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| US12278844B2 |
Protecting contents and accounts using scan operation
An example method comprises receiving, by a secure content system, an email from a sender to a recipient, scanning the contents of the email, evaluating the contents of the email based on a plurality of security rules, storing the sensitive data within a secure storage, generating a replacement email including a security link and not including at least the sensitive data, the security link providing a requester access to the sensitive data providing that a security function is satisfied, sending the replacement email including the security link to the recipient, receiving a request to access the sensitive data, the request being related to the security function challenging the requester using the security function, receiving, from the requester, a response to the security function, determining if the security function is satisfied by the response, and if the security function is satisfied, providing access to the sensitive data to the requester. |
| US12278835B1 |
System and method for tracing cloud computing environment deployments to code objects
A system and method for detecting a cybersecurity object in an operating system-level virtualization is presented. The method includes detecting an identifier of a code object in a software artifact, wherein the software artifact represents a software container deployed in a cloud computing environment; determining a location of the code object based on the software artifact; inspecting the code object for a cybersecurity object, wherein the cybersecurity object indicates a cybersecurity threat; detecting a cybersecurity object in the code object; and initiating a remediation action based on the cybersecurity object in response to detecting the cybersecurity object in the code object. |
| US12278834B1 |
Subscription-based malware detection
A computerized method is described for authenticating access to a subscription-based service to detect an attempted cyber-attack. More specifically, a request is received for a subscription for analysis of objects, which are supplied by a customer to a malware detection system. A customer identifier is assigned to the customer initiating the request for the subscription and a sensor associated with the customer is identified and an identifier of the sensor is associated with the customer identifier. Then, service policy level information pertaining to the subscription is associated with the identifier of the sensor, where the service policy level information includes a set of subscription attributes including object analysis restrictions. |
| US12278829B2 |
Systems and methods for preventing cybersecurity attacks through digital identity verification
Systems and methods for verifying an applicant. An example method includes, receiving, from a user device, an application that includes an identifier associated with an applicant; determining a digital profile for the applicant based on the identifier, processing the digital profile through an assessment model to determine a metric for the applicant; and providing, to the user device, validation data for the application based on the metric for the applicant. |
| US12278827B2 |
Document image classifying system
A hybrid Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and Machine Learning (ML) systems and apparatus for classification in the case of data instances with imbalanced class distribution, including a Hidden Markov Model for generating a log-likelihood score for each data instance. Implementations of the hybrid system and method detect fraudulent activity and classifies documents with accuracy that surpasses conventional classifiers. In one implementation, Hidden Markov Model (HMM) for generating a log-likelihood score based on an attribute value vector for a set of keyword features characterizing a Web page. In one implementation, the HMM generates a log-likelihood score based on an attribute value vector for page layout characterizing a document image. Resulting attribute value vectors are ranked and divided into bins grouped by log-likelihood scores within equal ranges. Various machine learning models are trained using the balanced vectors obtained by accumulating from all the bins of vectors. |
| US12278825B2 |
System and method for cybersecurity threat detection utilizing static and runtime data
A system and method for improved endpoint detection and response (EDR) in a cloud computing environment initiates inspection based on data received from a sensor deployed on a workload. The method includes: configuring a resource, deployed in a cloud computing environment, to deploy thereon a sensor, the sensor configured to detect runtime data; detecting a potential cybersecurity threat on the resource based on detected runtime data received from the sensor; and initiating inspection of the resource for the potential cybersecurity threat. |
| US12278822B2 |
Malicious homoglyphic domain name generation and associated cyber security applications
Malicious homoglyphic domain name (MHDN) generation and associated cyber security applications are described. MHDN generation may be performed by, for example, generating, based on training data, a set of operations for use in generating the one or more potential MHDNs, wherein each operation of the set of operations may be configured to modify a base domain name according to a respective homoglyphic characteristic. The set of operations may be used to generate one or more candidate MHDN mutators. The candidate MHDN mutators may be tested for fitness values corresponding to respective likelihoods of generating an MHDN and the candidate MHDN mutators may be applied to one or more base domain names to generate potential MHDNs. |
| US12278821B2 |
Intelligent real time dynamic smart contract generation for secure processing of internet of things (IoT) device based events
Aspects of the disclosure relate to computing hardware and software for IoT event processing. A computing platform may monitor communication between an initiating IoT device and a service provider IoT device to detect an event processing request. The computing platform may extract, from the event processing request, event features. The computing platform may feed the event features into a deep learning engine, which may produce a smart contract corresponding to the event processing request. The computing platform may identify, using a distributed ledger, whether the event features comply with the smart contract. Based on identifying that the event features do comply with the smart contract, the computing platform may send, to an event processing system, authorization to process the event processing request, which may cause the event processing system to transfer funds from an initiating user to the service provider. |
| US12278819B1 |
Cybersecurity threat detection utilizing unified identity mapping and permission detection
A system and method for detecting effective permissions of a principal in a cloud computing environment, includes detecting a group of principal nodes, each principal node representing a principal in a cloud computing environment, in a security graph, the security graph storing therein a representation of the cloud computing environment; selecting a first principal node from the group of principal nodes; determining a permission between the first principal node and a resource node, wherein the resource node represents a resource deployed in the cloud computing environment; and associating the group of principal nodes with the determined permission. |
| US12278818B2 |
Resource authorization
A method is disclosed for authorization of resources clustered into one or more resource groups, each resource group comprising functionally interdependent resources.The method includes receiving an authorization request signal indicative of a first resource for authorization, wherein the first resource is comprised in a first resource group, determining—for each mandatory resource of the first resource group—whether the resource is authorized, and transmitting an authorization response signal. The authorization response signal is indicative of successful authorization of the first resource when all mandatory resources of the first group are determined as authorized. Further, the authorization response signal is indicative of unsuccessful authorization of the first resource when at least one mandatory resource of the first group is determined as unauthorized.Corresponding apparatus, authorization server, network node and computer program product are also disclosed. |
| US12278817B1 |
Methods, mediums, and systems for verifying devices in an encrypted messaging system
This application describes methods, mediums, and systems for verifying a device for use in a messaging system. Using the device verification procedures described, a messaging system can securely authorize new devices to send and receive encrypted messages on behalf of a user, preferably without the need to share a private encryption key between the users' different devices. The application describes several techniques that can be used to provide such a system, including distributing a computer-perceptible code that encodes encryption information between a secondary device and a primary device. This allows the information to be distributed without intervention by a server. Other techniques provide unique ways to build and reverify authorized device lists, distribute encryption keys in chat channels, ensure that lists of authorized devices are distributed in the correct order and remain valid for an appropriate amount of time, add new devices to an ongoing or new conversation, and more. |
| US12278816B1 |
Access gateway system for accessing a resource
An access gateway may grant a requestor access to a computer resource. The requestor may receive a credential from an identity provider and calculate a zero-knowledge proof of possession of the credential. The requestor may use the proof to request access to the computer resource. The identity provider may record a policy corresponding to the credential in a distributed ledger. The access gateway may, subject to verifying the proof, retrieve the policy from the distributed ledger. The policy may indicate that the requestor is authorized to access the computer resource. The access gateway may grant the requestor access to the computer resource as indicated by the policy. |
| US12278814B2 |
Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for offline authentication
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for offline authentication are provided. An example method includes receiving, by a computing device, a request for authentication from a first user device associated with a first user. The request includes first authentication credentials generated based upon user attributes retrieved by the first user device from a digital identity construct database at a first time. The method includes determining an offline condition of the computing device at a first time. The method also includes obtaining, by the computing device, second authentication credentials associated with the first user that are based upon one or more user attributes retrieved by the computing device from the digital identity construct database at a second time later than the first time. The method incudes determining a discrepancy between the first and second authentication credentials and authenticating the first user based upon a forecast operation of the same. |
| US12278811B2 |
Securing in-vehicle service oriented architecture with mac generate allow list
An electronic control unit (ECU), or node, is configured to use a single key for generating requests from a security peripheral for a MAC. The security peripheral includes the stored shared key. The security peripheral may further include a policy enabling it to detect if a request from the V-ECU is valid, in which case it generates a MAC. The security peripheral is also used to store information in a MAC Generate Allow List (MGAL). In some embodiments, the receiving nodes in a network receive data based on a security peripheral's response to a transmit nodes requests for a MAC. The receiving nodes use this knowledge to avoid being spoofed. |
| US12278809B2 |
Computer-implemented methods, systems comprising computer-readable media, and electronic devices for narrative-structured representation of and intervention into a network computing environment
A computer-implemented method for narrative-structured representation of and intervention into a network computing environment. The method may include: attaching an enabled action program to an abstracted natural language narrative, where execution of the enabled action program causes pre-determined changes in the behavior and/or capabilities of an entity within the network computing environment; generating a representation of the abstracted natural language narrative that includes an enabled action link and an abstraction-toggle link for retrieval of a representation of an unabstracted natural language narrative; upon activation of the abstraction-toggle link, retrieving the representation of the unabstracted natural language narrative; and upon activation of the enabled action link, automatically implementing the pre-determined changes within the network computing environment. |
| US12278808B2 |
Securing group updates over hypertext transfer protocol
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for managing group membership. To remove a user from a group, a group management system ensures that the device associated with the user is no longer able to decrypt messages that are sent by other devices in the group, in spite of having a copy of the binary tree associated with the group. Accordingly, the group management system may update private and public keys that the device may access while ensuring that other devices get the updated private and public keys. The group management system may manipulate the binary tree to move the root node and the sibling node of the node associated with the user being removed such that the update to the binary tree ensures the remaining group members are able to properly participate in future group update operation for which the binary tree may be necessary. |
| US12278804B2 |
Systems and methods for generating secure, encrypted communications using multi-party computations in order to perform blockchain operations in decentralized applications
Methods and systems described herein relate to an improved platform that provides secure, encrypted communications across distributed computer networks when coordinating cryptography-based digital repositories in order to perform blockchain operations in decentralized applications. More specifically, the methods and systems provide this improved platform by introducing additional abstraction layers into a production service for computing signatures during multi-party computation (MPC) signing procedures. |
| US12278801B2 |
Central scheduling for enterprise wireless randomizing changing/rotating MAC address
A method is provided that is performed for a wireless network that includes one or more wireless client devices that may rotate their media access control (MAC) address used for wireless communication with one or more wireless access point devices in the wireless network. The method includes determining an impact of MAC address rotation by the one or more wireless client devices on operational resources of one or more networking devices or networking processes in a network infrastructure associated with the wireless network. The method further includes scheduling MAC address rotation by the one or more wireless client devices according to the impact on operational resources of the one or more networking devices or networking processes in the network infrastructure. |
| US12278792B2 |
Collaborative video messaging component
Video messaging systems and methods utilize a video messaging component based on a video messaging component container stored in a data store. The video messaging component container includes a collaborative video list that shows a list of video content generated by users of the video messaging component. Iterations of the video messaging component are rendered in host applications on client devices. As video content is generated by the iterations, the collaborative video list is updated to include the video content, and the iterations of the video messaging component are updated to reflect changes to the collaborative video list in real-time. |
| US12278789B2 |
Indicating bundling across carriers
Various aspects relate to indicating bundling across carriers (e.g., across cells). In some aspects, bundling may involve sending information sent over multiple carriers (e.g., information sent from or to multiple cells) where the information sent over the carriers is combinable at a receiver. For example, a communication device may send the same set of information (e.g., transport blocks with the same content) via multiple carriers, send different redundancy versions of a set of information via different carriers, send information via different beams on different carriers, or send information using a combination of these techniques. The disclosure relates in some aspects to indicating whether bundling is applied across carriers. For example, downlink control information (DCI) that schedules transmissions on multiple carriers (e.g., multiple component carriers) may include an indication of whether bundling is applied across all or a subset of the scheduled carriers. |
| US12278785B2 |
Terminal, radio communication method, and base station
A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that performs channel state information (CSI) measurement regarding a plurality of panels; and a control section that determines which results of the CSI measurement related to which panel are to be included in a CSI report. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a panel specific CSI report can be appropriately used. |
| US12278778B2 |
Configuring a sensing reference signal
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for configuring a sensing reference signal. One method includes receiving, at a first device, configuration information from a second device. The configuration includes: a set of sensing reference signal sequence generation parameters; a set of sensing reference signal resource pattern parameters, wherein a pattern corresponding to the set of sensing reference signal resource pattern parameters includes time domain locations of symbols within a sensing reference signal, frequency domain locations of resource elements within the sensing reference signal, or a combination thereof; and information indicating to map a generated sequence based on the pattern on at least one antenna to create a sensing reference signal pattern. The method includes generating a sensing reference signal. The method includes transmitting and/or receiving the sensing reference signal according to the configuration information. |
| US12278771B2 |
Latency control for a communication network
A method for latency control in a communication network is disclosed. The method includes identifying that a service is currently associated with a user device associated with the communication network, wherein a deviation between a latency requirement of the service and an internal latency performance of the communication network is bounded, and dynamically adjusting a configuration of the communication network for the service.In some embodiments, the dynamic adjustment is performed only for user devices associated with services with bounded deviation between the latency requirement of the service and the internal latency performance of the communication network.In some embodiments, dynamically adjusting the configuration of the communication network comprises controlling the communication network to provide latencies below a maximum latency threshold for the service.In some embodiments, the dynamic adjustment of the configuration of the communication network is based on the current traffic load. |
| US12278770B2 |
Method, electronic device and computer program product for data transmission
Techniques for data transmission involve obtaining respective data transmission characteristics of a set of to-be-processed data transmission jobs, the data transmission characteristics of each data transmission job indicating at least one of an expected transmission time and a data size of the data transmission job; determining corresponding weights of the set of data transmission jobs based on the data transmission characteristics of the set of data transmission jobs; and determining a transmission rate of each data transmission job based on the weights and a total transmission rate used for the set of data transmission. Accordingly, different transmission rates may be assigned to different data transmission jobs, thereby increasing a recovery point objective (RPO) completion rate before a failure occurs. |
| US12278768B2 |
Service processing method and apparatus, and storage medium
This application discloses example service processing methods and apparatuses. One example method includes obtaining a quantity of transmission windows corresponding to each of n services within a unit time period or in a unit data frame, wherein the unit time period or the unit data frame comprises m transmission windows, a total quantity of transmission windows corresponding to the n services is not greater than m, and both m and n are integers greater than 1. Corresponding transmission windows from the m transmission windows can then be allocated to each service based on the quantity of transmission windows corresponding to each of the n services. Based on the transmission windows corresponding to each service, service data of then services can then be multiplexed into multiplexed data transmitted in one channel. The multiplexed data can then be sent. |
| US12278766B1 |
Advanced storage operations for WAN optimization
Some embodiments of the invention provide a WAN optimization method for optimizing traffic flows through a WAN. The method is performed in a kernel space of a first router at a first site. From a second router at a second site, the method receives, in an optimized data stream from a second site source device to a first site destination device, a file including compressed segments not yet stored by the first router, and copies the compressed segments to a memory shared with a decompression program in the first router's user space. For each compressed segment, the method receives a notification that a decompressed segment obtained by decompressing the compressed segment has been written to a disk storage of the first router, the notification including a block address for the decompressed segment, and updates a cache of the first router with an entry mapping the decompressed segment to the block address. |
| US12278765B2 |
Congestion management in controllers
This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for managing congestion within a network with a controller. The techniques include identifying a first designated memory location from which a first destination device reads first data, identifying a second designated memory location from which a second destination device reads second data, writing the first data to the first designated memory location, incrementing, based at least in part on writing the first data, a write index; sending a first indication to the first destination device that the first data is ready to be consumed, determining that the first destination device retrieved the first data from the first designated memory location, and decrementing the write index. |
| US12278764B2 |
Facilitating access to web flows utilizing network access tokens according to network capacity
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for flexibly and efficiently managing network traffic for a web flow utilizing network access tokens. For example, the disclosed systems facilitate smooth, uninterrupted navigation through various webpages of a web flow (e.g., from an entry point to an exit point) by assigning network access tokens to client devices according to network capacity of servers hosting the web flow. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems permit access to, and navigation within various webpages within, the web flow for the client devices with network access tokens while preventing other client devices from accessing the web flow. |
| US12278761B1 |
Methods and systems for message routing using attributes associated with the source
Methods for routing messages to a destination are provided. The method includes determining a destination carrier for a destination telephone number (TN) of a destination associated with an end user. One or more source attributes are determined. A source attribute is associated with initiation of a message from a sender. Each of the one or more source attributes is categorized into one or more message classes associated with the sender. A message routing policy is determined for the message based on the determined destination carrier and the one or more message classes associated with the sender. The message is routed according to the message routing policy. |
| US12278753B2 |
Apparatus, system and method for managing service mesh traffic in a distributed Kubernetes multi-cluster environment
A service mesh traffic management apparatus, system, and method in a distributed Kubernetes multi-cluster environment are disclosed. A service mesh traffic management apparatus in a distributed Kubernetes multi-cluster environment comprises a processor, and a memory connected to the processor, wherein the memory stores program instructions executable by the processor for performing operations comprising receiving a monitoring metric collected by a Prometheus server distributed in the multi-cluster, selecting a first routing policy based on a predefined routing policy selection rule and the collected monitoring metric, comparing the first routing policy and a second routing policy currently in use, distributing, when the first routing policy and the second routing policy are different, the first routing policy to each proxy in the service mesh. |
| US12278748B2 |
Detailed warning and error reporting related to UL PRS transmission properties
A user equipment (UE) receives reference signal resource configuration for transmitting reference signals for positioning from, e.g., a location server. The UE transmits or attempts to transmit reference signals for positioning to one or more transmission-reception points, such as a gNB. The UE may, however, may be unable to transmit reference signals in accordance with the reference signal resource configuration. For example, the UE may be unable to transmit the reference signals or may transmit the reference signals with lower power or a different spatial relation than configured. The UE may provide a reference signal transmission report indicating that the reference signals were not transmitted according to the reference signal resource configuration. The reference signal transmission report may indicate how the reference signal transmission differs from the reference signal resource configuration and may indicate the reasons that the reference signal transmission differs from the reference signal resource configuration. |
| US12278747B1 |
Systems and methods to analyze root cause anomaly
A system obtains a graph representing a set of resources of a distributed system. At least one node of the graph represents a resource-metric pair. The system further obtains time series data that indicates anomalies from the system. Then, the system determines a root cause anomaly that caused other anomalies based at least in part on the graph and the time series data. |
| US12278745B2 |
Method and system for deep packet inspection in software defined networks
A method for deep packet inspection (DPI) in a software defined network (SDN). The method includes configuring a plurality of network nodes operable in the SDN with at least one probe instruction; receiving from a network node a first packet of a flow, the first packet matches the at least one probe instruction and includes a first sequence number; receiving from a network node a second packet of the flow, the second packet matches the at least one probe instruction and includes a second sequence number, the second packet is a response of the first packet; computing a mask value respective of at least the first and second sequence numbers indicating which bytes to be mirrored from subsequent packets belonging to the same flow; generating at least one mirror instruction based on at least the mask value; and configuring the plurality of network nodes with at least one mirror instruction. |
| US12278740B2 |
Automating cloud services lifecycle through semantic technologies
This invention relates to methods and systems of procuring services in the cloud and specifically procurement where the requirements are defined by the consumer in a machine understandable knowledge representation language such as RDF and OWL using semantic web technology to establish a cloud agent for discovery of a service provider and effectuate the automatic generation of a contract, or service-level agreement, that can be monitored due to the coupling between the machine understandable knowledge representation language and the contract. |
| US12278739B2 |
Update compliance information while in provisional state
Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for ensuring that one or more compliance information bundles associated with one or more end-point identifiers maintain compliance with one or more regulations. It is detected that a rules engine has been updated with a new regulation. Based on an identification that one or more compliance information bundles associated with the one or more end-point identifiers will not be compliant with the new regulation after an expiration of a grace period associated with the new regulation, a status associated with each one or more compliance information bundles is changed to a provisionally-approved status. The changing of the status associated with each of the one or more compliance information bundles to the provisionally-approved status causes each of the one or more compliance information bundles to be treated, temporarily like the status of each the one or more compliance information bundles is an approved status. |
| US12278736B2 |
Node state determination method and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a node state determination method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: determining node attribute information of a linkage process node in response to determining a current process node as the linkage process node; determining at least one third-party platform based on the node attribute information, and sending task information corresponding to the linkage process node to the at least one third-party platform, such that the at least one third-party platform processes the task information; and receiving feedback information from the at least one third-party platform, and updating a node state of the current process node to a target state based on the feedback information. |
| US12278735B2 |
Isolation method for high-performance computer system, and high-performance computer system
Disclosed are an isolation method for a high-performance computer system, and a high-performance computer system. The isolation method comprises node-level isolation performed. The node-level isolation comprises: configuring a routing table for each computing node, and configuring, in the routing table, valid routing information for computing node pairs; when any one source computing node needs to communicate with a target computing node, determining, by lookup, whether valid routing information exists between the source computing node and the target computing node according to the configured routing table; if so, allowing the source computing node to communicate with the target computing node; otherwise, forbidding the source computing node from communicating with the target computing node. The disclosure can realize network security isolation of the high-performance computer system, and guarantee the security and reliability of high-performance computers under the premise of ensuring flexible expansion and high availability of high-performance computing resources. |
| US12278732B1 |
Mechanism of obtaining up-to-date network inventory reliably and optimally
A network node may transmit a configuration message to at least one network device of a plurality of network devices, the configuration message including updated configuration information for the at least one network device, determine whether to update a network inventory system based on a response to the configuration message, and update a record included in the network inventory system associated with the at least one network device based on results of the determination, the updating including updating the record with the updated configuration information. |
| US12278729B2 |
Systems, methods, and media for monitoring cloud configuration settings
Receiving configuration settings (CSs) from a resource using an API; determining a resource risk score (RERS), a first tactic risk score (TARS), a first plurality of technique risk scores (TERSs), a second TARS, and a second TERSs, wherein the RERS is based on the first TARS and the second TARS, wherein the first TARS is based on the first TERSs, wherein the second TARS is based on the second TERSs, wherein each of the first TERSs is based on a subset of a set of policy scores (SPS), wherein each of the second TERSs is based on a subset of the SPS, and wherein each of the SPS is based on compliance of the CSs with a setting; and selecting a most-important technique (MIT) based on the first TARS, the second TARS, and one of the first TERSs and the second TERSs, and remediating a CS corresponding to the MIT. |
| US12278727B2 |
Processing circuit, network device and processing method for anomaly detection
A processing circuit, a network device, and a processing method for anomaly detection are provided. The network device includes a processing circuit and network ports. The processing circuit includes a physical layer (PHY) transmission unit, a PHY control unit, a state detection unit, and a reset unit. The processing circuit performs steps of: switching from operating in the first operation state to operating in a second operation state by the PHY control unit according to an operation request; obtaining a current operation state of the PHY control unit by the state detection unit; determining whether the current operation state and the second operation state are identical by the state detection unit; and driving the reset unit to reset the PHY control unit to an initial state if the current operation state and the second operation state are not identical. |
| US12278723B2 |
Channel access method for data transmission, and wireless communication method and wireless communication terminal using same
The present invention relates to a channel access method for data transmission, and a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal using the same, and more particularly, to a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal for efficiently scheduling data transmissions of a plurality of terminals.To this end, provided are a wireless communication terminal comprising a processor and a transceiver, wherein the processor receives a trigger frame indicating an uplink multi-user transmission, and transmits an uplink multi-user PLCP protocol data unit (PPDU) in response to the received trigger frame, wherein the trigger frame and a non-legacy preamble of the uplink multi-user PPDU contains remaining transmission opportunity (TXOP) time information of a current TXOP and a wireless communication method using the same. |
| US12278722B2 |
Circuits and methods for wake-up receivers
Circuit for wake-up receivers are provide. In some embodiments, the wake-up receivers include self-mixers that receive a gate bias voltage. Some of the self-mixers are single ended and some are differential. In some embodiments, the wake-up receivers include a matching network that is connected to the input of the self-mixer. In some embodiments, the wake-up receivers include a low frequency path connected to the output of the self-mixer. In some embodiments, the wake-up receivers include a high frequency path connected to the output of the self-mixer. In some embodiments, the wake-up receivers are configured to receive an encoded bit stream. In some embodiments, the wake-up receivers are configured to wake-up another receiver. |
| US12278716B2 |
SRS carrier switching for additional SRS
Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable medium for SRS are provided. An example UE may receive an SRS configuration and a downlink transmission scheduling an uplink transmission, the uplink transmission being scheduled on a CC, the SRS configuration comprising one or more additional SRS symbols relative to a first set of SRS symbols associated with an aperiodic trigger Type 1 or a periodic trigger Type 0, the one or more additional SRS symbols being scheduled on a destination CC at least one of the one or more additional SRS symbols overlapping at least partially with the uplink transmission. The example UE may drop or delay transmission of at least a part of an SRS in the one or more additional SRS symbols on the destination CC or at least a part of the uplink transmission on the source CC. |
| US12278715B2 |
Vector channel analyzer
A system and method for measuring characteristics of a signal transmission channel. A generator generates a defined signal as a function of user defined reference parameters, and injects the defined signal into an input of the signal transmission channel. An analyzer receives the defined signal from an output of the signal transmission channel. The analyzer also includes the user defined reference parameters, and measures a reference delay and reference frequency offset without any timing or phase reference synchronization with the generator. The analyzer computes a time-dependent (impulse response) and/or frequency-dependent (frequency response) variation of a response of the signal transmission channel relative to the reference delay and reference frequency offset. |
| US12278708B2 |
Infrastructure equipment, mobile terminal, computer software and methods
Infrastructure equipment for use in a telecommunications system, the infrastructure equipment comprising: transceiver circuitry and control circuitry, whereby the transceiver circuitry, under control of the control circuitry, is configured to: transmit first data to a first mobile device and second data to a second mobile device, wherein the transmission period of the second data is shorter than the transmission period of the first data and the second data is transmitted after the start of the first data, and uses transmission resources allocated to, the first data; and transmit to the first mobile device, indication data that contains information identifying the resources allocated to the second data, wherein the granularity of the resources is determined in accordance with the first data. |
| US12278707B2 |
Method and device in nodes used for wireless communication
The present disclosure provides a method and device in a node used for wireless communications. A first node receives a first signaling, receives a first signal in a first time window, and transmits a first bit block in a first radio resource block. The first signaling is used for indicating configuration information for the first signal; the first time window is one of M time windows, and any two time windows of the M time windows are orthogonal, M being a positive integer greater than 1; the first radio resource block belongs to a target time window in time domain, and any of the M time windows is associated with the target time window. The above method not only saves the dynamic signaling overhead, but also avoids the impact of miss detection. |
| US12278705B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving block ack in wireless LAN system
A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a block acknowledgement (ACK) in a wireless local area network (LAN) system are disclosed. An operation method for a first communication node comprises the steps of: generating a first data frame including first add block acknowledgment (ADDBA) information; transmitting the first data frame to a second communication node; and receiving, from the second communication node, a first receiver address (RA) including second ADDBA information generated by the second communication node in response to the first data frame. |
| US12278703B1 |
Data transmission protocol
Systems and methods for data transmission protocols are disclosed. For example, a receiving device is selected to send retransmission requests when data packet loss occurs, and then a unicast transmission of data packets may be sent to that selected receiving device. Other receiving devices may be configured to receive the unicast transmission as sent to the selected receiving device and to process the transmission as a multicast transmission. Alternatively, a multicast transmission may be sent to all of the receiving devices, and the selected receiving device may be configured to process the multicast transmission as a unicast transmission for the purpose of sending retransmission requests indicating packet loss. Backup packets may be generated and sent to all of the receiving devices to improve content output quality. |
| US12278702B2 |
Polar code encoding method and apparatus in wireless communications
This application relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, and discloses an encoding method and apparatus, to improve accuracy of reliability calculation and ordering for polarized channels. The method includes: obtaining a first sequence used to encode K to-be-encoded bits, where the first sequence includes sequence numbers of N polarized channels, the first sequence is same as a second sequence or a subset of the second sequence, the second sequence comprises sequence numbers of Nmax polarized channels, and the second sequence is the sequence shown in Sequence Q11 or Table Q11, K is a positive integer, N is a positive integer power of 2, n is equal to or greater than 5, K≤N, Nmax=1024; selecting sequence numbers of K polarized channels from the first sequence; and performing polar code encoding on K the to-be-encoded bits based on the selected sequence numbers of the K polarized channels. |
| US12278701B2 |
High speed interconnect symbol stream forward error-correction
Disclosed herein are techniques to provide forward error correction for a high-speed interconnect symbol stream, such as, DisplayPort. The symbol stream may be split into FEC blocks and parity bits generated for each of the FEC blocks. The parity bits may be interleaved, encoded, and transmitted over an interconnect along with the symbol stream to provide forward error correction for the symbol stream. |
| US12278699B2 |
Method and device for transmitting or receiving downlink control information and storage medium
A method for transmitting downlink control information (DCI) includes: transmitting DCI based on modulation coding strategy (MCS) corresponding to user equipment (UE); in which the DCI includes a first-type DCI or a second-type DCI, the first-type DCI includes a first MCS field and a first repeating number indication field; and the second-type DCI includes a second MCS field and a second repeating number indication field. |
| US12278697B2 |
System and method for multimachine phase synchronization based on optical fiber transmission
A system and a method for multimachine phase synchronization based on optical fiber transmission are provided. The system includes a master and a plurality of slaves, where an optical fiber transmitting interface of the master is connected to an optical fiber receiving interface of one slave, the slave connected to the master is connected in series with the other slaves in turn, the master transmits phase information of a digital reference source thereof as a system synchronous phase signal to the slave connected to the master, the slave takes the received system synchronous phase signal as a phase of the local digital reference source, and transmits the system synchronous phase signal to a slave connected to an optical fiber transmitting interface of the slave through the optical fiber transmitting interface, and when the last slave is connected to the master, the master and the slaves form a closed-loop communication test. |
| US12278696B2 |
Time offset determination without synchronization
A method and system for the post-adjustment (i.e., offline) of event timestamps to implement virtual time synchronization amongst detection node clocks. In existing methodologies with the goal of clock synchronization, clocks (and timestamps generated therefrom) are disciplined or adjusted at the recordation time of the events on a detection node (e.g., a switch/router, an Internet-of-Things (IoT) device, a wireless sensor, etc.). However, there is no particular reason for these clocks or timestamps to be accurate during the recordation time, but rather, should be accurate at their use or interpretation time. Further, through these recordation time adjustments, clock drifts and timing errors may be gradually introduced, leading to runaway inaccuracies. The disclosed method and system intentionally avoids the disciplining of clocks at event recordation times on the detection node and, instead, adjusts timestamps during interpretation times, to overcome the aforementioned issues. |
| US12278694B2 |
Method and apparatus for synchronizing signals of signal measuring devices
Disclosed herein to a method and apparatus for synchronizing signals. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for synchronizing a signal. The method comprising: receiving a reference time and performing time synchronization with the reference time; calculating a clock frequency of a system clock based on the reference time; and generating a sampling clock by using the calculated clock frequency of the system clock and a preset sampling frequency. |
| US12278693B2 |
Stretched single optical span communications system and method avoiding hazardous power levels
A method of implementing a stretched single optical communication span includes receiving one or more optical signals from an optical fiber span having high loss; adding a pilot signal to the one or more optical signals, subsequent to the receiving; and amplifying the one or more optical signals and the pilot signal with a pre-amplifier that is an Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA). Advantageously, the stretched single span operates below a Hazard 1M environment. A node in a stretched single optical communication span includes an optical multiplexer connected to an optical fiber span having high and a pilot signal, and configured to output a combination of one or more optical signals from the optical fiber span and the pilot signal; and a pre-amplifier that is an EDFA configured to receive the output of the optical multiplexer and provide amplification of the one or more optical signals and the pilot signal. |
| US12278689B2 |
Method and apparatus for group ephemeris data provision
The present application relates to a method and an apparatus for a group ephemeris data provision. One embodiment of the subject application provides a method performed by a User Equipment (UE), which includes: receiving a signal indicating a first satellite group ID of a first satellite group; and comparing the first satellite group ID with a second satellite group ID of a second satellite group in a second satellite group ID set which is previously stored in the UE, wherein the first satellite group ID is associated with group ephemeris data and each satellite group ID of the second satellite group ID is associated with group ephemeris data. |
| US12278688B2 |
Information indication method and apparatus for non-terrestrial communication network
This application provides an information indication method and apparatus for a non-terrestrial communication network. The method includes: A terminal receives first indication information, where the first indication information includes a bandwidth part BWP indication field, and the BWP indication field indicates a BWP identifier offset; the terminal determines a second bandwidth part identifier BWP_ID based on the BWP identifier offset, where the second BWP_ID corresponds to a target beam of the terminal; and the terminal switches to the target beam. The method extends indication of BWP identifiers on a premise of compatibility with indication based on conventional downlink control information DCI. |
| US12278687B2 |
Dynamic cellular network interference management
Various arrangements for performing dynamic resource blanking on a cellular network are presented herein. Based on orbital data for a satellite, a cellular network can determine user equipment (UE) conducting an active call using a particular frequency band at a base station. For each of the UE a handover can be performed of on-going calls to a different frequency band. Following completion of the handovers, use of the frequency band at the base station can be temporarily disabled. |
| US12278680B2 |
Channel state information reference signal transmission method and apparatus
Provided in embodiments of the present disclosure are a Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: configuration information is transmitted to a terminal, the configuration information including the number of Resource Blocks (RB) in an A-type RB group, and the A-type RB group comprises consecutive RBs for carrying all ports of CSI-RS; and the CSI-RS is transmitted to the terminal according to the configuration information. The present disclosure can solve the problem in the related art that system complexity is increased due to the unfixed number of antenna ports for the CSI-RS, and reduce the system complexity by transmitting the CSI-RS by means of the configuration information that includes the number of RBs included in the A-type RB group, and the A-type RB group comprises the consecutive RBs for carrying all the ports of the CSI-RS. |
| US12278678B2 |
Methods for full duplex beamforming and online calibration in millimeter wave systems
A wireless device, such as a base station, may be configured to determine a set of silent symbols for beam calibration measurements by a User Equipment (UE) for full duplex communication. The wireless device may transmit, to the UE, an indication of the set of silent symbols for the beam calibration measurements by the UE. The wireless device may refrain from transmitting during the set of silent symbols. A wireless device, such as a UE, may receive an indication of a set of silent symbols for a beam calibration measurement by the UE for full duplex communication with a base station. The wireless device may perform beam calibration measurements for beam candidates. |
| US12278673B2 |
Apparatus and methods for mesh communication networks with broadcast messages
An embodiment is a method including receiving, by a first device via a mesh communication network, a first broadcast message over a first communication channel, the first broadcast message having a first hop count, receiving, by the first device via the mesh communication network, a second broadcast message over the first communication channel, and determining, by the first device, whether the second broadcast message is a consistent broadcast message as the first broadcast message, the determining including determining, by the first device, whether the first broadcast message has a same originator address as the second broadcast message, and determining, by the first device, whether the second hop count is larger than the first hop count. |
| US12278672B2 |
Computing apparatus and margin measurement method
A computing apparatus, includes a first apparatus and a second apparatus, a differential transmission line that couples the first apparatus and the second apparatus to each other, a noise application unit that applies noise to the differential transmission line, a noise control unit that controls the noise application unit, and a margin measurement unit that measures an occurrence frequency of communication error between the first apparatus and the second apparatus. |
| US12278669B2 |
Systems and methods for spectrum analysis utilizing signal degradation data
Methods for tracking a signal origin by a spectrum analysis and management device are disclosed. Signal characteristics of other known emitters are used for obtaining a position of an emitter of a signal of interest. In one embodiment, frequency difference of arrival technique is implemented. In another embodiment, time difference of arrival technique is implemented. |
| US12278668B2 |
Method for dynamic orientation-change based over-the-air testing of beamforming performance
Embodiments include methods of testing wireless devices for beam forming performance. Various aspects may include determining measurements of communication performance of the wireless device at each of a number of different angular orientations of the wireless device with respect to an antenna within a test chamber, and determining whether the wireless device satisfies beam forming performance requirements by comparing the measurements of communication performance to pass/fail criteria. Further embodiments may include a wireless device testing apparatus configured to perform testing wireless devices for beam forming performance. In some embodiments, a wireless device testing apparatus may include a test chamber, an antenna within the test chamber, a rotatable positioning system within the test chamber configured to hold a wireless device and rotate the wireless device within a range of orientations with respect to the antenna, and a computing device coupled to the antenna and the rotatable positioning system. |
| US12278666B2 |
Entangled quantum state receiver
An entangled quantum state receiver includes an optical detector that generates an electrical signal having a signal characteristic in response to detection of a single photon. A first electrical circuit generating an electrical signal having a predetermined duration when the signal characteristic is present at the input. A clock generates a clock waveform with a period. A second electrical circuit generates a state value when the electrical signal has the predetermined duration during a cycle of the clock waveform. A processor is configured to determine received entangled state information from the state value and configured to adjust the clock period based on a background photon count at the optical detector. |
| US12278663B2 |
Optical module and parameter transmission method, detection method, control method thereof, and fronthaul system
The present application provides an optical module and parameter transmission method, detection method, control method thereof, and a fronthaul system. The parameter transmission method includes: generating, in response to at least one of a plurality of registers of a far-end optical module becoming a first source register, an uplink optical signal according to ID information and a register value of the first source register, where the first source register is a register having a changed register value of the plurality of registers, and register values of the registers have a mapping relationship with performance parameters of the far-end optical module; and transmitting the uplink optical signal to a near-end optical module of a near-end node. |
| US12278661B2 |
Industrial wireless communication system
In an industrial wireless communication system. a base wireless device has a synchronous connection transmission unit for broadcasting a synchronous connection signal to achieve synchronous connection to a remote wireless device in only a single synchronous connection period which is an integral multiple of a hopping period. The synchronous connection transmission unit sequentially switches communication frequencies for synchronization so as to transmit the synchronous connection signal with a plurality of communication frequencies for synchronization within one hopping period. A synchronous connection reception unit sequentially switches communication frequencies for synchronization with a switching period which is longer than the hopping period and shorter than twice the hopping period, so as to perform a reception wait process for the synchronous connection signal with a plurality of communication frequencies for synchronization. |
| US12278660B2 |
PDMA communication system based on optimal frequency-hopping patterns
Provided is a pattern division multiple access (PDMA) communication system based on optimal frequency-hopping patterns, which includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter modulates an input baseband signal into a modulated signal, and then converts the modulated signal into a signal that hops in frequency according to the optimal frequency-hopping pattern. The receiver reverts the received frequency-hopping signal to an output modulated signal using an optimal frequency-hopping pattern same as that of the transmitter, and then demodulates the modulated signal into a baseband signal. The optimal frequency-hopping patterns are obtained by applying two-dimensional cyclic shift to a Golomb Costas array constructed based on an extension field, and thus are frequency-hopping patterns with ideal autocorrelation and cross-correlation properties. |
| US12278656B2 |
Detector and method of determining validity for determination on presence of specific signal of detector
A method of determining validity for determination on presence of a specific signal of a detector according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: (a) receiving a synthesized signal generated from an outside by the detector; (b) acquiring a plurality of frequency domain calculation values related to the synthesized signal; (c) determining the presence of at least one specific signal based on the plurality of frequency domain calculation values; and (d) determining the validity for the determination on the presence of the specific signal based on a frequency domain scatter plot for the plurality of frequency domain calculation values. |
| US12278651B2 |
System and method for location based error correcting and video transcribing code selection
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a plurality of data associated with a device, wherein the plurality of data includes a location data associated with the device; applying the plurality of data as an input to a trained Machine Learning (ML) model to determine an error correcting code to be used for the device based on an output of the selected ML model; and sending the error correcting code to the device. |
| US12278650B2 |
Data coding processing method and apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device
A data coding processing method and apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: acquiring discontinuous data from a plurality of data blocks used for Forward Error Correction (FEC) coding to form a plurality of target data blocks; determining parity information of FEC code words respectively according to the plurality of target data blocks, so as to obtain a plurality of pieces of parity information; and forming coded data by the plurality of pieces of parity information and the plurality of data blocks used for FEC coding. |
| US12278649B2 |
Processing device, transmitter, base station, mobile device, method and computer program
A processing device is provided. The processing device comprises one or more interfaces configured to transmit information to a nonlinear device and processing circuitry configured to control the one or more interfaces and to. Further, the processing circuitry is configured to transmit an excitation signal to the nonlinear device and to receive response information from the nonlinear device. Further, the processing circuitry is configured to determine a linear response of the nonlinear device based on the response information and to determine a nonlinear response of the nonlinear device based on the determined linear response. |
| US12278648B2 |
System and methods for ramp control
A device including an input to receive a clock signal, a ramp start program register, a ramp start active register, a ramp stop program register, a ramp stop active register, a ramp slope program register, a ramp slope active register, an update controller, the update controller to update, based on a programmable condition, respectively, the ramp start active register contents, the ramp stop active register contents and the ramp slope active register contents, and a ramp controller to generate a ramp signal, the ramp signal to begin at the value reflective of the ramp start active register contents, the ramp signal to change value at each cycle of the clock signal based on the value reflective of the ramp slope active register contents, and the ramp signal to stop at the value reflective of the ramp stop active register contents. |
| US12278645B2 |
High resolution VCO-based ADC
An analog to digital conversion (ADC) circuit includes a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO)-based quantizer that receives a voltage input signal to be quantized and provides a digital output. A predictor samples the digital output, evaluates correlation between successive samples, and predicts a predicted input sample from the correlation to minimize voltage-to-frequency transfer of the VCO. A feedback loop L1 with a digital to analog converter (DAC) receives the predicted input sample, converts it and subtracts it from the voltage input signal. A feedback loop L2 adds the predicted sample to the digital output. |
| US12278641B2 |
Phase-lock loop circuit, voltage-controlled oscillator and compensation method
The present disclosure provides a voltage-controlled oscillator for a phase-lock loop circuit. The voltage-controlled oscillator is used to receive a control voltage and generate a clock signal, and includes a voltage-to-current device, a process compensation device, a subtraction unit and a clock signal generating module. The voltage-to-current device is used to generate a linear current according to the control voltage. The process compensation device is used to generate a compensation current according to the control voltage. The compensation current is proportional to a transistor operation speed corresponding to a process offset. The subtraction unit is electrically connected to the voltage-to-current device and the process compensation device, and is used to subtract the compensation current from the linear current to generate the control current. The clock signal generating module is electrically connected to the subtraction unit, and is used to generate the clock signal according to the control current. |
| US12278639B1 |
Wide frequency range burst mode clock and data recovery circuit using clock to data delay compensation method
A clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit includes: a frequency tracking loop including an injection locked oscillator for adjusting a frequency of oscillation to generate an output signal having a frequency tracked to a reference clock frequency, and then receiving an input data signal and extracting an output clock from the input data signal; and a phase tracking circuit coupled to the frequency tracking loop. The phase tracking circuit includes: a phase interpolator for receiving the output clock and adjusting a phase of the output clock according to an input code to generate a sampling clock for sampling a signal to generate a deserialized signal; and a finite state machine, coupled to the phase interpolator, for outputting a code to the phase interpolator according to the deserialized signal of the multiplexer in order to adjust the phase of the output clock. |
| US12278638B2 |
Droop detection and control of digital frequency-locked loop
An integrated circuit includes a power supply monitor, a clock generator, and a divider. The power supply monitor is operable to provide a trigger signal in response to a power supply voltage dropping below a threshold voltage. The clock generator is operable to provide a first clock signal having a frequency dependent on a value of a frequency control word, and to change the frequency of the first clock signal over time using a native slope in response to a change in the frequency control word. The divider is responsive to an assertion of the trigger signal to divide a frequency of the first clock signal by a divide value to provide a second clock signal. |
| US12278632B1 |
Low power auto-scalable differential predriver
A transmitter includes driver slices coupled to its output. Each driver slice includes a first differential predriver that is selectively enabled and disabled by a first switch based on a control code configuration. A second differential predriver provides a first differential buffered data signal to a first group of driver slices when the second differential predriver is enabled. A second switch enables the second differential predriver when the control code is configured to enable the first differential predriver in at least one driver slice in the first group of driver slices. A third differential predriver provides a second differential buffered data signal to a second group of driver slices when the third differential predriver is enabled. A third switch enables the third differential predriver when the control code is configured to enable the first differential predriver in at least one driver slice in the second group of driver slices. |
| US12278630B2 |
Fast fourier transform (FFT) based digital signal processing (DSP) engine
A digital signal processing (DSP) block includes a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) unit capable of performing an FFT operation. The FFT unit includes a first FFT engine capable of converting a signal between a time-domain and a frequency-domain and the first FFT engine is a fixed size FFT engine. The FFT unit also includes a second FFT engine communicatively coupled to the first FFT engine and the second FFT engine is a variable size FFT engine. The FFT unit also includes a scale/offset block communicatively coupled to the second FFT engine and the scale/offset block is capable of performing a multiplication operation, an addition operation, or a combination thereof on an output of the second FFT engine. |
| US12278629B2 |
Delay circuit and memory
A delay circuit includes a self-shielding circuit and a delay. The self-shielding circuit is configured to: receive an initial command signal and N initial clock signals, register the initial command signal according to a first initial clock signal among the N initial clock signals that triggers the initial command signal at earliest, shield other N−1 second initial clock signals, and output N intermediate command signals, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and the N initial clock signals have a same frequency and different phases. The delay is electrically connected to the self-shielding circuit and is configured to: receive the N intermediate command signals and the N initial clock signals, and delay and output the N intermediate command signals to obtain a delayed command signal. Thus, the accuracy of signal processing can be improved. |
| US12278625B2 |
Driver circuit
The driver circuit includes DC cut capacitors, an input buffer, input termination resistors connected in series between differential input signal terminals and an ESD protection circuit connected to a connection point of the input terminal resistors. The ESD protection circuit includes diodes. |
| US12278621B2 |
Short circuit detection and protection for an insulated gate component by monitoring and checking the gate voltage
A power stage includes a power transistor controlled via a driver, the power transistor comprising three terminals, including a collector c, an emitter e and a gate g linked to the driver, the power stage comprising a detection device for detecting a short-circuit current cc between the collector c and the emitter e, the detection device comprising a voltage sensor capable of detecting a voltage Vge at the gate g of the power transistor outside of a predefined voltage range. |
| US12278615B2 |
Resonator device, electronic device, and moving object
A quartz crystal resonator includes a quartz crystal resonator element, a thermistor, and a package base having a first principal surface and a second principal surface having an opposed surface relationship with each other, the quartz crystal resonator element is mounted on the first principal surface side, the thermistor is housed in a recessed section of the second principal surface side of the package base, a plurality of electrode terminals connected to the quartz crystal resonator element or the thermistor is disposed on the second principal surface side of the package base, and a distance in a first direction perpendicular to the first principal surface from a mounting surface of the electrode terminals to the thermistor is equal to or longer than 0.05 mm. |
| US12278614B2 |
Multilayer piezoelectric substrate with reduced side leakage and transverse mode suppression
An acoustic wave device, a method of manufacture of the same, and a radio frequency filter including the same. The acoustic wave device comprises a multilayer piezoelectric substrate (MPS) including a layer of piezoelectric material having a lower surface disposed on an upper surface of a layer of a dielectric material having a lower surface disposed on an upper surface of a carrier substrate. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is disposed on the multilayer piezoelectric substrate and includes an active region configured to generate an acoustic wave. First and second high impedance portions are included within the multilayer piezoelectric substrate, the first and second high impedance portions each positioned outside the active region of the interdigital transducer and extending in the direction of propagation of the acoustic wave to be generated by the interdigital transducer. The first and second high impedance portions reduce side leakage and suppress transverse modes. |
| US12278612B2 |
Cascaded resonator having reflector electrodes with different pitches
An acoustic wave device comprises a piezoelectric substrate, interdigital transducer electrodes having an electrode pitch λ0, and first and second reflector gratings disposed on opposite respective sides of the interdigital transducer electrodes in a propagation direction of a main acoustic wave through the acoustic wave device, the first reflector grating having a reflector electrode pitch λ1 throughout an entirety of the first reflector grating that is different than a reflector electrode pitch λ2 throughout an entirety of the second reflector grating to suppress ripples in a conductance curve of the acoustic wave device. |
| US12278610B2 |
Multilayer LC filter
Multiple LC parallel resonators in which inductors and capacitors are connected in parallel are located inside a multilayer body. The inductors each include a loop inductor including a line-shaped conductor pattern and at least one pair of via conductors connected to the line-shaped conductor pattern. When the multilayer body is seen through in a height direction, in all the loop inductors of the LC parallel resonators, open via conductors are closer to a center of the multilayer body, and short-circuit via conductors are closer to an outer side of the multilayer body in at least one of a width direction and a length direction. |
| US12278609B2 |
Filter device and radio-frequency front-end circuit including the same
A filter device includes a body, a ground terminal, and resonators in the body and coupled to each other by electromagnetic field coupling. The resonators include a first resonator coupled to an input terminal, a second resonator coupled to an output terminal, and third and fourth resonators. The second resonator is adjacent to the first resonator in a first direction. The third resonator is adjacent to the first resonator in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The fourth resonator is adjacent to the third resonator in the first direction. The third and fourth resonators partially share a path to the ground terminal. |
| US12278595B2 |
Cleaning robot and cleaning method
A cleaning robot includes a supporting mechanism, cleaning mechanisms and a walking mechanism. The supporting mechanism is used for supporting the cleaning robot; the cleaning mechanisms are symmetrically arranged at the two ends of the supporting mechanism and can clean the surface of a photovoltaic panel; the walking mechanism is arranged in the middle of the supporting mechanism and can fix the cleaning robot to the surface of the photovoltaic panel and drive the cleaning robot to move on the surface of the photovoltaic panel; and the supporting mechanism can adjust the cleaning ranges of the cleaning mechanisms, so that the cleaning mechanisms at least have a first cleaning range and a second cleaning range, and the first cleaning range and the second cleaning range can be concentric circles. The cleaning robot is small and exquisite in structure and light. One person can operate multiple robots at the same time. |
| US12278591B2 |
Roofing shingles for mimicking the appearance of photovoltaic modules
A system including a plurality of photovoltaic modules and a plurality of roofing shingles installed on a roof deck. Each of the photovoltaic modules includes a plurality of solar cells. Each of the plurality of roofing shingles includes a core layer and a cap layer composed of a first polymer material and having a first surface and a pattern printed on the first surface. The pattern includes a depiction of a plurality of solar cells that extends between the first end and the second end. |
| US12278589B2 |
Control method and control apparatus of permanent magnet generator
A control method and a control apparatus of a permanent magnet generator are provided, the control method includes: determining an active current reference initial value and a reactive current reference initial value of the permanent magnet generator in a current control period; searching, based on the active current reference initial value and the reactive current reference initial value, and with a target of maximizing a torque-current ratio in the current control period, an optimal active current reference value and an optimal reactive current reference value in the current control period; controlling, based on the optimal active current reference value and the optimal reactive current reference value, the permanent magnet generator to operate; in which the torque-current ratio is calculated based on a torque command value received by the permanent magnet generator from a wind turbine main controller and an output current value of the permanent magnet generator. |
| US12278581B2 |
Delay reduction for pulsed wound field synchronous machines
An electric machine is provided. A power converter is coupled between a power supply and a wound field synchronous machine. The power converter is arranged to provide a pulsed operation by providing a pulsed DC current to field windings of the wound field synchronous machine. |
| US12278576B2 |
Electric motor drive device
An electric motor drive device that includes an electric motor, a main circuit, a current sensor, and a control unit. The electric motor has a plurality of windings. The main circuit transforms power into AC power and supplies the AC power to each of the plurality of windings. The current sensor detects a load current flowing through each of the windings. The control unit controls the main circuit on the basis of a current value detected by the current sensor and controls an amount of power to be supplied from the main circuit to the electric motor on the basis of an amplitude of the load current associated with detection of an undervoltage state of the AC power supply in a state in which the main circuit uses conversion rule in which an index value for the amplitude of the load current flowing through the plurality of windings is defined. |
| US12278574B2 |
System and process for controlling electric machines using a measuring circuit of the voltage of the electric machine
A control system (200) of an electric machine (80) includes a position sensor (51) configured to detect the angular position of a rotor of the electric machine (80); at least two alternate current sensors (52), each one of the alternate current sensors (52) being configured to detect the value of the alternate current (ia, ib, ic) to an input phase to the electric machine (80), and being electrically connected to a phase of the supply circuit of the electric machine (80), the electric machine (80) being electrically connected to an inverter (60) configured to transform a continuous voltage supplied by the electric supply means into an alternate voltage for a power supply of the electric machine (80); and a measuring circuit (100) of a voltage of an electric machine. |
| US12278570B2 |
DC-DC converter assembly
A DC-DC converter assembly includes a DC-DC power converter. A converter load is electrically connected between a positive input and a positive output (or negative input and negative output) of the DC-DC converter such that a DC input voltage source of the assembly supplies load power directly to the converter load without passing through the DC-DC power converter. |
| US12278567B2 |
Communication apparatus and semiconductor device
According to the present embodiment, a main pulse signal generation circuit generates a first main pulse signal corresponding to rising of a logic signal, and a second main pulse signal corresponding to falling thereof. A sub pulse signal generation circuit performs at least either a first generation process of generating a first sub pulse signal corresponding to the first main pulse signal at predetermined intervals, or a second generation process of generating a second sub pulse signal corresponding to the second main pulse signal at predetermined intervals after a predetermined time from generation of the second main pulse signal. An output circuit outputs at least any of the first main pulse signal, the second main pulse signal, the first sub pulse signal, and the second sub pulse signal. The output circuit stops outputting at least either the first sub pulse signal or the second sub pulse signal. |
| US12278565B2 |
Method for regulating a buck-boost converter having two switching elements and an inductance and via which an input voltage is converted into regulated output voltage
A clocked buck-boost converter includes two switch elements and an inductor and via which an input voltage is converted into a regulated output voltage, wherein a first switch element or buck converter switch element is clocked using a first control signal, and a second switch element or boost converter switch element is clocked using a second control signal, where the first and second control signals are derived from a regulator manipulated variable from a regulating unit, first and second manipulated variables are generated for the first and second control signals, the regulator manipulated variable is amplified, an offset value is derived, and the two manipulated variables are then compared with a sawtooth signal and the two switch elements of the buck-boost converter are actuated or clocked in a corresponding manner to generate the first or second control signal. |
| US12278562B2 |
Biphasic Dickson switched capacitor converter
A biphasic Dickson switched capacitor converter includes an auxiliary circuit, a first branch and a second branch, the auxiliary circuit is connected between the first branch and the second branch, and electric charges at one of the first branch and the second branch are transferred to another of the first branch and the second branch by controlling the auxiliary circuit during a dead time when primary power transistors are turned off to realize the primary power transistors turn on at zero voltage and reduce a switching loss. |
| US12278555B2 |
Variable gain modulation methods and controllers for AC-DC converter with power factor correction
A controller for an AC-DC converter including a rectifier circuit that converts AC input voltage into DC output voltage uses control logic to control the rectifier circuit according to two or more operating modes. Each operating mode determines a gain of the rectifier circuit. The controller selects an operating mode from the two or more operating modes based on at least one of an AC input voltage value and a required DC output voltage value. The AC-DC converter provides a wide range of DC output voltage with power factor correction. The controller may be used with AC-DC converter topologies such as boost converter, isolated boost converter, PWM converter, LLC resonant converter, and LCC resonant converter. |
| US12278552B2 |
Converter circuits
A system can include a bi-directional converter circuit comprising a plurality of switches and a flying capacitor configured to experience a low voltage or a high voltage, and a control module operatively connected to the plurality of switches to control a state of the plurality of switches. The control module can be configured to receive a sense signal indicative of a flying capacitor voltage and to control the one or more switches of the plurality of switches to charge or discharge the flying capacitor to maintain a target voltage or target voltage range. |
| US12278550B2 |
Stator assembly of an electric motor with retrofitted heat pipes
A motor stator includes a stator core having a plurality of stator teeth on an inner diameter thereof and defining a respective plurality of slots between the plurality of stator teeth. A plurality of windings are disposed in the slots. A heat pipe network includes a plurality of evaporator portions including a hollow structure disposed in at least a portion of the plurality of slots and including an interior having a wick extending along the interior of the hollow structure. A condenser portion has an interior portion in communication with the plurality of evaporator portions and is located at an end of the stator core. The wick of each of the plurality of evaporator portions extend into the condenser portion. |
| US12278549B2 |
Electric machine
An electric machine including a pulse inverter having a region with an oil space and busbars, wherein the electric machine is electrically connected to the pulse inverter by the busbars such that the busbars are electrically connected to a connection of the pulse inverter, wherein the busbars and the electric machine are cooled by oil, and wherein the oil for supplying and cooling the busbars is stored within the oil space in the region of the pulse inverter. |
| US12278541B2 |
Method and apparatus for active cooling of intake air for a hybrid cooled belt starter generator
A cooling system for a belt starter generator, which has at least one housing portion, a plurality of flow apertures integrally formed as part of the housing portion, a heat sink connected to the housing portion, the heat sink cooled by liquid cooling, and a plurality of fins integrally formed as part of the heat sink. A rotor having a shaft is at least partially disposed in the housing portion, and a plurality of slots are integrally formed as part of the rotor. An impeller having a plurality of blades is mounted on the shaft. As the shaft rotates, the rotor and the impeller also rotate, and the blades generate air flow to create a flow path such that air flows between each of the fins, through the flow apertures, and through the slots of the rotor, and through the blades, achieving air cooling of the belt starter generator. |
| US12278538B2 |
Electric power unit and working machine
The present invention provides an electric power unit that is mounted on a mounting object, comprising a motor; and electrical equipment for driving the motor, wherein the motor has a first attachment portion that is attached to the mounting object, and a second attachment portion to which the electrical equipment is attached. |
| US12278537B2 |
Electromagnetic vibration and energy harvester
A method for achieving a desired vibration resonance frequency of electromagnetic energy harvesters that includes the step of providing a harvester that includes a coil wound along a core, a magnet, a suspending device that includes a base connected to the body and a hinge connected to the magnet, and a stationary magnet attached to the body or the base when the positive poles of the magnets faces each other and the repulsive magnetic force between them restore the magnet. The gravity center of the hinge and the magnet is shifted off the rotation axis of the hinge so that body vibrations cause a relative alternating movement between the core and the magnet that creates alternating voltage between in the coil, and the step of determining the specific distance between the magnets based on the magnetic flux strength of the stationary magnet for achieving the desired frequency. |
| US12278533B2 |
Windings for electrical machines
The present disclosure relates to a winding for an electrical machine. The winding comprises at least one flat conductor having at least one turn to form the winding, and the at least one flat conductor comprises a substantially L-shaped, U-shaped or V-shaped cross-section. The present disclosure also relates to an electrical machine that includes the winding and an aircraft that includes the electrical machine. |
| US12278531B2 |
Vacuum pressure impregnation method for insulation system
A vacuum pressure impregnation process includes placing a room temperature coil/winding into a pressure vessel with a camera aimed at the coil/winding for inspection, and sealing the pressure vessel to draw a first vacuum level, maintained for a first duration. The coil/winding is flooded with resin and remotely monitored. A second vacuum level is maintained for a second duration while remotely monitoring. A first positive pressure level is applied for a third duration while remotely monitoring, before releasing and drawing a third vacuum level, maintained for a fourth duration while remotely monitoring. A second positive pressure level is applied for a fifth duration while remotely monitoring, before releasing pressure and removing the coil/winding from the pressure vessel. |
| US12278523B2 |
Electrical machine
An electrical machine for use in an aircraft. The electrical machine includes a rotor that includes a plurality of rotor poles, and a stator including a plurality of phases. Each respective phase occupies at least one elementary block. The at least one elementary block of each phase includes a set of conductors of the respective phase wound around a plurality of slots of the respective elementary block in a concentrated winding configuration. The stator further includes at least one sensor located between two elementary block. The at least one sensor being configured to measure at least one parameter of the rotor. |
| US12278522B2 |
Welding of a stack of laminations for a rotor
A rotor for a rotary electric machine includes a rotor shaft configured to rotate around an axis of rotation, a rotor body formed of a stack of laminations having a plurality of teeth projecting radially and being configured to be mounted coaxially on the rotor shaft. A field coil is wound around each tooth of the plurality of teeth. At least one tooth of the plurality of teeth includes at least one weld seam on a lateral face of the corresponding tooth, the lateral face extending radially and axially along the axis of rotation. |
| US12278513B2 |
Charge/discharge control circuit and battery device
A charge/discharge control circuit controls charging and discharging using a discharge control FET which opens and closes a discharge path and a charge control FET which opens and closes a charge path. The charge/discharge control circuit includes a charge/discharge monitoring circuit; and a control circuit, turning on and off the discharge control FET connected between a secondary cell and a load and the charge control FET connected between the discharge control FET and a charger in response to a detection signal from the charge/discharge monitoring circuit and a voltage of a negative electrode of the charger, and opening and closing the discharge path and the charge path. The control circuit turns off the discharge control FET and turns on the charge control FET, and then turns off the charge control FET when detecting that the voltage of the negative electrode of the charger reaches a predetermined voltage or higher. |
| US12278509B2 |
Charging method for series battery cells
This invention discloses a charging method for series rechargeable battery cells. This invention comprises a Total Voltage Follow-up Procedure (TVFP) in combination with an Artificial Intelligent Equalizing Procedure (AIEP). The TVFP detects deviation of a total voltage and accordingly modifies a trigger voltage for voltage equaling procedure; the AIEP controls the voltage difference of the series battery cells within a predetermined range. |
| US12278499B2 |
Noncontact power supply device
A noncontact power supply device provided with one or more coil units and a cover housing the coil units inside of it. The cover is formed by joining a first sheet arranged at one surface sides of front and back surfaces of the coil units and a second sheet arranged at the other surface sides, the first sheet is a sheet covering the one surface sides of the coil units, the second sheet is a sheet having another surface part covering the other surface sides of the coil units and side surface parts covering side surfaces, the side surface parts of the second sheet are made to abut against side surfaces of the coil units by bending boundaries with the other surface part, and outer edge parts of the side surface parts of the second sheet and outer edge parts of the first sheet are joined. |
| US12278492B1 |
Method and system of self-adaptive setting of closed-loop parameters for suppressing photovoltaic coupling harmonics
The present invention provides a method and system of self-adaptive setting of closed-loop parameters for suppressing PV coupling harmonics, comprising: acquiring node voltages and node currents of PV grid-connected inverters; constructing harmonic coupling admittance matrix according to the node voltages and node currents; calculating an amplitude of each element in the constructed harmonic coupling admittance matrix; screening contribution sources of coupling harmonics according to the calculated amplitude of the each element; evaluating quantitatively harmonic admittance of the PV grid-connected inverter according to screened contribution sources; and, carrying out optimization iteration for double-closed-loop PI control parameters of inverter with objective of minimizing the coupling harmonics of the PV grid-connected inverter according to results of the quantitative evaluation of the harmonic admittance, to complete self-adaptive setting of closed-loop parameters for suppressing PV coupling harmonics. |
| US12278489B1 |
Utility distribution transformer overload/blackout preventing system
The present invention provides a system designed to prevent overload and blackout in utility distribution transformers within a local power grid. It includes a utility distribution transformer, users, and a local storage battery, all coordinated through utility load balancing. A temperature-sensing module monitors real-time heat variations, while an electrical output-sensing module tracks and calculates demand. Data from these modules is stored in a database for historical and real-time analysis. An integrated analysis module processes this data to detect decreases in transformer output power. Upon detection, the system discharges energy from the local storage battery to balance the load. Additionally, if a decrease in output power occurs alongside rising temperature, the system alerts the utility service provider to address potential issues and prevent failures. A communication module ensures seamless interaction between the inverter, utility service provider, and end-user via a user-application interface, enhancing coordination and reliability across the grid. |
| US12278488B2 |
Method and device for determining parameter of passive impedance adapter applicable to VSC-HVDC
Method for determining parameter of a passive impedance adapter applicable to VSC-HVDC, including: S1. obtaining VSC-HVDC impedance and VSC-HVDC impedance curve X(f) based on VSC-HVDC impedance; S2. estimating upper limit value of the main capacitor in the passive impedance adapter; S3. calculating adapter parameter curve Xadapter(f); S4. determining value of the main capacitor and varying value of the main resistor until min[X(f)−Xadapter(f)] is maximized; determining whether min[X(f)−Xadapter(f)]>k holds; S5. If min[X(f)−Xadapter(f)]>k does not hold, increasing the value of the main capacitor and performing steps S2-S4 until min[X(f)−Xadapter(f)]>k holds when the value of the main capacitor is within the range of the value of the main capacitor, storing the parameters in an available parameter set; S6. reducing the value of the main capacitor, and storing the parameters when min[X(f)−Xadapter(f)]>k holds in the available parameter set; S7. selecting the available parameters from the available parameter set. |
| US12278482B2 |
Isolated gate driver, traction inverter, and electric vehicle
An isolated gate driver has: a register that stores the adjustment data read from a non-volatile memory; a gate driving circuit that drives the gate of a switching element with a characteristic set based on a value stored in the register; a fault detector that performs fault detection for other than the non-volatile memory; an error detection-correction circuit that performs error detection and error correction on the adjustment data written to the non-volatile memory; a first external terminal for output of the result of fault detection; a second external terminal for output of the result of error detection; and a fault controller that, if a one-bit error is detected in the adjustment data, brings the second external terminal into an error-indicating output state and continues with normal operation of the gate driving circuit and, if a two-or-more-bit error is detected in the adjustment data, forcibly stops the gate driving circuit. |
| US12278480B2 |
Power high-density DC/DC conversion system with overvoltage protection for energy transmission by umbilical cables connected to robotic systems in long pipelines
The system proposed in this invention allows the conversion of energy from an AC/DC source, located on a platform (surface) and transmitted through an umbilical to a robot that operates on flexible lines, converting the electrical voltage to levels suitable for supplying the robotic system, and can also be used for supplying other pieces of equipment that operate with low voltage and require power high-density and protection against voltage transients.The system of the invention consists of a surface source (2), fed by the platform's three-phase grid (1), an umbilical cable (3), which connects the source to the robot, an overvoltage protection circuit (4), and a two-stage conversion modular system (5 and 6). |
| US12278479B2 |
Restricted earth fault relay
A restricted earth fault relay includes: a first differential amount calculation unit that calculates a first differential amount based on a zero-phase current and a neutral point current; a current change detection unit that detects changes in the phase currents; and a first suppression amount calculation unit that calculates a first suppression amount. When the changes in the phase currents are detected, the first suppression amount calculation unit calculates a first maximum value as the first suppression amount, the first maximum value being a maximum value of effective values of the subtraction currents in the phases and an effective value of the neutral point current. The restricted earth fault relay further includes an operation determination unit that outputs a protection signal for protecting a three-phase transformer, when the first differential amount and the first suppression amount are within an operating region. |
| US12278476B2 |
Under voltage protection circuit and device
An under voltage protection circuit includes a secondary-side output module and a primary-side input module. The secondary-side output module includes: an under voltage determination unit, configured to compare a voltage of the secondary-side output module with a preset voltage, where a first control signal is outputted when the voltage is greater than or equal to the preset voltage; and a second control signal is outputted when the voltage is less than a preset voltage; and a pulse signal generation unit, configured to transmit a periodic first pulse signal according to the first control signal and a second pulse signal according to the second control signal, where a pulse width of the second pulse signal is greater than that of the first pulse signal. The primary-side input module is configured to determine a state of the secondary-side output module according to the first pulse signal and the second pulse signal. |
| US12278475B2 |
Residual current circuit breaker with two switching devices
A residual current circuit breaker, RCCB, for an electrical circuit. The RCCB comprises a first switching device and a second switching device coupled in series between the power supply and the load. The first switching device is configured to switch into an OFF mode, in which no current is fed to the load, upon detecting that the value of the current fed to the load is larger than a switching current is of the first switching device. The second switching device is configured to switch into an ON mode, in which the load is short cut, upon detecting a leakage of the current i fed to the load. When the load is short cut, there will be a current rush in the circuit which will trigger the first switching device to break the circuit and no current will thereafter flow in the circuit. |
| US12278471B2 |
Saddle of an improved type for supporting elongated bodies
A saddle for supporting elongated bodies such as cables, pipes and the like includes a body with a rectangular or quadrangular section, obtained by coupling two half-saddles. Each half-saddle has an outer portion or shell made from a plastic material and an internal portion or core made from an elastomeric material, on which one or more grooves are defined for housing the elongated bodies and which, when the two half-saddles are coupled, define one or more continuous rings for retaining an elongated body. |
| US12278468B2 |
Support sleeve
A flexible support sleeve includes a knit fabric sheet with loops of fibers on a fastening face, a strip of resin overlaying a portion of the fastening face along one edge, with a strip of adhesive disposed along the same edge on an opposite side. The strip of resin includes male touch fastener elements configured to engage the loops of the knit fabric sheet. The strip of resin has a selvedge coterminous with the edge of the flexible support sleeve and void of male touch fastener elements, such that the selvedge of the base is not engageable with the loops of the knit fabric sheet. The strip of adhesive is wider than the strip of resin, such that the adhesive strip underlays all of the discrete male touch fastener elements of the strip of resin. |
| US12278467B2 |
Scalable power tap off system
A scalable power tap off system is provided for a power distribution system. The system can have components including a line-side connector assembly for connecting to an upstream power supply, a load-side connector assembly for connecting to downstream load(s), and a draw-out circuit breaker assembly connected between the line-side and load-side connector assemblies. The system also includes a shutter assembly having a movable shutter for proving a barrier to prevent access to at least line-side electrical components on the breaker assembly when the breaker assembly is in the racked-out state, and insulated interconnect buses for electrically connecting the line-side connector assembly and the load-side connector assembly to the breaker assembly. An enclosed compartment is provided to house the load-side connector assembly in isolation from other components and allows access to the load-side connector assembly when the breaker assembly is in a racked-out state or the load-side connector assembly is de-energized. |
| US12278464B2 |
Edge emitting laser device
An edge emitting laser (EEL) device includes a substrate, an n-type buffer layer, a first n-type cladding layer, a grating layer, a spacer layer, a lower confinement unit, an active layer, an upper confinement unit, a p-type cladding layer, a tunnel junction layer and a second n-type cladding layer sequentially arranged from bottom to top. The tunnel junction layer can stop an etching process from continuing to form the second n-type cladding layer into a predetermined ridge structure and converting a part of the p-type cladding layer into the n-type cladding layer to reduce series resistance of the EEL device. Therefore, the optical field and active layer tend to be coupled at the middle of the active layer, the lower half of the active layer can be utilized effectively, and the optical field is near to the grating layer to achieve better optical field/grating coupling efficiency and lower threshold current. |
| US12278454B2 |
Electrical connectors with thin interior walls
An electrical connector with thin interior walls is made by extruding a polymer or polymer composite into a sheet of approximately 0.25 mm to 0.5 mm thickness. The sheet is then calendered to a thickness of about 0.05 mm to 0.3 mm. The calendered sheet is cut into notched sections. The notched sections are assembled and placed into an injection molded housing of a connector. The sections are secured in place by using an adhesive, force fit, snap fit, or welding process to form the thin interior walls of the connector. |
| US12278453B2 |
Electric ground assembly for grounding a vehicle component
An electrical ground assembly for a vehicle component includes a bushing including an upper serrated surface and a lower serrated surface opposite the upper serrated surface, a ground strap including a terminal, and a fastener including a head portion, a shaft extending from the head portion, and a flange extending radially between the head portion and the shaft portion. The terminal is electrically connected to the bushing between the upper serrated surface and the lower serrated surface. The flange includes a lower serrated surface configured to mate with the upper serrated surface of the bushing. |
| US12278451B2 |
Coaxial cable connector
A coaxial cable connector includes an inner sleeve, a nut, a first outer sleeve and a coupling sleeve. The first outer sleeve is coaxially arranged outside the inner sleeve. An inner wall of the first outer sleeve and the inner sleeve cooperate to define a first space. The nut is arranged outside the inner sleeve. The coupling sleeve is coaxially arranged inside the first outer sleeve. The coupling sleeve has a first end portion and a second end portion, wherein the first end portion of the coupling sleeve moves into the first space and resists against the inner sleeve as the coupling sleeve moves axially toward the nut so that one end of the inner sleeve radially deformed to press a metal layer of the coaxial cable, wherein the second end portion of the coupling sleeve is deformed radially to press an outer jacket of the coaxial cable. |
| US12278450B2 |
Vehicle charging system for charging an electrical vehicle
A system and method relating to a liquid cooled cable arrangement includes a charging connector and a liquid cooled charging cable, wherein the liquid cooled charging cable comprises a plurality of conductors for supplying charging current and at least two fluid channels for supply and return liquid coolant, the charging connector comprises a plurality of bus bars and a plurality of contacts, and the charging connector comprises a second part made from a thermally conductive and electrically insulating material to which the bus bars are attached and to which the fluid channels are thermally connected such that heat generated in the contacts during charging can be removed by the liquid coolant, and/or the bus bars may include bus bar fluid channels to which the fluid channels are thermally connected such that heat generated in the contacts during charging can be removed by the liquid coolant. |
| US12278447B2 |
Seal for electrical and pressure isolation
A seal for use within a hydrocarbon environment including a core and a shell that is coupled to the core. The core includes an elastomeric core material with a first modulus. The shell includes a shell material with a second modulus that is lesser than the first modulus. The core and the shell can be positioned to generate a pressure and electrical seal at a sealing interface. |
| US12278446B2 |
Self-sealing electrical plug-and-socket assembly
Provided is a plug-and-socket assembly including a plug configured to be electrically and mechanically coupled with a socket, and a cover configured to be mounted over a portion of the plug and a portion of the socket, the cover including a flange forming a first opening at a proximal end of the cover and configured to be coupled to the socket, a retaining portion forming a second opening at a distal end of the cover, and configured to secure a plug component between the flange and the retaining portion, and a cover body extending from the flange to the retaining portion and forming a longitudinal opening extending from the first opening to the second opening. |
| US12278444B2 |
Protection structure for power receptacle
A protection structure for waterproof protection of an electrical device, including first and second shells connected to each other forming an outer shell, the first and second shells respectively including first and second reinforcement walls on their inside, and a sealing member disposed between the first and second reinforcement walls to form a waterproof seal between them. The protection structure employs a dual-layer structure, where the outer shell is a first protection layer that protects against high impact, high pressure water flow, and the sealing member with the first and second reinforcement walls form a second protection layer which is tightly waterproof to protect against water droplets, vapor and dust. The first protection layer protects the second protection layer from external impact and prevent it from being deformed, enhancing the overall protection effectiveness. The protection structure is easy to manufacture, low cost and easy to repair, and provide high waterproofness. |
| US12278442B2 |
Contact assembly for plug connections, i.e., charging plugs, comprising a cooling device
The invention relates to a contact assembly for plug connections, i.e., charging plugs, for transmitting electric power, having at least one device for producing an electrically conductive connection and at least one device for cooling purposes, i.e., for dissipating heat produced by the transmission of electric power using the conductive connection, wherein the electrically conductive device has at least one connection region for coupling to at least one cooling area border and at least one contact region, and the coupling is carried out directly in an integrative manner so that the cooling effect is supported as a result of the at least partly direct physical contact between the electrically conductive device and the coolant. The invention additionally relates to plug connections, i.e., charging plugs, comprising at least one such contact assembly. |
| US12278438B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a frame, an electromagnetic component, a ground plate disposed inside the housing, a first radiating body disposed inside the housing, and a second radiating body disposed at a distance from the first radiating body. The first radiating body is provided with a feeding point. A distance between the second radiating body and a first frame of the frame is less than a distance between the first radiating body and the first frame. A minimum distance between the first radiating body and the electromagnetic component is greater than a minimum distance between the second radiating body and the electromagnetic component, or a size of a projection area of the first radiating body onto the ground plate is larger than a preset size. |
| US12278437B2 |
Base station antenna
A base station antenna including a substrate, a plurality of oscillators, a control assembly, and a dielectric plate is provided. The substrate includes a first surface and a second surface disposed opposite to the first surface. The plurality of oscillators are disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The control assembly is disposed on the second surface of the substrate and electrically connected to the plurality of oscillators. The dielectric plate is disposed corresponding to the first surface of the substrate, and the plurality of oscillators are disposed between the first surface and the dielectric plate. Through the above arrangement, the base station antenna can have lower construction cost and debugging labor cost, and can eliminate influences of an antenna cover on antenna radiation performance at the same time. |
| US12278431B2 |
Antenna assembly and communication terminal
Disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are an antenna assembly and a communication terminal, where a layout region is arranged at an edge position on a base frame, and a radiation pattern and a parasitic branch are arranged together on the layout region. Thus, in an aspect, when the communication terminal is assembled, it is convenient to observe the connection between a feed point and a ground point of the antenna assembly, thereby improving the assembly efficiency of the communication terminal. In another aspect, a parasitic branch is arranged near a second branch, so that the antenna has a larger bandwidth in a high frequency band. In yet another aspect, configuring a shape of a first slot, a second slot, and the parasitic branch enables direct adjustment to a resonance frequency of the antenna, which improves the adaptability of the antenna to different applications. |
| US12278427B2 |
CubeSat MIMO antenna with pattern diversity
A four element folded slot-based multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna for use with CubeSats is described. The MIMO antenna includes a dielectric circuit board, and a metallic layer that covers a top side of the dielectric circuit board and covers a first portion and a second portion of a bottom side. A first meandering slot wraps from the top side, over the first edge and into the first portion on the bottom side. A second meandering slot wraps from the top side, over the second edge and into the second portion of the bottom side. A first feed horn is directed towards the first meandering slot. A second feed horn is directed towards the second meandering slot. A first capacitor is connected to the metallic layer across a slot section of the first meandering slot. A second capacitor connected to the metallic layer across a slot section of the second meandering slot. |
| US12278426B2 |
Antenna apparatus and electronic device
An antenna apparatus includes a circuit board and an antenna body. The antenna body includes a first radiator and a second radiator that are indirectly coupled. The first radiator comprises a first stub and a second stub that are opposite to, but do not touch each other to form a first gap, the first stub and the second stub are located on a first side edge of the circuit board, a second gap is configured between the first stub and the first side edge, and also between the second stub and the first side edge. The second radiator is located on the circuit board to form a third gap in-between. A vertical projection of the second radiator is located on the first surface. The first stub and the second stub are electrically connected to reference ground of the circuit board separately. |
| US12278423B2 |
Terahertz element and semiconductor device
A terahertz element of an aspect of the present disclosure includes a semiconductor substrate, first and second conductive layers, and an active element. The first and second conductive layers are on the substrate and mutually insulated. The active element is on the substrate and electrically connected to the first and second conductive layers. The first conductive layer includes a first antenna part extending along a first direction, a first capacitor part offset from the active element in a second direction as viewed in a thickness direction of the substrate, and a first conductive part connected to the first capacitor part. The second direction is perpendicular to the thickness direction and first direction. The second conductive layer includes a second capacitor part, stacked over and insulated from the first capacitor part. The substrate includes a part exposed from the first and second capacitor parts. The first conductive part has a portion spaced apart from the first antenna part in the second direction with the exposed part therebetween as viewed in the thickness direction. |
| US12278414B1 |
Millimeter wave connection device for rectangular/substrate integrated waveguides
A device and method for transitioning between a rectangular waveguide (RWG) and a substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) or air-filled SIW (AFSIW) in millimeter wave communication systems. The transition apparatus includes a pair of hollow metallic structures, each featuring a tapered body connecting RWG and SIW (or AFSIW) interfaces. The tapered bodies facilitate a seamless transition with lengths ranging from approximately 1 mm to 15 mm, accommodating SIW and AFSIW substrate heights from about 0.2 mm to 1.0 mm. The apparatus ensures impedance matching within a specified range, maintains a voltage standing wave ratio between 1 and 5, and achieves a total reflection coefficient between −20 dB and −10 dB. Additionally, the apparatus exhibits high modal purity, with dominant mode levels between −1 dB and 0.25 dB, and significantly attenuated non-dominant modes. The apparatus supports efficient signal transmission within the frequency range of approximately 50 GHz to 75 GHz. |
| US12278413B2 |
High-frequency line structure with lead pin-connected substrates
A high-frequency line substrate is mounted on a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board includes a first high-frequency line. The high-frequency line substrate includes a second high-frequency line and lead pins that connect the first high-frequency line and the second high-frequency line. At the contact portions between the signal lead pins and the second high-frequency line of the high-frequency line substrate, and at the contact portions between the ground lead pins and the second high-frequency line of the high-frequency line substrate, the height of the ground lead pins from an upper surface of the printed circuit board is greater than the height of the signal lead pins. |
| US12278412B2 |
Infinite shaped coupler
An example system is provided. In some embodiments, the system may include a coupler. In some embodiments, the coupler may include a first ground layer. In some embodiments, the coupler may include a conductive layer. In some embodiments, the conductive layer is substantially infinite shaped. In some embodiments, the coupler may include a first dielectric layer positioned between the first ground layer and the conductive layer. In some embodiments, the coupler may include a second ground layer having an aperture. In some embodiments, the coupler may include a second dielectric layer positioned between the conductive layer and the second ground layer. In some embodiments, the system may include a feed path configured to transport a plurality of radio frequency identification transponders through a defined region proximate the coupler. In some embodiments, the system may include a controller. |
| US12278409B2 |
System and method for managing smart farm comprising self-contained hydrogen generation unit purifying intake-water and generating energy through fuel cell
Disclosed are a system and method for managing a smart farm using a self-contained hydrogen power system. A system for managing a smart farm includes a self-contained hydrogen generation unit configured to purify intake-water, generate clean hydrogen through water electrolysis, generate energy through a fuel cell by using the generated clean hydrogen, and store the energy; and a growing condition control unit configured to receive, from the self-contained hydrogen generation unit, energy for driving a plurality of sensors and a camera and control an environment for growing agricultural produce. |
| US12278404B2 |
Fuel cell bipolar plate flow field having hybrid interwoven channel pattern
A bipolar plate for a fuel cell, a fuel cell, and a method of designing a bipolar plate for a fuel cell having a hybrid flow field structure that includes a plurality of parallel feed flow channels fluidically connected to an inlet bipolar plate region, a plurality of parallel exit flow channels fluidically connected to an outlet bipolar plate region, and an interwoven pattern formed by a plurality of simplified periodic array flow field structure generated based on flow patterns generated by homogenized anisotropic porous media optimization. The flow field structure enhances fuel cell performance by facilitating lower pressure drop via minimized fluid flow resistance, and removal of accumulated water in the oxygen channel and the gas diffusion layer (GDL) under the ribs of the bipolar plate. |
| US12278401B2 |
Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery
This non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that is an example of an embodiment comprises a winding type electrode body for which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are wound with a separator interposed. The electrode body has a positive electrode lead. The positive electrode lead has: a lead base made of metal that includes a first surface joined to the positive electrode, and a second surface on the side opposite to the first surface; and an insulating ceramic layer principally comprising an inorganic compound and formed over a range within the second surface of the lead base so as to face the negative electrode with at least the separator interposed therebetween. |
| US12278397B2 |
Pouch type secondary battery and production method thereof
Provided are the system and method of molding a gas collection portion of a battery pouch, and more particularly, the system and method of molding a gas collection portion to collect gas in a portion where an electrode tab welding portion of a battery pouch is disposed. In the system and method of molding the gas collection portion of the battery pouch according to the present disclosure, the electrode tab welding portion may also be molded when the battery pouch is molded, and the gas generated in the battery cell may thus be collected in a space formed between the pouch inclined surfaces, thereby preventing or delaying venting of the battery pouch. |
| US12278396B2 |
Battery module, battery pack comprising battery module, and vehicle
A battery module includes battery cells, a module case configured to accommodate the battery cells, and a bus bar assembly electrically connected to electrode leads of the battery cells. The bus bar assembly includes a bus bar frame disposed on at least one side of the battery cells, lead slots provided so that electrode leads of the battery cells pass therethrough, sensing bus bars connected to the electrode leads of the battery cells, and short-circuit prevention members configured to surround at least one end of the sensing bus bars. |
| US12278395B2 |
Overcurrent protection element and battery system
An overcurrent protection element includes: chip fuse; a printed circuit board configured by mounting chip fuse on a surface thereof; external connection part configured by being coupled to the printed circuit board; and insulating layer configured by being provided on the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board is provided with conductive parts on a surface of an insulating substrate. External connection part is electrically connected to the conductive parts of the printed circuit board. Chip fuse is electrically connected to the conductive parts, and chip fuse is connected to external connection part via the conductive parts. |
| US12278391B2 |
Battery pack comprising extinguishment unit
A battery pack includes at least one battery module arranged in one direction and having a cell assembly including a plurality of secondary batteries arranged in one direction; and a fire extinguishing unit having a fire extinguishing tank configured to contain a fire extinguishing agent therein, a pipe connected to the fire extinguishing tank to supply the fire extinguishing agent from the fire extinguishing tank to the at least one battery module, and a fire extinguishing valve configured so that, when an internal gas of the battery module is heated over a predetermined temperature, an inner configuration of the fire extinguishing valve is partially deformed by the heated internal gas to open an output hole thereof so as to supply the fire extinguishing agent from the fire extinguishing tank into the battery module. |
| US12278390B2 |
Pressure release vent for battery module
A battery module has battery cells and a housing. The housing includes a first end plate, a second end plate, a first side plate, and a second side plate. The battery cells are disposed between the first end plate, the second end plate, the first side plate, and the second side plate. A cover is disposed at least partially over the first end plate, the second end plate, the first side plate, and the second side plate. A pressure release vent couples to the housing and includes an interior surface that defines a plurality of sections that are configured to dislodge from the pressure release vent based on a pressure within the battery module exceeding a pressure threshold. The individual sections pivot about segments during rupture of the pressure release vent. |
| US12278387B2 |
Battery pack and apparatus
A battery pack and an apparatus, relating to the field of energy storage devices. The battery pack includes: a first box body, where the first box body includes a frame and a cross beam, the cross beam is disposed within the frame, and the cross beam has a hollow structure and is provided with an exhaust vent; a baffle plate, connected to the cross beam and sealing the exhaust vent; and a battery cell, accommodated in the first box body and including an explosion-proof valve, where the explosion-proof valve faces towards the baffle plate. The baffle plate is configured to exit a state of sealing the exhaust vent when the explosion-proof valve of the battery cell bursts. |
| US12278385B2 |
Interlock structure of power supply system
A power supply system includes a first battery module 21, a second battery module 31, a first maintenance plug 7 that, when detached from the first battery module 21, isolates the first battery module 21 from a power circuit 5, a second maintenance plug 8 that, when detached from the second battery module 31, isolates the second battery module 31 from the power circuit 5, and a locking mechanism that locks the second maintenance plug 8. The first maintenance plug 7 includes an unlocking key for unlocking the second maintenance plug 8 locked by the locking mechanism. |
| US12278383B2 |
Battery
A battery includes an electrode body obtained by stacking a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate with a separator interposed therebetween, an exterior body having an opening and housing the electrode body, a sealing plate sealing the opening, and an external terminal attached to the sealing plate. A tab is provided at at least one of the positive electrode plate or the negative electrode plate, and is electrically connected to the external terminal via a current collector between the electrode body and the sealing plate. The current collector includes a first current collector and a second current collector. The first current collector and the second current collector are welded to each other at a welding point covered with a covering member. |
| US12278380B2 |
Battery current collector comprising metal plate having through holes and porous reinforcing material that fills through holes, and secondary battery comprising same
The present invention relates to: a current collector comprising a metal plate having a plurality of through holes formed in the thickness direction, and a porous reinforcing material filling the through holes of the metal plate; and a secondary battery comprising the current collector, and provides the effects of increasing ion conductivity of the current collector in the thickness direction and preventing stress from being concentrated at a specific part. |
| US12278377B2 |
Lithium free battery and method for preparing the same
A lithium free battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and a non-aqueous lithium electrolyte, wherein the negative electrode includes a metal substrate including at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Al, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, As, Sb, Bi, Ag, Zn, Cd, P and Hg; a lithium-metal alloy layer formed on the metal substrate; and a lithium plating layer formed on the lithium-metal alloy layer, and a method for preparing the same. |
| US12278376B2 |
Method of preparing positive electrode active material for lithium secondary battery and positive electrode active material prepared by the same
A method of preparing a positive electrode active material includes preparing a lithium transition metal oxide containing nickel in an amount of 60 mol % or more based on a total number of moles of metals excluding lithium, impregnating the lithium transition metal oxide with 300 ppm to 1,000 ppm of moisture based on 100 parts by weight of the lithium transition metal oxide, and performing a heat treatment on the lithium transition metal oxide impregnated with the moisture, wherein a lithium by-product present on a surface of the lithium transition metal oxide and the moisture react to form a passivation layer on the surface of the lithium transition metal oxide. A positive electrode active material prepared by the above-described preparation method, and a positive electrode and a lithium secondary battery which include the positive electrode active material are also provided. |
| US12278375B2 |
Lithium secondary battery electrode comprising LiOH, manufacturing method therefor, and lithium secondary battery comprising electrode
An electrode for a lithium secondary battery including LiOH, a method of manufacturing the same, and a lithium secondary battery including said electrode are provided. The electrode for a lithium secondary battery including LiOH is such that a SEI film is efficiently formed on the electrode surface. |
| US12278374B2 |
Carbon nanotube dispersion liquid for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, resin composition using the same, mixture slurry, electrode film, and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery
A carbon nanotube dispersion liquid for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is a carbon nanotube dispersion liquid containing carbon nanotubes, a dispersant and a solvent, and is characterized in satisfying (1) to (3) below: (1) the average outer diameter of the carbon nanotubes ranging from more than 3 nm to 25 nm; (2) the BET surface area of the carbon nanotubes ranging from 150 m2/g to 800 m2/g; and (3) the fiber length of the carbon nanotubes in the carbon nanotube dispersion liquid ranging from 0.8 μm to 3.5 μm. |
| US12278373B2 |
Sulfur-carbon composite, and cathode for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery which comprise same
Disclosed is a sulfur-carbon composite including a porous carbon material coated with a thiophene-based polymer doped with a dopant and sulfur on at least a portion of an interior and a surface of the porous carbon material, and a positive electrode for lithium secondary battery, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. Also disclosed is a method for preparation thereof. |
| US12278372B2 |
Dispersant
The present invention relates to dispersants comprising a polyester derived from a plurality of poly(carbonylalkyleneoxy) chains (and optionally a fatty acid) and an amine, wherein said dispersants have an acid value of less than 15 mgKOH/g. The dispersants as described herein provide desirable viscosity profiles when in use. More especially some embodiments provide improved compatibility with certain solvents in dispersions, and/or are particularly suitable for use in battery systems. |
| US12278371B2 |
Phosphazene compound-based elastic polymer-encapsulated anode particles for lithium batteries and method of manufacturing
A composite particulate for a lithium battery, wherein the composite particulate has a diameter from 10 nm to 50 μm and comprises one or more than one anode active material particles that are dispersed in a high-elasticity polymer matrix or encapsulated by a high-elasticity polymer shell, wherein said high-elasticity polymer matrix or shell has a recoverable elastic tensile strain no less than 5%, when measured without an additive or reinforcement dispersed therein, and a lithium ion conductivity no less than 10−8 S/cm at room temperature and wherein the high-elasticity polymer comprises a crosslinked polymer network of chains derived from a phosphazene compound. |
| US12278370B2 |
Carbon nanotube-transition metal oxide composite and method for making the same
The present invention relates to a carbon nanotube-transition metal oxide composite and a method for making the composite. The composite comprises at least one carbon nanotube and a plurality of transition metal oxide nanoparticles. The plurality of transition metal oxide nanoparticles are chemically bonded to the at least one carbon nanotube through carbon-oxygen-metal (C—O-M) linkages, wherein the metal is a transition metal element. The method for making the composite comprising the following steps: step 1, providing at least one carbon nanotube obtained from a super-aligned carbon nanotube array; step 2, pre-oxidizing the at least one carbon nanotube; step 3, dispersing the at least one carbon nanotube in a solvent to form a first suspension; step 4, dispersing a material containing transition metal oxyacid radicals in the first suspension to form a second suspension; and step 5, removing the solvent from the second suspension and drying the second suspension. |
| US12278367B2 |
Positive electrode active material, and electrochemical apparatus and electronic apparatus using same
A positive electrode active material, where a surface region of the positive electrode active material includes a specific content of element aluminum. The positive electrode material of this application helps to improve the impedance, cycling performance, and high-temperature storage performance of electrochemical apparatuses under high-voltage operating conditions. |
| US12278363B1 |
Multiple morphology composite cathode materials providing high energy and long cycle life and cells employing the same
Provided are electrochemically active composite materials that include a first composition optionally of Li1+aMO2+b (Formula I) where −0.3≤a≤0.3 and −0.3≤b≤1.3 and where M optionally includes 30 at % to 80 at % Mn and 30 at % to 75 at % Ni, the first composition formed of a polycrystalline morphology having a plurality of crystallites and a grain boundary between adjacent crystallites, the grain boundary including one or more enrichment elements, said one or more enrichment elements present at a higher atomic percentage than in an adjacent crystallite, wherein the one or more enrichment elements is selected from the group consisting of Co, Al, or both Co and Al; and a second composition optionally of Li1+cM′2O4+d (Formula II) where −0.1≤c≤0.3 and −0.2≤d≤0.2, wherein M′ comprises Mn at about 75 at % to about 100 at %, wherein the second composition or a portion thereof optionally has a polyhedral morphology; the second composition within, on or about a surface of, or intermixed with said first composition. |
| US12278358B2 |
Electrode slurry coating method and apparatus comprising pressure adjustment member
The present technology relates to an electrode slurry coating method and apparatus comprising a pressure adjustment member for adjusting the discharge pressure of slurry, and enables electrode slurry to be discharged under constant pressure even when a coated part and an uncoated part are repeatedly formed on a current collector layer. |
| US12278355B2 |
Battery module and battery pack including the same
A battery module according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include: a battery cell stack having a plurality of battery cells stacked in a stacking direction; a module frame accommodating the battery cell stack; a thermally conductive resin layer located between a lower surface of the module frame and the battery cell stack; and a first adhesive layer located between adjacent battery cells, among the plurality of battery cells, and a liquid injection hole for injecting the thermally conductive resin layer may be formed on the lower surface of the module frame and the first adhesive layer is formed adjacent to the thermally conductive resin layer. |
| US12278353B2 |
Systems and methods for removal and recycling of aluminum impurities from battery waste
Embodiments described herein relate to removal of aluminum impurities from battery waste. In some aspects, a method for removing aluminum impurities includes preprocessing a quantity of battery waste to improve removal of aluminum impurities from the quantity of battery waste. The method further includes removing at least a portion of the aluminum impurities from the quantity of battery waste, modifying the removed aluminum impurities to form a coating precursor and/or a doping precursor, and applying the coating precursor and/or the doping precursor to an electrode material. In some embodiments, the method further includes characterizing the aluminum impurities in the quantity of battery waste and regenerating the electrode material. In some embodiments, the removing can be via sieving, cyclone separation, air separation, elutriation, and/or dissolution. In some embodiments, the doping precursor can include aluminum hydroxide (Al(OH)3). In some embodiments, the regenerating includes applying a heat treatment to the electrode material. |
| US12278351B2 |
Electrochemically recycling a lithium-ion battery
Examples are disclosed that relate to methods and reactors for recycling a positive electrode material of a lithium-ion battery. One example provides a method of recycling a positive electrode material of a lithium-ion battery. The positive electrode material comprises a metal m having a n+ oxidation state (mn+). A reaction mixture is formed comprising the positive electrode material, an oxidizing agent, and lithium ions. The positive electrode material is electrochemically replenished with lithium via electrochemical reduction of the lithium ions while maintaining the n+ oxidation state of the metal m in the positive electrode material via the oxidizing agent. |
| US12278350B2 |
Rechargeable cell architecture
A rechargeable battery cell a casing and first and second electrode materials separately positioned in the casing. A mechanical impulse element is positioned to mechanically move and dislodge gas bubbles from at least one of the first and second electrode materials in response to activation. In some embodiments the mechanical impulse element can include a vibratory piezoelectric element. In other embodiments, a gas vent in the battery cell can be used to release dislodged gas bubbles. |
| US12278345B2 |
Arrangement for pressure monitoring within a battery housing, battery management device, and battery system with an arrangement
An arrangement for pressure monitoring within a battery housing of a battery system. The arrangement includes a first power supply path and a pressure measuring. The pressure measuring unit is electrically connected to the first power supply path. The arrangement also includes a pressure-sensitive mechanical switching unit arranged within the battery housing and electrically connected, in series with the pressure measuring unit, to the first power supply path. The switching unit switches to an electrically conductive switching state when the pressure within the battery housing exceeds a predefined pressure threshold and establishes a supply of power to the pressure measuring unit via the first power supply path, and switches to an electrically blocking switching state when the pressure within the battery housing falls below the pressure threshold and interrupts the supply of power to the pressure measuring unit via the first power supply path. |
| US12278342B2 |
Alkaline and acidified metal oxide blended active materials
Battery cells of this disclosure include a zinc anode and a cathode having acidified metal oxide nanomaterials combined with alkaline battery chemistry materials. |
| US12278341B2 |
Electrode assembly, battery cell, battery, and electrical device
An electrode assembly includes a negative electrode plate, a positive electrode plate, and a separator disposed between the negative electrode plate and the positive electrode plate. The negative electrode plate, the positive electrode plate, and the separator are wound together around a winding axis to form the electrode assembly. The negative electrode plate is a continuous negative electrode plate extending from a foremost winding end to a hindmost winding end along a winding direction. The positive electrode plate includes a continuous positive electrode plate disposed along the winding direction as well as a single-sheet positive electrode plate and/or a long-sheet positive electrode plate disposed along the winding direction apart from the continuous positive electrode plate. |
| US12278337B2 |
Electrolyte composition, gel polymer electrolyte and lithium secondary battery including the same
The present invention relates to an electrolyte composition including a lithium salt; a non-aqueous organic solvent; a compound represented by a specific formula; and a perfluoropolyether oligomer, a gel polymer electrolyte including a polymer network which is formed by a polymerization reaction of the electrolyte composition, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. |
| US12278335B2 |
Polymer electrolyte for secondary battery and lithium secondary battery including the same
The present invention relates to a polymer electrolyte for a secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same, and to a polymer electrolyte for a secondary battery, which includes a first polymer including a repeating unit represented by Formula 1, and a second polymer including a repeating unit derived from a monomer having at least one ethylenically unsaturated group or an oligomer thereof, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. |
| US12278334B2 |
Lithium-aluminum hydrotalcite-based solid electrolyte film working at room temperature, preparation method thereof, and lithium battery including same
Disclosed are a lithium aluminum hydrotalcite-based solid electrolyte film, a preparation method and use thereof, and a lithium battery including the same. The lithium aluminum hydrotalcite-based solid electrolyte film includes: a solid electrolyte film substrate formed by an organic polymer, and a lithium salt and a lithium aluminum hydrotalcite uniformly dispersed in the solid electrolyte film substrate, wherein the lithium aluminum hydrotalcite has a content of 50 wt % to 80 wt %, based on a total mass of the solid electrolyte film substrate after removal of the lithium salt; and the organic polymer includes one or more selected from the group consisting of polyethylene glycol diacrylate, polyethylene oxide, polypropylene carbonate, and polyvinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropylene copolymer. |
| US12278333B2 |
Solid electrolyte, electrochemical battery including the solid electrolyte, and method of preparing the solid electrolyte
A solid electrolyte includes a compound having an argyrodite crystal structure represented by Formula 1, LiaMxPSbBrcXd. Formula 1 wherein Formula 1, M is Na, K, Fe, Mg, Ca, Ag, Cu, Zr, Zn, or a combination thereof; X is Cl, I, or a combination thereof; and 0≤x<1, 5≤(a+x)<7, 5≤a≤6, 4≤b≤6, 0<(c+d)≤2, and (c/d)>4. |
| US12278329B2 |
Lithium-ion battery having desirable safety performance
A lithium-ion battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a positive current collector and a positive electrode active material layer containing lithium cobalt oxide formed on the positive current collector. The positive electrode active material layer is provided with a first recess accommodating a positive lead coupled with the positive current collector and disposed on a surface of the positive current collector facing a center of the battery. The negative electrode includes a negative current collector and a negative electrode active material layer containing graphite or silicon formed on the negative current collector. The negative electrode active material layer is provided with a second recess accommodating a negative lead coupled with the negative current collector and disposed on a surface of the negative current collector facing away from the center of the battery. |
| US12278325B2 |
Power storage device and electronic device
To improve the flexibility of a power storage device, or provide a high-capacity power storage device. The power storage device includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an exterior body, and an electrolyte. The outer periphery of each of the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer is a closed curve. The exterior body includes a film and a thermocompression-bonded region. The inner periphery of the thermocompression-bonded region is a closed curve. The electrolyte, the positive electrode active material layer, and the negative electrode active material layer are in a region surrounded by the thermocompression-bonded region. |
| US12278323B2 |
Battery transporting apparatus
A battery transporting apparatus includes a frame member configured to support a battery cell; a cell support member movably mounted to the frame member to be adjustable in a thickness direction of the battery cell among length, width and thickness directions of the battery cell and configured to support a center portion of the battery cell; a rotary shaft coupled to the frame member; and a moving member coupled to the cell support member and coupled to the rotary shaft to move along the rotary shaft when the rotary shaft rotates so that the cell support member is moved. |
| US12278320B2 |
Light emitting device and manufacturing method therefor
In a light emitting device, in a bottom surface of a cavity of a Si substrate, slit-shaped through holes and through electrodes that fill the through holes are provided at a position facing a first element electrode of a light emitting element. A length of an upper surface of the through electrode in a long axis direction is larger than a height of the through electrode in a thickness direction of the Si substrate. A joining layer having a shape corresponding to a shape of the upper surface of the through electrode is disposed between the first element electrode of the light emitting element and the upper surface of the through electrode facing the first element electrode. The entire upper surface of the through electrode is joined to the first element electrode via the joining layer. |
| US12278318B2 |
Component and method for producing a component
A component comprising a structural element, a leadframe and a shaped body, in which component the structural element and the leadframe are enclosed at least in regions by the shaped body in lateral directions and the leadframe does not project beyond side faces of the shaped body. The leadframe has at least one first subregion and at least one second subregion which is laterally spaced apart from the first subregion, wherein the structural element is electrically conductively connected to the second subregion by a planar contact structure. Furthermore, the structural element is arranged, in plan view, on the first subregion and projects laterally beyond the first subregion at least in regions, so that the structural element and the first subregion form an anchoring structure at which the structural element and the first subregion are anchored to the shaped body. Further specified is a method for producing such a component. |
| US12278314B2 |
Substrate structure with high density layout and electronic device using the same
A substrate structure includes a carrier board and a laminated structure. The carrier board has a board body, through holes and conductive portions. The board body has a first surface and a second surface. The through holes communicate the first and second surfaces. Each through hole has a first opening and a second opening. The conductive portions are arranged on the first surface, and the first opening is sealed by a corresponding conductive portion. The laminated structure includes a viscid layer and conductive elements. One surface of the viscid layer is in surface contact with the second surface. Each conductive element passes through and accommodates in the viscid layer, and corresponds to one through hole in a projection direction of the carrier board. One end of each conductive element is electrically connected to one conductive portion through the corresponding through hole. |
| US12278312B2 |
Semiconductor light-emitting element and method of manufacturing semiconductor light-emitting element
A semiconductor light-emitting element includes: an n-type semiconductor layer; an active layer; a p-side contact electrode made of Rh; a p-side electrode covering layer made of Ti or TiN that covers the p-side contact electrode; a first protective layer made of SiO2 or SiON that covers an upper surface and a side surface of the p-side electrode covering layer in a portion different from that of a first p-side pad opening; a second protective layer made of Al2O3 that covers the first protective layer, a side surface of a p-side semiconductor layer, and a side surface of the active layer in a portion different from that of a second p-side pad opening; and a p-side pad electrode that is in contact with the p-side electrode covering layer in the first p-side pad opening and the second p-side pad opening. |
| US12278310B2 |
Display device and manufacturing method therefor
A display device comprises a first electrode, a first insulating layer disposed on the first electrode, a second electrode disposed on the first insulating layer, at least a part of the second electrode facing the first electrode in a first direction, one or more first light-emitting elements disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the one or more first light-emitting elements extending in a direction, wherein the first insulating layer partially encompasses the outer surface of the one or more first light-emitting element, and the extending direction of at least one of the one or more first light-emitting element is parallel to the first direction. |
| US12278309B2 |
Epitaxial oxide materials, structures, and devices
In some embodiments, a semiconductor structure includes: a first epitaxial oxide semiconductor layer; a metal layer; and a contact layer adjacent to the metal layer, and between the first epitaxial oxide semiconductor layer and the metal layer. The contact layer can include an epitaxial oxide semiconductor material. The contact layer can also include a region comprising a gradient in a composition of the epitaxial oxide semiconductor material adjacent to the metal layer, or a gradient in a strain of the epitaxial oxide semiconductor material over a region adjacent to the metal layer. |
| US12278307B2 |
Micro-LED structure and micro-LED chip including same
A micro-LED chip includes multiple micro-LEDs. At least one micro-LED of the multiple micro-LEDs includes a first type conductive layer; a second type conductive layer stacked on the first type conductive layer; and a light emitting layer formed between the first type conductive layer and the second type conductive layer. The light emitting layer is continuously formed on the whole micro-LED chip, the multiple micro-LEDs sharing the light emitting layer. The micro-LED chip further includes: a top spacer formed on a top surface of the light emitting layer; a bottom spacer formed on a bottom surface of the light emitting layer, wherein an edge of the top spacer is aligned with an edge of the light emitting layer, and an edge of the bottom spacer is aligned with the edge of the light emitting layer. |
| US12278306B2 |
Method for manufacturing solar cell, solar module, and power generation system
The disclosure discloses a method for manufacturing a solar cell, a solar module, and a power generation system. The manufacturing method includes the following steps: S1: perforating film layer in a first region and/or a second region of a solar cell where an electrode is to be disposed, thus forming a plurality holes; S2: growing a plurality seed layers on the solar cell, contacting with the first region and/or the second region through the plurality of holes or grooves in S1; and S3: horizontally transporting a to-be-electroplated solar cell on a horizontal electroplating device, to form a cathode on the seed layer, where an anode terminal is disposed in an electroplating liquid in an electroplating bath, and a moving mechanism disposed in the electroplating bath drives the solar cell to move from inlet to outlet, thus achieving electroplating. |
| US12278304B2 |
High modulation speed PIN-type photodiode
Various embodiments of improved PIN-type photodiodes are provided. In an example embodiment, the PIN-type photodiode includes a p-type contact; an n-type contact; a first absorbing layer disposed between the p-type contact and the n-type contact; and a second absorbing layer disposed between the first absorbing layer and the n-type contact. The first absorbing layer is characterized by a first absorption coefficient and the second absorbing layer is characterized by a second absorption coefficient. The second absorption coefficient is greater than the first absorption coefficient. In another example embodiment, the PIN-type photodiode includes a p-type contact; an n-type contact; a first absorbing layer disposed between the p-type contact and the n-type contact; and a non-absorbing accelerating layer disposed between absorbing layers and non-absorbing drift layer and the n-type contact. |
| US12278303B1 |
Solar cell and photovoltaic module
A solar cell is provided, including a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, a first dielectric layer formed on the first surface, a first doped polysilicon layer formed on the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer formed on the second surface, a second doped polysilicon layer formed on the second dielectric layer, a first passivation layer formed on the first doped polysilicon layer, a second passivation layer formed on the second doped polysilicon layer, first electrodes and second electrodes. The first doped polysilicon layer is doped with an N-type doping element and has a surface having a first roughness, the second doped polysilicon layer is doped with a P-type doping element and has a surface having a second roughness, and the second roughness is less than the first roughness. |
| US12278301B2 |
Photovoltaic cell and photovoltaic module
A photovoltaic cell is provided, which includes: a substrate; a tunnel oxide layer and a doping conductive layer sequentially disposed on a first surface of the substrate in a direction away from the substrate, wherein the tunnel oxide layer includes nitrogen and phosphorus; a doping surface field disposed in the substrate, wherein the doping surface field is in contact with a side of the tunnel oxide layer facing the substrate, the doping surface field includes a doping element of a same conductivity type as a doping element in the substrate, and a doping concentration on a side of the doping surface field facing the tunnel oxide layer is greater than a doping concentration on a side of the doping surface field away from the tunnel oxide layer; and a metal electrode electrically connected to the doping conductive layer. |
| US12278296B1 |
Method for manufacturing back-contact solar cell and back-contact solar cell
A method for manufacturing a back-contact solar cell and a back-contact solar cell are provided. The method includes the following. A substrate having a first surface is provided, where the first surface includes first regions and second regions that are alternatingly arranged in a preset direction. First doping layers are formed over the first regions, second doping layers having different conductivity types of the first doping layers are formed over the second regions, and a mask layer is formed on the first doping layers. The respective second doping layer includes two first portions and a second portion arranged in the preset direction, the first portion is abutted on the respective first doping layer. |
| US12278295B1 |
Solar cell, method for manufacturing solar cell, and photovoltaic module
A solar cell, a manufacturing method thereof, and a photovoltaic module are provided. The solar cell includes a substrate having electrode regions and non-electrode regions that are alternatingly arranged in a first direction, where the non-electrode regions of the substrate include a plurality of first regions and a plurality of second regions; a doped conductive layer formed over the dielectric layer; a passivation layer formed over the first regions and the doped conductive layer; and a plurality of electrodes. |
| US12278294B2 |
Photo detecting device
A photo detecting device comprising: a substrate; a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements provided to the substrate and configured to output a detection signal corresponding to light with which the photoelectric conversion elements are irradiated; at least one or more light emitting elements provided to the substrate; and a control circuit configured to set a wavelength of light output from the light emitting element by controlling an electric current flowing through the light emitting element. |
| US12278293B2 |
Semiconductor device comprising a doped epitaxial layer and method of manufacturing the same
The present disclosure discloses a semiconductor device and a method for preparing the same. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a doped epitaxial layer located on one side of the substrate, a channel layer located on one side of the doped epitaxial layer away from the substrate, a potential barrier layer located on one side of the channel layer away from the doped epitaxial layer, and a first electrode and a second electrode located on one side of the potential barrier layer away from the channel layer, wherein the first electrode penetrates the potential barrier layer, the channel layer and part of the doped epitaxial layer, the first electrode forms a Schottky contact with the channel layer, and a resistance of the part of the doped epitaxial layer in contact with the first electrode is greater than a resistance of the channel layer. |
| US12278292B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of semiconductor device
A semiconductor device with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. A semiconductor device having stable electrical characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer containing a metal oxide, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a third insulating layer containing a nitride, and a first conductive layer. The first insulating layer includes a projecting first region that overlaps with the semiconductor layer and a second region that does not overlap with the semiconductor layer and is thinner than the first region. The second insulating layer is provided to cover a top surface of the second region, a side surface of the first region, and the semiconductor layer. The first conductive layer is provided over the second insulating layer and a bottom surface of the first conductive layer over the second region includes a portion positioned below a bottom surface of the semiconductor layer. |
| US12278289B2 |
TMD inverted nanowire integration
Embodiments disclosed herein comprise semiconductor devices with two dimensional (2D) semiconductor channels and methods of forming such devices. In an embodiment, the semiconductor device comprises a source contact and a drain contact. In an embodiment, a 2D semiconductor channel is between the source contact and the drain contact. In an embodiment, the 2D semiconductor channel is a shell. |
| US12278286B2 |
High voltage isolation devices for semiconductor devices
High voltage isolation devices for semiconductor devices and associated systems, are disclosed herein. The isolation device may support operations of a 3-dimensional NAND memory array of the semiconductor device. In some embodiments, during high voltage operations (e.g., erase operations), the isolation device may provide a high voltage to the memory array while isolating other circuitry supporting low voltage operations of the memory array from the high voltage. The isolation device may include a set of narrow active areas separating the low voltage circuitry from the high voltage and a gate over the narrow active areas. In a further embodiment, the isolation device includes interdigitated narrow active areas and a common gate over the interdigitated narrow active areas to reduce an area occupied by the isolation devices. |
| US12278285B2 |
Semiconductor devices
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of channel layers disposed on an active region of a substrate and spaced apart from each other in a first direction, a first gate structure surrounding the plurality of channel layers, first source/drain regions disposed on the active region on both lateral sides of the first gate structure and contacting the plurality of channel layers and spaced apart from each other in a second direction, an element isolation layer disposed on an upper portion of the first gate structure, a semiconductor layer disposed on the element isolation layer and having a vertical region extending in the first direction and including second source/drain regions spaced apart from each other in the first direction, and a second gate structure disposed to surround a portion of the vertical region. The semiconductor device further includes first to fourth contact plugs. |
| US12278284B2 |
Power semiconductor devices including a trenched gate and methods of forming such devices
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the devices are provided. Semiconductor devices include a semiconductor layer structure comprising a trench in an upper surface thereof, a dielectric layer in a lower portion of the trench, and a gate electrode in the trench and on the dielectric layer opposite the semiconductor layer structure. The trench may include rounded upper corner and a rounded lower corner. A center portion of a top surface of the dielectric layer may be curved, and the dielectric layer may be on opposed sidewalls of the trench. The dielectric layer may include a bottom dielectric layer on a bottom surface of the trench and on lower portions of the sidewalls of the trench and a gate dielectric layer on upper portions of the sidewalls of the trench and on the bottom dielectric layer. |
| US12278283B2 |
HEMT transistor including an improved gate region and related manufacturing process
An HEMT includes a semiconductor body, which includes a semiconductor heterostructure, and a conductive gate region. The gate region includes: a contact region, which is made of a first metal material and contacts the semiconductor body to form a Schottky junction; a barrier region, which is made of a second metal material and is set on the contact region; and a top region, which extends on the barrier region and is made of a third metal material, which has a resistivity lower than the resistivity of the first metal material. The HEMT moreover comprises a dielectric region, which includes at least one front dielectric subregion, which extends over the contact region, delimiting a front opening that gives out onto the contact region; and wherein the barrier region extends into the front opening and over at least part of the front dielectric subregion. |
| US12278278B2 |
Bipolar junction transistors with a base layer participating in a diode
Structures for a bipolar junction transistor and methods of forming a structure for a bipolar junction transistor. The structure comprises a first terminal including a first raised semiconductor layer, a second terminal including a second raised semiconductor layer, and a base layer positioned in a lateral direction between the first raised semiconductor layer of the first terminal and the second raised semiconductor layer of the second terminal. The structure further comprises a modulator including a semiconductor layer in direct contact with the base layer. The base layer has a first conductivity type, and the semiconductor layer has a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type. |
| US12278274B2 |
Method of manufacturing silicon carbide semiconductor device
A method of manufacturing a silicon carbide semiconductor device includes forming a constituent layer and forming a super junction structure. The formation of the super junction structure includes forming a film-forming mask on the constituent layer, forming an opening portion at the film-forming mask, forming a mask-forming trench at the constituent layer and adopting a portion of the constituent layer surrounding the mask-forming trench as a silicon carbide mask through etching by adopting the film-forming mask, forming a second-conductivity-type column region by ion implantation of impurities at a bottom surface of the mask-forming trench by adopting an ion-implantation mask having the film-forming mask and the silicon carbide mask, and removing a portion of the constituent layer where the silicon carbide mask is formed. |
| US12278270B2 |
Methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices
A method forms a part of a power semiconductor device. The method includes homoepitaxially forming two silicon carbide layers on a first side of a silicon carbide substrate and forming a pattern of pits on a second side of the silicon carbide substrate. The two layers include a buffer layer, on the first side of the silicon carbide substrate, and have a same doping type of the silicon carbide substrate and a doping concentration equal to or greater than 1017 cm−3 in order to increase the quality of at least one subsequent SiC layer. The two layers include an etch stopper layer, being deposited on the buffer layer and has a same doping type as the buffer layer but a lower doping concentration in order to block a trenching process. The pattern of pits, obtained by electrochemical etching, extends completely thorough the silicon carbide substrate and the buffer layer. |
| US12278264B2 |
Semiconductor structure and method for guarding a low voltage surface region from a high voltage surface region
A structure and method for guarding a high voltage region at a semiconductor surface from a low voltage region at the semiconductor surface. The structure comprising at least two trenches between the high and low voltage regions to isolate the high voltage region from the low voltage region. The trenches are spaced apart so as to define a sub-region therebetween. To prevent breakdown across the trenches, an intermediate voltage, i.e., of a value between the voltages of the high and low voltage regions, is applied to the sub-region so as to reduce the voltage drop across each trench. Preferably this is achieved by providing an integrated voltage divider circuit that connects between the high and low voltage regions and has an output connected to the sub-region by which the intermediate voltage is applied to the sub-region. |
| US12278262B2 |
Semiconductor device, and method for manufacturing semiconductor device
[Object] To provide a semiconductor device capable of improving a discharge starting voltage when measuring electric characteristics, and widening a pad area of a surface electrode or increasing the number of semiconductor devices (number of chips) to be obtained from one wafer, and a method for manufacturing the same.[Solution Means] A semiconductor device 1 includes an n-type SiC layer 2 having a first surface 2A, a second surface 2B, and end faces 2C, a p-type voltage relaxing layer 7 formed in the SiC layer 2 so as to be exposed to the end portion of the first surface 2A of the SiC layer 2, an insulating layer 8 formed on the SiC layer 2 so as to cover the voltage relaxing layer 7, and an anode electrode 9 that is connected to the first surface 2A of the SiC layer 2 through the insulating layer 8 and has a pad area 95 selectively exposed. |
| US12278257B2 |
Light Emitting Diode and method of forming a Light Emitting Diode
A method of forming a Light Emitting Diode (LED) precursor comprising: forming a first semiconducting layer comprising a Group III-nitride on a substrate, selectively removing a portion of the first semiconducting layer to form a mesa structure, and forming a monolithic LED structure. According to the method, the first semiconducting layer has a growth surface on an opposite side of the first semiconducting layer to the substrate. According to the method, the first semiconducting layer is selectively removed to form the mesa structure such that the growth surface of the first semiconducting layer comprises a mesa surface and a bulk semiconducting surface. Further, the monolithic LED structure is formed on the growth surface of the first semiconducting layer such that the monolithic LED structure covers the mesa surface and the bulk semiconducting surface, the monolithic LED structure comprising a plurality of layers, each layer comprising a Group III-nitride, including a second semiconducting layer, an active layer provided on the second semiconducting layer, the active layer configured to generate light, and a p-type semiconducting layer provided on the active layer. A potential barrier is provided between a first portion of the p-type semiconducting layer covering the mesa surface and a second portion of the p-type semiconducting layer covering the bulk semiconducting surface. The potential barrier surrounds the first portion of the p-type semiconducting layer covering the mesa surface. |
| US12278256B2 |
Display apparatus including LED with plurality of light emitting layers
A display apparatus, includes: a liquid crystal panel; and a backlight configured to provide light to the liquid crystal panel, the backlight including a substrate and a light-emitting diode (LED) that is mounted on the substrate. The LED includes a plurality of light-emitting layers configured to emit light of different wavelengths. A wavelength of light emitted from each of the plurality of light-emitting layers is greater than or equal to 430 nm and less than or equal to 480 nm. |
| US12278254B2 |
Band-pass filter for stacked sensor
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip structure. The integrated chip structure includes forming a first image sensor element within a first substrate and a second image sensor element within a second substrate. The first image sensor element is configured to generate electrical signals from electromagnetic radiation within a first range of wavelengths and the second image sensor element is configured to generate electrical signals from electromagnetic radiation within a second range of wavelengths. A plurality of deposition processes are performed to form a band-pass filter over the second substrate. The band-pass filter has a plurality of alternating layers of a first material having a first refractive index and a second material having a second refractive index that is less than the first refractive index. The first substrate is bonded to the band-pass filter. |
| US12278250B2 |
Semiconductor device including image sensor and method of forming the same
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a front side and a back side opposite to each other. A plurality of photodetectors is disposed in the substrate within a pixel region. An isolation structure is disposed within the pixel region and between the photodetectors. The isolation structure includes a back side isolation structure extending from the back side of the substrate to a position in the substrate. A conductive plug structure is disposed in the substrate within a periphery region. A conductive cap is disposed on the back side of the substrate and extends from the pixel region to the periphery region and electrically connects the back side isolation structure to the conductive plug structure. A conductive contact lands on the conductive plug structure, and is electrically connected to the back side isolation structure through the conductive plug structure and the conductive cap. |
| US12278247B2 |
Signal processing device having photodiode
A signal processing device includes a plurality of pixel signal processing units and a signal line group. The plurality of pixel signal processing units is arranged in a first direction and a second direction, each of the plurality of signal processing units acquiring a digital signal having a plurality of bits based on an output from a corresponding avalanche photodiode. The signal line group is arranged corresponding to the plurality of pixel signal processing units arranged in the first direction and including a signal line to which a plurality of signals corresponding to a plurality of bits of different digits of the digital signal held in each of the plurality of pixel signal processing units arranged in the first direction are commonly output. |
| US12278245B2 |
Display device
A display device with a novel structure is provided. The display device includes a first substrate provided with a plurality of pixels including a display element, and a second substrate including a first conductive layer provided with a plurality of first openings. The first conductive layer has a function of an antenna capable of transmitting and receiving a radio signal. The pixel and the first opening include a region where the pixel and the first opening overlap with each other. The second substrate includes an element layer. The element layer includes a transistor. The transistor has a function of an amplifier capable of amplifying the radio signal. The transistor each includes a semiconductor layer including a metal oxide in a channel formation region. The metal oxide contains In, Ga, and Zn. |
| US12278243B2 |
Semiconductor apparatus having expansion wires for electrically connecting chips
A semiconductor apparatus and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor apparatus are provided. The semiconductor apparatus includes: a base substrate; a plurality of chips arranged on the base substrate each including a chip main body and a plurality of terminals arranged thereon; a plurality of fixed connection portions arranged on the base substrate, and adjacent to the plurality of chips; a terminal expansion layer arranged on the base substrate; and a plurality of expansion wires in the terminal expansion layer and configured to electrically connect the chips, wherein an expansion wire configured to electrically connect two chips includes at least a first wire segment and a second wire segment, and the first wire segment is configured to electrically connect a terminal of a chip and a fixed connection portion adjacent to the chip, and the second wire segment is configured to connect two fixed connection portions between the two chips. |
| US12278242B2 |
Array substrate, display panel, and manufacturing method of array substrate
An array substrate, a display panel, and a manufacturing method of the array substrate are provided, including a thin film transistor layer, a passivation layer, and a pixel electrode layer which are sequentially disposed on one above another. The passivation layer is provided with a first via hole and a second via hole staggered from each other. The pixel electrode layer includes a pixel electrode connected to a first conductive layer through the first via hole and the second via hole. Therefore, a problem of grayscale dark spots caused by the pixel electrode being broken at a connection point with the first conductive layer is avoided. |
| US12278234B2 |
Multi-fin FINFET device including epitaxial growth barrier on outside surfaces of outermost fins and related methods
A multi-fin FINFET device may include a substrate and a plurality of semiconductor fins extending upwardly from the substrate and being spaced apart along the substrate. Each semiconductor fin may have opposing first and second ends and a medial portion therebetween, and outermost fins of the plurality of semiconductor fins may comprise an epitaxial growth barrier on outside surfaces thereof. The FIN FET may further include at least one gate overlying the medial portions of the semiconductor fins, a plurality of raised epitaxial semiconductor source regions between the semiconductor fins adjacent the first ends thereof, and a plurality of raised epitaxial semiconductor drain regions between the semiconductor fins adjacent the second ends thereof. |
| US12278229B2 |
Hybrid manufacturing for integrated circuit devices and assemblies
Microelectronic assemblies fabricated using hybrid manufacturing, as well as related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. As used herein, “hybrid manufacturing” refers to fabricating a microelectronic assembly by arranging together at least two IC structures fabricated by different manufacturers, using different materials, or different manufacturing techniques. For example, a microelectronic assembly may include a first IC structure that includes first interconnects and a second IC structure that includes second interconnects, where at least some of the first and second interconnects may include a liner and an electrically conductive fill material, and where a material composition of the liner/electrically conductive fill material of the first interconnects may be different from a material composition of the liner/electrically conductive fill material of the second interconnects. |
| US12278228B2 |
Flexible display panel and sliding and rolling display apparatus
A flexible display panel has a display area, a bezel area disposed around the display area and a sliding and rolling connection area connected to a first border of the bezel area away from the display area. The flexible display panel includes a base substrate covering at least the display area and the bezel area and one or more inorganic insulating layers located on a side of the base substrate. A total thickness of a portion of the one or more inorganic insulating layers located in the sliding and rolling connection area is less than a total thickness of a portion of the one or more inorganic insulating layers located in the display area. |
| US12278224B2 |
Method for producing nitride mesas each intended to form an electronic or optoelectronic device
A method for obtaining mesas that are made at least in part of a nitride (N), the method includes providing a stack comprising a substrate and at least the following layers disposed in succession from the substrate a first layer, referred to as the flow layer, and a second, crystalline layer, referred to as the crystalline layer; forming pads by etching the crystalline layer and at least one portion of the flow layer such that: —each pad includes at least: —a first section, referred to as the flow section, formed by at least one portion of the flow layer, and a second, crystalline section, referred to as the crystalline section, framed by the crystalline layer and overlying the flow section, the pads are distributed over the substrate so as to form a plurality of sets of pads; and epitaxially growing a crystallite on at least some of said pads and continuing the epitaxial growth of the crystallites until the crystallites carried by the adjacent pads of the same set coalesce. |
| US12278218B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor layer; first and second vertical MOS transistors provided in the semiconductor layer; a metal layer in contact with and connected to an entire back face of the semiconductor layer; and a support bonded to the back face side of the metal layer via a conductive adhesive. In a plan view, the support is larger in area than the semiconductor layer and encompasses the semiconductor layer. A thickness of the support is greater than a thickness of the semiconductor layer. In a cross-sectional view of the semiconductor device including a center of the semiconductor layer and an outer periphery of the semiconductor layer in the plan view, a semiconductor chip resulting from excluding the support and the conductive adhesive from the semiconductor device is in a curved shape projecting in a direction away from the support. |
| US12278217B2 |
Backside integrated voltage regulator for integrated circuits
The technology relates to an integrated circuit (IC) package. The IC package may include a packaging substrate, an IC die, and an integrated voltage regulator die. The IC die may include a metal layer and a silicon layer. The metal layer may be connected to the packaging substrate. The integrated voltage regulator die may be positioned adjacent to the silicon layer and connected to the packaging substrate via one or more through mold vias or through dielectric vias. The IC die may be an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) die. |
| US12278212B2 |
Reworkable inter-substrate bond structure
An inter-substrate bond structure includes an adhesion layer that attached to a first substrate, and an outer gas-permeable layer coupled to the adhesion layer. The outer gas-permeable layer expands and fractures in response to absorbing a gas. The inter-substrate bond structure includes an outer bond layer coupled to the outer gas-permeable layer. The outer bond layer forms an initial thermocompression bond with a mating layer on a second substrate. The initial thermocompression bond bonds the first substrate to the second substrate with the inter-substrate bond structure. The fracture in the inter-substrate bond structure debonds the first substrate from the second substrate while leaving a first portion of the inter-substrate bond structure attached to the first substrate. |
| US12278210B2 |
Manufacturing method of semiconductor structure
Provided is a manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure. The manufacturing method includes the following steps. A first dielectric layer is formed on a first substrate. A second dielectric layer is formed on a second substrate. A first heat treatment is performed on the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer, wherein a temperature of the first heat treatment is between 300° C. and 400° C. A first conductive via is formed in the first dielectric layer. A second conductive via is formed in the second dielectric layer. The first substrate and the second substrate are bonded in a manner that the first dielectric layer faces the second dielectric layer, so as to connect the first conductive via and the second conductive via. |
| US12278205B2 |
Semiconductor device package with improved die pad and solder mask design
A described example includes a package substrate having an array of die pads arranged in rows and columns on a die mount surface, and having an opposing board side surface; a solder mask layer overlying the die mount surface; a first plurality of solder mask defined openings in the solder mask layer at die pad locations, the solder mask defined openings exposing portions of a surface of corresponding die pads, the surface facing away from the package substrate; and at least one non-solder mask defined opening in the solder mask layer at a die pad location, exposing the entire surface of the die pad and sidewalls of the die pad at the non-solder mask defined opening. |
| US12278203B2 |
Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor structure including a first die, a second die stacked on the first die, a smoothing layer disposed on the first die and a filling material layer disposed on the smoothing layer. The second die has a dielectric portion and a semiconductor material portion disposed on the dielectric portion. The smoothing layer includes a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer, and the second dielectric layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer. The dielectric portion is surrounded by the smoothing layer, and the semiconductor material portion is surrounded by the filling material layer. A material of the first dielectric layer is different from a material of the second dielectric layer and a material of the filling material layer. |
| US12278202B2 |
Modular construction of hybrid-bonded semiconductor die assemblies and related systems and methods
Stacked semiconductor assemblies, and related systems and methods, are disclosed herein. A representative stacked semiconductor assembly can include a lowermost die and two or more modules carried by an upper surface of the lowermost die. Each of the module(s) can include a base die and one or more upper dies and/or an uppermost die carried by the base die. Each of the dies in the module is coupled via hybrid bonds between adjacent dies. Further, the base die in a lowermost module is coupled to the lowermost die by hybrid bonds. As a result of the modular construction, the lowermost die can have a first longitudinal footprint, the base die in each of the module(s) can have a second longitudinal footprint smaller than the first longitudinal footprint, and each of the upper die(s) and/or the uppermost die can have a third longitudinal footprint smaller than the second longitudinal footprint. |
| US12278200B2 |
Semiconductor element, apparatus, and chip
A semiconductor element including an array in which a plurality of avalanche photodiodes is arranged includes a plurality of first electrodes configured to receive supply of a first voltage to be used by the plurality of avalanche photodiodes from outside, and at least one second electrode configured to receive supply of a second voltage from outside different from the first voltage. The plurality of first electrodes and the at least one second electrode are disposed outside the array. The at least one second electrode is disposed between one and another one of the plurality of first electrodes. |
| US12278199B2 |
Conductive bump of a semiconductor device and fabricating method thereof cross reference to related applications
The present disclosure provides a method of processing a semiconductor structure. The method includes: placing a first semiconductor structure inside a semiconductor processing apparatus; supplying a solution, wherein the solution is directed toward a surface of the first semiconductor structure, and the solution includes a solvent and a resist; rotating the first semiconductor structure to spread the solution over the surface of the first semiconductor structure; forming a resist layer on the surface of the first semiconductor structure using the resist in the solution; and removing a portion of the solvent from the solution by an exhaust fan disposed adjacent to a periphery of the first semiconductor structure. |
| US12278198B2 |
Semiconductor device on wiring board having reference potential planes with openings
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor package having a differential signal terminal pair, and a wiring board. The wiring board includes a first and a second signal transmission line and a reference potential plane. The first and the second signal transmission line is formed in a first conductive layer and connected to the differential signal terminal pair. The reference potential plane includes a conductive pattern formed in a different conductive layer from the first conductive layer. The conductive pattern includes a first and a second region overlapped with the first and the second signal transmission line in plan view, respectively. The conductive pattern has a plurality of openings in the first and the second region. An area of a first conductive portion of the reference potential plane in the first region becomes equal to an area of a second conductive portion of the reference potential plane in the second region. |
| US12278197B2 |
Package board
A package board that includes an inductor layer having: a first magnetic layer including first magnetic particles and a resin; an inductor wiring that functions as an inductor in the first magnetic layer; and a second magnetic layer on at least one surface of the first magnetic layer, including second magnetic particles that are higher in average flatness than the first magnetic particles and a resin, the second magnetic particles having a shape where the dimension in a direction along the main surface of the second magnetic layer is longer than the dimension in the thickness direction of the second magnetic layer. |
| US12278196B2 |
Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices
An electronic device includes a substrate having a conductive structure with a substrate outward terminal at a second side of the substrate. A dielectric structure with an opening is adjacent to the second side. An electronic component is coupled to the substrate and an encapsulant encapsulates the electronic component. The substrate outward terminal comprises a multi-via terminal or a multi-stage via. The multi-via terminal includes pad conductive vias in the opening, a pad dielectric via interposed between the pad conductive vias, and a conductor comprising a conductor top side with micro dimples over the pad conductive vias and the pad dielectric via. The multi-stage terminal includes a pad base within the opening having a top side recessed below an upper surface the dielectric and a pad head coupled to the pad base within the opening, the pad head having a top side with a micro dimple. |
| US12278192B2 |
Logic drive based on multichip package comprising standard commodity FPGA IC chip with cooperating or supporting circuits
A multichip package includes: a chip package comprising a first IC chip, a polymer layer in a space beyond and extending from a sidewall of the first IC chip, a through package via in the polymer layer, an interconnection scheme under the first IC chip, polymer layer and through package via, and a metal bump under the interconnection scheme and at a bottom of the chip package, wherein the first IC chip comprises memory cells for storing data therein associated with resulting values for a look-up table (LUT) and a selection circuit comprising a first input data set for a logic operation and a second input data set associated with the data stored in the memory cells, wherein the selection circuit selects, in accordance with the first input data set, data from the second input data set as an output data for the logic operation; and a second IC chip over the chip package, wherein the second IC chip couples to the first IC chip through, in sequence, the through package via and interconnection scheme, wherein the second IC chip comprises a hard macro having an input data associated with the output data for the logic operation. |
| US12278187B1 |
Integrated structure having a P-type semiconductor diffusion barrier layer forming a Van Der Waals junction with a P-type substrate and electronic device including the same
An integrated structure according to a preferred embodiment may include a silicon or silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, a conductive layer spaced apart from the substrate and including a metal or a metal compound, and a diffusion barrier layer provided therebetween. The substrate and the diffusion barrier layer may directly contact and form a van der Waals junction. Since the diffusion barrier layer may block diffusion of metal atoms into the substrate lattice by blocking movement of materials (atoms) between the substrate and the conductive layer and may also control injection of holes from the conductive layer toward the substrate, defects at the metal-semiconductor interface may be controlled to overcome the limitations of ultra-fine and highly integrated semiconductors. |
| US12278186B2 |
Ultra-thin diffusion barrier
A method of providing a barrier to diffusion of metal into a dielectric in a metal interconnect arrangement is disclosed which includes forming a damascene trench, including forming a dielectric base, with a trench made therein, depositing one or more two dimensional diffusion barrier layers formed over the trench, depositing a conductor layer formed atop the diffusion layer, wherein the one or more two-dimensional diffusion barrier layers substantially prevent diffusion of constituents of the conductor layer into the dielectric base, wherein each of the one or more two-dimensional diffusion barrier layers is a polycrystalline material selected from the group consisting of TaSex, TaTex, TiSx, TiSex, TiTex, and TaSx, and wherein x is between 1.5-1.9. |
| US12278185B2 |
Power distribution method
A method of forming an integrated circuit (IC) package includes constructing a first power distribution structure on a first die included in the IC package, thereby electrically connecting the first power distribution structure to a second power distribution structure positioned on a back side of the first die, and bonding a third power distribution structure to the first power distribution structure, the third power distribution structure being positioned on a back side of a second die. |
| US12278181B2 |
Integrated circuits including via array and methods of manufacturing the same
An integrated circuit (IC) includes a via stack, and the via stack includes via arrays including a plurality of vias at the same level. A plurality of vias of a via array are arranged at intersections between tracks of adjacent conductive layers and arranged along a central line between the tracks. Also, a via overlap extends parallel to tracks of a conductive layer. Thus, the number of tracks sacrificed by the via array may be reduced, and the IC may have enhanced performance and a reduced area due to improved routability. |
| US12278180B2 |
Memory arrays and methods used in forming a memory array
A method used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises forming a stack comprising vertically-alternating first tiers and second tiers having channel-material strings therein. Conductive vias are formed through insulating material that is directly above the channel-material strings. Individual of the conductive vias are directly electrically coupled to individual of the channel-material strings. After forming the conductive vias, horizontally-elongated trenches are formed into the stack to form laterally-spaced memory-block regions. Intervening material is formed in the trenches laterally-between and longitudinally-along the immediately-laterally-adjacent memory-block regions. Additional methods and structures independent of method are disclosed. |
| US12278179B2 |
Semiconductor structure having fuse below gate structure and method of manufacturing thereof
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate; a transistor disposed over the substrate; and a trench fuse disposed in the substrate and penetrating a source/drain (S/D) region of the transistor. A method for manufacturing the semiconductor structure is also provided. |
| US12278178B2 |
Fuse element for process-induced damage protection structure
An integrated circuit (IC) structure includes a transistor in a device layer over a substrate, the transistor including a gate; and a plurality of interconnect layers over the device layer, the plurality of interconnect layers including a last metal layer. A process-induced damage (PID) protection structure includes a conductor coupling the gate to a well in the substrate but includes an open fuse element therein. A first metal interconnect extends from a first terminal of the open fuse element to a first pad in the last metal layer, and a second metal interconnect extending from a second terminal of the open fuse element to a second pad in the last metal layer. The fuse element is closed during fabrication, and the metal interconnects allow opening of the fuse element to deactivate the PID protection structure after fabrication. |
| US12278176B2 |
Integrated circuit structure and method for forming the same
An integrated circuit structure includes a substrate, a transistor, a first dielectric layer, a metal contact, a first low-k dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, and a first metal feature. The transistor is over the substrate. The first dielectric layer is over the transistor. The metal contact is in the first dielectric layer and electrically connected to the transistor. The first low-k dielectric layer is over the first dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer is over the first low-k dielectric layer and has a dielectric constant higher than a dielectric constant of the first low-k dielectric layer. The first metal feature extends through both second dielectric layer and the first low-k dielectric layer to the metal contact. |
| US12278164B1 |
Chip cooling platform based on micro-nano structure
The disclosure discloses a chip cooling platform based on micro-nano structure, including a platform body, a cooling pipeline and an outer heat dissipation device, where the cooling pipeline is in a closed-loop structure, and part of the cooling pipeline is arranged in the platform body; the cooling pipeline is filled with cooling medium, and an inner wall of the cooling pipeline located in the platform body is provided with a turbulence structure; and a unidirectional hydraulic pump I is installed on the cooling pipeline arranged outside the platform body; the outer heat dissipation device is used for radiating the cooling medium in the cooling pipeline. |
| US12278163B2 |
Power semiconductor module with injection-molded or laminated cooler assembly
A cooling assembly includes a first cooler part having an opening and an attachment point arranged on a first side of the first cooler part. The opening is configured to receive an integrated cooling structure of a corresponding semiconductor module that includes a baseplate to be attached to the attachment point on the first side of the first cooler part. A second cooler part is arranged on an opposite, second side of the first cooler part. The first cooler part and the second cooler part are made from a fiber reinforced polymer material and are joined so as to form a cavity for a coolant between the second side of the first cooler part and the second cooler part. |
| US12278158B2 |
Leadframe spacer for double-sided power module
A semiconductor device module may include a leadframe spacer that provides the functions of both a leadframe and a spacer, while enabling a double-sided cooling configuration. Such a leadframe spacer may include a leadframe surface that provides a die attach pad (DAP) that is shared by at least two semiconductor devices. The leadframe spacer may include at least one downset, where the semiconductor devices may be attached within a recess defined by the at least one downset. A first substrate may be connected to a first side of the leadframe. A second substrate may be connected to downset surfaces of the at least one downset, and positioned for further connection to the semiconductor devices in a double-sided assembly. |
| US12278156B2 |
Semiconductor package
A semiconductor package is provided, which includes a first chip disposed over a first package substrate, a molding compound surrounding the first chip, a first thermal interface material disposed over the first chip and the molding compound, a heat spreader disposed over the thermal interface material, and a second thermal interface material disposed over the heat spreader. The first thermal interface material and the second thermal interface material have an identical width. |
| US12278155B2 |
Integrated circuit package with heat sink and manufacturing method thereof
A support substrate supports an electronic chip. An encapsulation coating on the support substrate coats the electronic chip. The encapsulation coating includes a trench surrounding the electronic chip. A heat sink is mounted to the encapsulation coating above the electronic chip. The heat sink is fixed to the encapsulation coating by an adhesive material and a thermal interface material layer is present between the electronic chip and the heat sink. The trench is positioned between the thermal interface material layer and the adhesive material. |
| US12278154B2 |
Semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device
In one example, a semiconductor package comprises a substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface, an electronic device mounted on the top surface of the substrate and coupled to one or more interconnects on the bottom surface of the substrate, a cover over the electronic device, a casing around a periphery of the cover, and an encapsulant between the cover and the casing and the substrate. |
| US12278152B2 |
Semiconductor device with cushion structure 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 substrate including a circuit area and a non-circuit area; a top dielectric layer positioned on the substrate; a top interconnector positioned along top dielectric layer and above the circuit area; a cushion structure positioned along the top dielectric layer and above the non-circuit area; a bottom passivation layer positioned on the top dielectric layer; a top conductive pad positioned in the bottom passivation layer and on the top interconnector; a redistribution layer positioned on the top conductive pad, on the bottom passivation layer, and extending from the circuit area to the non-circuit area; and an external connector positioned on the redistribution layer and above the cushion structure. The cushion structure includes a porous polymeric material. |
| US12278150B2 |
Semiconductor package with annular package lid structure
A semiconductor package includes a substrate having opposing first and second surfaces as well as a semiconductor chip component disposed at the second surface and having third and fourth opposing surfaces. A package lid structure is affixed to the second surface of the substrate and the fourth surface of the semiconductor chip component, and has a planar component overlying the semiconductor chip component and having a fifth surface facing the fourth surface and an opposing sixth surface. The planar component includes an aperture extending between the fifth surface and the sixth surface so as to expose at least a portion of the fourth surface of the semiconductor chip component. A thermal exchange structure can be mounted on the package lid structure to form a thermal extraction pathway with the semiconductor die component via the aperture, either directly or via an interposing thermally conductive plate. |
| US12278146B2 |
Fin field-effect transistor device and method of forming the same
In an embodiment, a method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a fin protruding above a substrate; forming a gate structure over the fin; forming a recess in the fin and adjacent to the gate structure; performing a wet etch process to clean the recess; treating the recess with a plasma process; and performing a dry etch process to clean the recess after the plasma process and the wet etch process. |
| US12278144B2 |
Gate contact structure over active gate and method to fabricate same
Gate contact structures disposed over active portions of gates and methods of forming such gate contact structures are described. For example, a semiconductor structure includes a substrate having an active region and an isolation region. A gate structure has a portion disposed above the active region and a portion disposed above the isolation region of the substrate. Source and drain regions are disposed in the active region of the substrate, on either side of the portion of the gate structure disposed above the active region. A gate contact structure is disposed on the portion of the gate structure disposed above the active region of the substrate. |
| US12278142B2 |
Method for manfacturing semiconductor device for reducing partcle-induced defects
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure including the following steps is provided. First, a first insulating layer with a conductive contact is formed over a substrate, and a second insulating layer having an opening is formed on the first insulating layer, wherein the opening corresponds to and exposes a top surface of the conductive contact. A conductive line structure is formed in the opening, wherein a contact void is formed between the second insulating layer and the conductive line structure, and then a plasma oxide layer is conformally deposited over the substrate. Then, a wet cleaning process is performed by using an aqueous solution containing negatively charged ions. A capping layer is formed on the plasma oxide layer, the capping layer filling the contact void, and an etching back process to remove the capping layer above the contact void. |
| US12278139B2 |
Manufacturing method of semiconductor device
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes at least the following steps. A sacrificial substrate is provided. An epitaxial layer is formed on the sacrificial substrate. An etch stop layer is formed on the epitaxial layer. Carbon atoms are implanted into the etch stop layer. A capping layer and a device layer are formed on the etch stop layer. A handle substrate is bonded to the device layer. The sacrificial substrate, the epitaxial layer, and the etch stop layer having the carbon atoms are removed from the handle substrate. |
| US12278138B2 |
Method of manufacturing memory device with first and second isolation members using patterned photoresist layer and energy-decomposable mask
The present application provides a method of manufacturing a memory device. The method includes steps of providing a semiconductor substrate including an active area disposed over or in the semiconductor substrate; disposing a patterned photoresist layer over the semiconductor substrate; removing a first portion of the semiconductor substrate exposed through the patterned photoresist layer to form a first trench; removing the patterned photoresist layer; forming a first isolation member within the first trench; disposing an energy-decomposable mask over the semiconductor substrate and the first isolation member; irradiating a portion of the energy-decomposable mask with an electromagnetic radiation; removing the portion of the energy-decomposable mask irradiated with the electromagnetic radiation to form a patterned energy-decomposable mask; removing a second portion of the semiconductor substrate exposed through the patterned energy-decomposable mask to form a second trench; removing the patterned energy-decomposable mask; and forming a second isolation member within the second trench. |
| US12278131B2 |
Stage and plasma processing apparatus
A stage includes a first mounting part on which a substrate is mounted, a second mounting part on which an edge ring surrounding a peripheral edge of the substrate is mounted, the second mounting part being lower than the first mounting part, a first bonding layer configured to bond a base to the first mounting part, a second bonding layer configured to bond the base to the second mounting part, and a seal member configured to close a space between the first mounting part and the second mounting part by deformation of the seal member above the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer while contacting with each of the first mounting part and the second mounting part. |
| US12278130B2 |
Substrate storing and aligning apparatus in substrate bonding equipment for bonding substrates to each other
A substrate storing and aligning apparatus is proposed. The substrate storing and aligning apparatus is capable of efficiently using space in substrate bonding equipment. The substrate storing and aligning apparatus in the substrate bonding equipment for bonding substrates includes a front end buffer including a front end storing slot configured to temporarily store a substrate, and a front end opening configured such that a transfer robot is movable therethrough to transfer the substrate from the front end storing slot, and a front end aligner provided to be stacked on an upper portion of the front end buffer, and configured to rotate the substrate so as to align the substrate. |
| US12278127B2 |
Auto fine-tuner for desired temperature profile
Embodiments disclosed herein include a method of setting a target profile. In an embodiment, the method comprises obtaining a first gain curve for one or more temperature sensor offsets, and obtaining a second gain curve for one or more zone multipliers. In an embodiment, the method further comprises combining the first gain curve and the second gain curve into a thermal model. In an embodiment, the method further comprises obtaining a reference data set, and using the thermal model to generate temperature sensor offsets and/or zone multipliers to apply to the reference data set in order to generate the target profile. |
| US12278123B2 |
Semiconductor processing apparatus
The present disclosure discloses a semiconductor processing apparatus, which is configured to perform processing on a wafer. The disclosed semiconductor processing apparatus includes a vacuum interlock chamber, a plurality of apparatus bodies, the apparatus body including a transfer platform, and at least two reaction chambers being arranged along a circumferential direction of the transfer platform, and a temporary storage channel, any two neighboring apparatus bodies being communicated through the temporary storage channel, and the temporary storage channel being configured to temporarily store the wafer. One of the plurality apparatus bodies is connected to the vacuum interlock chamber. The transfer platform is configured to transfer the wafer between the vacuum interlock chamber and the reaction chamber, between the temporary storage channel and the vacuum interlock chamber, and between the temporary storage channel and the reaction chamber. With the above solution, the problem that the productivity of the semiconductor processing apparatus is low is solved. |
| US12278122B2 |
Heating device and heating method
A heating device for heating a substrate is provided. The heating device comprises a support portion configured to support the substrate, and a light irradiation unit configured to heat the substrate by irradiating the substrate supported by the support portion with light. A plurality of zones are set in the light irradiation unit, and each of the plurality of zones set in the light irradiation unit irradiates different portions of a surface of the substrate supporeted by the support portion with light. During the heating by the light irradiation unit, the plurality of zones take turns so that some zones of the plurality of zones are utilized. |
| US12278118B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method including processing liquid supply unit
A substrate processing apparatus a processing liquid supply unit includes a nozzle supplying a processing liquid onto the substrate, a supply line connected to the nozzle to supply the processing liquid to the nozzle, and a cooler cooling the processing liquid. A volume of the processing liquid is reduced by the cooler so that the processing liquid may be sucked. |
| US12278117B2 |
Underfill film for semiconductor package and method for manufacturing semiconductor package using the same
An underfill film for semiconductor packages and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor package using the underfill film are disclosed. The underfill film includes an adhesive layer in which a melt viscosity and an onset temperature are adjusted to a predetermined range such that production efficiency may be improved by simplifying packaging process of the semiconductor packages. Also the underfill film and the manufacturing process may improve connection reliability of the package. |
| US12278108B2 |
Substrate processing method, method of manufacturing semiconductor device, non- transitory computer-readable recording medium and substrate processing apparatus
There is provided a technique capable of forming a sufficiently flat film. According to one aspect of the technique, there is provided a substrate processing method including: forming a metal-containing multi-layer film structure on a substrate by alternately performing: (a) forming a metal-containing film on the substrate; and (b) supplying a process gas to the substrate so as to perform one or both of (b-1) forming a crystal layer separation film to a surface of the metal-containing film and (b-2) removing abnormal growth nuclei at the surface of the metal-containing film. |
| US12278107B2 |
Semiconductor structure and method for forming semiconductor structure
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming a semiconductor structure are provided. The method for forming the semiconductor structure includes: providing a base; forming a first dielectric layer on the base; then forming a plurality of first mask patterns each having zigzag shape on the first dielectric layer, in which the first mask patterns extend in a first direction; forming a plurality of second mask patterns each having zigzag shape on the first mask patterns, in which the second mask patterns extend in a second direction different from the first direction, and projections of the first mask patterns on the first dielectric layer and projections of the second mask patterns on the first dielectric layer overlap with each other to form polygons; and etching the first dielectric layer by using the second mask patterns and the first mask patterns as masks to form openings. |
| US12278106B2 |
Preparation method of semiconductor device
Provided is a preparation method of a semiconductor device, including the following steps: providing a substrate and forming a mask layer with a plurality of first windows on the substrate; forming a dielectric layer, the dielectric layer at least covering sidewalls of the first windows; forming a first photoresist material layer, the first photoresist material layer covering the dielectric layer and the mask layer and filling the first windows; patterning the first photoresist material layer to form a patterned first photoresist layer which exposes a top surface of the dielectric layer; by using the first photoresist layer and the mask layer as masks, removing the dielectric layer to form second windows; and removing part of the substrate along the second windows to form a patterned substrate. |
| US12278103B2 |
Method of processing substrate and method of manufacturing semiconductor device by forming film
A technique includes: (a) providing a substrate having a first surface and a second surface; (b) modifying the first surface to be terminated with a hydrocarbon group by supplying a hydrocarbon group-containing gas to the substrate; and (c) forming a film on the second surface by supplying a precursor and an oxygen- and hydrogen-containing gas to the substrate after modifying the first surface. |
| US12278096B2 |
Shield cooling assembly, reaction chamber and semiconductor processing apparatus
A shield cooling assembly includes an adapter configured to fix a shield in the chamber. The adapter includes a first surface and a second surface facing an outer side surface of the shield and a bottom surface of a bottom wall of the shield, respectively. A predetermined gap is provided between the first surface and the outer side surface of the shield. The second surface is in contact with the bottom surface of the bottom wall of the shield. The adapter is provided with a cooling channel for transmitting a cooling medium to cool the shield. |
| US12278091B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method
Provided is a substrate processing apparatus including: a chuck configured to support a substrate; a dielectric plate disposed to face an upper surface of the substrate supported by the chuck; a gas supply unit configured to supply process gas to an edge region of the substrate; and a first edge electrode configured to generate plasma from the process gas to the edge region of the substrate supported by the chuck, in which the first edge electrode includes: a plurality of electrode units; and one or more insulating units provided between the electrode units. |
| US12278090B2 |
Enhanced tuning methods for mitigating RF load impedance variations due to periodic disturbances
A radio frequency (RF) power generation system includes a RF power source that generates a RF output signal delivered to a load. A RF power controller is configured to generate a control signal to vary the RF output signal. The controller adjusts a parameter associated with the RF output signal, and the parameter is controlled in accordance with a trigger signal. The parameter is adjusted over a predetermined number of bins. The parameter is adjusted in accordance with a cost function, and the cost function is determined by introducing a perturbation for each bin into an actuator that affects the cost function. The actuator may control an external RF output signal, and the trigger signal may vary in accordance with the external RF output signal. The perturbation is determined in accordance with a basis set having fewer dimensions than the number of bins. |
| US12278088B2 |
Plasma antenna and apparatus for generating plasma having the same
Provided are a plasma antenna and a plasma generating apparatus including the same. The plasma antenna includes a first antenna inducing electromagnetic fields by using an RF signal, a second antenna inducing electromagnetic fields by using the RF signal, and a capacitor connected between an input terminal of the first antenna and an input terminal of the second antenna. |
| US12278086B2 |
Pattern height metrology using an e-beam system
The present disclosure relates to the determination of a pattern height of a pattern, which has been produced with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography in a resist film. The determination is performed by using an electron beam (e-beam) system, in particular, by using a scanning electron microscope (SEM). In this respect, the disclosure provides a device for determining the pattern height, wherein the device comprising a processor. The processor is configured to obtain a SEM image of the pattern from an SEM. Further, the processor is configured to determine a contrast value related to the pattern based on the obtained SEM image. Subsequently, the processor is configured to determine the pattern height based on calibration data and the determined contrast value. |
| US12278083B2 |
Substrate holder state detection device and substrate holder state detection method
A state detection device includes at least one chuck pin for holding a substrate, a photographing unit configured to photograph the chuck pin, and set at least one image to be obtained as a target image, a matching coordinate calculation unit, namely a data matching calculator, configured to perform matching processing between the target image and a reference image which is at least one image showing the chuck pin, and calculate matching coordinates, which are coordinates indicating a position of the reference image in the target image when a matching score between the reference image and the target image is the highest, and a detection unit, namely a detector, configured to detect an open/closed state of the chuck pin based on the matching coordinates. Therefore, the open/closed state of the chuck pin can be detected while maintaining high detection accuracy. |
| US12278081B2 |
System and method for alignment of secondary beams in multi-beam inspection apparatus
A multi-beam inspection apparatus including an adjustable beam separator is disclosed. The adjustable beam separator is configured to change a path of a secondary particle beam. The adjustable beam separator comprises a first Wien filter and a second Wien filter. Both Wien filters are aligned with a primary optical axis. The first Wien filter and the second Wien filter are independently controllable via a first excitation input and a second excitation input, respectively. The adjustable beam separator is configured move the effective bending point of the adjustable beam separator along the primary optical axis based on the first excitation input and the second excitation input. |
| US12278079B1 |
Lightweight, thermally stable disk for a coaxial travelling wave tube (CoTWT)
A lightweight, thermally stable disk for use in a slow wave structure (SWS) of CoTWT is configurated without sacrificing thermal management, structural integrity, or RF performance. Refractory metal is removed from regions of the disk where no RF interaction is expected and replaced with resistive ceramic material. The disk includes one or more central ribs positioned about the periphery of a central hub. A plurality of U-shaped receptacles may extend from the one or more central ribs. The disk is plated with a patterned metal to define laminar conductive tabs spaced around the periphery that are separated by solid resistive ceramic tabs and to electromagnetically connect all exposed refractory metal surfaces. The plating metal must be capable of being deposited and patterned in a thin layer of 10 to 100 microns, exhibit a Young's Modulus of <100 GPa to provide both the ductility and malleability to plastically deform and exhibit an electrical conductivity at least and preferably greater than that of the refractory metal. |
| US12278063B2 |
Key module for a keyboard, and keyboard
What is presented is a key module (120) for a keyboard (100). The key module (120) comprises at least one guide unit (230) formed to guide movement of an actuation unit (125) of the key module (120) between a rest position actuated position upon actuation of the key module (120). The key module (120) also comprises at least one spring element (240) for biasing the actuation unit (125) of the key module (120) into the rest position. The key module (120) further comprises means (315) for dampening mechanical vibrations of the spring element (240) at least when the actuation unit (125) is in the rest position. |
| US12278060B2 |
Solid electrolytic capacitor and method for manufacturing solid electrolytic capacitor comprising a block layer formed using a conductive polymer heterogeneously doped with a polymer dopant
A solid electrolytic capacitor according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: an anode body made of a valve metal; a dielectric layer formed on the anode body; and a solid electrolyte layer formed on the dielectric layer. The solid electrolyte layer includes: a first conductive polymer layer formed on the dielectric layer and heterogeneously doped with a monomolecular dopant; a block layer formed on the first conductive polymer layer; and a second conductive polymer layer formed on the block layer and composed of a self-doped-type conductive polymer containing a plurality of side chains containing a functional group that can be doped. The block layer blocks a migration of the self-doped-type conductive polymer from the second conductive polymer layer into the first conductive polymer layer and/or a migration of the self-doped-type conductive polymer from the second conductive polymer layer into pores of the porous anode body. |
| US12278057B2 |
Ceramic electronic component including barium calcium titanate
A ceramic electronic component, includes: a body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrodes alternately disposed with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween in a first direction; a first external electrode connected to the first internal electrode; and a second external electrode connected to the second internal electrode, wherein the body includes a capacitance formation portion including the first and second internal electrodes, and a cover portion disposed on both end surfaces of the capacitance formation portion in the first direction, the dielectric layer includes BaTiO3 and (Ba1-xCax)TiO3(0.01≤x≤0.15), and the cover portion includes BaTiO3, and in a cross-section of the body in the first and third directions, a ratio of an area occupied by pores in the cover portion is S1, and a ratio of an area occupied by pores in the dielectric layer of the capacitance formation portion is S2, S1 |
| US12278050B2 |
Chip ceramic electronic component and method for manufacturing the same
A method for manufacturing a chip ceramic electronic component that includes an outer electrode including a glass-free sintered layer including no glass. A glass-free conductive paste including a nickel powder, a metal powder, such as tin, having a melting point of lower than about 500° C., and a thermosetting resin, and not including glass, is applied to cover a portion of a surface of a ceramic body. The ceramic body to which the glass-free conductive paste has been applied is subjected to a heat treatment at a temperature higher than or equal to a temperature about 400° C. higher than the curing temperature of the thermosetting resin. The thermosetting resin is thermally decomposed or burned such that little or none remains, and the nickel powder and metal powder having a melting point of lower than about 500° C. are sintered to form a unified sintered metal body. |
| US12278045B2 |
Magnet with multiple opposing poles on a surface for use with magnetically sensitive components
A system for inductive charging is provided. The system comprises a magnetic structure having one or more pieces that include substantially flat first and second surfaces. Each piece includes at least two magnetic poles of opposite polarity located at each of the first and second surfaces such that each piece includes at least two pairs of opposing magnetic poles oriented to cause magnetization in two opposing directions. The magnetic structure creates a magnetic field with flux densities having substantially similar magnitudes relative to the first and second surfaces as a function of distance from the first and second surfaces, respectively, along an axis that runs perpendicular to the first and second surfaces. The magnetic field does not impair normal operation of a magnetically sensitive component. The magnetic structure is configured to create a magnetic attachment between devices and to align the charging and receiving coils in the devices. |
| US12278044B2 |
Method for preparing anisotropic flake nanocrystalline rare earth permanent magnet material and rare earth permanent magnet material
Disclosed are a method for preparing an anisotropic flake nanocrystalline rare earth permanent magnet material and a rare earth permanent magnet material. In the disclosure, the method includes: step 1, preparation of a precursor flake nanocrystal magnetic powder, where a number of grains of flake nanocrystals inside the precursor flake nanocrystalline magnetic powder accounts for not less than 85% of a total number of grains inside the precursor flake nanocrystalline magnetic powder; step 2, orientation treatment by hot deformation: subjecting the precursor flake nanocrystalline magnetic powder or a green body prepared from the precursor flake nanocrystalline magnetic powder to the hot deformation, such that flake nanocrystals are regularly arranged; and step 3, post-processing for optimizing orientation. |
| US12278043B2 |
Electronic apparatus and method of manufacturing electronic device
The present disclosure concerns a method of manufacturing an electronic device, where the electronic device includes at least one electronic component with at least one electrical winding, and at least one heat dissipation mass coating, and the method includes inserting the at least one electronic component into a cavity; pouring, before or after the insertion of the electronic component, a heat dissipation mass into the cavity so as to at least partially fill the cavity and at least partially cover the electronic component with the heat dissipation mass; removing the electronic device, namely, the electronic component covered by the heat dissipation mass coating, from the cavity. The present disclosure also concerns an electronic apparatus including at least one electronic device manufactured by the foregoing method. |
| US12278042B2 |
Electrical power transformation system and process
A transformer apparatus for an electrical power transformation system is provided. The transformer apparatus comprises three outer transformer limbs, an inner transformer limb a transfer star, and first and second connection portions. The transfer star comprises an electromagnetic transfer core and three transfer coils. The electromagnetic transfer core extends from the inner transformer limb to each of the three outer transformer limbs at a point on each outer transformer limb between the first coil assembly and the second coil assembly. The transfer coils are wound around the electromagnetic transfer core such that each transfer coil is arranged between the inner transformer limb and a respective outer transformer limb. The transfer star is configured to allow transfer of magnetomotive force between the outer transformer limbs and the inner transformer limb of the transformer apparatus. First and second connecting portions are to allow magnetic flux to flow between the inner and outer transformer limbs. |
| US12278040B2 |
Inductor component and method for manufacturing the same
An inductor component and a method for manufacturing an inductor component that enables the inductor component to be miniaturized. An inductor component includes an annular core; and a coil including a plurality of pin members and wound on the core with neighboring pin members connected to each other. A first pin member and a second pin member both adjacent to each other have a welded part in which an end face of an end part of the first pin member and a peripheral surface of an end part of the second pin member are welded to each other. A width of a part, of the first pin member, except the welded part is smaller, as viewed from a direction along a center line of the end part of the second pin member, than a width of a part, of the second pin member, except the welded part. |
| US12278032B2 |
Photosensitive resin composition, cured film, inductor and antenna
The main object of the present invention is to provide a photosensitive resin composition with which a cured film that exhibits a high magnetic permeability real part μ′ and a low magnetic loss tan δ in the high frequency region can be formed. |
| US12278029B2 |
Heat dissipating structures
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to heat dissipating structures and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a thin film resistor within a back end of the line structure; and a heat dissipating structure below the thin film resistor, the heat dissipating structure includes a top plate with a slotted configuration and being within the back end of the line structure. |
| US12278025B2 |
Insulated copper wire and electric coil
An insulated copper wire is an insulated copper wire having a copper wire and an insulating film coating a surface of the copper wire, in which the insulating film contains a polymer material having an amide bond, on a peeled surface formed on a surface of the insulated copper wire by peeling off the insulating film, there more copper atoms bonded to a nitrogen atom or a carbon atom than copper atoms bonded to an oxygen atom, an oxygen-containing layer containing 10 atom % or more of oxygen in a depth direction from the peeled surface is formed, and a film thickness of the oxygen-containing layer is in a range of 2 nm or more and 30 nm or less. An electric coil is formed by winding the above-described insulated copper wire. |
| US12278022B2 |
Stretchable interconnects for flexible electronic surfaces
A conductive paste and method of manufacturing thereof. The conductive paste comprises conductive particles dispersed in an organic medium, the organic medium comprising: (a) a solvent; and (b) a binder comprising a polyester. The conductive paste typically comprises silver and may contain various other additives. A stretchable conductive layer can be formed by curing the conductive paste. |
| US12278019B2 |
Method and circuitry to apply an individual DC offset to electrodes on a large-scale ion trap quantum computer
A device includes a plurality of digital-to-analog converters (DACs), a multiplexer, a plurality of electrodes including a first electrode, and a plurality of direct current (DC) offset circuits including a first DC offset circuit. At least one of the plurality of electrodes is located along a lane for movement of an ion. The multiplexer has multiple inputs coupled to the plurality of DACs and multiple outputs including a first output. The first output is configured to provide a first voltage. The first DC offset circuit is coupled between the first output and the first electrode. The first DC offset circuit is configured to add a first DC offset voltage to either the first voltage or the first voltage amplified by a first gain. The first DC offset voltage is configurable. |
| US12278018B1 |
Gamma radiation shielding materials incorporating neodymium-doped zirconia nanoparticles and methods for preparation thereof
A radiation shielding material for shielding against gamma radiation includes neodymium-doped zirconia nanoparticles in a matrix. The neodymium doped zirconia nanoparticles have a tetragonal crystal structure and an average size between about 25 nm to about 35 nm. The nanoparticles have a neodymium content in the range of about 1.5 mol % to about 3 mol % based on the total molar content of the zirconia nanoparticles. A method for the synthesis of neodymium-doped zirconia nanoparticles is provided. The method includes controlled metamorphosis of zirconia from monoclinic to tetragonal phase which results in a multifunctional shielding material having durability and high radiation absorption efficiency. |
| US12278017B2 |
Silicon carbide reinforced zirconium based cladding
The present application relates to nuclear fuel claddings, and more particularly to zirconium alloy tubes with a ceramic covering. A first coating layer is applied to the ceramic covering. A second coating layer is over the first coating layer. The first coating layer includes Nb. The second coating layer includes Cr. |
| US12278015B2 |
Application-specific processing of a disease-specific semantic model instance
A computer-implemented method and system are applied to a first instance of a first disease-specific semantic model. The method and system: receive a first request; process the first instance of the first disease-specific semantic model based on the first request to generate a first processed instance of the first disease-specific semantic model; and provide the first processed instance of the first disease-specific semantic model as output. |
| US12278012B2 |
System and method for detection of impairment in cognitive function
A machine learning method predicts whether a specified subject is at high risk of developing cognitive impairment based upon a data record for said specified subject, and a method of training a dual neural network for such. These methods may work by automatically classifying said subject into a first class associated with a first predicted risk of cognitive impairment or a second class associated with a second predicted risk of cognitive impairment. Subject records are obtained comprising a first set of measured data and a second set of data including results for two or more health assessment questionnaires; and a label indicating that the subject belongs to the first class or second class. These records are used to train first and second neural networks, and in the latter method these trained networks are able to predict whether a specified subject should belong to said first class or second class. |
| US12278011B1 |
Method and architecture in support of patient-centric networks
Network communication systems and methods implementing micro network subsystems for securely delivering personal electronic information across wired and/or wireless media are disclosed. Software-defined networking (SDN) is used to segment a provider network into a plurality of personal micro networks each established for an object that is cryptographically bound to or cryptographically associated with a living being. When multiple providers implementing different workflows and binding different objects to the same person are connected to the communication system, an interoperable network database stores the information and compiles, searches, and distributes the information to/from multiple providers. |
| US12278010B2 |
Medical image display apparatus, method, and program
The processor displays a medical image, receives an input of a primary interpretation result by a user interpreting the medical image, displays an annotation representing the primary interpretation result, acquires an analysis result for the medical image, displays an annotation representing the analysis result, receives an input of a secondary interpretation result by the user interpreting the medical image after displaying the analysis result, and displays the annotation representing the primary interpretation result and an annotation representing the secondary interpretation result in a distinguishable manner. |
| US12278003B2 |
Automatic selection of optimal graphs with robust geometric properties in graph-based discovery of geometry of clinical data
A system and method for graph-based discovery of geometry of clinical data are disclosed. The method includes receiving vectors of outcomes of trial subjects; generating, based on the vectors of outcomes, a plurality of metric graphs such that each of the metric graphs includes a same set of nodes corresponding to the vectors of outcomes and the nodes are selectively connected based on a first criterion, the first criterion being based on a set of parameters, the set of parameters being uniquely selected, from a plurality of sets of parameters, for each of the metric graphs; determining, based on the plurality of metric graphs and a second criterion, an aggregated graph and a subset of the plurality of metric graphs; selecting, from the subset of the plurality of metric graphs and based on a third criterion, optimal and most representative graphs; and displaying a graphical representation of optimal graphs. |
| US12278001B2 |
Information processing device, information processing method, recording medium recording information processing program, and information processing system
In response to request signals transmitted from a terminal, a server generates prediction information relating to pharmacokinetics of a peptide. The server then transmits the prediction information to the terminal. |
| US12278000B2 |
Method for the early estimation of anaerobic degradability of organic substrates
A method for the early estimation of anaerobic degradability of organic substrates, starting from initial data acquired from tests measuring BMP (Biochemical Methane Potential). The method consists of: i) calculating the two parameters B0 and k; ii) comparing the fit of the decreasing trend of B0,est as Δt varies with a homographic function in the first quadrant; iii) evaluating the goodness of fit between a homographic function and the trend of B0,est as Δt varies, checking whether the adjusted coefficient of determination R2adj≥R2adj,min; iv) selecting the value of B0,est corresponding to a slope of less than 0.1% that occurs for three consecutive Δt; if no, acquire additional BMP measurements and repeat the previous steps. |
| US12277997B1 |
Rapid, comprehensive and sensitive method for neoantigen screening from recurrent cancer mutations
A rapid, comprehensive and sensitive method for neoantigen screening from recurrent cancer mutations comprising: (A) STEP 1: selecting recurrent cancer mutations dividing into three tiers based on ranking features; (B) STEP 2: Generating a library of artificial antigen presenting cells (aAPC) co-expressing HLA types (including a list of 13 most frequent HLA class I types covering 66% of Asian population or 67% of Vietnamese population, and a list of 04 most frequent HLA class II types covering 41% Asian population or 50% of Vietnamese population) and a co-stimulatory molecule; and (C) STEP 3: Using the library of aAPC at step (B) for rapid and comprehensive screening for selecting of immunogenic peptides (neoantigens) from the off-the-shelf peptides at step (A) activate T cells via immunological assays (ELISpot or intracellular staining flow cytometry). |
| US12277993B2 |
Page buffer circuits in three-dimensional memory devices
A page buffer circuit of a memory device includes a first sensing branch including a first pre-charge path and a low-voltage latch, and a second sensing branch including a second pre-charge path and a sensing latch. The first sensing branch and the second sensing branch are parallel coupled to a sensing node of the page buffer circuit. |
| US12277988B2 |
Data processing method, data processing structure and memory
Embodiments relate to the field of semiconductor circuit design, and more particularly, to a data processing method, a data processing structure, and a memory. The data processing method includes: obtaining raw data to be stored, and grouping the raw data to obtain first split data, the first split data having equal number of code elements; encoding each of the first split data to generate first encoded data, where the first encoded data includes the first split data and check data corresponding to the first split data; reorganizing the first encoded data to generate write data; storing the write data into a memory cell; and obtaining read data in the memory cell, and decoding and checking the read data to generate corrected read data, to correct a multi-bit burst error occurring in the memory during data storage or data transmission. |
| US12277982B2 |
Verifiable one-time programmable memory device
There is provided a verifiable OTP memory device, the memory device including an MTP memory block and an OTP memory block for storing data, and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to handle write requests and read requests. Each write request and read request pertains to writing data to, and reading data from, respectively, a requested position in either the MTP memory block or the OTP memory block. The memory controller is configured to, in response to the write requests, write the data to the requested position in either the MTP memory block or the OTP memory block. The memory controller is configured to, in response to the read requests, output data as combined from the requested position in the MTP memory block and the requested position in the OTP memory block, regardless if the read requests are for the MTP memory block or the OTP memory block. |
| US12277979B2 |
NAND data placement schema
Disclosed in some examples are improvements to data placement architectures in NAND that provide additional data protection through an improved NAND data placement schema that allows for recovery from certain failure scenarios. The present disclosure stripes data diagonally across page lines and planes to enhance the data protection. Parity bits are stored in SLC blocks for extra protection until the block is finished writing and then the parity bits may be deleted. |
| US12277975B2 |
Non-volatile memory and operating method thereof
A method of operating a non-volatile memory including an unselected word line is provided. A first voltage rising at a first slope is applied by a voltage generator to the unselected word line. Outputting the first voltage is stopped by the voltage generator in response to that the first voltage rises to a predetermined voltage, wherein the predetermined voltage is higher than a pass voltage. The pass voltage is outputted by the voltage generator to the unselected word line. |
| US12277974B2 |
Memory device and operation thereof
A circuit includes a voltage generator and a sensing device. The voltage generator includes a first output and a second output. The first output is configured to output a word line voltage, and the second output is configured to output a flag signal indicates a relationship between the word line voltage and a reference signal. The sensing device includes a first input and a third output. The first input is coupled to the second output of the voltage generator, and the third output of the sensing device is configured to output a value corresponding to capacitance change of word line capacitance loading based on the flag signal. |
| US12277967B2 |
Memory device and method for operating the same including setting a recovery voltage
A memory device can include a plurality of memory cells including a first group of memory cells and a second group of memory cells programmed to a predefined logic state. The plurality of memory cells includes a memory controller configured to apply a reading voltage to at least one selected memory cell of the first group during a reading operation, apply the reading voltage to the memory cells of the second group, and responsive to the logic state of at least one memory cell of the second group being assessed to be different from the predefined logic state perform a refresh operation of the memory cells of the first group by applying a recovery voltage higher than the reading voltage to assess the logic state thereof and reprogramming the memory cells of the first group to the logic state assessed with the recovery voltage. |
| US12277964B2 |
Memory device and sense amplifier capable of performing in-memory logical not operation and computing
A sense amplifier capable of performing a logical NOT operation is provided, which includes a sense circuit, configured to sense a first voltage of a bit line and a second voltage of an inverse bit line; a first transistor, coupled between a first terminal of the sense circuit and the bit line; a second transistor, coupled between a second terminal of the sense circuit and the inverse bit line; and a third transistor, coupled between the bit line and the inverse bit line. First and second memory cells are respectively controlled by first and second word lines, and connected to the bit line. When the sense amplifier is in an inverse writing state, the sense amplifier writes the second voltage to the second memory cell through a predetermined path. A first logical state of the first voltage is complementary to a second logical state of the second voltage. |
| US12277958B2 |
Magnetic disk device
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device comprises a head position demodulation unit which demodulates a position of the head by performing switching between normal servo demodulation for processing servo information written to a servo sector of the disk and short servo demodulation for processing servo information by a short servo system, and a controller comprises a head position prediction unit which predicts a head position, and the head position prediction unit performs position prediction by using a latest head position obtained by demodulation by the head position demodulation unit and a head position obtained by past demodulation by normal servo demodulation. |
| US12277957B1 |
Data storage device with embedded mode hop predictor patterns
Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, method, and one or more processing devices that are configured to: write a plurality of test servo patterns using a plurality of different write settings; select one of the plurality of different write settings based on analyzing the plurality of test servo patterns for mode hop; and write a plurality of final servo patterns using the selected one of the plurality of different write settings. |
| US12277956B2 |
Magnetic disk device, method of controlling magnetic disk device, and computer program product
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a first MA amplifier that drives a first micro actuator that positions a corresponding magnetic head, a second micro actuator that positions a corresponding magnetic head, a second MA amplifier that drives the second micro actuator, and a controller that, when performing switching from an MA amplifier of a switching source in an on state to an MA amplifier of a switching destination in an off state, starts up the MA amplifier of the switching destination while maintaining the MA amplifier of the switching source in the on state, and performs the switching from the MA amplifier of the switching source to the MA amplifier of the switching destination after a predetermined time elapses. |
| US12277953B2 |
Speech signal processing method and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium
Embodiments of this disclosure provide a speech signal processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. A processing circuitry of the electronic device obtains speech feature parameters of a to-be-processed speech signal. The speech feature parameters include an initial spectrum of the to-be-processed speech signal. The processing circuitry predicts a first quantity of subband spectrum envelopes based on the speech feature parameters. The first set quantity is less than a quantity of initial spectrum coefficients included in the initial spectrum. Each of the subband spectrum envelopes corresponds to a second quantity of initial spectrum coefficients. The processing circuitry adjusts the initial spectrum based on the predicted subband spectrum envelopes to obtain an adjusted spectrum. The processing circuitry obtains an enhanced speech signal corresponding to the to-be-processed speech signal based on the adjusted spectrum. Apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium counterpart embodiments are also contemplated. |
| US12277952B2 |
Hearing device comprising a low complexity beamformer
A hearing device includes a) a multitude of input transducers providing a corresponding multitude of electric input signals; and b) a processor for providing a processed signal in dependence of the electric input signals. The processor includes b1) a beamformer for providing a spatially filtered signal in dependence of electric input signals and beamformer filter coefficients determined in dependence of a fixed steering vector including as elements respective acoustic transfer functions from a target signal source, to each of said multitude of input transducers; and b2) a target adaptation module connected to the input transducers and to at least one beamformer, the target adaptation module being configured to provide compensation signals to compensate the electric input signals so that they match the fixed steering vector. |
| US12277951B2 |
Beamforming method using online likelihood maximization combined with steering vector estimation for robust speech recognition, and apparatus therefor
A target signal extraction apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise a steering vector estimator and a beamformer. The steering vector estimator may generate an input signal covariance according to input results for each frequency over time, generate a noise covariance on the basis of a variance determined according to output results corresponding to the input results, and generate a steering vector on the basis of the input signal covariance and the noise covariance. The beamformer may generate a beamforming weight according to a beamforming covariance determined according to the variance and the steering vector, and provide the output results on the basis of the input results and the beamforming weight. The target signal extraction apparatus according to the present invention may generate the steering vector by calculating the noise covariance on the basis of the variance determined according to output results corresponding to input results, and increases extraction performance for a target sound source by updating a beamforming weight. |
| US12277944B2 |
Adaptive comfort noise parameter determination
A method for generating a comfort noise (CN) parameter is provided. The method includes receiving an audio input; detecting, with a Voice Activity Detector (VAD), a current inactive segment in the audio input; as a result of detecting, with the VAD, the current inactive segment in the audio input, calculating a CN parameter CNused; and providing the CN parameter CNused to a decoder. The CN parameter CNused is calculated based at least in part on the current inactive segment and a previous inactive segment. |
| US12277939B2 |
Progressive contrastive learning framework for self-supervised speaker verification
A method includes receiving, by a first encoder, an original speech segment, receiving, by a second encoder, an augmented speech segment of the original speech segment, generating, by the first encoder, a first speaker representation based on the original speech segment, generating, by the second encoder, a second speaker representation based on the augmented speech segment, and generating a contrastive loss based on the first speaker representation and the second speaker representation. |
| US12277937B2 |
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for resuming dialog sessions via automated assistant
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for storing incomplete dialog sessions between a user and an automated assistant in order that the dialog sessions can be completed in furtherance of certain actions. While interacting with an automated assistant, a user can become distracted and not complete the interaction to the point of the automated assistant performing some action. In response, the automated assistant can store the interaction as a dialog session. Subsequently, the user may express interest, directly or indirectly, in completing the dialog session, and the automated assistant can provide the user with a selectable element that, when selected, causes the dialog session to be reopened. The user can then continue the dialog session with the automated assistant in order that the originally intended action can be performed by the automated assistant. |
| US12277934B2 |
Electronic device for analyzing domain associations and reconstructing hints customized for a user based on a common parameter
Disclosed is an electronic device. According to an embodiment, an electronic device may include: a user interface comprising interface circuitry, a processor, and a memory operatively connected to the processor. The memory may store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to: receive an input through the user interface, analyze a domain association for at least one or more domains included in the electronic device or operatively connected to the electronic device in response to the input, collect at least one hint defined in the at least one or more domains, identify a common parameter for the collected at least one hint, to reconstruct the hint using the identified common parameter, and provide response data including the reconstructed hint, using the user interface. |
| US12277933B2 |
Systems and methods for mobile speech therapy
A computer-implemented method can include: an audio input device of a portable electronic device receiving verbal speech input from a user and converting the received verbal speech input into an audio input signal; an online processing module of the portable electronic device performing at least one speech recognition operation on the audio input signal; an offline processing module of the portable electronic device performing at least one speech recognition operation on the audio input signal; an interactive game module of the portable electronic device generating user feedback based on results from the at least one speech recognition operation performed by the online processing module and the at least one speech recognition operation by the offline processing module; and a user interface of the portable electronic device providing the user feedback to the user. |
| US12277932B2 |
Reactive voice device management
One or more user interactions directed to a set of one or more voice-controlled devices in an environment are received by a first connected device. A first input to a first voice-controlled device of the set of voice-controlled devices is detected based on the user interactions. A potential second input to the set of voice-controlled devices is determined in response to the first input and based on an activity model. A deviation from the potential second input is monitored for, in response to the first input and from the user interactions. An activity anomaly in the environment is identified based on the monitoring. A correction action is performed in response to the activity anomaly. |
| US12277930B1 |
Recipient customized generative voice modeling
The present embodiments relate to on demand generation of curated audio content. Responsive to initiation of an electronic communication by a client, audio relating to a client speaking to the operator can be processed to derive a series of insights relating to features of the audio. Previously recorded audio relating to the operator can be combined with a text-based script to generate audio content. The audio content can be modified using the series of derived insights. The modified audio content can include a series of disclaimers that are played back to the client. Generation of the modified audio content can be dynamically generated responsive to detecting a trigger that allows for on-demand generation of the modified audio content. |
| US12277928B2 |
Automatic hotword threshold tuning
A method for automatic hotword threshold tuning includes receiving, from a user device executing a first stage hotword detector configured to detect a hotword in streaming audio, audio data characterizing the detected hotword. The method includes processing, using a second stage hotword detector, the audio data to determine whether the hotword is detected by the second stage hotword detector. When the hotword is not detected, the method includes identifying a false acceptance instance at the first stage hotword detector indicating that the first stage hotword detector incorrectly detected the hotword. The method includes determining whether a false acceptance rate satisfies a false acceptance rate threshold based on a number of false acceptance instances within a false acceptance time period. When the false acceptance rate satisfies the false acceptance rate threshold, the method includes adjusting the hotword detection threshold of the first stage hotword detector. |
| US12277926B2 |
Intelligent medical speech automatic recognition method and system thereof
An intelligent medical speech automatic recognition method includes performing a first model training step, a second model training step, a voice receiving step, a signal pre-treatment step and a transforming step. The first model training step is performed to train a generic statement data and a medical statement data of a database to establish a first model. The second model training step is performed to train a medical textbook data of the database to establish a second model. The voice receiving step is performed to receive a speech signal. The signal pre-treatment step is performed to receive the speech signal from the voice receiver and transform the speech signal into a to-be-recognized speech signal. The transforming step is performed to transform and recognize the to-be-recognized speech signal into a complete sentence writing character according to the first model and the second model. |
| US12277925B2 |
Automatic audio playback of displayed textual content
An audio playback system that provides intuitive audio playback of textual content responsive to user input actions, such as scrolling portions of textual content on a display. Playback of audio (e.g., text-to-speech audio) that includes textual content can begin based on a portion of textual content being positioned by a user input at a certain position on a device display. As one example, a user can simply scroll through a webpage or other content item to cause a text-to-speech system to perform audio playback of textual content displayed in one or more playback section(s) of the device's viewport (e.g., rather than requiring the user to perform additional tapping or gesturing to specifically select a certain portion of textual content). |
| US12277923B2 |
Electronic apparatus and control method thereof
An electronic apparatus includes an inner microphone provided on a first surface of the electronic apparatus; an outer microphone disposed on a second surface opposite the first surface; and a processor configured to: receive a voice signal of a counterpart and a voice signal of a wearer of the electronic apparatus that are input through the inner microphone and the outer microphone, based on a size of the voice signal of the wearer input through the inner microphone being greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold, remove the voice signal of the wearer input through the outer microphone based on the voice signal of the wearer input through the inner microphone, and amplify the voice signal of the counterpart input through the outer microphone and from which the voice signal of the wearer is removed and output the amplified voice signal, wherein the size of the voice signal of the wearer input through the inner microphone is greater than a size of the voice signal of the wearer input through the outer microphone. |
| US12277922B2 |
Cancel filter coefficient selecting apparatus, cancel filter coefficient selecting method, and program
Provided is a technique for selecting a cancellation filter coefficient that can stably cancel noise for a user using a seat of an aircraft, an automobile, or the like. A cancellation filter coefficient selection apparatus includes: a recording unit configured to record cancellation filter coefficients; a seat position acquisition unit configured to acquire a position of a seat used by a user; and a cancellation filter coefficient selection unit configured to, from among the cancellation filter coefficients recorded in the recording unit, select a cancellation filter coefficient corresponding to the position of the seat as a cancellation filter coefficient to be used in filtering for generating a cancellation signal for cancelling noise at a position where quiet is desired, based on a reference signal output by a reference microphone configured to collect noise in a predetermined space. The reference microphone and a speaker for emitting sound based on the cancellation signal are installed on the seat, and positions of the reference microphone and the speaker in the predetermined space change accompanying movement of the seat. |
| US12277913B2 |
Display device including timing controller that operates display panel in low speed mode, display panel, and display driving method
The present disclosure relates to display device, display panel, and display driving method. Disclosed herein is a display device including a display panel in which a light emitting element, a driving transistor configured to provide a driving current to a light emitting element using a driving voltage, and a plurality of switching transistors configured to control driving of the driving transistor are disposed; a gate driving circuit configured to supply a plurality of scan signals to the display panel through a plurality of gate lines; an emission driving circuit configured to supply a plurality of emission signals to the display panel through a plurality of emission signal lines; a data driving circuit configured to supply a data voltage to the display panel; and a timing controller configured to, in a low speed mode in which the display panel is operated at a low driving frequency, control the driving current to be applied to the driving transistor during a first emission control period after a bias voltage is applied to the driving transistor, and control the driving current to be applied to the light emitting element through the driving transistor during a second emission control period. |
| US12277911B2 |
Scan driving circuit and display device including the same
A scan driving circuit includes: a driving circuit configured to output a scan signal to an output terminal in response to clock signals and a carry signal; and a masking circuit configured to stop the driving circuit from outputting the scan signal in response to a masking signal and a signal indicating an operating state of the driving circuit. |
| US12277910B2 |
Shift register unit and driving method thereof, gate drive circuit, and display device
A shift register unit and a driving method thereof, a gate drive circuit, and a display device are disclosed. The shift register unit includes: an input circuit, a first control circuit, an output circuit, an output noise reduction circuit, and a reset circuit; wherein the input circuit is connected to an input terminal; the first control circuit is connected to the first node, a second node, and a first clock signal terminal; the output circuit is connected to an output terminal; the output noise reduction circuit is connected to the output terminal; and the reset circuit is connected to a total reset terminal and a first voltage terminal, wherein the total reset signal is an invalid level in a first operation stage, and the total reset signal includes at least one period of valid level in a second operation stage. |
| US12277909B2 |
Display device, photoelectric conversion device, electronic device, moving body, and wearable device
A display device comprising a scanning circuit configured to scan a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix and a control circuit configured to control the scanning circuit to scan the pixel array in accordance with a display mode selected among a plurality of display modes is provided. The plurality of display modes include a first display mode for repeatedly performing an operation unit formed by a plurality of scanning sequences including a first scanning sequence by which the scanning circuit scans, in a predetermined order, a predetermined scanning line of the pixel array. When shifting to the first display mode from a display mode which is other than the first display mode among the plurality of display modes, the control circuit controls the scanning circuit to start the operation unit from the first scanning sequence. |
| US12277907B2 |
Pixel driving circuit and display panel
Provided are a pixel driving circuit and a display panel. The pixel driving circuit includes: a data writing sub-circuit, a threshold compensation sub-circuit, a driving sub-circuit, a storage sub-circuit, a first reset sub-circuit, a second reset sub-circuit. The driving sub-circuit and the storage sub-circuit are connected at a first node; the data writing sub-circuit and the storage sub-circuit are connected at a second node; the first reset sub-circuit includes a first transistor having a control electrode connected with a first reset signal line, a first electrode connected with a first initialization signal line, and a second electrode connected with the first node; the threshold compensation sub-circuit includes a second transistor having a first electrode connected with the first node, a second electrode connected with the second node, and a control electrode connected with a second scan line; the first transistor and/or the second transistor includes an oxide thin film transistor. |
| US12277906B2 |
Pixel driving circuit, display panel and display device
A pixel driving circuit is used for driving a light emitting element, in the pixel driving circuit, a first terminal of the driving sub-circuit being coupled to a power supply line; a compensation sub-circuit is respectively coupled to a scanning line, a control terminal of the driving sub-circuit, and a second terminal of the driving sub-circuit; a first terminal of the coupling sub-circuit being coupled to the control terminal of the driving sub-circuit; a first terminal of the storage sub-circuit being coupled to a second terminal of the coupling sub-circuit; a data writing-in sub-circuit is respectively coupled to a second terminal of the storage sub-circuit, a data line, and a reset line; a first reset sub-circuit is respectively coupled to the reset line, an initialization signal line, the control terminal of the driving sub-circuit, and the second terminal of the coupling sub-circuit. |
| US12277900B2 |
Display device having a voltage regulating circuit for outputting to pixel circuit
A power circuit can include a direct current to direct current converter configured to output a first voltage; a digital-to-analog converter configured to convert input data to an analog voltage and output a second voltage; and a voltage regulating circuit configured to receive the first voltage and the second voltage as inputs and output a voltage in which the second voltage is added to the first voltage, and reduce a slope of the voltage. Also, the input data to the digital-to-analog converter is updated during one horizontal period of a display device, and the voltage regulating circuit is further configured to commonly supply the voltage to pixels of the display device. |
| US12277899B2 |
Display device that prevents a decrease in luminance resulting from drop in voltage
A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels, the pixels including a first subpixel and a second subpixel each including a light-emitting layer emitting light of a first color, a third subpixel including a light-emitting layer emitting light of a second color, and a fourth subpixel including a light-emitting layer emitting light of a third color; a first power supply configured to supply a current to the first subpixel and the third subpixel; a second power supply configured to supply a current to the second subpixel and the fourth subpixel; and a signal processing circuit configured to receive an input signal for each pixel and generate a first signal corresponding to the first subpixel and a second signal corresponding to the second subpixel. |
| US12277892B2 |
Texture recognition device and display apparatus
A texture recognition device and a display apparatus are provided. The texture recognition device has a plurality of pixel units, and includes a base substrate, a driving circuit layer, a photosensitive element layer, and a lens layer. The driving circuit layer and the photosensitive element layer are on the base substrate, and the lens layer is on a side of the photosensitive element layer away from the base substrate; at least one pixel unit includes a pixel driving circuit in the driving circuit layer, a plurality of photosensitive elements in the photosensitive element layer and a plurality of lens units in the lens layer, the pixel driving circuit is electrically connected with the plurality of photosensitive elements, and in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the base substrate, the plurality of photosensitive elements are in one-to-one correspondence with and overlap with the plurality of lens units. |
| US12277890B2 |
System and method for calibrating a display panel
The present disclosure provides a system and method for calibrating a display panel. The system includes a display panel including a pixel array and a controller. The processor is configured to, upon executing instructions: define a calibration vector with a source pixel, a vector volume, and a calibration range; calculate a distance between a pixel to be calibrated and the source pixel; calculate a calibration amount based on the distance and the vector volume; and calibrate the pixel to be calibrated based on the calibration amount and the calibration vector. |
| US12277888B1 |
System and methods to program active vehicle paint surfaces
System and methods are described for changing the exterior color of a vehicle with an exterior surface comprising a plurality of electronically programmable color cells. The systems and methods describe receiving a request to begin color programming mode on the vehicle and in response to determining that a state of the vehicle permits the color programming mode, activating a depth-sensing device configured to monitor for and detect a user action associated with the exterior surface. The systems and methods further describe receiving, at a user device communicatively coupled to the vehicle and to the depth-sensing device, a color selection; identifying, by the depth-sensing device, the location of an interaction point between the user action and the exterior surface determining, based on data captured by the depth-sensing device, an electronically programmable color cell that is located at the identified interaction point; and transmitting to the vehicle an instruction to change the color of the determined electronically programmable color cell to the selected color. |
| US12277887B2 |
Method of detecting stain of display panel, method of compensating stain of display panel including the same and display apparatus configured to perform the same
A method of detecting a stain of a display panel is disclosed that includes capturing a first color image of the display panel, capturing a second color image of the display panel, generating a merged image by merging a color coordinate map of the first color image and a color coordinate map of the second color image, generating a background image of the merged image by a morphology filtering, generating a flattened image by operating the merged image and the background image and detecting an area of the flattened image in which a color coordinate value exceeds a threshold value as a stain area. |
| US12277885B2 |
Gate driver and display device including the same
A gate driver including a plurality of stages. Each of the plurality of stages includes a first masking controlling circuit including a control circuit, a carry output circuit, a first enable node controlling circuit, a first masking circuit, a first gate output circuit, and a second masking controlling circuit including a second enable node controlling circuit, a second masking circuit and a second gate output circuit. The first masking controlling circuit and the second masking controlling circuit shares the control circuit and the carry output circuit. |
| US12277881B2 |
Display panel and display device including the same
A display panel includes a display panel test circuit including an open-short test transistor including a gate electrode which receives a test gate signal, a first electrode which receives an open-short test voltage, and a second electrode connected to a data line which transmits a data voltage and an electrostatic discharge protection circuit including: a first electrostatic discharge diode including a cathode electrode connected to the data line and an anode electrode which receives a first voltage; a first switching element which determines a minimum voltage of the display panel as the first voltage under a first condition and determines an electrostatic discharge low potential voltage higher than the minimum voltage of the display panel as the first voltage under a second condition; and a second electrostatic discharge diode including a cathode electrode which receives a second voltage and an anode electrode connected to the data line. |
| US12277879B2 |
Display data processing method and device, as well as display device
The present disclosure provides a display data processing method, including receiving a pixel display data stream, wherein the pixel display data stream includes a plurality of sub-pixel display data corresponding to pixels respectively, converting the pixel display data stream into a pixel island display data stream, wherein the pixel island display data stream includes a plurality of viewpoint display data corresponding to pixel islands respectively, and generating a single-row display datum based on the pixel island display data stream, wherein the viewpoint display data included in the single-row display datum correspond to output channels of a plurality of chips in a one-to-one relationship. The present disclosure also relates to a display data processing device using the method, and a display device based on a multi-viewpoint pixel island architecture which includes the display data processing device. |
| US12277878B2 |
Displaying directional visual indicators from a wearable device for navigation
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for displaying directional visual indicators external to a wearable device for navigation. In some aspects, a wearable device may receive navigation signals while the wearable device is in a navigation mode. The navigation signals may indicate a direction of travel. The wearable device may display a first directional visual indicator corresponding to the direction of travel. The first directional visual indicator may be displayed external to the wearable device indicating the direction of travel is a first direction. The first directional visual indicator may be a directional light or a directional projection displayed external to the wearable device in the direction of travel. If the direction of travel changes from the first direction to a second direction, the wearable device may display a second directional visual indicator indicating the direction of travel is the second direction. |
| US12277875B2 |
Identification badge with incorporated safety features
A handheld device configured to accomplish several functions can include a body having a front side and a rear side. The front and rear sides can extend in parallel and can be spaced apart by a top side, a bottom side, an upper side, and a lower side. The top side can include a slot configured to receive a credit card or an identification card therein. The front side can include an opening into the slot. The bottom side can include a glass breaker extending therethrough. The glass breaker can be movable with respect to the body. A cutter can extend outwardly from the lower side. The cutter can at least partially surround a blade and can be configured to cut a seat belt. A guard can be removably attachable to a portion of the lower side and the cutter. |
| US12277873B2 |
Method and apparatus for displaying media on an autonomous vehicle
Provided herein is an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle fleet comprising a plurality of electric autonomous vehicles for apportioned display of a media, operating autonomously and a fleet management module for coordination of the autonomous vehicle fleet. Each autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle comprising a screen configured to display the media. Activation, deactivation, brightness modification, in combination with specific media selection enables more efficient media display. |
| US12277871B2 |
Method and apparatus for converting recipe instructions based on a user's skill level
In some embodiments, a computer implemented method for presenting a recipe includes determining a skill level achieved by a user, providing the user access to a recipe corresponding to the skill level achieved by the user; receiving a selection of an accessible recipe; and displaying a selected recipe. |
| US12277866B2 |
Organosynthetic dynamic heart model
A biorobotic hybrid heart that preserves organic intracardiac structures and mimics cardiac motion by image-guided replication of the cardiac myofiber architecture of the left ventricle with an active synthetic myocardium that drives the motion of the heart. The active soft tissue mimic is adhered to the organic endocardial tissue in a helical fashion using a custom-designed adhesive to form a flexible, conformable, and watertight organosynthetic interface. |
| US12277863B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and information processing system
The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and an information processing system capable of more easily realizing route planning.A route planning unit selects, on the basis of priority information regarding setting of the moving route, a viaport where a moving object stops over from among a plurality of charging ports that charges the moving object, and sets a moving route of a moving object from a departure point to a destination. The technology according to the present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an information processing apparatus that performs automatic piloting of a drone. |
| US12277861B2 |
Smart notifications for vehicle parking garage maneuvers
A method can be used to provide smart notifications to avoid collisions while the vehicle maneuvers in a tight structural environment, such as a home garage or an underground parking lot. The method includes receiving historical vehicle-trajectory data. The historical vehicle-trajectory data includes the location and the heading of the vehicle for each of the plurality of historical trajectories along the structure. The method further includes clustering the plurality of historical trajectories of the vehicle along the structure by types of maneuvers to generate a plurality of trajectory clusters. The method also includes creating a probability distribution bitmap using the plurality of trajectory clusters and creating a topographic map based on the probability distribution bitmap. |
| US12277858B2 |
Systems and methods for coordinating travel through traffic lights
A plurality of road-to-traveler feedback (“RTF”) devices integrated with a plurality of electronic computing devices transmits location data to a server. The server transmits to the RTF devices traffic signal timing data based on the location data. RTF devices present suggested velocities based on the traffic signal timing data, such that if a traveler conformed to the suggested velocities and other travel-related data, the traveler would position himself into a geographic region on a roadway in which the traveler is ensured to avoid red lights and other traffic impediments. The server is operatively connected to traffic controllers and receives traffic light state data. The server facilitates a plurality of geographic regions based at least on the traffic light state data and detected travelers on roadways, wherein each of the geographic regions are synchronized to allow continuous traffic flow for the travelers positioned therein. |
| US12277857B2 |
Vehicle ranging and positioning
Methods, systems, and devices for ranging are described. A multi-phase distributed ranging technique includes transmitting and receiving vehicle information messages during a first time interval, where the vehicle information messages include at least a vehicle identifier and resource information. The multi-phase technique further includes transmitting and receiving ranging signals during a second time interval, and determining times of arrival of received ranging signals. A centralized ranging technique includes receiving resource assignments from an access point, transmitting ranging signals according to the resource assignments, and determining times of arrival of received ranging signals. |
| US12277855B1 |
Method for secondary disaster early warning based on ground-based SAR monitoring of deformation data
A secondary disaster early warning method based on ground-based SAR monitoring of deformation data includes (1) real-time monitoring of a secondary disaster unstable area through ground-based SAR to obtain deformation monitoring data; (2) constructing a displacement-time curve generated by the secondary disaster unstable area over time; setting a monitoring period, and based on the displacement-time curve, constructing a displacement change triangular area model; (3) based on the displacement change triangular area model, constructing an area-time curve, and obtaining the area-time curve change trend and the displacement triangular area in the displacement-time curve according to the monitoring period; (4) dividing the secondary disaster development process into an initial deformation stage, a constant velocity deformation stage, and an accelerated deformation stage; (5) setting early warning levels corresponding to each stage for phased secondary disaster early warning; and (6) quickly and comprehensively identifying the secondary disaster development stage and deformation evolution trend. |
| US12277854B2 |
Automated testing of emergency lights
The subject disclosure relates to solutions for testing lighting systems and in particular, for verifying lighting system operability in the event of a power failure. A process of the disclosed technology can include steps for receiving an interrupt command, toggling an interrupt relay in response to the interrupt command, and measuring one or more lighting characteristics of the lighting array to determine if the second power supply can power the lighting array. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided. |
| US12277852B2 |
IoT security device
A security response device is capable of being held in a communications mode or a power saving mode. In the communications mode, it is capable of sending a security threat message to a base station and of receiving a response. In the power saving mode, it is capable of detecting security threats but not performing communication functions. Detection of a security threat causes the device to exit the power saving mode and enter the communications mode. |
| US12277848B2 |
Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for device position adjustment
The present disclosure generally relates to methods and graphical user interfaces for providing feedback pertaining to device position adjustment. |
| US12277845B2 |
Vehicular incursion alert systems and methods
Systems and methods for alerting personnel (e.g., workers, emergency responders, pedestrians, observers, etc.) that a vehicle (e.g., car, truck, watercraft, etc.) has entered into, or crossed a boundary of, a protected area or zone. |
| US12277837B2 |
Gaming system and method for providing poker games with alternative gaming presentations
Gaming systems that determine a total award based on a play of a card game and a play of a supplemental game and then display the determined total award via an alternative gaming presentation different from the play of the card game and the play of the supplemental game. |
| US12277834B2 |
Systems and methods for controlling electronic gaming machine usage
An electronic gaming system is described. The electronic gaming system includes a management server including a processor and a memory device storing computer-readable instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive player identification data and game data. The instructions also cause the processor to request and receive, based upon the player identification data and from a player tracking server, player data associated with the player account, cause display, on a host device associated with a casino host, of at least a portion of the player data and the game data, and determine that the EGM should be disabled for a predetermined amount of time. The instructions further cause the processor to cause display of a message indicating that the EGM will be disabled and disable the EGM for the predetermined amount of time. |
| US12277833B1 |
Player controlled culling of video fragments of stitched video draw games
A method and device are disclosed for pseudorandomly generating a streamed video presentation of a draw game from a plurality of previously recorded video fragments. After all wagering is concluded, a random number generator determines the outcome of the drawing. The method and device enable the automated generation of a lifelike video draw game by culling a set of video fragments from a larger plurality, with the culling process at least partially determined by a feedback loop of player preferences. After the culling process is completed, a random number generator pseudorandomly selects video fragments from the culled set creating various scenes comprising the streamed video presentation. |
| US12277831B2 |
Peer-to-peer wagering platform
Data characterizing historical skills-based gaming metrics for a first user and historical skills-based gaming metrics for at least one second user is accessed. Using the accessed data and a set of rules, a targeted advertisement to present to the first user is determined. The targeted advertisement specifies at least one skills-based game and a characterization of the at least one second user's historical skills-based gaming metrics. The targeted advertisement is generated. Data characterizing the targeted advertisement is provided. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described. |
| US12277828B2 |
System and method of conducting games of chance as a proxy or basis for another player
To bring the excitement to the people (majority, who are not experts in games), we present the examples, described here, for one person to be able to bet on and be part of the deal and excitement for a third party, as his agent, proxy, or shadow, to bet for him, or instead of him, or as if the first person was doing the game directly, or one betting for another, or one playing for another with the other person's money. That generates more excitement on the game or casino, with more participation, transactions, income, profit, loyalty, and repeat customers. This brings a lot of variations on the game, e.g., stock market model, or derivatives model, or hedge model. This can be applied to sports and table games or fantasy sports. This can be applied to online, real, mobile, fantasy, simulation, computer generated, human based, or casino games or settings. |
| US12277817B2 |
Safety systems for objects and methods
A safety system for an object having a transmitter that comprises a microcontroller to generate an identification signal having a given frequency and a resonant circuit to amplify the signal. The transmitter is suitable to be placed in the vicinity of the body of a person to capacitively couple the identification signal to it. The safety system also comprises a receiver suitable to be capacitively coupled to the body in order to receive the first identification signal and to recognize based on the identification signal if a user is an authorized user. The safety system estimates the actual resonant frequency of the resonant circuit when the circuit is amplifying the signal and the microcontroller is adapted to choose as frequency for the identification signal the closest frequency to the estimated actual resonant circuit it can generate so that the amplification of the identification signal is maximized. |
| US12277816B2 |
Device for decontamination of objects and for control decontamination
The invention relates to a decontamination control system for an establishment comprising at least one sensitive room (L), comprising: a decontaminator (D1); —at least one badge (I) with an NFC tag, and/or at least one object (T) bearing an NFC tag; a first clock (H1) of the decontaminator (D1); a sabot (S) at the entrance to said room (L), comprising an NFC reader and a second clock (H2) synchronous with the first. According to the invention, the system triggers the decontaminator (D1) when said badge (I) is appended thereunto and/or said object (T) is introduced therein, and writes the corresponding timestamp on said NFC tag; then authorizes entry (E) into said room (L) if a first period (A) between the timestamp and the reading on the sabot (S) is less than a second threshold period (B); in the opposite case, the system prohibits said entry (E). |
| US12277815B2 |
Vehicle occupant verification methods and systems
Disclosed are a vehicle and a vehicle occupant check method. The vehicle occupant check method comprises checking whether a vehicle occupant is inside a vehicle based on a first preset condition, comprising checking a presence of the vehicle occupant inside the vehicle through a detection sensor, when a current driver of the vehicle matches an existing driver, and a driving pattern of the current driver matches a driving pattern of the existing driver. The vehicle occupant check method further comprises checking whether the vehicle occupant is inside the vehicle based on a second condition, comprising checking a presence of the vehicle occupant inside the vehicle through a detection sensor, when the current driver of the vehicle does not match the existing driver, or the driving pattern of the current driver does not match the driving pattern of the existing driver. |
| US12277814B2 |
Medical analyzer and diagnostic sample profiler
A medical analyzer and coagulation profiler performs various interrogations on specimens. A motor with reduction gearing moves and a video camera observes the samples, the cartridges or parts thereof. Changes in images are compared and recorded with a central processor that controls a display. Power supply, temperature controller, motor and gearing are mounted in a box which attaches to a smartphone. The smartphone provides the video camera, illumination and central processor that control the movement, temperature and display. The device makes testing simpler for small hospitals, clinics, ambulances, remote locations and individuals and controls a number of parallel or serial devices operating simultaneously or sequentially. A cartridge insertion actuates a circular motion to generate a blood profile based on changes. Change is analyzed with a video camera and processor such as in a smartphone and is plotted to show an amplitude and time. A smartphone provides a specific movement pattern. |
| US12277803B2 |
Thermal based presentation attack detection for biometric systems
A presentation attack detection system includes RGB and thermal imaging cameras for acquiring images of an individual and a processor operable to determine a metric for whether the individual is a real human based on the thermal imaging and RGB image data. Related methods are also described. |
| US12277800B2 |
Stabilizing video by accounting for a location of a feature in a stabilized view of a frame
The subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods and systems for stabilizing video. A computing system determines a stabilized location of a facial feature in a frame of video accounting for its location in a previous frame. The computing system determines a physical camera pose in virtual space and maps the frame into virtual space. The computing system determines an optimized virtual camera pose using an optimization process that determines (1) a difference between the stabilized location of the facial feature and a location of the facial feature when viewed from a potential virtual camera pose, (2) a difference between the potential virtual camera pose and a previous virtual camera pose, and (3) a difference between the potential virtual camera pose and the physical camera pose. The computing system generates the stabilized view of the frame using the optimized virtual camera pose. |
| US12277799B2 |
Video image composition method and electronic device
The present disclosure provides a video image composition method including the following steps. A priority level list is obtained, and the priority level list includes multiple priority levels of multiple person identities. Multiple video streams are received. Multiple identity labels corresponding to human face frame images from the video streams are determined. The multiple display levels of the human face frame images are determined according to the identity labels and priority level list. A part of the human face frame images being in speaking status are detected. At least one of the part of the human face frame images being in speaking status is constituted as a main display area of a video image, according to the display levels. |
| US12277793B2 |
Mail processing system with a mail hazard screening machine
A mail hazard screening machine is configured to compress mail pieces or envelops through compression rollers and draw out this air and any hazard that may have been contained in the envelope. The system may be able to detect a wide range of hazards such as chemical, biological, radioactive, nuclear, explosive and drugs, abbreviated CBRNE+D. The sample air, the air drawn out from the hazard screening system, may be directed to one or more analysis devices and the mail processing machine may be stopped if any hazard is detected. The mail piece containing the hazard can then be found and further inspected safely.A mail feeder system may be configured to deliver mail pieces to the hazard screening system without compression of the mail pieces or envelopes. |
| US12277790B1 |
Automated industrial hygiene assessment and display
Systems and methods are disclosed for automated industrial hygiene assessment and display comprising receiving sampling results for a stressor, such as a harmful environmental artifact in a physical environment; deriving one or more codes for the stressor from a digital record via an indexing module and/or from other data sources; generating a health effect rating (HER) based on the code; generating an exposure rating (ER) based on the sampling results; generating an uncertainty rating (UR) based on the sampling results; displaying, an interactive UIto facilitate approval or selection of at least one of the HER, the ER, or the UR; generating at least one of a risk rating (RR) or an information gathering priority rating (IGPR) based on a selection of the at least one of the HER, the ER, or the UR; and displaying via the interactive UI at least one of the RR or the IGPR. |
| US12277788B2 |
Content extraction based on hop distance within a graph model
A method of categorizing text entries on a document can include determining, for each of a plurality of text bounding boxes in the document, respective text, respective coordinates, and respective input embeddings. The method may further include defining a graph of the plurality of bounding boxes, the graph comprising a plurality of connections among the plurality of bounding boxes, each connection comprising a first and second bounding box and zero or more respective intermediate bounding boxes. The method may further include determining a respective attention value for each connection according to a quantity of intermediate bounding boxes in the connection and, based on a the respective attention values and a transformer-based machine learning model applied to the respective input embeddings and respective coordinates, determining output embeddings for each bounding box and, based on the respective output embeddings, generating a bounding box label for each bounding box. |
| US12277775B2 |
Vision system and method for a motor vehicle
A vision system (10) for a motor vehicle includes an imaging apparatus (11) adapted to capture images from a surrounding of the motor vehicle, and a processing device (14) adapted to execute an object detection code (15) to detect objects in the surrounding of the motor vehicle by processing images captured by the imaging apparatus (11), and to calculate for each detected object its longitudinal distance relative to the ego vehicle. The vision system includes a gatekeeper code module (33) having a higher functional safety level than the object detection code (15). The gatekeeper code module (33) takes as input objects (32) detected by the object detection code (15) and evaluates if a depth or disparity image (35), in at least a part of an area covering the detected object (32), matches within given tolerances the longitudinal distance of the detected object (32) given by the object detection code (15). |
| US12277771B2 |
Apparatus and method for tracking missing person based on attribute
Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for tracking a missing person based on attributes. The apparatus for tracking a missing person based on attributes according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes memory in which at least one program is recorded and a processor for executing the program. The program may perform receiving a missing person report including missing situation information and attribute information representing appearance of a missing person, acquiring CCTV video based on the missing situation information, extracting full-body image candidates assumed to be of the missing person, among the full-body images of human objects in the CCTV video, based on the attribute information, receiving a selection for one of the extracted full-body image candidates as the full-body image of the missing person, and tracking the travel path of the missing person by analyzing CCTV video based on the selected full-body image of the missing person. |
| US12277768B2 |
Method and electronic device for generating a segment of a video
A method for generating at least one segment of a video by an electronic device is provided. The method includes identifying at least one of a context associated with the video and an interaction of a user in connection with the video, analyzing at least one parameter in at least one frame of the video with reference to at least one of the context and the interaction of the user, wherein the at least one parameter includes at least one of a subject, an environment, an action of the subject, and an object, determining the at least one frame in which a change in the at least one parameter occurs, and generating at least one segment of the video comprising the at least one frame in which the parameter changed as a temporal boundary of the at least one segment. |
| US12277765B2 |
Selective analytic applications using metadata elements
A method in a premises device is provided, where the premises device is configured with a plurality of analytics models and located in a premises environment. The method includes generating a dataset comprising surveillance data associated with a premises environment in which the premises device operates, determining metadata associated with the dataset, determining, for each analytics model of the plurality of analytics models, a corresponding predicted performance score based at least in part on the metadata, selecting a highest-scoring analytics model of the plurality of analytics models based at least in part on the corresponding predicted performance score, and analyzing the dataset using the highest-scoring analytics model to generate a prediction. |
| US12277764B2 |
Method, device, computer program, and computer program product for analyzing data sets of action objects in audio and/or visual media contents
The aim of the invention is to analyze and evaluate a data set of action objects which arise in audio and/or visual media contents. The action objects are visual and/or audible objects or elements in an audio and/or visual media content which can be perceived by a viewer and/or listener and are not physical characteristics of the digital data of a video file or an audio file. Another aim of the invention is to analyze and evaluate the action objects described in the data set by means of parameters and parameter values according to the significance of the parameters and parameter values and the quality of the data set with respect to the action objects and to make the same measurable. |
| US12277761B2 |
Remote sensing algorithms for mapping regenerative agriculture
This invention relates to methods for determining adoption and impact of regenerative farming practices. Embodiments of these methods, take satellite imagery and weather data as inputs, process those data according to methods of the present invention, and produce outputs which indicate whether a specific farming practice (for example, no-till or cover cropping) was adopted for a particular field or region for a particular season. |
| US12277757B2 |
Systems and methods for color-based outfit classification using semantic embeddings
Disclosed herein are systems and method for classifying objects in an image using a color-based neural network. A method may include: training a neural network to classify an object in a given image into a color class from a set of color classes; determining, from the set of color classes, a subset of color classes that are anticipated to be in a received input image based on image metadata; generating a matched mask input indicating the subset; inputting both the input image and the matched mask input into the neural network, wherein the neural network is configured to: determine a first semantic embedding of the input image and the matched mask input; outputting a color class associated with a second semantic embedding with a least amount of distance to the first semantic embedding from a plurality of semantic embeddings. |
| US12277755B1 |
Method, apparatus, device, and medium for image recognition via wireless federated learning
Disclosed are a method, an apparatus, a device, and a medium for image recognition via wireless federated learning. The method for image recognition via wireless federated learning includes: obtaining an image to be recognized and an initial image recognition model; adjusting parameters for the initial image recognition model via a preset accelerated mobile federated learning algorithm according to a target momentum factor to obtain a target image recognition model; and recognizing the image to be recognized through the target image recognition model to obtain text information corresponding to the image to be recognized. |
| US12277750B2 |
Identification of an array in a semiconductor specimen
There is provided a method and a system configured obtain an image of a semiconductor specimen including one or more arrays, each including repetitive structural elements, and one or more regions, each region at least partially surrounding a corresponding array and including features different from the repetitive structural elements, wherein the PMC is configured to, during run-time scanning of the semiconductor specimen, perform a correlation analysis between pixel intensity of the image and pixel intensity of a reference image informative of at least one of the repetitive structural elements, to obtain a correlation matrix, use the correlation matrix to distinguish between one or more first areas of the image corresponding to the one or more arrays and one or more second areas of the image corresponding the one or more regions, and output data informative of the one or more first areas of the image. |
| US12277747B2 |
Method and apparatus for image processing and image synthesis for obtaining a target face image, and computer-readable storage medium
This application discloses an image processing method performed by a computer device. In this embodiment of this application, feature point recognition can be performed on a face image to obtain a plurality of facial feature points of the face image; feature point position offset information between the feature points and reference facial feature points of a reference face image is determined; based on the feature point position offset information, position adjustment is performed on a facial feature point of a reference face depth image corresponding to the reference face image to obtain a target face depth image corresponding to the face image; and direction deflection is performed on the face image according to the target face depth image to obtain a target face image. |
| US12277745B2 |
Image searching apparatus, classifier training method, and recording medium
A training apparatus includes a processor which acquires an image to which identification information of a subject included in the image is attached as a first correct label the image being included in an image dataset for training and being an image for use in supervised training. The processor further attaches, to the acquired image, classification information based on a feature amount of the acquired image as a second correct label, trains a classifier using the acquired image and the second correct label attached thereto, and updates training content used in the training using the acquired image and the first correct label after training the classifier. |
| US12277744B2 |
System and method for detecting and tracking an object
A method includes receiving a first image that is captured at a first time. The method also includes detecting a location of a first object in the first image. The method also includes determining a region of interest based at least partially upon the location of the first object in the first image. The method also includes receiving a second image that is captured at a second time. The method also includes identifying the region of interest in the second image. The method also includes detecting a location of a second object in a portion of the second image that is outside of the region of interest. |
| US12277738B2 |
Method and system for latent-space facial feature editing in deep learning based face swapping
A computer-implemented method of changing a face within an output image or video frame that includes: receiving an input image that includes a face presenting a facial expression in a pose; processing the image with a neural network encoder to generate a latent space point that is an encoded representation of the image; decoding the latent space point to generate an initial output image in accordance with a desired facial identity but with the facial expression and pose of the face in the input image; identifying a feature of the facial expression in the initial output image to edit; applying an adjustment vector to a latent space point corresponding to the initial output image to generate an adjusted latent space point; and decoding the adjusted latent space point to generate an adjusted output image in accordance with the desired facial identity but with the facial expression and pose of the face in the input image altered in accordance with the adjustment vector. |
| US12277731B2 |
Methods and systems for system self-diagnosis
One or more devices, systems, methods, and storage mediums for performing self-diagnosis using one or more imaging modalities are provided herein. Examples of applications include imaging, evaluating and diagnosing biological objects, such as, but not limited to, for Gastro-intestinal, cardio and/or ophthalmic applications, and being obtained via one or more optical instruments, such as, but not limited to, optical probes, catheters, capsules and needles (e.g., a biopsy needle). Devices, systems, methods, and storage mediums may include or involve a method, such as, but not limited to, for determining status or health (such as optical health) of a rotary joint of an apparatus/system and/or of the apparatus/system. A device, system, method, or storage medium may perform self-diagnosis or diagnosis to minimize, reduce, and/or avoid optical failures, rotary joint failures, or apparatus/system failures and to have a robust method(s) of determining the health of the rotary joint and/or the apparatus or system. |
| US12277727B2 |
Surveying device with image evaluator for determining a spatial pose of the target axis
A surveying device for a coordinative position determination of a spatial point, wherein the surveying device comprises a camera which is fixedly mounted to a transmission unit in a way that its field-of-view moves with a targeting component. The surveying device further comprises an image evaluator, configured for automatically identifying corresponding image features in different images of the camera, wherein the corresponding image features represent reference points within the environment, and for a derivation of a spatial transformation parameter from a motion of the corresponding features, wherein the spatial transformation parameter provides for a determination of a difference of a spatial pose of a target axis of the surveying device between different distance measurements which correspond to different images. |
| US12277725B2 |
Enhanced eye tracking systems utilizing joint biological and hardware estimations
The disclosed techniques provide enhanced eye tracking systems utilizing joint estimation of biological parameters and hardware parameters. A system uses joint estimation of biological parameters, e.g., direction and position of an eye, with concurrent estimation of hardware parameters, e.g., camera position or camera direction, to self-calibrate and provide eye tracking estimations to accommodate for deformations and other changes of a device. Sensor data is used to select hardware parameters of a camera for use in the joint estimation with the biological parameters, where the hardware parameters are estimated based on glint and pupil position of a user. The disclosed techniques include a method to model changes of a device, as well as detect and compensate for them while the eye-tracking device is in normal use, without requiring a factory-calibration procedure to be repeated. |
| US12277720B2 |
Information processing device, information processing method, and information processing program
A CPU acquires a distance image or a visible light image obtained by imaging a marker for measuring an SID as an object to be imaged using a TOF camera or a visible light camera. In addition, the CPU derives a marker distance between the TOF camera or the visible light camera and the marker from an image of a marker region corresponding to the marker in the acquired distance image or visible light image. Further, the CPU derives the SID on the basis of the derived marker distance and information indicating a positional relationship between an acquisition unit and the marker. |
| US12277719B2 |
Multispectral microscope system and method for registering first and second images by means thereof
A multispectral microscope system includes a first detector element for capturing a first image of a sample in a first spectral channel, and at least a second detector element for capturing a second image of the sample in a second spectral channel. The first detector element includes a first detector array. The second detector element includes a second detector array different from the first detector array. The microscope system further includes a processor for determining a spatial correlation between the first and second images based on a spectral crosstalk between the first and second spectral channels and registering the first and second images based on the spatial correlation. |
| US12277712B2 |
Method for generating a 3D physical model of a patient specific anatomic feature from 2D medical images
There is provided a method for generating a 3D physical model of a patient specific anatomic feature from 2D medical images. The 2D medical images are uploaded by an end-user via a Web Application and sent to a server. The server processes the 2D medical images and automatically generates a 3D printable model of a patient specific anatomic feature from the 2D medical images using a segmentation technique. The 3D printable model is 3D printed as a 3D physical model such that it represents a 1:1 scale of the patient specific anatomic feature. The method includes the step of automatically identifying the patient specific anatomic feature. |
| US12277711B2 |
Cellular time-series imaging, modeling, and analysis system
The present disclosure relates generally to providing a cellular time-series imaging, modeling, and analysis platform, and more specifically to acquiring time-series image data and using various machine learning models to model and analyze subcellular particle movements and changes in cellular positional and morphological characteristics using unsupervised embedding generation. The platform can be applied to evaluate various cellular and subcellular processes by generating summary embeddings of time-series image data that enable analysis of dynamic cellular and subcellular processes over time (e.g., the movement of particles within a cell, neurites on developing neurons, etc.) for enhanced identification of differences between cell states (e.g., between sick and healthy cells) and generation of disease models which can be used to analyze the impact of various therapeutic interventions, among other improvements described throughout. |
| US12277710B2 |
Program, information processing method, and information processing device
A program causes a computer to perform processing of: acquiring an endoscopic image obtained by capturing a subject using an endoscope; extracting region-of-interest information from the acquired endoscopic image; acquiring a three-dimensional medical image obtained by capturing an inside of a body of the subject using at least one of X-ray CT, X-ray cone beam CT, MRI-CT, and an ultrasonic diagnostic device; deriving position information in a coordinate system of the three-dimensional medical image specified by the region-of-interest information and the three-dimensional medical image; and storing the region-of-interest information and the three-dimensional medical image in association with each other based on the derived position information and a capturing time point of each of the endoscopic image and the three-dimensional medical image. |
| US12277703B2 |
Image processing method and device, electronic apparatus and readable storage medium
The present disclosure provides an image processing method, an image processing device, an electronic apparatus and a readable storage medium. The image processing method includes: obtaining feature map data of an input image; extracting a feature region in the feature map data in accordance with a size of a convolution kernel; performing windowing processing on the feature region; and obtaining a windowed feature map of the input image in accordance with the feature region obtained after the windowing processing. |
| US12277701B2 |
Assay reading method
A computer implemented method for reading a test region of an assay, the method comprising: (i) providing digital image data of a first assay; (ii) inputting the digital image data into a trained convolutional neural network configured to output a first probability, based on the input digital image data, that a first region of pixels of the digital image data corresponds to a first test region of the assay; (iii) if the first probability is at or above a first predetermined threshold, accepting the first region of pixels as a first region of interest associated with the first test region; and (iv) estimating an intensity value of a portion of the first test region in the first region of interest. |
| US12277700B2 |
Inspection apparatus capable of reducing inspection workload, method of controlling inspection apparatus, and storage medium
An inspection apparatus that is capable of reducing a workload of an inspection operator. The inspection apparatus performs inspection of a print product. An image reading section reads the print product and generates a scanned image of the print product. A reference image analysis section detects a line region and a photo region from the scanned image. The detected line region is determined as one of a character region and a bar code region. Settings of the inspection of the print product are set based on a result of the detection and a result of the determination. The inspection of the print product is performed based on the settings of the inspection. |
| US12277699B2 |
Method for determining quality of inspection data using machine learning model, information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer program
A quality determination method includes: (a) generating a plurality of pieces of training data by classifying a plurality of pieces of non-defective product data into a plurality of classes; (b) executing learning of a machine learning model using the plurality of pieces of training data; (c) preparing a known feature spectrum group; and (d) executing quality determination processing of inspection data using the machine learning model and the known feature spectrum group. The (d) includes (d1) calculating a feature spectrum related to the inspection data, (d2) calculating a similarity between the feature spectrum and the known feature spectrum group, and (d3) determining the inspection data to be non-defective when the similarity is equal to or greater than a threshold value and determining the inspection data to be defective when the similarity is less than the threshold value. |
| US12277697B2 |
Produce quality assessment and pricing metric system
Systems and methods described herein can non-destructively determine current produce quality. An evaluation system can, at a first time, receive image data of produce and identify a type of the produce using machine learning techniques. The produce can be sent to an end-consumer retail environment. A quality assessment system can, at a second time, receive, from a user device in the retail environment, a request for a current quality of a particular produce that includes scanned data of that produce. The quality assessment system can identify that produce, retrieve, from a data store, machine learning trained models for identifying quality features of that produce, determine, based on applying the models to the scanned data, a current quality of that produce, and transmit, to the user device, the current quality. The produce's price can also be dynamically adjusted based on the current quality of that produce. |
| US12277696B2 |
Data augmentation for domain generalization
Methods and systems are disclosed for generating training data for a machine learning model for better performance of the model. A source image is selected from an image database, along with a target image. An image segmenter is utilized with the source image to generate a source image segmentation mask having a foreground region and a background region. The same is performed with the target image to generate a target image segmentation mask having a foreground region and a background region. Foregrounds and backgrounds of the source image and target image are determined based on the masks. The target image foreground is removed from the target image, and the source image foreground is inserted into the target image to create an augmented image having the source image foreground and the target image background. The training data for the machine learning model is updated to include this augmented image. |
| US12277693B2 |
Evaluating visual quality of digital content
Systems, devices, methods, and computer readable medium for evaluating visual quality of digital content are disclosed. Methods can include training machine learning models on images. A request is received to evaluate quality of an image included in a current version of a digital component generated by the computing device. The machine learning models are deployed on the image to generate a score for each quality characteristic of the image. A weight is assigned to each score to generate weighted scores. The weighted scores are combined to generate a combined score for the image. The combined score is compared to one or more thresholds to generate a quality of the image. |
| US12277689B2 |
Video processing method, electronic device, and storage medium
Provided are a video processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, a storage medium and a program product. The method includes steps described below. A to-be-processed video is acquired, and a first face key point of a first target object in the to-be-processed video is recognized, where the first face key point corresponds to a mask key point in a three-dimensional human face mask effect; and the three-dimensional human face mask effect is added to video frames of the to-be-processed video to obtain a target video, where the mask key point in the three-dimensional human face mask effect moves with the corresponding first face key point. |
| US12277686B2 |
Method and device for processing image, method for training image processing model, and storage medium
Provided is a method for processing an image. The method includes: acquiring a first original image to be processed; and acquiring a degraded image by performing down-sampling processing and blurring processing on the first original image according to a configured down-sampling processing algorithm and a blurring parameter; wherein the down-sampling processing algorithm includes a plurality of sampling steps. |
| US12277678B2 |
Medical image processing apparatus, X-ray diagnostic apparatus, and method of medical image processing
A medical image processing apparatus of an embodiment includes processing circuitry acquiring an X-ray image about a subject, acquiring an ultrasonic image data about the subject, extracting an object contained in the X-ray image, and performing processing based on the position of the extracted object on the ultrasonic image data in accordance with the relative positional relation between a coordinate system in the X-ray image and a coordinate system in the ultrasonic image data to generate a composite image as a combination of a processed ultrasonic image data after being subjected to the processing and the X-ray image. |
| US12277677B2 |
Method for controlling a bitrate of a video stream captured with an image aquisition device
The present disclosure generally relates to the field of camera surveillance, and in particular to a method and control unit for controlling a bitrate of a video stream captured with an image acquisition device. |
| US12277675B2 |
Method for rendering user interface and computing device therefor
Disclosed is a method for rendering a user interface, the method including providing a digital map, the digital map having a first area surrounding at least partly a target area, defining a point of rotation on the digital map, providing locator co-ordinates in respect to the digital map, rendering, on the user interface, provided locator co-ordinates within first area of the digital map and rotating, about the point of rotation, the digital map to align the target area in a predetermined direction with respect to the user interface. Disclosed also is a computing device for rendering a user interface on a display thereof. |
| US12277671B2 |
Multi-stage attention model for texture synthesis
Systems and methods for image processing are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure include an image processing apparatus configured to efficiently perform texture synthesis (e.g., increase the size of, or extend, texture in an input image while preserving a natural appearance of the synthesized texture pattern in the modified output image). In some aspects, the image processing apparatus implements an attention mechanism with a multi-stage attention model where different stages (e.g., different transformer blocks) progressively refine image feature patch mapping at different scales, while utilizing repetitive patterns in texture images to enable network generalization. One or more embodiments of the disclosure include skip connections and convolutional layers (e.g., between transformer block stages) that combine high-frequency and low-frequency features from different transformer stages and unify attention to micro-structures, meso-structures and macro-structures. In some aspects, the skip connections enable information propagation in the transformer network. |
| US12277669B2 |
Devices, systems and methods for digital image analysis
The disclosed devices, systems and methods relate to various devices, systems and methods related to objectively analyzing digital images of turfgrass to rate various parameters and to objectively measure overall quality. The system establishes thresholds and may execute a series of steps to determine green coverage, color, density, and uniformity. The system can scale images to determine uniformity. |
| US12277668B2 |
Determining volume of a selectable region using extended reality
A system for determining volume of a selectable region is configurable to (i) obtain user input directed to a 3D representation of a set of 2D images and (ii) based on the user input, selectively modify one or more mask pixels of one or more respective selection masks. Each 2D image of the set of 2D images is associated with a respective selection mask. The 3D representation represents pixels of the set of 2D images with corresponding voxels. The user input selects one or more voxels of the 3D representation. The one or more mask pixels is associated with one or more pixels of the set of 2D images that correspond to the one or more voxels of the 3D representation selected via the user input. |
| US12277663B2 |
Measurement processing device, method, and program
To accurately replace the position coordinate in a virtual space composed of three-dimensional data with latitude, longitude, and altitude information in a real space. The device for measurement processing images a real space by the camera unit; superimposes virtual space indicating the imaged real space by three-dimensional data on the imaged real space and displays the superimposed spaces; acquires a measurement point from a position-measuring device measuring a latitude, a longitude, and an altitude; images the position-measuring device, associates the position coordinate in the virtual space of the imaged position-measuring device with the position coordinate of the acquired measurement point in the real space; and transforms the coordinate of the three-dimensional data to the position coordinate in the real space by a predetermined transformation equation. |
| US12277662B2 |
Object alignment techniques for animation
Techniques for aligning object representations for animation include analyzing a source object representation and a target object representation to identify a category of the source object and a category of the target object. Based on the category or categories of the objects, a feature extraction machine learning models is selected. The source object representation and the target object representation are provided as input to the selected feature extraction machine learning model to generate respective semantic descriptors and shape vectors for the source and target objects. Based on the semantic descriptors and the shape vectors for the source and target objects, an alignment machine learning model generates an aligned target object representation that is aligned with the source object representation and usable for animating the target object. |
| US12277656B2 |
AR-based visualization of activity with collaboration amelioration
An embodiment for augmented reality (AR)-based visualization of an activity with collaboration amelioration is provided. The embodiment may include receiving real-time and historical data relating to an activity. The embodiment may also include identifying each step of the activity and a time to complete each step. The embodiment may further include executing a plurality of digital twin simulations of avatars of different types of workers performing each step of the activity. The embodiment may also include in response to determining a current distribution of human and robotic workers is not optimized, prompting a manager with an AR overlaid slider bar. The embodiment may further include generating a knowledge corpus including an optimized distribution. The embodiment may also include creating a visual animation of the optimized distribution. The embodiment may further include displaying the visual animation to at least one human worker via an AR device. |
| US12277655B2 |
Traveling in time and space continuum
Generally described, one or more aspects of the present application relate to capturing and generating viewpoints of any given space. Pixel averaging and camera configurations, including microlens cameras, may be implemented to generate and capture viewpoints of any given space. |
| US12277650B2 |
Determining drainage constraints and geometries in a triangular mesh
A method and system provide the ability to design a terrain surface. A triangular surface mesh representative of an existing surface is obtained and consists of triangles that are connected by vertices and edges. A drain intention is specified for the terrain surface through a geometry that is a point or line. The drain intention defines a drainage flow that influences a shape of the terrain surface. The mesh is modified to prevent a drain conflict between mesh triangles. A drain direction is autonomously determined for each of the mesh triangles based on the drain intention. The determination generates a drain pattern that is used to shape the terrain surface. |
| US12277649B2 |
Method and system for providing automated 3D modeling for XR online platform
A method for providing an XR object is provided, which is executed by one or more processors, and includes receiving a plurality of images obtained by capturing an image of a target object positioned in a specific space from different directions, generating an XR object for the target object based on the plurality of images, generating a code for applying the XR object to an online platform, and transmitting the code to a first user terminal. |
| US12277648B2 |
Duct blockage risk location prediction
The present disclosure relates to predicting blockages in underground ducts. According to one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method of identifying one or more locations along a route for an underground duct which indicate a blockage risk, the route extending between two ends, the method including obtaining a terrain elevation profile for the route; estimating a duct elevation profile for the route based on the terrain elevation profile; and predicting one or more blockage risk locations along the route by determining where water entering the duct from each of the two ends would settle, based on the duct elevation profile. |
| US12277645B2 |
Method and apparatus for constructing three-dimensional channel, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
A method and an apparatus for constructing a three-dimensional channel, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium are provided. In the method, a depth image corresponding to a first panoramic image is generated. Then, channel object detection is performed on the first panoramic image to obtain channel object boxes in the first panoramic image. Each of the channel object boxes is four annularly interconnected arc-shaped sides, and each of the arc-shaped sides is a circular arc of a great circle. Then, a three-dimensional point cloud of a channel object in the first panoramic image is generated based on the first panoramic image, the channel object boxes and the depth image. |
| US12277641B2 |
Methods and hardware logic for writing ray tracing data from a shader processing unit of a graphics processing unit
Shader processing units for a graphics processing unit that are configured to execute one or more ray tracing shaders that generate ray data associated with one or more rays. The ray data for a ray includes a plurality of ray data elements. The shader processing unit comprises local storage, and store logic. The store logic is configured to receive, as part of a ray tracing shader, a ray store instruction that comprises: (i) information identifying a store group of a plurality of store groups, each store group of the plurality of store groups comprising one or more ray data elements of the plurality of ray data elements, and (ii) information identifying one or more ray data elements of the identified store group to be stored in an external unit). In response to receiving the ray store instruction, the store logic retrieves the identified ray data elements for one or more rays from the storage. The store logic then sends one or more store requests to an external unit which cause the external unit to store the identified ray data elements for the one or more rays. |
| US12277640B2 |
Photorealistic real-time portrait animation
Provided are systems and methods for portrait animation. An example method includes receiving, by a computing device, scenario data including information concerning movements of a first head, receiving, by the computing device, a target image including a second head and a background, determining, by the computing device and based on the target image and the information concerning the movements of the first head, two-dimensional (2D) deformations of the second head in the target image, applying, by the computing device, the 2D deformations to the target image to obtain at least one output frame of an output video, the at least one output frame including the second head displaced according to the movements of the first head, and filling, by the computing device and using a background prediction neural network, a portion of the background in gaps between the displaced second head and the background. |
| US12277639B2 |
Generating virtual hairstyle using latent space projectors
Embodiments enable virtual hair generation. The virtual hair generation can be performed by generating a first image of a face using a GAN model, applying 3D virtual hair on the first image to generate a second image with 3D virtual hair, projecting the second image with 3D virtual hair into a GAN latent space to generate a third image with virtual hair, performing a blend of the virtual hair with the first image of the face to generate a new image with new virtual hair that corresponds to the 3D virtual hair, training a neural network that receives the second image with the 3D virtual hair and provides an output image with virtual hair, and generating using the trained neural network, a particular output image with hair based on a particular input image with 3D virtual hair. |
| US12277638B2 |
System for generating media content items on demand
Method for generating media content items on demand starts with a processor receiving an animation file including a first metadata based on an animation input. The animation file is associated with a media content identification. The processor generates puppets associated with frames in the animation file using the first metadata. The processor causes a puppet matching interface to be displayed on a client device. The puppet matching interface includes one of the puppets in a first pose. The processor receives a puppet posing input associated with a second pose from the client device. The processor causes the one of the puppets to be displayed in the second pose in the puppet matching interface by the client device. The processor can also generate a second metadata based on the puppet posing input. Other embodiments are disclosed herein. |
| US12277637B2 |
AI avatar-based interaction service method and apparatus
Artificial intelligence avatar-based interaction service is performed in a system including an unmanned information terminal and an interaction service device. A sound signal is collected from a microphone array mounted in the unmanned information terminal and an image signal collected from a vision sensor to the interaction service device. A sensing area is set based on the received sound signal and image signal by the interaction service device; recognizing an active speaker based on a voice signal of a user and an image signal of the user collected in the sensing area, by the interaction service device. A response for the recognized active speaker is generated to provide a 3D rendering an artificial intelligence avatar to which the response is reflected. The rendered artificial intelligence avatar is provided to the unmanned information terminal by the interaction service device. |
| US12277633B2 |
Create editable vectorized image from bitmap image
An image is imported. The image is classified. A first algorithm from a plurality of algorithms, based on an image classification, is suggested via a graphical user interface (GUI). An input is received from a user, via the GUI, indicating that the user selects the suggested algorithm, or another algorithm, for vectorizing the image. The image is vectorized using the selected algorithm. An editable version of the vectorized image is presented to the user. |
| US12277631B2 |
Enlarging a mask image from a size corresponding to a reduced image using interpolation methods
An information processing system is provided. A first generation unit generates a reduced image in which an original image is reduced. A display control unit causes a display unit of a predetermined apparatus to display the reduced image. A second generation unit generates, based on an input to the predetermined apparatus of a user, a mask image to be overlapped on the reduced image displayed on the display unit. An enlargement unit enlarges the mask image by using a different interpolation method in a case where the mask image has a predetermined property and in a case where the mask image does not have the predetermined property. |
| US12277626B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and information processing program
The CPU 20 obtains a three-dimensional image 50 that is a captured image of an organ of a subject and obtains a plurality of ultrasound tomographic images 56 that are images of the organ successively captured at different positions. The CPU 20 identifies, for each ultrasound tomographic image 56 among the plurality of ultrasound tomographic images 56, a CT tomographic image 49 corresponding to a cross section the same as a cross section to which the ultrasound tomographic image 56 corresponds, among a plurality of CT tomographic images 49 that constitute the three-dimensional image 50, and associates position information indicating a position corresponding to the identified CT tomographic image 49 with the ultrasound tomographic image 56 among the plurality of ultrasound tomographic images 56. The CPU 20 generates a three-dimensional ultrasound image 58 from the plurality of ultrasound tomographic images 56 on the basis of the position information. |
| US12277620B2 |
Method for identifying a motor vehicle
A method for identifying a motor vehicle, in particular AVP motor vehicle. The method includes: agreeing on a common secret by an infrastructure-side system, in particular AVP system, of an infrastructure, in particular of a parking lot, with a motor-vehicle-side system, in particular AVP system, of the motor vehicle; ascertaining a first code on the basis of the common secret using a predetermined ascertainment rule by means of the infrastructure-side system; detecting a signal which was emitted from a motor vehicle located within the infrastructure and transmits a second code, by means of the infrastructure-side system; comparing the second code to the first code by means of the infrastructure-side system in order to identify the motor vehicle emitting the signal as the one motor vehicle with the motor-vehicle-side system of which the common secret has been agreed. |
| US12277615B2 |
Detecting and validating improper residency status through data mining, natural language processing, and machine learning
Described are medias, systems, and computer-implemented methods to detect improper residency status by performing a data mining task to data source to detect one or more improper residency indicia, applying a machine learning algorithm to identify an initial candidate, calculating a probability that the initial candidate has an improper residency status, and validating the detection. Further described are medias, systems, and computer-implemented methods to detect improper occupancy tax status. |
| US12277610B2 |
System and method for generating dynamic hotspot map from social media information and interacting with same
A method of generating a dynamic hotspot map from social media information including performing a streaming social media data collection function that includes receiving a social media data stream, identifying social media objects therefrom, and writing a graph file responsive to the social media objects, performing a grapher function including applying network functions to the graph file and calculating characteristic values of nodes comprised by the graph file, and performing a mapping and interaction method including receiving a map selection, activity mode selection, and filter selection from a user and sending display information to the user responsive to the selections. |
| US12277596B2 |
Two-dimensional code identification method and device, and mobile terminal
This application discloses a two-dimensional code identification method, device and a mobile terminal. The two-dimensional code identification method comprises: sensing a capture operation performed by a user on an application interface, the application interface containing a two-dimensional code; in response to the sensed capture operation, capturing an image of the application interface; scanning the image to obtain two-dimensional code information of the two-dimensional code contained in the image. |
| US12277593B2 |
Voice-enabled recipe selection
A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed configured to run on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to and perform operations: receiving a command from a user; transforming, using a trained machined learning model, the command by detecting an intent to add one or more recipe ingredients; determining a recipe from a set of recipes; determining one or more items and one or more quantities or sizes of the one or more items; selecting a respective quantity or size from quantities or sizes of available items of the one or more items, wherein the respective quantity or size, as selected, is overruled when a different quantity or size preference is indicated by the user; and automatically adding to the shopping cart the one or more items. Other embodiments are described. |
| US12277590B1 |
Systems and method for generating recommendations based on location-based, item similarities
This disclosure is directed to, in part, mobile carts and/or associated computing devices that are configured to determine their respective location, determine an item in a facility that is associated with an item location that is nearest the location of the cart, determine one or more items that have been designated as similar to the nearest item, and output recommendation data corresponding to the similar items. In some instances, items may be ranked according to similarity based on a comparison of text data associated with the items, based on a comparison of location data associated with the items in other facilities, or the like. |
| US12277588B2 |
Categorization based on text and attribute factorization
This disclosure relates generally to method and system for product data categorization based on text and attribute factorization. The method includes acquiring an input describing a set of product data from an application data store for categorization. The set of product data by removing extraneous text based on a predefined template. Further a dictionary for the set of product data based on a set of attributes comprising a product key with its corresponding product value. Further, a multi-level contextual data for the set of product data are extracted by assigning a weight to each product data based on likelihood and creating a set of datapoints for each product data. The set of product data are categorized by feeding the set of data points to a set of predefined parameters to compute a minimum count, a total size, total number of epochs, a skip gram value and a hierarchical softmax. |
| US12277582B1 |
SMS-based review requests
Facilitating requests of reviews is disclosed. Contact information associated with a potential reviewer is obtained. A message requesting the potential reviewer to write a review for an entity is transmitted. In response to receiving an indication that the potential reviewer has accepted the request to write the review for the entity, a review site on which the potential reviewer should be directed to write the review for the entity is dynamically determined. A device associated with the potential reviewer is directed to a profile page of the entity on the dynamically determined review site. |
| US12277579B2 |
System and method providing personalized recommendations
A system and method for providing personalized recommendations or promotional information to consumers based upon a recommendation algorithm selected from a number of recommendation algorithms, by matching personal contextual information of each consumer to detailed contexts in which each recommendation algorithm exhibits optimal performance with regard to particular business performance measures. |
| US12277573B1 |
Digital promotion processing system including promotion terms preference data based promotion generation and related methods
A digital promotion processing system may include a shopper device associated with a given shopper, and a promotion processing server. The promotion processing server may be configured to determine available digital promotions for a given product for purchase, each available digital promotion having different redemption terms. The promotion processing server may also be configured to cooperate with the shopper device to prompt the shopper to select one of the available digital promotions to apply toward purchase of the given product, store shopper promotion terms preference data based upon the selected digital promotion, and update the shopper promotion terms preference data based upon a plurality of new selections of available digital promotions. The promotion processing server may further be configured to generate and communicate a personalized digital promotion to the shopper device. The personalized digital promotion may have redemption terms based upon the updated shopper promotion terms preference data. |
| US12277571B2 |
System and method including a distributed ledger data structure for authenticating and clearing coupons
System of authenticating and clearing coupons including a central platform accessible by retailer computer system(s) and manufacturer computer system(s), where the central platform contains coupon authentication table(s) updated by the manufacturer computer system(s) and accessible by the retailer computer system(s), and the central platform contains coupon transaction ledger(s) updated by the retailer computer system(s) and accessible by the manufacturer computer system(s); and a blockchain transactions ledger including blockchain nodes memorializing modifications made to the coupon authentication table(s) and the coupon transaction ledger(s) in the central platform. |
| US12277563B2 |
Self-service commodity sales data processing device and method thereof
A self-service commodity sales data processing device that includes a take-out determination unit for determining whether commodities were taken out simultaneously based on an image of a commodity taken out, a first identical termination unit for determining whether taken-out commodities are different commodities or identical commodities if the take-out determination unit determines that the commodities are taken out simultaneously, a reading unit for reading information of the taken-out commodities, a second identical determination unit for determining whether the commodities read by the reading unit are the identical commodity if the first identical determination unit determines that the taken-out commodities are different commodities, and a suspension unit for suspending the transaction if the second identical determination unit determines that the commodities are the identical commodity. |
| US12277560B2 |
Speculative transaction operations for recognized devices
Techniques are disclosed relating to speculatively processing transactions. A transaction processing system may receive an indication of a trigger event associated with an electronic transaction not yet initiated by a client computing device. In some embodiments, in response to the indication of the trigger event and prior to receiving an indication of the electronic transaction being initiated, the computer system begins speculative processing of the electronic transaction. In some embodiments, the speculative processing includes identifying the client computing device based on device authentication information received from the client device, determining a user account based on the identifier client computing device, retrieving account information for the determined account, and storing the retrieved account information. In response to receiving an indication of the electronic transaction being initiated, in some embodiments, the computer system performs one or more operations using the stored account information to complete the transaction. |
| US12277558B2 |
Subscription-based activation of ads features
A method performed by a distributed subscription-handling system for supporting subscription-based activation of Automated Driving System (ADS) features in a vehicle. Arrangements that support a process where complexity and/or the transaction cost of ADS feature subscription handling may be limited. There is identified at one or more ADS-equipped vehicles connected via a peer-to-peer blockchain network having at least a first service provider node dedicated to an ADS feature provider, data indicative of one or more subscription options comprising indication of various ADS feature sets available for activation and indication of respective corresponding required ADS-related vehicle configuration are defined in at least a first blockchain-stored smart contract deployed by the at least first service provider node. |
| US12277556B2 |
Secure account creation
In one embodiment, a payment service system-implemented method of assigning payment card numbers for individual user accounts associated with the payment service system includes receiving payment card numbers activated by a third-party server that are unassigned to accounts registered. The method includes receiving a first transaction authorization request for one of the payment card numbers and denying the request, without notifying the third-party server, based on the number being unregistered with the payment service system. The method includes receiving, via an executable application, a request to register a user account for a payment service system user, and in response, generating a record assigning the payment card number to the user account. The method includes receiving a second transaction authorization request for the payment card number, authorizing the request based on the number being assigned to the user account, and notifying the third-party server, causing user account's balance to be modified. |
| US12277553B2 |
Blockchain based interaction processing
A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first interaction request to transfer a first interaction amount from a sender to a receiver. The first interaction request comprise a sender identifier, a receiver identifier, the first interaction amount, and a condition. The computer generates a smart contract this information, and then hashes the to form a first hash key. The computer incorporates the information, and the first hash key into a first block in a blockchain. The computer receives a second interaction request from the receiver device to transferring a second amount from the receiver to a third party, the second interaction request comprising the receiver identifier, a second interaction amount, and a third party identifier. The computer hashes this information to form a second hash key. The server computer incorporates this information and the second hash key into a second block in the blockchain. |
| US12277544B2 |
Systems and methods for dynamic card identifier based transactions
A system for system for dynamic card identifier based transactions is disclosed. The system may receive a transaction authentication request. The system may generate a first dynamic card identifier (DCID) in response to the transaction authentication request. The system may authenticate a transaction based on the first DCID. The system may execute the transaction in response to the authenticating. In various embodiments, the system may generate a second DCID in response to executing the transaction. |
| US12277541B2 |
Methods and systems for extending installment options
Systems and methods are provided for extending installment options to users. One example computer-implemented method includes, as part of an authentication challenge to a user for a transaction, requesting, by a communication device of the user, installment options from an installment service provider (ISP) based on an identifier specific to a first party involved in the transaction. In response, the ISP retrieves the requested installment options and provides them to the communication device. The method also includes displaying, by the communication device, the installment options to the user, soliciting a selection of one of the installment options, and, in response to the selection, identifying the selected one of the installment options to the ISP, whereby the ISP records the selected installment option as payment for the transaction. |
| US12277537B2 |
Multi-directional wallet connector apparatuses, methods and systems
The W-CONNECTOR (“W-CONNECTOR”) facilitates the enrollment of payment accounts in a consumer's virtual wallet. The consumer may be logged into their payment account issuer's web site and designate one or more payment accounts for enrollment in a virtual wallet. The issuer may then share account, billing and/or other relevant information with the virtual wallet provider to facilitate the enrollment of the designated payment accounts in the virtual wallet. The W-CONNECTOR may also be configured to facilitate the creation and funding of pre-paid accounts in a consumer's virtual wallet. |
| US12277536B2 |
System and method for trust-minimized real-time value-exchange and liquidity replenishment
What is disclosed is a method for trust-minimized value-exchange between a source and a destination token. An off-chain trusted API (OCTAPI) is connected to a first and a second interchain router (ICR); and a first and a second smart contract (SC). The first and second SCs are associated with source and destination chains, and comprise a first and a second vault, respectively. The first ICR is associated with the first SC and connected to a source decentralized exchange (DEX). The second ICR is associated with the second SC and connected to a destination DEX. When a transaction order is received, the OCTAPI initiates a debit swap via the first ICR and source DEX. When the OCTAPI determines the debit swap is being validated, the OCTAPI initiates a credit swap via the second ICR and destination DEX. At least some part of the debit swap and credit swap occur in parallel. |
| US12277533B2 |
Generating collaborative content items to provide customizable graphical representations in online graphical user interfaces
The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating, providing, and editing collaborative content items on client devices. For example, the disclosed systems provide a collaborative content item that includes a text display state and a render display state. A client device can provide for the collaborative content item to receive source text in the text display state. Then, based on the source text, the client device can provide for display of the collaborative content item in the render display state that generates a graphical representation for the collaborative content item based on rendering the source text. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods allow two or more client devices to simultaneously modify the source text associated with the collaborative content item, and in turn, modify the graphical representation of the collaborative content item based on the modified source text. |
| US12277532B2 |
System and method for agentless application inventory detection
A system and method for agentless generation of a software bill of materials (SBOM) in a cloud computing environment is disclosed. The method includes: accessing a plurality of workloads in a cloud computing environment; detecting in each workload of the plurality of workloads a software component; generating for each workload an SBOM based on the detected software component; and storing each SBOM in a database. |
| US12277528B2 |
Enhanced multi-compartment logistics receptacle apparatus, systems, and methods for receiving and temporarily maintaining a delivery item and causing a backend server to initiate a dispatched logistics operation
An enhanced multi-compartment connected logistics receptacle system includes a storage receptacle, a bridge node, and wireless accessory sensor node with a plurality of sensors. A first subset of the sensors is disposed relative to a first monitored receptacle compartment and a second subset of the sensors is disposed relative to a second monitored receptacle compartment. The plurality of sensors monitor for a change in state of the storage receptacle. The wireless accessory sensor node detects the storage receptacle's state change based upon sensor data and broadcasts a signal with a flag set indicating there is event information available for upload. The bridge node detects the flag set, retrieves the event information available for upload from the wireless accessory sensor node, and transmits the retrieved event information to a backend server to cause the backend server to initiate a dispatched logistics operation related to the storage receptacle. |
| US12277525B2 |
Information processing system and information processing method
An information processing system includes: a collection/delivery request portion configured to notify, to a terminal of a carrier who collects or delivers a package, information on a collection/delivery area where the package is requested to be collected or delivered; a vehicle detection portion configured to detect that the delivery vehicle has moved into the collection/delivery area; and a collection/delivery management portion configured to, when the vehicle detection portion detects that the delivery vehicle has moved into the collection/delivery area, notify the terminal of the carrier of information on a parking position of a collection/delivery destination vehicle. |
| US12277523B2 |
Materials delivery container with battery system therein
Combined container and battery system, materials delivery vehicle, and battery system charging system, adapted for charging a container battery system within rated specifications for accomplishing materials delivery of container contents depending on a determined power budget determined relative to such parameters as chosen vehicle weight, whether e-cargo delivery bike or autonomous delivery vehicle, chosen vehicle efficiency, battery system capacity, an allowed driver weight and driver efficiency for e-cargo bike deliveries, materials information, materials weight, number of stops, distance between each stop, recipient information, recipient address, and route topology, wherein excess power is indicated as available for auxiliary tasks. |
| US12277521B2 |
Information processing apparatus, work management system, and work management method
An information processing apparatus manages work performed in a work region. An acquisition unit acquires information regarding a work result of the work region. An evaluation unit evaluates work performed in the work region based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit. An identifying unit identifies a work subject that has performed work in a region for which an evaluation is performed by the evaluation unit. |
| US12277519B2 |
Systems and methods for maintaining key performance indicator targets of a contact center
In some implementations, a device may provide, as input to a model, input data indicating current value(s) corresponding to key performance indicator(s) (KPI) associated with current calls to a contact center, enterprise event(s), and stability event(s) associated with the contact center. The device may receive, as an output from the machine learning model, predicted value(s) corresponding to the KPI(s). The device may determine predicted rate(s) of change of the KPI(s) based on a comparison of the current and predicted value(s). The device may assign severity level(s) corresponding to the KPI(s) based on the predicted rate(s) of change. The device may determine a service level impact based on the predicted value(s). The device may determine a performance degradation score based on the severity level(s) and the service level impact. The device may determine and automatically apply a strategy based on the performance degradation score. |
| US12277515B2 |
Method and device for managing project by using data filtering
Disclosed are a method and device for managing a project by using data filtering. A project is efficiently operated by dividing a project based on a minimum unit task and designing a plurality of child projects connected in sequential order such that a plurality of child projects proceed in order. |
| US12277514B2 |
On-demand transport services
A computing system can receive utilization data from computing devices of requesting users. Based on the utilization data, the system can determine, for each requesting user, an intent of the requesting user, the intent corresponding to a probability that the requesting user will utilize the transport service upon arrival at an arrival location of a transit vehicle. The system may determine a destination for the requesting user that requires additional transport from the arrival location of the transit vehicle. Based on the destination of the requesting user, the system can transmit a set of transport requests to computing devices of a set of the transport providers to facilitate transport for the requesting users at the arrival location of the transit vehicle. |
| US12277505B2 |
Neighborhood-based entity resolution system and method
A method for resolving entities in a knowledge graph including determining node sets in the knowledge graph, determining each of the node sets includes determining a first node, determining a second node in a semantic neighborhood of the first node, and determining a third node in the semantic neighborhood of the first node. For each node set, the second node and the third node are compared, and it is determined that the second node and the third node are a similar node pair. For each similar node pair, the first nodes of the node sets are aggregated, and a quantity of overlapping of a semantic neighborhood of the second node and a semantic neighborhood of the third node is determined, and for each similar node pair, the second and third nodes are resolved as a single entity. |
| US12277498B2 |
Spinal surgery outcome prediction
A spinal surgery training process includes the steps of capturing a plurality of 2D images for each of a plurality of spines, generating a curve of each spine from the respective 2D images based on locations of select vertebrae in each of the spines, grouping the spines into one of a number of groups based on similarity to produce groups of spines having similarities, performing the capturing, generating, determining and grouping steps at least once prior to surgery and at least once after surgery to produce pre-operative groups and their resultant post-operative groups, and assigning surgical methods and a probability to each of the post-operative groups indicating the probability that a spinal shape of the post-operative group can be achieved using the surgical methods. An outcome prediction process for determining surgical methods can be implemented once the training process is complete. |
| US12277496B2 |
Batch processing in a neural network processor
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a respective neural network output for each of a plurality of inputs, the method comprising, for each of the neural network layers: receiving a plurality of inputs to be processed at the neural network layer; forming one or more batches of inputs from the plurality of inputs, each batch having a number of inputs up to the respective batch size for the neural network layer; selecting a number of the one or more batches of inputs to process, where a count of the inputs in the number of the one or more batches is greater than or equal to the respective associated batch size of a subsequent layer in the sequence; and processing the number of the one or more batches of inputs to generate the respective neural network layer output. |
| US12277491B2 |
Encoded host to DLA traffic
Apparatuses and methods can be related to encoding traffic between a host and a deep learning accelerator (DLA). Traffic between a host can be encoded utilizing an autoencoder. Encoding traffic between a host and a DLA changes the bandwidth of the traffic. Changing the bandwidth of the traffic prevents the correlation between the bandwidth and the input from which the traffic is generated. |
| US12277490B2 |
Efficient binary representations from neural networks
Persistent storage contains a representation of a neural network including an input layer, and output layer, and a hidden layer, wherein nodes of the hidden layer incorporate serialized activation functions, wherein the serialized activation functions for each of the nodes include a sigmoid function and a Beta function, wherein the sigmoid function is applied to weighted outputs from nodes of a previous layer of the neural network, wherein the Beta function is applied to a conductance hyper-parameter and respective outputs of the sigmoid function, and wherein outputs of the Beta function are provided to a subsequent layer of the neural network. One or more processors are configured to train the neural network until the outputs of the sigmoid function for the nodes of the hidden layer are substantially binary. |
| US12277486B2 |
Defect location method and device based on coverage information
The present disclosure discloses a defect location method and device based on coverage information, the method including: characterizing program structure information and test case coverage information of a target program in a graph to obtain a graph-characterized structure; generating a node attribute sequence and an adjacency matrix based on the graph-characterized structure; and inputting the node attribute sequence and the adjacency matrix to a trained graph neural network model, so that the graph neural network model outputs a suspicious degree list of the target program based on the node attribute sequence and the adjacency matrix. Through the graph-based unified information characterization, the coverage information can be saved without loss and compression, and the structure information may also be considered, thereby improving the accuracy of defect location. |
| US12277483B2 |
Spatio-temporal consistency embeddings from multiple observed modalities
Provided is a process that includes obtaining data indicative of state of a dynamic mechanical system and an environment of the dynamic mechanical system, the data comprising a plurality of channels of data from a plurality of different sensors including a plurality of cameras and other sensors indicative of state of actuators of the dynamic mechanical system; forming a training set from the obtained data by segmenting the data by time and grouping segments from the different channels by time to form units of training data that span different channels among the plurality of channels; training a metric learning model to encode inputs corresponding to the plurality of channels as vectors in an embedding space with self-supervised learning based on the training set; and using the trained metric learning model to control the dynamic mechanical system or another dynamic mechanical system. |
| US12277482B2 |
Cognitive claims processing
In some embodiments, a processor may receive a claim, where the claim relates to an event. The processor may identify characteristics of the claim. The processor may determine, using an AI model, an alert reason based on a similarity of the characteristics of the claim to characteristics of one or more other claims. The processor may generate an alert notification, and the processor may output the alert notification to a user. |
| US12277481B2 |
Method of and system for generating a training set for a machine learning algorithm (MLA)
There is disclosed a method and system for generating a training set for training a machine learning algorithm (MLA) implemented in an information retrieval system. The method is executable by the server and comprises: retrieving, from a search log database of the server, a first query previously submitted to the server, a first SERP associated with the first query, a second query different from the first query and submitted after the first query, and a second SERP associated with the second query, the first query and the second query having been submitted by the electronic device: the first SERP including a first set of search results; and the second SERP including a second set of search results; in response to the second query being submitted within a same search session as the first query, generating the training set to be used as negative training examples for training the MLA. |
| US12277478B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for operating a gaussian boson sampling quantum device as an annealer
A computer-implemented method comprising: obtaining an equation with a cost function for minimization related to an optimization problem thereby yielding a cost function equation, the cost function including two or more binary variables, converting the cost function equation into a Boolean formula in Conjunctive Normal; obtaining a Max-Clique problem by processing the Boolean formula; providing the Max-Clique problem to a Gaussian Boson Sampling, GBS, quantum device; and processing light output data of the GBS quantum device so as to find values of the two or more binary variables of the cost function. |
| US12277476B2 |
Anti-theft scanning system and methods of detecting theft
Disclosed herein are components, systems, and methods of a scanning system that operates in a retail environment to deter and prevent theft of items. The systems and methods include a plurality of imagers to capture a plurality of images of the item, and identifying key feature locations of the item based on the captured images. The systems and methods include a scanner to read a machine-readable symbol attached to the item, and accessing a database that includes stored key feature data associated with the specific machine-readable symbol attached to the item. The systems and methods further include one or more processors that generate key feature data for the item based on the key feature locations, compares the stored key feature data with the generated key feature data, and determines whether the stored key feature data matches the generated key feature data to a degree sufficient to surpass a predetermined threshold. |
| US12277474B2 |
Toggling modes of operating a ring scanner based on orientation
A ring scanner is disclosed. The ring scanner is configured to determine an inclination angle of the ring scanner with respect to a ground and based on the inclination angle set an operating mode for the ring scanner, where the operating mode includes either a communication mode or a scanning mode. |
| US12277473B2 |
Wireless tag reading apparatus
A wireless tag reading apparatus according to an embodiment includes an accommodation part formed by a bottom surface part and a peripheral surface part vertically provided upward from the bottom surface part, a peripheral surface opening part that is formed in the peripheral surface part, and enables goods to be taken into and out of the accommodation part, a cover part covering a part of an upside of the accommodation part, a top surface opening part formed by the cover part and the peripheral surface part, and contiguous to the peripheral surface opening part, and a reading part configured to read, by transmitting and receiving radiowaves to and from a wireless tag attached to goods accommodated in the accommodation part, tag information from the wireless tag. |
| US12277467B2 |
Method for the identification, authentication, and tracking of physical assets
Systems and methods of authenticating a product are provided. Such systems may include an asset verifier system including an image comparator and an image data store, an asset registration station communicable with the asset verifier system, and an asset verification software application in a verification device communicable with the asset verifier system. The product to be authenticated may be a physical asset having at least one heterogeneous visual feature, or a group of visually homogenous products uniquely arranged. |
| US12277465B2 |
Removable memory card with efficient card lock mechanism, XY ratios, and pads layout
A memory card is provided with various pad layouts to prevent a data signal pad from contacting a power contact in a host during insertion and removal of the memory card. The memory card can have a form factor and features that accommodate a relatively-large memory with relatively-high performance and accompanying thermal conditions. An efficient card lock mechanism is also provided. |
| US12277463B2 |
Game token tray, table game management system, game token tray system, and game token management method
A game token tray system includes a game token tray having a dual tray structure in which a game token is stored. The game token tray system includes a double tray including a lower tray and an upper tray stacked on the lower tray to store a game token provided with an RF tag in which tag information is stored, a camera that acquires tray image data by imaging the game token stored in the upper tray, an RFID reading device that reads the tag information from the RF tag of the game token stored in the lower tray, and a game recording device that records the tray image data and/or an image analysis result of the tray image data about the game token stored in the upper tray and records the tag information read by the RFID reading device about the game token stored in the upper tray. |
| US12277462B2 |
Metal-containing dual interface smartcards
Smartcard (SC) having a metal card body (MCB) which is a coupling frame (CF) with a slit (S), and a coupling loop antenna/structure (CLA, CLS) connected to termination points (TP) on each side of the slit (S) and coupled with the module antenna (MA) of a transponder chip module (TCM). A portion of the card body (CB) may be metal and another, coplanar portion of the card body may be a synthetic material which may be transparent or translucent. Currents may be collected from the interface between the two portions. The card body (CB) may have two metal layers of different materials, adhesively joined to each other using a thermosetting epoxy that converts from B-stage to C-stage during lamination. |
| US12277460B2 |
Printer registering set of glyph data in glyph index table and using the set of glyph data when generating raster data
In a printer, a controller builds a glyph index table in which no glyph data is registered. When it is determined that no set of glyph data corresponding to a character code selected in print data is registered in the glyph index table, the controller acquires a target set of glyph data from the font information in a memory. The target set of glyph data corresponds to the character code. The controller registers the target set of glyph data in the glyph index table. When it is determined that the set of glyph data corresponding to the character code is registered in the glyph index table, the controller acquires the target set of glyph data from the glyph index table. The controller generates raster data from the print data using the target set of glyph data, and perform a printing process to print an image based on the raster data. |
| US12277458B1 |
Messaging application information organizer
A multi-entity organizing system designed to streamline and optimize data management is provided by a unified platform for labeling and organizing various entities. The system employs a hierarchical structure of “Pillars” and “Subpillars” to categorize and tag data objects, such as contacts, messages, files, notes, and more, into cohesive groups. By utilizing these labels, efficient data retrieval, seamless cross-referencing, and simplified organization, is provided for such items, ultimately offering a comprehensive solution to consolidate diverse data within a single application. |
| US12277456B2 |
Command processor, neural processing system and method for transmitting data thereof
An apparatus comprising neural processors, a command processor, and a shared memory. The command processor receives a context start signal indicating a start of a context of a neural network model from a host system. The command processor determines whether neural network model data is entirely or partially updated based on the context start signal. The command processor updates the neural network model data in the shared memory based on a determination on whether neural network model data is entirely or partially updated based on the context start signal. The command processor generates a plurality of task descriptors describing neural network model tasks based on the neural network model data, and distributes the plurality of task descriptors to the neural processors. |
| US12277452B2 |
Autonomous virtual radio access network control
A method for managing radio and computing resources of a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) includes a number of virtualized radio access points (vRAPs) that share a common pool of central processing units (CPUs). The method includes dividing, per vRAP, an L1 layer processing pipeline into at least one main processing pipeline and into a number of subordinate processing pipelines, and coordinating the execution of the pipelines across multiple vRAPs. The coordinating includes allocating tasks of the main processing pipelines to dedicated CPUs, and allocating tasks of the subordinate processing pipelines to shared CPUs. |
| US12277449B1 |
Adaptive sleep virtual machines in a cloud provider network
Techniques for adaptive sleep virtual machine management are described. A service of a provider network receives a parameter indicating that a first virtual machine can be slept and determines to sleep the first virtual machine based at least in part on the parameter. A state of the first virtual machine is captured, and the first virtual machine is terminated. The service determines to resume the captured state of the first virtual machine based at least in part on an indication. A second virtual machine is launched using the captured state of the first virtual machine and resumes execution of the captured state of the first virtual machine. A proxy server sends traffic to the first virtual machine before the termination of the first virtual machine and to the second virtual machine after the resumption of execution of the captured state of the first virtual machine by the second virtual machine. |
| US12277445B2 |
Predictive resource allocation and scheduling for a distributed workload
Systems and methods are provided for predicting how tasks should be allocated to available network resources. A method, according to one implementation, includes the step of receiving resource utilization metrics from each of a plurality of nodes arranged in a cluster, wherein the resource utilization metrics of each node include information related to utilization of one or more resources of the respective node over a plurality of time periods. The method also includes the step of predicting current and forthcoming resource availability of each node based on patterns of resource utilization over past and current time periods. In response to receiving a job request having multiple workload responsibilities, the method includes the step of allocating the workload responsibilities to one or more nodes based on the predicted current and forthcoming resource availability of each node in order to fulfill the job request. |
| US12277444B2 |
Software-defined tensor streaming multiprocessor for large-scale machine learning
A system contains a network of processors arranged in a plurality of nodes. Each node comprises a respective plurality of processors connected via local links, and different nodes are connected via global links. The processors of the network communicate with each other to establish a global counter for the network, enabling deterministic communication between the processors of the network. A compiler is configured to explicitly schedule communication traffic across the global and local links of the network of processors based upon the deterministic links between the processors, which enable software-scheduled networking with explicit send or receive instructions executed by functional units of the processors at specific times, to establish a specific ordering of operations performed by the network of processors. In some embodiments, the processors of the network of processors are tensor streaming processors (TSPs). |
| US12277441B2 |
Dynamic scheduler for Internet-of-Things based smart environments
The present disclosure is directed to a scheduler in a real time operating system for a central processing unit (CPU) that runs a number of, and diverse set of processes in a ready queue, the scheduler when executed by the CPU performs steps including dividing the ready queue of P processes into two lists, list 1 contains n processes while list 2 contains m processes, where n+m=P, averaging total execution times of the processes in each list, generating a first quantum s based on an average of each list, generating a second quantum t based on the average of each list, comparing total execution time of a candidate process which needs to be assigned to the CPU with the quantum values, and assigning the value of a quantum, based on the comparing, that is the quantum value closest to the total execution time of the candidate process, to that process as a time period for running on the CPU. |
| US12277436B2 |
Integrating virtualization and host networking
The disclosure provides for integrating virtual machine (VM) and host networking, forwarding port data and occupation status to host and VM endpoints. Examples synchronize, by a host agent, port reservations with a guest agent on a first VM on the host; receive an indication that a VM port on the first VM is occupied; based at least on receiving the indication that the VM port is occupied, update the port reservations to include that a host port corresponding to the VM port is occupied; receive incoming external traffic on the host port; and based at least on the port reservations and receiving the incoming external traffic on the host port, route the incoming external traffic to the VM port on the first VM. VM-based application behavior thus appears more similar to that of native applications. |
| US12277434B2 |
Hypervisor assisted security of dangling volumes for containers
The disclosure provides a method for securing, by a hypervisor of a host, a first persistent volume used to maintain data for one or more first containers on the host. The method generally includes receiving a request to retain the first persistent volume when the one or more first containers are removed from the host, receiving a first container image associated with one of the one or more first containers, generating a first key for reserving the first persistent volume, the key based, at least in part, on the first container image, and reserving the first persistent volume for exclusive access by the hypervisor using the first key. |
| US12277433B2 |
Desired state configuration for virtual machines
Systems and methods for setting virtual machines (“VMs”) to desired configurations while the virtual machines are running. In some systems, a user can select a VM and a desired configuration. An agent can then set an attribute of the virtual machine to indicate that on guest operation system (“OS”) reboot of the VM, the VM will enter BIOS mode. The agent can also store the desired configuration in the database based on authenticating the user. When the VM reboots at a future time, the attribute can cause the VM to enter BIOS setup. The agent can be notified and can retrieve the desired configuration from a database using an identifier for the VM. Then the agent can apply the desired configuration to the VM during BIOS setup with a system process that does not require further user authentication. |
| US12277422B2 |
Device tree runtime mechanism
Systems and methods are included for causing a computing device to boot by retrieving hardware information from a device tree and further properties by utilizing a native access method call identified in the device tree. The access method can allow for getting a property, getting a property length, or setting a property. A table within firmware can identify the method, which then can retrieve the property information from memory. This Device tree Runtime (“DTRT”) mechanism can allow the computing device to retrieve the hardware configuration and act as a power management interface for turning on the correct hardware and hardware properties on the computing device. |
| US12277421B2 |
Message-based processing with assignment of neural network layers to processor clusters
The present application discloses a message based multi-processor system comprising a message exchange network and a plurality of processor clusters to mutually exchange messages. A processor cluster comprises one or more processor cluster elements, and a message generator. The message based multi-processor system is configured as a neural network processor system having a plurality of neural network processing layers each being assigned one or more of the processor clusters. The message generator of a processor cluster comprises a logic module. The logic module, in response to an activation signal of a processor cluster element, selectively generates and transmits a message for each of a set of destination processor clusters in accordance with respective message generation control data for said destination processor clusters stored in a message generator control storage space. |
| US12277412B2 |
Persistent context for reusable pipeline components
Techniques are provided for managing and isolating build process pipelines. The system can encapsulate all the information needed for each build process step in a build context structure, which may be accessible to the build process step. Each build process step can receive input from the build context, and can generate a child build context as output. Accordingly, the build pipeline may be parallelized, duplicated, and/or virtualized securely and automatically, and the build context can carry, organize, and isolate data for each task. The build context from each step can also be stored and subsequently inspected, e.g. for problem-solving. A computing device can execute a first build step configured to generate the build context including a plurality of output objects. The computing device further executes a second build step based on the build context, which is accessible to the second build step but isolated from other processes. |
| US12277410B1 |
Systems and methods for executing an analytical operation across a plurality of computer processes
A system, method, and computer-program product includes commencing a parent computer process based on receiving a request to perform an analytical operation on one or more datasets, commencing at least one child computer process that is launched by the parent computer process when the parent computer process initiates an execution of the analytical operation on the one or more datasets, transmitting, by the at least one child computer process, a request to the parent computer process to retrieve the one or more datasets, writing, by the parent computer process, the one or more datasets to a cross-process queue based on the parent computer process receiving the requests, reading, by the at least one child computer process, the one or more datasets from the cross-process queue, and executing, using an analytical application executing on the least one child computer process, the analytical operation based on the one or more datasets. |
| US12277409B1 |
Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for training a code generation model for low-resource languages
A system, method, and computer-program product includes identifying a plurality of code synthesis items for a target programming language, generating a code synthesis prompt based on a first sampling of the plurality of code synthesis items, synthesizing, via a large language model, a plurality of raw code segments using the code synthesis prompt, executing the plurality of raw code segments with a code interpreter associated with the target programming language, determining one or more valid code segments of the plurality of raw code segments that the code interpreter successfully executed, aggregating, via a second sampling, the one or more valid code segments into one or more validated code synthesis training samples, and training a code generation model using the one or more validated code synthesis training samples. User interfaces may be provided to allow target coding tasks to be specified via text or speech. |
| US12277402B2 |
End-to-end neural word alignment process of suggesting formatting in machine translations
In an embodiment, the disclosure provides a programmed computer system implemented via client-server Software as a Service (SaaS) techniques that allows for machine translation of digital content. When translating digital content, linguists must translate more than just the text on the page. Formatting, for example, is a commonly used and important aspect of online content that is typically managed with tags, such as for bold and for italics. When linguists work, they must ensure these tags are placed accurately as part of the translation. Projecting tags accurately depends on successfully accomplishing the challenging task of word alignment. Unfortunately, if word alignment is inaccurate, it makes placing formatting tags very difficult. In an embodiment, the present disclosure provides a method of not only translating text, but also efficiently and accurately projecting tags from input text in one language to output text in another language. |
| US12277401B2 |
Method and apparatus for acquiring pre-trained model
The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for acquiring a pre-trained model, and relates to natural language processing and deep learning technologies in the field of artificial intelligence technologies. An implementation includes: acquiring training data, the training data including a single-modal language material and a multi-modal language material, and the multi-modal language material including a language material pair formed by a first-modal language material and a second-modal language material; and performing a multi-task training operation on a pre-trained model using the training data, the multi-task including at least one cross-modal contrastive learning task and at least one single-modal learning task; the pre-trained language model obtained in the present disclosure may learn from different forms of language materials, i.e., the single-modal language material and the multi-modal language material, such that the pre-trained language model may effectively process information in various modals. |
| US12277400B1 |
Multimedia content management for large language model(s) and/or other generative model(s)
Implementations relate to managing multimedia content that is obtained by large language model(s) (LLM(s)) and/or generated by other generative model(s). Processor(s) of a system can: receive natural language (NL) based input that requests multimedia content, generate a response that is responsive to the NL based input, and cause the response to be rendered. In some implementations, and in generating the response, the processor(s) can process, using a LLM, LLM input to generate LLM output, and determine, based on the LLM output, at least multimedia content to be included in the response. Further, the processor(s) can evaluate the multimedia content to determine whether it should be included in the response. In response to determining that the multimedia content should not be included in the response, the processor(s) can cause the response, including alternative multimedia content or other textual content, to be rendered. |
| US12277397B2 |
Method of training model, method of determining word vector, device, medium, and product
A method of training a model, a method of determining a word vector, a device, a medium, and a product are provided, which may be applied to fields of natural language processing, information processing, etc. The method includes: acquiring a first word vector set corresponding to a first word set; and generating a reduced-dimensional word vector for each word vector in the first word vector set based on a word embedding model, generating, for other word vector in the first word vector set, a first probability distribution in the first word vector set based on the reduced-dimensional word vector, and adjusting a parameter of the word embedding model so as to minimize a difference between the first probability distribution and a second probability distribution for the other word vector determined by a number of word vector in the first word vector set. |
| US12277395B2 |
Digital image analysis of social media posts using machine learning models for sentiment identification and recommended actions
A machine learning (ML) system and methods are provided that are configured to correlate text data with corresponding image data for image sentiment analysis. The system includes a processor and a computer readable medium operably coupled thereto, the computer readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions stored in association therewith that are accessible to, and executable by, the processor, to perform image processing operations which include receiving image data for an image posted on a social networking platform, determining whether there is text data, performing image data extraction operations, analyzing the text data, determining and combining a score for the image and text data, determining an image sentiment or a text sentiment, calculating weighted metrics based on the image sentiment or the text sentiment, determining historical customer data interactions of the customer, and recommending one or more actions based on the weighted metrics. |
| US12277392B2 |
Techniques for enhancing the quality of human annotation
Methods for enhancing or automating a review process of annotation tags for a set of tokens is described. A system may receive a list of tokens with associated tags for each token for a data set and may output any identified inconsistencies where a token is assigned at least two different tags. For example, instead of a human looking at each token individually or taking a sample set of the tags for review, the described techniques may look at all tokens with the associated tags in a set of data and may leverage reorganizing the tokens and associated tags to highlight errors to be fixed. Accordingly, the system may look across all tokens within an entire data set, while a review (e.g., by a human) of possible errors of the data set is limited to the highlighted errors flagged by the system. |
| US12277389B2 |
Text mining based on document structure information extraction
Frequent sequences extracted from a set of documents according to a common rule are obtained. Based on comparing occurrence frequencies of various sequences, confidence of the first frequent sequence being a label expression representing a document part in a target document is evaluated. Keywords are extracted from the target document based on evaluation of the confidence. |
| US12277384B2 |
Systems and methods for guided natural language text generation
The presently disclosed embodiments may include a computer readable medium including instructions that when executed by one or more processing devices cause the one or more processing devices to perform a method. The method may include initiating a writing assistant application in response to input received from a user; receiving a first user input, wherein the first user input includes a collection of two or more words that convey at least one idea; automatically constructing, using one or more trained models providing a natural language generation function, a first complete sentence option that expresses the at least one idea; causing the first complete sentence option to be shown to the user via the display; receiving a second user input, and, in response to the received second input; and causing a second complete sentence option, different from the first complete sentence option, to be shown on the display. |
| US12277382B2 |
Method and system to modify speech impaired messages utilizing neural network audio filters
A computer implemented method, system and computer program product are provided that implement a neural network (NN) audio filter. The method, system and computer program product obtain an electronic audio signal comprising a speech impaired message and apply the audio signal to the NN audio filter to modify the speech impaired message. The apply operation converts the audio signal into characters; and identifies and removes at least one of a repetitive pattern or duplicate word in the characters to form the unimpaired message. The unimpaired message is output. |
| US12277377B2 |
Efficient scheduling of tasks for resolution enhancement technique operations
A system and method for scheduling optical proximity correction (OPC) or other resolution enhancement technique (RET) operations on a layout design is disclosed. A layout design is divided into a plurality of regions, such as a plurality of tiles. OPC is performed on the plurality of tiles in order to generate a modified layout design. Performing OPC on the plurality of tiles may be time consuming. In order to more efficiently distribute the processing of OPC, estimates of OPC processing times for the plurality of tiles is performed. The estimate of the OPC processing time for a respective tile may be based on one or both of analysis of: analysis of the respective tile; or analysis of tile(s) that neighbor the respective tile. Based on the estimates, tiles that have a longer estimated processing tile are scheduled before tiles that have a shorter estimated processing time, thereby potentially resulting in more efficient OPC processing. |
| US12277376B2 |
Rail power density aware standard cell placement for integrated circuits
To ensure proper operation (e.g., speed and/or function) of standard cells fabricated within an integrated circuit a minimum potential difference between the high and low power supply rails needs to be maintained. IR drop refers to a reduction in the potential difference between the power supply rails and is caused when the switching activity of cells that share a power supply rail is greater than can be provided at a particular time. Before fabrication, placement of the cells is reorganized within bounding box regions. Power density across the power rails within each bounding box is normalized based on spatial and temporal power density characteristics of each cell. The reorganization is IR aware and has minimal impact on timing and IR drop is mitigated because distributing current consumption between the supply rails reduces current spikes and IR drops. |
| US12277375B2 |
Power staple avoidance for routing via reduction
Embodiments are provided for providing power staple avoidance during routing in a computing system by a processor. One or more transistor gates may be shifted in each row of an integrated circuit to avoid alignment of cell pins and power staples for executing a routing operation, where the circuit row is partitioned into segments based on one or more fixed objects. |
| US12277371B2 |
Dynamic current modeling in dynamic voltage drop analysis
Circuit design techniques can use a trained predictor to predict key dynamic current metrics (such as peak current, peak time, pulse width and total charge) for a gate in a circuit library, where the predictor has been trained over different combinations of different input transition slews and different output fanout models. A dynamic current model solver can be used for a gate in the cell library to derive waveforms (of current versus time) for the different combinations, and a predictor, such as a neural network, can be trained with the outputs from the solver for the different combinations. The trained predictor can be used in a runtime simulation to solve for the dynamic current demand model of the various gates in a circuit design (such as all of the gates in an integrated circuit). |
| US12277365B2 |
Audio arrangement as well as a method for capturing and/or creating a system configuration of the audio arrangement
An audio arrangement with a plurality of audio devices and a central device. A unique address is assigned to each audio device of a basic set in a data environment so that the central device can selectively send messages to the audio devices of the basic set. The central device includes a data-technology selection area for a selected set of audio devices from the basic set, and a communication module for activating a notification mode of the audio devices of the selected set. Each of the audio devices includes a human-machine interface and are configured to send a notification message to the central device in the notification mode when the human-machine interface is actuated. The central device lists the audio devices of the selected set in a list area in the order in which the notification message is received at the central device. |
| US12277361B2 |
Wearable device for facilitating enhanced interaction
Wearable head-mounted displays, such as virtual reality systems, present immersive experiences and environments to a wearer. However, the head-mounted displays, as well as the immersive environments that they produce, limit the wearer's ability to interact with outside observers. For example, a wearer may not be able to see outside observers, and outside observers may not have any insight to what the wearer is experiencing or where the wearer's attention is directed. Accordingly, a wearable electronic device may include an outward-facing display configured to display information to outside observers, such as images of the wearer's face or images that represent or indicate the state of the wearer and/or the head mounted display. |
| US12277357B2 |
Related information providing method for image processing, image processing system, and image processing device
A related information providing method for providing related information comprises, controlling an image processing device, and executing a job pertaining to image processing that performs at least one of processing that reads a document and outputs or stores image data, or processing that loads print data and prints or stores image data; causing a user to select whether or not performing a search is permitted using extracted information, which is obtained by extracting information about at least one of a character or an image from image data of the document or the print data; extracting the extracted information from the image data when a search using the extracted information is permitted; searching a database stored in a data storage device for related information that relates to the extracted information; providing the user with the related information; and registering the extracted information and the image data in the database. |
| US12277355B2 |
Communication apparatus that regulates use of a specific function when a program update is not executed, control method, and storage medium
There is provided a technique capable of updating a program without decreasing user convenience regardless of whether a service is subscribed. A communication apparatus capable of providing a function based on a service according to an agreement includes an acquisition unit which acquires, from a server, first update information about a first update to correct an error relevant to the service and second update information about a second update to correct an error irrelevant to the service, and a regulation unit which regulates use of the function provided by the service in a case where the first update is not executed based on the first update information. The regulation unit does not regulate the use of the function provided by the service in a case where the second update is not executed based on the second update information. |
| US12277352B2 |
Pen servicing determination
Examples include a method for operating a printing device comprising a specific pen. The method comprises receiving future specific pen firing data related to a plurality of upcoming successive print jobs and collecting historical specific pen firing data. The method further comprises determining a level and timing of servicing of the specific pen in function of both of the received future specific pen firing data and of the collected historical specific pen firing data. |
| US12277349B2 |
Internal clock signaling
A method includes selecting a particular ready/busy pin (R/B #) among a plurality of R/B # pins that are associated with respective memory dice among a plurality of memory dice of a memory device. The method further includes receiving, by at least one memory dice among the plurality of memory dice, signaling indicative of performance of a memory access while the particular R/B # pin is set to low, and, initiating an internal clocking signal subsequent to receipt of the signaling indicative of performance of the memory access, wherein the internal clocking signal is associated with timing of operations performed by the plurality of memory dice. |
| US12277347B2 |
Apparatus and methods for back-to-back state machine controller bus operations
An apparatus is provided that includes a memory structure including non-volatile memory cells, a first processor and a second processor. The first processor is configured to provide a plurality of sets of commands to a second processor to perform memory operations on the non-volatile memory cells. The second processor is configured to execute the sets of commands and provide a control signal to the first processor. The first processor is further configured to provide the sets of commands to the second processor based on a status of the control signal. The second processor is further configured to control the status of the control signal so that the second processor executes sets of commands with no idle time between consecutive sets of commands. |
| US12277345B2 |
Scatter gather list adaptive bucketing
The present disclosure generally relates to memory management during SGL fetching. When a data storage device is required to fetch an SGL from a host device, the data storage device cannot determine how much memory will be required to be allocated. The disclosure herein reduces the impact of the problem of under or over allocating memory and over-fetching, thereby reducing performance of the device during transfers. The disclosure provides guidance on how to implement an adaptive learning process based upon statistic collection of SGL fetches. By maintaining a table of statistics, the data storage device controller may learn and more closely predict an amount of memory to allocate for SGL fetching. |
| US12277340B2 |
Managing a LSM tree of key value pairs that is stored in a non-volatile memory
A method for managing a log structured merged (LSM) tree of key value (KV) pairs, the LSM tree is stored in a non-volatile memory, the method may include writing a current run from a buffer to a current run location within the LSM tree, the current run comprises current KV pairs; generating or receiving current fingerprints that are indicative of the current KV pairs; performing a run writing update of a management data structure (MDS) by adding to the MDS, mappings between the current KV pairs, the current fingerprints and a current run identifier; updating the LSM tree by merging at least some runs of the LSM tree; and performing a merge update of the MDS to represent the merging. |
| US12277336B2 |
Apparatus and method for controlling a pooled memory device or a memory expander
A pooled memory device includes plural memory devices and a controller. The plural memory devices include a first memory and a second memory with at least one power supply configured to control power supplied to each of the plural memory devices. The controller is coupled to an interconnect device which is configured to provide the plural memory devices to at least one external device as a logical device. The controller is configured to track available storage capacities of the first memory and the second memory and cut off power supplied to an unused memory among the first memory and the second memory. |
| US12277335B2 |
Storage device
A storage device includes a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks, and a controller configured to move first data from a single level cell (SLC) memory block to a first memory block having a target density lower than a maximum density based on a waiting time and to move second data from the SLC memory block to a memory block having the maximum density based on the waiting time. |