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| US12283459B2 |
Nanofluidic cell and loading platform
Parts of a pair, in use, are disposed in abutting relation to one another to define a cell for use with an electron microscope, the cell having, disposed on opposite surfaces thereof, a pair of windows, the windows being arranged in spaced relation to one another to define a viewable interior volume of the cell at a region of overlap. A housing is adapted to receive one of the pair of parts and further adapted to define a chamber containing the one of the parts which chamber, in use, is evacuated. An arrangement is adapted, when the one of the parts is received by the housing and is in receipt of a sample and the chamber is evacuated, to position together the one of the pair of parts and the other of the pair of parts. |
| US12283455B2 |
Monochromator device and methods of use thereof
The present invention relates to a monochromator device. The monochromator device includes a first radiofrequency cavity positioned to receive an output beam from an electron source. A second radiofrequency cavity is positioned to receive the output beam from the first radiofrequency cavity. The first radiofrequency cavity and the second radiofrequency cavity are configured to, in combination, in combination, correct one or more energy deviations in time and space of the output beam. |
| US12283447B2 |
Direct current circuit breaker and related method
A direct current circuit breaker comprises a mechanical relay in a first supply line configured to conduct electrical current during steady-state operation and an auxiliary relay assembly in parallel with the mechanical relay to define an auxiliary breaker path for conducting electrical current during transient operation of the circuit breaker. The auxiliary relay assembly comprises a power-semiconductor circuit configured for selective current conduction and for bidirectional current blocking when in a non-conductive state. There is also a controller configured to (i) activate the power-semiconductor circuit to conduct in response to a command signal to stop transfer of the electrical power, in order to provide a zero voltage condition under which the mechanical relay is to deactivate; (ii) deactivate the mechanical relay when current is being conducted through the auxiliary breaker path; and (iii) deactivate the power-semiconductor circuit after the mechanical relay is deactivated to stop the transfer of the power. |
| US12283446B2 |
Switch and electronic device including the same
A switch in an electronic device includes a substrate, a first signal line, a second signal line, and a ground bridge. The first signal line is on the substrate and extends in a first direction. The second signal line is on the substrate and is spaced apart from the first signal line in a first direction parallel with the first signal line to branch the wireless communication signal at a first point and a second point of the first signal line. The ground bridge is at least partially movable in a space between the first signal line and the second signal line. A first capacitor is between a first point of the first signal line and one end of the second signal line, and a second capacitor is between a second point of the first signal line and the other end of the second signal line. |
| US12283443B2 |
Switch device and assembly method
A switch device includes an operation knob on which a sliding operation can be performed in a horizontal direction, a holder member that holds the operation knob and moves in the horizontal direction, a drive member that tilts as the holder member moves in the horizontal direction, a switch that is pressed down by the drive member as the drive member tilts, and a support member that supports the holder member such that the holder member can move in the horizontal direction. The holder member has a base at a center in the horizontal direction and a flange extending outward from the base in the horizontal direction. The support member has an upper wall that restricts a movement of the holder member in a vertical direction by contacting an upper surface of the flange, and a slit between the upper wall and a middle wall lower than the upper wall. |
| US12283442B2 |
One-way visibility keycaps
Keyboards and other electronic input devices have a key or keys with glyphs that are invisible to an unaided human eye in a first condition, such as when an underlying display attached to the key is not emitting light. The glyphs are visible through the key or keys when the display emits light. A one-way visibility layer or structure obscures the visibility of the display when viewed from above, but when the display emits light, the light penetrates through the one-way visibility layer, such as by passing through an array of microperforations in the key, and is visible to an onlooker. |
| US12283437B2 |
Electrolytic capacitor
A capacitor 1 includes a capacitor element 3 holding solution between an anode foil 5 and a cathode foil 7 that are wound up with a separator 6 in between, a body case 2 for housing the capacitor element 3, and a sealing member 4 for sealing the body case 2. A part of the separator 6 makes contact, at a plurality of points or over an area, with the face of the sealing member 4 facing the capacitor element 3 so as to rest on that face. The solution contains, dissolved in a lipophilic solvent, deterioration preventing agent that solidifies by oxidation. The solution is supplied through the separator 6 to the sealing member 4 and permeates the sealing member 4, so that a coating 17 resulting from the agent solidifying coats the outer face of the sealing member 4, leaving the solution present in the sealing member 4. |
| US12283429B2 |
Dielectric ceramic and multilayer ceramic capacitor
A dielectric ceramic that includes multiple crystal grains, each of the multiple crystal grains having an interface, a barium titanate (BaTiO3)-based compound as a main component thereof, and a rare earth element. The dielectric ceramic has a cross-section in which the multiple crystal grains has a concentration varying region, a high concentration region, and a low concentration region. The concentration varying region has an RE/Ti ratio differing by 3% or more. The high concentration region has an RE/Ti ratio of 5% to 20%. The low concentration region has an RE/Ti ratio of 0% to 2%. |
| US12283426B2 |
Electronic component
An electronic component according to an embodiment includes a multilayer capacitor, a frame terminal, and a conductive bonding portion. An area in which the conductive bonding portion contacts the frame terminal is larger than an area in which it contacts with the external electrode. |
| US12283424B2 |
Simple route to highly conductive porous graphene from carbon nanodots for supercapacitor applications
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions directed to a promising class of nanomaterials called organic nanoparticles, or carbon nanodots. The present disclosure provides a facile method for the conversion of biomolecule-based carbon nanodots into high surface area three-dimensional graphene networks with excellent electrochemical properties. |
| US12283422B2 |
Control system for controlling a magnetic suspension system
A control system for controlling a magnetic suspension system includes controllers each being configured to control one or more of magnetic actuators magnetically levitating an object. One of the controllers is configured to operate as a master controller and other one or ones of the controllers are configured to operate as one or more slave controllers. The master controller is communicatively connected with one or more digital data transfer links to the one or more slave controllers and configured to control operation of the one or more slave controllers. The control system makes it possible to implement a centralized control with separate controllers, and thereby without a need for a controller having a high number of controller current sources. |
| US12283420B2 |
Permanent electromagnetic holder and conveyance device
A permanent electromagnetic holder is provided with: a first magnet; a second magnet; and a coil, the first magnet being configured such that magnetic pole surfaces of different magnetic poles are oriented in a thrust direction of an axial center orthogonal to the attracting surface, the second magnet being configured such that magnetic pole surfaces of different magnetic poles are oriented in the thrust direction of the axial center and being disposed outside the first magnet, the coil being disposed between the first magnet and the second magnet, the first magnet, the second magnet, and the coil being arranged so as to overlap in the radial direction of the axial center, and an operation of switching an attraction ON/OFF state being carried out by switching a magnetizing direction of the first magnet through instantaneous energization of the coil when the attraction ON/OFF state is switched. |
| US12283419B2 |
Solenoid device for creating and detecting complex electromagnetic fields
A solenoid device for generating or detecting electrical or magnetic fields includes at least two solenoids combined into a solenoid structure. A two level solenoid structure is formed by helically wrapping a long and bendable primary solenoid around a secondary core to create a secondary solenoid which includes the primary solenoid as a part. If the secondary solenoid is bendable and long enough, it can be helically wrapped around a tertiary core to form a tertiary solenoid which contains the primary solenoid and the secondary solenoid as parts. The upper level solenoid will generally contain a hollow core into which items or bodies to be treated with electrical or magnetic fields can be inserted for treatment. Further, items having inherent magnetic or electrical fields or properties can be inserted into the hollow core so the inherent fields can be detected. |
| US12283418B2 |
Electrode design for lift augmentation and power generation of atmospheric entry vehicles during aerocapture and entry, descent, and landing maneuvers
A magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow control mechanism is described which substantially improves the existing processes in that smaller magnetic fields, requiring far less mass, may be placed away from the forebody of the spacecraft to produce Lorentz forces that augment the lift and the drag forces for guidance, navigation, and control of the spacecraft. The MHD flow control mechanism may also be configured to provide additional thermal protection of the electrodes therein. |
| US12283406B1 |
Illuminable electrical cord
An illuminable electrical cord configured to emit light when connected to an electrical power source and an electric device may include a cord bundle. The cord bundle may have a first end and a second end. The first end of the cord bundle may be configured to electrically interface with an electrical power source. The second end of the cord bundle may be configured to electrically interface with the electric device. The cord bundle may include at least one electroluminescent (EL) wire segment. The EL wire segment may be configured to emit light from the cord bundle along at least a portion of the length of the cord bundle as the cord bundle conducts electrical current from the electrical power source. |
| US12283404B2 |
Wiring component with physical quantity sensor
A wiring component with physical quantity sensor is provided with a plurality of electric wires, a physical quantity sensor for detecting a physical quantity of the plurality of electric wires, an electric wire holding member including an intervening portion interposed between the plurality of electric wires, and a holder holding the physical quantity sensor. The electric wire holding member includes a protrusion protruding from the intervening portion in a direction perpendicular to an arrangement direction of the plurality of electric wires, and aligning the holder in longitudinal directions of the plurality of electric wires by the protrusion. The holder includes an electric wire engaging portion being engaged with at least one of the plurality of electric wires. |
| US12283403B2 |
Insulated electric wire, wire harness, and insulated electric wire production method
An insulated electric wire includes: an exposed portion and a covered portion including the insulation covering, and further includes a water-stopping portion wherein a water-stopping agent is placed over the exposed portion, and part of the covered portion and is adjacent to the exposed portion. The water-stopping portion continuously has: an inter-elemental-wire filling area filled with the water-stopping agent in gaps between conductor elemental wires; an exposed-portion-outer-circumferential area wherein the water-stopping agent covers an outer circumference of the conductor; and a covered-portion-outer-circumferential area wherein the water-stopping agent covers an outer circumference of the insulation covering. In a subject region that is a part of the exposed-portion-outer-circumferential area and is other than a region closer to the covered-portion-outer-circumferential area with a larger outer diameter due to a thickness of the insulation covering, a difference between a maximum and minimum outer diameter is not greater than 12% of the minimum outer diameter. |
| US12283402B2 |
Suspension wiring module
A suspension wiring module includes a suspension wiring member including a transmission line main body and at least one coating layer that covers the transmission line main body. At least one section of the suspension wiring member is defined as an exterior section that is provided outside of a cabin of a vehicle. In the exterior section, an arc-shaped groove is formed in an outer coating that is the outermost one of the at least one coating layer. |
| US12283387B2 |
Method and system for producing isotopes
A system and method for producing radioisotopes such as molybdenum-99. The system comprises a first accelerator, a second accelerator, a first beamline, a second beamline, and a target. Using a pair of accelerators, beamlines are preferably fired at a target from opposite directions, thereby irradiating the target from both sides. The system can further comprise a target cooling system utilizing gaseous helium, a modular local target shielding comprised of boxes of either metal shot with liquid coolant or steel with concrete, and a hot cell for loading and unloading target disks. |
| US12283382B2 |
Distributed medical testing framework
A system includes a first database to store assessments of genomic tests; a second database to store evaluations of the assessments; one or more processors, and storage media storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processors to perform operations including: receiving information about a genomic test; sending, to a group of clinical experts, notification about availability of the information; receiving, from one or more clinical experts, assessments of the information; storing the assessments in the first database; processing the assessments by applying one or more functions on an aggregate of the assessments, including comparing an output of the functions to a threshold; determining a result indicating a status of the genomic test; and storing one or more of the result or the information about the genomic test in the second database. Consumers are enabled to access one or more of the result or the information about the genomic test. |
| US12283380B2 |
Somatotype identification method, acquisition method of health assessment, apparatus and device
A somatotype identification method, an acquisition method of health assessment, an apparatus, and a device provided by the present disclosure relates to the technical field of computer. The somatotype identification method includes: acquiring a body image of a user; performing a feature extraction on the body image, to obtain a predicted somatotype feature of the user; and screening a target somatotype category of the user from various somatotype categories according to the predicted somatotype feature. |
| US12283379B2 |
Automatic early prediction of neurodegenerative diseases
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed herein for automated identification and alerting of neurodegenerative diseases (NDD). Patient information comprising medical history information is accessed. Using the patient information, one or more risk factors and/or symptoms for a NDD are identified. Using the identified risk factors and/or symptoms, a patient with probable risk for developing the NDD is determined. A notification of the probable risk that the patient develops the NDD is provided. |
| US12283377B2 |
Athlete management apparatus for managing state of athlete in conjunction with protector worn by athlete, athlete management system, and athlete management method using same
Provided is an apparatus for managing a player with a guard including a sensor sensing a vital information of a player to calculate an injury risk of the player to thereby manage a condition of the player, the apparatus including: a communication unit receiving the vital information from the guard and transmitting the injury risk to the guard; a memory storing a program calculating the injury risk to manage the condition of the player; and a processor connected to the communication unit and the memory to execute an operation implemented by the program, in which the program may include instructions using the vital information and pre-stored vital recovering ability data of the player to calculate the injury risk of the player. |
| US12283376B2 |
Systems and methods to monitor patient devices
Systems and methods include a device management platform for managing a plurality of devices (e.g., for a clinic system). A system can include a patient system such as a patient device (e.g., an implanted cardiac device, a mobile device, etc.) which transmits data to the device management platform and/or a clinic system. The device management platform tracks measured physiological parameters of the patient. Transmission data received from the patient system includes data corresponding to the measured physiological parameters. The device management platform generates a workflow interface at the clinic system based on a care pathway, a billing pathway, and the measured physiological parameters. Additionally, the device management platform can determine an outcome goal value and one or more benchmark values to reach the outcome goal value, and can send action instructions (e.g., to the patient system) based on comparing the measured physiological parameters to the one or more benchmark values. |
| US12283373B2 |
Device and method for detecting an actuation action performable with a medical device
An apparatus is disclosed, comprising a detector unit comprising a detector configured to detect an actuation action performable via the detector unit to an actuation button of a medical device to cause the medical device to eject at least a portion of a medicament comprised in the medical device. The detector is configured to detect the actuation action based on a detection of a force and/or a touch applied to the detector unit as part of the actuation action. The apparatus further comprises an electric unit connected to the detector and configured to store and/or provide information related to the detected actuation action. Furthermore, an according method and a computer program for controlling this method are disclosed. |
| US12283369B2 |
System and method for managing medical device inventory
A system for medical device inventory management is disclosed. The system is comprised of at least one scanner to scan medical device information associated with a medical device. The at least one scanner is in operable communication with at least one computing device configured to receive the medical device information from the scanner. A processor is in operable communication with the computing device and an interpreter adapted to transpose the medical device information to a graphical user interface. An inventory module is in operable communication with the processor to inventory the medical device information, including preparing a list of a plurality of medical devices. A document generator is in operable communication with the computing device to generate a document in a shareable format. |
| US12283368B2 |
Method and device for determining presence of a tumor
A method and a device for determining a presence of tumor are provided. The method includes receiving a medical image associated with a patient. The medical image includes a region of interest associated with the patient. The method includes identifying one or more blood vessels associated with the region of interest in the medical image. The method includes determining a set of characteristics associated with the one or more blood vessels using a trained machine learning model. The method also includes determining whether the one or more blood vessels are feeder vessels associated with the tumor based on the set of characteristics associated with the one or more blood vessels. The method includes detecting a tumor region in the region of interest based on the feeder vessels, when the one or more blood vessels are the feeder vessels associated with the tumor. |
| US12283365B2 |
Anomaly detection in medical imaging data
Particular embodiments provide a method for anomaly detection in images of tissue. An image processing system may receive an image of a tissue sample. A set of tiles may be generated from the image of the tissue sample. The set of tiles may be input into an anomaly detection model comprising a generator model comprising functional skip-connections and a Markovian discriminator model. The anomaly detection model may be trained to isolate a feature space of normal tissue samples. Anomaly scores may be computed for the set of tiles, and an assessment may be generated for the image of the tissue sample based on the anomaly scores for the set of tiles. The assessment may include a reconstructed heatmap of the image of the tissue sample, wherein colors of the heatmap are selected based on the anomaly scores. |
| US12283362B2 |
Fitness activity related messaging
In one embodiment, a method for generating a message to a friend of a user is provided, comprising: processing activity data of a first user measured by an activity monitoring device to update a value of an activity metric for the first user; identifying a change in an inequality relationship between the value of the activity metric for the first user and a value of the activity metric for a second user; in response to identifying the change in the inequality relationship, prompting the first user to generate a message to the second user. |
| US12283361B2 |
Methods and devices for burden-free blood glucose management with minimal user interaction
Some embodiments include burden-free insulin delivery systems and methods. Some embodiments include a method comprising: receiving previous insulin delivery data at a user device from an insulin pump; receiving estimated glucose data at the user device from a continuous glucose monitor; determining that the estimated glucose value is approaching or has passed a threshold; and in response to determining that the estimated glucose value is approaching or has surpassed the threshold, not providing an indication to the user through a user interface that the estimated glucose value is approaching or surpassed the threshold. |
| US12283360B2 |
Automated system for error checking injection parameters during imaging exams
An apparatus for use with a medical imaging device (2) operative in conjunction with a contrast injector (11) to perform a contrast enhanced medical imaging procedure. The apparatus includes: an alert output device (32), and at least one electronic processor (10, 20) operatively connected with the alert output device and programmed to: extract image frames from video or screen sharing (17) of a display (13, 24′); screen-scrape injector settings of the contrast injector from the image frames; and output an alert (30) via the alert output device if the screen-scraped injector settings satisfy an alert criterion. |
| US12283356B2 |
System and method for processing medical claims using biometric signatures
A system for processing medical claims, comprising a processor configured to receive device-generated information from a medical device. The device-generated information includes performance information. The processor generates a first biometric signature, and using the device-generated information, generates a second biometric signature, wherein the second biometric signature uses the performance information. Using the first and second biometric signatures, the processor generates a signature comparison. Using the signature comparison, the processor generates a signature indicator and transmits the signature indicator. |
| US12283355B2 |
Location-based anticipatory resource provisioning
In various embodiments, the predicted location of a user within an institutional space is associated with a node at or near that location, and a virtual desktop is prepared before a user has actually logged on and authenticated. Although users are not accorded access to applications and sensitive data until they have properly authenticated themselves, the virtual desktop and associated data are assembled and retrieved in the background in order to eliminate delay following log-on. |
| US12283354B2 |
Method for estimating effective prestress and calculating evaluation characteristic value of concrete structure
A concrete structure effective prestress estimation and evaluation characteristic value calculation method which includes calculating effective prestress probability distribution of a concrete structure prestress rebar, establishing a Gaussian mixture model of effective prestress of the concrete structure, carrying out normalization processing and normal significance judgment on the Gaussian mixture model, sampling and estimating the effective prestress probability distribution of the structure with normal distribution in theoretical distribution, calculating effective prestress evaluation characteristic values of the components under the normal distribution condition, grouping processing and normal significance judging of the Gaussian mixture model, sampling and estimating the structural effective prestress probability distribution of the N-sub-distribution Gaussian mixture model by theoretical distribution, calculating effective prestress evaluation characteristic values of the components under the condition of the N-sub-distribution Gaussian mixture model. |
| US12283351B2 |
Screening methods and related catalysts, materials, compositions, methods and systems
Provided herein are screening methods to select catalysts having a desired set of target properties from a reference catalyst, and catalysts so obtained, as well as related catalysts material, composition, methods and systems. |
| US12283348B2 |
Methods and systems for determining drug resistance using a precedence graph
A computer-implemented method is disclosed which includes receiving biological sample information from one or more subjects at a first time period. The method further includes receiving biological sample information from the one or more subjects at a second time period. The method further includes comparing the biological sample information at the second time period with the biological sample information at the first time period. The method further includes generating a precedence graph based on results of the comparison. The method further includes determining one or more actions based on the precedence graph. |
| US12283339B2 |
Data transmission circuit and memory device
The disclosed data transmission circuit and a memory include a sense amplifier circuit, a first sub-discharge path, a second sub-discharge path, and a discharge adjustment unit. The sense amplifier circuit generate amplified signals based on two terminals. The first sub-discharge path, in the read state, discharges at the first terminal to the discharge terminal based on the first data line signal; the second sub-discharge path, in reading state, discharges at the second terminal to the discharge terminal based on the discharge adjustment signa. The discharge adjustment unit is electrically connected to the second sub-discharge path and the control signal, but is not connected to the first sub-discharge path, and is used for generating the discharge adjustment signal based on the control signal, to adjust the discharge capacity of the second sub-discharge path. The present disclosure improves the anti-interference ability and data transmission efficiency of the data transmission circuit. |
| US12283334B2 |
Method and apparatus for memory testing
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for memory testing. The method comprises following steps: using a test program group including N test programs to test M dies respectively to generate independent N test data, wherein N and M are positive integers greater than 1; and executing a neural network operation on the N test data to estimate a yield of M dies passing the test program group. |
| US12283331B2 |
Test circuit for detecting word line defect and semiconductor apparatus including the same
The present technology includes: a current mirror configured to apply a test current that is generated by a test voltage to a selected word line, among a plurality of word lines, and to generate a copy current by copying the test current; a comparison circuit configured to compare at least one reference current with the copy current to generate a comparison result signal; and a test control circuit configured to perform a first noise control mode that charges unselected word lines, among the plurality of word lines, with electric charges, in response to a test mode signal and floats the unselected word lines. |
| US12283330B2 |
Memory system
A memory system according to an embodiment includes a semiconductor memory, and a memory controller. The semiconductor memory comprises memory cells and word lines. Each of the word lines is connected to the memory cells. The memory controller executes a patrol operation including a read operation of the semiconductor memory. The word lines are classified into one of first and second groups. The memory controller executes patrol operations in which the word lines are respectively selected in a first patrol period and, in a second patrol period subsequent to the first patrol period, executes a patrol operation in which the word line included in the first group is selected and omits a patrol operation in which the word line included in the second group is selected. |
| US12283328B2 |
Storage system and method for inference of read thresholds based on memory parameters and conditions
A storage system has an inference engine that can infer a read threshold based on a plurality of parameters of the memory. The read threshold can be used in reading a wordline in the memory during a regular read operation or as part of an error handling process. Using this machine-learning-based approach to infer a read threshold can provide significant improvement in read threshold accuracy, which can reduce bit error rate and improve latency, throughput, power consumption, and quality of service. |
| US12283321B2 |
Memory device and operating method thereof
A method of programming a memory device. The memory device includes a plurality of memory strings, each memory string including a top transistor controlled by a top select gate (TSG) and connected to a bit line (BL), a bottom transistor controlled by a bottom select gate (BSG), and memory cells between the top and bottom transistors, each memory cell connected to a word line (WL). The method includes applying program pulses to a memory cell of the memory device in a program phase, verifying a voltage value of the memory cell in a verify phase, receiving a suspend command and performing a suspend operation, applying a discharge pulse to the memory cell in a discharge phase to thereby discharge the memory cell, wherein the discharge pulse includes a voltage pulse to an unselected top select gate (TSGunsel), and suspending programming or verifying of the memory cell in a suspend phase. |
| US12283318B2 |
Matching patterns in memory arrays
Systems and methods for performing a pattern matching operation in a memory device are disclosed. The memory device may include a controller and memory arrays where the memory arrays store different patterns along bit lines. An input pattern is applied to the memory array(s) to determine whether the pattern is stored in the memory device. Word lines may be activated in series or in parallel to search for patterns within the memory array. The memory array may include memory cells that store binary digits, discrete values or analog values. |
| US12283317B2 |
Memory sense amplifier with precharge
A memory device includes a memory cell and a sense amplifier. The sense amplifier has a reference circuit configured to output a reference voltage and a sensing circuit connected to the memory cell. A comparator includes a first input and a second input, with the first input connected to the reference circuit to receive the reference voltage, and the second input connected to the memory cell. A precharger is configured to selectively precharge the sensing circuit to a predetermined precharge voltage. |
| US12283316B2 |
Cross-point pillar architecture for memory arrays
Methods, systems, and devices for a cross-point pillar architecture for memory arrays are described. Multiple selector devices may be configured to access or activate a pillar within a memory array, where the selector devices may each be or include a chalcogenide material. A pillar access line may be coupled with multiple selector devices, where each selector device may correspond to a pillar associated with the pillar access line. Pillar access lines on top and bottom of the pillars of the memory array may be aligned in a square or rectangle formation, or in a hexagonal formation. Pillars and corresponding selector devices on top and bottom of the pillars may be located at overlapping portions of the pillar access lines, thereby forming a cross point architecture for pillar selection or activation. The selector devices may act in pairs to select or activate a pillar upon application of a respective selection voltage. |
| US12283314B2 |
Neural network classifier using array of three-gate non-volatile memory cells
A neural network device with synapses having memory cells each having a floating gate and a first gate over first and second portions of a channel region between source and drain regions, and a second gate over the floating gate or the source region. First lines each electrically connect the first gates in one of the memory cell rows, second lines each electrically connect the second gates in one of the memory cell rows, third lines each electrically connect the source regions in one of the memory cell rows, fourth lines each electrically connect the drain regions in one of the memory cell columns, and a plurality of transistors each electrically connected in series with one of the fourth lines. The synapses receive a first plurality of inputs as electrical voltages on gates of the transistors, and provide a first plurality of outputs as electrical currents on the third lines. |
| US12283308B2 |
Memory device and method for operating the same
A memory device is provided, including an array of bit cells and a set of tracking cells. The set of tracking cells is arranged adjacent to the array of bit cells along a first direction. The set of tracking cells includes a set of first tracking cells configured to perform a read tracking operation and a set of second tracking cells configured to perform a write tracking operation and arranged adjacent to the set of first tracking cells along a second direction. First tracking cells in the set of first tracking cells are coupled in series with each other and arranged along the second direction, and second tracking cells in the set of second tracking cells are coupled in series with each other and arranged along the second direction. |
| US12283305B2 |
Main word line drivers
In some examples, a main word line driver may include a transistor that is driven between an on state and a high resistance state by a signal based, at least in part, on a row address. In both states, the transistor may maintain a main word line in an inactive state. When in the high resistance state, the transistor may be overridden by a decoder that drives the main word line to an active state. In some examples, a main word line driver may include a transistor maintained in a high resistance state coupled in parallel with another transistor that may be driven between an on state and an off state by a signal based, at least in part, on a row address. When the other transistor is in the off state, the high resistance state transistor may be overridden by a decoder that drives a main word line to an active state. |
| US12283304B2 |
Memory system and apparatus for evicting cold data from volatile memory and storing the evicted cold data into the non-volatile memory
A memory system may include: a non-volatile memory device, a volatile memory device suitable for defining, as cold data, data stored in a word line, on which a refresh operation is performed a number of times greater than a reference number among a plurality of word lines coupled to a volatile memory cell array, and evicting the cold data, and a controller suitable for controlling operations of the volatile memory device and the non-volatile memory device, and storing the evicted cold data into the non-volatile memory device. |
| US12283302B2 |
Memory circuit, signal transmission system and signal transmission method
A memory circuit comprises a signal buffer, a plurality of switch circuits, a temperature sensor, a path-length-compensation circuit and at least one data latch. The signal buffer is configured to receive a strobe signal. The plurality of switch circuits are coupled to the signal buffer through a plurality of signal paths respectively, wherein the lengths of the plurality of signal paths are equal. The temperature sensor is coupled to the plurality of switch circuits and configured to conduct one of the plurality of switch circuits according to temperature of the memory circuit. The path-length-compensation circuit comprises a plurality of input terminals connected in series, which are configured to respectively receive outputs of the plurality of switch circuits. The at least one data latch is coupled to an output terminal of the path-length-compensation circuit and configured to store or output data according to output of the path-length-compensation circuit. |
| US12283301B2 |
Semiconductor memory device and operating method thereof
A semiconductor memory device includes: a memory cell region including a plurality of cell mats in each of which a plurality of rows are disposed, each row coupled to normal cells and row-hammer cells; a repair control circuit suitable for generating a pairing flag denoting whether a cell mat in which an active row corresponding to an active address is disposed, is repaired with another cell mat; and a refresh control circuit suitable for: selecting, when an active command is inputted, a sampling address based on first and second data read from the row-hammer cells of the active row, refreshing, when a target refresh command is inputted, one or more adjacent rows to a target row corresponding to the sampling address, and selectively refreshing, when the target refresh command is inputted, one or more adjacent rows to a paired row of the target row according to the pairing flag. |
| US12283300B2 |
Devices, methods, and systems for a multilevel memory cell
Disclosed herein are devices, methods, and systems for reading/writing memory cells of a memory, where the memory cells includes a memory element that is writable to at least three different remanent polarization states. A sensing circuit determines, in a read operation, a stored state of the memory element from among the at least three different remanent polarization states based on a sensed change in a remanent polarization of the memory element caused by an applied read voltage. A biasing circuit applies, in a write operation, apply a bias voltage level across the memory element to (re)write the memory element to the stored state. |
| US12283297B2 |
Memory device
According to one embodiment, a memory device includes: a first memory cell; a second memory cell; a first circuit configured to supply a write current to the first memory cell and the second memory cell; a first wiring coupled to the first circuit; a first electrode configured to electrically couple the first memory cell to the first wiring; and a second electrode configured to electrically couple the second memory cell to the first wiring. A length of the first wiring from the first circuit to the first electrode is smaller than a length of the first wiring from the first circuit to the second electrode. A resistance value of the first electrode is higher than a second resistance value of the second electrode. |
| US12283294B1 |
Magnetic disk device
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a magnetic disk and a magnetic head. The magnetic disk includes a data area on/from which data can be recorded/reproduced. The magnetic head records data on the data area and reproduces data from the data area. An outer edge of the data area includes first outer edge, second outer edge positioned on the further inner circumferential side of the magnetic disk relatively to the first outer edge, and third outer edges each connecting between the first outer edge and the second outer edge. The outer edge of the data area incudes concave parts made inwardly concave toward the inner circumferential side of the magnetic disk at not less than part thereof. |
| US12283293B2 |
Measuring laser diode temperature and predicting mode hops using laser diode resistance
A data storage device may include a disk, an actuator arm assembly comprising a magnetic recording head, a laser diode, and one or more processing devices configured to: initiate a write operation, wherein the write operation is associated with a first temperature of the laser diode; measure a resistance of the laser diode, wherein the resistance corresponds to a temperature of the laser diode; detect, based at least in part on measuring the resistance, a change in the temperature of the laser diode relative to the first temperature; and in response to detecting the change, adjust the temperature of the laser diode during the write operation. |
| US12283291B1 |
Factually consistent generative narrations
Systems, devices, and methods are provided for determining factually consistent generative narrations. A narrative may be generated by performing steps to determine one or more metadata messages for a first portion of a video stream, determine transcribed commentary for a second portion of the video stream, wherein the second portion includes the first portion, and determine a prompt based at least in part on the one or more metadata messages and the transcribed commentary. The prompt may be provided to a generative model that produces an output text. Techniques for performing a factual consistency evaluation may be used to determine a consistency score for the output text that indicates whether the output text is factually consistent with the one or more metadata messages and the transcribed commentary. A narrated highlight video may be generated using the consistent narrative. |
| US12283284B2 |
Method and system for real-time and low latency synthesis of audio using neural networks and differentiable digital signal processors
Example aspects include techniques for implementing real-time and low-latency synthesis of audio. These techniques may include generating a frame by sampling audio input in increments equal to a buffer size of until a threshold corresponding to a frame size used to train a machine learning (ML) model is reached, detecting feature information within the frame, determining, by the ML model, control information for audio reproduction based on the feature information. In addition, the techniques may include generating filtered noise information by inverting the noise magnitude control information using an overlap and add technique, generating, based on the control information, additive harmonic information by combining a plurality of scaled wavetables, and rendering audio output based on the filtered noise information and the additive harmonic information. |
| US12283274B2 |
Voice control system and voice control method for automatic door
A voice control system and a voice control method for an automatic door are provided. The voice control system includes a sound detection device, a storage device, a first determination circuit, a second determination circuit and a control circuit. The sound detection device detects a sound signal of a sound source, the storage device includes a voiceprint database that includes reference voiceprint features. The first determination circuit analyzes a voiceprint feature of the sound signal and compares the voiceprint feature with the reference voiceprint features. The second determination circuit determines whether a velocity of the sound source falls within a reference speed range according to a frequency variation of the sound signal that matches one of the voiceprint features. In response to the velocity of the sound source within the reference speed range, the control circuit controls the automatic door to be in an open state. |
| US12283270B2 |
Example-based voice bot development techniques
Implementations are directed to providing a voice bot development platform that enables a third-party developer to train a voice bot based on training instance(s). The training instance(s) can each include training input and training output. The training input can include a portion of a corresponding conversation and a prior context of the corresponding conversation. The training output can include a corresponding ground truth response to the portion of the corresponding conversation. Subsequent to training, the voice bot can be deployed for conducting conversations on behalf of a third-party. In some implementations, the voice bot is further trained based on a corresponding feature emphasis input that attentions the voice bot to a particular feature of the portion of the corresponding conversation. In some additional or alternative implementations, the voice bot is further trained to interact with third-party system(s) via remote procedure calls (RPCs). |
| US12283263B1 |
Secure audio firewall to neutralize promiscuous listening devices
A secure audio firewall may detect, from an audio recording captured in an external environment of a secure audio firewall enclosure, a passphrase uttered by the user. A secure audio firewall may activate sound transmission measures of the secure audio firewall enclosure responsive to detecting the passphrase, wherein the sound transmission measures facilitate transmission of the sound in the external environment to the internal environment. |
| US12283257B2 |
Display device having optimum display posture and method for controlling the same
A display device including a display unit having a display panel and a camera; a posture adjustment driving unit configured to adjust a posture of the display unit; and a controller configured to control the camera to capture a first image of a viewer viewing the display unit when the display unit is positioned at a first height, control the posture adjustment driving unit to move the display unit to a second height different than the first height, control the camera to capture a second image of the viewer viewing the display unit when the display unit is positioned at the second height, correct at least one of the first image and the second image based on orientation information of the display unit on capturing the first image and the second image, generate a 3D body mesh of the viewer using the first image and the second image, calculate a viewer-optimized display unit posture setting based on the 3D body mesh, and control the posture adjustment driving unit to move the display unit to a height corresponding to the viewer-optimized display unit posture setting. |
| US12283255B2 |
Display apparatus and light apparatus thereof
A display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal panel; and a light apparatus on which the liquid crystal panel is disposed, the light apparatus including: a substrate; a plurality of dimming blocks including a first dimming block and a second dimming block disposed immediately next to the first dimming block, each of the plurality of dimming blocks including at least one respective light source disposed on a first side of the substrate; and a plurality of driving devices disposed on the first side of the substrate and including a first driving device disposed in the first dimming block and a second driving device disposed in the second dimming block, each driving device of the plurality of driving devices being configured to provide a driving current to the at least one respective light source included in a respective one of the plurality of dimming blocks, wherein the first driving device and the second driving device are disposed at relatively different positions respectively within the first dimming block and the second dimming block. |
| US12283252B2 |
Display device and method of driving display device
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a data driver configured to provide data voltages to the pixels, and a gate driver configured to provide gate signals to the pixels. The display device also includes a controller configured to control the data driver and the gate driver, and to control the magnitude of a sensing initialization voltage applied to the pixels based on a frame rate value when operating in a variable frame mode. |
| US12283251B2 |
Display driver integrated circuit, system-on-chip, and display system including the system-on-chip
A display driver integrated circuit, System-On-Chip, and display system including the System-On-Chip are provided. A display driver integrated circuit (IC) includes: a clock generator configured to generate an internal operating clock; and a control circuit configured to provide a data signal to a pixel array based on the internal operating clock, wherein the data signal corresponds to frame data, wherein the control circuit is further configured to, in a frame data update period: receive first frame data, perform a first synchronization operation on the internal operating clock based on the first frame data, and provide a first data signal to the pixel array, and wherein the control circuit is further configured to, in a low power mode (LPM) period when an update of the frame data is not performed: transmit a sync request signal based on a result of monitoring a state of a display panel, receive a frequency signal from a System-on-Chip (SoC) in response to the sync request signal, and perform a second synchronization operation on the internal operating clock based on the frequency signal. |
| US12283248B1 |
Circuitry structure and display substrate
The present disclosure provides a circuitry structure and a display substrate. The circuitry structure includes a base substrate, and a functional transistor and a signal transmission line arranged on the base substrate. The functional transistor includes a first conductive connection member, a first electrode, a second electrode, at least two gate electrode patterns and at least one active pattern. Orthogonal projections of the first electrode, the second electrode and the at least two gate electrode patterns onto the base substrate at least partially overlap with an orthogonal projection of the active pattern onto the base substrate, and first ends of the gate electrode patterns are coupled to each other. The first conductive connection member is arranged at a layer different from the gate electrode pattern, and coupled to second ends of the gate electrode patterns. The signal transmission line is coupled to the first conductive connection member. |
| US12283247B2 |
Display panel, driving method, and display device
A display panel, a driving method, and a display device. The display panel includes: a base substrate, subpixels, driving lines, data lines, a gate driving circuit including clock signal lines and shift register units arranged in extension direction of clock signal lines. The clock signal lines is divided into clock signal line groups; the shift register units is divided into register unit groups; the shift register units in same register unit group are cascaded, adjacent two of shift register units in the extension direction are in different register unit groups; one register unit group corresponds to one clock signal line group; the gate of an input transistor is connected to a clock signal line in a corresponding clock signal line group, the second pole of input transistor is connected to the gate of an output transistor; the second pole of output transistor is connected to at least one driving line. |
| US12283246B2 |
Organic light emitting diode display substrate and preparation method thereof, and organic light emitting diode display apparatus
Provided is a display substrate including a display region and a non-display region. The non-display region is provided with a gate drive circuit, and the gate drive circuit includes a plurality of cascaded shift register units; a shift register unit includes an input sub-circuit and a denoising output sub-circuit. The denoising output sub-circuit is connected with the input sub-circuit, a first group of clock signal lines, and a second group of clock signal lines, and the input sub-circuit is connected with a third group of clock signal lines. The third group of clock signal lines, the input sub-circuit, the first group of clock signal lines, the denoising output sub-circuit, and the second group of clock signal lines are sequentially arranged along a first direction. |
| US12283239B2 |
Driving circuit, driving method and display device
A driving circuit, a driving method and a display device are provided. The driving circuit includes a plurality of stages of scanning driving circuits and a plurality of rows of pixel driving circuits; wherein at least one stage of scanning driving circuit includes a driving signal output terminal, and the driving signal output terminal is electrically connected to at least three adjacent rows of pixel driving circuits in the plurality of rows of pixel driving circuits, and is configured to provide a compensation control signal, a data writing-in control signal and a reset control signal to the at least three adjacent rows of pixel driving circuits. |
| US12283238B2 |
Display screen frequency conversion method, DDIC chip, and terminal
A display screen frequency conversion method, a DDIC chip, and a terminal are provided. The method includes: outputting a Tearing Effect (TE) signal to an Application Processor (AP) at a first base frame rate, and performing an image scanning and a frame compensating at the first base frame rate; receiving a frequency reducing instruction issued by the AP, wherein the frequency reducing instruction is configured to instruct to reduce a base frame rate of the display screen; and outputting the TE signal to the AP at a second base frame rate based on the frequency reducing instruction and continually performing the image scanning and the frame compensating at the first base frame rate, wherein the second base frame rate is less than the first base frame rate. |
| US12283231B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device includes a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, an emission transistor, a capacitor, and a light-emitting element. The driving transistor is electrically connected to the emission transistor and the capacitor. The emission transistor is electrically connected to the light-emitting element. Under the same driving voltage, the driving transistor has a first conductive resistance value, the emission transistor has a second conductive resistance value, and the first conductive resistance value is greater than the second conductive resistance value. |
| US12283230B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: an active layer on a substrate; a first switching transistor including a part of the active layer; a second switching transistor including a part of the active layer and in a same plane as at least a part of the first switching transistor in a first direction in a plan view; a first capacitor on the active layer and connected to the second switching transistor; a second capacitor on the active layer and connected to the first switching transistor; a first gate line extending in the first direction and connected to a gate electrode of each of the first and second switching transistors; and a light emitting element on the first gate line. |
| US12283227B2 |
Display panel
An embodiment of the present disclosure is directed to a display panel. The display panel includes a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of forward and reverse scan pull-down circuit. The plurality of scan lines is located on the display area. Each of the forward and reverse scan pull-down circuits includes a forward scan control module, a reverse scan control module, and a pull-down module located on a display area. The pull-down module includes an output terminal and a control terminal coupled to an output terminal of the forward scan control module and an output terminal of the reverse scan control module. |
| US12283222B2 |
Driving controller and display device including the same
A display device includes a display panel including a pixel and a driving controller to drive the display panel. The driving controller generates a compensating signal, when a first driving frequency of a first frame is determined as being higher than a second driving frequency of a second frame by comparing a first cycle count value of the first frame with a second cycle count value of the second frame subsequent to the first frame. |
| US12283221B2 |
Display control device, display control method, and program
A display control device includes a visual field determination unit configured to determine whether or not a display device for displaying content is included in a visual field of a person included in an image captured by an imaging device that images a region around the display device, a central visual field determination unit configured to determine whether or not the display device is included in a central visual field within the visual field, and a change determination unit configured to determine whether or not to temporarily change a display mode of the display device displaying first content before the content is switched from the first content displayed on the display device to second content to be subsequently displayed when it is determined that the display device is included in the visual field but is not included in the central visual field. |
| US12283220B2 |
Display device, an electronic device including the same, and a method for driving the electronic device
An electronic device including: a host processor to generate a first clock signal and to output frame data and a synchronization signal; a driving controller to receive the synchronization signal and the frame data from the host processor and to generate a control signal based on a second clock signal; and a display panel, wherein the driving controller synchronizes the second clock signal with the first clock signal based on the synchronization signal, wherein the driving controller includes an error detector to detect an error of the synchronization signal, and wherein the error detector outputs a first signal when the error is an initial synchronization fail error and outputs a second signal different from the first signal when the error is a synchronization loss error. |
| US12283214B2 |
GOA circuit and display panel
The present disclosure provides a gate driver on array (GOA) circuit including a plurality of GOA units disposed in N-stage cascade, and an nth-stage GOA unit includes a node control module, a pull-up module, a pull-down module, a pull-down maintaining module, and a stop control module, wherein 1 |
| US12283213B2 |
Method for expanding display of electronic device, and electronic device for supporting same
An electronic device is provided and includes a display, memory, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the display and the memory, wherein the one or more computer programs cause the electronic device to display a first screen in a first area of the display during a first state, detect an event in a state display a first object corresponding to the event in a partial area of the first area, identify a first gesture input of a user in an area, and change a state of the display from the first state to a second state in which the first area and the second area of the display are exposed to the outside of the electronic device. |
| US12283209B2 |
Optical system including selectively activatable facets
In an embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed that includes at least one processor configured to determine a target portion of an eye motion box and to identify a facet of a light-guide optical element that is configured to direct a light beam comprising at least a portion of an image field of view toward the target portion of the eye motion box. The at least one processor is configured to identify a display region of an image generator that is configured to inject the light beam into the light-guide optical element at an angle that, in conjunction with the identified facet, is configured to direct the light beam toward the target portion of the eye motion box. The at least one processor is configured to selectively activate the identified facet and the identified display region to direct the light beam toward the target portion of the eye motion box. |
| US12283204B2 |
Vehicle and mobile device communicating with the vehicle
Disclosed herein a vehicle and a mobile device communicating with the vehicle. The vehicle includes a display disposed on an exterior of a vehicle body, a communication interface configured to receive current location information of the vehicle and communicate with a mobile device, and a processor configured to, in response to receipt of call information transmitted from the mobile device and current location information of the mobile device, control autonomous driving to a location of the mobile device based on the current location information of the mobile device and the current location information of the vehicle, and in response to a distance with the mobile device being less than or equal to a first reference distance control the display to display marking information and transmit the marking information to the mobile device. |
| US12283196B2 |
Surgical simulator providing labeled data
A surgical simulator for simulating a surgical scenario comprises a display system, a user interface, and a controller. The controller includes one or more processors coupled to memory that stores instructions that when executed cause the system to perform operations. The operations include generating simulated surgical videos, each representative of the surgical scenario. The operations further include associating simulated ground truth data from the simulation with the simulated surgical videos. The ground truth data corresponds to context information of at least one of a simulated surgical instrument, a simulated anatomical region, a simulated surgical task, or a simulated action. The operations further include annotating features of the simulated surgical videos based, at least in part, on the simulated ground truth data for training a machine learning model. |
| US12283194B2 |
Drone to drone communication and task assignment
An example operation may provide receiving, at a server, one or more communications from a drone, determining the one or more communications identify a drone identifier and a current time, determining whether the one or more communications were received within a time window, assigning a token to the identified drone indicating the drone is active, and storing the token as a transaction in memory. |
| US12283189B2 |
Information processing device, information processing method, and storage medium
An information processing device includes: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire position information of a mobile terminal; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire position information of a vehicle; a third acquisition unit configured to acquire movement means information of a holder of the mobile terminal; a determination unit configured to determine a likelihood of collision between the holder of the mobile terminal and the vehicle at a crossing based on a position of at least one crossing included in road information stored in a storage unit; and a notification unit configured to give a warning to at least one of the mobile terminal and a person in the vehicle based on a result of determination from the determination unit. |
| US12283184B2 |
Traffic alert devices and methods of using the same
Traffic alert devices and methods of using the same are disclosed. A traffic alert device includes a housing having a first surface to face in a first direction toward a first area, and a directional motion sensor carried by the housing. The sensor monitors motion in a second area different than the first area, the second area being in a second direction angled relative to the first direction. The traffic alert device further includes a light emitter carried by the housing, the light emitter positioned to emit light that emanates from the first surface. The light emitter generates a visual signal in response to the sensor detecting an object in the second area approaching the sensor. |
| US12283172B2 |
Communication protocols in integrated systems
Systems and methods comprise a gateway at a premises. The gateway is coupled to a remote system. An interface component is coupled to a processor of the gateway. The interface component comprises at least one module that interfaces and exchanges data with a processing component of a security system installed at a location. The processing component uses a proprietary protocol of the security system for processing data of the security system. The processor controls communications that comprise passing commands from the remote systems to the security system, and passing event data of the security system to the remote system. |
| US12283165B2 |
Visual recognition and sensor fusion weight detection system and method
Disclosed are visual recognition and sensor fusion weight detection system and method. An example method includes: tracking, by a sensor system, objects and motions within a selected area of a store; activating, by the sensor system, a first computing device positioned in the selected area in response to detecting a presence of a customer within the selected area: identifying, by the sensor system, the customer and at least one item carried by the customer; transmitting, by the sensor system, identifying information of the customer and the at least one item to a computing server system via a communication network; measuring, by the first computing device, a weight of the at least one item; transmitting, by the first computing device, the weight to the computing server system via the communication network; and generating, by the computing server system, via the communication network, transaction information of the at least one item. |
| US12283156B2 |
Management system of substitute currency for gaming
A detection system including a control device detecting fraud performed in a game table by using a result of an image analysis performed by an image analyzing device is included. A substitute currency for gaming used for this detection system has a multi-layer structure in which a plurality of plastic layers having different colors are stacked, a coloring layer is included at least in the middle, and white layers or thin-color layers (may be layers having a color thinner than that of the coloring layer; not illustrated in the drawing) are stacked on both sides of the coloring layer disposed in the middle. |
| US12283155B2 |
Systems and methods for supporting one or more external applications at a gaming device
An electronic gaming device is described. The electronic gaming device includes a button deck including a display device, at least one memory with instructions stored thereon, and at least one processor in communication with the display device and the at least one memory. The instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to receive, from an end user device associated with a player account, a signal that includes player data, parse the player data, and control the display device to display at least a portion of the player data in a display area of the display device, wherein a location of the display area is predefined in the at least one memory. |
| US12283154B2 |
Secure predetermined game generation
Systems and methods for enabling secure automated production and redemption of predetermined games of chance with multiple play venues or dimensions, wherein such systems and methods can provide, for example, lottery games (e.g., instant tickets), charitable gaming (e.g., raffles, pull-tabs), casino environments (e.g., “Class II” gaming), Internet gaming (e.g., poker, online instant tickets), etc. |
| US12283153B2 |
Methods and systems for presenting a gaming-related message to a gamer in an area proximate to a beacon associated with a casino
A server system for electronic games includes a memory and a processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory. When the instructions are executed, the instructions cause the processor to receive from a communication device, a plurality of first signals generated in response to the communication device entering one or more predefined zones associated with the electronic games, and generate, based on the plurality of first signals, a heat map that defines one or more cells based upon a magnitude of a data element of the first signals. |
| US12283152B2 |
System and method for mounting a topper screen to a gaming machine cabinet
The present disclosure relates generally to system and method for mounting a topper screen and mounting bracket to the frame of a gaming machine cabinet. The topper mounting bracket may include an angled mounting plate, a topper electrical connector fastened to the angled mounting plate, and at least one mounting bolt fastened to and protruding from the angled mounting plate. The cabinet frame may include an angled mounting surface, a movable cabinet electrical connector coupled to the angled mounting surface, and at least one key slot positioned on the angled mounting surface. The topper mounting bracket may be mounted to the cabinet frame by aligning and engaging the at least one mounting bolt with the at least one key slot. Once engaged, the topper mounting bracket and topper screen is secured to the gaming machine cabinet allowing an installer to establish an electrical connection between the topper screen and the gaming machine cabinet by connecting the topper electrical connector with the movable cabinet electrical connector. The display mounting system allows a single installer to assemble and mount the topper display to the gaming machine cabinet safely and without assistance. |
| US12283149B2 |
Collation system
A collation system of the present invention includes imaging means for acquiring a captured image of a pre-passage side area with respect to each of gates arranged in parallel with each other, and collation means for performing a collation process on the captured image of the pre-passage side area for each of the gates, between a previously registered target and a target included in the captured image. The collation means performs the collation process on the basis of a target in the captured image corresponding to one of the gates and a target in the captured image corresponding to another one of the gates. |
| US12283148B2 |
Functional control and age verification of electronic devices through visual communication
An aerosol delivery or electronic nicotine delivery systems (“ENDS”) device may include smoking articles that produce aerosol. The device may operate upon authentication. The authentication may first include an age verification before an authentication allows for operation of the device. The authentication may include a control signal communication to the device. The control signal communication may include an audio signal, such as an authentication tone that is detected by a microphone or pressure sensor on the device. The control signal communication may include a visual, optical, or light signal that is detected by a light sensor or photodiode on the device. |
| US12283142B2 |
Vehicle control system for optimizing energy consumption
A vehicle control system for optimizing the energy consumption of a vehicle over the vehicle lifetime. The vehicle control system includes: a rechargeable electric battery; a mechanical component; and a processing circuitry configured to cause the vehicle control system to: determine a battery wear value of the rechargeable electric battery; determine a mechanical component wear value of the mechanical component; and determine a target temperature value of the rechargeable electric battery based on the battery wear value and the mechanical component wear value. |
| US12283140B2 |
Vehicle dynamics control using deep learning to update an operational parameter of a vehicle drive train
A system may include sensors, provided on a vehicle, to sense one or more operational states of the vehicle and output the sensed operational states. A system may include a cloud computing platform to receive the sensed operational states, a modeling application, provided at the cloud computing platform, having a processor to execute software to generate and operate a digital twin of the vehicle, the digital twin encompassing twin subsystems of the vehicle and simulating operations thereof; and an artificial intelligence system, associated with the cloud computing platform, to receive and process the sensed operational states and updates an operational parameter of the drive train of the vehicle based on the modeling application. |
| US12283135B2 |
Detection and alerting of vehicle safety system issues
A system detects vehicle safety system issues present within a fleet vehicle. A plurality of diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs) collected or generated by an onboard computing system of the vehicle are received via a network. The system determines two or more of the DTCs occurred within a predetermined threshold. The two or more DTCs correspond to different sources within the vehicle. A common theme is determined between the plurality of DTCs having different sources. The two or more DTCs that occurred within the predetermined threshold are correlated with a vehicle safety system issue stored in an issue database. An alert is transmitted based on the correlated vehicle safety system issue to a recipient via the network. |
| US12283131B2 |
Information presenting system, information presenting method, computer program, and authentication system
An information presenting system includes: a specification unit that specifies a position of a biological part used for authentication from information about a target person; a setting unit that sets an imaging area in which the biological part is imaged, in accordance with the specified position of the biological part; and a presentation unit that presents information indicating the imaging area at a position that allows an overlap of the biological part. According to this information presenting system, information about biometric authentication can be appropriately presented to the target person, so that an authentication process can be performed normally. |
| US12283130B2 |
Spoof detection by generating 3D point clouds from captured image frames
A method includes receiving a first sequence of images of a first subject captured over a time period in which relative locations of the image acquisition device with respect to the first subject varies. A first image and a second image are selected as representing a first and second relative locations, respectively, of the image acquisition device with respect to the first subject. A first set of points and a second set of points are generated in a three-dimensional space, using the first image and the second image as a stereo pair, the first and second sets of points representing the first subject, and a background, respectively. It is determined that a difference between a first depth associated with the first set of points, and a second depth associated with the second set of points satisfies a threshold condition, and in response, access to a secure system is prevented. |
| US12283127B2 |
Method for obtaining data from an image of an object of a user that has a biometric characteristic of the user
A method includes obtaining, by a processing device from an optical sensor of a mobile device, an image of an object. The method further includes processing, by the processing device, the image to identify the object in the image. Processing the image includes calculating at least one of a distance map or a reflection pattern. Processing the image further includes comparing the calculated distance map or the calculated reflection pattern with a known distance map or a known reflection pattern to determine whether the image contains a spoof or a real object. The method further includes obtaining, by the processing device from the image, data including a biometric characteristic of the user. The method further includes sending, by the processing device to a third party computing device, data including at least the biometric characteristic. |
| US12283125B2 |
Method for capturing fingerprint image, apparatus for capturing fingerprint image, and electronic device
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for capturing a fingerprint image, an apparatus for capturing a fingerprint image, and an electronic device, where the method includes: controlling a fingerprint sensor to capture at least one frame of image based on each candidate exposure time among N candidate exposure times respectively; determining N values of a feature parameter corresponding to the N candidate exposure times according to the at least one frame of image captured in each exposure time, where the feature parameter is used to indicate a degree of influence of a refresh period of a display screen on the fingerprint image captured by the fingerprint sensor; determining a candidate exposure time corresponding to a first value indicating a smallest degree of influence among the N values as a target exposure time; and controlling the fingerprint sensor to capture the fingerprint image based on the target exposure time. |
| US12283124B2 |
Method of training text quality assessment model and method of determining text quality
A method of training a text quality assessment model, a method of determining text quality, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method of training the text quality assessment model includes: determining a first text satisfying a condition of being a negative sample and a second text satisfying a condition of being a positive sample from a plurality of texts based on indicators for the texts; for any text of the first text and the second text, adding a label to the text based on the condition satisfied by the text, wherein the label indicates a category of the text, and the category includes a low-quality category for the negative sample and a non-low-quality category for the positive sample; and constituting a training set by the first text having a label and the second text having a label, to train the text quality assessment model. |
| US12283122B2 |
Ultra-wideband location guided image classification of wireless devices for labeling
An electronic device, a method, and a computer program product facilitate device labeling of devices that are ultra-wideband (UWB) capable. A controller of the electronic device identifies, via a wireless transceiver, proximity to device(s) including a first device that are UWB capable. The controller receives, via a UWB transceiver, UWB signals from a first device. The controller determines a location of the first device based on a range and an angle of arrival of the UWB signals. The controller receives an image stream from an image capturing device. The controller visually classifies an object corresponding to the first device in the image stream using a library of classification images that includes one or more classification images of one or more devices. The controller identifies an object classification associated with a device label for the first device. The controller assigns the device label to the first device. |
| US12283120B2 |
Method for detecting three-dimensional objects in relation to autonomous driving and electronic device
A method for detecting three-dimensional (3D) objects in relation to autonomous driving is applied in an electronic device. The device obtains detection images and depth images, =inputs the detection images into a trained object detection model to determine categories of objects in the detection images and two-dimensional (2D) bounding boxes of the objects. The device determines object models of the objects and 3D bounding boxes of the object models according to the object categories, and calculates point cloud data of the objects selected and distances from the depth camera to the object models. The device determines angles of rotation of the object models of the objects according to the object models of the objects and the point cloud data, and can determine respective positions of the objects in 3D space according to the distance from the depth camera to the object models, the rotation angles, and the 3D bounding boxes. |
| US12283119B2 |
3D object detection
A method of training a 3D structure detector to detect 3D structure in 3D structure representation, the method comprising the following steps: receiving, at a trainable 3D structure detector, a set of training inputs, each training input comprising at least one 3D structure representation; the 3D structure detector determining, for each training input, a set of predicted 3D objects for the at least one 3D structure representation of that training input; and training the 3D structure detector to optimize a cost function, wherein the cost function penalizes deviation from an expected geometric relationship between the set of predicted 3D objects determined for each training in put. |
| US12283118B2 |
Device and method for detecting 3D object
An apparatus and a method for detecting a three-dimensional object includes a camera configured for obtaining a 2D image, and a controller electrically connected to the camera, and the controller extracts 2D information and 3D information for at least one object from the 2D image, and detects 3D object information by utilizing the 2D information and the 3D information. |
| US12283117B2 |
Systems and methods for automated license plate recognition
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus for automated license plate recognition and methods for training a machine learning model to undertake automated license plate recognition. For example, a method can comprise dividing an image or video frame comprising a license plate into a plurality of image patches, determining a positional vector for each of the image patches, adding the positional vector to each of the image patches and inputting the image patches and their associated positional vectors to a text-adapted vision transformer. The text-adapted vision transformer can be configured to output a prediction concerning the license plate number of the license plate. |
| US12283113B2 |
Method and device for determining that a detected object belongs to a specific class
A method for classifying a detected object is disclosed. First and second object detectors detect first and second objects in first and second image frames, respectively, of a video sequence, and first and second probability scores respectively are calculated indicating a probability that the detected object belongs to a specific class. The second image frame is subsequent to the first image frame. The first object detector has a higher object detection precision and a longer processing time than the second object detector. The first and second object detections are performed in parallel. Reducing the first classification threshold or increasing the first probability score are performed if the first probability score is below a first classification threshold and the second probability score is above a second classification threshold. The first object is determined to belong to the specific class based on the probability scores and the classification thresholds. |
| US12283111B2 |
Control apparatus and control method using captured image of external environment of vehicle
A control apparatus for a vehicle including an image capturing device periodically acquires an image of an external environment of the vehicle from the image capturing device and recognizes a target object in the external environment of the vehicle based on the acquired image. The apparatus controls setting of a predetermined region for the acquired image and performs distortion reduction processing for reducing distortion of the image for the set predetermined region. In a case where a particular target object that is recognized is included in the predetermined region, the apparatus changes the predetermined region such that a region other than the particular target object included in the predetermined region increases. |
| US12283110B2 |
Information processing device, information processing system, and information processing method
An information processing device includes: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image captured by an imaging unit mounted on a vehicle; a target detection unit configured to detect a target region including a target in the acquired image; a classification identification unit configured to identify classification including a type of the detected target and a size of the detected target region; and a region determination unit configured to determine a region obtained by adding a margin corresponding to the identified classification to the target region as an image processing region. |
| US12283107B1 |
Intelligence surveillance and reconnissance apparatus
An apparatus for gathering intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance [ISR] in a hostile environment. The apparatus may be generally cylindrical to blend in with the environment, particularly with indicia which are visible to people viewing the apparatus. The apparatus may have a tinted skin which does not allow viewers to see inside. Inside the apparatus are one or more sensors which gather the ISR. The sensors may be disposed on a payload delivery mechanism having a first, retracted position inside the hollow body and extending outwardly through a port to a second position to deliver a payload to a hostile target. The sensor may be separable from the apparatus or may remain internal to the apparatus. |
| US12283105B2 |
Rail area extraction method based on laser point cloud data
A rail area extraction method based on laser point cloud data is provided, including: preprocessing collected laser point cloud data; screening and clustering the laser point cloud data based on a fixed distance segmentation method, and representing laser point cloud data of reference objects by a main laser point cloud data cluster; projecting laser point cloud data of reference objects to a horizontal plane, fitting reference curves based on an improved differential evolution algorithm with a train left side reference curve as an upper boundary and a train right side reference curve as a lower boundary; selecting a target boundary line from upper and lower boundaries based on a laser point cloud data amount-density two-step decision method; calculating a rail area center line based on the target boundary line; and selecting a rail area boundary line extension method or rail area center line extension method to calculate the rail area. |
| US12283099B2 |
Semantic abort of unmanned aerial vehicle deliveries
A method includes capturing, by a sensor on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), an image of a delivery location. The method also includes determining, based on the image of the delivery location, a segmentation image. The segmentation image segments the delivery location into a plurality of pixel areas with corresponding semantic classifications. The method additionally includes determining, based on the segmentation image, a percentage of obstacle pixels within a surrounding area of a delivery point at the delivery location, wherein each obstacle pixel has a semantic classification indicative of an obstacle in the delivery location. The method further includes based on the percentage of obstacle pixels being above a threshold percentage, aborting a delivery process of the UAV. |
| US12283091B2 |
Image classification device and method
The objective of the present invention is to provide an image classification device and a method therefor with which suitable teaching data can be created. An image classification device that carries out image classification using images which are in a class to be classified and include teaching information, and images which are in a class not to be classified and to which teaching information has not been assigned, said image classification device being characterized by being provided with: an image group input unit for receiving inputs of an image group belonging to a class to be classified and an image group belonging to a class not to be classified; and a subclassification unit for extracting a feature amount for each image in an image group, clustering the feature amounts of the images in the image group belonging to a class not to be classified, and thereby dividing the images into sub-classes. |
| US12283089B2 |
Head image editing based on face expression classification
Aspects of the disclosure provide an image processing method, an image processing terminal, an image processing apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The method can include performing face detection on a target image to detect a face region in the target image. The method includes determining an expression class of the detected face region based on a trained expression recognition model and determining whether the determined expression class of the detected face region is a target expression class. If the determined expression class is the target expression class, head detection is performed to identify a head region in the target image and the identified head region is edited. If the determined expression class is not the target expression class, the head detection is not performed on the target image. |
| US12283087B2 |
Model training method, media information synthesis method, and related apparatuses
A model training method includes obtaining an image sample set and brief-prompt information; generating a content mask set according to the image sample set and the brief-prompt information; generating a to-be-trained image set according to the content mask set; obtaining, based on the image sample set and the to-be-trained image set, a predicted image set through a to-be-trained information synthesis model, the predicted image set comprising at least one predicted image, the predicted image being in correspondence to the image sample; and training, based on the predicted image set and the image sample set, the to-be-trained information synthesis model by using a target loss function, to obtain an information synthesis model. |
| US12283084B2 |
Systems and methods implementing a machine learning architecture for video processing
The present disclosure describes a method comprising receiving a video; segmenting the video into a plurality of segments, each of the plurality of segments comprising a plurality of images; executing one or more machine learning models using the plurality of segments to generate a segment score for each of the plurality of segments, the segment score for a segment indicating a likelihood that a user will interact with the segment; generating a video performance score for the video as a function of the segment scores for the plurality of segments; and generating a record comprising the video performance score for the video and an identification of the video. |
| US12283083B2 |
Image guided video thumbnail generation for e-commerce applications
Systems and methods are provided for automatically generating a thumbnail for a video on an online shopping site. The disclosed technology automatically generates a thumbnail for a video, where the thumbnail represents an item but not necessarily content of the video. A thumbnail generator receives a video that describes the item and an ordered list of item images associated with the item used in an item listing. The thumbnail generator extracts video frames from the video based on sampling rules and determines similarity scores for the sampled video frames. A similarity score indicates a degree of similarity between content of a video frame and an item image. The thumbnail generator determines weighted similarity scores based item images and occurrences of sampled video frames in the video. The disclosed technology generates a thumbnail for the video by selecting a sample video frame based on the weighted similarity scores. |
| US12283078B2 |
Scanning system and method for controlling aiming light source
A scanning system and method for controlling an aiming light source (7), comprising: an image sensor (4), which sequentially exposes a pixel array through a rolling shutter to acquire an image of the target, the pixel array includes effective pixels (5) and non-imaging pixels (6), the effective pixels (5) are pixels that are actually used for image decoding, and the non-imaging pixels (6) are pixels that are not actually used for image decoding; an aiming light source (7) for projecting an aiming pattern (8) to aim at a target; a control unit (12) for controlling the image sensor (4) and the aiming light source (7), so that the aiming light source (7) is in turned off state during the exposure time of the effective pixel (5), and the aiming light source (7) is turned on during at least part of the exposure time of the non-imaging pixels (6). |
| US12283073B2 |
Inter prediction coding for geometry point cloud compression
An example of processing a point cloud includes responsive to determining to predict a current point in the point cloud using predictive geometry coding, selecting, from a set of prediction modes, a prediction mode for the current point, wherein the set of prediction modes includes at least an intra prediction mode and an inter prediction mode; and responsive to selecting the inter prediction mode for the current point, predicting the current point of the point cloud using inter prediction. |
| US12283068B2 |
Medical image processing device, endoscope system, and medical image processing device operation method
A medical image processing device acquires a medical image, detects a position of a specific blood vessel having a predetermined thickness or more on the basis of the medical image, and performs control for outputting specific blood vessel position information regarding the position of the specific blood vessel to provide a notification. The detection of the position of a specific blood vessel is performed by using a learning image that is the medical image associated with information regarding a position of at least a part of the specific blood vessel. |
| US12283064B2 |
Shape information generation apparatus, control apparatus, loading/unloading apparatus, logistics system, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and control method
A control apparatus includes a first information acquiring section that acquires three-dimensional information of a first region of surfaces of a plurality of objects, the information being obtained by imaging or scanning the plurality of objects from a first location; a second information acquiring section that acquires three-dimensional information of a second region of surfaces of the plurality of objects, the information being obtained by imaging or scanning the plurality of objects from a second location; and a combining section that generates information indicating three-dimensional shapes of at least a portion of the surfaces of the plurality of objects, based on the three-dimensional information of the first region acquired by the first information acquiring section and the three-dimensional information of the second region acquired by the second information acquiring section. |
| US12283063B2 |
Ego motion correction of LIDAR output
A navigation system for a host vehicle may include a processor programmed to determine at least one indicator of ego motion of the host vehicle. A processor may be also programmed to receive, from a LIDAR system, a first point cloud including a first representation of at least a portion of an object and a second point cloud including a second representation of the at least a portion of the object. The processor may further be programmed to determine a velocity of the object based on the at least one indicator of ego motion of the host vehicle, and based on a comparison of the first point cloud, including the first representation of the at least a portion of the object, and the second point cloud, including the second representation of the at least a portion of the object. |
| US12283062B2 |
Method and system for providing surgical site measurement
A system for measuring distances within a surgical site includes a camera positionable to capture 3D image data corresponding to a treatment site. Using the image data, the system determines the relative 3D positions of identified measurement points at the treatment site captured in the images, and it estimates or determines the distance between the measurement points. Output is generated communicating the measured distances to the user. The measurement taken follows the 3D topography of the tissue positioned between the measurement points. |
| US12283057B2 |
Device and method for enhancing tracking of objects in a scene captured in a video sequence
A method for selecting a crop score threshold for enhancing tracking of objects in a scene captured in a video sequence is disclosed. A respective track is obtained for two different objects, each track comprising crops of object instances of the objects in in a video sequence, each crop having a crop score and a feature vector. Each track is split into respective more tracklets thereby forming four or more tracklets. For each candidate crop score threshold a respective difference between each tracklet and each other tracklet is determined based on differences between feature vectors of crops having a crop score above the candidate crop score threshold of each tracklet, and each other tracklet. A crop score threshold is selected from the set of crop score thresholds resulting in a maximum difference between the differences between tracklets of different tracks and the differences between tracklets of the same track. |
| US12283055B2 |
Methods and systems for scoreboard region detection
A computing system automatically detects, in a sequence of video frames, a video frame region that depicts a scoreboard. The video frames of the sequence depict image elements including (i) scoreboard image elements that are unchanging across the video frames of the sequence and (ii) other image elements that change across the video frames of the sequence. Given this, the computing system (a) receives the sequence, (b) engages in an edge-detection process to detect, in the video frames of the sequence, a set of edges of the depicted image elements, (c) identifies a subset of the detected set of edges based on each edge of the subset being unchanging across the video frames of the sequence, and (d) detects, based on the edges of the identified subset, the video frame region that depicts the scoreboard. |
| US12283051B2 |
Method for analyzing lesion based on medical image
Disclosed is a method for analyzing a lesion based on a medical image, which is performed by a computing device. The method may include: obtaining positional information of a suspicious nodule which exists in the medical image; generating a mask for the suspicious nodule based on a patch of the medical image corresponding to the positional information; and determining a class for a state of the suspicious nodule based on the patch of the medical image and the mask for the suspicious nodule. |
| US12283050B2 |
Systems and methods for displaying augmented anatomical features
A method, user device, and system for displaying augmented anatomical features is disclosed. The method includes detecting a target individual, displaying a visual representation of the body, and determining an anatomical profile of the target individual based on a plurality of reference markers. The method further includes displaying, on the display, a graphical representation of the inner anatomical features onto the visual representation of the body so as to assist in the identification of the inner anatomical features. In another aspect, an initial three-dimensional representation of the body is mapped and a preferred anatomical profile is determined based upon the reference markers. The initial three-dimensional representation of the body is modified to be the shape of the preferred anatomical profile and displayed. |
| US12283048B2 |
Diagnosis support device, diagnosis support system, and diagnosis support method
A diagnosis support device includes a control unit that correlates a plurality of pixels included in a two-dimensional image with two or more classes including a biological tissue class, the two-dimensional image being generated by using a signal of a reflected wave of ultrasound transmitted inside a biological tissue through which blood passes and the two-dimensional image including the biological tissue, generates a three-dimensional image of the biological tissue from a pixel group correlated with the biological tissue class, and performs control of displaying the generated three-dimensional image of the biological tissue. |
| US12283046B2 |
Systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking
The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, perform computational fluid dynamics analysis, facilitate assessment of risk of heart disease and coronary artery disease, enhance drug development, determine a CAD risk factor goal, provide atherosclerosis and vascular morphology characterization, and determine indication of myocardial risk, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and/or quantified parameters. |
| US12283045B2 |
Multi-channel extended depth-of-field method for automated digital cytology
A method for generating a color-faithful extended-depth-of-field (EDF) image from a color volume of 2D images acquired at different focal depths using a microscope. The method involves: generating a grayscale volume; applying invertible color-to-grayscale transformation to the volume; applying wavelet transform to the grayscale volume to obtain a 3D wavelet-coefficient-matrix (WCM); selecting wavelet coefficients using a coefficient selection rule; generating a 2D-WCM and a 2D coefficient-map (CM); applying inverse transformation of the wavelet transform to the 2D-WCM to obtain a 2D grayscale EDF image; generating a 2D color-composite(CC) image; applying inverse transformation of the color-to-grayscale transformation to the 2D grayscale EDF image to obtain a 2D color EDF image; converting the 2D-CC image and the 2D color EDF image into a color space including chromaticity and intensity component(s); and concatenating, chromaticity component(s) of the 2D-CC image and intensity component(s) of the 2D color EDF image, to obtain a color-faithful EDF image. |
| US12283044B2 |
Ophthalmic image processing method, ophthalmic image processing device, and ophthalmic image processing program
An ophthalmic image of an evaluation target is acquired, a plurality of subsection images is extracted from the ophthalmic image, a state of a subject's eye is predicted for each of the subsection images based on a learned model in which learning has been performed in advance regarding extracting a plurality of subsection images from an ophthalmic image for learning, and predicting a state of a subject's eye for the each of subsection image by machine learning using correct answer data related to a state of each subsection image, and the subsection image is extracted from the ophthalmic image so as to have an image size corresponding to a state of a subject's eye of an evaluation target. |
| US12283033B2 |
Damage diagram creation support method and damage diagram creation support device
Provided is a damage diagram creation support method, which includes: acquiring information on a region having internal damage to a structure within an inspection target region; acquiring a visible light image obtained by imaging the inspection target region with a visible light camera; detecting fissuring appearing on a surface of the structure in the visible light image; and creating a damage diagram in which the fissuring detected in the visible light image is traced. Also provided is a damage diagram creation support device capable of appropriately recording a detection result of fissuring automatically detected from an image. |
| US12283027B2 |
PTZ masking control
A method of generating an output video stream is provided, including receiving a first input video stream from at least one first camera capturing a scene, receiving a second input video stream from a second camera only partially capturing the scene, and generating an output video stream from the first input video stream, including, in response to determining that a particular area of the output video stream depicts a part of the scene depicted in the second input video stream, refraining from, or at least reducing a level of, a masking of the particular area of the output video stream. A corresponding device, camera monitoring system, computer program and computer program product are also provided. |
| US12283026B2 |
Ultrasound imaging apparatus, signal processing method, and signal processing program
The invention provides an ultrasound imaging apparatus capable of highly accurately extracting a blood flow in a fine blood vessel in a short time. N pieces of frame data is generated by receiving ultrasound waves reflected by a subject with a plurality of transducers. A correlation matrix is generated based on a vector in which data at a corresponding position of the frame data is arranged for N frames, and a singular value and a singular vector for each of N ranks are calculated. A first filter element is calculated based on a variance between data at a corresponding position zx among a plurality of blood flow component frame data obtained by multiplying a plurality of the frame data by singular vectors at a threshold rank k or more. The second filter element is calculated based on the tissue component frame data obtained by multiplying the frame data by a singular vector at a rank 1. The frame data is weighted by the first filter element and/or the second filter element to generate a clutter reducing image. |
| US12283022B2 |
Image processing method and image processing circuit for compensating motion vectors of interpolated frame
The present invention provides an image processing method, wherein the image processing method includes the steps of: receiving an image signal, wherein the image signal comprises a first frame and a second frame; performing motion estimation on the first frame and the second frame to generate an interpolated frame; for each of a plurality of areas of the interpolated frame, determining whether there is a block in the first frame that moves to the area, and determine whether there is a block in the second frame that moves to the area, to determine whether the area belongs to a cover area or an uncover area; and in response to a determination result indicating that the area belongs to the cover area or the uncover area, adjusting image contents of the interpolated frame. |
| US12283021B2 |
Method and apparatus to encode and decode images of points of a sphere
Methods and devices are provided to encode points of a sphere onto an image by projecting them as a function of an isotropic region guided mapping operator and/or to decode pixels of an image onto a sphere by de-projected them according to the same parametrized mapping operator. A region of interest is determined on the sphere and the angular resolution of pixels of the image is modulated as a function of their distance to the reference pixel corresponding to the center of the region of interest. Chosen angular resolutions and size of the region of interest are associated with the image and encoded in a stream. |
| US12283017B2 |
Computer program, method, and server
Provided are a computer program, a method, and a server in which a possibility that a load on display control increases is reduced, compared to the related art. According to an exemplary embodiment of such a configuration, first data relevant to a first position in a virtual space in which a first avatar manipulated by using a first terminal of a first user exists is acquired, whether or not a first condition is satisfied is determined, second data is received in a case where it is determined that the first condition is satisfied, control data for controlling a display unit of the first terminal such that at least the virtual object is displayed on the display unit of the first terminal is decided on the basis of the second data, and the display unit is controlled on the basis of the control data. |
| US12283016B2 |
Using a prior three-dimensional model to faciliate intraoral scanning
An intraoral scanner system includes an intraoral scanner having an imaging device and a sensing face, and a computing device, communicatively coupled to the intraoral scanner. The computing device receives a first intraoral images of a three-dimensional intraoral object of a patient generated by the intraoral scanner corresponding to an intraoral scanning of the three-dimensional intraoral object of the patient. The computing device registers a first intraoral image of the first intraoral images relative to a second intraoral image of the first intraoral images using a model of the three-dimensional intraoral object that existed prior to the intraoral scanning. |
| US12283010B2 |
Mission driven virtual character for user interaction
An augmented reality (AR) display device can display a virtual assistant character that interacts with the user of the AR device. The virtual assistant may be represented by a robot (or other) avatar that assists the user with contextual objects and suggestions depending on what virtual content the user is interacting with. Animated images may be displayed above the robot's head to display its intents to the user. For example, the robot can run up to a menu and suggest an action and show the animated images. The robot can materialize virtual objects that appear on its hands. The user can remove such an object from the robot's hands and place it in the environment. If the user does not interact with the object, the robot can dematerialize it. The robot can rotate its head to keep looking at the user and/or an object that the user has picked up. |
| US12283006B2 |
Information processing device and information processing method
A content display device that functions as an information processing device includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a display control unit. The acquisition unit acquires template data defining relative relationships between a first real object, a second real object, and a virtual object. The determination unit determines the relative relationship between the first real object and the second real object from three-dimensional data of a real space detected by the sensor. The display control unit controls the display device to arrange the virtual object on or near the first real object so as to face the second real object, based on the relative relationships and the template data. |
| US12282999B2 |
3D printing slicing method, apparatus, device, and storage medium
3D printing slicing methods, apparatuses, devices, and storage mediums are disclosed. In an embodiment, a 3D printing slicing method includes the following steps: (1) acquiring a 3D model and a target texture picture; (2) obtaining a first model and obtaining a first picture; (3) establishing a mapping set between the first model and the first picture; (4) slicing a target layer of the first model by a slice plane to obtain at least one intersection point; (5) looking up at least one mapping point corresponding to the at least one intersection point in the first picture according to the mapping set, and obtaining corresponding outer contour points by revising coordinates of the at least one intersection point; and (6) obtaining an outer contour boundary line of the target layer by connecting the outer contour points successively. |
| US12282998B2 |
System for generation of three dimensional scans and models
A system for generating three-dimensional models of an exterior physical environment such as the exterior of a building. In some cases, the system may utilize third-party data to supplement data captured at the physical environment when generating the three-dimensional models. The system may also utilize third-party data to assist with aligning models of an exterior of a building with an interior of the building. |
| US12282993B2 |
Method, apparatus, and system for generating posture virtual image, and virtual reality device
Disclosed are a method, an apparatus, and a system for generating a posture virtual image, and a virtual reality device, to resolve a technical problem that the virtual image generated based on the prior art is not realistic enough. A method for generating a posture virtual image of a user includes: separately obtaining initial images of key regions of a first part of a user; extracting position information of feature points from the initial images; integrating the initial images according to position information to generate a first part image; and generating a virtual image according to the first part image. The initial images of the plurality of key regions can represent the first part of the user accurately, thereby a real feature of the first part of the user is accurately presented, and a real-time experience of the user during interaction is improved. |
| US12282992B2 |
Machine learning based controllable animation of still images
Systems and methods for machine learning based controllable animation of still images is provided. In one embodiment, a still image including a fluid element is obtained. Using a flow refinement machine learning model, a refined dense optical flow is generated for the still image based on a selection mask that includes the fluid element and a dense optical flow generated from a motion hint that indicates a direction of animation. The refined dense optical flow indicates a pattern of apparent motion for the at least one fluid element. Thereafter, a plurality of video frames is generated by projecting a plurality of pixels of the still image using the refined dense optical flow. |
| US12282985B2 |
User selectable dimension ungrouping for enterprise cloud analytic charts
An analytic chart data store may contain an enterprise information data structure, based on a result set received from a back-end application computer server, and a user selectable dimension ungrouping indication. The enterprise information data structure may include: an outermost dimension arranged on a row axis; an innermost dimension arranged on the row axis; and measure values arranged on the row axis. A computer processor of an analytic chart creation platform may determine that the user selectable dimension ungrouping indication is set to “ungroup.” Responsive to said determination, the analytic chart creation platform may automatically re-organize the enterprise information structure such that the innermost dimension information is arranged on the column axis instead of the row axis. The analytic chart creation platform may then automatically create an analytic chart and transmit the chart to a remote user device. |
| US12282984B2 |
Augmenting a first image with a second image
A computer implemented method for augmenting a first image with image data from a second image, the method comprising: receiving (S02) the first image depicting a first scene; capturing (S04) the second image depicting a second scene using an image capturing device; identifying (S06) an object in the second image; receiving (S08) a 3D model from a database, the database comprising a plurality of 3D models, the 3D model corresponding to the identified object of the second image; aligning (S10) the 3D model with the identified object in the second image; extracting (S12) pixel data from the second image using a contour of the 3D model's projection onto the second image; inserting (S14) the extracted pixel data of the second image data into the first image, thereby rendering an augmented image. |
| US12282982B2 |
Method and system for in-vehicle sensor range and FOV AR visualization
Some embodiments of a method disclosed herein may include: receiving a predicted driving route, sensor ranges of sensors on an autonomous vehicle (AV), and sensor field-of-view (FOV) data; determining whether minimum sensor visibility requirements are met along the predicted driving route; predicting blind areas along the predicted driving route, wherein the predicted blind areas are determined to have potentially diminished sensor visibility; and displaying an augmented reality (AR) visualization of the blind areas using an AR display device. |
| US12282981B2 |
Augmentation for web conference participants
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to augmentation for web conference participants. An augmentation rule set defining mappings between augmentations and participant characteristics can be received, where the augmentation rule set is implemented for a web conference to determine augmentations to apply onto participant video feeds within the web conference. A plurality of participants within the web conference can be identified. The web conference can be analyzed to determine participant characteristics of each participant of the plurality within the web conference. Augmentation can be applied on respective video feeds of each participant according to the augmentation rule set based on the determined characteristics of each participant. |
| US12282979B2 |
Serialized digital watermarking for variable data printing
Variable data printing workflows are enhanced for use with content that includes 2D code patterns, such as digital watermark data. One arrangement includes applying a filter to a content stream within a PDF document to extract both first variable pattern data for a first watermark pattern and second variable pattern data for a second watermark pattern. A first composite watermark pattern is then defined based on the extracted first variable watermark pattern data in conjunction with static watermark pattern data, and a second composite watermark pattern is defined based on the extracted second variable watermark pattern data in conjunction with the static watermark pattern data. A variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed. |
| US12282978B2 |
Information processing apparatus and method
An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to accept a reservation for use of a vehicle charging service from a user of a vehicle, notify the user of a first joining point and a first joining time as a target joining point and a target joining time at which the vehicle joins a power supply vehicle, determine whether the vehicle can arrive at the first joining point by the first joining time based on positional information and traffic congestion information for the vehicle, determine a second joining point closer to the vehicle than the first joining point upon determining that the vehicle cannot arrive, and notify the user of a proposal to change the target joining point to the second joining point. |
| US12282977B2 |
Method for using a processor unit and vehicle
A method for using a processor unit of an autonomously movable vehicle involves making a computing power of the processor unit available to at least one external computer network and/or to a computer cluster during a process of charging an electrical energy storage unit of the vehicle. |
| US12282968B1 |
Determining a resource for a place based on three-dimensional coordinates that define the place
Receiving a dataset and parsing from the dataset an XP coordinate value on an x-axis, a YP coordinate value on a y-axis, and a ZP coordinate value on a z-axis all within a domain having 3-dimensional features. The x-axis and y-axis are perpendicular and define a horizontal earthbound main surface. The ZP coordinate value is on the z-axis perpendicular to the horizontal earthbound main surface. The XP, YP and ZP define a place associated with a 3-dimensional feature. Stored resource rules for places in the domain are accessed that indicate a first resource if the ZP has a first value, and a second resource if the ZP has a second value. One of the resource rules that applies to the place is identified based on XP, YP and ZP. A resource for the dataset is determined by applying the identified rule. The resource is caused to be transmitted. |
| US12282962B1 |
Distributed ledger for retirement plan intra-plan participant transactions
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for administering transactions between plan participants in a retirement plan. A group management system may use public verification keys for the set of plan participants to monitor transactions involving the set of plan participants at a retirement plan distributed ledger and detect a trigger condition for a first plan participant of the set of plan participants. The group management system may generate an intra-group transaction, generate a transaction record describing the intra-group transaction, and broadcast the transaction record to be included in the retirement plan distributed ledger. |
| US12282961B2 |
System, method, and tool for synthetic order recovery
A tool for synthetic order recovery is provided. An exemplary method for synthetic order recovery includes the features for detecting a server event associated with a synthetic order server identified by a synthetic order server identifier, wherein the synthetic order server is in communication with the recovery tool; determining at least one active synthetic order associated with the synthetic order server identifier; determining a child order status for each child order related to the at least one active synthetic order, wherein the child order status includes an updated child order quantity since the server event was detected, and wherein each child order is associated with the synthetic order server identifier; calculating an updated synthetic order quantity for each of the at least one active synthetic order and based on the updated child order quantity; generating a recovery package including the at least one active synthetic order and the updated synthetic order quantity. |
| US12282956B2 |
Securing distributed electronic wallet shares
Methods and systems are provided for securing distributed shares of an electronic wallet. An example method includes provisioning a plurality of devices each hosting an e-wallet share with enhanced privacy identification (EPID) private keys for the e-wallet share. A signature is posted for the e-wallet share to a blockchain. A determination is made as to whether the e-wallet share is compromised, and, if so, posting a revocation list comprising the signature for the e-wallet share to a blockchain. |
| US12282953B2 |
Systems and methods for processing peer-to-peer financial product markup language agency notices
Systems and methods for processing peer-to-peer financial product markup language agency notices are disclosed. According to one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus, a computer-implemented method for processing peer-to-peer financial product markup language agency notices may include: (1) receiving a FpML notice from a sender to a receiver; (2) obtaining a sender unique identifier for the sender and a receiver unique identifier for the receiver; (3) generating a FpML message body for a transaction associated with the notice; (4) generating FpML data comprising the unique identifiers and the FpML message body; (5) generating an electronic message comprising the FpML data; and (6) sending the electronic message FpML data to the receiver. |
| US12282944B2 |
Automated product offering
Automating a product offering presented in a consumer kiosk application for creating and order consumer photo-related products. An automated product offering system determines in real-time or near real-time the availability of products to be offered to the consumer and adjusts the display on the kiosk GUI to guide the user to select products that are currently available. The product availability may be specific to a location and a retailer hosting the consumer kiosk application. The kiosk GUI display is adjusted in accordance with product advertising and promotional campaigns to guide the user to generate orders for products that offer the best value to the consumer while helping retailers and kiosk operators succeed with advertising campaigns. |
| US12282941B2 |
Email subject line generation method
A computer based method for an electronic marketing campaign from a customer to a contact receives a campaign having an email message body and a historic profile of a previous campaign by the customer. The email message body includes text and image data. The email message body is preprocessed based upon the campaign and the historic profile to produce campaign training data. A neural network learning model is trained with the campaign training data. The neural network provides a subject line recommendation inference, and named entity recognition is performed on the subject line recommendation. |
| US12282939B2 |
In-feed frame to display ads or other externally-hosted content
In-feed encapsulation of display ads or other externally-hosted content is disclosed. In various embodiments, an indication is received that an ad to be displayed in the context of an instance of a publisher content page as rendered at a client system links out to advertising content associated with a third party site. The client system is configured to display a modified version of the advertising content in the event an indication is received that the ad has been selected. |
| US12282937B2 |
Systems and methods for payment product verification and authorization using a customer identifier
Systems, methods, and devices for payment product verification and authorization using a customer identifier are disclosed. In some aspects, techniques described herein relate to receiving, by a payment product provider and from a payment processor, a customer identifier; querying a datastore of customers of the payment product provider with a parameterized query, where the customer identifier is a parameter of the query; determining, based on the query, that the customer identifier is associated with customer profile data of the payment product provider; determining payment product data associated with the customer profile data; returning, by the payment product provider and to the payment processor, a positive eligibility indication based on the customer profile data and the payment product data; receiving, by the payment product provider and from the payment processor, a customer approval indication; and sending, by the payment product provider and to the payment processor, the payment product data. |
| US12282924B2 |
Systems and methods for storing dynamic data
Disclosed embodiments may include a device that may receive data corresponding to transaction card(s) associated with a user. The device may receive first photograph(s) of the user, the first photograph(s) associated with first respective date(s) and first respective time(s). The device may dynamically display a first most recent photograph. The device may receive a request from the user to complete a transaction, the request comprising a selection to utilize first data of the data corresponding to at least one transaction card of the transaction card(s). The device may retrieve the first data to enable the user to complete the transaction. The device may also receive a second photograph associated with a second date and a second time. The device may update the dynamic display with a second most recent photograph by comparing the first respective date(s) and first respective time(s) to the second date and second time. |
| US12282923B2 |
Real and virtual identity verification circuit, system thereof and electronic transaction method
Disclosed are a real and virtual identity verification circuit, a system thereof and an electronic transaction method. The circuit is capable of being built in or connected with an electronic device to allow a user to carry out electronic identity verification with his or her unique biological characteristic on a remote server. The real and virtual identity verification circuit comprises a memory unit, an acquisition unit, a processing unit and a communication unit. A verification key code is stored by the memory unit. The acquisition unit acquires the biological characteristic and generates a corresponding biological characteristic code. The processing unit processes the verification key code and the biological characteristic code according to a deal process to generate a corresponding unverified code, and the communication unit transmits the unverified code to the server and awaits a verification result of the electronic identity verification. |
| US12282922B2 |
Authenticating based on behavioral transactional patterns
Aspects described herein may allow for authenticating a user by generating a customized set of authentication questions based on patterns that are automatically detected and extracted from user data. The user data may include transaction data collected over a period of time. By automatically detecting user patterns that correspond to user behavior over a period of time, an authentication system may be able to generate information that is recognizable to an authentic user but difficult to guess or circumvent for any other user. |
| US12282921B2 |
Blockchain-based data processing method and apparatus, device, readable storage medium and computer program product
Provided is a blockchain-based data processing method performed by a computer device. The method includes: determining a plurality of transactions having a same group identifier in a transaction pool as group transaction data; packetizing each of the group transaction data into a proposal block, and executing each of the group transaction data in the proposal block to obtain a corresponding transaction execution result; when at least one transaction execution result comprises a transaction execution failure result, setting the transaction execution result to each of the group transaction data, and updating the proposal block according to the transaction execution failure result to obtain a target proposal block; and when the target proposal block is passed by consensus, performing accounting on the target proposal block and the transaction execution failure result corresponding to each of the group transaction data. |
| US12282905B2 |
Method and system for large transfer authentication
Embodiments disclosed herein generally related to a system and method for authenticating a transfer request. A computing system receives a transfer request from a client device. The computing system determines that the monetary amount specified in the transfer request exceeds a threshold. The computing system identifies an automated teller machine (ATM) based on at least location information associated with a user of the client device. The computing system prompts the user to authenticate the transfer request at the identified ATM by transferring a message to the client device to be displayed thereon. The computing system receives an authentication attempt of the user from the ATM. The computing system compares authentication information in the authentication attempt to personal identification information associated with the user. The computing system determines that the authentication information at least partially matches personal identification information associated with the user. The computing system processes the transfer request. |
| US12282903B1 |
Format transformation of non-fungible token (NFT) via transfer by containerized data structures
Aspects of this technical solution can include identifying an NFT linked with a first public and private key pair associated with the source account, having a transfer property indicating that the NFT is transferable from the source account, having a value property denominated in fiat currency, and having a volatility metric based on one or more requests to transfer the NFT prior to or concurrently with the request, transferring the NFT from the first public and private key pair to a second public and private key pair linked with the NFT transaction processor and associated with an institution account of the financial institution, generating a third public and private key pair linked with the second customer computing device and associated with the recipient account, and transferring the amount of currency from the second public and private key pair to the third public and private key pair. |
| US12282902B2 |
Computer transaction security with delegated decisions
A method for authenticating e-commerce transactions involves receiving, from a payment network computer, a first authentication request message to authenticate a transaction associated with a payment account, the first authentication request message being initiated by an issuer domain computer not implementing a 3-D Secure authorization protocol, determining that the issuer domain computer has configured, at the access control server computer, a decision function of a second portion of the 3-D Secure authorization protocol and in response thereto, transmitting, to the issuer domain computer, a decision request message and information associated with the transaction, the decision request message requesting the issuer domain computer to determine an action for authenticating the transaction based on the information associated with the transaction and one or more programmatic rules of the issuer domain computer, the transmitting occurring in lieu of the access control server computer executing the decision function at the access control server computer. |
| US12282900B2 |
Method and system for determining computer fan usage and maintenance
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for attesting determining computer system fan usage and maintenance. A determination is made as to the architectural diagram or layout of a computer system. The diagram or layout shows components and fans that support the components. The architectural diagram or layout, where each virtual section shows a fan and the components. Operational load is determined for each virtual section over a period of time. A threshold value for particular periods to time, where the threshold value either is to low load periods or as to periods to increase or decrease speed of the fan to address operational load of the components. |
| US12282899B2 |
One click job placement
A job matching algorithm improves matching a job opening profile to a job-seeker with accuracy and efficiency by breaking down the job opening profile into a data model of standard codes. Job criteria are abstracted as attributes into at least categories of qualifications and characteristics, having an associated assigned weight. Job-seeker profile's corresponding attributes in qualifications and characteristics are multi-dimensionally mapped to those in the job opening profile to calculate an overall score against a threshold score for successful matching. The job-seeker's profile and the job opening's profile may also be re-matched using an elastic analysis to model job seeker's strengths and growth potential for a same or a different job, through adjusting individual weights of each attribute of the qualifications and characteristics of one or both of the job-seeker's profile and the job opening profile to predict risks or successes for the job-seeker in taking the job opening. |
| US12282898B2 |
Systems and methods to facilitate user engagement with units of work assigned within a collaboration environment
Systems and methods for facilitating user engagement with units of work assigned within a collaboration environment are presented herein. Implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment, the environment state information the work unit records including values of an approval state parameter; effectuate presentation of a user interface of the collaboration environment, the user interface displaying individual work unit pages for individual units of work that include a set of user interface elements available for selection by the users, individual user interface elements in the set corresponding to different ones of the values of the approval state parameter; obtain user input information conveying user input characterizing the selection of the individual user interface elements; update the work unit records based on the user input information; and/or other perform other operations. |
| US12282892B2 |
Data-driven requirements analysis and matching
Techniques for data-driven requirements analysis and matching are described, including receiving an input from a notification service using a data network, the input including data associated with a requirement generated by an application configured to identify an attribute of the item, querying an endpoint in response to the input, the input being associated with a machine in data communication with a platform, transforming the input, the data, and a result to a data format using a logic module to generate match data to identify a vendor capable of manufacturing at least a portion of the item, ranking and transforming the match data to a different data format to render a display of resultant data transmitted by the platform to the notification service for display on one or more client devices used to procure a manufacturing, procurement, or distribution service for the item. |
| US12282890B2 |
Systems and methods for product ordering and securely delivering ordered products
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful for ordering and securely delivering products. In some embodiments, a system for ordering and securely delivering products comprises an inventory system associated with a retailer, a system controller, and a storage container. The storage container includes a housing that enclosing a product cavity, a locking door configured to enable access to the product cavity, a user interface coupled to the housing, a wireless communication device, and a container control circuit configured to receive, via the user interface, an electronic purchase order for products from the retailer, transmit to the inventory system the electronic purchase order, receive from the system controller a signal instructing the container control circuit to unlock the door, and perform an electronic unlocking function causing the door to unlock. |
| US12282888B2 |
Autonomous delivery to a dynamic location
This document describes techniques, apparatuses, and systems for autonomous delivery to a dynamic location. A user requests delivery of an item. An autonomous vehicle carrying the item navigates to a delivery location associated with the request. While navigating the autonomous vehicle toward the delivery location, the autonomous vehicle receives one or more estimates of a current location of a wireless device of the user. In response to receiving a respective estimate, the autonomous vehicle updates the delivery location to match the respective estimate of the current location of the wireless device. In this way, the delivery location can be dynamically updated as the user changes location. Once the autonomous vehicle reaches the delivery location, the item can be delivered to the user. |
| US12282887B2 |
Logistics system, logistics robot, and logistics robot control method
A logistics system provides a logistics service utilizing a logistics robot that delivers packages by autonomous traveling. The logistics system includes one or more processors. When delivery destinations of the packages are dispersedly located on a plurality of floors of a building, the one or more processors execute a priority determination process that determines priority among the plurality of floors. Then, the one or more processors execute a logistics robot control process that controls the logistics robot so as to deliver the packages to the plurality of floors in an order of the priority. |
| US12282886B2 |
Social drone
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for controlling at least one robot system. This includes offering control of a first robot to a first mobile application, indicating an available service offered by the first robot, and receiving instructions to perform the available service. This further includes delivering: (i) debris, (ii) dust, or (iii) cut grass to a stationary second garbage collection robot. A computing system maintains a device profile for the first robot, indicates the available service and a status of the first robot to the first mobile application, and is configured to update the first mobile application. The first robot is configured to drive while performing the available service and is controlled by at least one of: (i) a camera or (ii) a sensor, to avoid collision. The second robot is a stationary garbage collection robot configured to store the delivered debris, dust, or cut grass. |
| US12282885B2 |
System and method for generating a planned path for a vehicle using a cloud deployment system
Methods and systems for generating a planned path for a vehicle are disclosed. Upon receiving a trip service request, a processor will access a data store containing multiple candidate motion planning systems, each of which is associated with at least one vehicle or fleet. The processor will identify a starting point and a destination for the trip service request, and it will use an identifier for the vehicle or its fleet to select, from the candidate systems, a motion planning system. The processor will use the functions of the selected motion planning system to generate candidate trajectories for the first vehicle from the starting point to the destination in a high definition map. The processor will select a planned route from the candidate trajectories, and it will output trip instructions to cause the vehicle to move along the planned route. |
| US12282884B2 |
Examples of delivery and/or referral services
Various systems and methods that may relate to referral and/or delivery services are described. Some embodiments may include billing merchants for delivery services in a consolidated fashion, some embodiments may include interactions with point of sale systems. |
| US12282883B2 |
Robust fault detection and diagnosis by constructing an ensemble of detectors
A method of generating a fault determination in a building management system (BMS), the method including receiving signal data, generating, using a number of fault detection models, a number of fault indications based on the signal data, generating, using a weighting function, based on the number of fault indications, a fault score, comparing the fault score to a fault value, and determining, based on the comparison, an existence of a fault. |
| US12282882B2 |
Customer contact management in association with provisioning products through a provider network of an enterprise
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing customer contact based on context. Specifically, a provider in a provider network associated with provisioning a specific product to a specific user can be identified. Context information related to the provider provisioning one or more products in relation to one or more workflows for provisioning the one or more products through the provider network can be accessed. A model can be applied based on the context information to identify circumstances associated with a likelihood that the provider will contact an enterprise of the provider network with respect to provisioning of the specific product to the specific user. As follows, performance of one or more remedial actions through the enterprise to address the provider contacting the enterprise can be facilitated based on the circumstances associated with the likelihood that the provider will contact the enterprise of the provider network. |
| US12282879B2 |
System and method for identifying and utilizing agent working from home impact score
A computerized system and method may analyze data representing remotely connected computer systems, which may be for example used by agents as part of their activity and/or routine within a given system or organization, to assess and/or quantify critical factors that may impact the output and/or efficiency for a given agent or a plurality of agents within the system or organization. In a computerized-system comprising one or more processors, and a memory including a data store of agents' data and metrics, embodiments of the invention may collect a plurality of data streams, which may include call and/or chat data and/or metadata; store the data streams in an appropriate database; periodically extract parts of the stored data from the database, and calculate effectiveness scores based on the extracted data; and transmit the calculated scores to potential data utilizers and/or target applications, to be presented via a user interface thereof. |
| US12282876B2 |
Intelligent order pickup processing
Locations of a customer's device are tracked relative to an order placed with an establishment. The establishment is instructed to begin order preparation to coincide with the customer's arrival for the order. Customer's arrival at a pickup location is detected within a geofenced area for a premises of the establishment's location. Sensor data provided for the geofenced area is processed to track a vehicle of the customer within the geofenced area and to identify a specific location within the geofenced area where the vehicle is parked. Delivery staff are notified that the customer has arrived for the order and directed to the specific location where the vehicle is parked. |
| US12282872B2 |
Real-time carpool coordinating system
A computing system determines that a transportation vehicle is transporting a first end user to a first destination location. Based on a set of factors, the system determines that a driver of the transportation vehicle is able to travel to a rendezvous location to rendezvous with a second end user while the transportation vehicle is progressing to the first destination location along an original route. The system determines an alternate route for the transportation vehicle to travel to the rendezvous location that satisfies the set of factors, and directs the driver of the transportation vehicle to the rendezvous location to rendezvous with the second end user along the alternate route. |
| US12282870B2 |
Receiving a request to reserve a service
Methods and corresponding system are provided herewith that, in at least one embodiment, include the act or acts of: receiving a request to reserve a service that is provided by a restaurant. The request to reserve is for a particular time and a particular date and the service comprises at least one of: (i) preparing a consumable good that is consumed at the restaurant's location; (ii) preparing a consumable good that is received at the restaurant's location; or (iii) preparing a consumable good that is delivered to a location external to the restaurant's location. The methods and system also include comparing the particular time requested with a schedule associated with the restaurant. The schedule comprises a list of times that are available for reservation. The methods and system also include determining an availability of the request to reserve; and outputting an indicia that the request to reserve the service has been accepted or denied. |
| US12282866B2 |
Multi-target tracking with dependent likelihood structures
The present disclosure includes systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media facilitating multi-target tracking with dependent likelihood structures. To facilitate tracking, sensor data associated with an environment that a vehicle is located in may be received. A set of candidate hypotheses may be obtained based on the sensor data. Each candidate hypothesis in the set of candidate hypotheses may include track and measurement information representative of candidate locations for one or more targets. The set of candidate hypotheses are evaluated against at least one criterion. A ranked set of hypotheses are determined based on the evaluation of the set of candidate hypothesis against the at least one criterion. The ranked set of hypotheses may include a subset of hypotheses selected from among the set of candidate hypotheses and may be used to estimate a location of each of the one or more targets. |
| US12282865B2 |
Artificial intelligence (AI)-based blockchain management
Aspects of this disclosure relate to artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted creation of a blockchain by a decentralized network. Various aspects of this disclosure relate to AI-based determination of blockchain parameters for use in workflow management processes. However, the AI-based approaches described herein are applicable for any blockchain-based procedures. Blockchain parameters, such as a block size, may be determined based on one or more parameters associated with the decentralized network (e.g., input/output load, network bandwidth, etc.). |
| US12282863B2 |
Method and system of user identification by a sequence of opened user interface windows
A method and a system for user identification of a user in a computer system are provided. The method comprising: obtaining a user identifier associated with the user; assigning a respective window identifier to each user interface window opened by the user on the computing device; for a given working session of a pre-determined number of working sessions: storing a sequence of user interface windows opened by the user; identify, within user interface windows opened over the pre-determined number of working sessions, at least one pattern including a pre-determined number of repetitive sequences of user interface windows; generating a set of parameters characterizing a time elapsed between a transition from a first user interface window to an other user interface window within the at least one pattern; using the set of parameters associated with the at least one pattern and the user identifier to train at least one classifier. |
| US12282862B2 |
Method and system for providing a graphical user interface using machine learning and movement of the user or user device
The present method and system are for providing a graphical user interface using machine learning and movement of the user or user device. In an example, the method and system comprise, training a context analyzer machine learning model with training motion data for a training activity context, the context analyzer for predicting a predicted activity context from new motion data; training a response analyzer machine learning model with training usage data and training user responses for the training activity context for a user interface, the response analyzer for predicting the predicted user response from the predicted activity context and new usage data; predicting the predicted user response from motion data and usage data using both the context analyzer and the response analyzer; and determining a preferred variation for the user interface using a predetermined performance metric and the predicted user response. |
| US12282857B1 |
Relative margin for contrastive learning
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training neural networks through contrastive learning. In particular, the contrastive learning is modified to use a relative margin to adjust a training pair's contribution to optimization. |
| US12282856B2 |
Systems and methods for magnetic resonance imaging standardization using deep learning
A computer-implemented method for transforming magnetic resonance (MR) imaging across multiple vendors is provided. The method comprises: obtaining a training dataset, wherein the training dataset comprises a paired dataset and an un-paired dataset, and wherein the training dataset comprises image data acquired using two or more MR imaging devices; training a deep network model using the training dataset; obtaining an input MR image; and transforming the input MR image to a target image style using the deep network model. |
| US12282855B2 |
Auto-formatting of a data table
According to implementations of the present disclosure, there is provided a solution for auto-formatting of a data table. A computer-implemented method comprises obtaining values of at least one attribute for a plurality of cells in a data table, the values of the at least one attribute indicating at least one of a semantic meaning of data filled in the cells or a structure of the data table, the cells being arranged in rows and columns in the data table; extracting a feature representation of the values of the at least one attribute In using a first learning network; and determining respective formats for the cells based on the feature representation using at least the first learning network. In this way, it is possible to implement automatic mapping from attribute settings of cells to cell formats by using a learning network, thereby achieving auto-formatting of the data table. |
| US12282846B2 |
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for surveillance of road environments via deep learning
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for surveillance of road environments via deep learning. In this regard, one or more features for vehicle sensor data associated with one or more vehicles traveling along a road segment proximate to a vehicle are determined. The vehicle includes one or more sensors that captures the vehicle sensor data. Furthermore, vehicle behavior data associated with the one or more vehicles is predicted using a machine learning model that receives the one or more features. The machine learning model is trained for detection of vehicle behavior based on historical vehicle sensor data and one or more rules associated with the road segment. The vehicle behavior data is also encoded in a database to facilitate modeling of vehicle behavior associated with the road segment. |
| US12282844B2 |
Artificial intelligence accelerators
An artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator includes memory circuits configured to output weight data and vector data, a multiplication circuit/adder tree performing a multiplying/adding calculation on the weight data and the vector data to generate multiplication/addition result data, a first accumulator synchronized with an odd clock signal to perform an accumulative adding calculation on odd-numbered multiplication/addition result data of the multiplication/addition result data and a first latched data, and a second accumulator synchronized with an even clock signal to perform an accumulative adding calculation on even-numbered multiplication/addition result data of the multiplication/addition result data and a second latched data. |
| US12282839B2 |
Constraint based inference and machine learning system
A method including receiving a pre-determined constraint on user actions. A constraint vector is generated based on the pre-determined constraint. The constraint vector is input into a machine learning model. A first output is generated from the machine learning model by executing the machine learning model using the constraint vector as a first input to the machine learning model. The constraint vector is converted into a legal action mask. A probability vector is generated by executing a masked softmax operator. The masked softmax operator takes, as a second input, the first output. The masked softmax operator takes, as a third input, the legal action mask. The masked softmax operator generates, as a second output, the probabilities vector. Action outputs are generated by applying a sampling system to the probability vector. The action outputs include a subset of the user actions, and wherein the subset includes only allowed user actions. |
| US12282838B2 |
Systems and methods for assigning tasks in a neural network processor
Embodiments relate to managing tasks that when executed by a neural processor circuit instantiates a neural network. The neural processor circuit includes neural engine circuits and a neural task manager circuit. The neural task manager circuit includes multiple task queues and a task arbiter circuit. Each task queue stores a reference to a task list of tasks for a machine learning operation. Each task queue may be associated with a priority parameter. Based on the priority of the task queues, the task arbiter circuit retrieves configuration data for a task from a memory external to the neural processor circuit, and provides the configuration data to components of the neural processor circuit including the neural engine circuits. The configuration data programs the neural processor circuit to execute the task. For example, the configuration data may include input data and kernel data processed by the neural engine circuits to execute the task. |
| US12282835B1 |
Methods and devices for constucting multi-dimensional coupled vibration identification model for roll system of strip mill
Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a method and device for constructing a multi-dimensional coupled vibration identification model for a roll system of a strip mill, the method comprising: performing preprocessing, signal decomposition, and reconstruction of the multi-dimensional data for the roll system of the strip mill monitored through technical monitoring by multiple sensors during a working process of the strip mill, and performing feature extraction of the reconstructed data using a wavelet packet energy approach; obtaining an initial multi-dimensional coupled vibration feature local identification model for the roll system of the strip mill based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) by using a Gaussian radial basis function as a kernel function of the SVM model; and training the initial multi-dimensional coupled vibration feature local identification model for the roll system of the strip mill using a multi-source heterogeneous information fusion approach based on the feature vector to obtain the multi-dimensional coupled feature identification model for the roll system of the strip mill. |
| US12282832B1 |
System and methods for model management
Improved systems and methods for improved management of models for data science can facilitate seamless collaboration of data science teams and integration of data science workflows. Systems and methods provided herein can provide an open, unified platform to build, validate, deliver, and monitor models at scale. Systems and methods of the present disclosure may accelerate research, spark collaboration, increase iteration speed, and remove deployment friction to deliver impactful models. In particular, users may be allowed to visualize statistics about models and monitor models in real-time via a graphical user interface provided by the systems. |
| US12282830B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for curating NFTs
An apparatus and method for curating NFTs. The apparatus including at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least processor, the memory containing instructions configuring the at least processor to receive token data including at least an NFT, generate a user interface displaying the token data, receive a user input through the user interface, classify the token data to the user input, and configure the user interface to curate the token data classified to the user input. |
| US12282825B2 |
Tool control program system and method of tool control
A system and method of a tool control program that provides real-time tracking of critical data points relating to production tools between the point of issuance to a designated user to the point of return of each production tool by the designated user, including intermediate events such as sharpening, repair and damage analysis, whereby each critical data point is capable of being linked to a unique asset number assigned to each production tool and a unique designated user number in real-time providing for management, regulatory compliance and/or employee accountability relating to each production tool. The tool control program having an integrated software relating to scanning production tools in relation to the critical data points, such that real-time data analytics can be obtained and utilized for risk management and asset visibility. |
| US12282824B2 |
System and method for extracting a region of interest from a captured image of a mailpiece or parcel label
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for extracting a region of interest from a captured image of an item. The system may include a reader configured to capture an image of an item having a computer readable code positioned thereon. The system may also include a processor in data communication with the reader and configured to generate captured image data, the captured data comprising binary image data and identify a first pixel region representing the computer readable code from the binarized image data. The processor may be further configured to remove a second pixel region other than the first pixel region from the binarized image data and store or process only first binarized image data representing the first pixel region. |
| US12282822B2 |
Device and method for data capture aiming assistance
A data capture device includes: a display, a primary image sensor having a primary field of view centered on a primary optical axis; an auxiliary image sensor having an auxiliary field of view centered on an auxiliary optical axis, wherein the auxiliary field of view is larger than the primary field of view; a memory storing offset data defining an offset between the primary field of view and the auxiliary field of view; a data capture controller connected to the primary image sensor, the auxiliary image sensor and the memory; wherein the data capture controller is configured to: responsive to activation of an aiming mode, control the auxiliary image sensor to capture a video stream; select, according to the offset data, a portion of the video stream corresponding to the primary field of view; and present the selected portion of the video stream on the display. |
| US12282819B1 |
Magnetic stripe track signal having multiple communications channels
An electronic card (e.g., an electronic payment card) or another device (e.g., a wireless telephonic device) is provided that may communicate dynamic magnetic stripe data to a magnetic stripe reader. Information may be embedded into a magnetic track of data representative of additional information such as, for example, a unique identification number or an additional track of magnetic stripe data. |
| US12282818B1 |
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and devices for facilitating compliance with requirements for users
An apparatus for facilitating a compliance with requirements for users includes tags configured to be comprised in items. The tags are configured for establishing the compliance with a requirement for the user through a compliance monitoring device. The compliance monitoring device includes a detector configured for detecting the tags. The compliance monitoring device includes a processing device communicatively coupled with the detector. The processing device is configured for obtaining an identifier which is unique to each of the tags, obtaining a data, analyzing the data and the identifier of each of the tags based on the requirement, determining an anomaly in the establishing of the compliance with the requirement based on the analyzing, and generating a notification based on the determining. The compliance monitoring device includes a communication device communicatively coupled with the processing device. The communication device is configured for transmitting the notification to a device. |
| US12282815B2 |
Method for producing a multi-layered card body
In a method for manufacturing a multi-layered card body with a metallic core layer and at least one cover layer for a contactless or dual-interface chip card an adhesive is applied to at least one side of the metallic core layer in such a manner that a slot in the metallic core layer is filled with the adhesive. The metallic core layer is subsequently laminated with the cover layer by means of the adhesive. As a result, no short-circuit can occur in the slot, e.g. by metal chips remaining in the slot, because the slot has already been filled with the adhesive. |
| US12282814B1 |
Intelligent and automated RFID-based control system for a display
In one example, a processor can receive a first sensor signal from an RFID reader indicating that a container is within range of an RFID reader. In response, the processor can transmit a first control signal to the display for causing an identifier for the container to be output on a display. Next, the processor can receive a second sensor signal from the RFID reader indicating that the container is not within the range of the RFID reader. In response, the processor can transmit a second control signal to the display for causing the identifier to be removed from the display. Next, the processor can receive a third sensor signal from the RFID reader indicating that the container is again within the range of the RFID reader. In response, the processor can transmit a third control signal to the display for causing the identifier to again be output on the display. |
| US12282808B2 |
Data integrity monitoring and feedback control for cloud-based computing
The present specification provides data integrity monitoring and feedback in cloud-based computing platforms. While such platforms are ubiquitous and provide a means for globally scaled computing, the need for reliable data integrity also increases with scaling. A system in accordance with an embodiment includes a data integrity monitoring engine that integrates with existing cloud computing platforms and monitors events corresponding to receipt of files and checking the frequency and size of those files. |
| US12282802B2 |
Systems, devices, and methods to support teamwork in collaborative geographic simulation experiments
The subject pertains to systems, methods, and devices to provide improved teamwork guidelines for collaborators in geographic simulation experiments, whereby the collaborators can be led to participate in the geographic simulation tasks according to the teamwork guideline and be instructed to implement the simulation tasks to achieve their goals. The invention can automatically recommend appropriate geographic simulation schemes for specific geographic problems and communicate simulation task information and dependencies. Novel guide cards can instruct teamwork in geographic simulation experiments. Thus, the cards can advantageously instruct, promote, or guide teamwork in geographic simulation experiments and enhance the efficiency of geographic problem-solving. |
| US12282801B2 |
Instruction interpretation for web task automation
A method of generating an instruction performance skeleton employs an instruction unit configured to receive a natural language instruction. From the natural language instruction, a sequence of clauses may be extracted. The instruction unit then determines a target website or websites on which to perform the task. The object models of the target website are generated. A comparison of the sequence of actions to the object model and its labelling hierarchical class structure is performed. Based on this comparison, an instruction performance skeleton is generated. In future, on the basis of a further natural language instruction that is similar to the previous natural language instruction, the instruction performance skeleton may be modified to generate a playback performance skeleton to arrange performance of a task. |
| US12282800B2 |
Thread replay to preserve state in a barrel processor
Devices and techniques for thread replay to preserve state in a barrel processor are described herein. An apparatus includes a barrel processor, which includes a temporary memory; and a thread scheduling circuitry; wherein the barrel processor is configured to perform operations through use of the thread scheduling circuitry, the operations including those to: schedule a current thread to place into a pipeline for the barrel processor on a clock cycle, the barrel processor to schedule threads on each clock cycle; store the current thread in the temporary memory; detect that no thread is available on a clock cycle subsequent to the cycle that the current thread is scheduled; and in response to detecting that no thread is available on the subsequent clock cycle, repeat scheduling the current thread based on the contents of the temporary memory. |
| US12282799B2 |
Maintaining coherency in a distributed system
A method for a transactional commit in a storage unit is provided. The method includes receiving a logical record from a storage node into a transaction engine of a storage unit of the storage node and writing the logical record into a data structure of the transaction engine. The method includes writing, to a command queue of the transaction engine, an indication to perform an atomic update using the logical record and transferring each portion of the logical record from the data structure of the transaction engine to non-persistent memory of the storage unit as a committed transaction. A storage unit for a storage system is also provided. |
| US12282798B2 |
Data models for defining data transmission workflow and facilitating data communication
A computing device for collecting and preserving data acquired from various devices in a data model with the respective context of acquired data. The computing device may provide a user interface to receive the context or information model associated with a dataset. By providing data with its context, different software platforms may synthesize or analyze the retrieved data more efficiently. Moreover, the computing device may include transaction conditions to define a workflow for transferring the datasets using data model associated with one or more datasets for transmission of data to a destination. The transaction conditions may detail a custom workflow for data communication through an industrial automation system using the data model. |
| US12282795B2 |
Hypervisor hibernation
Upon receiving a request to hibernate a hypervisor of a virtualization system running on a first computer, acts are carried out to capture a state of the hypervisor, where the state of the hypervisor comprises hypervisor logical resource parameters and an execution state of the hypervisor. After hibernating the hypervisor by quiescing the hypervisor and storing the state of the hypervisor into a data structure, the data structure is moved to a different location. At a later moment in time, the data structure is loaded onto a second computing machine and restored. The restore operation restores the hypervisor and all of its state, including all of the virtual machines of the hypervisor as well as all of the virtual disks and other virtual devices of the virtual machines. Differences between the first computing machine and the second computing machine are reconciled before execution of the hypervisor on the second machine. |
| US12282794B2 |
Data processing systems
A data processing system (1) comprises a plurality of processing units (11) and a controller (30) operable to allocate processing units of the plurality of processing units into respective groups of the processing units, wherein each group of processing units comprises a set of one or more of the processing units of the plurality of processing units. The data processing system further comprises an arbiter (31, 32) for each group of processing units for controlling access by virtual machines (33, 34) that require processing operations to the processing units of the group of processing units that the arbiter has been allocated. |
| US12282793B2 |
Virtual machine management method based on prediction of virtual machine workload prediction for virtual machines deployed on servers and virtual machine management system implementing the same
A virtual machine (VM) management method may involve simulating a change in deployment of VMs deployed on physical servers including a first physical server and a second physical server physically separated from the first physical server. Server workload prediction based on possible VM deployment may be used for scheduling deployment of VMs to obtain a satisfactory deployment of the VMs on the servers. This may involve classification of storage loads of the VMs, forming a prediction model for predicting prediction load based on storage loads in a classification, and selecting a prediction model for use in determining a target prediction load on a physical server as a result of target VM being analyzed. |
| US12282791B2 |
Virtualized I/O
Distributed I/O virtualization includes receiving, at a first physical node in a plurality of physical nodes, an indication of a request to transfer data from an I/O device on the first physical node to a set of guest physical addresses. An operating system is executing collectively across the plurality of physical nodes. It further includes writing data from the I/O device to one or more portions of physical memory local to the first physical node. It further includes mapping the set of guest physical addresses to the written one or more portions of physical memory local to the first physical node. |
| US12282781B2 |
Cluster bootstrapping for distributed computing systems
A distributed computing system is described that leverages a nearline storage layer to minimize the downtime required for bootstrapping a new computing cluster in the distributed computing system. The system executes a computing cluster comprising a set of computing nodes and determines a set of one or more data segments to be written to a nearline storage system. The system writes the data segments to the nearline storage system. In certain examples, the system receives a request to create a second computing cluster and responsive to the request, bootstraps the second computing cluster using the set of data segments stored on the nearline storage system. The system additionally leverages the nearline storage layer to accelerate query processing by the computing nodes of a computing cluster. |
| US12282778B2 |
Selective use of branch prediction hints
Embodiments of apparatuses, methods, and systems for selective use of branch prediction hints are described. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes an instruction decoder and a branch predictor. The instruction decoder is to decode a branch instruction having a hint. The branch predictor is to provide a prediction and a hint-override indicator. The hint-override indicator is to indicate whether the prediction is based on stored information about the branch instruction. The prediction is to override the hint if the hint-override indicator indicates that the prediction is based on stored information about the branch instruction. |
| US12282775B2 |
Network device with programmable action processing
A network device includes one or more ports, match-action circuitry, and an action processor. The one or more ports are to exchange packets between the network device and a network. The match-action circuitry is to match at least some of the packets to one or more rules so as to set respective actions to be performed, at least one of the actions including a programmable action. The instruction processor is to perform the programmable action by running user-programmable software code. The instruction processor includes architectural registers, one or more of the architectural registers being accessible by the match-action circuitry, and the match-action circuitry is to write into the architectural registers information for performing the programmable action. |
| US12282774B2 |
Vector processor utilizing massively fused operations
Techniques are disclosed for the use of fused vector processor instructions by a vector processor architecture. Each fused vector processor instruction may include a set of fields associated with individual vector processing instructions. The vector processor architecture may implement local buffers facilitating a single vector processor instruction to be used to execute each of the individual vector processing instructions without re-accessing vector registers between each executed individual vector processing instruction. The vector processor architecture enables less communication across the interconnection network, thereby increasing interconnection network bandwidth and the speed of computations, and decreasing power usage. |
| US12282773B2 |
Systems, methods, and apparatus for tile configuration
Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix (tile) operations. For example, decode circuitry to decode an instruction having fields for an opcode and a memory address; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to set a tile configuration for the processor to utilize tiles in matrix operations based on a description retrieved from the memory address, wherein a tile a set of 2-dimensional registers are discussed. |
| US12282772B2 |
Vector processor with vector data buffer
A processor includes a time counter, a vector coprocessor, and a vector data buffer for executing vector load and store instructions. The processor handles unit, stride or indices of data elements of a vector register. The vector data buffer includes crossbar switches for coupling between a plurality of data elements of a vector register and a plurality of data banks of the vector data buffer. |
| US12282768B2 |
Automated developer configuration tool
Disclosed are various embodiments for an automated process for configuring a client device for software development in a particular development environment defined by an organization. In one example, a computing device is configured to configure a development environment associated with an organization on the computing device. A developer tool application associated with the organization can be downloaded. The computing device can modify a targeted application associated with the developer tool application and generate documentation for the targeted application based at least in part on the modification of the targeted application. An error assessment of a software upload can be performed. The software upload can be transmitted to a code repository based at least in part on the error assessment indicating that the software upload is compliant with an error configuration file. |
| US12282765B2 |
Automated update management in third-party update networks
A method of automated software management includes generating an initial update list including outstanding product updates for an endpoint. The method includes receiving from a third-party agent, product metadata related to products loaded on the endpoint. Based on discovered products, the method includes generating an endpoint-specific inventory including product metadata of the products loaded on the endpoint. The method includes identifying an unnecessary product update of the outstanding product updates not related to the discovered products. The method includes filtering the unnecessary product update from the initial update list to generate a modified update list including a subset of outstanding product updates and omitting the unnecessary product update. The method includes distributing only the subset of outstanding product updates of the modified update list to the managed endpoint. |
| US12282763B1 |
Configuring an installation of a software program using a model trained based on information from a customer relationship management system
Disclosed are embodiments of a installed software program that receive a model from a product management system. The model is trained to select one of a plurality of predefined states based on operational parameter values of the installation of the software program. Each of the plurality of predefined states define configuration values of the installation of the software program. The defined configuration values indicate, in some embodiments, updates to operational parameter values of the installation of the software program. |
| US12282758B2 |
Customizable containerization framework system and method
Systems and methods for containerization are provided. Various embodiments provide containerization systems and methods that The method includes deploying an initial container image associated with a startup script, a pre-service script and post-service script. This deployment Further, the method includes executing the startup script associated with the initial container image, and the executing including copying configuration information for the initial container image into a volume and generating a marker file for the initial container image. The containerization systems and methods The method also includes deploying a main container image associated with a startup script. This deployment The method also includes executing the startup script associated with the main container image and copying the configuration information from the volume to a local system. This deployment alse Additionally, the method includes executing the main container, including executing the pre-service script associated with the initial container image, configuring the main container, executing a main service, and executing the post-service script associated with the initial container image. |
| US12282752B2 |
Automatic detection of robotic process automation trigger events
An embodiment includes classifying an incoming communication message as having an instruction classification based on a natural language processing (NLP) analysis of the incoming communication message. The embodiment extracts, responsive to classifying the incoming communication message as having the instruction classification, user operations as a workflow dataset. The embodiment clusters the workflow dataset into a task cluster with other similar workflow datasets representative of previously-extracted user operations. The embodiment designates the instruction classification as a trigger event based at least in part on the NLP analysis of the incoming communication message. The embodiment generates a robotic process automation (RPA) bot script that comprises program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform operations that automate the user operations in response to the trigger event. |
| US12282751B2 |
Performing constant modulo arithmetic
A binary logic circuit for determining y=x mod(2m−1), where x is an n-bit integer, y is an m-bit integer, and n>m, includes reduction logic configured to reduce x to a sum of a first m-bit integer β and a second m-bit integer γ; and addition logic configured to calculate an addition output represented by the m least significant bits of the following sum right-shifted by m: a first binary value of length 2m, the m most significant bits and the m least significant bits each being the string of bit values represented by β; a second binary value of length 2m, the m most significant bits and the m least significant bits each being the string of bit values represented by γ; and the binary value 1. |
| US12282750B2 |
Processing-in-memory devices having multiple operation circuits
A processing-in-memory (PIM) device may include a plurality of memory banks configured to provide plural groups of weight data, a global buffer configured to provide plural sets of vector data, and a plurality of multiplication/accumulation (MAC) operators configured to perform MAC operations of the plural groups of weigh data and the plural sets of vector data. Each of the plurality of MAC operators includes a plurality of multiple operation circuits. Each of the plurality of multiple operation circuits is configured to perform an arithmetic operation in a first operation mode, a second operation mode, or a third operation mode according to first to third selection signals. |
| US12282748B1 |
Coarse floating point accumulator circuit, and MAC processing pipelines including same
An integrated circuit including a multiplier-accumulator circuit pipeline including a plurality of MAC circuits. Each MAC circuit includes: (A) a multiplier circuit to multiply first input data and filter weight data to generate and output first product data having a floating point data format, and (B) a coarse floating point accumulator circuit including: (1) an alignment shift circuit to shift at least one field of the first product data and generate shifted first product data, and (2) fixed point addition circuitry, coupled to the alignment shift circuit, to add second input data and the shifted first product data using the fixed point addition circuitry. The plurality of MAC circuits of the multiplier-accumulator circuit execution pipeline, in operation, each perform a plurality of multiply operations and accumulate operations to process the first input data and generate processed data therefrom. |
| US12282745B2 |
Intelligent question answering method, apparatus, and device, and computer-readable storage medium
An intelligent question answering method includes: determining, based on received question information, a target object and a target attribute corresponding to the question information; obtaining an answer knowledge path and an external knowledge path of the target object other than the answer knowledge path from a pre-established knowledge graph based on the target object and the target attribute, the answer knowledge path including target context information for describing the target attribute, and the external knowledge path including external context information for describing another attribute; inputting the answer knowledge path and the external knowledge path into a trained neural network model to obtain a reply text, a training corpus of the neural network model during training including at least comment information of the target object; and outputting the reply text. |
| US12282740B2 |
Distributed computing architecture for intent matching
A server transmits a query received from a user device to multiple deployment engines, each deployment engine being associated with an intent. The server receives, from each of a subset of the multiple deployment engines, a score representing a likelihood that the query matches to the associated intent. The server transmits, to the user device, a message comprising representations of intents for which the score is within a predefined range. |
| US12282737B2 |
Generating predicted ink stroke information using ink-based semantics
In some examples, systems and methods for generating predicted ink strokes, using ink-based semantics, are provided. Ink stroke data may be received, the ink stroke data and a semantic context may be input into a model. From the model, one or more predicted ink strokes may be determined. Further, an indication of the one or more predicted ink strokes may be generated. |
| US12282731B2 |
Guardrails for efficient processing and error prevention in generating suggested messages
Systems and methods for using a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model to generate a suggested draft reply to a selected message. A message generation system and method are described that use guardrails that prevent unnecessary AI model processing and accidental sending of an AI model-generated draft. In some examples, draft reply-generation is limited to a subset of messages (e.g., focused, non-confidential) and triggering of the draft reply generation is performed only after user interaction criteria are satisfied. In some examples, a confirmation message is presented when the draft reply is attempted to be sent with no changes or quickly after the draft is generated. For instance, the guardrails limit the number of times the AI model is invoked to generate suggested replies and further prevents users from accidentally sending drafts generated from the AI model. |
| US12282730B2 |
Document creation support apparatus, document creation support method, and program
A text generation unit (14) generates a plurality of texts which describe properties of feature portions and are different from each other for at least one feature portion included in an image. A display control unit (15) performs control such that each of the plurality of texts is displayed on a display unit. |
| US12282729B2 |
System for dynamic editing with hidden codes
A method for changing printed material, hereafter called interactive book, is provided. The original interactive book may have imbedded links to an External Dedicated Book Addition. The present interactive book allows for multiple people to be able to constantly update External Dedicated Book Additions for the book and solve problems using hidden codes to receive a reward. |
| US12282717B2 |
Method and procedure for evaluation and compensation of springback
A method for compensating springback of a part includes running a finite element analysis (FEA) simulation of forming a panel using a model of forming die such that a panel with springback is simulated, determining at least two zero springback locations on the panel where hanging apertures are simulated, running an FEA simulation of the panel hanging from the hanging apertures, and comparing a geometry of the hanging panel to a geometry of a reference panel such that a difference between the geometry of the hanging panel and the geometry of the reference panel due to the springback is determined and compensated. |
| US12282716B2 |
Spectrally selective emitter and design method thereof
The present invention relates to a spectrally selective emitter and a design method thereof. The designed emitter has a one-dimensional layered structure, including a first layer, a second layer and a third layer arranged in sequence, wherein both the first and third layers are hafnium oxide layers, and the second layer is a hafnium oxide layer with multiple erbium oxide nanoparticles distributed. The designed emitter is a material-type emitter with spectrally selective emittance. Compared with the traditional structure-type emitter, the material-type emitter has high thermal stability and oxidation resistance, which can fundamentally solve the high-temperature degradation problem. The invention has the characteristics of accuracy and high efficiency, and can comprehensively reveal the variation rule of the spectral emittance of the material-type hafnium oxide selective emitter doped with erbium oxide nanoparticles and the doping amount and nanoparticles size, which can laying a foundation for the practical application of high-temperature selective emitter. |
| US12282711B2 |
System and method for modeling plant systems utilizing scalable and repeatable modules
A modeling system for a plant system of a power plant is provided. The modeling system enables receiving a selection of one or more pre-engineered sub-modules for a plant system module, wherein each pre-engineered sub-module is configured to be scalable over a defined range both for an entire class product range and each potential power plant configuration, and each pre-engineered sub-module is parametrized within the defined range with a pre-defined parametric relationship. The modeling system enables receiving values for one or more variables for the defined range for the one or more pre-engineered sub-modules. The modeling system enables generating a pre-engineered and parametrized sub-module model for each of the one or more pre-engineered sub-modules based on the values for the variables and generating a plant system module model from the pre-engineered and parametrized sub-module models by assembling the pre-engineered and parametrized sub-module models together according to pre-defined rules. |
| US12282703B2 |
Computerized systems and methods for hosting and dynamically generating and providing customized media and media experiences
Disclosed are systems, servers and methods for providing a novel framework that enables the unique cataloging and organization of audio files, upon which audio rendering experiences can be created and provided to requesting users, whether the users are individuals or third-party partners. The disclosed framework enables audio files to be stripped down, uniquely stored, and then stitched together in a novel manner that previously did not exist within the computing arts. The disclosed systems and methods, therefore, provide a novel platform where audio is not just provided to consumers, but audio experiences are compiled from various types of audio formats and types in a unique, dynamically determined manner for a listening user. |
| US12282699B2 |
Vehicle display device, vehicle display method, and recording medium
A vehicle display device transfers image information to a transfer destination that is a display device included in a vehicle, and includes: a transfer mode determiner that determines a transfer mode of the image information suitable for a rendering capability of the transfer destination, based on the image information, a rendering capability of a transfer source that is the vehicle display device, and the rendering capability of the transfer destination; and a transfer processor that converts a preset transfer mode to the transfer mode determined by the transfer mode determiner, and transfers the image information to the transfer destination in the transfer mode as converted. |
| US12282696B2 |
Method and system for semantic appearance transfer using splicing ViT features
Using a pre-trained and fixed Vision Transformer (ViT) model as an external semantic prior, a generator is trained given only a single structure/appearance image pair as input. Given two input images, a source structure image and a target appearance image, a new image is generated by the generator in which the structure of the source image is preserved, while the visual appearance of the target image is transferred in a semantically aware manner, so that objects in the structure image are “painted” with the visual appearance of semantically related objects in the appearance image. A self-supervised, pre-trained ViT model, such as a DINO-VIT model, is leveraged as an external semantic prior, allowing for training of the generator only on a single input image pair, without any additional information (e.g., segmentation/correspondences), and without adversarial training. The method may generate high quality results in high resolution (e.g., HD). |
| US12282689B2 |
Dynamic redundant array of independent disks (RAID) transformation
A technique is directed to providing dynamic redundant array of independent disks (RAID) transformation which involves measuring a set of storage array parameters for an existing RAID configuration residing in a storage array. The technique further involves identifying a new RAID configuration to use in place of the existing RAID configuration based on the measured set of storage array parameters. The technique further involves, after the new RAID configuration is identified, transforming the existing RAID configuration into the new RAID configuration. |
| US12282688B2 |
Systems and methods for processing commands for storage devices
Methods and systems for processing a command from a host to a storage device are disclosed. A first controller of the storage device receives a first command from the host via a first queue. The first queue is exposed to the host. The storage device generates a second command based on the first command, and submits the second command to a second controller of the storage device via a second queue. The second command and the second queue are unexposed to the host. The second controller obtains and processes the second command from the second queue, where the processing of the second command is for accessing non-volatile storage media of the storage device. Based on a status of the second command, the first controller transmits a signal to the host for indicating completion of the first command. |
| US12282685B2 |
Computational storage device, method for operating the computational storage device and method for operating host device
A method for operating a computational storage device includes receiving by a storage controller and from a host device: (1) a compute namespace setting instruction instructing the setting of a compute namespace; (2) a latency threshold value related to the compute namespace; (3) a program; (4) a first execute command using the program; and (5) a second execute command using the program. Additionally, the method includes transmitting, by the storage controller and to the host device, a latency message in response to the second execute command. |
| US12282684B2 |
Techniques for controlling command order
Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for controlling command order are described. An entity of a host system, such as a file system, may insert a sequential identifier into commands generated by the entity to indicate an order of the commands. In some examples, the host system may specify a set of commands in a first sequence to be transmitted to the memory system. The host system may subsequently reorder the set of commands in to a second sequence and transmit the set of commands to the memory system. In some cases, following a power-on condition, the memory system may determine a latest valid command of the set of commands. The memory system may subsequently invalidate one or more logical addresses associated with commands having sequence identifiers after the sequence identifier of the latest valid command. |
| US12282681B2 |
Balancing power, endurance and latency in a ferroelectric memory
Apparatus and method for managing data in a non-volatile memory (NVM) having an array of ferroelectric memory cells (FMEs). A data set received from an external client device is programmed to a group of the FMEs at a target location in the NVM using a selected profile. The selected profile provides different program characteristics, such as applied voltage magnitude and pulse duration, to achieve desired levels of power used during the program operation, endurance of the data set, and latency effects associated with a subsequent read operation to retrieve the data set. The profile may be selected from among a plurality of profiles for different operational conditions. The ferroelectric NVM may form a portion of a solid-state drive (SSD) storage device. Different types of FMEs may be utilized including ferroelectric tunneling junctions (FTJs), ferroelectric random access memory (FeRAM), and ferroelectric field effect transistors (FeFETs). |
| US12282680B2 |
System and method for managing sorted keys in a persistent memory system
A system and method for system and method for managing sorted keys in a persistent memory system. In some embodiments, the method includes adding a key to a sorted set of keys. The adding may include: identifying a bin, in a key map, corresponding to the key; and adding the key to a subset of keys associated with the bin, the subset of keys being stored in persistent memory. |
| US12282679B2 |
Storage design for host controlled logically addressed flexible data layout
A drive placement or placement functionality can enable initial copies of data to be placed on a drive in reclaim unit (HRUs) in a manner which is probabilistically more efficient from a garbage collection (GC) perspective and leverages knowledge of a host or application using the data. The placement functionality enables the advantages of fine-grained placement functionality while simultaneously allowing a storage device or storage drive to maintain NAND or other management responsibility, and not allocate that responsibility to an application or host device using the device. |
| US12282677B2 |
Object store mirroring based on checkpoint
Techniques are provided for object store mirroring. Data within a storage tier of a node may be determined as being data to tier out to a primary object store based upon a property of the data. A first object is generated to comprise the data. A second object is generated to comprise the data. The first object is transmitted to the primary data store for storage in parallel with the second object being transmitted to a mirror object store for storage. Tiering of the data is designated as successful once acknowledgements are received from both the primary object that the first object was stored and the mirror object store that the second object was stored. |
| US12282674B2 |
Evidence collection guidance method and apparatus for file selection and computer-readable storage medium
Disclosed herein are an evidence collection guidance method and apparatus for file selection. The evidence collection guidance method includes generating pieces of preliminary analysis information that are pieces of collection target information, setting levels of the pieces of preliminary analysis information based on predefined rules, and generating and outputting notification information including summary description information and follow-up measure items related to the pieces of preliminary analysis information corresponding to the levels. |
| US12282672B2 |
Magnetic disk device
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a plurality of magnetic disks including a first recording surface and a second recording surface, a first magnetic head that writes data to the first recording surface, a second magnetic head that writes data to the second recording surface and a controller that includes a counter configured to detect the number of writes of each of the first magnetic head and the second magnetic head, an unwritten detection unit configured to detect an unwritten block from the blocks, and a memory configured to store a first threshold for the number of writes of each of the first magnetic head and the second magnetic head and a second threshold less than or equal to the first threshold. |
| US12282668B2 |
Methods, apparatuses, non-transitory computer-readable storage devices, and systems using fine-grained whole-program pointer layout transforms
Methods and devices for analyzing and updating intermediate representations containing pointers includes compiling one or more source files into intermediate representations (IRs) having pointers, analyzing the IRs, producing transformed IRs comprising updated pointers, and producing object code from the transformed IRs. The device may include one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage devices having computer-executable instructions, when executed, cause a processing structure to perform the actions described relating to pointers. The analysis and updating of pointers may relate to types of bounds to enhance security of the systems in question by preventing erroneous references to memory space by pointers. |
| US12282665B2 |
Memory operation method and memory device for data movement
A memory operation method, comprising: when a first super block of a memory device is a open block (or in programming state), obtaining a first read count of one of a plurality of first memory blocks in the first super block, wherein the first read count is a number of times that data of one of the first memory blocks is read out; determining whether the first read count is larger than a first threshold; and when the first read count is larger than the first threshold, moving a part of the data in the first super block to a safe area in the memory device, wherein the part of the data comprises data in the first memory block. |
| US12282663B2 |
Data storage device and method for time-pooled hot data relocation
Post-write data management operations, such as refresh read, data scrub, and data relocation, are typically performed after a certain period of time has elapsed. However, performing such operations based on probability of access can provide advantages. So, in one example, a post-write data management operation is performed more frequently on relatively-warmer data than on relatively-colder data. |
| US12282662B2 |
Chassis servicing and migration in a scale-up NUMA system
One aspect of the application can provide a system and method for replacing a failing node with a spare node in a non-uniform memory access (NUMA) system. During operation, in response to determining that a node-migration condition is met, the system can initialize a node controller of the spare node such that accesses to a memory local to the spare node are to be processed by the node controller, quiesce the failing node and the spare node to allow state information of processors on the failing node to be migrated to processors on the spare node, and subsequent to unquiescing the failing node and the spare node, migrate data from the failing node to the spare node while maintaining cache coherence in the NUMA system and while the NUMA system remains in operation, thereby facilitating continuous execution of processes previously executed on the failing node. |
| US12282661B2 |
Method and apparatus for fine tuning and optimizing NVMe-of SSDs
A data storage system includes: a plurality of data storage devices; a motherboard containing a baseboard management controller (BMC); and a network switch configured to route network traffic to the plurality of data storage devices. The BMC is configured to identify a group of data storage devices among the plurality of data storage devices based on device-specific information received from the plurality of data storage devices and send identifiers of the group of data storage devices to a querying party. |
| US12282659B2 |
Data management apparatus, data management method, and data storage device
A data management apparatus, a data management method, and a data storage device are provided. The data management apparatus includes a management unit and a data migration unit. The management unit manages data transmission channels between two types of storage media with different transmission performance. Then, the data migration unit migrates data between the two types of storage media through the managed data transmission channels. In this way, the data management apparatus can directly migrate data between storage media with different transmission performance, and a CPU in a system does not need to perform processing such as instruction conversion and protocol conversion, so that a delay of performing the foregoing processing by the CPU can be shortened. In addition, because the CPU does not need to perform data migration, resource overheads of the CPU can be reduced. |
| US12282655B2 |
Adaptive mapping for transparent block device level compression
A method for adaptive mapping for data compression includes determining an input/output (I/O) request pattern, dynamically switching between a segment mapping mode and a flat hash table mapping mode based on the determined I/O request pattern, updating a shared mapping table for the segment mapping mode and the flat hash table mapping mode, and adjusting an entry of the mapping table based on the determined I/O request pattern and a status of the entry. |
| US12282651B2 |
Display of retrievable content indicators with category information
Provided is an information processing apparatus including an operation detection unit configured to detect a user's operation, and a display control unit configured to display content in a part including a middle of a display screen and display thumbnails corresponding to content belonging to one category in one direction along one side of the display screen in a region located separately from the middle of the display screen. The display control unit moves the displayed thumbnails in a vertical direction with respect to the one direction according to an operation which is detected by the operation detection unit and is an operation of switching the one category to which the content corresponding to the displayed thumbnails belongs. |
| US12282646B2 |
Network resource location linking and visual content sharing
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for transmitting shared visual content between networked devices with a linked source for the visual content by accessing and presenting visual content, receiving a network location for a network resource associated with the visual content, linking the network location to the visual content to generate linked visual content, and cause presentation of the linked visual content in a draft message within a graphical user interface. |
| US12282645B2 |
System, method and graphical user interface for providing a self-service application within a metaverse
A system for providing a self-service application within a virtual environment comprises a processor associated with a server. The processor receives a request with a first user data from a user device to conduct a first interaction in a real-world environment. The processor processes a user profile and the first user data to generate a virtual meeting area with an entity avatar associated with an entity device. The processor sends a first mobile deep link to the user device to grant access to the virtual meeting area. The processor generates a graphical user interface (GUI) to conduct the second interaction. The processor integrates a first video stream from the user device and a second video stream associated with the entity avatar on the GUI. The processor obtains a second user data from the first video stream and generate contextual objects. The processor renders the contextual objects into an application profile. |
| US12282642B1 |
Facilitating selection of keys related to a selected key
Described herein are techniques for rendering additional keys on a display of an electronic device based on one or more characteristics of a user's selection of another key. After rendering the additional keys, the user may thereafter select one of the additional keys now available and rendered on the display. |
| US12282639B2 |
Sensor module and display device including the sensor module
Disclosed is a sensor module including a first substrate having an insulating property, a plurality of sensor electrodes over the first substrate, a second substrate having an insulating property over the plurality of sensor electrodes, at least one charge-dispersing film over the second substrate, and a third substrate over the at least one charge-dispersing film. The at least one charge-dispersing film may consist of one charge-dispersing film overlapping all of the plurality of sensor electrodes. |
| US12282634B2 |
Processor for determining level of responsiveness and electronic device comprising same
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a sensor unit comprising one or more sensors, a display comprising a touch sensor, and at least one processor for controlling the electronic device, wherein the processor may detect a touch input through the touch sensor, when a touch input is detected, determine whether the touch input is valid on the basis of state information generated through the one or more sensors, when it is determined that the touch input is valid, determine a target level of responsiveness for the touch input from among a plurality of levels on the basis of at least one of the state information and application information about an application being executed by the electronic device, and control the electronic device on the basis of the target level. |
| US12282633B2 |
Method and system for predicting touch interaction position on large display based on binocular camera
Disclosed is a method and system for predicting a touch interaction position on a large display based on a binocular camera. The method includes: separately acquiring arm movement video frames of a user and facial and eye movement video frames of the user by a binocular camera; extracting a video clip of each tapping action from the arm movement video frames and the facial and eye movement video frames and obtaining a key frame by screening; marking the key frame of each tapping action with coordinates to indicate coordinates of a finger in a display screen; inputting the marked key frame to an efficient convolutional network for online video understanding (ECO)-Lite neural network for training to obtain a predictive network model; and inputting a video frame of a current operation to be predicted to the predictive network model and outputting a touch interaction position predicted for the current operation. |
| US12282626B2 |
Test method for combination of touch sensitive processing apparatus and touch panel, touch sensitive processing method, apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and touch system thereof
A test method for a combination of touch sensitive processing apparatus and touch panel. The test method is configured to find out whether a stored time difference value with regard to driving signals is appropriate for the combination. If not, the test method is further configured to test several candidate time difference values for finding out one or a best one, which can be stored in a non-firmware of a non-volatile memory as a parameter for further touch sensitive processing. When none of the candidate time difference values is appropriate, the combination is determined as disqualified. |
| US12282625B2 |
Display device and touch sensing system including the same
A display device includes a display unit having pixels, a touch sensing unit including touch electrodes disposed on the display unit, and a touch driver configured to supply a touch driving signal to the plurality of touch electrodes and receive a touch sensing signal from the touch electrodes. The touch driver supplies a first touch driving signal having a first phase to one or more first touch electrodes, and supplies a second touch driving signal having a second phase opposite to the first phase to one or more second touch electrodes, at least a part of which is disposed across a specific point from the first touch electrodes. The touch driver receives a first touch sensing signal having the first phase from at least one of the first touch electrodes, and receives a second touch sensing signal having the second phase from at least one of the second touch electrodes. |
| US12282623B2 |
Microcontroller, readout integrated circuit, and method of driving circuit
The present disclosure relates to a microcontroller, a readout integrated circuit and a method of driving a circuit, and more particularly, to a microcontroller, a readout integrated circuit and a method of driving a circuit to transmit command signals by using a pair of lines, through which signals are transmitted from the microcontroller which is a master circuit to the readout integrated circuit which is a slave circuit, as two single-ended signal transmission lines and to control power of the readout integrated circuit which is a slave circuit. |
| US12282614B2 |
Electronic pen
Provided is an electronic pen including a tubular housing having an opening at one end, a core body portion including a rod-shaped core body and a pressure member that holds a rear end of the core body and transmits a force applied to the core body, a writing pressure detector that detects a writing pressure applied to the core body, and a tubular holding member that accommodates and holds the core body portion. At least part of a side surface of the core body portion includes a flat surface portion parallel to an axial direction of the pen. An inner edge of the holding member has a cylindrical shape and at least part of the inner edge includes a protruding portion. With the core body portion mounted in the housing, the flat surface portion of the core body portion and the protruding portion of the holding member face each other. |
| US12282611B2 |
Information handling system hybrid heat block keyboard
A portable information handling system manages thermal energy presented at a keyboard with a hybrid support plate having a first portion of a first material and first thermal conductivity and a second material of a second thermal conductivity so that heat is presented in an even manner at the keyboard. For example, a keyboard support plate of a metal, such as steel, has a portion of liquid crystal polymer aligned with a central processing unit to impede heat transfer at the location of the central processing unit. In various embodiments, the liquid crystal polymer can include a carbon liquid crystal polymer and a delta liquid crystal polymer. |
| US12282607B2 |
Fingerspelling text entry
A text entry process for an Augmented Reality (AR) system. The AR system detects, using one or more cameras of the AR system, a start text entry gesture made by a user of the AR system. During text entry, the AR system detects, using the one or more cameras, a symbol corresponding to a fingerspelling sign made by the user. The AR system generates entered text data based on the symbol and provides text in a text scene component of an AR overlay provided by the AR system to the user based on the entered text data. |
| US12282603B2 |
Tactile presentation panel, tactile presentation touch panel, tactile presentation touch display, and tactile presentation knob
A tactile presentation panel includes a tactile presentation voltage generation circuit that generates a voltage signal having a first frequency to be applied to at least one first electrode located in at least a partial region on an operation surface of the tactile presentation panel, and generates a voltage signal having a second frequency different from the first frequency to be applied to at least one second electrode located in at least a partial region on the operation surface of the tactile presentation panel, a charge discharge portion that is connected to the tactile electrode and discharges charges accumulated in a conductive elastic portion, and a touch detection circuit that detects contact of the user with a tactile presentation knob. |
| US12282601B2 |
Operation control device, operation control method, and computer-readable storage medium
An operation control device includes: a brain-information acquiring unit configured to acquire brain information of a user; a determining unit configured to determine whether the brain information acquired by the brain-information acquiring unit includes brain information corresponding to a first command representing an operation to operate an operation object and brain information corresponding to a second command representing an action to operate an operating member; and an executing unit configured to execute processing corresponding to the first command when the determining unit determines that the brain information corresponding to the first command and the brain information corresponding to the second command are acquired. |
| US12282597B2 |
Determining gaze direction to generate augmented reality content
The subject technology determines a gaze direction in a field of view of a user using an eyewear device. The subject technology generates an anchor point in the field of view based at least in part on the determined gaze direction. The subject technology identifies a surface corresponding to a ground plane in the field of view. The subject technology determines a distance from the identified surface to the anchor point. The subject technology generates AR content based at least in part on the determined distance. The subject technology renders the generated AR content in the field of view for display by the eyewear device. |
| US12282592B2 |
Co-located full-body gestures
A method for detecting full-body gestures by a mobile device includes a host mobile device detecting the tracked body of a co-located participant in a multi-party session. When the participant's tracked body provides a full-body gesture, the host's mobile device recognizes that there is a tracked body providing a full-body gesture. The host mobile device iterates through the list of participants in the multi-party session and finds the closest participant mobile device with respect to the screen-space position of the head of the gesturing participant. The host mobile device then obtains the user ID of the closest participant mobile device and broadcasts the recognized full-body gesture event to all co-located participants in the multi-party session, along with the obtained user ID. Each participant's mobile device may then handle the gesture event as appropriate for the multi-party session. For example, a character or costume may be assigned to a gesturing participant. |
| US12282591B2 |
Alternative-reality devices and methods for establishing and visualizing historical sites of vascular access
Alternative-reality devices and methods are disclosed for establishing and visualizing historical sites of vascular access, which are useful for evaluating potential sites of vascular access and improving the successes of obtaining vascular access. For example, an alternative-reality device includes anatomical target-defining instructions and vascular access site-tracking instructions in memory of the alternative-reality device for execution by one-or-more processors thereof. The alternative-reality device also includes a patient-facing camera configured to capture images or video frames for generating an anatomical target in the memory per the anatomical target-defining instructions and tracking the historical sites of vascular access in relation thereto with the vascular access site-tracking instructions. With a display screen of the alternative-reality device, a user can instantly see an environment including an anatomical portion of a patient to which the anatomical target corresponds, as well as graphical elements anchored to the anatomical portion indicating the historical sites of vascular access. |
| US12282589B2 |
Electronic device including an electronic module and a compensation circuit
An electronic device includes a power supply terminal, a voltage regulator connected to the power supply terminal, an electronic module connected to the voltage regulator, and a compensation circuit configured to receive an auxiliary current generated by the voltage regulator and being equal to a first fraction of the electronic module current. The compensation circuit includes a current source configured to supply a source current to a cold point, and a compensation stage connected to the power supply terminal and being traversed by an intermediate current equal to a difference between the source current and the auxiliary current and by a complementary current equal to the intermediate current multiplied by an inverse multiplication factor of the first fraction. |
| US12282588B2 |
System and method for managing use of storage in distributed systems
Methods and systems for managing storage of data are disclosed. To manage data storage, one or more access management frameworks may be used. One of the access management frameworks may be a storage array side framework that limits access to data based on user reservations. The user reservations may indicate the data subject to access limitation, the entity that requested the user reservation, and the extent of the access limitation. The user reservations may be used by the storage array to process receive input-output. |
| US12282587B2 |
Electronic device and control method thereof
An electronic device includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores information related to an artificial intelligence model that performs arithmetic operations through neural network layers. The processor pre-processes raw data and obtains output data by inputting the pre-processed raw data to the artificial intelligence model. First data used for pre-processing the raw data and second data used in a portion of the neural network layers are stored in a secure area of the memory, and third data used in remaining layers of the neural network layers other than the portion is stored in a non-secure area of the memory. |
| US12282585B2 |
Controlling information privacy in a shared data storage management system
An illustrative data storage management system uses a control layer that controls information content presented to users and ensures information privacy between diverse tenants and/or resellers who share the system. The system populates a relationship database as transactions roll in (intake processing), and uses information in the relationship database later when processing responses (output processing). The relationship database comprises associations between e.g., a company ID and any number of entities that were created by or on behalf of the company or that are related to the company's service in the system. The control layer parses raw results that are responsive to requests for information and prevents others' information from being included in the responsive message(s). The techniques disclosed herein are not limited to shared systems managed by service providers, and may be implemented in fully owned and operated systems to add security and privacy among diverse users and/or departments. |
| US12282583B2 |
Information processing device, information processing method and storage medium
An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires vehicle information relevant to a vehicle; an identification unit that identifies a driver of the vehicle based on the vehicle information acquired by the acquisition unit; a management unit that manages a plurality of pieces of driver information relevant to the driver identified by the identification unit; and an acceptance unit that accepts a selection about a management method for the driver information by the management unit. |
| US12282582B2 |
Compromise free cloud data encryption and security
A cloud data encryption and security system includes a central computing authority and a network of computing devices. At least some of the computing devices are pod computing devices physically hosted by an operator. The pod computing devices include a central processing unit and a computer readable storage media in data communication with the central processing unit. Data is encrypted in the computer readable storage media so that the owner can access the data but the operator cannot access the data. |
| US12282579B2 |
Performing actions on personal data stored in multiple databases
Systems and method for performing privacy actions on data records are provided. In one implementation, a method includes receiving a request from a client to perform a privacy action with respect to data records associated with the client. The method also includes using a crawler tool to find the data records appearing throughout the network in one or more data sources. Also, the method includes querying the one or more data sources to determine whether the one or more data sources are legitimate and whether the data still exists on the one or more data sources and then performing the privacy action on the data records. |
| US12282574B2 |
Generational access to safeguarded copy source volumes
Ensuring that enterprise data that has potentially become corrupted is recoverable and usable by creating safeguarded copy volumes of the enterprise data. One important aspect of any corruption detection scheme is to determine when the data has become corrupted and locate the last known uncorrupted copy of the data as quickly as possible. Once this set of data is identified, the restoration process can begin with that data, and subsequent logged transactions can be reapplied if possible, which brings the data to the most recent and uncorrupted version. |
| US12282569B2 |
Systems and methods for processing requests for access
The disclosed methods may receive a first request for access to a first system memory from a new user and a first justification, the first request includes first role information and first current access information of the new user, determine whether the first request is within a request cluster based on first role history information and current access history information. When the first request is within the request cluster, generate a matrix from the first role information and the first current access information, and determine using a first neural network, whether to grant the first request based on the matrix. When the first request is granted by the first neural network, determine, using a second neural network, whether the first justification is similar to first justification history information. When the first justification is similar to the first justification history information, grant the new user access to the first system memory. |
| US12282566B2 |
Storage provisioning
There is provided a method performed by an encryption node for provisioning storage in a system. The encryption node is associated with an application node and the application node is configured to run at least part of one or more applications. In response to an unencrypted storage volume becoming available to the encryption node from a storage provisioning node of the system, an encrypted storage volume is generated (20) from the unencrypted storage volume and provisioning of the encrypted storage volume is initiated (22) to make the encrypted storage volume available at a compute node of the system for use by the application node. |
| US12282565B2 |
Generative cybersecurity exploit synthesis and mitigation
Described herein are systems and methods for identifying security vulnerabilities. The systems and methods herein can utilize security vulnerability information to identify potential security threats and can utilize this information to generate an attack using a machine learning model, such as a large language model. Generated attacks can be carried out to assess impact of a security vulnerability. An output can be provided that represents the assessed impact. In some implementations, the systems and methods herein generate patches or other mitigations for security vulnerabilities, which can be tested and deployed to address security vulnerabilities. |
| US12282562B2 |
Predicting system misconfigurations using machine learning
Methods, apparatus, and program products that can predict misconfigurations in a computing system using machine learning are disclosed herein. One method includes labeling one or more graph nodes or link nodes of a data graph of a computing system that includes one or more security vulnerabilities with a node label or link label, respectively, in which each node label represents the first security vulnerabilities associated with a particular graph node and each link label represents the second security vulnerabilities associated with a particular link node. The method further includes utilizing the graph node(s) or the link node(s) to train a machine learning algorithm to predict one or more misconfigurations in the computing system based on the security vulnerabilities and determining one or more modifications to the computing system for mitigating the one or more misconfigurations. Apparatus and program products that include and/or perform the methods are also disclosed herein. |
| US12282553B1 |
Model-based process to validate build integrity of software products
Techniques are described for a model-based process to validate build integrity of software products. A build integrity validation system generates a build artifact model including one or more software components extracted from a build artifact resulting from a software build process of source code and generates a source code including one or more software components extracted from the source code. The system compares the software components of the build artifact model and the software components of the source code model, and identifies at least one discrepancy between the build artifact model and the source code model. The system determines a level of risk associated with the at least one discrepancy and, in response to determining the level of risk associated with the at the least one discrepancy, generates a decision indicating whether the at least one build artifact is approved for use in a software product. |
| US12282552B2 |
Quantification of cyber risk in application workloads
Embodiments assess security vulnerability of an application. An embodiment identifies one or more executables associated with an application and identifies one or more libraries associated with the application. In turn, based on the identified one or more executables and identified one or more libraries, static vulnerability of the application and dynamic vulnerability of the application are determined. Then, an indication of security vulnerability of the application is generated based on the determined static vulnerability and the determined dynamic vulnerability. |
| US12282551B2 |
Detection of anomalous backup files using known anomalous file fingerprints
Techniques are provided for detection of anomalous backup files using known anomalous file fingerprints (or other file-dependent values such as hash values, signatures and/or digest values). One method comprises obtaining first file-dependent values corresponding to respective known anomalous files; obtaining a second file-dependent value for a stored backup file; comparing the second file-dependent value to the first file-dependent values; and performing an automated remedial action in response to a result of the comparing. The second file-dependent value for the stored backup file may be determined by a backup server in response to a source file corresponding to the stored backup file being backed up by the backup server, and may be stored as part of metadata associated with the stored backup file. |
| US12282550B2 |
Rule generating device and rule generating program
A rule generation apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to enumerate rule candidates with different degrees of abstraction as candidates for a rule for detecting a malware trace using an analysis result of malware, and calculate evaluation values of the rule candidates enumerated using a predetermined evaluation function and sort a rule from among the rule candidates based on the evaluation values. |
| US12282549B2 |
Methods and apparatus for malware threat research
In one aspect, a method of classifying a computer object as malware includes receiving at a base computer data about a computer object from each of plural remote computers on which the object or similar objects are stored. The data about the computer object received from the plural computers is compared in the base computer. The computer object is classified as malware on the basis of said comparison. In one embodiment, the data about the computer object includes one or more of: executable instructions contained within or constituted by the object; the size of the object; the name of the object; the logical storage location or path of the object on the respective remote computers; the vendor of the object; the software product and version associated with the object; and, events initiated by or involving the object when the object is created, configured or runs on the respective remote computers. |
| US12282548B2 |
Universally applicable signal-based controller area network (CAN) intrusion detection system
A system and method for intrusion detection on automotive controller area networks. The system and method can detect various CAN attacks, such as attacks that cause unintended acceleration, deactivation of vehicle's brakes, or steering the vehicle. The system and method detects changes in nuanced correlations of CAN timeseries signals and how they cluster together. The system reverse engineers CAN signals and detect masquerade attacks by analyzing timeseries extracted from raw CAN frames. Specifically, anomalies in the CAN data can be detected by computing timeseries clustering similarity using hierarchical clustering on the vehicle's CAN signals and comparing the clustering similarity across CAN captures with and without attacks. |
| US12282542B2 |
Departure-based process-level detection of stealthy attacks on control systems
Method and device for extracting noise-reduced signal information from a time series of sensor measurements during normal process operation and then actively checking whether present realizations of the process are departing from historical normal behavior. To extract signal information, the solution borrows ideas from singular spectrum analysis a non-parametric exploratory analysis tool for time series that is particularly suitable for separating the deterministic part of a dynamical system behavior from the chaotic part, purely from noisy time series of measurements. |
| US12282541B2 |
Privacy border for a portion of resources on a computing machine
A computer causes display, at a graphical user interface of a computing machine, of a visual indicator indicating that tracking is ongoing. The visual indicator comprises a border separating at least one first region of the graphical user interface and at least one second region of the graphical user interface. The computer facilitates tracking, by a supervision service, of activity of the computing machine with respect to at least one software application that generates graphical output within the at least one first region. The computer forgoes facilitating tracking, by the supervision service, of activity of the computing machine with respect to at least one software application that generates graphical output within the at least one second region. |
| US12282540B1 |
Verifying software for isolated runtime environments using emulated security devices
An emulated hardware security device is configured for a compute instance. A state descriptor of the compute instance comprising software identification metadata prepared using the emulated hardware security device is provided to a resource verifier. The metadata identifies a program to be executed at the compute instance. In response to a response received from the resource verifier, a decision is made as to whether to execute the software program at the compute instance. |
| US12282538B2 |
Techniques for identifying vetted software applications that provide unauthorized features
This Application sets forth techniques for identifying when a vetted software application transitions into providing unauthorized features. In particular, the techniques involve identifying original operating characteristics of a software application during a vetting process that is performed by a management entity (and/or other vetting entities). The vetting process produces a vetted software application, which includes information about the original operating characteristics of the software application. The vetted software application is then distributed and installed onto computing devices. In turn, computing devices that execute the vetted software application can gather its current operating characteristics and compare them to the original operating characteristics to identify any anomalies. Appropriate action can then be taken, such as notifying the management entity and/or terminating the execution of the vetted software application. |
| US12282537B2 |
Method and apparatus for operating a secure data communication between functional units for a vehicle
A method for operating a data communication between functional units for a vehicle, in which a predefined number of data packets transmitted by a sending unit to a receiving unit is collected in a data buffer of the sending unit to generate a data block. In each predefined time step, one data packet is transmitted, in which the data packets are collected over a predefined collection period. A signature for authenticating the data block is then determined, the signature being determined over a predefined determination period lasting for multiple time steps. The signature is then sent in multiple parts from the sending unit to the receiving unit over a predefined transmission period, with one part of the signature being sent per time step. The sum of the collection period, the determination period and the transmission period is less than a predefined system fault tolerance time. |
| US12282530B2 |
Secure resource management to prevent fraudulent resource access
Systems and methods for secure resource management are provided. A secure resource management system includes a resource record repository, such as a secure database or a blockchain, for storing resource records for resources. The resource records contain information of resource providers, information of resource users having a right to obtain resources, and resource transaction histories. Responsive to a request to verify an authorized user of a resource, the secure resource management system further queries the resource record repository, retrieves the resource record, determines the resource user currently having a right to obtain the resource as the authorized user of the resource, and transmits the verification result in response to the request. The verification result identifies the authorized user of the resource and can be used to grant access to the resource by the authorized user. |
| US12282527B2 |
Determining system performance without ground truth
Techniques for determining system performance without ground truth include receiving a trained model and one or more generator models, the trained model having been trained on training data. The trained model is used on testing data to produce labeled testing data, and the labeled testing data are used to train a proxy model. The one or more generator models are used to produce synthetic training data that are representative of the training data. The proxy model is used on the synthetic training data to produce predictions, and performance of the trained model is determined based on the predictions by the proxy model. |
| US12282523B2 |
Information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program of searching for optimal solution of combinatorial optimization problem using multiple search devices
An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor configured to acquire, among a plurality of solutions, a first solution corresponding to a best value among values of a plurality of the energy functions corresponding to the plurality of solutions, each of the plurality of solutions being represented by a value of each of a plurality of state variables included in an energy function, generate a first state variable string based on the first solution, and search for a solution with the first state variable string as a start state. |
| US12282521B2 |
Content presentation
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing content. One of the methods includes providing a plurality of image content items to an application interface of a client device for presentation; receiving a user selection of a particular image content item of the plurality of presented image content items; and responsive to the selection, providing a combination of native content and third party content associated with the selected image content item, wherein the native content includes a close up view of the selected image content item and the third party content includes a third party webpage. |
| US12282518B2 |
Systems and methods for a search tool of code snippets
The present application generally relates to search engines, and more specifically to systems and methods for a search tool for code snippets. Embodiment described herein provide a customized code search system that generates code search results from customized data sources, extract code snippets from the code search results, and presents the code snippets via a user interface. In one embodiment, the search system adopts a machine learning module to generate and highlight search results from different data sources that include code examples, e.g., in a programming language. To improve search efficiency, in response to a code search query, the search system may extract code snippets from search results from relevant sources in a user interface element, such as user selectable panels. |
| US12282514B1 |
AI-assisted document organization system
An AI-assisted document organization system includes an internet equipment, an identification equipment, a processing unit which is matched and connected to the internet equipment and the identification equipment. The processing unit includes a central processor, an artificial intelligence software and a document organization software. The document organization software includes document organization goals which include automatic document classification and identification, artificial intelligent data extraction, automatic data verification, automatic approval verification, compliance and regulatory compliance, document tracking and control, automatic reporting, and notification. The central processor drives the artificial intelligence software. The processing unit acquires document data through the identification equipment. The artificial intelligence software reads the document data and, based on the document organization goals set by the document organization software, to search relevant information via the internet equipment and intelligently calculate the best organization solution for the obtained document data. The database stores the classified and organized document data. |
| US12282509B2 |
Generating verified content profiles for user generated content
Systems and methods for searching, identifying, scoring, and providing access to companion media assets for a primary media asset are disclosed. In response to a request for companion content, metadata within a predefined time period of a play position when the request was made, is downloaded. A dynamic search template that contains search parameters based on the downloaded metadata is generated. In response to the search conducted using the search template, a plurality of companion media assets are identified and then verified. A trust score for the companion media asset is accessed. The trust score may be analyzed and modified based on its contextual relationship to the play position of the primary media asset. If the trust score is within a rating range, then a link to access the companion media asset, or a specific segment or play position within the companion media asset, is provided. |
| US12282503B2 |
Inline search based on intent-detection
Systems and methods are provided for automatically determining an intent of a user based on an intent model to attach a file to a document, prompting the user to confirm the intent using a predetermined character in an inline nudge, generating and displaying an inline menu with an interactive list of ranked files as a suggestion for attachment. The disclosed technology uses the intent for specifying a scope of the inline search. The intent model for attaching content maintained by third-party applications uses a combination of an embeddings model and an N-gram model with limited seed queries and determines the intent based on intent scores associated with respective third-party applications. The present disclosure ranks respective candidate content based on a degree of relevance to the intent. The user selects one or more content from the list for attaching to the document. |
| US12282500B1 |
Providing completion recommendation variations for a partial natural language request
In various embodiments, a natural language (NL) application receives a first incomplete natural language (NL) request, and generates one or more request completion recommendations based on at least the first incomplete NL request and a first recommendation model, where the first recommendation model is generated via a machine learning algorithm applied to a first data dependency model and a first request completion model. The NL application receives a selection of a first request completion recommendation included in the one or more request completion recommendations, generates a complete request based on the first incomplete NL request and the first request completion recommendation, and causes the complete request to be applied to the data storage system. |
| US12282496B2 |
Access to data of a data analysis system by external database systems
The present disclosure relates to a method for enabling access to data of a data analysis system by a set of one or more external database systems. The data analysis system comprises a source database system and target database system. The data analysis system is configured for synchronizing the data in the source database system with the target database system using a primary source transaction log in the source database system. The method comprises: creating a secondary transaction log. Data changes applied at the target database system may be received from the target database system. At least one log entry that represents each received data change may be creating in the secondary transaction log. The secondary transaction log may be used by the set of external database systems for applying data changes according to the secondary transaction log, thereby storing the data in the set of external database systems. |
| US12282495B2 |
Computer systems and methods for selective synchronization
A computer system enables instances of properties (e.g., of resources such as files in a file system) to be selectively synchronized with each other. Each instance of a property may have a plurality of versions. A primary version of the property is shared (and synchronized) among all property instances. Each property instance may also have its own secondary version of the property. Each property instance has its own effective version handle, which points to either the property's primary version or the property instance's secondary version of the property. A comparison is performed between a version state of the property's primary version and a version state of the secondary version of a first instance of the property to produce comparison result output. An instance state is exposed to indicate: (1) the version pointed to by the first instance's effective version handle; and (2) the comparison result output. |
| US12282485B2 |
Word embedding quality assessment through asymmetry
An approach to determine the quality of encodings assigned to a word by a word embedding model. The approach may include determining the asymmetry of two embeddings associated with two words from a word embedding model. The asymmetry of the two words from a preexisting evocation dataset may be determined. The asymmetry of the two embeddings may be compared to the asymmetry from the evocation dataset to generate an encoding quality score. |
| US12282480B2 |
Query performance discovery and improvement
Embodiments analyze a query pattern of an incoming query on a database, perform a semantic analysis of the query pattern of the incoming query, generate a re-write query that has an improved query performance in comparison to a query performance of the incoming query based on the analyzed query pattern and the semantic analysis; build a query model using machine learning based on at least one of the query pattern and the semantic analysis; and apply the re-write query by performing the re-write query on the database to provide the improved query performance. |
| US12282475B2 |
Multi-threaded dynamic queries on an unpartitioned database
Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for multi-threaded dynamic queries on an unpartitioned database. An instruction to perform a database operation on rows of a database may be received. Processing threads may be generated by generating three random numbers. A starting point of a processing thread may be set to a first random number, an offset may be set to a second random number, and an order may be based on a third random number. The processing threads may each generate a dynamic query. A dynamic query generated by a processing thread may include an instruction to perform the database operation on rows of the database based on the offset, starting point, and order for the processing thread. Each dynamic query may be run against the database to perform the database operation. |
| US12282473B2 |
Updating a digital map
A method updates a digital map stored in a vehicle. The updated map is consistent and at the same time the amount of data transferred is small. The map has a plurality of map objects, wherein an object identifier and a version number are associated with each map object. The method determines a first map object to be updated, transfers a request data set for updating the first map object from the vehicle to a central computer, wherein the request data set includes the object identifier and the version number of the first map object, determines a change operation of the first map object with respect to the version of the first map object that is indicated by the sent version number, determines further map objects changed in the change operation, assembles an update data set, and transfers the update data set from the central computer to the vehicle. |
| US12282471B2 |
Cross-chain transaction method and apparatus
Embodiments of this application provide a cross-chain transaction method and apparatus. The cross-chain transaction method includes determining, by a first node, that a first transaction status of a first transaction is a first status, the first status indicating that consensus verification on the transaction succeeded, the first node maintaining a first blockchain and the first transaction belonging to the first blockchain. The method includes obtaining, by the first node, a second transaction status of a second transaction, a second node maintaining a second blockchain and the second transaction belonging to the second blockchain. The method includes modifying, by the first node, target data, the modifying being based on first transaction data of the first transaction when the second transaction status of the second transaction is the first status, the target data comprising data in a state machine of the first node, the target data being related to the first transaction. |
| US12282470B2 |
Skip-list checkpoint creation
Techniques are disclosed relating to backing up skip list data structures to facilitate a subsequent recovery. In various embodiments, a computing system creates a checkpoint of a skip list including a plurality of key-value records that include pointers to others of the plurality of key-value records. Creating the checkpoint includes scanning the skip list to identify ones of the plurality of key-value records that are relevant to the checkpoint and storing the identified key-value records in a storage such that the identified key-value records include pointers modified to exclude ones of the plurality of key-value records that are not relevant to the checkpoint. The computing system can then recover the skip list based on the created checkpoint. |
| US12282469B2 |
Indexing structured data with security information
A system for indexing and searching includes an input interface and a processor. The interface is to receive a request to search for a term. The processor is to determine a search response based at least in part on a security associated with an index field and the term. |
| US12282463B2 |
Inline data quality schema management system
Various aspects of the disclosure relate to automatically inferring data quality rules for relational and/or non-SQL datasets. The data quality rules may be added as additional metadata for a data schema to improve and add validations for data to ensure data consistency and/or to identify invalid data. Rules may be automatically inferred based on data of data elements in one or more datasets and an identified significance of data in data points to extract common characteristics of data to create, teach and train one or more data quality (DQ) models for data elements across all data stores of the enterprise network. |
| US12282457B2 |
Multi-service business platform system having custom workflow actions systems and methods
Techniques are provided for an automated crawler for crawling a primary online content object and storing a set of results, a parser for parsing the stored set of results to generate a plurality of key phrases and a content corpus, a plurality of models for processing at least one of the plurality of key phrases or the content corpus, wherein the processing results in a plurality of topic clusters which arrange topics within the primary online content object around a core topic based on semantic similarity, a suggestion generator for generating a suggested topic that is similar to at least one topic among the plurality of topic clusters and for storing the suggested topic, and an application for developing a strategy for development of online presence content. |
| US12282454B2 |
System and method for data protection using machine learning
A method for information recovery includes providing a set of rules to hosts, where each host performs a backup operation using the set of rules by sending at least one file to at least one backup location. The method also includes receiving, from each host, a first metadata corresponding to files backed up in the backup operation, where the metadata from each host forms a set of metadata, providing the set of metadata to a learning module, receiving from the learning module metadata analysis, adjusting, using the metadata analysis, the set of rules to obtain an adjusted set of rules, and providing the adjusted set of rules to the plurality of hosts, where at least one host of the hosts uses the adjusted set of rules to identify a backup location for a file. |
| US12282453B2 |
Optimal cluster selection in hierarchical clustering of files
A system partitions files, including segments identified by fingerprints. into clusters. The system counts common fingerprints by counting fingerprints which correspond to both a file cluster and another file cluster. The system counts unique fingerprints by counting fingerprints which correspond to the file cluster and/or the other file cluster. The system uses the common and unique fingerprint counts to approximate the distance between the file cluster and the other file cluster. The system identifies the smallest of distances which are approximated between all file clusters. The system merges the file cluster and the other file cluster into a merged file cluster if the approximated distance is the smallest of distances. The system determines an index corresponding to the smallest and next smallest of distances. The system determines indexes which correspond to merges of all file clusters. The system uses the maximum of indexes to identify the optimal file clustering. |
| US12282447B2 |
Execution unit sharing between processing cores in a cluster of a system-on-chip (SoC)
A method of execution unit (EU) sharing between processor cores is described. The method includes encountering a structural hazard associated with an issued instruction in an instruction queue of a dispatch stage inside an active processor core. The method also includes issuing a request for an idle execution unit of an inactive processor core. The method further includes sending a transaction containing source operands of the issued instruction, and a word address of a result buffer as a destination operand to an allocated EU of the inactive processor core. The method also includes replacing the issued instruction in the instruction queue with a load operation to forward a result of the issued instruction from the result buffer based on the word address. |
| US12282441B2 |
Data transfer device for synchronous control of computers and control method thereof
The present disclosure provides a data transfer device for synchronous control of computers, comprising a PCB board integrated with a USB high-speed sharing chip, a keyboard and mouse emulation chip, and a shared disk, the data transfer device further includes a microcontroller, which is connected with the USB high-speed sharing chip, the keyboard and mouse emulation chip, and the shared disk, respectively, and the PCB board also integrates a hub mechanism. The data transfer device's microcontroller allows a user to simultaneously access two computers, and the combination of the shared disk and the USB high-speed sharing chip enables fast data exchange between the two computers, thereby achieving visual transformation between the two computers. The data transfer device also functions as a hub, allowing connection of different types of devices. |
| US12282438B2 |
Scalable storage using NVMe communication
The technology disclosed herein pertains to a system and method for scaling storage using peer-to-peer NVMe communication, the method including selecting one of a plurality of NVMe devices as principal device to control communication with a host via a PCI switch, designating remainder of the plurality of NVMe devices as subordinate devices, and controlling the communication between the host and the subordinate devices using a PCI P2P DMA between the principal device and the subordinate devices. |
| US12282434B2 |
Methods for managing input-output operations in zone translation layer architecture and devices thereof
The disclosed technology relates to determining physical zone data within a zoned namespace solid state drive (SSD), associated with logical zone data included in a first received input-output operation based on a mapping data structure within a namespace of the zoned namespace SSD. A second input-output operation specific to the determined physical zone data is generated wherein the second input-output operation and the received input-output operation is of a same type. The generated second input-output operation is completed using the determined physical zone data within the zoned namespace SSD. |
| US12282433B2 |
Cache bypass
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to a memory controller for cache bypass are described. An example memory controller can be coupled to a memory device. The example memory controller can include a cache including a cache sequence controller configured to determine a quantity of a given type of result of cache look-up operations, determine the quantity satisfies a bypass threshold, and cause performance of a bypass memory operation that bypasses the cache and accesses the memory device. |
| US12282432B2 |
Graph memory engine
A system, method, and apparatus for graph memory. In one embodiment, the method includes: traversing program instructions disposed in an associative memory for operating a computer, the method comprising: receiving input data to be processed; identifying a next instruction to be fetched in the memory for processing the input data via: receiving a current node ID of a current state; performing a computational test on the input data resulting in a computed value; generating a search key by combining at least a portion of the computed edge value with the current node ID; and accessing the next instruction in associative memory via the search key. |
| US12282431B2 |
Flash memory persistent cache techniques
Devices and techniques are disclosed herein for implementing, in addition to a first cache, a second, persistent cache in a memory system coupled to a host. The memory system can include flash memory. In certain examples, the first cache and the second cache are configured to store mapping information. In some examples, the mapping information of the second persistent cache is determined by the host using a persistence flag of memory requests provided to the memory system. |
| US12282426B2 |
Methods and systems for caching content items
Systems and methods are described for caching content items. At least first and second content items are stored in a cache. A determination is made as to whether there is common content between the first content item and the second content item. In response to determining that there is common content between the first content item and the second content item, at least a portion of one of the first content item and the second content item is deleted. A request for the common content is received. In response to receiving the request for the common content, the common content is retrieved from the other of the first content item and the second content item. |
| US12282423B2 |
Data storage device and method for intelligent block allocation
Some data storage devices select blocks of memory from a free block pool and randomly allocate the blocks as primary and secondary blocks to redundantly store data in a write operation. However, some blocks, such as blocks on the edge of a plane, may not serve well as primary blocks. One example data storage device presented herein addresses this problem by allocating such blocks as secondary blocks instead of primary blocks. |
| US12282422B2 |
Storage device and operating method thereof
Disclosed is a method of operating a storage device which includes a non-volatile memory device. The method includes informing a host that a designation functionality for designating a data criticality and a priority to namespaces of the non-volatile memory device is possible, enabling the designation functionality in response to receiving an approval of the designation functionality, receiving, from the host, a first request for designating a data criticality and a priority for a first namespace of the namespaces, and generating a namespace mapping table in response to the first request. |
| US12282420B2 |
Programmatical errors from engineering programs in a technical installation
A method and system for eradicating programmatical errors in engineering programs for a controller device is provided. The method includes capturing, by a processing unit, a plurality of input-output signals associated with a controller device. Further, the method includes simulating, by the processing unit, a plurality of input signals which are predicted to be received by the controller device during a future scan cycle of execution of the engineering program. The method further includes predicting an error state in the controller device in the future scan cycle, by execution of the engineering program in a digital twin of the controller device. The method further includes generating corrected engineering program by application of an Artificial intelligence model on the engineering program. |
| US12282418B2 |
Systems and methods for software integration validation
A method and apparatus for providing a document-integrated software integration validation by a service provider system are described. The method includes detecting an application program interface (API) call generated by a user system in a test transaction, the API call comprising a test identifier (ID) and a user system ID, the test ID identifying an API integration test scenario and the user system ID identifying the user system. The method also includes tracking a sequence of API calls and responses. Furthermore, the method includes receiving login credentials from the user system. The method also includes verifying the received login credentials with previously established login credentials associated with the user system ID. Additionally, the method includes determining whether the sequence of API calls and responses is performed correctly for the test transaction and serving the interactive integration guide to the user system indicating a result for the API integration test scenario. |
| US12282416B2 |
System and method for diagnosing a computing device in safe mode
A system and method may cause a computing device to operate according to a selected operational mode. A diagnostic application may selectively execute one or more tests on the computing device; record a result of executing a test; and perform an action based on the result. An operational mode selected may be a safe mode that includes executing only a portion of an operating system and the diagnostic application. A test may include executing an application and selectively validating performance of one or more resources of a computing device while the application is executing. A test may include executing an application selected based on a rule related to a category of applications. |
| US12282415B2 |
QA run cycle and report generation system
Techniques for providing a QA run cycle and report generation system are provided. In one technique, a user interface (UI) tool retrieves first software testing result data that was generated based on a first type of software test of a software build. The UI tool also retrieves second software testing result data that was generated based on a second type of software test of the software build. In response to receiving first input that selects the first software testing result data, the UI tool updates a UI to present first data that is based on a portion of the first software testing result data. In response to receiving the second input that selects the second software testing result data, the UI tool updates the UI to present second data that is based on a portion of the second software testing result data. |
| US12282412B2 |
Coverage-guided fuzzing via dynamic instrumentation
A method for obtaining coverage-guided fuzzing of software on a hardware target. The hardware target includes a breakpoint register, and is designed to stop an execution of the software prior to execution of an instruction of the software if the instruction is reached during the execution of the software; a memory address of the instruction is set in the breakpoint register. The method includes setting a first breakpoint prior to a first instruction of the software; executing or continuing a fuzzing iteration of the software; first checking whether the first breakpoint is reached while executing or continuing the fuzzing iteration; storing a piece of log information that includes that the first instruction in the fuzzing iteration has been reached, and optionally deleting the first breakpoint if the first check is positive. The coverage-guided fuzzing of the software includes the piece of log information. |
| US12282411B2 |
Program improvement using large language models
Some embodiments generate prompts and submit them in queries to a language model trained on code to perform automated program repair. Some embodiments fix syntactic mistakes and semantic mistakes by combining multimodal prompts, iterative querying, test-case-based selection of few-shots, and program chunking. In some cases, edit distance is minimized between an initial flawed program and the automatically created improved version of that program. The initial flawed program is obtained from a programming student, or from a source code generator. |
| US12282408B1 |
Improving compliance of patient data collection in clinical trials with predictive analysis
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for adapting digital trial to increase protocol compliance and retention. In some implementations, a system accesses (i) study data indicating a type of data to be collected in a research study and (ii) attribute data indicating attributes of participants in a cohort for the research study. The system identifies a set of technology items that are each capable of collecting the type of data indicated by the study data. The system determines a predicted level of compliance for each of the technology items in the set. The system selects a technology item for participants in the cohort to use in the research study based on the predicted levels of compliance. The system updates records for the research study to specify the selected technology item. |
| US12282407B2 |
Information handling system hinge disposition automated using performance metrics
End users subscribe to use information handling systems having a selected of available performance characteristics defined by a component configuration selected to build the information handling systems in a portable housing having housing portions rotationally coupled by one or more hinges. A manufacturer meets subscriptions with information handling systems built from an inventory of new hinges, deployed hinges of information handling systems in use by subscribers, and separated hinges taken from returned information handling systems and re-used. End user subscriptions are met in part by building replacement information handling systems with separated hinges having a useful life remaining that aligns with end user hinge usage patterns tracked over time, benchmarked performance metrics and end user subscription performance characteristics. |
| US12282406B2 |
Data subscription method, apparatus, and system
A first device generates a first capability model instance based on a capability model template, and sends the first capability model instance to a network management device. The capability model template includes one or more metric names. The first capability model instance includes one or more performance parameters that can be subscribed to by the first device, and the one or more performance parameters are parameters corresponding to one or more metric names. The first capability model instance is used by the network management device to select and subscribe to one or more performance parameters from the one or more performance parameters that can be subscribed to by the first device. |
| US12282404B2 |
Storage system
Embodiments provide a storage system, including: a basis chip and memory chips, where the memory chip includes memory cells, the storage system has channels, each of the channels includes a partial number of memory cells in all the memory chips, a partial region of each of the channels corresponds to one memory chip, and each channel is electrically connected to the basis chip; and a temperature processing circuit configured to obtain first temperature codes corresponding to the memory chips, to obtain a second temperature code representing a temperature of the basis chip, and to compare the first temperature codes with the second temperature code to output a high temperature representation code, where the first temperature code represents a maximum temperature in the partial regions of all the channels, and the high temperature representation code is one of the first temperature codes or the second temperature code representing a higher temperature. |
| US12282403B2 |
Stable transformations of networked systems with automation
Various methods, systems, and use cases for a stable and automated transformation of a networked computing system are provided, to enable a transformation to the configuration of the computing system (e.g., software or firmware upgrade, hardware change, etc.). In an example, automated operations include: identifying a transformation to apply to a configuration of the computing system, for a transformation that affects a network service provided by the computing system; identifying operational conditions used to evaluate results of the transformation; attempting to apply the transformation, using a series of stages that have rollback positions when the identified operational conditions are not satisfied; and determining a successful or unsuccessful result of the attempt to apply the transformation. For an unsuccessful result, remediation may be performed to the configuration, with use of one or more rollback positions; for a successful result, a new restore state is established from the completion state. |
| US12282400B2 |
System and method for contact center fault diagnostics
A system and methods for contact center fault diagnostics, comprising a diagnostic engine and test cases used for testing components and services in a contact center, designed to operate on a contact center with a specified test campaign, allowing a contact center's various services and systems to be tested either internally or externally in an automated fashion with specified testcases being used to specify the format and expectations of a specific test, with reports of failures and points of failure being made available to system administrators. |
| US12282399B2 |
Performance-based prioritization for storage systems replicating a dataset
Prioritizing highly performant storage systems for servicing a synchronously replicated dataset: detecting a communication fault between two or more storage systems that are synchronously replicating a dataset; identifying a preferred storage system for winning mediation, including determining that the preferred storage system winning mediation would result in better performance than other storage systems winning mediation; and requesting, by the preferred storage system, mediation from a mediation target. |
| US12282397B2 |
Generating standby cloud versions of a virtual machine
Contents of a full snapshot for storage in one or more cloud storage volumes are received. The contents of the full snapshot is stored in the one or more cloud storage volumes. A snapshot of a virtual machine data volume and a snapshot of a virtual machine boot volume are generated based on the contents of the full snapshot stored in the one or more cloud storage volumes. An image of the virtual machine boot volume is generated based on the snapshot of the virtual machine boot volume. The snapshot of the virtual machine data volume, the snapshot of the virtual machine boot volume, and the image of the virtual machine boot volume are stored in a cloud object storage. |
| US12282396B2 |
Method for apparatus for recovering data of dual-machine hot standby system, and medium
Disclosed in the present disclosure are a data recovery method and apparatus for a dual-machine hot standby system, and a medium, which are applicable to the field of data processing. In the method, a main service running time period and a start time period are determined by means of a backed-up start-stop operation record file, and when the start time period is in the main service running time period, it indicates that a split-brain phenomenon possibly occurs in a dual-machine hot standby; and record information of a database backup record file within an initial split-brain time is further read, so as to determine the possibility of split-brain data, a final split-brain time is automatically determined, an Application Programming Interface (API) calling information file is read according to the final split-brain time, so as to recover data, and operation information of a system during brain splitting is automatically restored. |
| US12282392B2 |
Interconnects between chiplets and related link initialization protocols
Aspects of the disclosure provides various systems, apparatuses, and techniques for reducing latencies and power consumption of link training or retraining. In some aspects, the techniques use a specific register to identify the cause of link retraining. Based on the identified reasons of link retraining, the apparatus can selectively skip the initialization of certain redundant lanes of the link. In some aspects, the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) Link Training and Status State Machine (LTSSM) can be configured to identify whether link retraining is initiated as part of a trainerror or linkerror exit or not. A UCIe device can have a redundant_recovery (RR) register that can be set to different values to identify the cause of link retraining (e.g., due to trainerror/linkerror or not). |
| US12282391B2 |
Systems and methods for error recovery in rebootless firmware updates
Systems and methods include a remote access controller of an IHS (Information Handling System) that provides remote management of the IHS. The remote access controller initiates an update of firmware used to operate a hardware component of the IHS by transmitting a firmware image to the hardware component via a first signaling pathway connecting the remote access controller to the hardware component. The remote access controller detects a failure in transmission of the firmware image to the hardware component via the first signaling pathway and identifies a second signaling pathway connecting the remote access controller to the hardware component. The remote access controller resumes transmission of the firmware image to the hardware component via the second signaling pathway and the firmware used to operate the hardware component is updated using the transmitted firmware image. |
| US12282389B2 |
Error correction decoder, storage device including error correction decoder, and operating method thereof
A storage device may include a memory device and a memory controller. The memory device may store data. The memory controller may iterate error correction decoding on data read from the memory device, determine whether to continue iterating based on a result obtained by comparing a first threshold number with a number of Unsatisfied Check Nodes (UCNs) included in a syndrome of first decoded data, which is a result of a first set number of iterations of the error correction decoding on the read data, and determine whether to continue iterating based on a result obtained by comparing a second threshold number with a number of UCNs included in a syndrome of second decoded data, which is a result of a sum of the first set number and a second set number of iterations of the error correction decoding on the read data. |
| US12282388B2 |
Memory module for detecting and correcting a row direction error and a column direction error
A memory module includes a plurality of first memory chips and a second memory chip. Raw data is stored in the plurality of first memory chips. Parity data generated based on the raw data is stored in the second memory chip. Each of the first memory chips and the second memory chip is configured to exchange data with a controller based on a burst length unit. The second memory chip stores a first parity data generated from the raw data by a first error correction method, and stores a second parity data generated from the raw data and the first parity data by a second error correction method. |
| US12282387B2 |
Memory management method for security and electronic device therefor
According to various embodiments, an electronic device comprises: at least one processor; and memory operatively connected to the at least one processor, wherein the memory may store instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to: obtain, from a kernel, at least one address for a first memory area accessible through the kernel; store the at least one address in a second memory area accessible through a hypervisor; based on obtaining an address stored in a kernel stack from the kernel, identify whether the obtained address is defective, on the basis of the at least one stored address; and restore the defective address using at least one address stored in the second memory area in response to identifying the defect in the address. |
| US12282384B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting drift
Present disclosure relates to management of artificial intelligence systems by identifying root cause of reduced performance and/or failure in computing systems, and particularly relates to systems and methods for detecting a drift in supervised and unsupervised machine learning (ML) models. The system retrieves current dataset corresponding to output of supervised ML models and unsupervised ML models. Further, the system segregates the current dataset based on requirement of a drift detection model and applies a plurality of drift detection models to the segregated dataset to generate predictive results corresponding to the current dataset. Furthermore, the system determines errors in predictive results by comparing predictive results to reference values associated with current dataset. Additionally, the system detects the drift in supervised ML models and unsupervised ML models based on determined errors being above a threshold value. The supervised ML models and unsupervised ML models are corrected based on detected drift. |
| US12282377B2 |
Hardware-assisted core frequency and voltage scaling in a poll mode idle loop
A hardware controller within a core of a processor is described. The hardware controller includes telemetry logic to generate telemetry data that indicates an activity state of the core; core stall detection logic to determine, based on the telemetry data from the telemetry logic, whether the core is in an idle loop state; and a power controller that, in response to the core stall detection logic determining that the core is in the idle loop state, is to decrease a power mode of the core from a first power mode associated with a first set of power settings to a second power mode associated with a second set of power settings. |
| US12282376B2 |
Systems, devices, and methods for animating always on displays at variable frame rates
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) transferring control of a display of a computing device from a high-power physical processor of the computing device to a low-power physical processor of the computing device, (2) animating, using the low-power physical processor, the display at a first frame rate during a first time period, (3) animating, using the low-power physical processor, the display at a second frame rate during a second time period, (4) transferring control of the display from the low-power physical processor to the high-power physical processor, and (5) animating, using the high-power physical processor, the display. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US12282372B2 |
Electronic apparatus having portable housing and power supply circuit
An electronic apparatus including a power generation module including a power generation unit and a battery configured to store power generated by the power generation unit, a detection device, a drive unit including a plurality of circuits including a circuit configured to output a voltage to the detection device based on the power of the power generation module, a second capacitor unit electrically coupled in parallel to the battery, and a portable housing configured to accommodate the power generation module, the detection device, the drive unit, and the second capacitor unit. |
| US12282366B2 |
System, apparatus and methods for power communications according to a CXL power protocol
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an interface to couple a plurality of devices of a system, the interface to enable communication according to a Compute Express Link (CXL) protocol, and a power management circuit coupled to the interface. The power management circuit may: receive, from a first device of the plurality of devices, a request according to the CXL protocol for updated power credits; identify at least one other device of the plurality of devices to provide at least some of the updated power credits; and communicate with the first device and the at least one other device to enable the first device to increase power consumption according to the at least some of the updated power credits. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US12282364B2 |
Posture probabilities for hinged touch display
A computing device includes a hinge rotatably coupling a first leaf including a touch display and a second leaf. A hinge angle sensor measures a hinge angle between the first leaf and the second leaf. An inertial measurement unit measures an orientation of one or both of the leaves. A first touch heat map is received from the touch display. Based on the touch heat map, hinge angle, and orientation, a posture probability is generated indicating a likelihood that the first touch display is in a candidate display posture, and an active probability is generated indicating a likelihood that the first touch display is an active display. One or more display characteristics of the first touch display are adjusted based on the posture probability and the active probability. |
| US12282358B1 |
Enhanced portable electronic device case stand system
Systems involve a case assembly including a base, a first side extending from the base, and a stand assembly including an elongated member having an elongated cavity, and a base extending from the elongated member. The stand assembly is rotatably coupled with the case assembly so that the stand assembly is rotatable between a first rotational position and a second rotational position so that the elongated cavity is covered by the case assembly when the stand assembly is in the first rotational position, and so that the elongated cavity is at least partially uncovered from the case assembly when the stand assembly is in the second rotational position. Other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. |
| US12282355B2 |
Display device
A display device according to an embodiment includes: a display panel including a first region and a second region; a chassis disposed on a rear surface of the display panel; a first exciter in contact with the first region and fixed to the chassis; and a second exciter in contact with the second region and fixed to the chassis. The chassis defines an opening disposed between the first exciter and the second exciter. |
| US12282354B2 |
Display device
The present embodiment includes a plurality of panels; a plurality of fastening jigs respectively fastened to the plurality of panels; and an assembly machine moving each of the plurality of fastening jigs in an oblique direction to gather the plurality of panels to be arranged in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction or to separate the plurality of panels in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction. |
| US12282352B2 |
Electronic device for performing clock management by using clock counters allocated at different power domains and associated method
An electronic device includes a first circuit block and a second circuit block. The first circuit block is allocated in a first power domain, and includes a first clock counter and an updating circuit. The first clock counter is arranged to generate a first counter value according to a first reference clock. The updating circuit is arranged to receive a second counter value, and update the first counter value according to the second counter value. The second circuit block is allocated in a second power domain, and includes a second clock counter arranged to generate the second counter value according to a second reference clock. The first power domain and the second power domain are controlled independently. |
| US12282348B2 |
Linear power supply circuit including a current amplifier to amplify output current and vehicle including the same
A linear power supply circuit includes: an error amplifier configured to output an error signal according to a difference between a feedback voltage based on an output voltage and a reference voltage; a first transistor configured to be controlled by the error signal; a current mirror circuit; a bias current source configured to distribute and supply a bias current to the first transistor and the current mirror circuit; a current amplifier configured to amplify a current outputted from the current mirror circuit; and a compensator configured to compensate for the bias current by a current corresponding to the current outputted from the current amplifier. |
| US12282345B2 |
Electronically controlled regulator
An electronically controlled regulator is disclosed. The electronically controlled regulator reduces and adjusts a pressure of a high-pressure fluid introduced through an introduction port with a pressure adjusting valve and discharges a pressure-reduced fluid having a set pressure through a discharge port. A discharge pressure adjusting mechanism includes a valve shaft moving structure that operates by driving of an electric motor and moves a valve shaft to change a distance between a valve body and a valve seat, and opens and closes the pressure adjusting valve so that the pressure of the pressure-reduced fluid maintains the set pressure while operating the valve shaft moving structure with the electric motor on the basis of a value of a pressure sensor that detects the pressure of the pressure-reduced fluid. |
| US12282342B2 |
Stationary service appliance for a poly functional roaming device
A method for autonomously servicing a first cleaning component of a battery-operated mobile device, including: inferring, with a processor of the mobile device, a value of at least one environmental characteristic based on sensor data captured by a sensor disposed on the mobile device; actuating, with a controller of the mobile device, a first actuator interacting with the first cleaning component to at least one of: turn on, turn off, reverse direction, and increase or decrease in speed such that the first cleaning component engages or disengages based on the value of at least one environmental characteristic or at least one user input received by an application of a smartphone paired with the mobile device; and dispensing, by a maintenance station, water from a clean water container of the maintenance station for washing the first cleaning component when the mobile device is docked at the maintenance station. |
| US12282337B2 |
Dual agent reinforcement learning based system for autonomous operation of aircraft
A dual agent reinforcement learning autonomous system (DARLAS) for the autonomous operation of aircraft and/or provide pilot assistance. DARLAS includes an artificial neural network, safe agent, and cost agent. The safe agent is configured to calculate safe reward Q values associated with landing the aircraft at a predetermined destination or calculated emergency destination. The cost agent is configured to calculate cost reward Q values associated with maximum fuel efficiency and aircraft performance. The safe and cost reward Q values are based on state-action vectors associated with an aircraft, which may include state data and action data. The system may include a user output device that provides an indication of an action to a user. The action corresponds to an agent action having the highest safe reward Q value and the highest cost require Q value. DARLAS prioritizes the highest safe reward Q value in the event of conflict. |
| US12282334B2 |
Autonomous pile driver apparatus and method
A autonomous off-road vehicle (AOV) accesses a pile plan map indicating a plurality of locations in a geographic area at which piles are to be installed. The AOV selects a first location and a second location from the plurality of locations using the pile plan map. The AOV autonomously navigates to the first location. The AOV autonomously loads a first pile onto a driving tool of the AOV. The AOV autonomously drives the first pile into the ground at the first location using the driving tool. The AOV autonomously navigates to the second location. the AOV autonomously loads a second pile onto the driving tool. And the AOV autonomously drives the second pile into the ground at the second location using the driving tool. |
| US12282333B2 |
Systems and methods for calibrating a map of an autonomous robot
A method for calibrating a map of an autonomous robot, a trajectory of the autonomous robot, or a combination thereof includes obtaining localization data from a localization sensor of the autonomous robot and determining whether a calibration condition of the autonomous robot is satisfied based on the localization data. The method includes, in response to the calibration condition being satisfied: determining a master position coordinate of the autonomous robot based on a plurality of radio frequency (RF) signals broadcasted by a plurality of RF tags, converting the master position coordinate to a local position coordinate of the autonomous robot, and selectively updating the map, the trajectory, or a combination thereof based on the local position coordinate of the autonomous robot. |
| US12282329B2 |
Route determination system, mobile object, and recording medium
A route determination system includes: an initial route line setting section that sets an initial route line including a plurality of split points between a starting point and a destination and connecting the first and second waypoints; and a movement route determination section that generates a candidate route line starting from the first waypoint and reaching the second waypoint by setting a predetermined number of control points at arbitrary positions within a specific range on the map, and that when all split points of the candidate route line are positioned within the passable area, determines, as a movement route for a mobile object, a route in a real space corresponding to the candidate route line, and when at least one of the split points of the candidate route line is positioned within an impassable area, increases the number of control points and performs the curving processing again. |
| US12282325B2 |
Systems and methods for safety-enabled control
Systems and methods for safety-enabled control by: establishing a wireless communication channel with a plurality of remote control units via the wireless interface device; in response to establishing the wireless communication channels, operating a system-under-control in a supervised mode based on input received from at least one of the plurality of remote control units; in response to a mode switch command received from a first remote control unit of the plurality of remote control units, providing the other remote control units with a request for a mode switch confirmation; and, in response to confirming receipt of a safety-rated input from an autonomous control system and receipt of a mode switch confirmation from each of the other remote control units, operating the system-under-control in an autonomous mode based on input received from the autonomous control system. |
| US12282323B2 |
Vacuum system with diagnostic circuitry and a method and computer program for monitoring the health of such a vacuum system
A vacuum system includes at least one cryopump; sensors associated with the cryopump, each of the sensors being configured to sense an operating condition of the cryopump; and diagnostic circuitry configured to receive signals sampled from the sensors. The diagnostic circuitry includes a diagnostic model of the cryopump, the diagnostic model being derived from historical data of a plurality of cryopumps of a same type operating over a plurality of regeneration and servicing time periods and being configured to relate values of the sampled signals from the at least some sensors to a probability of the pump failing within a predetermined time. The diagnostic circuitry is configured to apply the sampled signals to the diagnostic model and to determine the probability of the at least one cryopump failing within a predetermined time from an output of the model. |
| US12282320B2 |
Adding model state to human machine interface (HMI) views
Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to industrial automation environments. More specifically, embodiments include systems and methods to visualize machine learning model status in an industrial automation environment. In some examples, a machine learning component receives process inputs associated with industrial devices in the industrial automated environment. The machine learning component processes the inputs to generate machine learning outputs and transfers the machine learning outputs to influence one or more functions of the industrial devices. The machine learning component reports operational data characterizing the machine learning outputs. A Human Machine Interface (HMI) component displays a visualization of the machine learning component and receives the operational data from the machine learning component. In response to a user selection, the HMI component displays an expanded view of the machine learning component that comprises the operational data and that indicates relationships between the machine learning component and the industrial devices. |
| US12282319B2 |
Method and device for setting operating parameters of a laser material processing machine
A method for setting operating parameters of a system, in particular, a manufacturing machine, with the aid of Bayesian optimization of a data-based model, which (in the Bayesian optimization) is trained to output a model output variable, which characterizes an operating mode of the system, as a function of the operating parameters. The training of the data-based model takes place as a function of at least one experimentally ascertained measured variable of the system and the training also taking place as a function of at least one simulatively ascertained simulation variable. The measured variable and the simulation variable each characterize the operating mode of the system. The measured variable and/or the simulation variable is transformed during training with the aid of an affine transformation. |
| US12282318B2 |
Semiconductor wafer cooling
A cooling controller receives, from one or more sensors, wafer information associated with a wafer. The cooling controller determines a pattern mask area for the wafer based on the wafer information. The cooling controller determines a cooling time for the wafer based on the pattern mask area. The cooling controller causes a cooling plate to cool the wafer for a time duration equal to the cooling time. Determining the cooling time for a wafer based on a pattern mask area provides stable and consistent wafer temperatures for wafers having different mask and layout properties, which reduces mask overlay variation and increases wafer yield. |
| US12282317B2 |
Wafer defect test apparatus, wafer defect test system, wafer test method and fabrication method of a wafer
A wafer defect test apparatus in which a defect prediction performance is improved and a simulation time is shortened is provided. The wafer defect test apparatus comprises a wafer variable generator which receives a first structural measurement data and a first process condition data of a first wafer, and a second structural measurement data and a second process condition data of a second wafer, generates a first process variable and a second process variable based on the first structural measurement data and the first process condition data, and generates a third process variable and a fourth process variable based on the second structural measurement data and the second process condition data, an abnormal wafer index generating circuit which generates a first wafer vector of the first process variable and second process variable, generates a second wafer vector of the third process variable and fourth process variable, calculates a first Euclidean distance between the first wafer vector and the second wafer vector, calculates a first Cosine distance between the first wafer vector and the second wafer vector, and generates a first abnormal wafer index of the first wafer based on a product of the first Euclidean distance and the first Cosine distance, and a prediction model generating circuit which receives a first characteristic variable which is a test result of the first wafer, and generates a wafer defect prediction model through a regression based on the first process variable, the second process variable, the first characteristic variable, and the first abnormal wafer index. |
| US12282314B2 |
Hypergraph search for real-time multi-robot task allocation in a smart factory
Task assignment for multi-robot systems (MRSs) in a smart factory (Industry 4.0) is described. Aspects are directed to a hypergraph based MRS and production model facilitating the cooperation among robots and serving frequent reconfiguration desired in Industry 4.0. Aspects are directed to a time complexity friendly search algorithm for real-time application using a hypergraph model to get task assignment(s). Parameters are provided for a tradeoff between solution optimality and time complexity. In an implementation, an example system can include a MRS including robots, wherein the MRS is configured to perform a manufacturing task, and a computing device configure to perform a multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) for the MRS. In an implementation, an example method can include generating task assignments, using MRTA, for robots of a MRS including the robots, wherein the MRS is configured to perform a manufacturing task, and providing the task assignments to the MRS. |
| US12282304B2 |
Determining causal models for controlling environments
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining causal models for controlling environments. One of the methods includes obtaining data specifying baseline probability distributions for each of a plurality of controllable elements; maintaining a causal model; repeatedly performing the following: selecting control settings for the environment based on the causal model and values for a particular internal parameter of the control system that are sampled from a range of possible values; selecting control settings for the environment based on the baseline probability distributions; monitoring environment responses to the control settings selected based on the causal model and the control settings selected based on the baseline probability distributions; determining, for each of the possible values, a measure of a difference between a current system performance and a baseline system performance; and updating how frequently each of the possible values is sampled. |
| US12282303B2 |
Deep causal learning for continuous testing, diagnosis, and optimization
A system and methods for multivariant learning and optimization repeatedly generate self-organized experimental units (SOEUs) based on the one or more assumptions for a randomized multivariate comparison of process decisions to be provided to users of a system. The SOEUs are injected into the system to generate quantified inferences about the process decisions. Responsive to injecting the SOEUs, at least one confidence interval is identified within the quantified inferences, and the SOEUs are iteratively modified based on the at least one confidence interval to identify at least one causal interaction of the process decisions within the system. The causal interaction can be used for testing, diagnosis, and optimization of the system performance. |
| US12282302B2 |
Crown for an electronic watch
An electronic watch includes a housing defining a side surface of the electronic watch, a transparent cover coupled to the housing and defining a front surface of the electronic watch, an image-sensing element, and a crown extending from the side of the housing and defining an imaging surface. The crown may include a light-directing feature configured to direct, onto the image-sensing element, an image of an object in contact with the imaging surface. |
| US12282301B2 |
Method for determining watch face image and electronic device therefor
An aspect of the disclosure is to determine a watch face image, and an operation method of an electronic device according to various embodiments may include: acquiring an image using a camera of the electronic device; displaying a watch face preview matching the acquired image on a display of the electronic device; determining a watch face image from the watch face preview; controlling a transceiver of the electronic device to transmit the watch face image to a smart watch; and applying the watch face image to the smart watch. |
| US12282295B2 |
Holographic 3D display system based on virtual array splicing of spatial light modulator
A holographic 3D display system based on virtual array splicing of a spatial light modulator includes a laser configured to generate a coherent light beam, first, second and third beam splitters, first and second reflectors, a shutter array, a spatial filter array, a solid lens, first and second light beam deflection elements and a spatial light modulator. The first and second beam splitters and the first reflector are configured to split the light beam generated by the laser into three parallel light beams to irradiate the shutter array. The shutter array is configured to control the three parallel light beams to sequentially pass therethrough according to a set time sequence. The three parallel light beams passing through the shutter array are expanded and collimated by the spatial filter array and the solid lens to form three parallel light beams with the same size and uniform intensity. |
| US12282291B2 |
Image forming apparatus
A distance between a fan and an area of a belt opposed to the fan at a downstream side in an air discharge direction of the fan is a first distance. A distance between the fan and an area of the belt opposed to the fan at an upstream side in an air intake direction of the fan is a second distance. The first distance is equal to or greater than the second distance. |
| US12282286B2 |
Image forming apparatus including fixing device having shutter and lock member for holding shutter position
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device, a shutter, a lock member and an attachment member. The fixing device is supported by an apparatus main body. The shutter is movable to a close position and to an open position. The lock member is movable to a holding position holding the shutter to the close position and an allowable position allowing the shutter to move from the close position to the open position. The lock member is moved to the holding position to hold the shutter to the close position in a state where the attachment member is detached from the apparatus main body. In the middle of attaching the attachment member to the apparatus main body, the attachment member moves the lock member from the holding position to the allowable position and then moves the shutter from the close position to the open position. |
| US12282281B2 |
Skew detection
According to some examples, a skew detection device comprises a first roller rotatable around a first axis, a second roller rotatable around a second axis, a first sensor, and a second sensor. The first sensor measures a first rotation parameter from the first roller and the second sensor measures a second rotation parameter from the second roller. A movement of a print media over the device rotates the first contact roller and the second roller, and a controller determines a skew of the print media based on the first and second rotation parameters captured by the first sensor and the second sensor. |
| US12282277B2 |
Image forming apparatus with metallic roller correcting curl of sheet by deforming elastic roller
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a fixing portion, a discharging portion, a discharge path toward the discharging portion, a reversing portion including a reverse path branched from the discharge path and to reverse the sheet and a reconveying path branched from the reverse path and through which the sheet reversed in the reversing portion is reconveyed to the image forming portion. A curl correcting portion is disposed in the reconveying path and corrects curl of the sheet conveyed through the reconveying path. The curl correcting portion includes a first correcting portion to apply a force to upwardly bend the first side to the sheet conveyed through the reconveying path, and a second correcting portion to apply a force to downwardly bend the first side. The second correcting portion is disposed downstream of the first correcting portion with respect to a conveyance direction of the sheet. |
| US12282274B2 |
Image forming apparatus capable of forming test images on different sides of recording materials
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a transfer device, a voltage applying portion, a fixing device, and a controller. During execution of an operation in an output mode, the controller is capable of selectively executing: an operation in which test images formed on a first side of a first recording material are fixed and then the first recording material is outputted without forming the test images on a second side of the first recording material and then in which a second recording material is passed through the fixing device without forming the test images on a first side of the second recording material and then the test images are transferred onto a second side of the second recording material. |
| US12282273B2 |
Development device having rotatable wiper wiping optical surface of lens
A developing device includes a housing to accommodate toner, a rotation member installed in the housing, a lens including an optical surface oriented in an axial direction of the rotation member, and a wiper installed in the rotation member and configured to repeatedly wipe the optical surface while the rotation member rotates and supported by the rotation member so as to be movable in the axial direction. |
| US12282265B2 |
Image forming apparatus
In the image forming apparatus, a controller applies a collection voltage to a cleaning roller by a voltage application part in image formation process. The controller adjusts the collection voltage applied to the cleaning roller on bases of uncollected toner quantity of a toner image and residual charge of an image carrier, the uncollected toner being part of after-transfer remaining toner which results after formation of the toner image on an outer circumferential surface of the image carrier and transfer of the toner image onto a transfer-objective member, and which has missed being collected by the cleaning roller so as to remain even after one-round rotation of the image carrier. |
| US12282264B2 |
Cleaning apparatus for cleaning surface of photomask
A cleaning apparatus for cleaning a surface of a photomask includes a housing defining a chamber, a photomask holder disposed within the chamber, and a gas dispenser disposed within the chamber to direct gas toward the photomask holder. The gas dispenser has two or more gas dispensing outlets. A driver is coupled to at least one of the photomask holder or the gas dispenser to establish relative movement between the photomask holder and the gas dispenser. |
| US12282262B2 |
Method for controlling extreme ultraviolet light
In accordance with some embodiments, a method of controlling an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation in lithography system is provided. The method includes generating a plurality of target droplets. The method also includes generating a pre-pulse and a main pulse from an excitation laser module to generate EUV light and reflecting the EUV light by a collector mirror. The method further includes measuring a separation between a pre-pulse and a main pulse. Moreover, the method includes determining whether the separation between the pre-pulse and the main pulse in the y-axis is changed, if not adjusting a configurable parameter of the excitation laser module to set the variation in the energy of the EUV light within an acceptable range. |
| US12282261B2 |
Systems and methods for direct laser writing
Methods of fabricating an object via direct laser lithography are provided. In embodiments, such a method comprises illuminating, via an optical fiber having an end facet and a metalens directly on the end facet, a location within a photosensitive composition from which an object is to be fabricated with light, thereby inducing a multiphoton process within the photosensitive composition to generate a region of the object; and repeating the illuminating step one or more additional times at one or more additional locations to generate one or more additional regions of the object. |
| US12282254B2 |
Photoresist compositions and pattern formation methods
A polymer, comprising a first repeating unit derived from a first monomer comprising a single ester acetal group, and a second repeating unit derived from a second monomer comprising a plurality of ester acetal groups. |
| US12282253B2 |
Photosensitive resin composition
An object of the present invention is to provide a photosensitive resin composition that can form an insulating film having low dielectric constant and low dielectric loss tangent and undergoing small changes in elongation properties in response to changes in environmental temperature. The photosensitive resin composition of the present invention contains: a polymer (A) having a structural unit (a1) represented by Formula (a1); a crosslinking agent (B); a photocation generator (C); and a compound (D) represented by Formula (D). |
| US12282251B2 |
Method of shaping a surface, shaping system, and method of manufacturing an article
A method of shaping a surface comprises dispensing formable material onto a substrate held by a substrate chuck, contacting a plate held by a plate chuck assembly with the formable material to form a film, curing the film to form a cured layer, initiating a separation front between the cured layer and the plate, tilting the plate chuck assembly and/or the substrate chuck in a direction away from the initial separation point, thereby propagating the separation front, applying a force to the plate chuck assembly and/or the substrate chuck away from the other while maintaining or increasing the tilt, until the separation front completely propagates around the cured layer, and continuing to apply the force, until the plate does not contact the cured layer. The plate chuck assembly includes a flexible portion with a central opening, and a cavity formed by the flexible portion. The plate is held by the flexible portion. |
| US12282239B2 |
Array substrate and liquid crystal display panel
An array substrate and a liquid crystal display panel are provided. The array substrate comprises a substrate; a first conductive layer arranged at a side of the substrate and comprising a common electrode; a second conductive layer arranged at a side of the first conductive layer away from the substrate and comprising a transparent shielding electrode; and a third conductive layer arranged at a side of the second conductive layer away from the substrate and comprising a connecting electrode; wherein, the connecting electrode is connected with the common electrode through a first through hole, the connecting electrode is connected with the transparent shielding electrode through a second through hole, and the first through hole is spaced from the second through hole. |
| US12282238B2 |
Display device
A display device includes first and second signal lines, first and second signal pads, and a pad insulating layer overlapping with the first and second signal lines. The first signal pad includes an intermediate conductive pattern overlapping with and connected to an end portion of the first signal line, and an upper conductive pattern on the intermediate conductive pattern, the upper conductive pattern being exposed through the pad insulating layer. The intermediate conductive pattern includes a first portion overlapping with the end portion of the first signal line, and a second portion between the end portion of the first signal line and an end portion of the second signal line and extending from the first portion. The upper conductive pattern is connected to the second portion of the intermediate conductive pattern. |
| US12282237B2 |
Display device
The present application discloses a display device, the display device includes: a display panel and a printed circuit board. A first bonding region is disposed on the display panel. The first bonding region includes a first bonding terminal. A second bonding region is disposed on the printed circuit board. The second bonding region includes a second bonding terminal. The first bonding terminal is connected to and contacts the second bonding terminal. The display device provided by the present application can reduce a width of a frame of the display device and improve a screen ratio of the display device. |
| US12282236B2 |
Circuit board, display substrate and display apparatus
A circuit board includes an input side and an output side oppositely arranged, and the output side is configured to electrically connect to a display substrate. The circuit board includes a plurality of signal lines extending in a direction from the input side to the output side. Each of the plurality of signal lines includes a main body and a plurality of output branches. Each of the plurality of output branches is connected to one end of the main body close to the output side and has a same line width. A line width of the main body is greater than a sum of line widths of all the output branches belonging to same signal line. |
| US12282233B2 |
Array substrate and display device
An array substrate includes: a base substrate, a light shielding layer on a first surface of the base substrate, and a plurality of pixel units and a first common electrode bus on a second surface of the base substrate. The base substrate includes a display region, first and second peripheral regions. Orthographic projections of the pixel units on the base substrate are arranged in an array in the display region. At least part of an orthographic projection of the light shielding layer and at least part of an orthographic projection of the first common electrode bus on the base substrate are in the second peripheral region, and the first common electrode bus is electrically connected to the common electrode included in at least one pixel unit. A distribution density of the first common electrode bus in the first peripheral region is smaller than that in the second peripheral region. |
| US12282232B2 |
Display panel and display device
A display panel and a display device are provided, and relate to the field of displaying. The display panel includes a display area and a peripheral area located at a periphery of the display area. The peripheral area includes a package region and an UDC region located between the display area and the package region. The display panel further includes a transition area surrounding the UDC region, and an opposite substrate and an array substrate arranged opposite to each other. In the UDC region, the opposite substrate and the array substrate are both light-transmissible areas; in the transition area, at least one spacer ring surrounding the UDC region is arranged on the opposite substrate, and each spacer ring includes a plurality of spacers that are spaced apart from each other. The technical solutions of the present disclosure can implement UDCs for the medium-sized display product and the large-sized display product. |
| US12282224B2 |
Backlight and display device
A backlight includes: a light source capable of emitting light spreading in first and second directions perpendicular to each other, from an optical axis; a first cylindrical lens that refracts and brings the light closer along the first direction to the optical axis, the first cylindrical lens overlapping with the light source in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions; a second cylindrical lens that refracts and brings the light even closer along the first direction to the optical axis, the second cylindrical lens overlapping with the light source and the first cylindrical lens in the third direction; and a reflector that reflects and brings the light closer along the second direction to the optical axis, the reflector being positioned between the first cylindrical lens and the second cylindrical lens in the third direction, the reflector avoiding overlap with the light source. |
| US12282221B2 |
Optical laminate, method for manufacturing same, smart window comprising same, and vehicle and building window or door employing same
The present invention relates to a transmittance-variable optical laminate, a method for manufacturing same, a smart window comprising same, and a vehicle and building window or door employing same, the optical laminate comprising: a first polarizing plate including a first polarizer and a polarization rotation layer; a first transparent conductive layer formed on one surface of the first polarizing plate; a second polarizing plate including a second polarizer and a retardation layer, and facing the first polarizing plate; a second transparent conductive layer formed on one surface of the second polarizing plate, and facing the first transparent conductive layer; and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first transparent conductive layer and the second transparent conductive layer. |
| US12282216B2 |
Display module, display device, and backlight module
A display module, a display device, and a backlight module avoid bad image quality. The display module includes: a backlight module and a display panel, and the backlight module includes: a back plate, a first light source and a middle frame, wherein the back plate includes a bottom plate; the first light source is on the bottom plate; the middle frame is between the bottom plate and the display panel, a concave part is on a surface of the middle frame adjacent to the display panel, and a second light source is in the concave part, such that bad image quality of the edge shadow of the display module is effectively avoided by arranging the second light source in the concave part of the surface of the middle frame adjacent to the display panel. |
| US12282213B2 |
Terahertz modulator and terahertz spatial light modulator
A terahertz modulator includes a substrate and an organic semiconductor layer. A material of the organic semiconductor layer is graphitic carbon nitride, and the organic semiconductor layer is coated on a surface of the substrate. The terahertz modulator has a high on-off contrast and is able to reach a high modulation speed. A terahertz spatial light modulator includes a terahertz modulator and an automatic pumped light spatial modulator. The automatic pumped light spatial modulator is optically connected with the terahertz modulator. The terahertz spatial light modulator generates a patterned terahertz light, and the terahertz spatial light modulator has a high on-off contrast and is able to reach a high modulation speed. |
| US12282208B2 |
Method for determining an ophthalmic component
Method for determining an ophthalmic equipment which is adapted to the characteristics of at least a given wearer, the method being implemented by a processor, the method comprising: —providing access to digital content of the wearer (S100), —analyzing the digital content of the wearer so as to extract wearer data (S200), —processing the wearer data so as to obtain a set of characteristics (S300), the set of characteristics comprising at least one category and at least one associated score, and —determining at least one component of an ophthalmic equipment based on the obtained set of characteristics (S400). |
| US12282207B2 |
Method for determining a component of an ophthalmic equipment and associated system
A method for determining a component of an ophthalmic equipment, the method including acquiring a set of parameter values relating to the given wearer, processing the acquired set of parameter values to infer a group, the given wearer belonging to the inferred group and the inferred group belongs to a plurality of pre-established groups, the pre-established groups being elaborated based on respective sets of parameter values of a plurality of reference wearers. The method further including determining, based on the inferred group, at least a feature enabling to determine a component of an ophthalmic equipment of the given wearer, and determining a component of an ophthalmic equipment to be used by the wearer based on the at least a determined feature, each set of parameters values of the plurality of reference wearers including parameter values belonging to at least two distinct categories. |
| US12282205B1 |
Glasses for the hearing impaired
Glasses for the hearing impaired including a frame assembly, an audio assembly and a visual assembly. Frame assembly includes a left rim, a right rim, temples, and a compartment, wherein the compartment is placed in a portion of at least one of the temples. Audio assembly includes an integral processor device housed in the compartment, a left microphone and a right microphone housed inside the left rim and the right rim respectively. Visual assembly includes a left LED set and a right LED set attached to a portion of a rear surface of the left rim and a right rim respectively. Left rim LEDs and right rim LEDs, left microphone, right microphone and integral processor device are operatively connected to the integral processor device and powered by means of a battery. |
| US12282203B2 |
Lens driving device, camera module, and optical instrument
The present embodiment relates to a lens driving device including: a first movable element including a bobbin and a first coil; a second movable element including a housing and a first magnet; a base disposed below the housing; a board including a circuit member having a second coil; an upper elastic member; and a support member, wherein the bobbin includes a first stopper and a second stopper, which overlap the second movable element in an optical axis direction and are spaced apart from each other, the housing includes side parts and corner parts formed between the side parts, a first stopper is disposed on the side of the corner parts, the second stopper is disposed on the side of the side parts, and the distance between the first stopper and the second movable element in the optical axis direction is different from the distance between the second stopper and the second movable element in the optical axis direction. |
| US12282202B2 |
Impact-protected lens module with buffering pad and electronic device
An impact- and vibration-proof lens module includes a fixing assembly, a circuit board, a lens assembly, and a buffering pad. The fixing assembly defines a chamber, and the circuit board is partially disposed in the chamber. The lens assembly is disposed on the circuit board, and the lens assembly is also partially disposed in the chamber. The buffering pad made of thermally conductive silicon is disposed in the chamber and is disposed between the circuit board and the fixing assembly. In the event of being dropped or suffering vibration, the buffering pad disperses and absorbs stress on the fixing assembly to prevent breakage. |
| US12282201B2 |
Splicing tray utilized in fiber optic patch panel assembly for fiber optic cable connection management
A patch panel assembly that has a splicing tray integrated therein for fiber optic hardware connection is provided. In one example, the patch panel assembly include a ceiling, a bottom cover, and two opposing side panels defining an interior region therein. A splicing tray disposed in the interior region of the patch panel assembly. The splicing tray is slidable between a non-extended position and an extended position. |
| US12282198B2 |
Dense wavelength division multiplexing modulization system
The present disclosure relates to a fiber optic assembly that includes a body and a lid coupled to the body where the body and the lid each define a respective fiber routing plane. The fiber optic assembly also includes a plurality of ports on the body and a plurality of ports on the lid such that when the lid and the body are in a closed configuration, the ports of the body and the ports of the lid define a singular connection plane. |
| US12282197B2 |
Fiber optic assemblies including a bonding agent, along with related methods
Generally, disclosed herein are various embodiments of bonding agents for use in adhering optical fibers to ferrules within optical connectors, and the methods for use thereof. The various embodiments of bonding agents described herein may provide desirable properties, such as, but not limited to, high adhesion strength and/or improved performance following environmental aging. Various embodiments of the bonding agents disclosed herein may also have other desirable properties for the process of securing an optical fiber within a ferrule, such as, but not limited to, shortened process cycle time. |
| US12282193B2 |
Ferrule-less fiber optic connectors, systems, and methods
The present disclosure relates generally to ferrule-less fiber optic connectors, systems, and methods for enhancing the physical contact or connection interface between a first plurality of optical fibers and a second plurality of optical fibers after a cleaving process. The present disclosure is directed at ensuring proper alignment and performance of mated optical fibers by controlling the orientation of major flared sides relative to a connector keying feature. |
| US12282191B2 |
Optical circuit element
An optical circuit element capable of preventing stray light propagated through a part including a substrate of the optical circuit element from being emitted to the outside is provided. The optical circuit element has a substrate, an optical waveguide layer that is formed on one surface of the substrate, and a protective layer that is overlaid on the optical waveguide layer. The optical waveguide layer has an optical waveguide configured for light to be propagated therethrough. A groove portion, which reaches to a position deeper than the one surface from a surface of the protective layer toward the substrate, is formed. The optical circuit element further includes a light absorption layer that covers at least a bottom surface and a side surface of the groove portion. |
| US12282189B2 |
Forming optical components using selective area epitaxy
A mask material is deposited on a substrate or growth template. The substrate or growth template is compatible with crystalline growth of a crystalline optical material. Patterned portions of the mask material are removed to expose one or more regions of the substrate or growth template. The one or more regions have target shapes of one or more optical components. The crystalline optical material is selectively grown in the one or more regions to form the one or more optical components. |
| US12282186B2 |
Multi-waveguide illumination panel
An illumination system having a base sheet and at least two planar optical waveguides attached to a back surface of the base sheet at different locations and each having light extraction structures. Each waveguide is optically coupled to an LED source at its edge and is configured to emit light towards the base sheet. Various embodiments incorporate flexibility of the base sheet, variable densities of the light extraction structures, positioning of LED sources, and distinct light extraction patterns. The base sheet may include optically transmissive and opaque areas. Additional aspects involve reflective or light-diffusing materials near the optical waveguides, side-emitting LED packages, and opaque materials located between the waveguides or LED sources. The system is adaptable for multiple planar optical waveguides distributed over the base sheet, covered by one or more reflective sheets. |
| US12282184B1 |
Reflectors applied to photonics platforms
A method of forming an optical device is provided that can include forming a backside reflector layer, and forming a cladding layer on the backside reflector layer. The method can further include forming a grating layer on the cladding layer, and forming a receiving reflector layer on the cladding layer. The receiving reflector layer can include an opening for receiving optical signal to at least the grating layer. |
| US12282180B2 |
Stealth device
Disclosed is a stealth device that has a double-band stealth function against millimeter-wavelength electromagnetic waves, has high absorption at a near-infrared laser wavelength, and has low emissivity of mid-infrared light and long-infrared light. The stealth device includes a wavelength-selective absorption pattern layer made of a material having electrical conductivity, wherein the wavelength-selective absorption pattern layer is composed of conductive thin-film patterns capable of causing plasmonic resonance at a first wavelength and a second wavelength different from the first wavelength; and a dielectric layer disposed below the wavelength-selective absorption pattern layer and made of a dielectric material. |
| US12282169B2 |
Hybrid see through augmented reality systems and methods for low vision users
Provided herein are augmented reality visual aid systems, software, and methods which enhance vision, to simulate natural vision, by utilizing hybrid see through occlusion enabled hardware, and software through image manipulation, reprocessing, blending, for presentation and display to the eyes thus enabling a range of tasks previously lost or impacted. |
| US12282168B2 |
Anamorphic directional illumination device with selective light-guiding
An anamorphic directional illumination device may provide a near-eye display apparatus or a vehicle external light device. The anamorphic near-eye display apparatus comprises a spatial light modulator with asymmetric pixels; an input transverse anamorphic lens; and an extraction waveguide that passes input light in a first direction between a polarization-sensitive reflector and front guide surface to a lateral anamorphic reflector, and to reflect the light back through the extraction waveguide to guide between the rear guide surface and front guide surface. Reflective extraction features are arranged to extract the reflected light towards the pupil of a viewer, maintaining the directionality of the fan of light rays from the spatial light modulator and anamorphic imaging system. A thin, transparent and efficient anamorphic display apparatus for Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality displays and for scene illumination is provided. |
| US12282166B2 |
Electronic devices and corresponding methods for delivering an extended display identification (EDID) extension identifying interpupillary distance metrics
An electronic device includes a communication device and one or more processors operable with the communication device. The one or more processors, in response to the communication device identifying a port establishing a display data channel, causing the communication device to transmit an extended display identification (EDID) extension or second-generation EDID file structure comprising a wearable glass projection device content rendering parameter, which can be expressed as an interpupillary distance. |
| US12282165B2 |
Low-density electrical traces on a transparent or reflective substrate
An inventive apparatus includes a substrate and a set of multiple electrically conductive traces. The substrate is transparent or reflective for visible light. The electrically conductive traces are sufficiently transparent, or are less than 200 μm wide and occupy less than 25% of an areal extent of the set, so as to enable visual observation of a scene through or reflected by the substrate along a sight line that passes through the set of electrically conductive traces. |
| US12282164B2 |
Augmented reality device
An augmented reality (AR) device is provided. The AR device includes a display configured to output light of a first polarization; a polarization-conversion reflector provided opposite to an output side of the display, the polarization-conversion reflector converting the light of the first polarization into light of a second polarization that is orthogonal to the first polarization and reflect the light of the second polarization; a waveguide having a flat plate shape, a normal line of a flat surface of the flat plate shape being inclined with respect to an optical axis of the light of the first polarization output from the display, a side of the waveguide being provided between the display and the polarization-conversion reflector; an input-coupler inputting the light of the second polarization into the waveguide; and an output-coupler outputting light propagating in the waveguide. |
| US12282163B2 |
Optical waveguide system and electronic device
An optical waveguide system and an electronic device are disclosed. The system comprises: a waveguide; an input coupler coupling a light into the waveguide; and an output coupler, wherein the input coupler includes a right portion and a left portion, wherein the right portion includes stacked first and second polarization volume gratings, the left portion includes stacked third and fourth polarization volume gratings. The first and fourth polarization volume gratings are polarization volume gratings optimized for a right-hand-side field of view of the light, and the third and second polarization volume gratings are polarization volume gratings optimized for a left-hand-side field of view of the light. |
| US12282162B2 |
Waveguide-based projection display device with a dynamic scattered light absorber for a vehicle
A projection display device includes an imaging unit; a planar waveguide with a light decoupling face for a light beam bundle produced by the imaging unit; an at least partially transparent reflection plate arranged in the field of view of a user and configured to reflect a light beam bundle decoupled from the waveguide to an eyebox predetermined for the user's eyes; an eye-tracking device configured to determine an eyebox window which is currently occupied by the user's eyes; and a dynamic scattered light absorber, which, to shadow the light decoupling face in a surface portion which is dynamically adjustable depending on a signal of the eye-tracking device and which extends starting from at least one of the edges of the light decoupling surface, is configured to at least partially limit the decoupled light beam bundle to the current eyebox window. |
| US12282158B2 |
Optical element for expanding and uniforming beam of light
An optical element for expanding and uniforming a beam of light. The optical element includes a plurality of layers of a first type and plurality of layers of a second type arranged as a stack of layers. The stack of layers includes an input facet for receiving a beam of light and an output facet to output expanded and uniformed beam of light. The stack of layers forms a right triangular prism having a first side and a second side of a same width. |
| US12282157B2 |
Ocular optical system
An ocular optical system for imaging of imaging rays entering an eye of an observer via the ocular optical system from a display screen is provided. A side facing towards the eye is an eye-side, and a side facing towards the display screen is a display-side. The ocular optical system includes a first lens element, a second lens element, and a third lens element from the eye-side to the display-side in order along an optical axis. The first lens element, the second lens element, and the third lens element each include an eye-side surface and a display-side surface. The ocular optical system satisfies: 40°≤ω, where ω represents a half apparent field of view, which is one half the field of view of an observer. |
| US12282152B2 |
Camera module and electronic apparatus
Embodiments of this application relate to the technical field of camera modules to resolve an issue of miniaturization of camera modules. The embodiments of this application provide a camera module and an electronic apparatus. The camera module includes: a circuit board; an image sensor and a driver circuit that are located on the circuit board; an upper lens barrel and a lower lens barrel that are located on a side of the image sensor away from the circuit board; a connecting circuit located on the lower lens barrel; and an adjustable lens disposed inside between the upper lens barrel and the lower lens barrel. The adjustable lens is electrically connected to the driver circuit through the connecting circuit, so as to deform under driving of the driver circuit to adjust a focal power of the camera module. Such camera module has an advantage of small volume ratio. |
| US12282147B2 |
Method and system for enhanced photon microscopy
The present invention discloses a photon enhancement apparatus comprising a reflective component and 4f coherent imaging system, which increases a photon collection efficiency. The present invention also provides a microscope comprising said photon enhancement apparatus and methods of improving photon collection efficiency, signal-to-noise ratio, and/or optical resolution using the said photon enhancement apparatus. |
| US12282138B2 |
Ophthalmic lens comprising an oxazolone
The present invention relates to ophthalmic lenses comprising an oxazolone, a preparation method thereof and the use of an oxazolone in an ophthalmic lens to absorb blue light. |
| US12282137B2 |
Light source for an optical sensor
An optical sensor system comprising: (a) a light source for at least one optical sensor, the light source comprising at least, (i) an interposer having first and second opposing sides and defining at least one alignment aperture extending from the first opposing side to the second opposing side; (ii) at least one fiber disposed in the at least one alignment aperture, the at least one fiber having a first optical axis; (iii) at least one light emitting component mounted to the second opposing side and having a second optical axis coincident with the first optical axis, the light emitting component configured to emit light, at least a portion of which is coupled with the at least one fiber as coupled light; and (b) the at least one optical sensor optically coupled to the at least one fiber. |
| US12282136B2 |
Downhole lithium detection systems and methods
A system may include one or more downhole tools, where a first downhole tool includes a pulsed neutron generator to emit neutrons into a borehole of a geological formation and one or more gamma-ray detectors to obtain a measurement of gamma-ray emissions, of a borehole environment, induced by the emitted neutrons. The system may also include data processing circuitry to determine a Sigma value associated with the borehole environment based on the measurement and determine elemental concentrations, excluding lithium, based on one or more gamma-ray energy spectra obtained via the one or more downhole tools. The data processing circuitry may also determine an elemental Sigma contribution of the elements other than lithium based on the elemental concentrations, determine a lithium Sigma contribution based on a difference between the Sigma value and the elemental Sigma contribution, and determine a lithium concentration within the borehole environment based on the lithium Sigma contribution. |
| US12282134B2 |
Detecting device and steering wheel
There is disclosed a detecting device including a detecting portion that detects contact of a person with a contacted body, the detecting portion including: an insulating body, the insulating body being sheet-shaped; an electrode, the electrode being sheet-shaped, being disposed at at least one side surface side of the insulating body, and being less extensible than the insulating body; and a positioning hole, the positioning hole being formed so as to penetrate through the insulating body and the electrode, and the insulating body and the electrode being positioned by the positioning hole. |
| US12282133B2 |
Method and system for generating logarithmic non-uniform pseudo-random electromagnetic exploration signal
A method and system for generating a logarithmic non-uniform pseudo-random electromagnetic exploration signal including: constructing two or more basic unit signals, according to an exploration requirement, that are stairstep signals obtained by superposing in-phase periodic square wave signals, a frequency ratio between adjacent periodic square wave signals is 2, and the two or more basic unit signals meet the following requirement: if a lowest dominant frequency in a first basic unit signal is a fundamental frequency, lowest frequencies of the remaining basic unit signal are l×2m times the fundamental frequency, where l is an odd number except 1, and m is a natural number; and superposing the two or more basic unit signals to obtain a logarithmic non-uniform 2n sequence pseudo-random signal. A logarithmic non-uniform 2n sequence stairstep signal is constructed within a limited frequency interval, and requirements of prospectors for a higher frequency density within a specific frequency interval are met. |
| US12282132B2 |
Sequence time window amplitude-phase-frequency characteristics analysis method for underwater vehicle power frequency electromagnetic field disturbance
A sequence time window amplitude-phase-frequency characteristics analysis method and system for underwater vehicle power frequency electromagnetic field disturbance are provided. The method includes: establishing a power grid dipole group model, emulating and calculating to obtain background field intensity data of a test location, and constructing an emulated background field database; acquiring measured background field data, comparing the emulated data with the measured data, and providing a relative error; calculating a background field intensity and underwater vehicle target disturbance under the action of the above dipole group, and establishing a measured target signal database; and performing actual measurement according to an underwater vehicle motion and detection topology, performing a Fourier transform and Fourier sliding window decomposition after acquiring original data, and acquiring an amplitude spectrum and a spectrogram of an underwater vehicle target disturbance signal. |
| US12282128B2 |
System and method for quantitative seismic integration modeling workflow
Systems and methods for quantitative seismic integrated modelling (QSIM) are disclosed for integrating the one, two and three-dimensional (1D, 2D, 3D) data from different geoscience domains within a framework in order to produce hi-resolution geocellular models that simulate realistic sub-surface reservoir properties. The QSIM systems and methods accurately leverage the seismically derived reservoir rock properties, integrating the geophysical, geological and engineering information through an optimum rock physics models and takes in consideration all the empirically constrained templates to correct, validate and quality check all the input data. |
| US12282123B2 |
Readout and processing arrangement in a sensor system
A sensor system includes a detector substrate, multiple readout substrates and a processing substrate. The detector substrate has a detector mounted thereon. Each of the readout substrates is disposed perpendicular to the detector substrate, and has corresponding readout circuitry mounted thereon. The processing substrate is disposed perpendicular to each of the readout substrates and parallel to the detector substrate, and has one or more processing elements mounted thereon. Electrical connections between component nodes on the detector substrate and corresponding readout substrates are made using connectors or right-angled solder joints created using a solder reflow process. Electrical connections between component nodes on the processing substrate and corresponding readout substrates are also made using connectors or right-angled solder joints created using a solder reflow process. The geometric arrangement of the substrates allows for high density of pixelation on the detector. In an embodiment, the sensor system is a radiation detector system. |
| US12282120B2 |
Systems and methods for intra-shot dynamic adjustment of lidar detector gain
A method including emitting, by an emitting device of an optical ranging system at a first time, a first light pulse; increasing, after the first time, a sensitivity of a photodetector of the optical ranging system from a first sensitivity at a second time to a second sensitivity at a third time; decreasing, after the third time, the sensitivity of the photodetector of the optical ranging system from the second sensitivity to the first sensitivity at a fourth time, wherein the fourth time is after the photodetector receives a return light based on the first light pulse; and emitting, by the optical ranging system at a fifth time after the fourth time, a second light pulse. |
| US12282115B2 |
Clutter removal
When sensing is performed in a radio access network, clutter may be removed from echo signals using clutter contributing signals, that may be determined based on clutter calibration matrices and one-dimensional echo signals obtained by transforming multi-dimensional representations of echo signals at least partly into the one-dimensional echo signals. When generating, for example, clutter calibration matrices, sensing results may be transformed into one dimensional vectors, that are arranged to two-dimensional matrices. Vectors associated with clutter components in two-dimensional matrices may be used to obtain the clutter calibration matrices. |
| US12282110B2 |
Technique for updating a positioning configuration
A technique for updating a positioning configuration in a positioning system comprising a plurality of anchor nodes for determining positions of tag devices within a localization area using radio technology is disclosed. A method implementation of the technique comprises determining (S202) an updated positioning configuration for at least one of a set of tag devices and a set of anchor nodes of the positioning system based on predefined positioning requirements that depend on a zone of the localization area in which the set of tag devices is currently located, and applying (S204) the updated positioning configuration to the at least one of the set of tag devices and the set of anchor nodes. |
| US12282105B2 |
Vehicle and control method thereof
A vehicle includes a communicator and a controller electrically connected to the communicator. The controller is configured to identify a distance between a vehicle and the other vehicle communicatively connected to the vehicle, insert a pad data into at least one data frame based on the identified distance, and transmit the at least one data frame into which the pad data is inserted to the other vehicle through the communicator. |
| US12282104B2 |
Satellite attitude estimation system and satellite attitude estimation method
A satellite attitude estimation system includes an infrared sensor configured to capture an infrared image of a target satellite for which an attitude is to be estimated. The system determines, in the captured infrared image, a first pixel having a largest luminance and a second pixel having a smallest luminance in the infrared image. The system associates the first pixels with first coordinates of a 3D structure of the target satellite, and associates the second pixels with second coordinates of the 3D structure of the target satellite. The system computes a first normal vector to a surface of the 3D structure for the first coordinates, and computes a second normal vector to the surface of the 3D structure for the second coordinates. The system estimates a direction of the target satellite to the sun before the infrared image was taken, using the computed first and second normal vectors. |
| US12282103B2 |
Method and device for position compensation by first device in wireless communication system supporting sidelink
Disclosed are the method and the device for same, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a first signal including information on a position of a second device on a first coordinate axis and a second coordinate axis through the first antenna and the second antenna; and compensating a position of the first device on the basis of the first signal, wherein the first device determines a specific time at which the position of the first device corresponds to the position of the second device, on the basis of a difference in reception times of the first signal between the first antenna and the second antenna, and compensates the position of the first device at the specific time on one coordinate axis specified by the first signal among the first coordinate axis and the second coordinate axis. |
| US12282100B2 |
User terminal positioning method, device, and system
A user terminal positioning method is used in an edge cloud server, and includes: receiving satellite positioning information sent by a user terminal; determining a location service area in which the user terminal is located; on the basis of the location service area, acquiring a differential correction model corresponding to the location service area from a public cloud server; using the satellite positioning information and the differential correction model to implement location calculation to obtain location information of the user terminal; and sending the location information to the user terminal. |
| US12282099B2 |
Information processing apparatus and control method for distance measurement based on light emission
Provided is an information processing apparatus that avoids interference of rays of light to be emitted from respective terminals for performing distance measurement. The information processing apparatus includes a first light emission unit that performs light emission of invisible light for performing distance measurement, a first acquisition unit that acquires depth information of a real space on the basis of the light emission by the first light emission unit, a control unit that controls the light emission by the first light emission unit, and a communication unit that performs communication with another information processing apparatus. The control unit performs control causing the first light emission unit to perform the light emission at a timing not overlapping a light emission timing of a second light emission unit of the other information processing apparatus, on the basis of the communication with the other information processing apparatus. |
| US12282096B2 |
Method and apparatus for a computationally efficent LiDAR system
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of a LiDAR system to determine the distance of an object from the LiDAR system. Embodiments of the LiDAR system can use a coarse estimate of the distance of an object from the LiDAR system which is then used by a fast search to determine an estimate of the distance of an object from the LiDAR system within a precision threshold. In some embodiments the LiDAR system can use adaptive precision when determining the distance of an object from the LiDAR system. |
| US12282094B2 |
Method for measuring distance of image displayed on television camera
Provided is an environment in which balance information can be easily confirmed when An LED light emitting element unit that controls light emission for each LED light emitting element that is similar to an image element of a television camera is required. A luminous intensity measuring element unit to be controlled and measured is necessary for each luminous intensity measuring element which is similar to an image element of a television camera. The present invention relates to an electronic device that can be manufactured by a current electronic device manufacturing technology. |
| US12282092B2 |
Method for detecting moving target based on spatial slices of transformed spatio-temporal frequency space
The present disclosure belongs to the field of underwater target detection, and in particular, to a method for detecting a moving target based on spatial slices of transformed spatio-temporal frequency space. The method includes: segmenting a target radiated acoustic signal received by an M-element horizontal line array in an underwater acoustic environment with a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR); performing N-point discrete Fourier transform (DFT) on the received signal on each array element in each period of time; performing frequency domain beamforming on an array signal after each section of DFT, and performing stacking after compensating a phase difference between arrays brought by an azimuth of each primitive element; performing coordinate transformation on a frequency-azimuth-time three-dimensional (3D) matrix space obtained; taking a slice from the obtained frequency-azimuth-time 3D space subjected to the coordinate transformation; and performing segmented Radon transform on the spatial slice obtained to detect the target. |
| US12282090B2 |
Coherent, multi-static radar system, in particular for use in a vehicle
A radar system which can be used in a vehicle is presented. The radar system has a radar sensor for transmitting and receiving first radar signals and an evaluation device for processing radar signals received by the radar sensor. The radar system also has at least one active radar tag which is configured to retransmit received radar signals, amplified and modulated, as second radar signals, and the evaluation device is configured to determine information about an object both on the basis of components, received by the radar sensor, of the first radar signals reflected at the object and on the basis of components, received by the radar sensor, of the second radar signals reflected at the object. |
| US12282088B2 |
Sa radar sensor for motor vehicles
Radar sensor for motor vehicles. The radar sensor has a high-frequency part, which is configured to transmit sequences of modulated radar pulses and to receive the corresponding radar echoes, and an electronic evaluation part, which is configured to take distance and angle measurements using a synthetic aperture, and includes a scanning module, an FFT module for performing fast Fourier transforms to calculating a two-dimensional distance/velocity radar image, a transform module configured to transform the raw data, while simultaneously correcting migration effects, into a format that can be processed by the FFT module, by applying a transform function defined by a number N of coefficients, and a coefficient module for preparing the coefficients for the transform module. The coefficient module including a memory, in which there is stored an initial set of coefficients comprising fewer than N coefficients, and a recursion module, for recursive calculation of the remaining coefficients. |
| US12282087B1 |
Systems and methods for weapon detection
A system for detecting a potential threat includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory has instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the processor, cause the system to access a first signal from a first sensor system, the first signal including an optical signal, an infrared signal, a radio detection and ranging (RADAR) signal, or a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) signal; generate a first fused signal stream, using sensor fusion, based on the first signal; provide a confidence level of a potential threat, based on the first fused signal stream, using an anomalous behavior model; determine that the provided confidence level of the potential threat exceeds a predetermined threshold; and output an alert indicating a condition of the potential threat. |
| US12282086B2 |
Method and apparatus for efficient assistance data transfer in NR positioning
A method of performing, by a first apparatus, wireless communication. The method may include receiving configuration related to a downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) from a location management function (LMF); receiving configuration related to an uplink (UL) PRS from a base station; and performing positioning based on round trip time (RTT), based on the configuration related to the DL PRS and the configuration related to the UL PRS. |
| US12282085B2 |
Radar system and control method therefor
A radar system and control method thereof is disclosed. The radar system comprises a plurality of radar units, each comprising: one or more radio frequency (RF) channels configured to receive a reflected signal and then generate an analog input signal according to the reflected signal; and a processing module connected with all the RF channels and configured to sample the analog input signal to obtain a digital signal and perform the first digital signal processing on the digital signal to obtain intermediate data, wherein when the plurality of radar units work jointly, a designated radar unit performs the second digital signal processing on the plurality of intermediate data provided by the plurality of radar units, thereby obtaining result data of the radar system. |
| US12282081B2 |
Methods and systems for diagnosing magnetic sensors
A method includes generating a reference voltage by periodically switching direction of current flow in a diagnostic sensor, where the reference voltage is a non-sinusoidal differential voltage of which an amplitude alternates between minimum and maximum values, and where the reference voltage includes a diagnostic sensor output voltage component responsive to an external magnetic field and a diagnostic sensor offset voltage component responsive to a mismatch of the diagnostic sensor. The method also includes amplifying the reference voltage to produce an amplified reference voltage, where the amplified reference voltage is a differential voltage having an amplifier offset voltage component. Additionally, the method includes demodulating the amplified reference voltage by filtering the diagnostic sensor offset voltage component and the amplifier offset voltage component to produce a demodulated voltage. Also, the method includes digitizing the demodulated voltage to produce a digitized voltage. |
| US12282080B1 |
Multi-module velocity selective labeling with improved stability and accuracy in imaging applications
Techniques, systems and apparatus are described for magnetic resonance imaging. A method includes generating an MRI image by processing a first image obtained by applying a first order of modules including at least a first control module at a first time point and a first labeling module at a second time point to a target object, wherein the first control module inverts a magnetization of the target object and a second image obtained by applying a second order of modules including at least a second labeling module at a third time and a second control module at a fourth time to the target object, wherein the second labeling module inverts the magnetization of the target object. |
| US12282078B2 |
Multi-resonance broadband transmit/receive switches without tuning used in magnetic resonance imaging
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus that includes a multi-resonance transmit/receive (T/R) switch, one switch design having a top side and a bottom side of a microstripline based hybrid coupler, a first pin diode, a second pin diode, four vertical transmission lines and six horizontal transmission lines arranged in a bended manner on the microstripline. The top side is associated with a first port and a second port, and electrically connected to the first pin diode and the second pin diode. The bottom side is associated with a third port and a fourth port, and electrically connected with the first pin diode and the second pin diode. The switch receives radio frequency (RF) pulses of different frequencies transmitted to and received from an MRI RF coil where the different frequencies are received concurrently and without tuning by the multi-resonance T/R switch from the MRI RF coil. |
| US12282077B2 |
Sensor
A magnetic sensor includes an insulating layer including a flat portion and a protruding portion, a first MR element, and a second MR element. The protruding portion includes a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface. The first MR element is disposed on the first inclined surface. The second MR element is disposed on the second inclined surface. The protruding portion extends in a first direction parallel to a top surface of a substrate, and includes a plurality of recess portions each recessed in a direction parallel to the top surface of the substrate at an end of the protruding portion in the first direction. |
| US12282074B1 |
Method and apparatus for measuring magnetic field intensity in high-temperature superconducting maglev transportation systems
The present invention relates to the technical field of maglev transportation, specifically revealing a method and apparatus for measuring magnetic field intensity in high-temperature superconducting maglev transportation systems. The method includes: Establishing the top surface of the permanent magnet guideway (PMG) as the reference datum for magnetic field intensity measurements; developing a multi-point chord measurement system with parameters including system sampling interval, system order, and chord measurement configuration; computing intermediate chord values; constructing an inversion model incorporating the least squares method and employing this model to derive the vertical displacement of the reference chord baseline; determining gap sensor locations and deploying an array of Hall effect sensors along the direction of magnetic field intensity measurement; adjusting the reference datum position; and calculating the magnetic field intensity distribution above the reference datum using interpolation techniques based on the Hall effect sensor array measurements. |
| US12282072B2 |
Battery monitoring device
A current application unit includes a load element, a switching element, and a shunt resistor connected in series between both terminals of an assembled battery, and a drive control unit of the switching element to apply an alternating current having a predetermined frequency to the assembled battery. The drive control unit includes: a PWM modulator for generating a drive signal; a PDM modulator for generating the drive signal; and a switching unit for switching between a first drive state for driving the switching element by the drive signal generated by the PWM modulator and a second drive state for driving the switching element by the drive signal generated by the PDM modulator. |
| US12282068B2 |
Lithium precipitation detecting apparatus and method
A lithium precipitation detecting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a measuring unit configured to calculate a charge amount of a battery in a charging process and calculate a discharge amount of the battery in a discharging process; and a control unit configured to estimate a state of charge (SOC) of the battery in the charging process and the discharging process and determine whether lithium precipitation occurs in the battery based on the estimated SOC, the charge amount and the discharge amount. |
| US12282065B2 |
Battery data management system and method
A battery data management system includes a communication device for obtaining state data of a battery from a battery management system and transmitting the state data of the battery to an outside and a management server for managing the state data of the battery, received from the communication device through a first network. |
| US12282059B2 |
Lifetime indicator system
The disclosed technology generally relates to integrated circuit devices with wear out monitoring capability. An integrated circuit device includes a wear-out monitor device configured to record an indication of wear-out of a core circuit separated from the wear-out monitor device, wherein the indication is associated with localized diffusion of a diffusant within the wear-out monitor device in response to a wear-out stress that causes the wear-out of the core circuit. |
| US12282054B2 |
System for characterizing a transistor circuit
A system for characterizing a transistor circuit which has a local minimum in its transfer characteristic by finding its local minimum. The system comprises: a bias voltage generator for generating a toggling signal; a multiplier configured for multiplying an electrical signal which is a function of the drain source current of the transistor circuit, with a waveform alternating between two predefined values synchronously with the toggling signal; a first integrator configured for integrating the electrical signal from the multiplier, and wherein if more integrators are present, linear combinations of output signals of the integrators are provided to the further integrators; a summator configured for summing the toggling signal and an integration signal and configured for outputting the sum to the gate of the transistor circuit. |
| US12282042B2 |
Current-sensing resistor
A current-sensing resistor for measuring a current with two connection parts for introducing and discharging the current to be measured includes a resistor element made of a resistor material, a first voltage measurement contact at the first connection part for measuring the voltage at the first connection part, a second voltage measurement contact at the second connection part for voltage measurement at the second connection part, and a cut in the second connection part, the cut surrounding the second voltage measurement contact and preventing current flow across the cut. The resistor also includes a third voltage measurement contact arranged at the second connection part for measuring the voltage at the second connection part, and that the third voltage measurement contact is arranged at the second connection part offset with respect to the main current flow direction transversely to the second voltage measurement contact at the second connection part. |
| US12282041B1 |
Non-contact circuit testing systems and methods
Systems, apparatuses, semiconductor products and methods for circuit testing, specifically non-contact circuit testing are provided that allow for the wireless, non-contact testing of an electrical component. For example, non-contact circuit testing is performed using a non-contact testing apparatus that include a circuit cover with a conductive material and an oscilloscope. The circuit cover is places over an electrical component to form a parallel plate capacitor with electrical component. The parallel plate capacitor is formed with an air dielectric between the electrical component and the circuit cover. An electrical signal is initiated at the electrical component to cause a voltage through the parallel plate capacitor. An oscilloscope probe is used to measure the voltage of the parallel plate capacitor to determine a connectivity of the electrical component without contacting the electrical component. |
| US12282035B2 |
Automated laboratory system resource allocation and utilization
A system and method for allocating processing resources in an automated laboratory system configured with processing units at which one or more activities are performed using one or more processing resources are provided. A scheduler component received receiving at least one order requiring the execution of one or more protocols on the automated laboratory system. The scheduler generates one or more optimisation problem instances and utilizes the optimisation problem instances to generate the schedule of activities for the automated laboratory system. The scheduler causes the implementation of the generating schedule such that the activities can be performed according to desired protocol steps. |
| US12282033B2 |
Analysis device
Provided is an analysis device capable of reducing vibration and noise generated by a stepping motor due to countermeasure for step-out of the stepping motor. A drive unit is controlled such that a set value of driving torque of the stepping motor increases stepwise in a plurality of steps each time the step-out of the stepping motor is detected by the step-out detection unit. |
| US12282030B2 |
Mass spectrometry assay for estrogenic compounds estradiol and estrone
Methods are provided for detecting the amount of one or more HRT panel analytes (i.e., estrone (E1), estrone sulfate (E1s), 17α-estradiol (E2a), 17β-estradiol (E2b), estradiol sulfate (E2s), estriol (E3), equilin (EQ), 17α-dihydroequilin (EQa), 17β-dihydroequilin (EQb), Equilenin (EN), 17α-dihydroequilenin (ENa), 17β-dihydroequilenin (ENb), and Δ8,9-dehydroestrone (dE1)) in a sample by mass spectrometry. The methods generally involve ionizing one or more HRT panel analytes in a sample and quantifying the generated ions to determine the amount of one or more HRT panel analytes in the sample. In methods where amounts of multiple HRT panel analytes are detected, the amounts of multiple analytes are detected in the same sample injection. |
| US12282028B2 |
Atomic description of immune complex that causes heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
The present invention provides a mutant protein which has the same amino acid sequence of a wild type PF4 monomer except that (i) at least one amino acid of the wild type PF4 monomer has been deleted, (ii) at least one amino acid of the wild type PF4 monomer has been replaced by another amino acid, or (iii) a combination of such changes has been made. The present invention also provides methods of treating or reducing the likelihood of HIT, treating angiogenesis, treating abnormal cell growth, or affecting coagulation pathologies that lead to thrombus formation, by administering such mutant proteins to a patient. |
| US12282025B1 |
Rapid detection method for ricin toxin
A rapid detection method for ricin toxin is provided. The rapid detection method for ricin toxin comprises reacting an adenine-containing oligonucleotide chain substrate labeled with a fluorescent group and a quenching group, a buffer solution, a BSA solution, a to-be-detected sample and sterile water, incubating at a constant temperature, detecting a fluorescence signal value, and determining whether the ricin toxin exists based on a difference between an average value of final fluorescence signal values and an average value of final fluorescence signal values of a negative control; wherein the sample is judged as a positive sample when the average value of the detected final fluorescence signal values is greater than the average value of the final fluorescence signal values of the negative control by +3 times standard deviation. |
| US12282021B2 |
Stratification of acute myeloid leukaemia patients for sensitivity to kinase pathway inhibitor therapy
The invention relates to the treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) in patients. In particular, the invention concerns improved methods for identifying AML patients who may be effectively treated with kinase pathway inhibitors, and improved methods for predicting whether a kinase pathway inhibitor may be efficacious for treatment of AML in an individual patient. The invention also comprehends a method of screening a plurality of patients suffering from acute myeloid leukaemia, to determine whether the acute myeloid leukaemia of any one or more of the patients may be effectively treated with a kinase pathway inhibitor. The invention further provides methods for the treatment of such patients with kinase pathway inhibitors, and kinase pathway inhibitors for use in such methods. |
| US12282020B2 |
Use of BMMFI Rep protein as biomarker for colorectal cancer
The present invention relates to the use of BMW Rep-protein as a biomarker for colon cancer. |
| US12282019B2 |
Compositions and methods to detect gastrointestinal disease
This invention comprises compositions and methods to detect and treat gastrointestinal diseases. |
| US12282017B1 |
HP spherical deformation diagnosis model and construction method thereof
An HP spherical deformation diagnosis model and a construction method thereof are provided. The HP spherical deformation diagnosis model is used for identifying whether HP spherical deformation exists in an IHC dyeing image of an HP positive gastric mucosal sample, and includes: an image processing module and an identification module; the image processing module comprises a contrast enhancement module, an image filtering module, and an HP dyeing extraction module; the contrast enhancement module comprises: an HIS color model transformation module, which is used for transforming an original image from an RGB color model to an HIS color model in which hue, saturation, and intensity are separated; and a piecewise linear transformation module, which is used for enhancing a grayscale region of interest in the image by using a piecewise linear transformation method for a brightness component in the HIS color module, so as to improve the image. |
| US12282016B2 |
Labeling method for improving signal intensity of time-resolved fluorescence
The present invention provides a labeling method for improving signal intensity of time-resolved fluorescence; and the labeling method can be applied in the detection of olaquindox or gentamicin. The olaquindox antibody complex immunolabelled by time-resolved fluorescence prepared in the present invention has a more stable structure, stronger fluorescence signal, and higher detection sensitivity. |
| US12282014B2 |
Methods of identifying compounds that interfere with ERG-driven misguidance of BAF complexes in TMPRSS2-ERG driven prostate cancers
The present invention provides methods of screening for compounds that interfere with the interaction between ERG. ETV1, ETV4 or ETV5 and mSWI/SNF (BAF) chromatin remodeling complex proteins. Included are methods of screening for compounds that interfere with the interaction between ERG, ETV1, ETV4 or ETV5 and BAF155. Methods of treating prostate cancer with compounds that interfere with the interaction between ERG, ETV1, ETV4 or ETV5 and mSWI/SNF (BAF) chromatin remodeling complex proteins are also provided. |
| US12282013B2 |
Ex vivo methods of screening for, and characterizing, cardiac therapeutics using preloaded cardiac tissues
Provided are methods and materials for assaying known and candidate therapeutics for inotropic cardiac effects in one or more in vitro assay formats comprising preloaded cardiac tissues and/or organoids. |
| US12282012B2 |
Method, system and paperboard production machine for estimating paperboard quality parameters
A computer-implemented method for estimating at least one quality parameter of paperboard produced in a paperboard production subprocess of a paperboard processing pipeline by a data-driven module having a preprocessing module and a machine-learning module. Sensor data is acquired along the processing pipeline. Features are extracted from the sensor data by the preprocessing module. The machine-learning module is trained to reproduce target quality values from historical features. After training, the machine-learning module processes real-time features and estimates at least one quality parameter. A system implements the computer-implemented method and to a paperboard production machine includes such a system. |
| US12282011B2 |
Method for the assessment of the dispersing capacity of new or used lubricating compositions and of additives for lubricating compositions
A method for the assessment of the dispersing capacity of new and used lubricating compositions, in particular for internal combustion engines, and of additives for lubricating compositions, includes the steps of: providing a homogeneous dispersion of at least one carbonaceous particulate in a composition to be tested, consisting of a lubricating composition or a fraction or component thereof, acquiring at least one micrographic image of a sample of said homogeneous dispersion, deposited on an observation support, and calculating the lacunarity of the acquired image as a parameter representative of the degree of dispersion of the particulate in the composition. |
| US12282008B2 |
Methods of reducing the occurance of false positives in gas detectors
A method of indicating the presence of a target gas in a gas volume comprising providing a gas sensing core, configured for detection of the target gas, and a condition sensor within the gas volume, providing a controller, allowing gas to fluidly interact with the gas sensing core, monitoring a target gas measurement output from the gas sensing core, monitoring a parameter output from the condition sensor, recording a parameter output minimum value, calculating a parameter difference, calculating a rate of change of the parameter with respect to time, and indicating the presence of a target gas is detected in the gas volume when the target gas measurement exceeds a target gas measurement threshold value and the parameter difference is less than a parameter difference threshold value. |
| US12282006B2 |
Enhanced reliability and calibration of landfill gas measurement and control devices
An apparatus for sampling landfill gas from a landfill flowing through a pipe. The apparatus may comprise: an enclosure configured to receive a section of the pipe; a gas sampling port in the section of the pipe; at least one sensor device disposed in a region of the enclosure, the at least one sensor being coupled to the section of the pipe through the gas sampling port; and thermal insulation positioned to retain heat from the section of the pipe in the region of the enclosure. A method of operating a landfill gas recovery system. The method may comprise: flowing gas from a well riser pipe through a sampling subsystem to a collection system; and heating a portion of the sampling subsystem with the gas flowing from the well riser pipe to the collection system. |
| US12282005B2 |
Technique for testing the ball dent properties of a sample
A method for testing a sample for ball dent properties is provided. The method comprises disposing a sample on a stage of a testing apparatus and moving a trigger assembly that contains a tip having a radiused terminus toward the sample such that the terminus impacts the sample one or more times. |
| US12282002B2 |
Ultrasonic inspection method, ultrasonic inspection apparatus, and computer program
To further reduce the computational load in an inspection process of ultrasonic inspection of an inspection target. An ultrasonic inspection method includes the steps of: collecting data as a result of scanning an inspection target in such a manner that a plurality of probes transmit ultrasonic signals to the inspection target and the probes receive reflected ultrasonic signals from the inspection target; rendering a primary image including a contour and an internal side of the inspection target based on the data as the result of scanning by using a sonic speed of the ultrasonic signals transmitted and received by the probes, the sonic speed being set to a predetermined value regardless of a region through which the ultrasonic signals have passed; and evaluating whether an internal flaw is present in the inspection target in the primary image. |
| US12281999B2 |
In-situ oxygen analyzer with solid electrolyte oxygen sensor and ancillary output
An improved oxygen analyzer includes a controller configured to receive an oxygen sensor signal and provide an oxygen concentration output. A probe is configured to extend into a source of combustion process gas. An oxygen sensor is disposed within the probe and has a sensing electrode mounted to one side of a solid electrolyte and a reference electrode mounted to an opposite side of the solid electrolyte. The oxygen sensor has catalytic beads that are configured to be disposed between the process gas and the sensing electrode. Measurement circuitry is operably coupled to the oxygen sensor and the controller and is configured to provide the controller with the oxygen sensor signal based on an electrical response of the oxygen sensor. The controller is configured to detect a behavior of the oxygen sensor concentration output over time to provide at least one ancillary output. |
| US12281996B2 |
Semiconductor structure including photodiode-based fluid sensor and methods
Disclosed is a semiconductor structure with a photodiode including: a well region with a first-type conductivity in a substrate, a trench in the well region, and multiple conformal semiconductor layers in the trench. The semiconductor layers include a first semiconductor layer, which is, for example, an intrinsic semiconductor layer and lines the trench, and a second semiconductor layer, which has a second-type conductivity and which is on the first semiconductor layer within (but not filling) the trench and which also extends outside the trench onto a dielectric layer. An additional dielectric layer extends over and caps a cavity that is at least partially within the trench such that surfaces of the second semiconductor layer are exposed within the cavity. Fluid inlet/outlet ports extend to the cavity and contacts extend to the well region and to the second semiconductor layer. Also disclosed are methods for forming and using the semiconductor structure. |
| US12281994B2 |
Movable detection device and detection method
A mobile detection device and a detection method are provided. The mobile detection device includes: a bearing platform, being arranged fixedly, and including a bearing surface bearing an object to be detected; a movable gantry, located on a side of the bearing surface bearing the object to be detected and configured to be movable relative to the bearing platform; a movable bearing device, located on a side of the bearing surface away from the movable gantry and configured to be movable relative to the bearing platform; a first radiation source, arranged on one of the movable gantry and the movable bearing device, and a first detector array, arranged opposite to the radiation source and arranged on the other of the movable gantry and the movable bearing device, wherein the movable gantry and the movable bearing device are configured to be moved synchronously relative to the bearing platform. |
| US12281993B2 |
High resolution continuous rotation industrial radiography imaging processes
Described herein are examples of industrial radiography systems that may control, or recommend, certain parameter values of a high resolution, continuous rotation, radiographic imaging process. By controlling, or recommending, the particular parameter values, it may be possible to mitigate certain synchronization issues that occur during the high resolution, continuous rotation, radiographic imaging process. With the synchronization issues mitigated, a user may be able to perform the high resolution, continuous rotation, radiographic imaging process at a high speed, without the loss of detail and/or blur that sometimes occurs due to the synchronization issues. |
| US12281990B2 |
Method for detecting organophosphorus pesticide by microfluidic chip based on fluorescent sensing film
The present invention belongs to the field of organophosphorus pesticide (OP) detection, and relates to a method for detecting an OP by a microfluidic chip based on a fluorescent sensing film. A porous fluorescent sensing film and the microfluidic chip are first constructed. The fluorescent sensing film is fabricated through layer-by-layer self-assembly of a platinum nanoparticle@oxalate-metal-organic framework (MOF) composite and a porous two-dimensional (2D) nanosheet, and has the functions of specifically detecting OPs and blocking macromolecular interferents. The microfluidic chip includes a sample channel, injection channels, reaction tanks, microfluidic channels, a detection tank, and an optical fiber channel, such that sample pretreatment and detection processes are integrated in the chip. An OP detection system is established by combining a portable constant-pressure syringe pump, a laser, a spectrometer, a signal transmitter, and a signal indicator, such that test devices are miniaturized and integrated and the OP detection is standardized. |
| US12281988B2 |
Photonic apparatus, methods, and applications
An optical microtoroid resonator including one or more nanoparticles attached to a surface of the resonator and capable of receiving an input signal from afar-field source (via free-space transmission) and outputting light propagating within the optical apparatus. A method for coupling light into and out of an optical resonator using a nanoparticle or nanoparticles to interface with spatially separated far-field optical elements. |
| US12281983B2 |
UAV-borne, high-bandwidth, lightweight point sensor for quantifying greenhouse gases in atmospheric strata
Systems, devices, and methods for a gas sensor comprising one or more optical cells; a processor having addressable memory, the processor configured to: detect gas from the one or more optical cells of the gas sensor, where the detected gas is one or more of: methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, water, ammonia, sulfur oxides, and nitrogen; record data corresponding to the detected gas, where the recorded data comprises at least one of: an ambient temperature from a temperature sensor, an ambient pressure from a pressure sensor, an aerial vehicle telemetry, and an aerial vehicle location from a global positioning system (GPS); and generate a map of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration on a map based on the detected gas and the recorded data. |
| US12281982B2 |
Ultrafast laser imaging with box lock-in
An electronic circuit includes signal processing electronics. The electronic circuit receives an electrical signal generated by a photodetector based on a light beam from a location on a material including a signal of interest and one or more modulation frequencies. The electronic circuit discriminates a portion of the electrical signal proportional to a characteristic of the signal of interest from other components of the electrical signal using a low pass filter with a transfer function including a notch at a notch frequency corresponding to one of the modulation frequencies. The electronic circuit determines a value for the characteristic of the signal of interest from the discriminated portion of the electrical signal. The signal processing electronics further outputs the value of the characteristic of the signal of interest. |
| US12281980B2 |
Measurement of nitrogen fixation and incorporation
Systems for plant culture include a chamber featuring one or more walls enclosing a spatial volume internal to the chamber, where the one or more walls include a surface for supporting a plant within the enclosed spatial volume, a gas delivery apparatus with at least one gas source, a nutrient delivery apparatus with a reservoir, a sampling apparatus connected to a port formed in the one or more walls, and a controller configured so that during operation of the system, the controller activates the nutrient delivery apparatus to deliver an aqueous growth medium to the plant, and activates the gas delivery apparatus to deliver into the enclosed spatial volume a mixture of isotopically-substituted gases. Also provided are methods of use of the system for measuring nitrogen in a plant and for identifying microbes capable of providing fixed nitrogen to a plant. |
| US12281976B2 |
In situ fluid sampling device and method of using the same
Various embodiments are directed to a device for detecting fluid particle characteristics comprising: a collection fluid dispense assembly configured to selectively dispense a volume of collection fluid onto an absorbent media disposed within an internal sensor portion of a fluid composition sensor, producing a collection media based on interaction between the volume of collection fluid and the absorbent media; and a controller configured to determine, based on a particle image captured by an imaging device, a particle characteristic associated with a particle captured at the collection media. In various embodiments a device is configured to receive therein a collection media comprising a biologically nutritive substance; and may comprise an imaging device and a controller configured to determine a biological particle characteristic based on a comparison of first particle data and second particle data generated by the imaging device, the second particle data being associated with an incubated particle configuration. |
| US12281975B2 |
Optical sensor for two-phase cooling vapor level measurement
An immersion cooling system includes an immersion tank defining an immersion chamber therein, an immersion working fluid, an energy source, an optical sensor, and a microcontroller. The immersion working fluid is positioned at least partially in the immersion chamber and the immersion working fluid has a liquid phase and a vapor phase. The energy source is positioned and oriented to direct an infrared beam through a portion of the vapor phase with a beam path and path length. The optical sensor is positioned in the beam path. The microcontroller is configured to determine vapor concentration in the immersion chamber based at least partially on data from the path length, the optical sensor, and the energy source. |
| US12281973B2 |
Method of determining at least one property associated to a dry particulate substance
A method of determining at least one property associated to a dry particulate substance is disclosed. The method includes providing a sample support capable of containing a liquid medium; providing a dispersed sample including a portion of the particulate substance dispersed in a portion of liquid dispersing medium in the sample support, performing at least one scanning procedure including acquiring a plurality of light transmission images of an image acquisition area translated along a scanning path through the dispersed sample in the sample support using an image acquisition device having an optical axis; processing a plurality of the acquired images and determining said at least one property. |
| US12281972B2 |
Device and method for measuring Soret coefficient
Disclosed are a device and a method for measuring a Soret coefficient. The device comprises a control component, a diffusion mechanism, a temperature regulating component and a circulation mechanism. The diffusion mechanism comprises a liquid flow tank; the side wall of the inner cavity of the liquid flow tank is fixedly connected with an insulating layer; the side wall of that liquid flow tank is communicated with a plurality of liquid taking components; the circulation mechanism comprises a transfer unit, a cooling component and a heating unit; a temperature regulating component is fixedly connected between the liquid flow tank and the cooling component; the bottom surface of the heating unit is fixedly connected with the top surface of the liquid flow tank; the cooling component and the heating unit are respectively communicated with the transfer unit; the transfer unit is electrically connected with the control component. |
| US12281970B2 |
Automated staining system and reaction chamber
An apparatus including a reagent cartridge and a reaction chamber, the reagent cartridge having a reagent capsule removably positioned therein for dispensing of a reagent onto the reaction chamber. A system including a linearly translatable mounting assembly having a plurality of mounting stations dimensioned to receive at least one fluid dispensing cartridge, a linearly translatable bulk reagent dispensing assembly having a plurality of bulk reagent dispensing nozzles coupled thereto and a receiving assembly positioned beneath the mounting assembly and the bulk reagent dispensing assembly, the receiving assembly including a plurality of reaction stations. A method including determining an inventory of an automated sample processing system, downloading a processing protocol from a central controller to the automated sample processing system, operating the automated sample processing system based on the processing protocol and independently of the central controller and dispensing a reagent from the automated sample processing system. |
| US12281969B1 |
Soil layer extractor tool for system of observing soil samples
A soil layer extractor tool used in a system for obtaining a soil sample, dispensing liquid into the soil sample, collecting the resulting leachate, and extracting a soil layer from the obtained soil sample. The soil layer extractor tool includes a base, a holder for a sample tube, and crane for lifting walls of the sample tube to expose a soil sample within the sample tube. The base includes a lower base portion and upper base portion joined in sliding relation. Vertical posts are mounted on the upper base portion, and extractor blades are mounted on the vertical posts for extracting a soil layer. The extractor blades include a lower blade and upper blade, and a vertical blade positioned therebetween. A soil layer is extracted by a sliding movement pushing the extractor blades into the exposed soil sample thus removing a soil layer from sample contained in the sample tube. |
| US12281967B2 |
Method for detecting a defect in a structure of a device
A method for detecting a defect in a structure of a device includes generating, only using the device, a low-frequency signal that makes the structure vibrate, generating a high-frequency signal in the structure, and measuring a vibratory signal caused by the generated low-frequency and high-frequency signals at the same time then adaptively re-sampling these measurements to obtain a re-sampled vibratory signal the power spectrum. The resampling includes a first frequency range [uBFmin; uBFmax] of width larger than 5 Hz that contains 95% of the power of the low-frequency signal, a second frequency range [uHFmin; uHFmax] of width systematically smaller than uBFmin that contains 95% of the power of the low-frequency signal. A defect is signaled in the structure if an additional power lobe is detected outside of the ranges [uBFmin; uBFmax] and [uHFmin; uHFmax]. |
| US12281961B2 |
Test bed for testing a real test object in driving operation
The invention relates to a test bed and a method for testing a real test object in driving operation, wherein the test object has at least one real component of a vehicle which is capable of applying torque to a wheel hub. The test bed comprises a load machine configured to be connected to the wheel hub so as to transmit torque, an actuator configured to generate a relative movement between the wheel hub on the one hand and a vehicle frame supporting the wheel hub on the other, simulation means for simulating the driving operation, wherein the simulation means is configured to simulate a virtual wheel and dynamics of the virtual wheel as if it were arranged on the wheel hub, and control means configured to operate the real test object in consideration of the simulated dynamics of the virtual wheel on the test bed. |
| US12281950B2 |
Insulated structure for an appliance
An insulated structure for an appliance includes a plurality of walls, a cavity defined by the plurality of walls, and an aperture defined by one of the plurality of walls. The aperture is employed in evacuating the cavity to establish a less-than-atmospheric pressure within the cavity. A base structure is coupled to an interior surface of the one of the plurality of walls that defines the aperture. The base structure is aligned with the aperture. A pressure sensor is received by the base structure. The base structure and the pressure sensor together define a pressure-sensing assembly. |
| US12281945B2 |
Temperature measurement
A method to determine a temperature of a product, the method includes: determining a dielectric constant as a function of a core-, surface-, and/or average-temperature correlation ε(T) of at least one product and storing the dielectric constant in a computer means; locating the product between a microwave-radiometry-antenna and a microwave-radiometry-receiver and measuring the dielectric properties of the product; selecting the correlation ε(T) that corresponds to the product whose dielectric properties have been measured, and calculating the core-, surface-, and/or average-temperature of the product using the dielectric constant correlation ε(T). |
| US12281942B2 |
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for detecting materials based on Raman spectroscopy
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for Raman spectroscopy are described. In certain implementations, a spectrometer is provided. The spectrometer may include a plurality of optical elements, comprising an entrance aperture, a collimating element, a volume phase holographic grating, a focusing element, and a detector array. The plurality of optical elements are configured to transfer the light beam from the entrance aperture to the detector array with a high transfer efficiency over a preselected spectral band. |