WTRU may be monitored independently per ongoing unicast and/or multicast link, and radio link failure (RLF) may be determined as a function of the monitoring.
US12256243B1	Repeater device, wireless communication system, and method for ultra-low latency data frame routing using labelling A repeater device as switch node in a wireless communication system, includes a donor antenna that obtains a first beam of RF signals from an upstream neighboring node. The repeater device further includes a switch circuit that detects a label in a preamble of each data frame of a plurality of data frames carried by first beam of RF signals independent of decoding other header information and user data in each data frame. The plurality of data frames is then switched based on the detected label in each data frame such that each data frame is routed to a corresponding service phased antenna array of the plurality of service phased antenna arrays for communication via a plurality of service phased antennas where each second beam of RF signal carries at least one data frame of the plurality of data frames in a plurality of different data propagation paths.
US12256239B2	Beam tracking in non-terrestrial networking A method for beam tracking and refinement in a 5G network includes determining, by a beam steering station, a first plurality of angular directions based on a first starting angular direction, a first ending angular direction and a first angular step; determining a first angular direction based on a first plurality of antenna gains associated with the first plurality of angular directions; determining a second plurality of angular directions based on a second starting angular direction, a second ending angular direction and a second angular step, wherein the first angular direction is in the middle of the second plurality of angular directions; determining a second angular direction based on a second plurality of antenna gains associated with the second plurality of angular directions; and in response to a change between the first and second angular direction being below a threshold, performing beam steering based on the second angular direction.
US12256237B2	Enhancements to simultaneous transmit/reception in an integrated access and backhaul node A first next generation Node B (gNB) is configured to establish a first backhaul communication link with a second gNB as a parent gNB, schedule at least one of a third gNB or a UE for a UL transmission to the first gNB using UL beam management parameters and UL transmission parameters, indicate to the second gNB first beam management parameters for the second gNB to use for transmitting a DL transmission to the first gNB on the first backhaul link and first DL transmission parameters for the DL transmission so that the DL transmission will be received simultaneously with the UL transmission and when the first beam management parameters and the first DL transmission parameters are determined to be used by the second gNB, receiving the DL transmission from the second gNB simultaneously with the UL transmission from the at least one of the third gNB or the UE.
US12256233B2	Systems and methods for automated financial settlements for dynamic spectrum sharing Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed for automatic signal detection in an RF environment. An apparatus comprises at least one receiver and at least one processor coupled with at least one memory. The apparatus is at the edge of a communication network. The apparatus sweeps and learns the RF environment in a predetermined period based on statistical learning techniques, thereby creating learning data. The apparatus forms a knowledge map based on the learning data, scrubs a real-time spectral sweep against the knowledge map, and creates impressions on the RF environment based on a machine learning algorithm. The apparatus is operable to detect at least one signal in the RF environment.
US12256231B2	Cell search during dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) operation A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a configuration for dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) operation where a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT share spectrum. The configuration includes channel parameters associated with the first RAT. The method includes determining, based on the configuration, a first set of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) that will not be transmitted via the second RAT and a second set of SSBs that will be transmitted via the second RAT. The method further includes refraining from performing a cell search on the first set of SSBs that was determined to not be transmitted via the second RAT. The method includes performing the cell search on the second set of SSBs that was determined to be transmitted via the second RAT.
US12256230B2	Enhanced clear channel assessment for shared radio frequency spectrum band Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit to a user equipment (UE) a control signal comprising a grant for a downlink transmission. The base station may perform, during a gap between the control signal and the downlink transmission, a clear channel assessment (CCA) procedure on a shared radio frequency spectrum band associated with the downlink transmission. The base station may perform, based at least in part on a success of the CCA procedure, the downlink transmission to the UE over the shared radio frequency spectrum band.
US12256227B2	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.
US12256223B2	Network access tokens for accessories A wireless access device can be configured to determine a list of accessory groups corresponding to accessories connected to a network managed by the wireless access device. The wireless access device may also be configured to identify at least one firmware update that corresponds to at least one accessory group of the list of accessory groups and request all firmware updates that correspond to the at least one accessory group. The wireless access device can also be configured to receive one or more firmware updates that corresponds to at least one of the accessories of the at least one accessory group for which a respective firmware update is available and transmit at least one firmware update of the received one or more firmware updates to at least one corresponding accessory of the at least one accessory group.
US12256221B2	System and method for beacon-based action validation An automated method is provided for validating an action based on beacon source proximity to a user device. A user data processing device receives from a remote action validation server an action validation request. The request includes identification of an authentication device that may include a beacon transmitter and identification of a proposed action associated with the authentication device. The user data processing device determines whether the authentication device is within beacon signal reception range of the user data processing device and transmits an action validation response to the remote action validation processing system.
US12256218B2	Separate network slicing for security events propagation across layers on special packet data protocol context An apparatus and system to provide separate network slices for security events are described. A dedicated secure network slice is provided for PDP data from a UE. The network slice is used for detecting security issues and sending security-related information to clients. The communications in the dedicated network slice are associated with a special PDP context used by the UE to interface with the network slice. Once the UE has detected a security issue or has been notified of the security issue on the network or remote servers, the UE uses a special PDP service, and is able to stop uplink/downlink channels, close running applications and enter into a safe mode, cut off connections to the networks, and try to determine alternate available connectivity.
US12256209B2	Bone conduction speaker and compound vibration device thereof The present invention relates to a bone conduction speaker and its compound vibration device. The compound vibration device comprises a vibration conductive plate and a vibration board, the vibration conductive plate is set to be the first torus, where at least two first rods inside it converge to its center; the vibration board is set as the second torus, where at least two second rods inside it converge to its center. The vibration conductive plate is fixed with the vibration board; the first torus is fixed on a magnetic system, and the second torus comprises a fixed voice coil, which is driven by the magnetic system. The bone conduction speaker in the present invention and its compound vibration device adopt the fixed vibration conductive plate and vibration board, making the technique simpler with a lower cost; because the two adjustable parts in the compound vibration device can adjust both low frequency and high frequency area, the frequency response obtained is flatter and the sound is broader.
US12256206B2	Diaphragm for sound producing device, sound producing device, and method for assembling the same A diaphragm applied to a sound producing device, a sound producing device, and a method for assembling the same. The diaphragm comprises a film layer prepared by means of a crosslinking reaction of at least one of an ethylene-acrylate copolymer and an ethylene-acrylate-carboxylic acid copolymer. The molecular structure of the diaphragm comprises a vinyl-acrylic group. The group causes the material to have a less symmetrical chemical structure, a reduced tacticity and an increased steric hindrance, such that the diaphragm has a high loss factor, and the sound producing device achieves a good damping effect.
US12256195B2	Acoustic output device One or more embodiments of the present disclosure relates to an acoustic output device, including: a piezoelectric element configured to convert an electrical signal into a mechanical vibration; an elastic element; and a mass element connected to the piezoelectric element through the elastic element. The mass element may be configured to receive the mechanical vibration and generate an acoustic signal, and on a plane perpendicular to a vibration direction of the mass element, the elastic element may provide shear stresses with opposite curls.
US12256192B2	Active noise control and customized audio system An acoustic customization system to enhance a user's audio environment. One type of enhancement would allow a user to wear headphones and specify what ambient audio and source audio will be transmitted to the headphones. Added enhancements may include the display of an image representing the location of one or more audio sources referenced to a user, an audio source, or other location and/or the ability to select one or more of the sources and to record audio in the direction of the selected source(s). The system may take advantage of an ability to identify the location of an acoustic source or a directionally discriminating acoustic sensor, track an acoustic source, isolate acoustic signals based on location, source and/or nature of the acoustic signal, and identify an acoustic source. In addition, ultrasound may be serve as an acoustic source and communication medium. The audio customization system may be responsive to one or more inputs that enhance aspects of an audio output and one or more inputs that diminish aspects of an audio output. The system may lessen the influence of ambient audio or in some situations enhance ambient audio over source audio. The system may specify aspects of audio to be modified by specification of filtering algorithm, characterization of audio samples, monitored distortion, user selection, location specification or environmental specification.
US12256189B2	Loudspeaker arrangement A loudspeaker arrangement comprises a transducer arranged in a loudspeaker enclosure, the loudspeaker enclosure enclosing a rear part of the transducer, and an aperture-defining structure (hereinafter, the aperture) mounted on a front side of the transducer in a direction of propagation of sound emitted by the transducer. The transducer is configured to emit sound within a wide frequency range, and at frequencies of above a predetermined threshold. The aperture is configured to amplify sound at predetermined frequencies or within a predetermined frequency range within the wide frequency range, and to let sound at all other frequencies within the wide frequency range pass essentially unaltered. The loudspeaker enclosure is sized such that the resonance frequency of the loudspeaker enclosure matches the resonance frequency of the transducer in free air, wherein the resonance frequency of the transducer in free air is below the predetermined threshold.
US12256180B1	Device and method for routing optical signals The present disclosure describes an optical routing circuit (ORC) which may be used to route an input optical signal to one or more optical output channels of the ORC. The ORC comprises a network of nodes for carrying out the task of optical signal routing. The nodes may be controlled by a node control system through electrical node control channels. The ORC may simplify the electrical interface between the nodes and the node control system by sharing an electrical node control channel among a subset of nodes of the ORC. Nodes of the ORC may transmit electrical signals between the nodes. The present disclosure also describes a node which may be used to construct the ORC and a method of routing an optical signal. The present disclosure may enable a large ORC with many nodes to be practically implemented.
US12256172B2	Advanced manufacturing technologies and machine learning in unmanned aviation systems A vehicle can be configured to include a body having a body bottom conjoined with a body sidewall and a body top forming a body cavity. The body top includes a body top opening and the body sidewall includes a body sidewall opening. The vehicle can include a payload housing having a payload bottom conjoined with a payload housing sidewall and a payload housing top forming a payload housing cavity, wherein the payload housing cavity is configured to hold at least one operating module for the vehicle. The vehicle can include at least one arm. The vehicle can include at least one interlocking arrangement of the body top opening or body side wall configured to removably secure the payload housing and the at least one arm to the body. Each of the body, the payload housing, and the at least one arm can be structured with additive manufactured material.
US12256169B2	Apparatus and method for video-audio processing, and program for separating an object sound corresponding to a selected video object The present technique relates to an apparatus and a method for video-audio processing, and a program each of which enables a desired object sound to be more simply and accurately separated.A video-audio processing apparatus includes a display control portion configured to cause a video object based on a video signal to be displayed; an object selecting portion configured to select the predetermined video object from the one video object or among a plurality of the video objects; and an extraction portion configured to extract an audio signal of the video object selected by the object selecting portion as an audio object signal. The present technique can be applied to a video-audio processing apparatus.
US12256157B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium An apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first control value related to white balance based on an input image, a determination unit configured to determine whether a first area including the acquired first control value is changeable, a control unit configured to change the first area to a second area based on a result of determination by the determination unit, and a calculation unit configured to calculate a second control value related to the white balance to be applied to the input image in the second area in a case where the first area is changed to the second area, wherein the control unit changes the first area to the second area by stages.
US12256156B2	Method for processing a pixels matrix in an image processing chain and corresponding electronic device The method for processing a matrix of pixels each containing an original red, green, blue, or infrared component, comprises at least one interpolation of an interpolated component different from the original component of a pixel of interest from the components of a group of pixels neighboring the pixel of interest. The interpolation comprises: a calculation of the sum of the components of reference pixels weighted by a respectively assigned weight, the reference pixels being pixels of the group having the same original component as the interpolated component, an evaluation of the spatial uniformity of an environment, within the group of each reference pixel, a calculation of the weights assigned to the reference pixels at values which are normalized and proportional to the respective spatial uniformity.
US12256155B2	System and method for reducing stray light interference in optical systems Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer program products for reducing optical interference in an optical sensor. The methods comprise: detecting, by an optical sensor device comprising a plurality of pixel sensors, a signal with a reflected light component and a stray light component; estimating, by a processor, a stray light intensity in each pixel of the plurality of pixel sensors using a measured mapping of an intensity of stray light relative to an intensity of reflected light, wherein the measured mapping is derived from the measured intensities associated with all pixel sensors of the optical sensor device; adjusting, by the processor, a noise probability for the signal using the estimated stray light intensity and an unbiased noise intensity; and adjusting, by the processor, a signal confidence score using the adjusted noise probability.
US12256153B1	Polarization volume hologram combiner enabling wide population coverage, eye tracking accuracy, and glint generation Various embodiments set forth eye tracking systems. In some embodiments, an eye tracking system includes a polarization volume hologram (PVH) combiner having a rolling k-vector design that provides relatively wide coverage of users whose eyeglasses prescriptions can vary. The PVH combiner can further include (1) fiducial regions created by differential patterning that generate dark regions in images captured of an eye, and/or (2) multiple regions that diffract light at angles to produce different perspectives in the captured images. The dark regions and/or different perspectives can be used to calibrate eye tracking. In addition, the PVH combiner can include off-axis lens regions that generate glints for the eye tracking.
US12256152B2	System for providing stealthy vision A system for providing stealthy vision, includes a source element providing electromagnetic radiation at a predetermined wavelength to illuminate a target; and a camera imaging the target to be illuminated; wherein the source element provides electromagnetic radiation including shortwave infrared light; and wherein the predetermined wavelength includes a wavelength in the near infrared spectrum wherein the absorption features of an atom or a molecule present in the medium where the electromagnetic radiation propagates form a continuum, that is a wavelength region wherein two or more narrow absorption lines are close enough to each other that they effectively form a single absorption area with a width greater than that of a single absorption line so that the range of the electromagnetic radiation in the medium is limited for all wavelengths within the continuum; wherein the region corresponds to a wavelength range centered at about 1382.8 nm, 1388.1 nm or 1392.4 nm.
US12256151B2	Methods and systems for user adjustable region based brightness settings An example method includes displaying, by a graphical user interface of a computing device, an image comprising a target region. The target region may be smaller than an entirety of the image. The method includes providing, by the graphical user interface, a user-adjustable control to adjust a desired local brightness exposure level for the target region. The method includes receiving, by the user-adjustable control, a user indication of the desired local brightness exposure level for the target region. The method includes adjusting the local brightness exposure level for the target region in the image in response to the user indication.
US12256145B2	Electronic device for autofocusing and method of operating the same An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display module, a camera module, an ultra-wideband (UWB) communication circuit supporting UWB communication, and at least one processor is disclosed. The at least one processor may be configured to receive radar response information related to a radar reflection signal through the UWB communication circuit, analyze the radar response information to identify the presence of at least one alive object in a first image captured by the camera module, adjust autofocusing of the camera module based on detecting the presence of the at least one alive object, and display a second image captured through the adjusted autofocusing by the camera module on the display module.
US12256140B2	Electronic apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium An electronic apparatus according to the present invention includes: a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic apparatus to obtain a first live view image corresponding to a first optical image inputted via a first optical system and a second live view image corresponding to a second optical image inputted via a second optical system having a predetermined parallax with respect to the first optical system, and perform control to display, when displaying the first live view image and the second live view image side by side, an indicator indicating a part displayed during playback display in an angle of view of the first optical system such that the indicator is superimposed on the first live view image.
US12256139B2	Imaging apparatus mounted on moving object and moving object including imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus provided in a moving object to capture an image of an area behind the moving object includes an imaging circuit and an optical system. The imaging circuit outputs an image based on an optical image input to a light-receiving surface. The optical system inputs the optical image to the imaging circuit. The optical system forms a first region at a first magnification and a second region at a second magnification lower than the first magnification. The second region is formed around the first region. The imaging apparatus is installed in the moving object so that, on the light-receiving surface of the imaging circuit, an axis passing through a center of the first region and extending in a direction from which the optical system receives light is inclined toward an upper side of the moving object with respect to a backward direction of the moving object.
US12256138B2	User-linked features for image capture device Features to be enabled for an image capture device may be determined based on user subscription to a feature plan and/or user usage of the image capture device. The features for the image capture device may be enabled through firmware update or code unlock.
US12256135B2	Optical system and image pickup apparatus having the same An optical system consists of, in order from an object side to an image side, a front unit, an aperture stop, and a rear unit having positive refractive power as a whole. The rear unit includes a final lens disposed closest to the image side and having positive refractive power. A number of inequalities relating to the spatial relationship between the lenses and their refractive powers are satisfied.
US12256134B2	Image capturing apparatus that can efficiently radiate heat from an image sensor and reduce the load applied to the image sensor An image pickup apparatus includes a housing, a first circuit board mounted with an image sensor, a second circuit board mounted with an electric element and is placed opposite to the first circuit board, a heat radiating sheet that contacts the image sensor or the first circuit board and the housing, and a flexible member placed between and contacting the heat radiating sheet and the second circuit board.
US12256129B2	Methods and systems for automated content generation An aspect of the disclosure related to methods and systems configured to distribute interactive media, such as videos, streamed or downloaded over a network and to enable efficient content discovery. An aspect relates to enabling a user to interactively navigate through representations of video content by drilling up to broader genre categories or down to narrower genre categories. An aspect relates to the generation of customized content from existing content using a learning engine and user characteristics. The learning engine may comprise a neural network.
US12256116B2	Systems and methods for dynamically adjusting quality levels for transmitting content based on context Systems and methods for dynamically adapting quality levels of content is disclosed herein. A content transmission system determines whether to reduce streaming bandwidth of a device that transmits content. In response to determining to reduce the streaming bandwidth, the content transmission system identifies a first plurality of frames of the content based on a first context and a second plurality of frames of the content based on a second context. The content transmission system transmits the first plurality of frames at a first quality level based on the first context and the second plurality of frames at a second quality level that is higher than the first quality level based on the second context.
US12256114B2	Method and apparatus for providing programmatic guaranteed content insertion for supporting delivery using quadrature amplitude modulation and/or other delivery techniques A single piece of content, e.g., a creative, is delivered to multiple devices through a QAM or multicast communications technique, with each receiving device corresponding to an impression opportunity in some cases. Bidders are provided the opportunity to bid on an individual single impression opportunity basis even when the impression corresponds to a multicast or QAM content delivery method and thus multiple impressions. Because impression opportunity offers and bids are for single impressions the bidder systems need not deal with the technical complexities of multipliers when receiving, considering and placing bids. DSPs are normally used to place bids on single Internet delivered impressions can bid on impression opportunities corresponding to QAM or multicast delivered program content with the system being used to determine the winner of bids handling the complexity of tracking of multiple individual bid wins and eventually determining the winner of an N opportunity deal.
US12256109B2	Signaling of CTU size Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video encoding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines a coding tree unit (CTU) size for a plurality of pictures. The processing circuitry generates CTU size information based on the determined CTU size. The processing circuitry encodes the plurality of pictures based on the determined CTU size. The CTU size information includes a first bit that is a first value based on the CTU size being determined as a first CTU size. The CTU size information includes the first bit that is a second value and a second bit based on the CTU size being determined as one of a second CTU size and a third CTU size. The CTU size information includes the second bit based on the first bit being the second value.
US12256107B2	Use of header syntax elements and adaptation parameter set The video processing may include video encoding, video decoding, or video transcoding. One example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video according to a format rule. The format rule specifies that constraints on values of one or more first syntax elements in an adaptation parameter set are defined based on semantics of second syntax elements in a picture header and/or a slice header when a picture or a slice refers to the adaptation parameter set.
US12256106B2	Image/video encoding/decoding method and device A video decoding method performed by a video decoding device according to the present document may comprise: parsing, from a bitstream, number information relating to explicitly signaled height for slices in a tile of a current picture; based on the number information, parsing, from the bitstream, height information relating to explicitly signaled height for the slices, deriving heights of 0-th to (n−1)-th slices in the tile based on the height information; deriving the height of the n-th slice in the tile based on the height of the (n−1)-th slice; deriving a height of a last slice in the tile based on a remaining height.
US12256103B2	Image coding method based on secondary transform and device therefor An image decoding method according to the present specification comprises the steps of: deriving transform coefficients through inverse quantization on the basis of quantized transform coefficient for a target block; deriving modified transform coefficients on the basis of inverse reduced secondary transform (RST) of the transform coefficients; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of residual samples for the target block on the basis of an inverse primary transform of the modified transform coefficients, wherein the step of deriving the modified transform coefficients is characterized in deriving 16 modified transform coefficients by applying a transform kernel matrix to 8 transform coefficients in a 4×4 region of the target block.
US12256100B2	Dynamic mesh vertex displacements coding A method and apparatus that derives a curve of a mesh sequence from a frame of a video bitstream, the curve comprising a plurality of vertices; subdivides the curve by adding a plurality of subdivided vertices; calculates one or more displacement vectors between each of the plurality of vertices on the curve and each of the plurality of subdivided vertices on the subdivided curve; transforms the one or more displacement vectors to output one or more original coefficients; tracks the current frame with a previous frame to obtain a one-to-one correspondence between the plurality of vertices of the current frame and a plurality of vertices of the previous frame; predicts one or more coefficients of each of the plurality of vertices in current frame based on the one-to-one correspondence; performs entropy coding on one or more prediction residues; and encodes the one or more prediction residues.
US12256097B2	Video signal processing method and device involving modification of intra predicted sample Provided is an image decoding method. The method may include; deriving first reference samples located at the upper end and on the left side of a current block; deriving second reference samples located on the right side and at the lower end of the current block; and acquiring a prediction sample for the current block based on the first and second reference samples, wherein the second reference samples are derived based on the first reference samples and temporary prediction samples generated by performing temporary intra prediction on the current block based on a temporary intra prediction mode.
US12256093B2	Method, apparatus and system for encoding and decoding a block of video samples A system and method of decoding a sub-block of residual coefficients of a transform block from a video bitstream. The method comprises determining whether sign bit hiding is used for the sub-block, the determination based on a value of a transform skip flag determined for the sub-block and a value of a sign bit hiding flag associated with the sub-block; if sign bit hiding is not used, decoding a number of sign bits equal to a number of significant coefficients in the subblock; and decoding the sub-block by reconstructing the residual coefficients of the sub-block using the decoded sign bits.
US12256092B2	Multiple transforms adjustment stages for video coding A device may perform a first prediction process for a first block of video data to produce a first residual. The device may apply a first transform process to the first residual to generate first transform coefficients for the first block of video data and encode the first transform coefficients. The device may perform a second prediction process for a second block of video data to produce a second residual. The device may determine that a second transform process, which includes the first transform process and at least one of a pre-adjustment operation or a post-adjustment operation, is to be applied to the second residual. The device may apply the first transform process and the pre- or post-adjustment operation to the second residual to generate second transform coefficients for the second block. The coding device may code the first and second transform coefficients.
US12256090B2	Image encoding/decoding method and device using palette mode, and method for transmitting bitstream An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method performed by an image decoding apparatus may comprise obtaining palette information and palette index prediction information of a current block from a bitstream, based on a palette mode applying for the current block, constructing a palette predictor for the current block based on the palette information and constructing a palette table for the current block based on the palette predictor, generating a palette index map for the current block based on the palette index prediction information, and decoding the current block based on the palette table and the palette index map, The palette predictor may be selectively updated based on a split structure of the current block.
US12256089B2	Coded-block-flag coding and derivation Techniques for coding and deriving (e.g., determining) one or more coded-block-flags associated with video content are described herein. A coded-block-flag of a last node may be determined when coded-block-flags of preceding nodes are determined to be a particular value and when a predetermined condition is satisfied. In some instances, the predetermined condition may be satisfied when log2(size of current transform unit) is less than log2(size of maximum transform unit) or log2(size of current coding unit) is less than or equal to log2(size of maximum transform unit)+1. The preceding nodes may be nodes that precede the last node on a particular level in a residual tree.
US12256087B2	Adaptive coding unit (CU) partitioning based on image statistics A method for determining coding unit (CU) partitioning of a largest coding unit (LCU) of a picture is provided that includes computing a first statistical measure and a second statistical measure for the LCU, selecting the LCU as the CU partitioning when the first statistical measure does not exceed a first threshold and the second statistical measure does not exceed a second threshold, and selecting CUs in one or more lower layers of a CU hierarchy of the LCU to form the CU partitioning when the first statistical measure exceeds the first threshold and/or the second statistical measure exceeds the second threshold.
US12256084B2	Quality-metric-agnostic rate control A system includes a processing device to receive a video content, a quality metric, and a target bit rate for encoding the video content. The system includes encoding hardware to perform frame encoding on the video content and a controller coupled between the processing device and the encoding hardware. The controller is programmed with machine instructions to generate first QP values on a per-frame basis using a frame machine learning model with a first plurality of weights. The first plurality of weights depends at least in part on the quality metric and the target bit rate. The controller is further programmed to provide the first QP values to the encoding hardware for rate control of the frame encoding.
US12256083B2	Image data transfer apparatus and image compression An attention degree estimation section in a compression coding section of a server estimates an attention degree on the basis of contents indicated by a moving image generated by an image forming section, for each of unit regions produced by dividing a frame plane. A compression coding processing section compression-codes the moving image at a compression rate varied in the frame plane according to a distribution of the attention degrees. A communication section transmits compression-coded data to an image processing apparatus.
US12256081B2	Intra prediction method and apparatus for video sequence Embodiments of this application disclose an intra prediction method for a video sequence. The method includes: obtaining a size and a split mode of a chroma coding tree node; determining, based on the size and the split mode of the chroma coding tree node, whether to allow cross-component linear model (CCLM) intra prediction to be performed on a chroma coding unit included in the chroma coding tree node; determining a prediction mode of the chroma coding unit depending on whether to allow CCLM to be performed on the chroma coding unit; and processing the chroma coding unit based on the prediction mode of the chroma coding unit to obtain prediction samples of the chroma coding unit.
US12256080B2	Method for colour component prediction, encoder, decoder and storage medium A method for colour component prediction, an encoder, a decoder and a storage medium are provided. The method includes that: prediction parameters of a current block are determined, the prediction parameters including a prediction mode parameter and a size parameter of the current block; when the prediction mode parameter indicates that a Matrix-based Intra Prediction (MIP) mode is adopted to determine an intra prediction value of the current block, an MIP weight matrix of the current block, a shift factor of the current block and an MIP input sample matrix of the current block are determined; and the intra prediction value of the current block is determined according to the MIP weight matrix, the shift factor and the MIP input sample matrix.
US12256078B2	Image processing device and method A predetermined context variable is assigned, according to a device, system, or method, to a first bin of a bin sequence obtained by binarizing an adaptive orthogonal transform identifier indicating a mode of adaptive orthogonal transform in image encoding and context encoding is performed for the first bin of the bin sequence. Furthermore, a predetermined context variable is assigned to a first bin of a bin sequence obtained by binarizing an adaptive orthogonal transform identifier indicating a mode of inverse adaptive orthogonal transform in image decoding and context decoding is performed for the first bin of the bin sequence.
US12256076B2	Residual and coefficients coding for video coding This application is directed to coding video data including a plurality of transform blocks according to a transform skip mode. Two or more control flags are obtained with the video data to indicate signaling of a Rice parameter for the transform blocks on different hierarchical levels. In accordance with a determination that a first control flag is enabled on a first hierarchical level and a second control flag is enabled on a second hierarchical level lower than the first hierarchical level, entropy coding is performed for a subset of the transform blocks based on a Rice parameter obtained with the video data. In accordance with a determination that the first control flag is enabled and that the second control flag is disabled on the second hierarchical level, entropy coding is performed for the subset of the transform blocks based on a predetermined Rice parameter at the second hierarchical level.
US12256074B2	Processing a video frame having slices and tiles A method for decoding video includes receiving a frame of the video that includes at least one slice and at least one time. Each of the at least one slice and the at least one tile are not all aligned with one another. Each of the at least one slice is characterized that it is decoded independently of the other the at least one slice. Each of the at least one tile is characterized that it is a rectangular region of the frame and having coding units for the decoding arranged in a raster scan order. The at least one tile of the frame are collectively arranged in a raster scan order of the frame.
US12256072B2	Video decoding method and apparatus, computerreadable medium, and electronic device A video decoding method includes performing entropy decoding processing on a code block of a video image frame of a video image frame sequence, to obtain a quantization coefficient block of residual data corresponding to the code block; collecting statistics of quantization coefficients in a target region in the quantization coefficient block, to obtain a quantization coefficient statistical value; selecting a transform matrix combination corresponding to the quantization coefficient statistical value; and performing inverse transform processing on an inverse quantization result of the quantization coefficient block based on the selected transform matrix combination, to obtain reconstructed residual data, the reconstructed residual data being used for video image reconstruction.
US12256066B2	Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding video signal According to the present invention, a method of decoding a video signal may include decoding division information that indicates whether a current decoding block is divided into two partial blocks, decoding information that indicates a division direction for the current decoding block when the division information indicates that the current decoding block is divided into the two partial blocks, and dividing the current decoding block into the two partial blocks according to the division direction.
US12256065B2	Bi-prediction coding method and apparatus, bi-prediction decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium An image decoding method and an image decoding apparatus is provided. The method comprises recovering a first motion vector corresponding to a first decoding reference picture based on the entropy decoded bit stream, calculating a second motion vector corresponding to a second decoding reference picture by scaling the first motion vector based on a first temporal distance between the current picture and the first decoding reference picture and a second temporal distance between the current picture and the second decoding reference picture, generating a prediction block relating to a current block in the current picture, based on the calculated second motion vector, generating a residual block relating to the current block through a residual data decoding process based on the entropy decoded bit stream, and recovering the current block based on the prediction block and the residual block.
US12256064B2	Video coding and decoding A method of encoding a motion information predictor index, comprising: generating a list of motion information predictor candidates; when an Affine Merge mode is used, selecting one of the motion information predictor candidates in the list as an Affine Merge mode predictor; when a non-Affine Merge mode is used, selecting one of the motion information predictor candidates in the list as a non-Affine Merge mode predictor; and generating a motion information predictor index for the selected motion information predictor candidate using CABAC coding, one or more bits of the motion information predictor index being bypass CABAC coded.
US12256060B2	System and method for verifying a selection of an optical sensor A system for verifying a selection of an optical sensor of two or more optical sensors may include: a first optical sensor; a second optical sensor; and a processing unit configured to: receive a selection of one of the first and second optical sensors to provide a selected optical sensor and a non-selected optical sensor; change parameters of the selected optical sensor to a selected set of parameters; receive image frames from the selected optical sensor; change parameters of the non-selected optical sensor to a predefined set of parameters; receive image frames from the non-selected optical sensor; determine that the selected optical sensor operates according to the selected set of parameters and/or that the non-selected optical sensor operates according to the predefined set of parameters; and verify, based on at least one of the determinations, the selection of the optical sensor.
US12256051B2	Image processing apparatus and method for natural representation of light in an image The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and method and a program that enable natural representation of light in an image in accordance with a viewpoint. The image processing apparatus calculates information indicating a change in a light source region between an input image and a viewpoint-converted image that is obtained by performing viewpoint conversion on the input image on the basis of a specified viewpoint, and causes a change in representation of light in the viewpoint-converted image on the basis of the calculated information indicating a change in the light source region. The present technology can be applied to an image display system that generates a pseudo stereoscopic image with motion parallax from one image.
US12256050B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, storage medium, manufacturing method of learned model, and image processing system An image processing apparatus includes at least one processor or circuit configured to execute a plurality of tasks including an acquisition task configured to acquire two first images made by capturing the same object at two different viewpoints, and an image processing task configured to input the two first images into a machine learning model and to estimate a second image at one or more viewpoints different from the two viewpoints.
US12256042B2	Call dispatch method and call dispatch control server A call dispatch method and server is provided, in which when call request information is transmitted from a user terminal to a control server, the control server may transmit the call information to one or more driver terminals in consideration of a call score and the like, and a driver may select a call keep function through a driver terminal, thereby withholding determination of whether to accept or reject a call for a predetermined time.
US12256035B2	Shortcut keypad for visual electronic communications Shortcut keypad system for electronic communications comprises first apparatus and second apparatus. First apparatus and second apparatus each comprise an input device, a processor and a memory. The input device comprises selectable items including first selectable item. The processor of the first apparatus receives a selection of the first selectable item, and transmits a signal corresponding to the first selectable item to the second apparatus. The processor of the second apparatus receives the signal corresponding to the first selectable item, and causes the input device of the second apparatus to indicate that the signal corresponding to the first selectable item is received. Other embodiments are described herein.
US12256034B2	Mobile secretary cloud application The disclosure provides a method, system, and a software program product for assisting a user and/or managing tasks of the user, by a mobile secretary cloud application configured to operate in a mobile client device and cloud server network. The mobile secretary cloud application reads data from another software application and operates at least one of another application and a third application based on the read data. Further, Artificial intelligence is utilized by the mobile secretary cloud application for operating another application and the third application.
US12256028B2	Cross chain access granting to applications According to a present invention embodiment, a system for granting access to applications associated with different blockchains comprises one or more memories and at least one processor coupled to the one or more memories. The system verifies a non-fungible token of a first blockchain is owned by a user. The non-fungible token is indicated by the user for access to an application associated with a second blockchain. Information for the second blockchain is retrieved from information for different blockchains associated with the non-fungible token. A blockchain address of the second blockchain is verified as being associated with the user based on the information for the second blockchain to grant access to the application. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for granting access to applications associated with different blockchains in substantially the same manner described above.
US12256024B2	Device provisioning A device is equipped with a public/private key pair. The private key is stored in a secure location on the device and the public key is utilized to track ownership of the device by a manufacturer, vendor, and/or one or more provisioning services. When a user purchases the device, a transaction involving the public key associated with the device and the user is recorded. The one or more provisioning services, which are provided access to user information, prepare a configuration payload for the device specific to the user and the device. The configuration payload is encrypted using the device's public key. When the device is powered on, the configuration payload is sent to the device. The device decrypts the configuration payload using the device's private key and adjusts one or more configuration parameters based on the configuration payload.
US12256021B1	Rolling encryption and authentication in a low power physical asset tracking system Systems and methods are described for transmitting broadcasts by Peripherals, receiving the broadcasts by Centrals, and communicating with a Backend by Centrals. Specifically, a Peripheral may generate and transmit an encrypted broadcast packet to a Central, the Central may transmit the encrypted observation information to the Backend, which may decrypt the broadcast packet. Additionally, a Central may transmit a request for authorization to connect to a Peripheral to the Backend. If authorized by the Backend, the Central may connect to the Peripheral. Further, a Central may receive a plurality of broadcasts over a period of time. The Central may store information about the broadcasts and, at the conclusion of the period of time, transmit the information about the broadcasts and the last-received broadcast to the Backend.
US12256018B1	Dynamic response signing capability in a distributed system A system that provides responses to requests obtains a key that is used to digitally sign the request. The key is derived from information that is shared with a requestor to which the response is sent. The requestor derives, using the shared information, derives a key usable to verify the digital signature of the response, thereby enabling the requestor to operate in accordance with whether the digital signature of the response matches the response.
US12256017B2	Techniques for correcting anomalous activity caused by smart contracts A system can correct or avoid an unexpected result caused by executing a smart contract. The system can detect a potential/actual result generated based on a primary smart contract, which is stored in association with a block of a blockchain and is configured to execute when a predetermined condition is satisfied. The system can determine that the potential/actual result deviates from an expected result and, in response, retrieve a secondary smart contract from a repository. The secondary smart contract is selected to prevent the unexpected result in the future. The system can store the secondary smart contract retrieved from the repository in association with a subsequent block of the blockchain. The primary smart contract and the secondary smart contract are then configured to execute in concert when the predetermined condition is satisfied such that the expected result is produced instead of the unexpected result.
US12256016B2	Control of memory devices over computer networks using digital signatures generated by a server system for commands to be executed in the memory devices A system, method and apparatus to control memory devices over computer networks. For example, a server system establishes a secure authenticated connection with a client computer system. Over the connection, the server receives from the client computer system a request identifying a memory device and determine, based on data stored in the server system, that the client computer system is eligible to control the memory device. In response to a request from the client computer system, the server system generates a digital signature for a command using at least a cryptographic key stored in the server system in association with the memory device. The client computer system receives the digital signature from the server system and submits the command with the digital signature to the memory device. The memory device validates the digital signature prior to execution of the command.
US12256015B2	Systems and methods for secure remote identity verification Systems and methods are provided for authenticating an identity of a user requesting a resource or service from an entity. In some embodiments, a system may include at least one processor; and a non-transitory medium containing instructions that cause the system to perform operations. The operations may include receiving credential information associated with the remote user, and receiving, from the server associated with the entity, first hash information. The operations may also include generating second hash information based on information associated with the user, comparing the first hash information with the second hash information, and transmitting an indication based on the comparison to the server associated with the entity.
US12256011B2	Methods, systems, and media for secure authentication of users based on a biometric identifier and knowledge-based secondary information Methods, systems, and media for secure authentication of users using one or more biometric recognition systems are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving an indication that a biometric identifier is to be used to authenticate a user to a service; receiving (i) the biometric identifier of the user from a capture device and (ii) knowledge-based secondary information associated with the user from an input device; determining a Voronoi cell identifier that corresponds to the biometric identifier; calculating a hash of the Voronoi cell identifier and the knowledge-based secondary information; transmitting the hash to a server device for verification; in response to transmitting the hash to the server device, receiving a response indicating whether the hash matches a previously stored hash that was stored in the server device; and determining whether to automatically authenticate the user to the service based on the response from the server device.
US12256010B2	Systems and methods for verifying or ensuring communication paths In some instances, a method for verifying communication paths is provided. The method comprises: obtaining, from a first user device, a request to access content associated with a relying party system, wherein the request indicates user credentials and a first session identifier (ID); obtaining one or more quick response (QR) codes and a second session ID associated with a first QR code of the one or more QR codes, wherein the relying party system generates and provides the first QR code to the first user device; and verifying the first session ID and the second session ID, wherein the relying party system grants the first user device access to the requested content based on the verification.
US12256008B2	Accessing a virtual reality environment A method includes a computing device interpreting a request for a requesting entity to access a set of learning objects pertaining to a common topic represented in a virtual reality environment to produce a set of requested learning object identifiers. The method further includes determining whether a license smart contract for the set of learning objects associated with a non-fungible token of the object distributed ledger affirms access by the requesting entity to the set of learning objects. When access is affirmed, the method further includes generating the virtual reality environment utilizing a group of object representations in accordance with interaction information for at least some of the object representations of the group of object representations. The method further includes outputting the virtual reality environment to the requesting entity for interactive consumption.
US12256007B2	Decentralized identity access management using byzantine fault tolerant state machine replication A decentralized identity access management (IAM) architecture that executes IAM service code on the distributed nodes (i.e., replicas) of a Byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) state machine replication (SMR) system is provided. For example, the IAM service code may be implemented as a blockchain smart contract or as a native execution engine that runs on each replica. With this decentralized architecture, up to f replicas (where f is a threshold number defined by the system's BFT consensus protocol) can be faulty/corrupted without affecting the security of the system.
US12256002B2	Physimetric-based data security for coded distributed temperature sensing Physimetric-based data security for coded distributed temperature sensing (DTS) in which physimetric information is extracted from a coded-DTS interrogator which is unique for each interrogator at each operating run time—and used to reconstruct a final temperature determination from DTS data. The physimetric information includes coded-DTS pulse code and coded-DTS pulse profile information as a key to permit secure sharing with authorized users. The pulse code and pulse profile information are encrypted and made available to an authorized user. The authorized user can then decrypt the pulse code and pulse profile information and subsequently use this key information (pulse profile and pulse code files) to retrieve temperature information from for example, a remote computer providing a continuous raw data feed—without being susceptible to eavesdropping. The pulse profile and pulse code files permit reconstruction of temperature from DTS continuous raw data feed which have no meaningful informational value to an eavesdropper who has no access to the unencrypted pulse profile and pulse code information.
US12255994B2	Secure data storage with a dynamically generated key The disclosed embodiments relate to securing operations accessing a non-volatile storage area of a memory device. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising generating, by firmware of a memory device, a cryptographic key using a value of a physically unclonable function (PUF); writing, by the firmware, the cryptographic key to a volatile storage area; receiving, by the firmware, a command accessing a non-volatile storage area from a host processor; and processing, by the firmware, the command using the cryptographic key.
US12255993B2	Data access method, data storage system, server apparatus, client apparatus, and program A search key is generated (S20). A key relationship array is transmitted (S11). If an element matching the key relationship array is present, the found search key is held (S21). A key relationship index is transmitted (S22). A record read out using the key relationship index is transmitted (S12). If the record matches the search key, the found search key is held (S23). The found search key is set for an empty element of the key relationship array and is transmitted (S24). A data array is transmitted (S13). If an element matching the data array is present, the found data is held (S25). A data index is transmitted (S26). A record read out using the data index is transmitted (S14). If the record matches the search key, the found data is held (S27). Desired data is set for an empty element of the data array and is transmitted (S28).
US12255990B2	Quantum streaming Method(s), system(s), apparatus are provided for quantum safe quantum streaming between a first endpoint device and second endpoint device via a server of a quantum cloud platform. Splitting, at the first endpoint device, a data item into a plurality of data shards that allow reconstruction of the data item. Encrypting, at the first endpoint device, each of the data shards separately using a first cryptographic key shared between the first endpoint device and the second endpoint device. Establishing, between the first endpoint device and the server, a first plurality of secure channels with the server of the quantum cloud platform using a second cryptographic key, the second cryptographic key shared between the endpoint and the server. Transmitting, from the first endpoint device to the server, the plurality of encrypted shards towards the second endpoint device via the server over the plurality of secure channels. Receiving, at the server, the plurality of encrypted data shards of the data item transmitted from the first endpoint device over the first plurality of secure channels, each data shard encrypted using the first cryptographic key known only to the first endpoint device and the second endpoint device. Securely storing, by the server, the encrypted data shards of the data item in a secure storage of the quantum cloud platform. In response to the second endpoint logging onto the quantum cloud platform, establishing a second plurality of secure channels with the second endpoint using a third cryptographic key, the third cryptographic key shared between the second endpoint device and the server. Retrieving the encrypted data shards of the data item from secure storage. Transmitting the encrypted data shards over the second plurality of secure channels to the second endpoint device. Receiving, at the second endpoint, a plurality of encrypted data shards of the encrypted data item from the server over the second plurality. Decrypting the encrypted data shards using the first cryptographic key to reconstruct the data item transferred from the first endpoint device to the second endpoint device.
US12255987B2	System and method for secure detection of similarity and dissimilarity of events Each of a plurality of clients encodes events as respective vectors and cooperatively choose a joint key. Each client then encrypts its event vector(s) using the joint key to form secret shares of a fixed value and then sends the encoded, encrypted vectors to a service-providing system that selects pairs of the vectors and determines a comparison value from a reconstruction of the secret shares. When the comparison value meets a predetermined criterion, the service-providing system generates a message indicating similarity between the selected pairs of the vectors. The service providing system thus determines a degree of similarity between the events without requiring knowledge of raw data about the events.
US12255985B2	Method for authentic data transmission between control devices of a vehicle, arrangement with control devices, computer program, and vehicle A method is disclosed for authentic data transmission between control devices of a vehicle in which messages which are sent from a first control device to a receiver control device and are provided with a first cryptographic key for authentication, and messages that are sent from a second control device to the receiver control device are provided with a second cryptographic key for authentication. First status information provided with a third cryptographic key is sent from a monitoring module of the first control device to the receiver control device and second status information provided with the second cryptographic key is sent from the second control device to the receiver control device. The first status information and second status information are received by the receiver control device. The received first and second status information is evaluated to detect a manipulation of the first control device.
US12255983B2	Methods, systems, and devices for configuring a federated blockchain network Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, from a user device, a master-slave agreement and a first network configuration for a federated blockchain network, transmitting to a cloud service provider (CSP) node the first network configuration, generating first credentials, and transmitting the first credentials to the CSP node. The CSP node configures a first group of blockchain nodes according to the first network configuration and the first credentials. Further embodiments include transmitting the first credentials to a public server that sends it to a public blockchain node and an indication to generate a portion of the federated blockchain network. The public blockchain node configures a second group of blockchain nodes according to a second network configuration based on a public blockchain smart contract. The federated blockchain network comprises the first group of blockchain nodes and the second group of blockchain nodes. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12255980B2	Homomorphic encryption key management A computer-implemented method comprising: generating, from a key-seed associated with a user, a set of homomorphic encryption (HE) keys associated with an HE scheme; receiving, from a key management system (KMS) associated with said HE scheme, an encrypted version of said key-seed; storing said encrypted version of said key-seed, and said set of HE keys, in an untrusted storage location; and at a decryption stage, decrypting an encrypted computation result generated using said HE scheme, by: (i) recalling, from said untrusted storage location, said encrypted version of said key-seed, (ii) providing said encrypted version of said key-seed to said KMS, to obtain a decrypted version of said key-seed s associated with said user, (iii) generating, from said received decrypted version of said key-seed, a secret HE key associated with said HE scheme, and (iv) using said secret HE key to decrypt said encrypted computation result.
US12255978B2	Ensuring properly ordered events in a distributed computing environment A first event occurs at a first computer at a first time, as measured by a local clock. A second event is initiated at a second computer by sending a message that includes the first time. The second event occurs at a second time, as measured by a local clock. Because of clock error, the first time is later than the second time. Based on the first time being later than the second time, an alternate second time, that is based on the first time, is used as the time of the second event. When a third system determines the order of the two events, the first time is obtained from the first computer, and the alternate second time is obtained from the second computer, and the order of the events is determined based on a comparison of the two times.
US12255976B2	Ethernet virtual private network using segment routing In one embodiment, Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) is implemented using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Segment Routing (SRv6) underlay network and SRv6-enhanced Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signaling. A particular route associated with a particular Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Segment Routing (SRv6) Segment Identifier (SID) is advertised in a particular route advertisement message of a routing protocol (e.g., BGP). The SID includes encoding representing a particular Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) Layer 2 (L2) flooding Segment Routing end function of the particular router and a particular Ethernet Segment Identifier (ESI), with the particular SID including a routable prefix to the particular router. The particular router receives a particular packet including the particular SID; and in response, the particular router performs the particular EVPN end function on the particular packet.
US12255973B2	Highly-versatile field devices and communication networks for use in control and automation systems A highly versatile process control or factory automation field device is configured with an interface and communication connection structure that enables the field device to operate as a data server that communicates with and supports multiple different applications or clients, either directly or indirectly, while simultaneously performing standard process and factory automation control functions. Moreover, various different process control and factory automation network architectures and, in particular, communication architectures, support the versatile field device to enable the versatile field device to simultaneously communicate with multiple different client devices or applications (each associated with a different system) via a common communication network infrastructure, using the same or different communication protocols.
US12255971B2	Systems and methods for utilizing unused network capacity for prefetch requests Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed for utilizing unused network capacity for prefetch requests. One method includes: receiving, over a network, network traffic information from a network provider of the network; determining a threshold value for prefetch request fulfillment based on the received network traffic information; receiving, over the network, a plurality of prefetch requests from an application running on a mobile device connected to the network of the network provider; determining, for each prefetch request of the plurality of prefetch requests, a score for the prefetch request based on the received plurality of prefetch requests; and responding to, for each prefetch request of the plurality of prefetch requests, the prefetch request based on the determined threshold value and the determined score for the prefetch request.
US12255967B2	Method and system for tracking events in distributed high-throughput applications The present teaching relates to tracking an event at a plurality of distributed servers. In one example, an event to be tracked is determined. A user associated with the event is identified. A script is generated to be embedded in a web page. The script triggers an event message when the user performs an online behavior related to the web page in accordance with the event. The event message triggered by the script is received. A tracing flag is determined from the event message. An instruction is provided to the plurality of distributed servers for executing one or more applications based on the event and the tracing flag.
US12255962B2	Machine learning for identifying idle sessions Systems and methods for identifying and evicting idle sessions include training a machine learning model as a session classifying model to learn rules for classifying active sessions between clients and the cloud-based service. The session classifying model is trained to receive a plurality of parameters pertaining to the document associated with an active session as input and to apply the rules to the plurality of parameters to determine a classification for the active session and to provide an output indicative of the classification for the active session. The session classifying model is then utilized in the cloud-based service to classify the active sessions. The active sessions classified as idle sessions may then be evicted from the cloud-based service.
US12255959B2	Systems and methods for remote management of appliances The present disclosure describes systems and methods for remote management of appliances. The appliance may be configured to periodically check in a predetermined online location for the presence of a trigger file identifying one or more appliances directed to contact a management server for maintenance. If the file is present at the predetermined location and the file includes the identifier of the appliance, the appliance may initiate a connection to the management server. If the file is not found, then the appliance may reset a call timer and attempt to retrieve the file at a later time. To avoid having to configure addresses on the appliance, link local IPv6 addresses may be configured for use over a virtual private network, allowing administration, regardless of the network configuration or local IP address of the appliance.
US12255958B2	On-board relay device, information processing method, and program A plurality of communication units of an on-board relay device include a remote communication unit to which a communication device outside a vehicle for communicating with an external server is connected, and a local communication unit to which a diagnostic device is connected, and a control unit of the on-board relay device performs lower layer side control for relay based on a lower side layered protocol in communication, and upper layer side control for relay based on an upper side layered protocol rather than the lower side layered protocol, and performs adjustment processing with respect to a conflict of a plurality of maintenance processings by the upper layer side control when information relevant to the plurality of maintenance processings with respect to any one on-board ECU of a plurality of on-board ECUs is input through the local communication unit and the remote communication unit.
US12255951B1	Capacity management for radio-based applications A first extension resource group (ERG) of a provider network, comprising a radio-based application pipeline processing server with a network accelerator card, is configured at an external premise. A first set of network functions of a radio-based application is executed at the card. A second ERG is configured at the premise, and a second set of network functions of the radio-based application is executed at the second ERG.
US12255949B2	Segmentation server cluster for managing a segmentation policy A segmentation system includes a cluster of segmentation servers that interoperate to obtain and manage a segmentation policy for controlling communications between workloads in an administrative domain. The cluster of segmentation servers includes a leader segmentation server and at least one member segmentation server. The leader segmentation server controls policy generation and distributes the segmentation policy to the member segmentation servers. The segmentation servers are each optionally paired with a respective set of workloads. The segmentation servers each distribute descriptions of their respective paired workloads to the other segmentation servers. Each segmentation server processes the segmentation policy to generate management instructions for controlling communications to and from their respective paired workloads and distributes the management instructions to the operating system instances executing the workloads to enforce the segmentation policy. The cluster of segmentation servers beneficially enables a segmentation system with high scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
US12255941B1	Proactive reduction of bit rate of streaming media en route to UE in response to prediction that UE will experience reduced-throughput coverage A method and system for proactively reconfiguring communication to a user equipment device (UE) in anticipation the UE experiencing a coverage-throughput reduction when the UE is receiving streaming media. An example method includes (i) predicting, when the UE is receiving streaming media from a media server, that the UE is going to experience the coverage-throughput reduction and (ii) based at least in part on the predicting, proactively initiating transcoding of the streaming media to reduce a bit rate of the streaming media en route to the UE in a communication path between the media server and the UE, the initiating occurring before the UE experiences the coverage-throughput reduction so that the bit rate of the streaming media is reduced by when the UE experiences the coverage-throughput reduction.
US12255933B2	Terminal devices, infrastructure equipment and methods A terminal device comprising: transceiver circuitry configured to communicate with infrastructure equipment; and processing circuitry configured to control the transceiver circuitry to: receive, from the infrastructure equipment, a media content stream via a media interface; and receive a remote control instruction via the media interface.
US12255928B2	Machine learning for computer security policy modification In some aspects, a computing system may use a machine learning model to determine whether a computer security policy should be modified to reduce the likelihood of a cyber security incident. Through the use of a machine learning model, unsafe combinations of access grants or permissions may be identified and modified to prevent cyber security incidents from occurring. The computing system may input a representation of a computer security policy into a machine learning model, which has been trained on a dataset that includes representations of computer security policies. The computing system may generate output indicating a likelihood that the first computing system will be involved in a cyber security incident. Based on the output satisfying a first threshold, the computing system may generate a recommendation to modify the first computer security policy. The computing system may modify the first computer security policy based on the recommendation.
US12255927B2	System and method for quantification of standard compliance to drive remediation Methods and systems for managing computing infrastructure compliance with standards are disclosed. The computing infrastructure may provide computer implemented services that may be at elevated risk if the computing infrastructure fails to comply with various standards such as security or redundancy standards. To manage compliance with standards, a cross-standard compliance coverage model may be used. The cross-standard compliance coverage model may use information regarding infrastructure components of the computing infrastructure to ascertain compliance with any number of standards.
US12255924B2	Policy creation and adjustment methods A system to create Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies and adjust DLP policies over time in a computing system using agents running at an endpoint to intercept a data transfer in a network traffic. New data flow/DLP policy rules are created and updated with reference to behavior data of trusted and untrusted users.
US12255907B2	Systems and methods for dynamic network baiting Various embodiments provide systems and methods systems and methods for dynamically attracting malicious network behavior.
US12255905B2	Machine learning malware classifications using behavioral artifacts Techniques and systems for a security service system configured with a sensor component including a machine learning (ML) malware classifier to perform behavioral detection on host devices. The security service system may deploy a sensor component to monitor behavioral events on a host device. The sensor component may generate events data corresponding to monitored operations targeted by malware. The system may map individual events from events data onto a behavioral activity pattern and generate process trees. The system may extract behavioral artifacts to build a feature vector used for malware classification and generate a machine learning (ML) malware classifier. The sensor component may use the ML malware classifier to perform asynchronous behavioral detection on a host device and process system events for malware detection.
US12255904B2	Early validation of communication behavior One example method includes extracting an expected communication specification of a service that is in development in a build pipeline, stimulating the service to exercise communication variations of the service, capturing communication traffic involving the service and one or more endpoints, comparing the captured communication traffic to the expected communication specification, and based on the comparing, detecting, in the captured communication traffic, and flagging, any anomalous communication behavior of the service.
US12255901B2	Identifying and targeting communication network events via uniform resource locator sets A processing system may track accessing of a plurality of uniform resource locators among users of a communication network, determine an occurrence of an event of an event type based upon an increased accessing of the plurality of uniform resource locators for at least one time period, identify a first sub-group of the users associated with the event, apply a first action in the communication network to a test group including at least a first portion of the first sub-group, the first action addressing a demand associated with the event of the event type, track at least a first success rate of the first action for the first portion of the first sub-group, and apply the first action to at least a second portion of the first sub-group in response to determining that the first success rate for the first portion of the first sub-group exceeds a threshold success rate.
US12255899B2	Privileged access request system Privileged access is managed by receiving a request for privileged access to a device connected to a network, determining a risk level associated with the request based on a duration of the privileged access, a device identifier, a first user identifier, and a requested privilege level included in the request, identifying a second user to control authorization of the device based on the risk level, and scheduling, in response to receiving authorization from the second user, a process to modify an entry in a permissions database to associate the first user identifier and the device identifier with the requested privilege level for the duration.
US12255897B2	Differentiated containerization and execution of web content based on trust level and other attributes Systems and methods may provide for receiving web content and determining a trust level associated with the web content. Additionally, the web content may be mapped to an execution environment based at least in part on the trust level. In one example, the web content is stored to a trust level specific data container.
US12255896B2	Security systems, methods, and computer program products for information integration platform An information integration system may include a set of integration services embodied on one or more server machines in a computing environment. The set of integration services may include connectors communicatively connected to disparate information systems. The connectors may be configured for integrating data stored in the disparate information systems utilizing a common model employed by the set of integration services. The common model may overlay, augment, integrate, or otherwise utilize a content management interoperability services data model and may include common property definitions and a common security model. The common security model may include permissions particularly defined for use by the set of integration services. These common property definitions and permissions may be uniquely defined and utilized by the information integration system.
US12255893B1	Peer-to-peer authentication with a secure channel communication An identity verification system enables peer-to-peer authentication in a potentially insecure channel by leveraging a secure channel communication. The system authenticates a user via an identity verification application. The system provides a validation code to the user. The user communicates the validation code to a counterparty of the peer-to-peer communication. The system receives a request to authenticate the counterparty with the validation code and counterparty authentication data. The system authenticates the counterparty and sends the user the authentication of the counterparty. Alternatively, the user device communicates a request to generate a secure code for participants in a first insecure group application session. The user device selects an authenticated counterparty to receive the secure code from a list of authenticated counterparties. The user creates a second application session using the secure code as a password. Unauthenticated counterparties would not receive the secure code and are restricted from the new session.
US12255891B2	Selecting authentication method based on user constraints Methods and systems for authenticating a user. One system includes a camera and an authentication computer. The authentication computer is configured to receive an image of a user captured by the camera, determine, based on the image, a constraint of the user impacting an availability of a part of the user's body for use in authenticating the user, and determine, based on the constraint of the user, an action to be performed by the user. The authentication computer is also configured to transmit data to a user device worn by the user, the data usable by the user device to output instructions to the user to perform the action, and, in response to detecting the action performed by the user, authenticating the user to use a resource.
US12255884B2	Method, ledger and system for establishing a secure connection from a chip to a network and corresponding network Provided is a method for establishing a secure connection from a chip to a network. The method comprises sending a connection request with a decentralized identifier address, sending a request for getting a decentralized identifier, sending, to the network, the decentralized identifier, sending, to the chip, an authentication request with data, and determining and sending, to the network, authentication data, and authenticating the chip. It further include sending, to the ledger, a request for getting subscription data associated with the decentralized identifier address, verifying, whether the decentralized identifier address is associated with a subscription wallet address or a subscription address in an operator wallet sending, to the network, associated subscription data, verifying whether valid, and establishing, when valid, a connection to the chip.
US12255875B2	Sidecar proxy as a service Disclosed are embodiments for injecting sidecar proxy capabilities into non-sidecar applications, allowing such non-sidecar applications to communicate with a service mesh architecture. In an embodiment, a method comprises receiving a request to instantiate a proxy for a non-sidecar application at a service mesh gateway (SMG). The SMG then instantiates the proxy in response to the request and broadcasts network information of the non-sidecar application to a mesh controller deployed in a containerized environment. Finally, the SMG (via the proxy) transmits data over a control plane that is communicatively coupled to the mesh controller.
US12255873B2	Method and device for split tunneling An electronic device may obtain a security rule for supporting split tunneling, check a condition for executing a first operation related to bypassing the VPN tunnel by comparing a first value to information based on a first offset in a first element of the packet based on the security rule, check a condition for performing a second operation related to bypassing the VPN tunnel by comparing a second value to information based on a second offset in a second element of the packet when the condition for executing the first operation is satisfied and the first operation instructs that the second element of the packet be inspected, encapsulate the packet while not including the packet in the VPN tunnel and transmit the encapsulated packet to a packet forwarding server, and include the packet in the VPN tunnel and transmit the packet to the packet forwarding server.
US12255868B2	Leveraging contextual metadata communication to improve DNS security Techniques for leveraging efficient metadata communications to improve domain name system (DNS) security are described. The DNS service uses a hash value to uniquely identify a client, and detect any change in metadata in order to keep policies up-to-date for the client. In an example method a first DNS query for a client device is intercepted. A cryptographic hash function is applied to metadata associated with the client device to generate a hash value. The hash value is added to an additional records section of the first DNS query to generate a second DNS query. The second DNS query is transmitted to a DNS service. The metadata associated with the client device is transmitted to the DNS service on an out-of-band encrypted channel. A DNS response, including the hash value, is received from the DNS service and transmitted to the client device.
US12255866B2	Method and apparatus for providing information A method for providing information includes receiving a reference notification message that a target account number is referenced, the reference notification message being sent by a first information system after receiving a request initiated by a first user for first information content by way of referencing the target account number, wherein first information content includes information content generated in the first information system, and the target account number is associated with a second information system; acquiring the first information content; acquiring, from an information library associated with the second information system, second information content related to the first information content; and providing the second information content to the first user.
US12255865B2	Object interface for quick access to objects of a communication platform An object interface for quick access to object(s) of a communication platform is described. Server(s) of the communication platform can receive, in association with a user interface of the communication platform, a request to associate an object with an object interface associated with a virtual space of the communication platform. The server(s) can cause one or more objects to be presented via the user interface and can receive a selection of a particular object from the one or more objects. The server(s) can cause, in response to the selection, a user interface element representative of the particular object to be associated with the object interface, wherein the user interface element is associated with an actuation mechanism that, when actuated, causes the particular object to be presented via the user interface. Notifications associated with the particular object can be indicated by annotation(s) to the user interface.
US12255864B2	Method and system for organizing and interacting with messages on devices The present technology includes systems and methods for managing electronic messages on a user device. A vertical list of graphical elements each corresponding to an electronic message can be displayed on the user device and user input can be detected. Each electronic message is associated with one or more contacts, and each contact is associated with an icon image. The user input includes an indication to select a particular contact. In response to the user input, the user device can display visualization of contact information associated with the particular contact, including the icon image.
US12255862B2	Systems and methods for automated message delivery feedback Systems and methods for automated message delivery feedback that includes receiving a plurality of messaging requests to transmit a plurality of messages to a plurality of recipient devices, identifying subsets of related messaging requests in the plurality of messaging requests, receiving a plurality of delivery feedbacks for the plurality of messages, for each of the subsets of the related messaging requests, determining, based on the plurality of delivery feedbacks, whether to initiate at least one repeated transmission of a respective message to at least one recipient device, and upon determining to initiate the at least one repeated transmission, monitoring a delivery status of the respective message to the at least one recipient device.
US12255856B2	Updating trained voice bot(s) utilizing example-based voice bot development techniques Implementations are directed to updating a trained voice bot that is deployed for conducting conversations on behalf of a third-party. A third-party developer can interact with a voice bot development system that enables the third-party developer to train, update, validate, and monitor performance of the trained voice bot. In various implementations, the trained voice bot can be updated by updating a corpus of training instances that was initially utilized to train the voice bot, and updating the trained voice bot based on the updated corpus. In some implementations, the corpus of training instances may be updated in response to identifying occurrence(s) of behavioral error(s) of the trained voice bot while the conversations are being conducted on behalf of the third-party. In additional or alternative implementations, the corpus of training instances may be updated in response to determining the trained voice bot does not include a desired behavior.
US12255854B2	User equipment specific bandwidths System and methods for allocating user equipment (UE) specific carrier bandwidth are described. A bases station may advertise cell specific carrier bandwidth and an initial bandwidth part that represent a subset of the carrier bandwidth available to the base station. A UE may respond with an indication that is has bandwidth capabilities that include a greater range of frequencies than those of the cell specific carrier bandwidth. In response, the base station may instruct the UE to use this greater range of frequencies as a UE specific carrier bandwidth, allowing the UE to operate using a range of frequencies that exceed the advertised cell specific carrier bandwidth.
US12255853B2	Methods and apparatus for setting subband CSI-related parameters Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for flexibly setting subband CSI-related parameters.
US12255848B2	Information feedback method and device, and communication node and storage medium Disclosed are an information feedback method and apparatus, and a communication node and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The information feedback method may include: receiving a downlink data transmission instruction sent by a second communication node; and triggering, according to the downlink data transmission instruction, the first communication node to feed back demodulation capability information and channel state information (CSI) to the second communication node; the CSI may include: a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and an SNR change rate of a received signal.
US12255847B2	Flexible feedback with outer coding Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive multiple transport blocks (TBs) representing an application data unit (ADU) from a base station. The base station may transmit an indication that the UE is to provide ADU level feedback. The UE may determine the ADU level feedback based on whether the ADU is successfully received and decoded or not. The UE may indicate the ADU level feedback for the TBs to the base station. The base station and the UE may communicate according to the ADU level feedback.
US12255846B2	Method and apparatus for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) feedback for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) release A user equipment (UE) device is disclosed. The UE device comprises a processor configured to perform operations comprising receiving a downlink control information (DCI) from a base station. In some embodiments, the DCI comprises an indication to trigger a Type-3 hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK) feedback signal. The operations further comprise generating the Type-3 HARQ ACK feedback signal, based on processing the DCI. In some embodiments, the Type-3 HARQ ACK feedback signal comprises one or more HARQ-ACK bits for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) release(s). In some embodiments, each of the one or more HARQ-ACK bits for SPS PDSCH release(s) is adapted to include HARQ-ACK information for an SPS PDSCH release associated with the UE. Further, the operations comprise sending the Type-3 HARQ-ACK feedback signal to the base station.
US12255843B2	Physical channel transmission method, apparatus, and node, and storage medium A physical channel transmission method and apparatus, a node and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The physical channel transmission method may include: acquiring, by a transmitter, K copies of reference signal parameters, the K copies of reference signal parameters being used for N repetitive transmissions of a physical channel, where the K and N are integers greater than 1 and the N is greater than or equal to K; and performing, by the transmitter, repetitive transmissions of the physical channel according to the K copies of reference signal parameters.
US12255841B2	Uplink subband precoding via linear combination of frequency domain bases Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for using subband precoding for uplink transmissions. In some cases, a UE may transmit sounding reference signals (SRS) to a network entity, receive information indicating at least one of a set of one or more frequency domain (FD) bases and linear combination coefficients, determined based on the SRS transmission, determine subband precoding based at least in part on linear combinations of the FD bases based on the linear combination coefficients, and transmit a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) with the subband precoding.
US12255838B2	Technique for determining segmentation parameters for use in segmenting RLC PDUs A technique for determining segmentation parameters for use in segmenting Radio Link Control, RLC, Protocol Data Units, PDUs, in an RLC preprocessing procedure performed by a User Equipment, UE, prior to receiving an Uplink, UL, grant for transmission of the RLC PDUs is disclosed, wherein the segmentation parameters comprise a size of RLC PDU segments and a number of RLC PDU segments to be included into a physical layer Transport Block, TB. A method implementation of the technique comprises determining (S302) a TBS prediction of an expected physical layer Transport Block Size, TBS, determining (S304) an observation prediction of at least one of an expected channel quality, an expected traffic volume and an expected available bandwidth observable during transmission of the RLC PDUs, and determining (S306) the size of RLC PDU segments and the number of RLC PDU segments based on the TBS prediction and the observation prediction, wherein the size of RLC PDU segments and the number of RLC PDU segments are determined to maximize the size of RLC PDU segments while keeping a total size of the number of RLC PDU segments within the expected TBS.
US12255837B2	Configuration and resource allocation for downlink demodulation reference signals According to one aspect, a network node is provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to allocate resources for a reference signal signaling for a first wireless device, the allocated resources configured to separate, in a slot, at least one transmission layer of the first wireless device from at least one transmission layers of a second wireless device by at least one of scheduling the first wireless device and second wireless device different reference signal ports that are separated by using the same resource elements and different CDM codes, scheduling the first wireless device and second wireless device at least one shared reference signal port using the same resource elements and CDM code, and scheduling the first wireless device and second wireless device on different reference signal ports that are separated by FDM using different resource elements and the same CDM codes.
US12255834B1	Automatic multi-stage fabric generation for FPGAs Systems and methods to automatically or manually generate various multi-stage pyramid network based fabrics, either partially connected or fully connected, are disclosed by changing different parameters of multi-stage pyramid network including such as number of slices, number of rings, number of stages, number of switches, number of multiplexers, the size of the multiplexers in any switch, connections between stages of rings either between the same numbered stages (same level stages) or different numbered stages, single or multi-drop hop wires, hop wires of different hop lengths, hop wires outgoing to different directions, hop wires incoming from different directions, number of hop wires based on the number and type of inlet and outlet links of large scale sub-integrated circuit blocks. One or more parameters are changed in each iteration so that optimized fabrics are generated, at the end of iterations, to route a given set of benchmarks or designs having a specific connection requirements.
US12255828B2	QOS for multiplex network receive queue In one embodiment, a network device, including a network interface to receive packets over a packet data network, and a hierarchical policer to provide queue fairness for a plurality of network flows competing for access to a multiplex network receive queue, and including level one meters to label the received packets, a level two meter to receive at least some of the labeled packets and relabel the at least some labeled packets, and queueing logic add the packets labeled with a first label-type to the multiplex network receive queue and drop the packets labeled with a third label-type.
US12255825B2	Offloading application traffic to a shared communication channel for signal optimization in a wireless network for traffic utilizing proprietary and non-proprietary protocols A method of reducing network traffic includes blocking, at a mobile device, a first channel to reduce network signaling in a network and to reduce battery consumption. The first channel includes a non-common channel. The method includes offloading application traffic of an application onto a second channel. The second channel may include a common channel. The method may include monitoring the application traffic of the application over the second channel, unblocking the first channel based on the monitored application traffic so that the application can perform an action, and re-blocking the first channel after the action has been completed. The method may include unblocking the first channel when user activity is detected, wherein the user activity includes whether the mobile device is being interacted with.
US12255820B2	Platform agnostic gateway for efficient data transfer between systems An apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores information identifying a first set of protocols associated with communication channels available to a first system and a second set of protocols associated with communication channels available to a second system. The processor receives, from the first system, a request to transmit data, and selects, based at least on a size of the data and a load of each communication channel available to the first system, a protocol of the first set of protocols. The processor instructs the first system to transmit the data according to the selected protocol. The processor receives, over the communication channel associated with the selected protocol, the data from the first system. The processor further selects a protocol of the second set of protocols, and transmits, over the communication channel associated with the selected protocol, the data to the second system.
US12255817B2	Executing workloads across multiple cloud service providers A multi-cloud service system establishes tunnels and network overlays across multiple CSPs while meeting a criterion for a latency threshold. The system conducts a latency benchmarking evaluation across each cloud region for multiple CSPs and based on the latency bench marking evaluation results, the system may identify a group of cloud regions that satisfy a criterion such as predetermined maximum latency threshold or geographical restriction. The system may provision the group of cloud regions by provisioning a tunnel between nodes of the multiple CSPs. The system further establishes an overlay network on top of the tunnel by encapsulating packets using encapsulation end point such as VTEP (VXLAN tunnel end point) over VXLAN (Virtual Extension Local Area Network), which may help to ensure reliable transmission of packets from pod to pod. The system may inject user data into each node to initiate operations across the provisioned nodes using injected user data.
US12255811B2	Fallback-aware policy-based routing Methods, systems, and computer program products for computer networking. Legacy policy-based routing is advanced by adding fallback-aware policy actions that are enabled within a policy-based routing regime. Upon determining that a destination specified in a subject policy is compromised, or down, or unreachable then, a fallback-aware policy action is invoked. Destinations specified in policies may refer to inserted services, wherein an inserted service can be any one of, a service process, a service virtual machine, a hardware network component, or a virtual network interface. Such inserted services might implement a logging service, or a firewall service, or other services that can process a network packet. Fallback-aware policy actions include, a PASSTHROUGH fallback action, an ALLOW fallback action, a FORWARD fallback action, and a DROP fallback action. Various techniques serve to determine whether or not a particular destination of a subject policy is deemed to be compromised, or down or unreachable.
US12255805B2	Routing preference based communication to a closed group hierarchy A method, computer system, and a computer program product for message directing are provided. A first computer receives a registration of members organized into a first closed group hierarchy. The first computer receives a notification of a sensed change of an element in an environment of the first closed group hierarchy. The first computer receives a first message from an external device. The first message relates to the changed element. The first computer selects a first member of the first closed group hierarchy for receipt of the first message. The selecting is based on message routing guidelines established for the first closed group hierarchy. In response to receiving the notification of the sensed change, the first computer transmits the first message to the selected first member of the first closed group hierarchy.
US12255804B2	Edge device implanting a logical network that spans across multiple routing tables Some embodiments provide a method for configuring an edge computing device to implement a logical router belonging to a logical network. The method configures a datapath executing on the edge computing device to use a first routing table associated with the logical router for processing data messages routed to the logical router. The method configures a routing protocol application executing on the edge computing device to (i) use the first routing table for exchanging routes with a network external to the logical network and (ii) use a second routing table for exchanging routes with other edge computing devices that implement the logical router.
US12255803B2	Multi-tiered clos network fabric reverse path forwarding device selection A method for reverse path forwarding (RPF) selection by a network device connected to a network includes receiving an advertisement message from each of a plurality of neighbor devices within the network, parsing the advertisement message to determine a color identification (ID) of each of the neighbor devices, and selecting, from among the neighbor devices, a RPF device based on the color ID of each of the neighbor devices.
US12255798B2	Synthesizing probe parameters based on historical data An example network device includes a memory configured to store a plurality of counts of packets of a data flow. The network device also includes one or more processors in communication with the memory. The one or more processors are configured to determine the plurality of counts of packets of the data flow, wherein each count of the plurality of counts includes a number of packets occurring in a predetermined time period. The one or more processors are configured to assign a corresponding range to each count of the plurality of counts, so as to assign a plurality of corresponding ranges. The one or more processors are also configured to determine a pattern in the plurality of corresponding ranges and send a number of active probe packets based on the determined pattern.
US12255796B2	Methods and systems for selecting a redundant network source at a gateway The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for selecting a redundant network source at a gateway. The system can include a gateway with the ability to support combining multiple network sources to increase the network speed or bandwidth from the gateway or selecting a redundant network source to increase the network speed or bandwidth for a particular application. The system can increase the network speed by adding a second network source for a particular application (e.g., video steaming, video call, etc.) or an application requiring lower latency than the current network source provides. The additional network source can send all the data packet traffic of the application or the application's traffic is split between the additional network source and the current network source of the gateway.
US12255794B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for selectively processing a packet flow using a flow inspection engine A method for selectively processing a packet flow using a flow inspection engine is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by at least one hardware data plane processor component in a network packet broker, a plurality of packets associated with a packet flow, and forwarding, by the at least one hardware data plane processor component to at least one flow inspection engine, a copy of at least a portion of one or more of the initial packets of the packet flow. The method further includes providing, by the at least one hardware data plane processor component to the at least one flow inspection engine, packet flow statistical data resulting from a high throughput processing of the plurality of packets by the at least one hardware data plane processor component and generating, by the at least one flow inspection engine, metadata records using the copy at least a portion of the of the one or more of the initial packets and the packet flow statistical data, wherein the at least one hardware data plane processor component generates the statistical data from the plurality of packets independent of any instruction from the at least one flow inspection engine.
US12255789B2	Customer satisfaction index for service level agreement monitoring A system is provided for measuring and determining responsiveness of service providers to determine customer satisfaction score in order to re-prioritize handling of incoming service requests and for adjusting how responsiveness of different systems is computed based on feedback from users concerning satisfaction and feedback indicative of satisfaction or dissatisfaction such that the system over time learns how to reprioritize requests to avoid or reduce customer cancellations and/or service downgrades.
US12255788B1	Management system for computing platforms Systems and methods monitor performance of a computing platform, including identifying infrastructure components associated with computing platforms of an organization, identifying component dependency between different infrastructure components across all system resources an enterprise network, and correlating the performance of an infrastructure component with business related KPIs for the platform. The platform management system generates a metadata representative of each the computing platform so that a graphical user interface (GUI) can provide real-time or near real-time data analytics to client devices, within a private enterprise cloud network. The performance platform management system may automatically take actions in response to identified infrastructure issues based on predetermined resolution procedures, individual configurations (based on permissions), or client interaction through the GUI.
US12255787B2	Computerized system and method for an improved self organizing network Disclosed are systems and methods for a robust Self-Organizing Network (SON) framework that quantifies SON applications' control and management of a network into key performance indicators (KPI) that are leveraged to determine the impact of a SON application's effectiveness in regulating network parameters, which then dictates how the SON application operates. The disclosed framework is configured to receive multiple data streams from existing data sources, determine the performance of a node on a network, and then automatically perform SON operations based therefrom. The disclosed framework can utilize this information to predict additional and/or future opportunities for SON automation on the network, which can be based on an aggregate determination of a net performance gain (NPG) of the SON applications. The framework can leverage the NPG to modify, configure and/or further maintain network operations so as to improve control and management of the network and the applications operating thereon.
US12255781B2	Network management Various example embodiments for supporting communication network management may be configured to support communication network management based on various policies which may include one or more static rule-based policies (e.g., a rule-based resource management policy) and one or more machine learning (ML) based policies (e.g., an ML-based resource management policy). Various example embodiments for supporting communication network management may be configured to support communication network management based on evaluation and selection of policies to be applied for supporting communication network management. Various example embodiments for supporting communication network management may be configured to support communication network management based on regulation of network management actions generated based on selected policies before application of the network management actions to the communication network. Various example embodiments may be configured to dynamically switch between use of static rule-based resource management policies and use of ML-based resource management policies in a risk-controlled manner.
US12255780B2	User plane based exposure The invention relates to a method for operating a user equipment (100) requesting a data packet flow from an application entity transmitted through a cellular network to the user equipment, comprising: —transmitting (S20) a first request to a translating entity (700) configured to translate a name of the application entity providing the data packet flow to an address of the application entity through which the application entity can be reached, the first request requesting an identification of a user plane entity (200) configured to handle the data packet flow in the cellular network, —receiving (S24) a response to the first request, the response comprising a user plane identifier identifying the user plane entity (200), —transmitting (S26) a policy request to the identified user plane entity (200), the policy request comprising a flow identifier allowing an identification of the data packet flow in the cellular network, and policy information indicating a policy to be applied to the data packet flow in the cellular network for a transmission of the data packet flow through the cellular network.
US12255774B2	Network management apparatus and network management method A network management apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store program code; and electric circuitry including at least one processor, the at least one processor being configured to read and operate according to the program code, the electronic circuitry configured to: store configuration information on devices or functions that constitute a virtualized environment of a network; acquire, as property information of the workaround, information associated with one or more devices or one or more functions to which a workaround for a specific hardware or software problem is to be applied; extract the one or more devices or the one or more functions serving as an application target of the workaround by referring to the configuration information based on the property information; and request to execute the workaround with respect to the application target.
US12255771B2	Packet processing method and device, advertisement method and device, bridge node, source apparatus, storage medium, and packet processing system The present application relates to the field of network communication technologies, and provides a packet processing method and device, an advertisement method and device, a bridge node, a source apparatus, a packet processing system, and a computer-readable storage medium. The packet processing method includes: receiving a time sensitive networking (TSN) service packet; querying, according to a packet header of the TSN service packet, a mapping table of service stream IDs and TSN-profiles, where the mapping table of service stream IDs and TSN-profiles is established according to advertisement information of a source apparatus; and processing the TSN service packet according to a result of the querying on the mapping table of service stream IDs and TSN-profiles.
US12255769B2	Disaster recovery pipeline for block storage and dependent applications A recovery orchestration pipeline has stages configured to control efficient failover and recovery of applications in a multi-site disaster recovery (DR) environment. The applications run on user virtual machines (UVMs) at a primary site of the DR environment and connect to block storage devices (BSDs) that export virtual disks over a storage protocol to consume data including a recovery plan for disaster recovery. The recovery plan includes a recovery configuration whose generation is triggered by a user via a graphical user interface (GUI) and specifies resource requirements needed to recover the applications at a secondary site in the event of a disaster. The orchestration pipeline is initiated via single click of the GUI and completion of the stages of the pipeline is displayed as progress via the GUI to allow recovery of the applications without user intervention.
US12255768B2	Network graph model and root cause analysis for a network management system A method for managing a plurality of network devices of a network includes determining, by one or more processors, a causality map for the plurality of network devices according to an intent. The method further includes receiving, by the one or more processors, an indication of a network service impact and determining, by the one or more processors, a relevant portion of the causality map based on the network service impact. The method further includes determining, by the one or more processors, one or more candidate root cause faults based on the relevant portion of the causality map and outputting, by the one or more processors, an indication of the one or more candidate root cause faults.
US12255759B2	Time-variable decision feedback equalization Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for time-variable decision feedback equalization are described. A memory device may be coupled with a host device using one or more conductive lines. A receiver may receive a signal transmitted from another device over a conductive line. The receiver may include a decision circuit used to determine voltages of the received signal based on the received signal and a feedback signal and output an output signal. The receiver may include a variable time-delay circuit configured to output delayed signals that are delayed versions of the output signal and a gain circuit that is configured to scale the delayed signals to generate the feedback signal. The variable time-delay circuit may include delay elements having variable delay parameters. The receiver may be coupled with a memory array that stores the information conveyed by the output signal.
US12255758B2	Automated connectivity to cloud resources The present technology pertains to receiving a tag associating at least one routing domain in an on-premises site with at least one virtual network in a cloud environment associated with a cloud service provider. The present technology also pertains to the automation of populating route and propagation tables with the cloud service provider.
US12255757B2	Relay device system A relay device system is a relay device system to be installed in a vehicle, the relay device system including a wireless relay device configured to wirelessly communicate with a communication device provided outside the vehicle, a plurality of wired relay devices that are connected in a ring to the wireless relay device, and an in-vehicle network formed in a ring by a communication line connecting the wireless relay device and the plurality of wired relay devices, in which the plurality of wired relay devices each include an ECU communication unit configured to communicably connect to an ECU for controlling an on-board device installed in the vehicle, and the wireless relay device and the plurality of wired relay devices are configured to communicate with each other through the in-vehicle network, using two clockwise and counterclockwise paths.
US12255755B2	Ethernet device with safety features at the physical layer and method for a bi-directional data transfer between two ethernet devices An ethernet device with safety features at the physical layer and a method for a bi-directional data transfer between two ethernet devices, includes at least one of two ethernet devices with safety features at the physical layer. The ethernet device can switch safety critical traffic from a first ethernet channel to a second ethernet channel if a safety problem has been detected for the first ethernet channel.
US12255754B2	High-speed, half-duplex communication with standard microcontroller A communication system includes a node configured to collect ambient data with a sensor, and a docking station configured to couple to the node and to establish a communication path with the node through only one signal along one or two wires. The node includes a first module configured to use a first data communication protocol for receiving commands from the docking station along the communication path, and a second module configured to use a second data communication protocol for sending the ambient data to the docking station along the communication path. The first data communication protocol is different from the second data communication protocol, the first data communication protocol is asynchronous and the second data communication protocol is a modified synchronous protocol.
US12255752B2	Grouping data packets at a modem Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a device may receive, at a modem of the device, a plurality of data packets associated with one or more connections. The device may group, at the modem of the device, data packets, of the plurality of data packets, associated with a connection, of the one or more connections, into a container based at least in part on one or more characteristics associated with the modem or the data packets. The device may transmit, from the modem to a processor of the device, the container of grouped data packets. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12255750B2	Optimized intra-VLAN multicast forwarding for software-defined access architectures A multicast state is generated within a Layer 2 (L2) fabric through a set of L2 tunnel router devices within the L2 fabric. The multicast state is generated without forwarding multicast traffic through Layer 3 (L3) gateways. When a data packet is received for distribution to other devices in the L2 fabric, an underlay multicast tree is defined at an L2 tunnel router device that is to serve as the multicast source for the data packet in the L2 fabric. The data packet is streamed to the other devices through the L2 tunnel router device along the underlay multicast tree without forwarding the data packet through the L3 gateways.
US12255747B2	Reliability optimization by AI-based fault mitigation in 5G/6G An unsolved problem in 5G-Advanced and especially 6G is message fault mitigation without a costly retransmission. Methods are disclosed for the receiver to analyze each message element's received waveform signal to detect characteristic features of interference and noise, such as excessive amplitude or phase variation within the message element or excessive deviation from the predetermined modulation levels of the modulation scheme, and to provide that data to an AI model trained in message fault correction. The AI model can then identify the faulted message elements, and attempt to correct them according to the likely intent or meaning of the message based on the non-faulted message elements, and on the bit sequences of previously received non-faulted messages, and other criteria that the AI model may apply. By repairing the message upon receipt, the costs in time, transmission power, and background noise generation may be avoided. Next-generation users will enjoy the improved reception.
US12255746B2	Terminal and radio communication method A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives downlink control information for releasing a plurality of semi-persistent schedulings (SPSs); and a control section that performs control of including a valid Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest ACKnowledgement (HARQ-ACK) corresponding to the downlink control information at at least one of a plurality of positions of HARQ-ACKs corresponding to downlink shared channel (Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH)) reception of the plurality of SPSs in a semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the HARQ-ACK codebook can be appropriately determined even when joint SPS release is used.
US12255744B2	User equipment-coordination set hybrid automatic repeat request Techniques and apparatuses are described for user equipment-coordination set, UECS, hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, that establish a HARQ timeline that is specific to the capabilities of a respective UECS. Compared to a single user equipment, UE, the HARQ timeline for a UECS depends on a number of factors, such as the joint processing capability in the UECS, latency of communication over a local wireless network between the UEs in the UECS, or the like. Based on its capabilities, the UECS can request uplink and/or downlink processing delay times or a UECS-specific HARQ timeline from a base station. The base station grants the uplink and/or downlink processing delay times or the UECS-specific HARQ timeline to the UECS in a layer-1, layer-2, or a layer-3 control message. The use of a UECS-specific HARQ timeline increases the reliability of HARQ signaling for uplink and downlink communication between the UECS and a base station.
US12255743B2	Transmission configuration indicator pattern list for shared channel transmission Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may configure a user equipment (UE) with a list of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state patterns where each entry in the list may correspond to a different TCI state pattern. The base station may transmit an indication of a selected entry from the TCI state pattern list and transmit a grant to the UE indicating that resources have been allocated in for transmitting a transport block (TB). The UE may receive the grant and attempt to receive the TB in accordance with the indicated TCI state pattern. The UE may generate multi-bit feedback to indicate whether the UE was able to successfully decode the TB and transmit the feedback to the base station. The base station may use the multi-bit feedback for determining whether to select a different TCI state pattern.
US12255736B2	Providing localized jamming effects in a training exercise A method for providing localized jamming effects includes using a processor onboard a vehicle to perform the steps of: receiving a jamming command to simulate a jamming effect on a particular sensor onboard the vehicle; and generating a jamming effect in a model of the particular sensor in response to the jamming command. The jamming effect in the model of the particular sensor simulates the jamming effect on the particular sensor being generated by an entity other than the vehicle.
US12255731B2	Frequency division multiple access optical subcarriers A network or system in which a hub or primary node may communicate with a plurality of leaf or secondary nodes. The hub node may operate or have a capacity greater than that of the leaf nodes. Accordingly, relatively inexpensive leaf nodes may be deployed to receive data carrying optical signals from, and supply data carrying optical signals to, the hub node. One or more connections may couple each leaf node to the hub node, whereby each connection may include one or more spans or segments of optical fibers, optical amplifiers, optical splitters/combiners, and optical add/drop multiplexer, for example. Optical subcarriers may be transmitted over such connections, each carrying a data stream. The subcarriers may be generated by a combination of a laser and a modulator, such that multiple lasers and modulators are not required, and costs may be reduced. As the bandwidth or capacity requirements of the leaf nodes change, the number of subcarriers, and thus the amount of data provided to each node, may be changed accordingly. Each subcarrier within a dedicated group of subcarriers may carry OAM or control channel information to a corresponding leaf node, and such information may be used by the leaf node to configure the leaf node to have a desired bandwidth or capacity.
US12255729B2	Integrated mixed-signal ASIC with ADC, DAC, and DSP An integrated analog to digital converting and digital to analog converting (ADDA) RF transceiver for satellite applications, configured to replace conventional analog RF down and up conversion circuitry. The ADDA RF transceiver includes one of more ADCs, DSPs, and DACs, all on a single ASIC. Further, the circuitry is to be radiation tolerant for high availability and reliability in the ionizing radiation environment present in the space environment.
US12255727B2	Forward deployable deck box system for the aggregation and visualization of distributed assets A method including configuring, an Iridium antenna of a deck box device, to receive satellite communications based in the L band frequency range, establishing a point-to-point connection with an L-band satellite communication device via a gateway device, the L-band satellite communication device configured to receive sampled data from one or more sampling devices and receiving, by the Iridium antenna, one or more data messages from a respective sampling device via the established point-to-point connection. The method including parsing the Short Burst Data packets of each data message to retrieve the sampled data, converting, the retrieved sampled data from each respective data message into a common format, determining, one or more characteristics associated with the converted sampled data, generating a visualization based on the one or more determined characteristics, and actuating a strategic operation associated with the one or more sampling devices based on the generated visualization.
US12255725B2	Multi-feeder link configuration in haps communication system and control therefor It is suppressed of a deterioration of a communication quality of a service link (SL), which is caused by an increase of signal attenuation in a propagation path of a feeder link (FL) between an aerial-staying type communication relay apparatus and a gateway (GW) station. A relay communication station of the communication relay apparatus comprises a FL communication section that performs a feeder-link radio communication with each of a first gateway station and a second gateway station corresponding to a first cell and a second cell which are adjacent to each other, a SL communication section that performs a radio communication with a terminal apparatus in each SL of the first cell and the second cell, and a control section that controls the SL communication section so that a shape of the second cell is changed to include a part or a whole of the first cell, when a radio communication quality in the FL propagation path with the first gateway station corresponding to the first cell is deteriorated or when the deterioration of the radio communication quality is predicted.
US12255719B2	Aborting a beam failure recovery procedure based on an expiry of a time alignment timer A wireless device initiates a beam failure recovery procedure based on a beam failure of at least one beam of a cell. A radio link failure is determined based on a failure of the beam failure recovery procedure. A radio link failure report is transmitted. The radio link failure report comprises: a first field indicating that the failure of the beam failure recovery procedure is a cause of the radio link failure; and a second field indicating a random access resource for the beam failure recovery procedure.
US12255713B2	CSI mapping and omission with TD compression Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for channel state information (CSI) reporting with time domain (TD) compression. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving one or more CSI-RS from a base station (BS). The UE measures the one or more CSI-RS. The UE determining a mapping order for placing CSI feedback in one or more CSI reports and sends the one or more CSI reports to the BS based on the measurements, the one or more CSI reports providing TD compressed CSI feedback including at least linear combination coefficients associated with TD bases used for the TD compression.
US12255706B2	Autonomous beam configuration in radio frequency repeaters Aspects of the disclosure relate to beam configuration for RF repeaters. An RF repeater is configured to measure received power of one or more signals in the repeater for each of a plurality of beam directions. Further, the repeater determines a beam forming configuration for a fronthaul link between the repeater and at least one base station based on the measured received power of each of plurality of beam directions. The repeater may also be configured to determine beam configurations for access links between the repeater and user equipment.
US12255705B2	Device and method for fronthaul transmission in wireless communication system A method performed by an open radio access network (O-RAN) distributed unit (O-DU) in a wireless communication system, the method includes: generating a control plane message comprising User Equipment (UE) scheduling information; and transmitting the control plane message to an open radio access network (O-RAN) radio unit (O-RU). The control plane message further includes section extension information. The section extension information comprises bit masking information indicating antennas to be combined.
US12255704B2	System and method for adaptive filtering A method in an adaptive filter system is provided. The method comprises obtaining parameters for a plurality of branches of the adaptive filter system. The method further comprises computing gradient-based information for a selected one of the plurality of branches. The method further comprises updating the parameters for the plurality of branches based on the gradient-based information for the selected branch. An adaptive filter system is also provided.
US12255701B2	Method and apparatus for radio communications In an example embodiment, a system comprises a chain of serially coupled nodes, including a central processing node (CPN) and one or more radio communications nodes (RCNs). The CPN couples to a first RCN in the chain via a dielectric waveguide (DWG) link and any further RCNs in the chain are successively connected in serial fashion from the first RCN via further (DWG) links. The CPN generates outbound radio carrier signals that are waveguide-propagated in a downstream direction of the chain, for over-the-air (OTA) by targeted ones of the RCNs, while radio carrier signals received via OTA reception by respective ones of the RCNs are waveguide propagated as inbound radio signals in an upstream direction of the chain, for processing by the CPN. Advantages from he contemplated system include greatly simplified implementation of the RCNs, with lower cost and power consumption. Further, strategic placement of failover CPNs and DWG links provide for continued operation in the face of CPN or DWG link failures.
US12255699B2	Compact MI antenna for a hearing instrument and hearing instrument An antenna, in particular a magneto-inductive antenna, for a hearing instrument as well as a hearing instrument having such an antenna are provided. The antenna has a first antenna surface and a second antenna surface, which are respectively formed from a flexible magnetic foil. The antenna furthermore has a base, which is formed from a magnetic material or contains a magnetic layer, and which connects the two antenna surfaces to one another. The two antenna surfaces are angled off from the base in the same direction. Lastly, the antenna contains an antenna winding which has at least one first monolayer spiral coil and is arranged, in particular applied, externally on the first antenna surface so that an axis of the first spiral coil is oriented perpendicularly with respect to the first antenna surface.
US12255694B1	Systems, methods, and devices for automatic signal detection based on power distribution by frequency over time within an electromagnetic spectrum Systems, methods, and apparatus for automatic signal detection in a radio-frequency (RF) environment are disclosed. At least one node device is in a fixed nodal network. The at least one node device is operable to measure and learn the RF environment in a predetermined period based on statistical learning techniques, thereby creating learning data. The at least one node device is operable to create a spectrum map based on the learning data. The at least one node device is operable to calculate a power distribution by frequency of the RF environment in real time or near real time, including a first derivative and a second derivative of fast Fourier transform (FFT) data of the RF environment. The at least one node device is operable to identify at least one signal based on the first derivative and the second derivative of FFT data.
US12255693B2	Signal measurement method and communication apparatus This application provides a signal measurement method and a communication apparatus, to measure a downlink angle of departure (DAOD) more accurately. The method includes: receiving resource configuration information, where the resource configuration information includes configuration information of a first reference signal set, the first reference signal set includes M reference signals, N reference signals in the M reference signals are reference reference signals, M is greater than 1, and N is greater than or equal to 1; receiving the M reference signals; determining N first paths corresponding to the N reference reference signals, and separately determining MN received powers of the M reference signals on the N first paths; and reporting a measurement result, where the measurement result includes KN received powers in M*N received powers, K≤M, and the first path is one of a plurality of paths corresponding to a reference reference signal.
US12255692B2	Polarization-folding coherent optical technology for short reach optical communication Coherent optical communications technology for recovery of 1D and 2D formatted optical signals. For example, 1D or 2D formatted signals that travel through fiber optic media may be recovered by separating the light into X- and Y-polarization components, rotating one polarization component (e.g., Y-component) into the polarization space of the other component (e.g., Y-component into the X-polarization space), delaying the rotated component enough to avoid destructive interference and combining the delayed component with the undelayed component to form a folded optical signal, which may then be processed as a X-polarized signal.
US12255689B2	Removable multimedia plug for AOC active optical cable The present disclosure is directed to a user friendly removable AOC over fiber connection system that simplifies consumer installation and maintenance for optical transmission of high-speed uncompressed video and data over long distances, including a removable optical transmitter and a removable optical receiver. The optical transmitter including a transmitting circuitry configured to receive electrical or optical signals from a source device; at least one laser configured into the transmitting circuitry for converting the electrical signals into light signals; it can be present but is not mandatory an interface electrically connected to the transmitting circuitry and configured to connect the transmitting circuitry to the source device; and one or a plurality of optical connectors connected to the transmitting circuitry for receiving the light signals, the optical connectors configured to removably connect to a plurality of transmitting optical fibers for transmitting light signals. The optical receiver including a receiving circuitry configured to receive the light signals from the transmitting optical fibers and convert the light signals into the electrical signals. It can be present but is not mandatory an interface electrically connected to the transmitting circuitry and configured to connect the transmitting circuitry to the source device. The shape of the removable connection may vary; can be of a simple plug male or female, or can be in a shaped as a keystone to be inserted in a wallplate male or female, or can be a complete wallplate shape or any other shape not described here.
US12255684B2	Methods, devices, and systems for management of wireless communication channels Disclosed herein are methods, devices, and systems for providing timing and bandwidth management of ultra-wideband, wireless data channels (including radio frequency and wireless optical data channels). According to one embodiment, a hub adapter includes a first high-speed computer peripheral interface, first digital circuitry coupled with the high-speed computer peripheral interface; and a first free-space-optical (FSO) transmitter coupled with the digital circuitry, and a first FSO receiver coupled with the digital circuitry. The first FSO transmitter is configured to transmit a data channel and an out-of-band control signal comprising timing information and bandwidth management information to a computer peripheral adapter and the data channel is configured to operate at a bit rate greater than 1 gigabits per second (Gbps).
US12255674B2	Constant-phase attenuator techniques in radio frequency front end (RFFE) amplifiers Aspects of the disclosure relate to devices, wireless communication apparatuses, methods, and circuitry implementing a low noise amplifier (LNA) with phase-shifting circuitry to achieve a continuous phase at the output of the LNA. One aspect is an amplifier including a high gain active path comprising active circuitry, and a low gain path comprising passive circuitry and phase-shifting circuitry. In one or more aspects, the phase-shifting circuitry is configured to shift a phase of an input signal within the low gain path such that the phase of an output signal outputted from the low gain path approximately matches a phase of an output signal outputted from the high gain active path. In at least one aspect, a gain of the high gain active path is higher than a gain of the low gain passive path.
US12255671B2	Separable, intelligible, single channel voice communication The method provides for separable subchannels sharing a communication channel. A processor receives input of a user setting a transmitter device to a first of at least two subchannels of a communication channel in which the first subchannel comprises a first portion of a bandwidth of the communication channel. The processor receives an audio signal as input to the transmitter device. The processor converts a time-series waveform of the audio signal into a frequency-series waveform. The processor determines that the transmitter device is set to the first subchannel. In response to determining the device is set to the first channel, the processor filters the frequency-series waveform through a series of steep shoulder digital bandpass filters set to transmit through the first portion of the bandwidth, and the processor transmits the audio signal as the filtered frequency-series waveform.
US12255669B2	Methods and devices for vector segmentation for coding A method for partitioning of input vectors for coding is presented. The method comprises obtaining of an input vector. The input vector is segmented, in a non-recursive manner, into an integer number, NSEG, of input vector segments. A representation of a respective relative energy difference between parts of the input vector on each side of each boundary between the input vector segments is determined, in a recursive manner. The input vector segments and the representations of the relative energy differences are provided for individual coding. Partitioning units and computer programs for partitioning of input vectors for coding, as well as positional encoders, are presented.
US12255668B2	Error correction with fast syndrome calculation Error correction is proposed in which a syndrome calculation is carried out in a code domain of a second code and an efficient error correction algorithm is carried out in a code domain of a first code.
US12255667B2	Method and apparatus for performing channel coding of UE and base station in wireless communication system The present disclosure a method of operating user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: identifying layer information that is applied to a neural polar code; generating, based on the identified layer information, transmission data by encoding data that is input into the neural polar code; and transmitting the transmission data to a base station, wherein, based on polar code transformation, the neural polar code generates the transmission data by performing encoding, based on the polar code transformation, from an initial layer of the data to a first layer according to the identified layer information and by performing encoding through a neural network-based autoencoder after the first layer until the transmission data is generated.
US12255661B1	Early lock detection for phase locked loops A method for calibrating a phase locked loop (PLL) includes counting cycles of an output clock signal generated by the PLL until early phase lock signal is asserted when the cycles of the output clock signal counted within a first duration of time differ from a first target value by no more than a first maximum difference, counting cycles of the output clock signal until final phase lock signal is asserted when the cycles of the output clock signal counted within a second duration of time differ from a second target value by no more than a second maximum difference, the second duration of time being greater than the first duration of time, and using the output clock signal to control an operation in a physical layer circuit of a communication interface after the early phase lock signal is asserted and before the final phase lock signal is asserted.
US12255659B2	Biasing circuit for setting bias voltages of current source circuit and current sink circuit in charge pump of phase-locked loop circuit by using current digital-to-analog converter and low-pass filter A charge pump of a phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit includes a current source circuit, a current sink circuit, and a biasing circuit. The biasing circuit includes a current digital-to-analog converter (IDAC) and a low-pass filter (LPF). The IDAC provides a reference current in response to a current value setting, wherein a first voltage is established due to the reference current. The LPF applies low-pass filtering to the first voltage to generate a filter output as a second voltage, wherein bias voltages of the current source circuit and the current sink circuit are controlled by the second voltage.
US12255658B2	Sub-sampling phase-locked loop circuit capable of avoiding harmonic locking Disclosed is a sub-sampling phase-locked loop circuit capable of avoiding harmonic locking, which comprises a harmonic suppression sampling charge pump module, a filter module and a voltage-controlled oscillator module; a reference clock signal and differential signals are respectively accessed to an input end of the harmonic suppression sampling charge pump module, an output signal of an output end of the harmonic suppression sampling charge pump module is accessed to a filter and then accessed to an input of a voltage-controlled oscillator, an output end of the voltage-controlled oscillator module outputs differential signals as the differential signals accessed to the input end of the harmonic suppression sampling charge pump module, output signals of the voltage-controlled oscillator module are used as final outputs of the phase-locked loop circuit, and the output differential signals are synchronous with the reference clock in phase at the same time.
US12255647B2	Memory module with fine-grained voltage adjustment capabilities Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to a system having a memory module, a voltage generation module, and a plurality of multiplexors. The memory module has a plurality of memory blocks. The voltage generation module supplies two or more voltage rails. The multiplexors are electrically connected to the voltage generation module. Each memory block is electrically connected to one of the multiplexors. Each multiplexor is configured to switch between the two or more voltage rails based on an operational parameter of each memory block. The operational parameter of each memory block may be process control speed, storage status, an operating mode, temperature, or any combination thereof. The operating mode may further be an active mode, a standby mode, and a deep sleep mode.
US12255644B2	Audio interface physical layer An integrated circuit (IC) includes a tristatable output buffer having a control input. The IC includes an input buffer having a buffer output. The IC further includes a delay circuit having a delay circuit input, a first delay circuit output, and a second delay circuit output. The delay circuit input is coupled to the buffer output. The IC also includes a tristate circuit coupled to the first delay circuit output and to the second delay circuit output. The tristate circuit having a tristate circuit output coupled to the control input.
US12255642B2	Signal transmission device, electronic appliance, and vehicle A signal transmission device 100 includes an isolated signal transmission circuit 10 configured to transmit a pulse signal from a primary circuit system 1p via a first isolating element ISO1 to a secondary circuit system 1s, and an isolated power supply control circuit 20 which serves as a controlling agent of an isolation-type power supply that generates a second supply voltage Vcc2 for the secondary circuit system 1s from a first supply voltage Vcc1 for the primary circuit system 1p and which transmits an output feedback signal of the isolation-type power supply from the secondary circuit system 1s via a second isolating element ISO2 to the primary circuit system 1p.
US12255641B2	Isolated drive circuit and isolated driving method with improved magnetic field immunity A drive circuit configured to drive a power stage including a high voltage power switch device. The drive circuit has a transmitter configured to send a control signal, and a receiver configured to transfer a received signal to a drive signal by a first isolated capacitor loop and a second isolated capacitor loop. The first isolated capacitor loop has a same area as the second isolated capacitor loop.
US12255634B2	Surface elastic wave filter with resonant cavities A surface elastic wave filter has resonant cavities and comprises a composite substrate formed of a base substrate and a piezoelectric upper layer; at least one input electroacoustic transducer and an output electroacoustic transducer, arranged on the upper layer, and at least one internal reflecting structure, arranged between the input electroacoustic transducer and the output electroacoustic transducer. The internal reflecting structure comprises a first structure comprising at least one reflection grating having a first period and a second structure comprising at least one reflection grating having a second period, the first period being greater than the second period.
US12255627B2	Hybrid resonators A hybrid resonator includes an acoustic wave resonator (AWR) having a piezoelectric material; a first electrical contact, electrically conductively connected to the piezoelectric material; and a second electrical contact, electrically conductively connected to the piezoelectric material. The hybrid resonator further includes a first resonant circuit, electrically conductively connected in series or parallel to the acoustic wave resonator via at least one of the first electrical contact and the second electrical contact. The resonant circuit includes a first inductor, and a first capacitor; wherein, if the first resonant circuit is electrically conductively connected to the acoustic wave resonator in series, the first inductor and the first capacitor are electrically conductively connected to one another in parallel, and if the first resonant circuit is electrically conductively connected to the acoustic wave resonator in parallel, the first inductor and the first capacitor are electrically conductively connected to one another in series.
US12255624B2	Bulk acoustic wave resonator having multiple resonant frequencies Aspects of this disclosure relate to an acoustic wave filter that includes a shunt a bulk acoustic wave resonator having a plurality of resonant frequencies that impact a passband of the acoustic wave filter. Related bulk acoustic wave resonators, radio frequency modules, wireless communication devices, and methods of filtering radio frequency signals are disclosed.
US12255623B2	Bulk acoustic wave resonator having multiple anti-resonant frequencies Aspects of this disclosure relate to an acoustic wave filter that includes a series a bulk acoustic wave resonator having a plurality of anti-resonant frequencies that impact a passband of the acoustic wave filter. Related bulk acoustic wave resonators, radio frequency modules, wireless communication devices, and methods of filtering radio frequency signals are disclosed.
US12255620B2	Electronic component An electronic component includes a mounting substrate, and first and second devices each including a functional element. The first device is spaced apart from and faces the mounting substrate. The second device is located on the mounting substrate and faces the first device. A functional element of the first device is located on a first surface facing the second device, in the first device. A functional element of the second device is located on a second surface facing the first device, in the second device.
US12255619B2	Vibration element, manufacturing method of vibration element, physical quantity sensor, inertial measurement device, electronic apparatus, and vehicle A vibration element includes a base and a vibrating arm extending from the base. The vibrating arm includes an arm positioned between the base and a weight. A weight film is disposed on the weight. The weight has a first principal surface and a second principal surface in a front and back relationship with respect to a center plane of the arm. A center of gravity of the weight is located between the first principal surface and the center plane of the arm. A center of gravity of the weight film is located between the second principal surface and the center plane of the arm.
US12255618B2	Small transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonators with enhanced Q-factor An acoustic resonator device includes a conductor pattern formed on a surface of a piezoelectric plate. The conductor pattern includes a first busbar, a second busbar, and n interleaved parallel fingers of an interdigital transducer (IDT), where n is a positive integer. The fingers extend alternately from the first and second busbars. A first finger and an n'th finger are at opposing ends of the IDT. The conductor pattern also includes a first reflector element proximate and parallel to the first finger and a second reflector element proximate and parallel to the n'th finger. A center-to-center distance pr between the first reflector element and the first finger and between the second reflector element and the n'th finger is greater than or equal to 1.2 times a pitch p of the IDT and less than or equal to 1.5 times the pitch p.
US12255616B2	Acoustic wave resonator with multiple resonant frequencies Aspects of this disclosure relate to an acoustic wave resonator having at least two resonant frequencies. An acoustic wave filter can include series acoustic wave resonators and shunt acoustic wave resonators together arranged to filter a radio frequency signal. A first shunt resonator of the shunt acoustic wave resonators can include an interdigital transducer electrode and have at least a first resonant frequency and a second resonant frequency. Related acoustic wave resonators, multiplexers, wireless devices, and methods are disclosed.
US12255613B2	Multi-layer piezoelectric substrate with conductive layer An acoustic wave device is disclosed. The acoustic wave device can include a piezoelectric layer positioned over a substrate. The acoustic wave device can also include an interdigital transducer electrode positioned over the piezoelectric layer. The acoustic wave device can also include a grounding structure positioned over the piezoelectric layer. The acoustic wave device can also include a conductive layer positioned under the substrate such that the substrate is positioned between the conductive layer and the grounding structure. The acoustic wave device can further include an electrical pathway that electrically connects the conductive layer to the grounding structure.
US12255611B2	Thin-film saw device with multilayer waveguide In at least one embodiment, the SAW device comprises a carrier substrate (1), a piezoelectric thin-film (2) on the carrier substrate, an interdigital electrode structure (3) on the piezoelectric thin-film and a layer stack (4) of waveguide layers. The layer stack is arranged between the carrier substrate and the piezoelectric thin-film. The layer stack comprises a first waveguide layer (41) and second waveguide layer (42), wherein a sound velocity in the first waveguide layer is at least 1.5 times as great as in the second waveguide layer. The device may comprise a temperature compensating layer (5) and a trap rich layer (6) between the layer stack and the carrier substrate.
US12255609B2	Acoustic devices with layer structures, devices and systems Techniques for improving acoustic wave device structures are disclosed, including filters and systems that may include such devices. An acoustic wave device may include a substrate. The acoustic wave device may include first and second layers of piezoelectric material acoustically coupled with one another, in which the first layer of piezoelectric material has a first piezoelectric axis orientation, and the second layer of piezoelectric material has a second piezoelectric axis orientation that substantially opposes the first piezoelectric axis orientation of the first layer of piezoelectric material. The acoustic wave device may include an interposer layer interposed between the first and second layers of piezoelectric material. The interposer may facilitate an enhancement of an electromechanical coupling coefficient of the acoustic wave device.
US12255608B2	Transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonator with buried oxide strip acoustic confinement structures Acoustic resonators, filters, and methods. An acoustic resonator includes a substrate, a piezoelectric plate, and a diaphragm including a portion of the piezoelectric plate spanning a cavity in a substrate. An interdigital transducer (IDT) on a front surface of the piezoelectric plate includes first and second sets of interleaved interdigital transducer (IDT) fingers extending from first and second busbars respectively. The interleaved IDT fingers extend onto the diaphragm. Overlapping portions of the interleaved IDT fingers define an aperture of the acoustic resonator. First and second dielectric strips are on the front surface of the piezoelectric plate. Each dielectric strip has a first portion under the IDT fingers in a respective margin of the aperture and a second portion extending into a gap between the respective margin and the respective busbar.
US12255607B2	Transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonator with buried oxide strip acoustic confinement structures Acoustic resonators, filters, and methods. An acoustic resonator includes a substrate, a piezoelectric plate, and a diaphragm including a portion of the piezoelectric plate spanning a cavity in a substrate. An interdigital transducer (IDT) on a front surface of the piezoelectric plate includes first and second sets of interleaved interdigital transducer (IDT) fingers extending from first and second busbars respectively. The interleaved IDT fingers extend onto the diaphragm. Overlapping portions of the interleaved IDT fingers define an aperture of the acoustic resonator. First and second dielectric strips are on the front surface of the piezoelectric plate. Each dielectric strip has a first portion under the IDT fingers in a respective margin of the aperture and a second portion extending into a gap between the respective margin and the respective busbar.
US12255606B2	Lamb wave loop circuit for acoustic wave filter Aspects of this disclosure relate to an acoustic wave filter configured to filter a radio frequency signal and a loop circuit coupled to the acoustic wave filter. The loop circuit is configured to generate an anti-phase signal to a target signal at a particular frequency. The loop circuit includes a Lamb wave element. Related radio frequency modules and wireless communication devices are disclosed.
US12255605B2	Transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonators with electrodes having a second layer of variable width There is disclosed acoustic resonators and filter devices. An acoustic resonator device includes a piezoelectric plate, and an interdigital transducer (IDT) formed on a front surface of the piezoelectric plate. The IDT includes interleaved fingers. At least one of the interleaved fingers includes a first layer adjacent the piezoelectric plate and a second layer over the first layer, wherein a width of the first layer is constant, and wherein a width of the second layer varies along a length of the at least one interleaved finger.
US12255601B2	Filter for an electric machine A filter for an electric machine is disclosed. The filter has an inductor, which is a coil, and a capacitor. The coil has multiple windings, and each turn of the windings includes at least one conductor which is designed to be flat. By virtue of the flat conductor of the coil, the capacitance of the filter is thus formed in the coil itself In the process, the surface of one conductor is arranged opposite the surface of an adjacent conductor.
US12255600B2	Methods of manufacturing acoustic wave device with anti-reflection layer An acoustic wave device is disclosed. The acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric layer, an interdigital transducer electrode positioned over the piezoelectric layer, and an anti-refection layer over a conductive layer of the interdigital transducer electrode. The conductive layer can include aluminum, for example. The anti-reflection layer can include silicon. The anti-reflection layer can be free from a material of the interdigital transducer electrode. The acoustic wave device can further include a temperature compensation layer positioned over the anti-reflection layer in certain embodiments.
US12255598B2	Interleaved CIC filter An interleaved cascaded integrator-comb (“CIC”) filter receives an interleaved sensor output signal, including a plurality of digitized sensor signals at an input clock rate. An integrator of the interleaved CIC filter processes the interleaved signal to output an integrated interleaved signal. A downsampler of the interleaved CIC filter buffers portions of the integrated interleaved corresponding to a decimation rate for the interleaved signal. The portions of the signals are provided to a comb filter, which outputs a decimated interleaved signal.
US12255590B2	Radio frequency power amplifier, chip, and communication terminal A radio frequency power amplifier, a chip, and a communication terminal. The radio frequency power amplifier comprises a power amplifier circuit (5), an output matching circuit (2), a power detection circuit (3), and a bias comparison circuit (4). The output power on a main signal path is measured by the power detection circuit (3), and an equivalent voltage proportional to the output power is obtained and input to the bias comparison circuit (4); the equivalent voltage value is adjusted by means of the bias comparison circuit (4) and compared with a control voltage (1) to provide a bias voltage and/or collector voltage for the power amplifier circuit (5), thereby forming a closed-loop circuit, such that the radio frequency power amplifier can work in a stable state when gains and output power are in different power levels.
US12255589B2	Audio signal modulation and amplification circuit An audio signal modulation and amplification circuit includes a common-mode electric potential controller, a carrier generator, and channel circuits. The common-mode electric potential controller is configured to generate one or more first common-mode electric potentials and second common-mode electric potentials. The carrier generator is adapted to receive the first common-mode electric potential to generate a carrier signal. Each of the channel circuits includes a filter, a comparison circuit, and a driving circuit. The filter is adapted to filter an input signal and generate a filtered signal based on a corresponding one of the second common-mode electric potentials. The comparison circuit is configured to compare the potential of the carrier signal with the potential of the filtered signal to generate a pulse-width modulation signal. The driving circuit is configured to be turned on or off in response to the pulse-width modulation signal to output a load driving signal.
US12255588B2	Cascode amplifier bias circuits Bias circuits and methods for silicon-based amplifier architectures that are tolerant of supply and bias voltage variations, bias current variations, and transistor stack height, and compensate for poor output resistance characteristics. Embodiments include power amplifiers and low-noise amplifiers that utilize a cascode reference circuit to bias the final stages of a cascode amplifier under the control of a closed loop bias control circuit. The closed loop bias control circuit ensures that the current in the cascode reference circuit is approximately equal to a selected multiple of a known current value by adjusting the gate bias voltage to the final stage of the cascode amplifier. The final current through the cascode amplifier is a multiple of the current in the cascode reference circuit, based on a device scaling factor representing the relative sizes of the transistor devices in the cascode amplifier and in the cascode reference circuit.
US12255587B2	Gate drivers for stacked transistor amplifiers Various methods and circuital arrangements for biasing one or more gates of stacked transistors of an amplifier are possible where the amplifier is configured to operate in at least an active mode and a standby mode. Circuital arrangements can reduce bias circuit and stacked transistors standby current during operation in the standby mode and to reduce impedance presented to the gates of the stacked transistors during operation in the active mode while maintaining voltage compliance of the stacked transistors during both modes of operation.
US12255582B2	Outdoor photoluminescence imaging of photovoltaic modules Methods and apparatus are presented for measuring a photoluminescence (PL) response, preferably a spatially resolved image of a PL response, from an object exposed to solar irradiation. In certain embodiments signals from the object are measured in two or more different spectral bands selected such that one of the measured signals has a higher PL component relative to ambient reflectance compared to another measured signal, enabling the PL component to be enhanced by a suitable differencing procedure. In other embodiments a signal from an object is measured in a spectral band selected such that at least 20% of the measured signal comprises PL generated from the object by the solar irradiation. The methods and apparatus have particular application to outdoor inspection of photovoltaic modules without having to modulate the operating point of the modules.
US12255578B2	Prefabricated photovoltaic integrated panel with moisture management system, and fabricated photovoltaic envelope system The present application relates to a prefabricated photovoltaic integrated panel with a moisture management system, and a fabricated photovoltaic envelope system. The prefabricated photovoltaic integrated panel with the moisture management system includes a solar photovoltaic panel and the moisture management system, wherein the moisture management system includes an isobaric rainproof curtain wall and waterproof and moisture permeable cloth. The fabricated photovoltaic envelope system either includes prefabricated photovoltaic integrated panels with moisture management systems, a wall layer and flashings; or includes prefabricated photovoltaic integrated panels with moisture management systems, a building structural frame and flashings; or includes prefabricated photovoltaic integrated panels with moisture management systems and a roof body. A construction method for the fabricated photovoltaic envelope system includes software simulation, factory prefabrication and on-site fabrication.
US12255577B2	Photovoltaic module mount Mounting components of photovoltaic (PV) modules and PV module assemblies are described, including PV module couplings and PV module mounting chassis. In an example, a PV module includes a PV module coupling having a toe portion extending from a PV module frame, and a PV module mounting chassis includes a toe slot to receive the toe. The toe and toe slot construction allows for the PV module frame to be assembled to the PV module mounting chassis without using tools, and thus, permits a PV module assembly to be quickly constructed during installation of a PV module system. Furthermore, the toe and toe slot construction accommodates thermal expansion and other environmental loads seen after installation, while providing a grounding connection for the PV module assembly.
US12255570B2	Portable and scalable power generating systems and methods thereof The present disclosure provides a portable power generating system configured to utilize self-sustained energy to provide velocity and movement to turn a central tubular axle which is encompassed by two or more magnets spread evenly around the circumference of the axle to generate motion. The motion of the revolving magnets turns the armature of one or more DC power generating motors which in turn produce electricity. The central tubular axle supported by two DC power generating motors are connected to each end of the central tubular axle. One of the DC power generating motors revolves in a clockwise direction during operation and the DC power generating motor at the opposite end of the central tubular axle is configured to operate in an anti-clockwise motion during operation.
US12255569B2	Braking methods This invention refers to a rheostatic braking method, applied on a BLDC motor (10) used in hermetic compressors, comprising: selecting a first phase and a second phase, connected to the BLDC motor (10), which will be short-circuited, at a certain electric position of the BLDC motor (10), wherein the first phase and the second phase selected are the phases having the major induced voltage and the minor induced voltage at a certain electric position of the BLDC motor (10); maintaining a third open phase to monitor the electric position of the BLDC motor (10) by means of monitoring the induced voltage at this third open phase; and separating the rheostatic braking in six electric positions, each electric position being associated to two electric sections: a first section before zero crossing of the induced voltage of the third open phase; and a second section after the zero crossing.
US12255566B2	Overcurrent protection for irrigation system motors An overcurrent protection system for a mobile irrigation system. The overcurrent protection system includes a number of control panels each including a controller configured to generate a motor control signal for activating one of the motors of the mobile irrigation system, transmit the motor control signal to the motor, determine a current magnitude of electrical current passing through a motor power branch line electrically connected to the motor, and restrict current to the motor if the current magnitude is above a current magnitude threshold. The controller is further configured to set the current magnitude threshold according to one of a plurality of motor operation stages. The current magnitude threshold can also be set remotely.
US12255565B2	Online monitoring and compensation of stator inter-turn short circuit fault in permanent magnet synchronous machines A method and system for online monitoring and compensation of inter-turn short circuit faults (ISF) in windings of electric machines, such as permanent magnet synchronous motors is provided. A method for characterizing an ISF in a winding of an electric machine comprises: measuring phase voltages and currents; calculating sequence components of the electric machine based on the phase voltages and currents; determining a ratio between a percentage of shorted turns in the winding and a fault loop resistance based on the sequence components of the electric machine; and estimating characteristics of the inter-turn short circuit fault using an unscented Kalman filter. The characteristics include at least one of: a fault current, the percentage of shorted turns, or the fault loop resistance. A method for compensation an ISF in a winding of an electric machine comprises compensating the fault current based on the compensation current estimated from an unscented Kalman filter.
US12255554B2	Bootstrap start-up circuit for microinverter A microinverter is provided herein and comprises DC side MOSFETs connected to an input side of the microinverter, AC side MOSFETs connected to an output of the microinverter, and a plurality of gate drivers connected to the AC side MOSFETs and configured to automatically drive the microinverter without a DC voltage being applied to the input side of the microinverter.
US12255552B2	Method for boosting current compensation in auxiliary resonant commutated pole inverter (ARCPI) with saturable inductor A method for an auxiliary device of an auxiliary resonant commutated pole inverter (ARCPI) to determine a boosting time of the ARCPI is provided. The auxiliary device includes an auxiliary switch path that uses a resonant inductor with at least one saturable inductor. The method includes: calculating, by a processor of the auxiliary device, a first boosting time in the auxiliary switch path based on a theoretical resonance inductance and a voltage that are applied to the resonant inductor; determining, by the processor, a second boosting time in the auxiliary switch path based on a look-up table; and determining, by the processor, the boosting time in the auxiliary switch path based on the first boosting time and the second boosting time. The method further includes controlling, by the processor, boosting current of the ARCPI based on the boosting time in the auxiliary switch path.
US12255551B2	Power conversion device and metal processing device A power conversion device capable of shortening the time required for acceleration of a motor and a metal processing device including the power conversion device are provided. Then, a power conversion device 10 includes a converter 100 configured to convert an AC voltage from outside to a DC voltage Vo and a converter controller 107 configured to control the converter 100. The converter 100 includes a voltage doubler circuit 104 configured to boost the DC voltage Vo when activated, and outputs the DC voltage Vo having a voltage value different in accordance with the activation and stop of the voltage doubler circuit 104. The converter controller 107 activates the voltage doubler circuit 104 at a first time that is earlier by a predetermined period than a second time at which a speed command value ω* of the motor 130 rises from a predetermined value.
US12255549B1	High current Voltage-Source Converter A voltage source converter may be coupled to a transmission line. The voltage source converter has two or more inverter valve units. Each inverter valve unit has a full H bridge of switching devices and a capacitor. Paralleling conductor pairs connect the inverter valve units in parallel, in a self-balancing circuit arrangement.
US12255545B2	Inverter device for capable of performing overheating protection to switching elements when driving electric motor and control method thereof The disclosure provides an inverter device for driving an electric motor, including: an inverter circuit including a plurality of switching elements; and a control circuit controlling the inverter circuit. When a rotation speed of the electric motor is equal to or less than a preset rotation speed threshold and a torque of the electric motor is equal to or greater than a preset torque threshold, the control circuit changes a temperature estimation logic of the switching elements of the inverter circuit.
US12255537B2	Feedforward compensation for LLC resonant converters An LLC resonant converter comprises, an LLC resonant converter circuit with an output line and an input line. The LLC resonant converter circuit includes a switch array operatively connecting between the input line and the output line. A controller is connected to the input line by a feed forward line and connected to a respective gate of each switch in the switch array. The controller includes machine readable instructions configured to cause the controller to receive feed forward input from the input line and control switching of the switch array with a pulse frequency modulation (PFM) switching pattern to regulate voltage of the output line.
US12255536B2	Power conversion system, power conversion module, and processing apparatus A power conversion system includes a first controller, a system output end, at least one system input end, at least one power conversion component, and a bus communication apparatus coupled between each power conversion component and the first controller. Each system input end is in a one-to-one correspondence with each power conversion component. Each power conversion component is configured to convert an alternating current input through a first input end of each power conversion component into a direct current, and output the direct current through an output end of each power conversion component.
US12255534B2	Systems and methods for stable intermediate node operation in series stacked phase DC-DC converters A power converter circuit. In one aspect, the power converter circuit includes a first buck converter coupled in series to a second buck converter at a junction, and a control circuit coupled to each of the first and second buck converters. In another aspect, the control circuit is arranged to continuously operate the first buck converter, sense a voltage at the junction, compare the sensed voltage to a first threshold voltage and in response to the sensed voltage being at a voltage lower than the first threshold voltage disables the second buck converter. In yet another aspect, the control circuit is arranged to continuously operate the first buck converter, compare the sensed voltage to a second threshold voltage and in response to the sensed voltage being at a voltage higher than the second threshold voltage, the control circuit operates the second buck converter.
US12255532B2	Modular AC/DC power conversion module for power sources and loads and method of driving the same A modular AC/DC power conversion module for power sources and loads and a method of driving the same is provided. When an AC/DC converter is electrically coupled to an external power source, a microprocessor is electrically energized by a buck auxiliary circuit, under control of the microprocessor, a DC/DC converter is activated for a certain time period, and then, the AC/DC converter is activated. Thereafter, an output voltage of the AC/DC converter is boosted, and an output voltage of the DC/DC converter is boosted accordingly. Power elements in the downstream side DC/DC converter are activated first, and then power elements in the upstream side AC/DC converter are activated, thereby an inrush current is suppressed. Once the external power source is connected, the buck auxiliary circuit will automatically reduce a voltage of the power input to activate the module. It realizes that the module will autonomously operate after being electrically energized.
US12255530B2	Device and method for controlling LLC resonance converter using switching duty control A method for controlling an LLC resonance converter controls a converter through the steps of detecting parameter values related to operation of the converter, determining a switching duty of the converter on the basis of the detected parameter values, and controlling the converter with the determined switching duty to improve nonlinearity of a gain curve of the converter, thereby reducing output current ripples and achieving low-gain output.
US12255529B2	Power factor correction and DC-DC multiplexing converter and uninterruptible power supply including the same The present invention provides a power factor correction (PFC) and DC-DC multiplexing converter and an uninterruptible power supply including the same. The multiplexing converter includes a multiplexing bridge arm and a battery hookup bridge arm. During power supply of a battery, the converter controls one electrode of a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the battery to be alternately connected to a neutral point and one of positive and negative direct current buses that has the same polarity as the electrode, to enable a level of the electrode of the battery to synchronously and alternately rise or drop with the alternate supply of power to the positive and negative direct current buses; or controls one electrode of a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the battery to be constantly connected to the neutral point. A current converter of the present invention has less battery charge-discharge potential jumps, higher level of integration, lower costs, and better electromagnetic compatibility characteristics, and is more applicable to a single-battery uninterruptible power supply system.
US12255528B2	Multi-level, jittering, DC to AC inverter with low pass filter A DC to AC inverter for solar energy installations is configured to convert DC input power at a first voltage to a desired AC output power waveform. The inverter includes multilevel circuitry configured to define a plurality of different levels, wherein each level is defined by lower and upper voltage values; a jittering controller configured to jitter between the lower and upper voltage values in each level in order to generate a preliminary AC waveform by producing waveform values between the lower and upper voltage values within each level; and a low pass filter configured to filter the preliminary AC waveform to remove the jittering in order to provide a smooth output AC waveform.
US12255527B2	Hysteretic power supply control method A method of controlling a switching power supply comprises: generating a pulse train; applying the pulse train to a switching transistor of the switching power supply to cause switching of the switching transistor on and off to convert an input voltage applied to the switching transistor to an output voltage, which rises while switching the switching transistor on and off and falls while not switching the switching transistor on and off; and performing hysteretic voltage control of the output voltage by first controlling dropping pulses of the pulse train so that the output voltage remains between hysteretic voltage thresholds including an overvoltage threshold and an undervoltage threshold that is less than the overvoltage threshold.
US12255526B2	Power converter with common mode filter Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a power converter. The power converter may include: a converter for converting between a first electrical voltage and a second electrical voltage; a common mode filter having a common mode transformer; and a second winding connected to a frequency-selective passive damping circuit arranged on a common core. The common mode transformer has at least two first windings arranged in the same direction on the common core and coupled in series into electrical conductors connected to the converter device.
US12255521B2	Trilateral cycle system A temperature adjustment mechanism for a vehicle includes a battery-applied pump and circulation paths, and adjusts a temperature of a battery chargeable from an external power supply outside the vehicle to be within a predetermined temperature range. The temperature adjustment mechanism further includes a vacuum insulation tank in which either cold water generated by a cold energy source or hot water heated by a hot energy source is stored according to an ambient temperature during charging of the battery from the external power supply. At a time of input and output of electric power in the battery excluding a charge from the external power supply, the vacuum insulation tank is connected to the circulation paths, the cold water or the hot water stored in the vacuum insulation tank is supplied to the battery by driving the battery-applied pump, and a battery temperature is kept within the temperature range.
US12255514B2	Systems and methods for flexure-based bearing mounting A bearing assembly for a linear electromagnetic machine includes a sleeve having a surface configured to provide a bearing between the surface and a translator, a front plate coupled to the sleeve, a support block, and a plurality of flexures coupled to the support block. Each flexure is coupled between the support block and one of the front plate or a stator. For example, a load path extends from a stator to the support block via a first set of flexures of the plurality of flexures, from the support block to the front plate via a second set of flexures of the plurality of flexures, and from the front plate to the sleeve. In the example of four flexures, two flexures are affixed to the support block and front plate, while two other flexures are affixed to the support block and the stator.
US12255512B2	Axial and radial suspension for a magnetically actuated exciter device A suspension system for an exciter device. The exciter device includes a piston extending through an opening of a moveable housing and generates a vibrational force by causing a linear reciprocating movement of the housing relative to the piston. The suspension system includes an axial suspension magnet fixedly coupled to the housing and positioned proximate the opening. The axial suspension magnet is configured to oppose a magnetic field of a permanent magnet that is fixedly coupled to the piston and the opposing magnetic fields dampen movement of the housing relative to the piston as the first axial suspension magnet approaches the permanent magnet. A radial guide bushing is positioned within the opening surrounding a circumference of the piston. The radial guide bushing is formed of a compressible and flexible material and is configured to restrict radial movement of the housing relative to the piston.
US12255511B2	Multi-operating-voltage motor An electric motor includes a motor winding interconnection for operating an electrosurgical instrument with exactly one motor platform that is designed to operate the motor at a first operating voltage and a second operating voltage different from the first operating voltage. The motor platform includes a circuit, preferably a delta circuit or a star circuit, formed in each case by three phases with a respective phase coil. At least one phase coil is formed from N>1 interconnected individual coils. At the first operating voltage, the N individual coils of each phase coil are connected in parallel. At the second operating voltage, the N individual coils of each phase coil are connected in series. At least one short-circuiting mechanism per phase coil switches over between the first and second operating voltage.
US12255508B2	Axial gap type motor and water pump using same Provided is an axial gap type motor employing a non-rare earth magnet, and a water pump using same. The axial gap type motor for a water pump (EWP) comprises: a rotor rotatably supported on a fluid flow passage between a pump cover and a body case; a stator arranged in a lower space formed by the body case and an upper cover, so as to generate a rotating magnetic field, thereby rotating the rotor; and a partition arranged on the body case in order to separate the rotor from the stator. The rotor can use a ferrite magnet, which is a non-rare earth magnet.
US12255499B2	Power tool and electronic control device A power tool includes a main body and a battery pack. The main body includes a housing and a motor, a switch assembly, and an electronic control device. The electronic control device is electrically connected to the switch assembly and the motor. The electronic control device includes an electronic control assembly, a mounting base, and a connecting assembly. The electronic control assembly includes a power circuit board. The power circuit board is provided with an opening. The connecting assembly conductively connects the battery pack to the electronic control assembly, connects to the mounting base via the opening, and mates with the mounting base to form a mounting space in which the electronic control assembly is mounted.
US12255496B2	Joining a laminated core to a shaft A lamination of a rotor of a rotary dynamo-electric machine includes a shaft bore with a radius, at least two pull-through grooves, and two intermediate space recesses. Each of the pull-through grooves has a lamination tongue facing radially inwards towards an axis such that the lamination tongue ends facing radially inwards lie on a radius which is smaller than the radius defined by the shaft bore.
US12255494B2	Electric motor with a stator and an axle that can be press-fitted thereto An electric motor with a stator and an axle (20). The stator has a laminated stator core (10) formed from a multitude of individual teeth (11). At least some of the individual teeth (11) each have a radially inner pressing portion (13) for elastic and/or plastic deformation and establishment of a press-fit connection between the laminated stator core (10) and the axle (20). The stator is fixed to the axle (20) through the deformation of the pressing portions (13) and a force acting on the axle (20). At least one securing element (30) is on at least some of the pressing portions (13) to transmit a torque between the axle (20) and the laminated stator core (10) and fix the position of the laminated stator core (10) relative to the axle (20) in the circumferential direction (U).
US12255486B2	Charging of a battery cell A method for charging a battery cell is provided. During a charging phase at a constant charging current, monitoring is carried out to ascertain whether a charging voltage applied to the battery cell reaches or exceeds a predefined switchover voltage, and, if this is the case, a switchover is made to the next charging phase at a lower constant charging current. During the charging phases, additional monitoring is carried out to ascertain whether the difference between the charging voltage and the switchover voltage of this charging phase reaches or falls below a predefined value, and, if so, at least one discharge pulse is applied to the battery cell.
US12255484B2	USB battery charging mode advertising and differentiation A method includes determining a charging port mode by receiving a data contact detect (DCD) Complete signal, reducing a voltage on a first data pin of a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector of a portable device, and determining that a condition is true when a voltage on a second data pin of the USB connector is equal to or greater than 0.8 to 2.0 Volts (V), and is false otherwise. When the condition is true, a first signal is sent on a control circuit output indicating indicate that the PD is connected to a dedicated charging port (DCP) of Divider 0 mode. When the condition is false, a second signal is sent on the control circuit output indicating that the PD is connected to a DCP of 1.2V short mode.
US12255483B2	Multi path battery charger In an embodiment, a semiconductor device is disclosed that includes a wired input/output, a wireless input/output, and a battery. A wired charging path between the wired input/output and the battery includes a first transistor and a second transistor. A wireless charging path between the wireless input/output and the battery includes a third transistor and the second transistor.
US12255482B2	Plug-in type energy storage system A plug-in type energy storage system is proposed. The system includes: a plurality of battery racks configured to store power; and a panel configured to control charging or discharging of the plurality of battery racks, where each battery rack includes: a plurality of battery modules configured to store the power; a control module connected to each battery module and the panel to control the charging or discharging of each battery module according to a control signal received from the panel; a conversion module connected to the control module to convert waveforms of the power into direct current or alternating current according to a control signal received from the control module; and a casing configured to accommodate each battery module, the conversion module, and the control module. In addition, the plurality of battery modules and the battery power management unit integrally constitute each battery rack.
US12255479B2	Power supply device and vehicle A power supply device for controlling power supply from a power supply source to loads, comprising: a power storage element; a first circuit that connects the power supply source and the power storage element so as to be chargeable; a second circuit that connects the power storage element and the loads so as to be dischargeable; a third circuit that connects the power supply source and the loads so as to be able to supply power; and a control unit that controls the first circuit so as to charge the power storage element with the power of the power supply source when a predetermined signal is detected, and controls the third circuit so as to supply the power of the power supply source to the loads.
US12255478B2	Hand warmer charging case and handwarmer kit A hand warmer charging case includes an accommodating housing and an accommodating cover. The accommodating housing is provided with a storage space for storing a target hand warmer. The accommodating housing is further provided with an accommodating space. The accommodating space is configured to accommodate a rechargeable power supply and a circuit board matched with the rechargeable power supply. The accommodating cover is movably connected to the accommodating housing in a movable manner, and is configured to close or open the storage space. During use, the accommodating cover that cooperates with the accommodating housing is opened to opening the storage space provided in the accommodating housing. A power bank hand warmer that needs to be charged or is temporarily in idle is put into the storage space, and the accommodating cover that cooperates with the accommodating housing is closed, thereby closing the storage space provided in the accommodating housing.
US12255474B2	Battery pack power cutting off apparatus A battery pack power cutting off apparatus is discussed, and includes a power cutoff configured to block a line through which a charge/discharge current of a battery module flows, a communicator configured to receive an operation signal of the power cutoff from an external device, and a switching configured to control to apply power to a heater resistor included in the power cutoff based on an operation signal of the power cutoff, wherein when power is applied to the heater resistor and generates heat, the power cutoff operates to block the current flowing through the line.
US12255466B2	Inductive power transfer One embodiment provides a non-contact power transmitter device including a sealed housing provided at least partially within a surface, and a transmitter coil within the sealed housing configured to inductively transfer power to a power receiver device. The power transmitter device also includes a transmitter control unit coupled to the transmitter coil, a transceiver configured to communicate with the power receiver device, and an electronic processor coupled to the transmitter control unit and the transceiver. The electronic processor is configured to establish, using the transceiver, communication with the power receiver device, and negotiate power transfer requirements between the power transmitter device and the power receiver device. The electronic processor is also configured to control the transmitter control unit to transfer power to the power receiver device.
US12255463B2	Photovoltaic power generation system The present invention relates to a photovoltaic power generation system comprising: a plurality of PV modules; and a plurality of power generation efficiency optimization units, which are installed to correspond to the respective plurality of PV modules one-to-one, and include inverters to convert power produced from the plurality of PV modules into AC power, and thus supply the same to a power grid through an AC line.
US12255454B2	Method and system for operation and usage of battery energy storage in a power grid A system and method for supplying power to a power grid. The system includes a battery storage system; and a power management system, the power management system including a storage management system with a processor configured to: direct generated energy to the battery storage system; discharge battery-stored energy from the battery storage system to the power grid; and control the discharge of the battery-stored energy from the battery storage system to the power grid based on a demand index.
US12255452B1	Method and device for constructing dynamic security region of power grid based on extended phase trajectory theory A method for constructing a dynamic security region of a power grid based on an extended phase trajectory theory includes: obtaining a system transient stability condition and a power angle leading generator group by transient simulation of an initial operation point of a system; for generators in the leading generator group A, changing output of each of the generators to search for a dominant instability critical point; calculating the reciprocal of the slope of the tangent line of the trajectory of n swings of an extended phase plane based on angular velocity-angular acceleration in a fourth quadrant, and changing a small disturbance output of the generator at the dominant instability critical point to solve a sensitivity of the extended phase trajectory; and constructing a multi-modal practical dynamic security region based on the extended phase trajectory.
US12255450B2	System for monitoring a power distribution network and methods of building and performing operations on such system A system is for monitoring a power distribution network having mast constructions carrying at least one power line. The system has at least two smart modules, each being affixed to a respective mast construction and designed for wireless communication with each other for forming a main wireless communication network along the power line. The system has a sensor system affixed to a respective one of the mast constructions. The sensor system is designed for determining at least one quantity or event of the network and for communicating the quantity or event to a respective smart module, which are designed for communicating information associated with the quantity or event along the network, for being remotely monitored. The smart modules are placed outside the Live working and Vicinity zones in accordance with the EN50110-1 standard for power networks, and at least one sensor system is contained in each smart module itself.
US12255439B2	Light emitting silicon device A light emitting device, a transmitter, and a silicon photonics chip, among other things, are disclosed. An illustrative light emitting device is disclosed to include a silicon substrate, a waveguide disposed on or integrated in the silicon substrate, where the waveguide includes a wide waveguide section at a first end and a narrow waveguide section at a second end, a first metal pad disposed over the wide waveguide section and at least partially across the first end of the waveguide, and a second metal pad disposed over the wide waveguide section, distanced away from the first metal pad. Electrical current passing between the first metal pad and the second metal pad may cause light to be produced in the wide waveguide section and the light produced in the wide waveguide section is at least partially reflected by the first metal pad and directed to the narrow waveguide section for transmission.
US12255438B2	Laser device A laser device includes a laser configured to generate laser light and a laser control module configured to receive at least a portion of the laser light generated by the laser, to generate a control signal and to feed the control signal back to the laser for stabilizing the frequency, wherein the laser control module includes a tunable frequency discriminating element which is preferably continuously frequency tunable, and where the laser control module is placed outside the laser cavity.
US12255436B2	PAM driver with distributed modulation current setpoint feedback A driver electronic circuit for a pulse amplitude modulation transmitter includes a plurality of transmission lanes. Each transmission lane is configured to independently generate a current output corresponding to data input into each transmission lanes. The driver electronic circuit also includes a summing node configured to sum the output currents from the plurality of transmission lanes. The driver electronic circuit further includes one feedback loop circuit coupled to the plurality of transmission lanes configured to control the currents of each said current outputs. The driver electronic circuit may be configured to drive a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser for optical communication.
US12255433B2	Continuous wave optical two-way time transfer Embodiments herein describe a continuous wave two-way optical time two-way transfer system. The embodiments herein lock a local frequency comb to a clock (e.g., optical/microwave atomic clock, Fabry-Perot optical reference cavity, etc.) in a local platform. The platform then generates two CW optical signals with different frequencies and locks those optical signals to the local frequency comb. The local platform then transmits its two CW optical signals to a remote platform and receives CW optical signals (having approximately the same frequencies as the two CW optical signals generated by the local platform) from the remote platform. Based on comparing its local CW optical signals with the received CW optical signals, the local platform can determine a timing deviation between its clock and a clock in the second platform.
US12255432B2	Stable UV laser UV laser devices, systems, and methods are shown and/or described herein. Included are a method, device or system for VECSEL and MECSEL lasers including both barrier-pumped and in-well pumped lasers. Also disclosed is a method of manufacturing gain chips for use in the lasers, arrangements of lasers, and selection of proper non-linear crystal (NLC) for use in the device.
US12255431B2	Tail poking cover connector with cage-type conducting mechanism A tail poking cover connector with a cage-type conducting mechanism comprises a front housing and a rear housing; a front open chamber is arranged in the rear housing; the front housing is used for closing the front open chamber; the cage-type conducting mechanism is arranged in the front open chamber, and the cage-type conducting mechanism comprises a conducting frame and a conducting component; the conducting frame comprises an inclined vertical part, an upper transverse part and a lower transverse part; and ports are formed in the inclined vertical part, the upper transverse part is provided with conducting heads extending backwards to the position above the lower transverse part, and clamping grooves are formed at the top of the lower transverse part.
US12255430B2	Insulation piercing tap connectors for electrical conductors A tap connector for piercing an insulation of a conductor is provided. The tap connector includes a first jaw, a second jaw, a hinged connection, a compression connection, and a piercing insert. The hinged connection connects an end of the first and second jaws to one another. The compression connection removably connects an opposite end of the first and second jaws to one another. The piercing insert depends from the first jaw in an electrically conductive manner between the end and the opposite end. The piercing insert and the first jaw are made of or at least coated with an electrically conductive material.
US12255428B2	Power transfer systems for movable privacy glazing structures A power transfer assembly includes a window balance assembly, a pivot bar, and an electrically conductive pathway. The window balance assembly includes a first portion configured to be fixed in place and a second portion configured to be movable relative to the first portion. The pivot bar is conductively coupled to the second portion of the window balance assembly. And, the electrically conductive pathway extends between the window balance assembly and the pivot bar.
US12255427B2	Terminal connection within an electrical junction box An electrical junction box includes: a first housing configured to hold a first terminal having a flat plate shape; a second terminal configured to allow the first terminal to be inserted thereinto such that the second terminal is conductively connected to the first terminal when the first terminal is inserted into the second terminal; and a second housing configured to be engaged with the first housing. The first housing has a first space defining, together with a second space of the second housing, a space configured to accommodate the second terminal. The first space is configured to accommodate a part of the first terminal. When the first housing is engaged with the second housing, the first terminal is allowed to be inserted into the second terminal such that the first terminal and the second terminal are conductively connected.
US12255424B2	Electrical interposer with shielded contacts and shielding ground plane with optimized impedance response A separable and reconnectable connector for semiconductor devices is provided that is scalable for devices having very small contact pitch. Connectors of the present disclosure include signal pins shielded by pins electrically-coupled to ground. One or more signal pins in a contact array are electrically-shielded by at least one ground pin coupled to a ground plane. Embodiments thereby provide signal pins, either single-ended or a differential pair, usable to transmit signals with reduced noise or cross-talk and thus improved signal integrity. Embodiments further provide inner ground planes coupled to connector ground pins to shield pairs of differential signal pins without increasing the size of the connector. Inner grounding layers can be formed within isolation substrates incorporated into connector embodiments between adjacent pairs of signal pins. These buried ground layers provide additional crosstalk isolation in close proximity to signal pins, resulting in improved signal integrity in a significantly reduced space.
US12255423B2	Contact arrangement for a connector, connector A contact arrangement for a connector includes a plurality of contact elements each extending from a first connection side to a second connection side. A plurality of first end sections of a first subset of the contact elements contact a plurality of external elements in a first plane at the first connection side and a plurality of first end sections of a second subset of the contact elements contact a plurality of external elements in a second plane at the first connection side. The second plane is parallel to and spaced from the first plane in a height direction. A plurality of intermediate sections of at least some of the contact elements lie in a single common plane.
US12255422B2	Connector and connector assembly A connector and a connector assembly are disclosed. The connector has a housing adapted to be inserted into a mating housing of a mating connector; an elastic latch provided on an outer wall of the housing and having a locking part for locking the mating housing and an unlocking part for unlocking the locking part; and a connection position safety mounted on the outer wall of the housing and adapted to be moved between a safety position to prevent the elastic latch from being unlocked and a pre locking position to allow the elastic latch to be unlocked. When the locking part is locked to the mating housing and the connection position safety is in the pre locking position, the unlocking part is hidden inside the connection position safety, so that human finger cannot contact the unlocking part. Therefore, the present invention can effectively prevent the elastic latch from being accidentally unlocked and improve the use safety of the connector.
US12255419B2	Plug connector housing, and injection-moulding method and injection-moulding device for producing a plug connector housing A plug connector housing for a plug connector, having a main body and a latching installation. The latching installation has a first connection portion integrally connecting the latching mechanism to the main body. A void extends along a longitudinal axis on the main body and is at least in portions formed between the latching installation and the main body. The plug connector housing furthermore has first and second protective elements which extend in each case integrally from the main body. The latching installation is disposed between the protective elements, wherein each of the protective elements in at least one covered region covers the void in a transverse direction. Each of the protective elements moreover configures at least one access region in which the void is accessible along the transverse direction. Each of the covered regions faces a respective access region of the respective other protective element along the transverse direction.
US12255409B2	Array antenna module, manufacturing method thereof, and phased array antenna system An array antenna module is provided, which includes a feed structure, a phase shift structure, and a radiation structure. The feed structure is connected to the phase shift structure, and the phase shift structure is connected to the radiation structure. The feed structure, the phase shift structure, and the radiation structure are all disposed on a glass substrate.
US12255402B2	Transparent antenna stack and assembly An optically transparent antenna stack includes at least two stacked optically transparent antennas. Each antenna includes an electrically conductive metal mesh including a plurality of interconnected electrically conductive metal traces defining a plurality of enclosed open areas. The metal mesh of each antenna and each lead has a percent open area greater than about 50%. The at least two stacked optically transparent antennas includes a first antenna configured to operate over a first, but not a second, frequency band and a second antenna configured to operate over the second, but not the first, frequency band. The optically transparent antenna stack has an optical transmission of at least about 50% for at least one wavelength in a wavelength range from about 450 nm to about 600 nm.
US12255401B2	Antenna module and electronic device An antenna module includes a first antenna layer, including at least one main radiation unit including at least two main radiation patches symmetrically arranged and spaced apart from each other and at least one feeder portion located at or corresponds to a gap between adjacent two of the main radiation patches; a second antenna layer, stacked with the first antenna layer and including a reference ground arranged opposite to the main radiation patches and at least one microstrip insulated from the reference ground; at least one first electrically conductive member, electrically connected to the main radiation patches and the reference ground; and at least one second electrically conductive member, with an end being electrically connected to the feeder portion and another end being electrically connected to another end of the microstrip. An end of the microstrip is electrically connected to a radio frequency transceiver chip.
US12255400B2	Array antenna apparatus and preparation method therefor, and electronic device The present invention relates to the technical field of communications, and in particular relates to an array antenna apparatus and a preparation method therefor, and an electronic device. The array antenna apparatus includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are provided from top to bottom. A first antenna is provided on the first substrate, a second antenna is provided on the second substrate, the first antenna is provided with a plurality of array elements arranged in an array, the second antenna is provided with a plurality of array elements arranged in an array, and the projections, on the second substrate, of all the array elements of the first antenna and all the array elements of the second antenna do not completely coincide. The present invention has the advantages of low sidelobe, large bandwidth, and multiple beams, etc.
US12255396B2	Radio frequency reflectors for radio frequency identification systems Radio frequency (RF) reflectors for radio frequency identification (RFID) systems are disclosed. An example RF reflector includes a four-sided housing having an open end, an end, two sides, a top, and an open bottom. The RF reflector is configured to not be electrically coupled to an RFID tag reader. The open end is configured to admit RF signals emitted by the RFID tag reader into the RF reflector, and has a dimension greater than a quarter wavelength of the RF signals. The end, the two sides, and the top include a material that at least partially reflects the RF signals, and the end, the two sides, and the top are electrically connected. Another example RF reflector includes a five-sided housing having two ends, two sides, a top, and an open bottom. One of the ends includes an opening to admit RF signals into the RF reflector.
US12255394B2	Shielded radio frequency component with integrated antenna Aspects of this disclosure relate to a shielded radio frequency component with an integrated antenna. An antenna can be on a first side of a multi-layer substrate and a radio frequency component can be disposed on a second side of the multi-layer substrate such that a ground plane of the multi-layer substrate is positioned between the antenna and the radio frequency component. Conductive features can be disposed around the radio frequency component and electrically connected to the ground plane. The conductive features and the ground plane can provide shielding for the radio frequency component. In certain embodiments, the conductive features can include bumps, such as solder bumps and/or copper pillars.
US12255392B2	Wideband antenna system A wideband antenna system includes a first metal radiation portion, having a coupling distance with a second metal radiation portion; a first feeding contact and a second feeding contact, electrically connected to the first metal radiation portion and the second metal radiation portion respectively, and close to the coupling distance; a first ground contact, electrically connected to the second metal radiation portion; a second ground contact, electrically connected to the first metal radiation portion; an impedance tuner, electrically connected to the first feeding contact, the second feeding contact, the first ground contact, the second ground contact, and a radio frequency signal source, to switch the first metal radiation portion and the second metal radiation portion; an aperture contact, electrically connected to the first metal radiation portion; and an aperture tuner, electrically connected to the aperture contact.
US12255390B2	Microphone antenna for wireless microphone applications A wireless apparatus (such as a wireless microphone) utilizes an antenna comprising at least one element, which also supports a mechanical feature, an electrical circuit feature, or an ornamental feature. When an element is incorporated into an antenna, the element also continues to support its original feature. Embodiments may support different antenna types, including a half wave dipole and an inverted-F antenna that may be configured at different frequency bands suitable for Bluetooth® and WiFi® services. Embodiments support a wireless microphone that utilizes an antenna comprising a grille assembly and a chassis housing, where the grille assembly and the chassis housing are separated by an electric insulator. The RF output of a transmitter is electrically connected to the grille assembly while a grounding point of the transmitter is electrically connected to the chassis housing.
US12255389B2	Transparent antenna and device Disclosed are a transparent antenna and a device. The transparent antenna includes: a first polymer layer; a first transparent antenna, wherein the first transparent antenna includes an antenna body and a partition region, and one side of the first polymer layer is provided with a grid-like conductive wire to form the antenna body; a second polymer layer, wherein the second polymer layer is provided at one side, where the first transparent antenna is provided, of the first polymer layer; and a second transparent antenna, wherein the second transparent antenna is provided at one side of the second polymer layer away from the first transparent antenna, the second transparent antenna includes an antenna body, and one side of the second polymer layer away from the first transparent antenna is provided with a grid-like conductive wire to form the antenna body.
US12255387B2	Mobile electronic device An electronic device includes at least a housing, a mainboard, a conductive coil, and a conductive adapter. The housing includes an inner surface and an outer surface provided opposite to each other. The mainboard is arranged on the inner surface. The conductive coil is arranged on the inner surface and is integrally arranged with the housing. The conductive coil includes a winding portion, an outer connection terminal, and an inner connection terminal. In a radial direction of the winding portion, the mainboard is located at an outer side of the winding portion. The outer connection terminal is connected to the winding portion and is located at the outer side of the winding portion. The outer connection terminal is electrically connected to the mainboard.
US12255380B2	Surgical sponges with flexible RFID tags A surgical sponge is provided, having a radiofrequency (RF) tag positioned interior thereto. The RF tag has a base layer with at least one tab projecting from an outer perimeter of thereof. The RF tag has a first protective layer with at least one tab projecting from the outer perimeter of the RF tag and generally aligned with the at least one tab of the base layer and an RF identifier laminated between the base layer and the first protective layer. The RF identifier has an antenna, and an electrically responsive member. The antenna can be a metal foil loop antenna etched on to the base layer. The RF identifier can include additional metal foil provided on the base layer when the metal foil loop antenna is etched on to the base layer, the additional metal foil configured to enhance x-ray opacity of the sponge.
US12255373B2	Digital phase shifter A digital phase shifter includes a plurality of digital phase shift circuits connected in cascade and one or more bend-type connection units each configured to make a connection between two digital phase shift circuits of the plurality of digital phase shift circuits. Each of the digital phase shift circuits includes at least a signal line, a pair of inner lines provided at both sides of the signal line, a pair of outer lines provided outside of the inner lines, a first ground conductor connected to one ends of the inner lines and the outer lines, a second ground conductor connected to the other ends of the outer lines, and a pair of electronic switches provided between the other ends of the inner lines and the second ground conductor. Each of the digital phase shift circuits is a circuit set in a low-delay mode in which a return current flows through the inner line or a high-delay mode in which a return current flows through the outer line. The plurality of digital phase shift circuits connected in cascade are arranged in a spiral shape via the connection units.
US12255372B2	Methods and circuits for stable hot switching of antennas Circuits and methods that enable stable and reliable “hot switching” from one antenna to another without turning RF power to the antennas OFF in wireless RF systems during at least some transmission events. One embodiment comprises an RF switch circuit including a common port configured to pass an RF signal, a plurality of switch arms each coupled to the common port and including an associated port, and a shunt termination impedance selectively couplable to the common port through a switch. Another embodiment comprises a method for switching an RF signal applied to a common port of a switch from a first switch arm initially in an ON state to a second switch arm initially in an OFF state, including: setting the second switch arm to the ON state, and then setting the first switch arm to the OFF state.
US12255370B2	Electrode assembly for a redox flow battery Methods and systems are provided for a redox flow battery system. In one example, the redox flow battery system includes a cell stack compressed between terminal structures defining ends of the redox flow battery. The cell stack may be formed of a plurality of cells where each cell includes a deformable positive electrode in contact with a first face of a membrane separator and a negative electrode configured to be less compressible than the positive electrode and arranged at a second face of the membrane separator.
US12255366B2	Energy storage systems and ammonia-powered electric vehicles including the same An energy storage system is provided for an electric vehicle. The energy storage system comprises a first energy storage source. The first energy storage source includes an ammonia tank configured to hold ammonia, an ammonia converter configured to receive ammonia from the ammonia tank and convert the received ammonia into hydrogen, and a fuel cell system communicating with the ammonia converter and configured to generate output power from hydrogen that is received from the ammonia converter.
US12255365B2	Device and computer-implemented method for determining a state of a fuel cell system A device and method are disclosed for operating a fuel cell system having a fuel cell stack. Data are provided that map input variables of the fuel cell system and a position of a cell of the fuel cell stack on a voltage of the cell. A model is trained to map the input variables of the fuel cell system and the position of a cell of the fuel cell stack on a probability distribution for a prediction of a voltage of the cell. Instantaneous input variables of the fuel cell system are determined. A probability for the voltage of the cell or for a total voltage of the fuel cell stack is determined for a cell of the fuel cell stack based on the input variables using the model based on the probability distribution. A state of the fuel cell system is determined based on the probability.
US12255364B2	Membrane assembly for a humidification device A membrane assembly for a humidification device of a fuel cell system may include a membrane. The membrane may be permeable to water and impermeable to air. The membrane may extend in a flat form in a longitudinal direction and in a transverse direction that is transverse with respect to the longitudinal direction in an extent plane. The membrane may include in a height direction extending transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction and transversely with respect to the transverse direction a top side and a bottom side averted from the top side. The membrane may include an encircling outer margin in the extent plane. The outer margin may have an upper edge at the top side and a lower edge at the bottom side, between which an encircling face surface extends.
US12255363B2	Integrated fuel cell and combustor assembly An integrated fuel cell and combustor assembly includes a combustor that is fluidly coupled with at least one upstream compressor that generates compressed air. A fuel cell stack having a cathode and an anode is fluidly coupled to the combustor. The fuel cell stack is configured to receive intake fuel and a portion of the compressed air as intake air, to generate a fuel cell power output using the intake fuel and the intake air, and to direct a fuel and air exhaust from the fuel cell stack into the combustor. A self-reliant air supply system is fluidly coupled with the at least one upstream compressor and the fuel cell stack, and is configured to supply the intake air to the fuel cell stack. A fault-tolerant controller is configured to detect a transient event within the combustor and to control the self-reliant air supply system during the transient event.
US12255360B2	Fuel cell separator A separator for a fuel cell includes protrusions that extend in parallel and are spaced apart from each other. The protrusions are configured to contact a power generation portion. The separator includes a gas passage that extends between two adjacent ones of the protrusions along the protrusions. The gas passage is configured to allow reactant gas to flow through the gas passage. The gas passage includes at least one rib that protrudes toward the power generation portion and extends in an extending direction of the gas passage. A downstream end of the rib includes a gradually-changing portion that gradually becomes farther from the power generation portion toward a downstream side.
US12255357B2	Battery cell having asymmetric electrode leads, and battery module comprising same and having reinforced mechanical strength A battery cell has asymmetrically formed electrode leads, and a battery module including the same. The spatial efficiency and the mechanical strength of the battery module are improved.
US12255353B2	Electrode assembly, secondary battery, and method of manufacture Secondary batteries and methods of manufacture thereof are provided. A secondary battery can comprise an electrode layer comprising a population of spacer structures comprising a material other than the electrode active material, wherein (a) the spacer population occupies a total volume within the electrode layer within the range of about 0.1% to about 35% of the volume, VE, of the electrode layer, and (b) a member of the spacer population is located within each subvolume of the electrode layer comprising (i) at least 25% of the volume, VE, of the electrode layer, and (ii) bounded on all sides by (aa) the unit cell portion of the electrode current collector, (bb) the separator layer, (cc) the top surface of the electrode layer, (dd) the bottom surface of the electrode layer, (ee) the first end surface of the electrode layer, and (ff) the second end surface of the electrode layer.
US12255352B2	Lithium secondary battery separator having enhanced adhesive strength to electrode and improved resistance characteristics, and lithium secondary battery comprising lithium secondary battery separator A lithium secondary battery separator with excellent adhesive strength and air permeability is disclosed. The lithium secondary battery separator includes a porous polymer substrate; and a porous coating layer containing inorganic particles and a binder. When the binder is present as a binder specimen with a thickness of 0.4 mm after pressurization at 190° C., the binder specimen comprises a first binder having a tan δ peak at 15° C. to 27.6° C. and a second binder having a tan δ peak at 8° C. to 20.2° C., as measured by dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA).
US12255351B2	Separator for electrochemical device and method for manufacturing the same A separator for an electrochemical device, including a porous polymer substrate and an inorganic coating layer formed on at least one surface of the porous polymer substrate. The inorganic coating layer includes inorganic particles and a binder resin. The binder resin includes a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVdF)-based polymer having a main chain, and at least one hydrogen atom in the main chain of the PVdF-based polymer is substituted with an acrylic compound-derived functional group.
US12255347B1	Configurable battery pack Aspects of the disclosure relate to a configurable battery pack. The configurable battery pack may include an enclosure that is formed from housing structures that can be selectively chosen to form an enclosure of various sizes, for enclosing various numbers of battery modules and/or battery cells.
US12255346B1	Lamp with quick-release battery The present invention relates to a lamp with a quick-release battery, which is technically characterized by including a lamp holder, a lamp body, and a battery pack. A battery compartment with an opening at one side and capable of allowing the battery pack to be inserted is arranged in the lamp holder, a sub-buckle is arranged on an end face of the battery pack, a clamping component capable of being clamped and mated with the sub-buckle is arranged on a corresponding side wall of the battery compartment, the clamping component includes a clamping box, a sliding block capable of sliding inside and outside is arranged in the clamping box, and an elastic female buckle capable of extending out or retracting into the clamping box and capable of being clamped and mated with the sub-buckle when retracting into the clamping box is arranged at an outer end of the sliding block.
US12255345B2	Battery pack comprising reinforcement pole penetrating inside thereof, and automotive vehicle comprising same A battery cell has asymmetrically formed electrode leads, and a battery module includes the same. The spatial efficiency and the mechanical strength of the battery module are improved.
US12255343B2	Battery pack for failure safety An electric aircraft with a battery pack for failure safety is provided. The battery pack may be disposed within a fuselage of the electric aircraft. The battery pack may include a crush zone having energy absorbing material configured to compress as a function of a crash force.
US12255340B2	Secondary battery The disclosure relates to a secondary battery including: a cap assembly including a cap plate including an electrode lead-out hole and an electrode terminal disposed on the cap plate; a current collector including a main body located at a side of the cap plate and an extending portion extending toward the electrode terminal, where the extending portion includes a top plate connected to the electrode terminal and a side plate connected to the main body, and the side plate and the top plate are configured to form a recess; and an insulating protection component including a column portion disposed in the recess, where surfaces of the side plate and the top plate which form the recess are in contact with the column portion and covered by the column portion.
US12255339B2	Single-atom tailoring of platinum nanocatalysts for high-performance multifunctional electrocatalysis Provided herein are catalyst materials comprising a catalyst support; and PtM′ nanowires affixed to the catalyst support, wherein the PtM′ nanowires include single atomic species of M′ at exterior surfaces of the PtM′ nanowires, and M′ represents at least one metal, e.g., a metal different from Pt. Also disclosed are manufacturing methods comprising: providing initial MM′ nanowires having an initial molar ratio of M:M′, wherein M is a noble metal, and M′ is a metal different from M; subjecting the initial MM′ nanowires to electrochemical dealloying to partially remove M′ and form partially dealloyed MM′ nanowires having a subsequent molar ratio of M:M′, wherein the subsequent molar ratio of M:M′ is greater than the initial molar ratio of M:M′; and affixing the partially dealloyed MM′ nanowires to a catalyst support.
US12255335B2	All-solid-state battery Provided is an all-solid-state battery capable of suppressing a rise in the resistance increase ratio thereof. The all-solid-state battery includes an anode active material layer containing an alloy-based active material, a first fibrous carbon, and a second fibrous carbon, wherein when a fiber diameter of the first fibrous carbon is defined as A, and a fiber diameter of the second fibrous carbon is defined as B, the ratio of A to B is 10 to 300, and when the proportion (wt %) of the first fibrous carbon to the alloy-based active material is defined as X, and the proportion (wt %) of the second fibrous carbon to the alloy-based active material is defined as Y, the proportion ({Y/(X+Y)}×100%) of the contained second fibrous carbon to a total of the first fibrous carbon and the second fibrous carbon is 0.5% to 10%.
US12255333B2	High performance electrodes, materials, and precursors thereof Provided herein are high performance electrodes, electrode materials comprising a plurality of active electrode material-containing particles secured within one or more graphenic web, and precursors thereof. Also provided herein are processes of generating the same by an electrospray process.
US12255330B2	Positive electrode active material for secondary battery and lithium secondary battery including the same A positive electrode active material for a secondary battery which includes a nickel-based lithium composite transition metal oxide including nickel (Ni), wherein the lithium composite transition metal oxide satisfies Equation 1 and Equation 2 below 80 nm≤crystallite sizeFWHM≤150 nm [Equation 1] Δ size(\|crystallite sizeIB−crystallite sizeFWHM\|)≤20 [Equation 2] wherein, in Equation 1 and Equation 2, crystallite sizeFWHM is a crystallite size obtained by calculating from X-ray diffraction (XRD) data using a full width at half maximum (FWHM) method, and crystallite sizeIB is a crystallite size obtained by calculating from XRD data using an integral breadth (IB) method.
US12255329B2	Positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery This positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries comprises a lithium-transition metal composite oxide and a surface modification layer. The lithium transition metal composite oxide contains at least Al and 80 mol % or more Ni with reference to the total number of moles of metal elements excluding Li, and the surface modification layer contains at least Sr and is formed on the surface of primary particles of the lithium-transition metal composite oxide.
US12255328B2	Negative electrode material for lithium ion battery To improve the cycle characteristics of a lithium ion battery, a mixture of a powder of a conversion-type oxide made of an iron oxide and/or a silicon oxide and causing a conversion reaction with Li ions and a powder of an oxygen ion conductor are used as a negative electrode material of the lithium ion battery.
US12255326B2	Methods for preparing positive electrode material for rechargeable lithium ion batteries A method for preparing a powderous positive electrode material comprising single crystal monolithic particles and having a general formulaLi1+a((Niz(Ni1/2Mn1/2)yCox)1-k Ak)1-aO2, wherein A is a dopant, −0.03≤a≤0.06, 0.05≤x≤0.35, 0.10≤z≤0.95, x+y+z=1 and k≤0.05 is described. The method comprises providing a mixture comprising a Ni- and Co- bearing precursor and a Li bearing precursor, subjecting the mixture to a multiple step sintering process whereby in the final sintering step a sintered lithiated intermediate material is obtained comprising agglomerated primary particles having a primary particle size distribution with a D50 between 2.0 and 8.0 μm, subjecting the lithiated intermediate material to a wet ball milling step to deagglomerate the agglomerated primary particles and obtain a slurry comprising deagglomerated primary particles, separating the deagglomerated primary particles from the slurry, and heat treating the deagglomerated primary particles at a temperature between 300° C. and at least 20° C. below the temperature in the final sintering step.
US12255323B2	Silicon oxide/carbon composite negative electrode material and preparation method therefor, and lithium-ion battery A preparation method obtains silicon oxide/carbon composite negative electrode material and a lithium-ion battery. The silicon oxide/carbon composite negative electrode material is a secondary particle, and mainly consists of a SiOx/C material. The SiOx/C material includes SiOx particles and a carbon layer with which the surfaces of the SiOx particles are coated. The SiOx particles include Si crystallites. The preparation method includes: 1) synthesizing a silicon oxide bulk; 2) performing crushing to obtain micro-level or nano-level SiOx particles; 3) mixing with a carbon binder; 4) granulating; 5) modification and carbonization; and 6) post-processing.
US12255315B2	Anode structures having a multiple supplemental layers An anode for an energy storage device is provided that includes a current collector having an electrically conductive layer, a plurality of lithium storage filamentary structures in contact with the electrically conductive layer. For each lithium storage filamentary structure of the plurality of lithium storage filamentary structures, there is a first supplemental layer overlaying at least a portion of the respective filamentary structure, the first supplemental layer including silicon nitride or a first metal compound. There is further a second supplemental layer overlaying at least a portion of the first supplemental layer, the second supplemental layer having a composition different from the first supplemental layer and comprising silicon nitride or a second metal compound.
US12255310B2	Apparatus for producing precursor having concentration gradient and material injection scheduling method therefor The present invention relates to a material injection scheduling method for producing a precursor having a concentration gradient using an apparatus for producing a precursor having a concentration gradient mixing materials of a first feed tank and a second feed tank with each other in advance in a mixer and injecting the mixed material into a reactor.
US12255308B2	Sulfurized-carbon cathode with conductive carbon framework A cathode active surface includes a conductive framework of tangled nanofibers with lumps of amorphous carbon-sulfur distributed within them. The amorphous carbon-sulfur lumps are of carbon bonded to sulfur via carbon-sulfur chemical bonds and to the nanofibers via chemical bonds. The strength of the chemical bonds secures sulfur atoms within electrode to suppress the formation of undesirable polysulfides when in contact with an electrolyte. The tangled nanofibers bind the amorphous carbon-sulfur lumps and enhance thermal and electrical conductivities.
US12255306B2	Solid-state lithium ion conductor The disclosure relates to a method for producing a solid-state lithium ion conductor material in which the use of water and/or steam is a medium when the obtained intermediate product is cooled or quenched and, if needed, comminution of the intermediate product and/or carrying out of a cooling process with the production of a powder in one comminution step or in a plurality of comminution steps leads or lead to especially advantageous production products. The subject of the disclosure is also the solid-state lithium ion conductor material that has an ion conductivity of at least 10−5 S/cm at room temperature as well as a water content of <1.0 wt %. The disclosure further relates to the use of the solid-state lithium ion conductor material in the form of a powder in batteries or rechargeable batteries, preferably lithium batteries or rechargeable lithium batteries, in particular, separators, cathodes, anodes, or solid-state electrolytes.
US12255305B2	Atomic layer deposition on high-aspect-ratio electrode structures Battery electrodes using VACNT forests to create 3D electrode nanostructures, and methods of making, are described. The VACNTs are electrically and mechanically attached to the anode or cathode substrates, providing a large area of 3D surfaces for coating with active materials and high-conductivity electron pathways to the cell current collectors. A number of different active materials suitable for anodes and cathodes in lithium-ion batteries may be used to coat the individual carbon nanotubes. The high surface area provided by the VACNT forest and the nano-dimensions of the coated active materials enable both high energy-density and high power-density to be achieved with the same battery. Complete conformal coating of the individual CNTs may be achieved by a number of different methods, and coating with multiple active materials may be used to create nanolaminate coatings having improved electrochemical characteristics over single materials.
US12255303B2	Battery rack and power storage device comprising same A battery pack includes a plurality of battery modules respectively having at least one battery cell, a rack case configured to accommodate the plurality of battery modules, a fire distinguishing water supply unit disposed at the rear of the rack case and connected to the plurality of battery modules, and a bracket unit configured to cover the fire distinguishing water supply unit and disposed at the rear of the rack case.
US12255300B2	Plate-like fluid container and battery temperature-control assembly The present disclosure relates to a plate-like fluid container for the temperature control of an accumulator device for electrical energy or of an electrical consumer, for example in a motor vehicle, having two layers contacting one another at least regionally, an inlet for pouring a fluid into the fluid container, an outlet for discharging the fluid from the fluid container, and a fluid channel system arranged between the layers that connects the inlet to the outlet and is configured to be flowed through by the fluid during the temperature control, wherein a spacing of at least two first channel sections of the fluid channel system extending parallel to one another is larger in a first region of the fluid channel system disposed upstream than a spacing of at least two second channel sections of the fluid channel system extending parallel to one another in a second region of the fluid channel system disposed downstream to improve the temperature control performance of plate-like fluid containers for temperature control.
US12255295B2	Electrochemical devices and related articles, components, configurations, and methods Articles containing electrodes and current collectors arranged such that at least one electrode can be electronically isolated from other components of the article and/or an electrochemical device, and associated systems and methods, are provided. In some cases, the articles contain substrates for which a change in volume of the substrate causes at least one electrode to become electronically isolated from other components of the article and/or an electrochemical device. In certain cases, heating the substrate causes the change in volume of the substrate. Articles and electrochemical devices containing electrodes, current collectors, heaters, and/or sensors and associated systems and methods, are also provided. Electrochemical devices containing electrodes and current collectors arranged in a folded configuration, and associated articles, systems and methods, are also provided.
US12255294B1	Voltage drop circuit assembly of lithium battery and 1.5V lithium battery The present application relates to a voltage drop circuit assembly of a lithium battery and a 1.5V lithium battery. The voltage drop circuit assembly includes a PCB, an outer conductive cap and an inner conductive cap, a front surface of the PCB is provided with a positive copper ring and a negative copper ring, the positive copper ring is electrically connected with the outer conductive cap, the outer conductive cap is used as a low-voltage output positive electrode, the negative copper ring is used as a common negative electrode, a back surface of the PCB is provided with a high-voltage input copper ring, the high-voltage input copper ring is electrically connected with the inner conductive cap, and the inner conductive cap is used as a high-voltage input positive electrode.
US12255292B2	Computing device having a multiple battery cell architecture including a temperature sensor and cooling element An example outdoor mounted device includes a first battery configured to operate at a low temperature range that at least includes negative 20 Celsius; a second battery configured to operate at a high temperature range; a temperature sensor; and processing circuitry configured to: determine, based on data received from the temperature sensors, a current temperature; responsive to determining that the current temperature is within the low temperature range, cause one or more components of the computing device to operate using electrical energy sourced from the first battery; and responsive to determining that the current temperature is within the high temperature range, cause the one or more components of the computing device to operate using electrical energy sourced from the second battery.
US12255286B2	Electrolyte solution for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery including the same An electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an electrolyte solution includes a lithium salt, an additive including a compound represented by Formula 1, and an organic solvent. In some embodiments, the lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode which includes a negative electrode active material containing SiOx (0
US12255284B2	Battery material, battery, and method for producing battery material A battery material includes a compound having an imidazoline ring and an aromatic ring. The compound has a molecular weight of less than 350. The compound is, for example, 2-benzylimidazoline. The battery material, for example, further includes a solid electrolyte. The solid electrolyte has, for example, a particle shape. The compound is, for example, located between a plurality of particles of the solid electrolyte.
US12255282B2	Lithium metal recovery and synthesis A process and system for creating a lithium ion anolyte from lithium alloys. Metal and lithium alloys are processed to remove the metal with lithium from the alloy remaining. A lithium ion anolyte formed may be used in a process to form lithium metal. Alternatively, a process and system for recovering lithium from sources such as lithium alloys and lithium metal oxides and other feedstock such as recycled batteries into a thin lithium metal film via electrodeposition in an organic electrolyte contacting both anode (holder for lithium source) and cathode (substrate for lithium deposition) in a single-compartment electrolysis cell.
US12255281B2	Learned model generation method and apparatus First group data indicating a position of a first end surface of a first sheet material and second group data indicating a position of a second end surface of a second sheet material are acquired from an inspection machine, and information indicating whether or not a winding body has a defect, and which constituent of a sheet material supplier is a cause of the defect in a case where the winding body has the defect, on the basis of a positional relationship among continuous positions of the first end surface indicated by the first group data, continuous positions of the second end surface indicated by the second group data, and reference lines, is output to a display for maintenance.
US12255279B2	Light-emitting diode package structure and manufacturing method thereof A light-emitting diode package structure includes a heat dissipation substrate, a redistribution layer, and multiple light-emitting diodes. The heat dissipation substrate includes multiple copper blocks and a heat-conducting material layer. The copper blocks penetrate the heat-conducting material layer. The redistribution layer is disposed on the heat dissipation substrate and electrically connected to the copper blocks. The light-emitting diodes are disposed on the redistribution layer and are electrically connected to the redistribution layer. A side of the light-emitting diodes away from the redistribution layer is not in contact with any component.
US12255278B2	Semiconductor light emitting element and semiconductor light emitting device A semiconductor light emitting element includes: a substrate; an n-type layer; a light emitting layer; a p-type layer; a p electrode located above the p-type layer; an n electrode located in a region that is above the n-type layer and in which the light emitting layer and the p-type layer are not located; a p-electrode bump connected to the p electrode; an n-electrode bump connected to the n electrode; and an insulation bump located in at least one of a region between the n-electrode bump and the p-type layer and a region whose distance from an end of the p-type layer closer to the n-electrode bump is shorter than a distance from the end to the p-electrode bump, in a plan view of the substrate. A surface of the insulation bump opposite to a surface facing the substrate is insulated from the p electrode and the n electrode.
US12255277B2	Element substrate, light-emitting element module, and light-emitting device An element substrate includes an insulating substrate, electrode wiring located on the insulating substrate, a heat-dissipating member in contact with the insulating substrate, a flexible substrate electrically connected to the electrode wiring, a temperature detecting element located on the flexible substrate, and an adhesive layer. The adhesive layer is located between the temperature detecting element and an extending portion in the heat-dissipating member and between a facing surface of the flexible substrate and the extending portion in the heat-dissipating member.
US12255276B2	Method for manufacturing image display device and image display device A method for manufacturing an image display device includes: providing a semiconductor growth substrate comprising a semiconductor layer on a first substrate, the semiconductor layer comprising a light-emitting layer; providing a second substrate comprising a circuit, wherein the circuit comprises a circuit element; forming a light-shielding layer on the second substrate; forming an insulating film on the light-shielding layer; bonding the semiconductor layer to the second substrate on which the insulating film is formed; forming a light-emitting element by etching the semiconductor layer; forming an insulating layer that covers the light-emitting element; and electrically connecting the light-emitting element to the circuit element. The light-shielding layer is located between the light-emitting element and the circuit element. In a plan view, the light-shielding layer covers the circuit element.
US12255274B2	Semiconductor light-emitting device A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a semiconductor light-emitting element for emitting ultraviolet light, a mounting substrate on which the semiconductor light-emitting element is mounted, bumps electrically connecting the semiconductor light-emitting element to the mounting substrate, a first sealing member sealing a connection region in which the semiconductor light-emitting element and the mounting substrate are connected by the bumps, and a second sealing member being provided on the first sealing member and sealing the semiconductor light-emitting element.
US12255270B2	Display device including inorganic layers with different porosity and method of manufacturing display device A display device includes a light emitting element disposed on a substrate. A color conversion layer is disposed on the light emitting element, the color conversion layer including color conversion particles that convert light of a first color emitted from the light emitting element into light of a second color. An insulating layer is disposed on the color conversion layer. The insulating layer includes a first inorganic layer overlapping the color conversion layer, a second inorganic layer disposed on the first inorganic layer, and a third inorganic layer disposed on the second inorganic layer. A second porosity of the second inorganic layer is greater than a first porosity of the first inorganic layer. A second porosity of the second inorganic layer is greater than a third porosity of the third inorganic layer.
US12255267B2	Display device and method of fabricating display device A display device includes a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on a substrate and spaced apart from each other in a first direction. A light emitting element is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. A third electrode is disposed on the first electrode and electrically contacts an end portion of the light emitting element. A fourth electrode is disposed on the second electrode and electrically contacts another end portion of the light emitting element. A side of the third electrode and a side of the first electrode are located on a first virtual line substantially perpendicular to the substrate. A side of the fourth electrode facing the side of the third electrode and the side of the second electrode are located on a second virtual line substantially perpendicular to the substrate.
US12255266B2	Lighting module and lighting apparatus having same Lighting module disclosed in an embodiment of the invention, a substrate; a plurality of light emitting devices disposed on the substrate; a first reflective layer disposed on the substrate; a resin layer disposed on the first reflective layer and the light emitting device; and a second reflective layer disposed on the resin layer, wherein the resin layer is a front side surface on which light generated from the plurality of light emitting devices is emitted, a rear side surface facing the front side surface, and first and second side surfaces connecting the front side surface and the rear side surface with each other. A distance between the first reflective layer and the second reflective layer is smaller than a distance between the front side surface and the rear side surface of the resin layer, and the front side surface of the resin layer has a plurality of convex portions convex toward the front side surface from the light emitting device and a plurality of concave portions recessed in a direction of the rear side surface.
US12255265B2	Devices comprising distributed bragg reflectors and methods of making the devices A method for making a device. The method comprises forming a buffer layer on a substrate; forming a periodically doped layer on the buffer layer; forming one or more wires on the periodically doped layer, the wires being chosen from nanowires and microwires; and introducing porosity into the periodically doped layer to form a porous distributed Bragg reflector (DBR). Various devices that can be made by the method are also disclosed.
US12255264B2	Enhanced room temperature mid-IR LEDs with integrated semiconductor ‘metals’ Mid-IR light emitting diodes (LEDs) based on type-II quantum dot (QD) active regions grown with monolithically integrated semiconductor metal layers are provided. These LEDs comprise layers of type-II semiconductor (e.g., InGaSb) quantum dots integrated into a pn junction diode (e.g., InAs) grown above a highly doped backplane, such as an n++ InAs backplane, all in the same epitaxial growth. Aspects described herein minimize non-radiate recombination times and significantly increase radiative recombination rates by controlling the emission of the emitting QDs in the near field of an optical metal.
US12255261B2	Solar panel A solar panel includes: a cell group in which a plurality of solar cells is arranged in one direction; and a connecting element for electrically connecting the solar cells to each other. Among the solar cells arranged adjacent to each other, an edge portion of a front surface of a first solar cell is arranged so as to overlap an edge portion of a back surface of a second solar cell. The connecting element is arranged between the overlapping edge portions and on the back surface of the solar cells. The cell group includes a plurality of parallel connection regions in which at least two solar cells are electrically connected in parallel. The parallel connection regions are electrically connected in series.
US12255260B2	Photodetector A first photodetector according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a substrate having a first surface that serves as a light-receiving surface and a second surface opposed to the first surface, and including an uneven structure provided on the first surface and a light-receiving section that performs photoelectric conversion to generate electric charge corresponding to an amount of light reception for each pixel; a passivation film stacked on the first surface of the substrate; and a reflectance adjustment layer including a plurality of protrusions configuring the uneven structure and the passivation film embedded in a plurality of recesses configuring the uneven structure, and having a refractive index between the substrate and the passivation film.
US12255250B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes: a first electrode; a first semiconductor layer on the first electrode in a diode region; a second semiconductor layer on the first electrode in an IGBT region; a semiconductor layer on the first and second semiconductor layers, a first upper layer of the semiconductor layer in the diode region including a first region adjacent to the IGBT region and a second region separated from the IGBT region, an impurity concentration being less in the first region than in the second region; a third semiconductor layer on the semiconductor layer; a fourth semiconductor layer of the third semiconductor layer in the IGBT region; a third electrode extending in a direction from the fourth semiconductor layer toward the semiconductor layer; and an insulating film between the second electrode and each of the third semiconductor layer, the semiconductor layer, and the third electrode.
US12255243B2	Method for manufacturing switching device A method for manufacturing a switching device includes: forming a trench at a top surface of a semiconductor substrate; forming a gate insulation film for covering an inner surface of the trench; forming a gate electrode inside the trench to locate a top surface of the gate electrode below the top surface of the semiconductor substrate; forming an oxide film by oxidizing the top surface of the gate electrode; forming an interlayer insulation film by vapor phase growth at a top surface of the oxide film to locate a top surface of the interlayer insulation film below the top surface of the semiconductor substrate; and forming an upper electrode in contact with the semiconductor substrate at the top surface of the semiconductor substrate and a side surface of the trench located above the top surface of the interlayer insulation film.
US12255242B2	Three-dimensional memory device including vertical stack of tubular graded silicon oxynitride portions A semiconductor structure includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, a memory opening vertically extending through the alternating stack, and a memory opening fill structure located in the memory opening and including a vertical semiconductor channel, a memory film in contact with the vertical semiconductor channel, and a vertical stack of tubular dielectric spacers laterally surrounding the memory film. The tubular dielectric spacers may include tubular graded silicon oxynitride portions having a composition gradient such that an atomic concentration of nitrogen decreases with a lateral distance from an outer sidewall of the memory film, or may include tubular composite dielectric spacers including a respective tubular silicon oxide spacer and a respective tubular dielectric metal oxide spacer. Each of the electrically conductive layers has a hammerhead-shaped vertical cross-sectional profile.
US12255239B2	Liner layer for backside contacts of semiconductor devices The present disclosure describes a semiconductor device that includes a transistor. The transistor includes a source/drain region that includes a front surface and a back surface opposite to the front surface. The transistor includes a salicide region on the back surface and a channel region in contact with the source/drain region. The channel region has a front surface co-planar with the front surface of the source/drain region. The transistor further includes a gate structure disposed on a front surface of the channel region. The semiconductor device also includes a backside contact structure that includes a conductive contact in contact with the salicide region and a liner layer surrounding the conductive contact.
US12255238B2	Integrated circuit, system and method of forming same An integrated circuit includes a set of power rails, a set of active regions, a first set of conductive lines and a first and a second set of vias. The set of power rails is configured to supply a first or second supply voltage, and is on a first level of a back-side of a substrate. The set of active regions is a second level of a front-side of the substrate. The first set of conductive lines extend in a second direction and overlap the set of active regions. The first set of vias is between and electrically couples the set of active regions and the first set of conductive lines together. The second set of vias is between and electrically couples the first set of conductive lines and the set of power rails together.
US12255233B2	Silicon carbide vertical conduction MOSFET device for power applications and manufacturing process thereof A vertical conduction MOSFET device includes a body of silicon carbide having a first conductivity type and a face. A metallization region extends on the face of the body. A body region of a second conductivity type extends in the body, from the face of the body, along a first direction parallel to the face and along a second direction transverse to the face. A source region of the first conductivity type extends towards the inside of the body region, from the face of the body. The source region has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has a first doping level and extends in direct electrical contact with the metallization region. The second portion has a second doping level and extends in direct electrical contact with the first portion of the source region. The second doping level is lower than the first doping level.
US12255232B2	Gallium nitride drain structures and methods of forming the same Depositing gallium nitride and carbon (GaN:C) (e.g., in the form of composite layers) when forming a gallium nitride drain of a transistor provides a buffer between the gallium nitride of the drain and silicon of a substrate in which the drain is formed. As a result, gaps and other defects caused by lattice mismatch are reduced, which improves electrical performance of the drain. Additionally, current leakage into the substrate is reduced, which further improves electrical performance of the drain. Additionally, or alternatively, implanting silicon in an aluminum nitride (AlN) liner for a gallium nitride drain reduces contact resistance at an interface between the gallium nitride and the silicon. As a result, electrical performance of the transistor is improved.
US12255223B2	Display device, and method for producing same A display device includes a pixel in a display area. The pixel includes: spaced apart first and second electrodes; a first insulating layer on the first electrode and the second electrode and between the first electrode and the second electrode and having a first etch selectivity; a first insulating pattern on the first insulating layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, and having a second etch selectivity; a light emitting element on the first insulating pattern; a second insulating pattern having the second etch selectivity and being on one area of the light emitting element such that a first end and the second end of the light emitting element are exposed; and third and fourth electrodes configured to electrically connect the first end and the second end of the light emitting element to the first and second electrodes, respectively.
US12255220B2	Light receiving element and electronic apparatus A first light receiving element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a plurality of pixels, a photoelectric converter that is provided as a layer common to the plurality of pixels, and contains a compound semiconductor material, and a first electrode layer that is provided between the plurality of pixels on light incident surface side of the photoelectric converter, and has a light-shielding property.
US12255214B2	Light detection device A light detection device includes: a back-illuminated light receiving element; a circuit element; a connection member; an underfill; and a light shielding mask. The light shielding mask includes a frame having an opening and a light shielding layer formed on an inner surface of the opening. A first opening edge on the side of the circuit element in the opening is located at the outside of an outer edge of the light receiving element. A second opening edge opposite to the circuit element in the opening is located at the inside of the outer edge of the light receiving element. The opening is narrowed from the first opening edge toward the second opening edge. A width of the frame increases from the first opening edge toward the second opening edge. The underfill reaches a gap between the light receiving element and the light shielding layer.
US12255213B2	Photoelectric conversion element, photodetector, photodetection system, electronic apparatus, and mobile body A highly functional photoelectric conversion element is provided. The photoelectric conversion element includes: a first photoelectric converter that detects light in a first wavelength range and photoelectrically converts the light; a second photoelectric converter that detects light in a second wavelength range and photoelectrically converts the light to obtain distance information of a subject; and an optical filter that is disposed between the first photoelectric converter and the second photoelectric converter, and allows the light in the second wavelength range to pass therethrough more easily than the light in the first wavelength range. The first photoelectric converter includes a stacked structure and an electric charge accumulation electrode. The stacked structure includes a first electrode, a first photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode that are stacked in order, and the electric charge accumulation electrode is disposed to be separated from the first electrode and be opposed to the first photoelectric conversion layer with an insulating layer interposed therebetween.
US12255210B2	Display device having fan-out area and line protection configuration A display device includes a display area comprising pixels, a fan-out area, a pad area, a display driver, a metal layer disposed on a substrate, a data line, a first voltage line, and a second voltage line extending in a first direction on the metal layer in the display area, a fan-out line electrically connecting the data line to the display driver on the metal layer in the fan-out area, a gate line disposed on the metal layer in the display area and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a source-drain layer disposed on the gate line, and an electrode layer disposed on the source-drain layer. The first voltage line includes a first plate portion disposed on the source-drain layer in the fan-out area, and the second voltage line comprises a second plate portion disposed on the electrode layer in the fan-out area.
US12255207B2	Boundary design for high-voltage integration on HKMG technology The present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit (IC) that includes a boundary region defined between a low voltage region and a high voltage region, and a method of formation. In some embodiments, the integrated circuit comprises an isolation structure disposed in the boundary region of the substrate. A first polysilicon component is disposed directly on an upper surface of the substrate alongside the isolation structure. A boundary dielectric layer is disposed on the isolation structure. A second polysilicon component is disposed on the sacrifice dielectric layer.
US12255206B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes: an active pattern extending in a first direction on a substrate; a first lower source/drain pattern and a second lower source/drain pattern provided on the active pattern and spaced apart from each other in the first direction; a first upper source/drain pattern provided on the first lower source/drain pattern; a second upper source/drain pattern provided on the second lower source/drain pattern; and a gate electrode crossing the active pattern and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The gate electrode includes an overlapping portion overlapping the active pattern in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction. A length of the overlapping portion in the second direction is less than a length of the first lower source/drain pattern in the second direction.
US12255205B2	Semiconductor device with isolation structure A semiconductor device with isolation structures of different dielectric constants and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The semiconductor device includes fin structures with first and second fin portions disposed on first and second device areas on a substrate and first and second pair of gate structures disposed on the first and second fin portions. The second pair of gate structures is electrically isolated from the first pair of gate structures. The semiconductor device further includes a first isolation structure interposed between the first pair of gate structures and a second isolation structure interposed between the second pair of gate structures. The first isolation structure includes a first nitride liner and a first oxide fill layer. The second isolation structure includes a second nitride liner and a second oxide fill layer. The second nitride layer is thicker than the first nitride layer.
US12255204B2	Vertical FET replacement gate formation with variable fin pitch A semiconductor structure includes a first set of fins and a second set of fins, a dielectric pillar disposed between the first set of fins and the second set of fins, a bottom source/drain (S/D) region directly contacting a bottom surface of the first and second set of fins, and a top S/D region directly contacting a top surface of the first and second set of fins. A high-k metal gate (HKMG) is disposed between fins of the first set of fins and between fins of the second set of fins. The HKMG directly contacts sidewalls of the dielectric pillar. A width of the HKMG between the first set of fins is equal to a width of the HKMG between the second set of fins.
US12255201B2	ESD structure Electrostatic discharge (ESD) structures are provided. An ESD structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a first epitaxy region with a first type of conductivity over the semiconductor substrate, a second epitaxy region with a second type of conductivity over the semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of semiconductor layers. The semiconductor layers are stacked over the semiconductor substrate and between the first and second epitaxy regions. A first conductive feature is formed over the first epitaxy region and outside an oxide diffusion region. A second conductive feature is formed over the second epitaxy region and outside the oxide diffusion region. A third conductive feature is formed over the first epitaxy region and within the oxide diffusion region. A fourth conductive feature is formed over the second epitaxy region and within the oxide diffusion region. The oxide diffusion region is disposed between the first and second conductive features.
US12255200B1	Trench isolation structures with varying depths and method of forming the same The present disclosure generally relates to trench isolation structures for semiconductor devices. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to semiconductor devices having trench isolation structures with varying depths for electrically isolating integrated circuit (IC) components in the semiconductor devices. The present disclosure also relates to method of forming the trench isolation structures.
US12255196B2	Semiconductor package with thermal relaxation block and manufacturing method thereof Manufacturing method of semiconductor package includes following steps. Bottom package is provided. The bottom package includes a die and a redistribution structure electrically connected to die. A first top package and a second top package are disposed on a surface of the redistribution structure further away from the die. An underfill is formed into the space between the first and second top packages and between the first and second top packages and the bottom package. The underfill covers at least a side surface of the first top package and a side surface of the second top package. A hole is opened in the underfill within an area overlapping with the die between the side surface of the first top package and the side surface of the second top package. A thermally conductive block is formed in the hole by filling the hole with a thermally conductive material.
US12255193B2	Method for transferring micro LED The present invention discloses a method for transferring a micro LED that is capable of easily mounting a micro LED or a nano LED on a desired position on a substrate by using an electric field.
US12255190B2	Light emitting device with LED stack for display and display apparatus having the same A light emitting diode pixel for a display includes a first subpixel including a first LED sub-unit, a second subpixel including a second LED sub-unit, a third subpixel including a third LED sub-unit, and a bonding layer overlapping the first, second, and third subpixels, in which each of the first, second, and third LED sub-units includes a first type of semiconductor layer and a second type of semiconductor layer, each of the first, second, and third LED sub-units is disposed on a different plane, and light generated from the second subpixel is configured to be emitted to an outside of the light emitting diode pixel by passing through a lesser number of LED sub-units than light generated from the first subpixel and emitted to the outside.
US12255188B2	Light-emitting device An embodiment of present invention discloses a light-emitting device which includes a first light-emitting area, a second light-emitting area, and a third light-emitting area. The first light-emitting area emits a red light and includes a first light-emitting unit. The second light-emitting area emits a blue light and includes a second light-emitting unit. The third light-emitting area emits a green light and includes a third light-emitting unit. The first light-emitting area is larger than the second light-emitting area and larger than the third light-emitting area. Each of the first light-emitting unit, the second light-emitting unit, and the third light-emitting unit has a width of less than 100 μm and a length of less than 100 μm.
US12255187B2	Display device using semiconductor light-emitting element and manufacturing method therefor The present invention may be applied to display device-related technical fields and relates to a display device using a semiconductor light-emitting element, such as a micro light-emitting diode (LED), and a manufacturing method therefor. The present invention, according to one embodiment, may comprise: a substrate; a stepped film positioned on at least some pixel regions, among a plurality of individual pixel regions positioned on the substrate; an assembly electrode positioned on the substrate or the stepped film; an insulation layer positioned on the assembly electrode; a partition wall positioned on the insulation layer and defining an assembly groove having mounted therein a semiconductor light-emitting element forming the individual pixel; the semiconductor light-emitting element mounted in an assembly surface of the assembly groove; and a lighting electrode electrically connected to the semiconductor light-emitting element.
US12255183B2	Semiconductor package including heat dissipation layer A semiconductor package includes an interposer including first and second surfaces opposite to each other. The semiconductor package also includes a heat dissipation layer disposed on the first surface of the interposer and a first semiconductor die mounted on the first surface of the interposer. The semiconductor package additionally includes a stack of second semiconductor dies mounted on the second surface of the interposer. The semiconductor package further includes a thermally conductive connection part for transferring heat from the stack of the second semiconductor dies to the heat dissipation layer.
US12255181B2	Methods for forming three-dimensional memory devices In an example, a method for forming a three-dimensional (3D) memory device is disclosed. A semiconductor layer is formed. A memory stack on the semiconductor is formed. A channel structure extending through the memory stack and the semiconductor layer is formed. An end of the channel structure abutting the semiconductor layer is exposed. A portion of the channel structure abutting the semiconductor layer is replaced with a semiconductor plug.
US12255180B2	3D package configuration A novel 3D package configuration is provided by stacking a plurality of semiconductor package units or a folded flexible circuit board structure on a package substrate and electrically connected therewith based on the foldable characteristics of the flexible circuit board, and the high temperature resistance of the flexible circuit board which is suitable for insulating layer process, metal layer process, photolithography process, etching and development process, to make conventional semiconductor dies of various functions be bonded on one die and/or two side of a flexible circuit board and electrically connected therewith in advance.
US12255177B2	Stacked semiconductor device A stacked semiconductor device includes a plurality of stacked semiconductor dies electrically connected with each other, a first power line electrically connected to a lowermost semiconductor die among the stacked semiconductor dies, a second power line formed over an uppermost semiconductor die among the stacked semiconductor dies, and an external connection line electrically connecting the first power line and the second power line.
US12255174B2	Bonding passive devices on active dies to form 3D packages A package includes a package substrate, an interposer over and bonded to the package substrate, a first wafer over and bonding to the interposer, and a second wafer over and bonding to the first wafer. The first wafer has independent passive device dies therein. The second wafer has active device dies therein.
US12255172B2	Methods of detecting bonding between a bonding wire and a bonding location on a wire bonding machine A method of determining a bonding status between a wire and at least one bonding location of a workpiece is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) bonding a portion of a wire to a bonding location of a workpiece using a bonding tool of a wire bonding machine; (b) determining a motion profile of the bonding tool for determining if the portion of the wire is bonded to the bonding location, the motion profile being configured to result in the wire being broken during the motion profile if the portion of the wire is not bonded to the bonding location; and (c) moving the bonding tool along the motion profile to determine if the portion of the wire is bonded to the bonding location. Other methods of determining a bonding status between a wire and at least one bonding location of a workpiece are also provided.
US12255170B2	Semiconductor package, electronic apparatus, and method for manufacturing semiconductor package In a semiconductor package in which a semiconductor element is connected to a substrate, the semiconductor element is prevented from being warped. The semiconductor package includes a substrate, the semiconductor element, a bonding portion, and protrusions. First ends of wires are connected to a front surface of the substrate. Second ends of wires are connected to one surface of opposite surfaces of the semiconductor element. The bonding portion bonds a part of the other surface of the opposite surfaces of the semiconductor element and the front surface of the substrate. The protrusions protrude from the front surface of the substrate to a remaining part of the other surface of the opposite surfaces of the semiconductor element.
US12255167B2	Semiconductor packages with an intermetallic layer A method of forming a semiconductor package. Implementations include forming on a die backside an intermediate metal layer having multiple sublayers, each including a metal selected from the group consisting of titanium, nickel, copper, silver, and combinations thereof. A tin layer is deposited onto the intermediate metal layer and is then reflowed with a silver layer of a substrate to form an intermetallic layer having a melting temperature above 260 degrees Celsius and including an intermetallic consisting of silver and tin and/or an intermetallic consisting of copper and tin. Another method of forming a semiconductor package includes forming a bump on each of a plurality of exposed pads of a top side of a die, each exposed pad surrounded by a passivation layer, each bump including an intermediate metal layer as described above and a tin layer coupled to the intermediate metal layer is reflowed to form an intermetallic layer.
US12255166B2	Semiconductor package structure comprising via structure and redistribution layer structure A semiconductor package structure includes a conductive pad formed over a substrate. The semiconductor package structure also includes a passivation layer formed over the conductive pad. The semiconductor package structure further includes a first via structure formed through the passivation layer and in contact with the conductive pad. The semiconductor package structure also includes a first encapsulating material surrounding the first via structure. The semiconductor package structure further includes a redistribution layer structure formed over the first via structure. The first via structure has a lateral extending portion embedded in the first encapsulating material near a top surface of the first via structure, and the lateral extending portion has a width increasing in a direction toward the redistribution layer structure.
US12255164B2	Structure and method for isolation of bit-line drivers for a three-dimensional NAND Embodiments of a three-dimensional (3D) memory device and fabrication methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, the 3D memory device includes a peripheral circuitry formed on a first substrate. The peripheral circuitry includes a plurality of peripheral devices on a first side of the first substrate, a first interconnect layer, and a deep-trench-isolation on a second side of the first substrate, wherein the first and second sides are opposite sides of the first substrate and the deep-trench-isolation is configured to provide electrical isolation between at least two neighboring peripheral devices. The 3D memory device also includes a memory array formed on a second substrate. The memory array includes at least one memory cell and a second interconnect layer, wherein the second interconnect layer of the memory array is bonded with the first interconnect layer of the peripheral circuitry, and the peripheral devices are electrically connected with the memory cells.
US12255161B2	Semiconductor device with composite conductive features and method for fabricating the same The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor structure and a first connecting structure, wherein the first connecting structure includes a first connecting insulating layer positioned on the first semiconductor structure, two first conductive layers positioned in the first connecting insulating layer, and a first porous layer positioned between the two first conductive layers. A porosity of the first porous layer is between about 25% and about 100%. The first semiconductor structure includes a plurality of first composite conductive features, wherein at least one of the plurality of first composite conductive features includes a first protection liner, a first graphene liner in the first protection liner and a first core conductor in the first graphene liner.
US12255160B2	Semiconductor package and package-on-package including the same Provided is a semiconductor package including a pair of differential signal wiring lines including a first differential signal wiring line and a second differential signal wiring line, extending parallel to and spaced apart from each other, a lower equal potential plate in a lower wiring layer under the signal wiring layer, an upper equal potential plate in an upper wiring layer above the signal wiring layer, and a wiring insulating layer adjacent to the pair of differential signal wiring lines, the lower equal potential plate, and the upper equal potential plate, the wiring insulating layer filling spaces between the signal wiring layer, the lower wiring layer, and the upper wiring layer, at least one of the lower equal potential plate and the upper equal potential plate including an impedance opening overlapping the pair of differential signal wiring lines in a vertical direction and is filled by the wiring insulating layer.
US12255153B2	Wire bond wires for interference shielding Apparatuses relating generally to a microelectronic package having protection from interference are disclosed. In an apparatus thereof, a substrate has an upper surface and a lower surface opposite the upper surface and has a ground plane. A first microelectronic device is coupled to the upper surface of the substrate. Wire bond wires are coupled to the ground plane for conducting the interference thereto and extending away from the upper surface of the substrate. A first portion of the wire bond wires is positioned to provide a shielding region for the first microelectronic device with respect to the interference. A second portion of the wire bond wires is not positioned to provide the shielding region. A second microelectronic device is coupled to the substrate and located outside of the shielding region. A conductive surface is over the first portion of the wire bond wires for covering the shielding region.
US12255150B2	CMP safe alignment mark The current disclosure describes techniques for making an alignment mark on a wafer. A recess is etched in a first surface region of a wafer. A device structure is formed in a second surface region of the wafer. A dielectric layer is deposited on the first surface of the wafer and filling the recess. A first planarization procedure is conducted to planarize the dielectric layer. After the first planarization procedure, a second planarization procedure is conducted to device structures on the second surface region of the wafer.
US12255142B2	Cell structure with intermediate metal layers for power supplies A cell on an integrated circuit is provided. The cell includes: a fin structure; an intermediate fin structure connection metal track disposed in an intermediate fin structure connection metal layer above the fin structure, the intermediate fin structure connection metal track being connected to the fin structure; and a first intermediate gate connection metal track disposed in an intermediate gate connection metal layer above the intermediate fin structure connection metal layer, the first intermediate gate connection metal track being connected to the intermediate fin structure connection metal track. A first power supply terminal is connected to the first intermediate gate connection metal track.
US12255137B2	Sideways vias in isolation areas to contact interior layers in stacked devices Embodiments disclosed herein include electronic systems with vias that include a horizontal and vertical portion in order to provide interconnects to stacked components, and methods of forming such systems. In an embodiment, an electronic system comprises a board, a package substrate electrically coupled to the board, and a die electrically coupled to the package substrate. In an embodiment the die comprises a stack of components, and a via adjacent to the stack of components, wherein the via comprises a vertical portion and a horizontal portion.
US12255130B2	Airgap structures for high speed signal integrity Processes and structures resulting therefrom for the improvement of high speed signaling integrity in electronic substrates of integrated circuit packages, which is achieved with the formation of airgap structures within dielectric material(s) between adjacent conductive routes that transmit/receive electrical signals, wherein the airgap structures decrease the capacitance and/or decrease the insertion losses in the dielectric material used to form the electronic substrates.
US12255128B2	Silicon spacers with improved adhesion and semiconductor device assemblies incorporating the same A semiconductor device assembly is provided. The semiconductor device assembly includes a package substrate and a silicon spacer disposed on an upper surface of the substrate, the silicon spacer having a plurality of trenches extending into the silicon spacer from a top surface thereof. The semiconductor device assembly further includes one or more semiconductor devices disposed over the silicon spacer. Moreover, the semiconductor device assembly includes an encapsulant material at least partially encapsulating the one or more semiconductor devices and the package substrate, the encapsulant material at least partially filling the plurality of trenches of the silicon spacer.

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