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| US12284318B2 |
Method, internet of things system, and medium for smart customer service management of smart gas call center
The present disclosure provides a method, an Internet of Things system, and a medium for smart customer service management of a smart gas call center. The method includes: obtaining gas usage data; generating, based on the gas usage data, a predicted call feature of a smart gas call center within a target time period; generating, based on the predicted call feature, at least one group of candidate seat features; performing at least one round of iterative optimization on the at least one group of candidate seat features, and determining a preferred seat feature of the smart gas call center within the target time period; wherein the iterative optimization includes: calculating an evaluation value of the at least one group of candidate seat features; and performing an elimination screening on the evaluation value; and transmitting the preferred seat feature to a terminal of the smart gas call center. |
| US12284315B2 |
Artificial intelligence based refinement of automatic control setting in an operator interface using localized transcripts
A data processing system for artificial intelligence-based setting of controls in an evaluation interface comprising a data store storing: a plurality of transactions; a plurality of completed evaluations, each completed evaluation including an indication of a transcript portion associated with an evaluation answer. The system determines a word or phrase common to a first set of transcript portions associated with the evaluation answer; creates a first set of auto answer parameters that includes the word or phrase; auto answers the question for a set of test transactions to generate an auto answer for each test transaction; and based on a determination that the first set of auto answer parameters auto answered the question with a threshold level of accuracy, configures an evaluation system to use the first set of auto answer parameters to preset an answer control in an evaluation operator interface. |
| US12284314B2 |
Methods and apparatus for call traffic anomaly mitigation
Methods and apparatus for call traffic anomaly mitigation are described herein. One or more embodiments include receiving a scoring request including a telephone number associated with a telephone call at a scoring device from a call processing entity, receiving a violator list of telephone numbers and their corresponding severity values at the scoring device from an anomaly analyzer, determining a severity value associated with the telephone number by performing a lookup operation in the violator list, performing a random simulation using the severity value as a probability to determine an indicator value, and inputting the indicator value into a model to determine a call reputation score. |
| US12284310B2 |
Event driven intelligent hypervisor on a smart device
The invention discloses a computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computer system, for utilizing a hypervisor installed on a smartphone running separate virtual machines (VMs), one configured for personal use and another for work use, thereby allowing for separate operating environments on one piece of hardware. The method includes receiving one or more notifications, or calls, on the smartphone and determining whether the one or more notifications, or calls, are during work hours. The method selects, automatically, the work VM as default if the one or more notifications, or calls, are during work hours. If the one or more notifications, or calls, are not during work hours, the method automatically selects the personal VM as default. The method further notifies a user to switch VMs if the one or more notifications, or calls, occur during a time that is a non-default VM. |
| US12284308B2 |
Cell phone stand assembly
A stand assembly includes base and a set of legs. The legs are adjustable in location relative to the base. Further included is a strap configured to wrap around a portion of the base so as to hold a phone within the base. The base is formed to include a cradle to hold the phone in either a vertical or a horizontal orientation. A securing point is used in conjunction with the strap to secure the phone to the base. The legs may be flexed into any path so as to stabilize the base on any surface slope. |
| US12284302B2 |
Electronic device
Disclosed is an electronic device, including: a housing, which is provided with an opening; a functional module retractable into the housing or extendable out of the housing through the opening; and a driving mechanism, which is arranged in the housing. The driving mechanism includes a driving source, a lead screw, a nut set, and a caliper. The driving source is drivingly connected to the lead screw. The nut set includes a fitting part, and the fitting part is threadedly fitted with the lead screw. A first end of the caliper is in position-limiting fit with the fitting part, and a second end of the caliper is fixedly connected to the functional module. The cross-sectional shape of the fitting part is a polygon. |
| US12284297B2 |
Method and system for blockchain-driven communication using encapsulated virtual chains
A method and system for blockchain-driven communication using encapsulated virtual chains can facilitate blockchain-driven inter-PSAP communication using encapsulated virtual chains. Embodiments can be generalized for any context (e.g. not only for the specific examples of the Next Generation 9-1-1 and 1-1-2 (NG9-1-1/NG1-1-2) architectures). |
| US12284296B2 |
Method of managing data history and device performing the same
Provided is a method of managing a data history and a device performing the method. The method of managing the data history includes generating second data based on first data, calculating a second hash value for the second data based on the second data and a first hash value for the first data, and storing the second hash value on a blockchain network to verify the second data, and a history of the first data is verified using the first hash value stored on the blockchain network. |
| US12284295B2 |
Consensus method for blockchain, consensus node, electronic device, and storage medium
The present application provides a consensus method for a blockchain, a consensus node, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving a transaction request sent by an object, calculating a first hash value of executing the at least one transaction task by a consensus node, determining a second hash value according to the first hash value and the at least one transaction task, receiving third hash values broadcasted by other consensus nodes, and generating and adding to the blockchain a block containing the first hash value in response to the second hash value being the same as at least half of the third hash values. |
| US12284290B2 |
Publicly verifiable and resilient symmetric authentication and privacy systems and related methods
A method for publicly verifiable symmetric cryptography is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining an initial encrypted key and a homomorphic public key; obtaining a first message and an initial signature; calculating an initial hashed value of the first message; setting a cryptographic function of the initial hashed value of the first message and an initial private key; generating an evaluated value based on the cryptographic function, the homomorphic public key, the initial encrypted key, and the initial hashed value of the first message; and transmitting, at the verifier, a verification result based on a hashed value of the initial signature and the evaluated value. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described. |
| US12284283B2 |
Authenticating ownership of digital objects in online marketplaces
A digital object is associated with a smart contract that stores a first hash value to represent a user device used to acquire ownership of the digital object. When a request to transfer ownership of the digital object from a first user to a second user is received, a user account of the first user is accessed to retrieve information identifying a user device associated with the user account of the first user. The first hash value in the smart contract is authenticated based on the information representing the first user's device. If the first hash value is determined to match the user device information stored in the first user's account, a token representing the digital object is transferred to a wallet associated with the second user. The smart contract is updated to include a second hash value that represents a user device used by the second user to request the ownership transfer of the digital object. |
| US12284269B2 |
System and method for securing computer code using dynamically generated digital signatures
Aspects of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, apparatus, and computer-readable storage media that support securing code by dynamically inserting digital signatures in target code and maintaining the digital signatures in a linked structure (e.g., a blockchain-type structure). |
| US12284267B2 |
Fully homomorphic encryption for fixed-point elements
A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, as input, a ciphertext x representing a computational result of an approximated fully-homomorphic encryption (FHE) scheme, wherein ciphertext x comprises an underlying number m and an accumulated computational error e; iteratively, (i) performing a bit extraction operation to extract a current most significant bit (MSB) x′ of ciphertext x, (ii) calculating accuracy parameters α, β associated with x′; (iii) applying a step function to the extracted MSB x′, based, at least in part, on the calculated accuracy parameters α, β, to reduce or remove the accumulated computational error e and to return a clean MSB b, and (iv) repeating steps (i)-(iii) for all bits included in the underlying number m; and reconstructing and outputting, from all of the returned clean MSBs b, the number m. |
| US12284262B2 |
System and techniques to autocomplete a new protocol definition
Various techniques can include accessing a master tree that was generated using a plurality of protocol definitions. The plurality of protocol definitions can identifies an ordered set of actions and specifies, for each sequential pair of actions in the ordered set of actions, an action-advancement condition that identifies a criterion for advancing across the sequential pair of actions in the ordered set of actions so as to trigger a later of the sequential pair of actions. A master tree includes a set of dynamic nodes and a set of static nodes. The technique can include accessing a partial protocol definition that includes at least one action. The technique can include generating an auto-completion of the partial protocol definition using the master tree, at least some of the dynamic-node weights, and at least some of the static-node weights. The technique can output a representation of an auto-completed protocol definition. |
| US12284256B2 |
System and method thereof for determining availability of a user for interaction with a digital assistant
A method for determining availability of a user for interaction with a digital assistant comprises: determining if the user is present in a predetermined proximity to an input/output (I/O) device; collecting, at least real-time data about the user and historical user-agent interaction data for the user when the user is present; determining, a current user availability score based on at least the collected real-time data and the historical user-agent interaction data to derive an optimal time for interaction initiation by the digital assistant; and executing a plan selected from amongst a plurality of plans, the selected plan having a user availability score best matching the current user availability score, wherein each of the plurality of plans is designed to be executed by the digital assistant via the I/O device. |
| US12284254B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining supplementary parameters of electronic content
Systems and methods for determining parameters of devices that may have influenced generated content, and appending values of these parameters to the generated content for the benefit of other users. Devices near the location at which the content was generated may be selected, and parameters of these devices may be retrieved. These device parameters are often relevant to the generated content. Accordingly, the retrieved parameter values may be appended to the generated content for transmission along with the content. In this manner, other users may view both the content and the parameters of nearby devices that may have influenced the setting of the content, assisting users in, for example, recreating the content or its subject matter for themselves. |
| US12284250B2 |
Communication method and apparatus and computer-readable storage medium
Embodiments of this application disclose a communication method, an apparatus and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes sending first request information to an access management network element, where the first request information carries an application capability of a terminal device. The method also includes receiving first response information sent by the access management network element. The method further includes sending a session establishment request to a session management network element based on the first response information, where the session establishment request requests to establish a connection to a first application network element. According to the technical solutions provided in this application, interaction signaling between a terminal device and a server can be reduced, and communication latency can be reduced. |
| US12284245B2 |
Methods and devices for network censorship circumvention
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and peer devices are disclosed that facilitate network censorship circumvention. A censored peer sends to a rendezvous peer censored peer location information. A connection with a volunteer peer is then established using volunteer peer location information received from the rendezvous peer for a matched volunteer peer. First network traffic is then sent to the volunteer peer in accordance with a first network protocol using a second network protocol associated with the connection. The first network traffic is directed to a network host restricted with respect to the censored peer and the second network protocol is a peer-to-peer network protocol. Second network traffic responsive to the first network traffic is then extracted from network message(s) to thereby obtain access to the restricted network host via the volunteer peer. The first network messages are in accordance with the second network protocol and received via the connection. |
| US12284243B2 |
Multi-device gaze tracking
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to multi-user, multi-device gaze tracking. In examples, a system includes at least one processor, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the system to perform a set of operations. The set of operations include identifying a plurality of computing devices, and identifying one or more users. The set of operations may further include receiving gaze input data and load data, from two or more of the plurality of computing devices. The set of operations may further include performing load balancing between the plurality of devices, wherein the load balancing comprises assigning one or more tasks from a first of the plurality of computing devices to a second of the plurality of computing devices based upon the gaze input data. |
| US12284241B2 |
Group coordinator selection
Examples described herein involve selecting a group coordinator device for a zone group. An example implementation includes: receiving an instruction to form a zone group comprising the first media device and the second media device; comparing a first one or more communication parameters corresponding to a network connection of the first media device to a second one or more communication parameters corresponding to a network connection of the second media device; identifying the first media device as a group coordinator of the zone group based on at least the indication that the first media device communicates with the router over the first communication frequency band; and configuring the first media device to provide data indicating audio content and audio content playback timing information to the second media device to facilitate synchronous playback of the audio content as the group coordinator of the zone group. |
| US12284239B2 |
Video encoding for low-concurrency linear channels
Systems, methods, and devices relating to video encoding for low-concurrency video channels are described herein. A video processing system may receive a manifest request for an encoded video stream associated with a selected channel. Based on the manifest request, the video processing system may request for a real-time linear (RTL) encoder to be started to encode the input compressed video stream for the channel in real-time. Also based on the manifest request, the video processing system may assign a faster-than-real-time (FTRT) encoder from a pool of already-running FTRT encoders to encode the video stream in real-time until the RTL encoder is fully started. The FTRT encoder may encode at a lower quality level to enable expedited real-time encoding. Based on the RTL encoder being fully started, the video processing system may switch the encoding from the FTRT encoder to the RTL encoder. The FTRT encoder may be returned to the FTRT encoder pool. |
| US12284233B2 |
Network architecture for parallel data stream analysis and modification
Network architectures interface with several real-time streams that control network operation. The network can analyze stream data by storing incoming raw stream data, processing the data, and controlling network operations based thereon. Specific packets, bits, flags, fields, or messages may be targeted, including HL7 ADTs. Data is queued for processing in a FIFO manner to avoid timeline mistakes. The network sets a configuration value based on the data analyzed in this time ordering, and a relational database can be updated in real-time with these values as stream data is incoming. Separate clean-up functions separately manage the database by adjusting the values as they become old. Timeline information is generated and selectively broadcast based on the operations value, potentially with additional information from the targeted data. The network selectively provides this information to users interfaces and displays as dictated by the operating value and information calculated therefrom. |
| US12284223B2 |
Hosted email authentication
A DNS server receives from a receiving email system, a DNS query for an email domain stored at the DNS server, the DNS query including identifying information of a sender of an email. The DNS server extracts the identifying information of the email sender from the DNS query and identifies one of a plurality of delivering organizations from the information. The DNS server determines whether the identified delivering organization is authorized to deliver email on behalf of the email domain. In response to determining that the identified delivering organization is authorized to deliver email on behalf of the email domain, the DNS server generates a target validation record based on the identity of the authorized delivering organization and the email domain, the target validation record including one or more rules indicating to the receiving email system whether the delivering organization is an authorized sender of email for the email domain. |
| US12284218B2 |
Efficient updating of device-level security configuration based on changes to security intent policy model
A system may identify a security intent policy model associated with an initial time. The system may generate one or more delta snapshots that respectively indicate one or more incremental changes to the security intent policy model at times subsequent to the initial time. The system may determine that the system is to deploy an updated version of the security intent policy model to a device and may thereby determine a previous deployment time at which the system deployed a previous version of the security intent policy model to the device. The system may generate, based on the one or more delta snapshots and the previous deployment time, a cumulative delta snapshot, and may thereby update a low-level security intent policy model associated with the device. The system may generate, based on the low-level security intent policy model, device-level security configuration information for the device. |
| US12284215B2 |
Security configuration evaluation
Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for security configuration evaluation. A binary representation of a reference security configuration for an application may be generated. The binary representation of the reference security configuration for the application may be hashed to generate a reference hash for the application. Data for an instance security configuration for an instance of the application may be received. A binary representation of the instance security configuration may be generated from the received data for the instance security configuration. The binary representation of the instance security configuration may be hashed to generate an instance hash. The computing device may determine the distance between the reference hash and the instance hash. The instance security configuration may be determined to be secure if the distance is not greater than a threshold. |
| US12284214B2 |
System and method for telemetry data based event occurrence analysis with rule engine
Embodiments determine event, e.g., performance degradation, security breach, etc., occurrence based on telemetry data. An embodiment receives telemetry data, e.g., data based on an HTTP transaction, and a rule associated with the telemetry data. The rule defines one or more filters for processing the telemetry data. In turn, a rule engine is modified in accordance with the received rule. The received telemetry data is processed with the modified rule engine to determine event occurrence. |
| US12284209B2 |
Bridging between client and server devices using proxied network metrics
An upstream network bridge connection request is received in a network device from first network component for connecting to a second network component. This upstream network bridge connection request is analyzed by the network bridge to determine if a network attack threat is associated with the client device requesting the upstream network bridge connection to the server device preferably by inspecting certain network metrics present in the downstream connection associated with the client device. If no, then a determination is made as to whether a preexisting upstream network bridge connection between the client device and the server device exists in a connection pool database. If yes, then the preexisting upstream network bridge connection is retrieved from the connection pool database and is implemented for creating an upstream network connection between the client and server devices. |
| US12284204B1 |
System and method for prioritizing distributed system risk remediations
A server system obtains, for machines in a distributed system, system risk information, such as information identifying open sessions between respective users and respective machines, information identifying vulnerabilities in respective machines; and administrative rights information identifying groups of users having administrative rights to respective machines. The server system determines security risk factors, including risk factors related to lateral movement between logically coupled machines, and generates machine risk assessment values for at least a subset of the machines, based on a weighted combination of the risk factors. A user interface that includes a list of machines, sorted in accordance with the machine risk assessment values is presented to a user. The user interface also includes, for respective machines, links for accessing additional information about risk factors associated with the machine, and for accessing one or more remediation tools for remediating one or more security risks associated with the respective machine. |
| US12284199B2 |
Method and computing device for detection of malicious web resource
A method and a computing device for identifying malicious web resource are provided. The method comprises: obtaining a given link of a plurality of links, the given link referring to an initial malicious web resource; retrieving, from a database, simulated user parameters indicative of a simulated user environment and at least one user behavior vector including values indicative of simulated user actions with the initial malicious web resource; based on the simulated user parameters and the simulated user actions, determining at least one redirect chain, a given one of the at least one redirect chain including web resources defining a transition sequence from the initial malicious web resource to a respective target malicious web resource; generating, based on the at least one redirect chain, a redirect graph; and analyzing the redirect graph to determine a plurality of user redirect rules for further use in identifying in-use malicious web resources. |
| US12284195B1 |
Techniques for detecting cloud identity misuse leveraging runtime context
A system and method for detecting cloud identity misuse in a cloud computing environment is presented. The method includes: deploying a runtime sensor on a workload in a cloud computing environment; continuously receiving data from the runtime sensor; generating an activity baseline based on the continuously received data, wherein the runtime sensor is configured to detect runtime processes on the workload; detecting an event in a cloud log, the event including an identifier of the workload; associating a runtime process detected by the runtime sensor on the workload with the event detected in the cloud log; and determining that the event is an anomalous event based on the generated activity baseline. |
| US12284193B2 |
Proactive identification of potential security threats on residential gateway devices
A system and a method are provided for an external server for use with a first network device and an external network. The external server contains: a memory having a priori data stored therein, the a priori data includes a plurality of potential security attack signatures; and a processor configured to execute instructions stored on the memory to cause the external server to: monitor the first network device for actions on the first network device; identify an action on the first network device that matches one of the plurality of potential security attack signatures of the a priori data; and notify the first network device that the action is a potential security attack. |
| US12284190B2 |
Systems and methods for authenticating data access requests
A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: authenticating a user for login to a service for a first authenticated user session; in response to authenticating the user, sending, to a client device associated with the user, a first data string associated with a first validity period; receiving, from the client device after expiry of the first authenticated user session, a data access request to access protected data, the data access request including the first data string; validating the first data string based on checking the first validity period; and in response to determining that the first data string is valid, transmitting, to the client device, a data access response including at least a subset of the requested protected data. |
| US12284188B2 |
Method and system for live dating
Nextdate provides an online dating and game experience for all participants, including live streamers, contestants, and viewers. Nextdate offers advantages over both offline and online speed dating. In respect to offline speed dating, Nextdate is better in that it provides conversational prompts to the participants (the “star” and the contestant), as well as a “Love-o-meter” and audience comments that provide additional items and context to which the participants can respond. In respect to online speed dating, Nextdate includes features that remove the friction from traditional online dating experience and encourage user participation. Nextdate may be implemented as a standalone app or as a tab or feature of another video-centric social networking app. |
| US12284187B1 |
Micropattern detection-based video authentication method and system
A micropattern detection-based method and system of performing an authentication of video of a person in order to authorize access to a secured resource is provided. The user provides image data in which they present a secondary computing device with a specially fabricated screen cover. The screen cover includes a plurality of micro-holes that collectively provide a unique micropattern. When the user adjusts a display setting, the micropattern, previously cloaked, becomes apparent as an arrangement of pinpoints of light. The system and method are configured to evaluate the image data to determine whether the micropattern is present. If a micropattern is present, the system determines the image is authentic and can verify an identity of the person. In some cases, the system can further be configured to automatically grant the person access to one or more services for which they are authorized. |
| US12284185B2 |
Systems and methods for WebAuthn transport via a WebAuthn proxy
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a WebAuthn proxy, login prompt information from a browser. The WebAuthn proxy and the browser are installed on a device. The method also includes generating, by the WebAuthn proxy, a WebAuthn credential request based on the login prompt information and communicating, by the WebAuthn proxy, the WebAuthn credential request to a WebAuthn authenticator. The method further includes receiving, by the WebAuthn proxy, a WebAuthn response from the WebAuthn authenticator and communicating, by the WebAuthn proxy, the WebAuthn response to the browser. |
| US12284177B2 |
Event-triggered reauthentication of at-risk and compromised systems and accounts
A system and method that detects and mitigates zero-day exploits and other vulnerabilities by analyzing event logs and external databases, forcing reauthentication of at-risk and comprised systems and accounts during an identified threat or potential security risk. |
| US12284176B2 |
System and method of imaged based login to an access device
A system or method of image-based login authentication of a user on an access device using a mobile device registered to the user can include receiving login information at the access device, displaying an image reference at the access device, the image reference being one among a plurality of image references provisioned at the mobile device and an authentication authority, displaying the image reference selected by the authentication authority along with other image references, and receiving an authentication token at the authentication authority from the mobile device corresponding to a selection at the mobile device of one of the plurality of image references provisioned at the mobile device. The method can further include receiving validation by the access device of a completed authentication if the selection matches the image reference displayed at the access device and allowing login at the access device if the authentication token is validated. |
| US12284174B2 |
One-of-a-kind to open edition non-fungible token dynamics
A system to perform operations that include: minting a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) that comprises a media object and mutable metadata; allocating the NFT to a user of a client device; granting the user of the client device a permission to change the mutable metadata of the NFT based on the allocating the NFT to the user of the client device; generating an open-edition of the NFT, the open-edition of the NFT comprising a reference to the mutable metadata; receiving a change to the mutable metadata from the user of the client device; and updating the open-edition of the NFT based on the change. |
| US12284173B2 |
Method and apparatus for securing a remote device
A system and method for security of Internet of things (IoT) devices are discussed. A user of a mobile device, such as a customer of a wireless communication network, may remotely lock an IoT device while concomitantly assigning an ad hoc password to the IoT device that can be subsequently used to unlock the device. Alternatively, an IoT device may self-lock and produce a password in response to detecting its motion. The produced password may be provided to the user of a mobile device and used later to unlock the IoT device. |
| US12284171B2 |
Computer-implemented system and method
In a first aspect, the present disclosure proposes computer implemented methods, devices, and systems for implementing a channel service for messages or transactions that are associated with a blockchain, the channel service being provided for one or more clients. The method comprising providing a given client access to one or more functions that enable direct communication between the given client and another entity, the one or more functions include (i) channel functions or procedures pertaining to one or more channels for transmission of data; and/or (ii) message functions or procedures pertaining to the data being transmitted using the one or more channels. In a second aspect, the present disclosure proposes computer implemented methods, devices, and systems for implementing addressing for a channel service, such as the channel service in the first aspect. Communication using a channel associated with the channel service is initiated based on the addressing keys pertaining to the communicating entities. |
| US12284167B2 |
Method and system for a conditional key storage using network information of a key management service
A method for managing a storage system includes initiating, by a hardware resource manager, a boot-up of a storage controller managing the storage system comprising a plurality of storage devices, making a determination, by the storage controller, that the storage controller is in a secured mode, based on the determination: identifying a security state of each of the plurality of storage devices, determining that a storage device of the plurality of storage devices is in an unsecured state, and based on the unsecured state, sending, by the storage controller, a security operation request for securing the storage device, obtaining a secure state response from the hardware resource manager corresponding to securing the storage device, and based on the secure state response, resuming operation of the storage controller based on the secure mode. |
| US12284163B2 |
Remote debugging for the internet of things
An Internet of Things (IoT) device is deployed with embedded software. A debug client device stores an end-to-end encryption key that corresponds to an end-to-end encryption key stored on the IoT device. The debug client encrypts a debug instruction using the end-to-end encryption key and encrypts additional data using a point-to-point encryption key. The encrypted debug instruction and the encrypted additional data are sent to a debug server over a network. The debug server decrypts the additional data and identifies the IoT device from among multiple IoT devices. The debug server generates a message to the IoT device including the encrypted debug instruction, encrypts the message, and transmits the message to the IoT device. The IoT device decrypts the message using a first decryption key associated with the debug server, retrieves the encrypted message payload, and decrypts the message payload using the stored end-to-end encryption key. |
| US12284159B2 |
Secure communication system
A router node comprises a link discovery module, a security module, a secure access module and storage. The link discovery module discovers a link to an adjacent router node and receives its first loopback address. The link discovery module creates a first tunnel between the security module in the router node and the first loopback address. The security module receives a second loopback address for the second router node, and creates a second tunnel. The security module repeats the discovering, receiving and creating steps for each router node adjacent to the first router node. The storage separately stores a link discovery routing table which comprises information relating to the links between the router node and each adjacent router note; a security routing table which stores the unique first loopback address; and a secure access routing table which stores the unique second loopback address. |
| US12284157B1 |
Granular security segmentation for computing assets
A method of dynamically managing network traffic with granular security zones is disclosed. The method includes receiving a data packet from a user device, the data packet including identifying information indicating a sender and a receiver. The method further includes blocking the data packet from reaching the receiver. The method still further includes mapping, in response to the blocking, the identifying information to entity information and asset information for the sender, and entity information and asset information for the receiver. The method yet further includes matching the entity information with an entity permission of one or more entity permissions, each entity permission indicating that a specific source asset associated with a specific entity can or cannot communicate with a specific target asset associated with a specific entity. The method still further includes updating one or more packet filter rules based on the matching. |
| US12284153B2 |
Unified electronic transaction management system
A method and system for managing and automating the transactional processes between organizations that do business together using incompatible preexisting transactional systems. A centralized server manages transactions sent and received between the transactional systems of the organizations, and a software implemented messaging application communicates with the centralized server, both transmitting and receiving transactions from and to the transactional system of each organization, the result of which is improved automation of the transactional processes between organizations that do business together using incompatible preexisting transactional systems. |
| US12284152B2 |
Apparatus and method for alternate channel communication initiated through a common message thread
A server has a processor and a memory storing a multiple channel message thread module with instructions executed by the processor to identify when participants at client devices are actively viewing a common message thread at the same time to establish a participant viewing state. An alternate channel communication lock prompt is supplied the client devices in response to the participant viewing state. An alternate channel communication is delivered to the client devices in response to activation of the alternate channel communication lock prompt by at least one participant. |
| US12284148B2 |
Topic suggestion in messaging systems
Embodiments are provided for suggesting topics in a messaging system. A set of queries is received from a chat transcript history, where the set of queries includes a set of unhandled queries, and each unhandled query comprises a query for which a bot did not identify a corresponding topic (e.g., queries that did not trigger selection of a topic by the bot). A vector representation is generated for each unhandled query in the set of unhandled queries. The vector representations for the set of unhandled queries are clustered to generate one or more clusters of vector representations, each cluster corresponding to a group of unhandled queries. A corresponding suggested topic is generated for each cluster and provided to an authoring tool that comprises one or more interactive elements to enable an author to select at least one of the suggested topics for implementation in the bot. |
| US12284145B2 |
System for delivering notification messages across different notification media
A system for delivering notification messages across different notification media comprises a processor. A processor is configured to provide an indication of a new platform notification channel to one or more platform notification services. The indication is provided to one of the one or more platform notification services through a communication module specific to the one of the one or more platform notification services. The processor is configured to create a mapping from a new universal notification channel to a set of one or more platform notification channel identifiers. Each platform notification channel identifier of the set of platform notification channel identifiers is received from a platform notification service. The processor is configured to provide the set of one or more platform notification channel identifiers to a content provider of the new universal notification channel. The processor is coupled to the memory and is configured to store instructions. |
| US12284142B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing counseling service
Provided are a method and apparatus for providing a counseling service. A method of operating a counseling center server interworking with an instant messaging service includes acquiring, based a search request for a message transmitted to a channel registered in the service, a search result of a chatbot server linked to the channel, providing an interface for inputting a value of at least one parameter included in the search result to a terminal of a counselor linked to the channel, acquiring an entity corresponding to the parameter based on the message, determining a value of the parameter based on at least one of the acquired entity and data input through the interface, and requesting, based on the determined value of the parameter, an instant messaging server configured to provide the service to transmit a response message corresponding to the search result. |
| US12284141B2 |
Coordination of duplex directions in NR TDD system
A method performed in a system comprising a joint traffic direction scheduler configured to coordinate time-division-duplexing (TDD) transmissions for multiple cells comprises obtaining TDD operation information from each of the cells, determining, based on the obtained TDD operation information, a transmission direction to be used by each of the cells during one or more transmission time intervals (TTIs), and indicating to the cells the determined transmission direction. |
| US12284140B2 |
TDD-to-FDD handover based on service type and uplink quality
Described herein are techniques and systems for selectively transitioning communication sessions from TDD to FDD based on service type and uplink quality. The selective transitioning of communication sessions from TDD to FDD can provide higher and more reliable uplink throughput to UEs, as needed. An example process includes determining, during setup of a communication session for a UE using TDD, a type of service associated with the communication session, and determining that the type of service is a predefined service of a set of predefined services. The example process may further include determining a value indicative of a quality associated with an uplink connection established by the UE, determining that the value fails to satisfy a threshold value, and transitioning, based at least in part on the value failing to satisfy the threshold value, the communication session to a target base station to finish the setup using FDD. |
| US12284139B2 |
Duplex bluetooth transmission tire pressure system
A duplex Bluetooth transmission tire pressure system is provided. The duplex Bluetooth transmission tire pressure system includes a host, a plural of Bluetooth tire pressure detectors and a plural of vehicle transceivers; the host is electrically connected to the plural of vehicle transceivers; the plural of vehicle transceivers and the plural of Bluetooth tire pressure detectors are Bluetooth duplex packet transmitted. The plural of Bluetooth tire pressure detectors includes a locating program and a tire condition program. The host commands the vehicle transceiver to transmit a Bluetooth controlling packet to the plural of Bluetooth tire pressure detectors to operate or stop the locating program and limit the tire condition program. |
| US12284137B2 |
Method and apparatus for reconfiguring bandwidth part for groupcast in sidelink communication
An operation method of a first terminal in a communication system is provided. The method includes configuring sidelink (SL) bandwidth parts (BWPs) used for groupcast sidelink communication and transmitting a configuration information message including configuration information of the SL BWPs to participating terminals participating in the groupcast sidelink communication. The groupcast sidelink communication is performed with the participating terminals using one or more SL BWPs among the SL BWPs. In response to determining that reconfiguration of the SL BWPs is necessary, the SL BWPs are reconfigured and a reconfiguration information message including reconfiguration information of the SL BWPs is transmitted to the participating terminals. |
| US12284136B2 |
Punctured null data packet (NDP) within wireless communications
A wireless communication device (alternatively, device, WDEV, etc.) includes at least one processing circuitry configured to support communications with other WDEV(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. In one example, the circuitry is configured to generate a null data packet (NDP), transmit at least a portion of the NDP to another wireless communication device via fewer than all of a plurality of sub-channels of a communication channel, and receive feedback from the another wireless communication device that is based on the another wireless communication processing the at least the portion of the NDP that is received via the fewer than all of the plurality of sub-channels of the communication channel. In one example, the generated NDP includes at least one signal field (SIG) field therein that includes information to specify a preamble puncturing option or the information is transmitted in a previous packet. |
| US12284134B2 |
Method and apparatus for fallback operation for semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook determination
The present application relates to method and apparatus for fallback operation for semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook determination. One embodiment of the present disclosure provides an apparatus comprising: a receiver that receives at least one down-link (DL) transmission within a DL association set; a processor that determines whether to use a fallback hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) transmission; and a transmitter that transmits a first HARQ-ACK codebook on a first resource for the DL association set in response to the fallback HARQ-ACK transmission being used or a second HARQ-ACK codebook on a second resource for the DL association set in response to the fallback HARQ-ACK transmission not being used. |
| US12284133B2 |
Information processing method and related device
A method for processing information is provided. The method includes that a base station transmits downlink control information (DCI) to a terminal. The DCI includes a first indication field. The first indication filed is configured to carry response information of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ). The DCI further includes a second indication field configured to carry a trigger notification of random access or early data transmission (EDT). Furthermore, the terminal determines the response information of the HARQ based on the first indication field in the DCI, and determines the trigger notification of random access or EDT based on a second indication field when the DCI includes the second indication field. |
| US12284130B2 |
Method and apparatus optimizing physical downlink control channel decoding in a wireless communication system
Disclosed herein is method for optimizing Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) decoding by a base station in a wireless communication system. In an embodiment, a plurality of search spaces is configured within bandwidth of channel used for sending data packets to a user equipment (UE). Further, plurality of search spaces is ordered in a specified order, such that first end of specified order comprises search space set having higher number of candidates with lower aggregation levels and second end comprises search space set having higher number of candidates with higher aggregation levels. A channel quality indicator (CQI) value is received from UE and based on CQI value, an order for selecting one of plurality of search space set for sending downlink control information (DCI) to the UE is determined. An available search space set among determined one of plurality of search space set is selected for transmitting the DCI to the UE. |
| US12284128B2 |
Device and method for detecting interference between base stations in wireless communication system
Disclosed is a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) communication system, such as long term evolution (LTE). The purpose of the disclosure is to detect interference between base stations in a wireless communication system, and a base station operating method can comprise the steps of: receiving signals through a resource allocated for reference signals (RSs) for interference measurement; detecting at least one RS on the basis of the signals; and determining that at least one among the RSs has been received on the basis of cross-correlation values between candidate RSs. |
| US12284126B2 |
Determining an association between DMRS and PTRS
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining an association between DMRS and PTRS. One apparatus includes a processor that: determines a scheduled physical resource block position and bandwidth; and determines, based on the scheduled physical resource block position and bandwidth, an associated demodulation reference signal port index within the physical resource block for a phase tracking reference signal. |
| US12284125B2 |
System and method for communicating time and frequency tracking signals using configurations for one port CSI-RSs
A network controller may configure one or more channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) configurations for transmitting RSs to user equipments (UEs) for tracking. A CSI-RS configuration may specify a set of CSI-RS resources for transmitting RSs in two consecutive slots. The set of CSI-RS resources may include a plurality of one-port CSI-RS resources configured according to the CSI-RS configuration. The CSI-RS configuration may specify a quasi co-location (QCL) configuration including a set of QCL parameters, where a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) has a QCL relationship with the RS with respect to the set of QCL parameters. The network controller may signal the one or more CSI-RS configurations to UEs. |
| US12284124B2 |
Network control method and chip
A network control method is configured to control the transfer to stations connected to an access point or a router under an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) method. The network control method includes: obtaining first specification parameters of the stations; grouping the stations into a first group and a second group according to the first specification parameters; transferring with the stations belonging to the first group during a first period; and transferring with the stations belonging to the second group during a second period. The first period is different from the second period. |
| US12284123B2 |
Method for indicating antenna panel information of terminal, network side device, and terminal
A method for indicating antenna panel information of a terminal, a network side device, and a terminal are provided. The indication method applied to a network side device includes: sending configuration information of a first SRS resource set to a terminal, where the configuration information includes an identifier of the first SRS resource set, and the identifier of the first SRS resource set is used to indicate an identifier of an antenna panel of the terminal. |
| US12284121B2 |
Service traffic adjustment method and apparatus
A service traffic adjustment method includes a first controller obtaining a first limit value of a traffic parameter and a second limit value of the traffic parameter. The first controller obtains a target value of the traffic parameter based on the first limit value of the traffic parameter, the second limit value of the traffic parameter, and configuration information of a forwarding device through which the service flow passes. The target value of the traffic parameter meets a delay requirement of the service flow, the target value falls within a range determined based on the first limit value of the traffic parameter and the second limit value of the traffic parameter, and the first limit value is not equal to the second limit value. The first controller sends the target value of the traffic parameter. |
| US12284120B2 |
Flow/application-based packet marking by network-adapter
A network adapter includes a host interface, a network interface, a packet processor, and a telemetry handler. The host interface is to communicate with a host. The network interface is to send packets to a network. The packet processor is to process the packets prior to sending the packets to the network. The telemetry handler is to receive from the host, over the host interface, an indication specifying a flow or application, to mark one or more packets associated with the flow or application with a specified identifier in response to the indication, and to send the marked packets using the packet processor to the network via the network interface. |
| US12284112B2 |
Multicast state synchronization
Methods, systems, and devices for synchronizing multicast state in a cluster of network devices, such as network switches. For example, a method may include receiving a multicast control packet by an edge port of a first switch of a cluster comprising a plurality of switches; processing the multicast control packet by the first switch to update a local multicast state; manipulating the multicast control packet to insert a unique identifier associated with the edge port, resulting in a manipulated version of the multicast control packet; and forwarding, by the first switch of the cluster, the manipulated version of the multicast control packet to at least one other switch of the cluster via an inter-chassis link that couples the first switch and the at least one other switch. |
| US12284106B1 |
Apparatuses and methods for facilitating a health check in respect of communication networks and systems, inclusive of an outer loop health check
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, examining first actions imposed as part of a maintenance activity in respect of a communication network while the communication network is subjected to second actions as part of the maintenance activity, determining, based on the examining, that the first actions, in whole or in part, fail to adhere to a threshold, a requirement, or a specification, and based on the determining, reversing at least one action of the first actions. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US12284104B2 |
Methods and apparatus to monitor media in a direct media network
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to monitor media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine-readable instructions, and at least one processor to execute the machine-readable instructions to at least establish a direct media network as a Group Owner after performance of a negotiation process with a streaming client device. The at least one processor is to add a client device to the direct media network based on a beacon response from the streaming client device and, after metadata is extracted from first media at the apparatus, cause transmission of the first media to a media presentation device via the direct media network, the metadata representative of an identification of the media, and cause transmission of a message including the identification of the media to a server via a network to credit the media as having been accessed based on the identification. |
| US12284103B2 |
Method and system for scoring quality of traffic to network sites
A software and/or hardware facility for scoring the quality of traffic to a site accessible via the Internet or other network. The facility extracts data from one or more data logs that are obtained from a publisher, advertiser, or third party. A multi-factor analysis in the form of a rule set is applied by the facility to the data. The analysis of the data identifies agent actions that are desirable to a publisher, advertiser, or third party. The facility generates a relative score for each agent action. The score may be used to assess the quality of traffic received by a network site. Lower scores are indicative of traffic having little value, whereas higher scores are indicative of traffic having greater value. The score may be provided to an advertising network and used to charge a variable amount for advertisements based on the quality of traffic that the advertisements receive. |
| US12284101B2 |
Blind scan for multi-carriers and multi-technologies and seamless signal analysis
A test device for performing a bling scan includes a digital blind scan circuit. The blind scan circuit includes digital detectors for multiple cellular technologies that simultaneously perform correlation in a baseband frequency range to detect whether received RF signals include a channel of the technologies. The test device launches, responsive to detecting a channel from the blind scan, a signal analysis or a spectrum analysis application for the channel according to a carrier frequency and a technology identified for the channel by the blind scan. |
| US12284097B1 |
Network linker for tracking network traffic across a multiple protocol network
A device, system and method is provided for tracking network communication in a multi-protocol network. During the offline phase, a linkage graph may be generated representing network communication pathways of recorded messages comprising nodes representing network communication devices and edges representing direct communication paths pairwise connecting parent-child nodes over which the messages are transmitted. The linkage graph may be optimized by eliminating or reducing branching nodes. During a real-time online phase, for each new recorded message associated with a device node, tracing a communication pathway along edges of the optimized linkage graph by linking a sequence of nodes that connect sequential pairs of child-parent nodes extending from the device node to a root node. Simultaneous to linking each node to the device node, a network traffic metric for the linked node(s) may be accumulated to quickly and efficiently track the network traffic metric for the new recorded message. |
| US12284093B2 |
Method and system for deep packet inspection in software defined networks
A method for deep packet inspection (DPI) in a software defined network (SDN). The method includes configuring a plurality of network nodes operable in the SDN with at least one probe instruction; receiving from a network node a first packet of a flow, the first packet matches the at least one probe instruction and includes a first sequence number; receiving from a network node a second packet of the flow, the second packet matches the at least one probe instruction and includes a second sequence number, the second packet is a response of the first packet; computing a mask value respective of at least the first and second sequence numbers indicating which bytes to be mirrored from subsequent packets belonging to the same flow; generating at least one mirror instruction based on at least the mask value; and configuring the plurality of network nodes with at least one mirror instruction. |
| US12284092B1 |
Systems and methods for enterprise information technology (IT) monitoring
A method for enterprise information technology (IT) monitoring includes collecting system performance data for an enterprise computing environment, generating at least one cross-stack monitor schema including one or more technology stack component descriptors, identifying a particular application based on the system performance data, and determining an application-level function call path for at least one function call corresponding to the particular application. The at least one function call is representative of a particular transaction. The method further includes, based on an execution length of the at least one function call in the application-level function call path, determining a transaction length of the particular transaction, when the transaction length exceeds a predetermined threshold, determining at least one performance data for the particular application, based on the at least one performance data, identifying an underperforming component, and deactivating the underperforming component. |
| US12284090B2 |
Edge-based artificial intelligence enablement
An edge computing telecommunications network is provided for efficiently generating and updating computing models for use at distributed devices connected to different edge compute sites of the network. A network orchestration system may track devices connected to the network and the edge compute sites to which they are connected. The devices may comprise limited computing power and may include sensors or other data collection mechanisms. Raw data may be provided from connected devices to one or more edge compute sites. Edge compute sites may be instructed, e.g., by the network orchestration system, whether to replicate the raw data, modify the data to make it ready for consumption by a computing model, replicate the modified data, refine the computing model, replicate the refined computing model, and/or share some or all of the raw data, modified data, and/or refined computing model with other edge computing sites and/or connected devices. |
| US12284084B2 |
Modeling multiple hardware routers in custom hardware
A hardware system for simulating a network physical layer for communication channels. The hardware system includes a plurality of hardware processors configurable to model a network physical layer and communication channels. The hardware system is further implemented where the hardware processors are configured such that a single set of hardware, including a single set of gates and registers, is used in a single simulation to model a plurality of virtual routers for different nodes. |
| US12284083B2 |
Method and system for automatic generation of a specification for an IT topology of a control system
A method for automatic generation of a specification for an IT topology of a control system, the method comprising: creating a system structure from a machine-readable data defining production process requirements and generating specification data of the IT topology based on the extracted system structure; optimizing the generated specification data of the IT topology by utilization of pre-defined rules and generating abstract aggregated IT topology data based on the optimized specification data; and instantiating and mapping the abstract aggregated IT topology data to specific technology instance data. |
| US12284077B2 |
Method and apparatus for reference symbol pattern adaptation
Machine learning (ML) adaptation of any one of reference signal (RS) temporal density, RS frequency density, RS spatial density, or number of transmission/reception points (TRPs) that transmit RS provides configuration of lower RS densities or fewer TRPs that transmit RS without significant loss of throughput in appropriate circumstances. Determinations to switch from high density transmission to low density transmission, to reduce the number of antenna ports or TRPs that transmit RS, or to fallback to high density transmission may be made by the ML model, optionally with UE assistance information. |
| US12284076B2 |
Generating configuration files for configuring an information technology infrastructure
A method for generating a configuration file for configuring an information technology infrastructure is provided. The method may include receiving, from a first user at a first client, a first indication to publish an infrastructure module comprising a set of configurations to apply to an information technology infrastructure. The infrastructure module may be stored in a module registry in response to the first indication. A second indication selecting the infrastructure module may be received from a second user at a second client. In response to the second indication, the infrastructure module may be sent from the module registry to the second client for insertion into a configuration file being created at the second client. The insertion of the infrastructure module may incorporate, into configuration file, the set of configurations to apply to the information technology infrastructure. Related systems and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided. |
| US12284074B2 |
Network resiliency and impact coordination
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, monitoring status of a network configured to provide end-to-end delivery of services to priority user equipment authorized according to a prioritized class of service and other user equipment not authorized for the prioritized class of service. The prioritized class of service extends a reserved network capacity for end-to-end delivery of a service via first domain including first network slices and a second domain including second network slices. A network interruption compromising the reserved capacity is determined based on the monitored status and integration of an alternate group of slices into one of the first network domain, the second network domain, or both to replace the compromised group of slices, is orchestrated. Integration of the alternate group of slices restores reserved network capacity according to the prioritized class of service. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US12284073B2 |
Redirection service resource locator mechanism
A system can include circuitry that processes a URL for information; circuitry that transmits at least a portion of the information via a network interface; circuitry that receives metadata via the network interface responsive to the transmission of at least a portion of the information; circuitry that associates at least a portion of the metadata with a short URL; and circuitry that transmits the short URL. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed. |
| US12284070B2 |
Alerting networked devices of signal divergence by georegion
A system for monitoring quantized signals in a bidirectional data stream and alerting a networked device of metric divergence by georegion includes a computing system that automatically, for each of multiple user entities, receives input signals and stores corresponding records , associated with the user entity, each representing a quantized input event. The computing system increments a resource of the user entity by a respective input quantity. Georegion-specific attributes associated with a respective georegion are discriminated, and the input records are associated with georegion. The computing system measures user-specific georegion-specific metrics for each georegion and determines whether the metrics diverge from a georegion-specific index. An alert is sent across a network for display on a user device upon determining a user-specific georegion-specific metric diverges from a georegion-specific index. |
| US12284068B2 |
Detection of in-band interference
A non-transitory device-readable medium, which may be embodied in a device, such as a radar receiver, stores instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, are configured to perform operations to identify a region of interference. An analog signal is generated based on received signals reflected from a target object and an interfering object. The analog signal is converted to an initial time-domain data set. Processing circuitry is configured or instructed to perform a transform operation on the initial time-domain data set to generate a frequency-domain data set, based on which a region of interference may be identified. Subsequent operations may be performed to facilitate identification of the region of interest including thresholding, inverse transforming, subtracting, and/or combining. The processing circuitry may be further configured or instructed to generate repaired time-domain data from which corrupted time-domain samples to remove data associated with the interfering object. |
| US12284067B2 |
Long training field with reduced peak-to-average power ratio
Various aspects relate generally to the generation and wireless transmission of a long training field (LTF) and a data field within a 320 MHz or 240 MHz bandwidth channel. The LTF includes an LTF sequence based on a concatenation of a plurality of LTF subsequences, each LTF subsequence being associated with a channel bandwidth less than the total bandwidth of the channel, each of the plurality of LTF subsequences being selectively phase-rotated to reduce a peak-to-average power ratio. Each of the plurality of LTF subsequences may be associated with an LTF designed for an 80 MHz bandwidth channel. The LTF and the data field may then be transmitted in a wireless packet to at least one second wireless communication device via the 320 MHz or 240 MHz bandwidth channel. |
| US12284065B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting ACK/NACK
A technology enabling a terminal to receive acknowledgement (ACK)/negative ACK (NACK) information about data transmitted from the terminal is provided. The method includes receiving cyclic shift information for a reference signal from the base station; transmitting, to the base station, the data and a reference signal which is cyclic-shifted using a cyclic shift value, the cyclic shift value being determined based on a dynamic cyclic shift value mapped one-to-one to the cyclic shift information for the reference signal; and receiving, from the base station, the ACK/NACK information about the transmitted data through a radio resource of a downlink channel, the radio resource of the downlink channel being identified based on a modifier mapped one-to-one to the cyclic shift information for the reference signal. |
| US12284056B2 |
Service discovery across tunnel endpoints in overlays
In an example, a network device may receive, from a client device, a multicast query for a service advertised by a host device connected to another network device. The network device is configured as a first Virtual tunnel endpoint (VTEP) and the other network device is configured as a second VTEP in an overlay network. The network device may determine whether a host name, of the host device, corresponding to the service name in the multicast query is present in a resource record. In response to determining that the host name is present in the resource record, the network device may identify, from the resource record, an overlay network path corresponding to the host name. The network device may encapsulate the multicast query based on an overlay encapsulation protocol implemented at the first VTEP and route, the encapsulated multicast query, via the overlay network path, to the host device. |
| US12284050B2 |
Systems and methods for alert services
Embodiments relate to systems, processes and devices for an information delivery platform or data hub with an alert processor that can be configured to receive a request to generate an alert configuration at the data hub, the request indicating a target unit; generate and store an alert rule corresponding to the alert configuration, the alert rule having a trigger and an action; detect an event at the data hub based on a set of data of the data stored at the data hub, the event having event data; convert the event data to an alert trigger at the data hub based on the trigger of the alert rule; generate an alert notification for the alert trigger based on the action of the alert rule; and transmit the alert notification to the target unit. |
| US12284049B2 |
Methods and apparatus for power efficient broadcasting and communication systems
A method for receiving broadcast information in an OFDM communication system may comprise receiving, by a mobile station, a periodically broadcast scheduling message from a base station. The periodically broadcast scheduling message may be an OFDM signal which indicates for each type of a plurality of types of broadcast information included in broadcast information, a pattern of frames to monitor for the type of broadcast information. The periodically broadcast scheduling message may also indicate a length of time to monitor. The method may further comprise monitoring and receiving, by the mobile station, information for at least one of the plurality of types of broadcast information, based on the periodically broadcast scheduling message. |
| US12284044B2 |
Method and apparatus for efficiently utilizing HARQ processes for semi-persistent and dynamic data transmissions
A method and apparatus are disclosed for efficient hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process utilization for semi-persistent and dynamic data transmissions, wherein a reserved HARQ process identification (ID) can be reused. A subset of a plurality of HARQ process IDs is reserved to use for a semi-persistent allocation, and data is transmitted based on the semi-persistent allocation. A dynamic allocation is received via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). At least one of the reserved HARQ process IDs is selectively used for transmitting data based on the dynamic allocation. |
| US12284042B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving wireless signal in wireless communication system
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, more particularly, to a method and apparatus therefor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving scheduling information including a DAI value and a 1-bit indicator, the DAI value indicating a modulo value for a scheduling order; receiving data on the basis of the scheduling information; and transmitting A/N feedback including A/N information about the data, wherein a position of the A/N information in the A/N feedback is determined based on (1) the DAI value and (2) a bit value of the 1-bit indicator or on whether the 1-bit indicator is toggled. |
| US12284038B2 |
Uneven segmentation of data packets to reduce retransmission latency
Methods and systems for uneven segmentation of data packets to reduce retransmission penalty accumulated as a result of having to retransmit one or more of the last segments. The method includes segmenting a data packet into segments of different sizes, with generally larger segments in the first half and smaller segments in the second half, and transmitting the segments over an intermediate communication link to another node. The transmission of the segments begins before receiving the entire data packet, and retransmission of a corrupted segment takes place as soon as an indication indicative of the corrupted segment is detected. |
| US12284035B2 |
High-speed data transmission using short CRC
The present invention relates generally to a method for high-speed data transmission using short CRC in a communications network. More particularly, the invention encompasses use of more than one CRC to overcome network delays. A frame is partitioned into a frame header and a frame trailer at a source before transmitting to a destination wherein, the frame header has a header CRC and the frame trailer has a trailer CRC for error detection. |
| US12284034B2 |
Code block identification method and apparatus
This application discloses a code block identification method and related apparatus. The method includes: obtaining a code block stream, where the code block stream includes a first code block; determining a to-be-identified bit pattern and comparing the to-be-identified bit pattern with a template bit pattern to obtain a quantity of inconsistent bits; and identifying the first code block as a first boundary code block when the quantity of inconsistent bits is less than or equal to a first threshold. The to-be-identified bit pattern includes a first bit pattern and corresponds to the first code block. The template bit pattern includes a first template bit pattern and corresponds to the first boundary code block. |
| US12284033B2 |
Data retransmission in wireless network
Methods and devices are disclosed for transmitting data, including segmenting a group of information bits into a set of information blocks that each include a respective plurality of the information bits; encoding, using low density parity check (LDPC) encoding, each of the information blocks to generate corresponding codewords; transmitting the codewords to a destination station; receiving a feedback message indicating that at least one of the codewords has not been successfully decoded by the destination station; interleaving the information bits of the information block that corresponds to the at least one of the codewords; encoding, using low density parity check (LDPC) encoding, the interleaved information bits to generate an interleaved codeword; and transmitting the interleaved codeword to the destination station. |
| US12284032B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting optical transport unit signal
A first optical network device groups a plurality of FlexO instance frames into one group, where each of the plurality of FlexO instance frames carries one OTU signal; then, performs multiplexing on the plurality of FlexO instance frames grouped into one group, to generate one first FlexO frame; next, performing scrambling and FEC processing on the first FlexO frame to generate one second FlexO frame and send it to a second optical network device. If a rate of the FlexO instance frame is 100 Gbps and two FlexO instance frames are grouped into one group, the 200 G optical module can be used in the transmission method. |
| US12284029B2 |
Synchronization method, apparatus, and device, and storage medium
A synchronization method includes obtaining a first timestamp difference of a packet on a target link. The first timestamp difference is a difference between a sending timestamp and a receiving timestamp of the packet at a first moment. The synchronization method further includes performing packet selection based on the first timestamp difference to obtain a second timestamp difference; obtaining a delay prediction value of the target link at the first moment, compensating for the second timestamp difference based on the delay prediction value to obtain a compensated timestamp difference; and performing time and/or clock synchronization based on the compensated timestamp difference. The second timestamp difference is compensated for based on the delay prediction value, that is, PDV noise introduced to the target link is compensated for. In this way, the PDV noise is reduced. |
| US12284027B2 |
Flexible capacity satellite communications system
Systems and methods for supporting more flexible coverage areas and spatial capacity assignments using satellite communications systems are disclosed. A hub-spoke, bent-pipe satellite communications system includes: terminals; gateways; a controller for specifying data for controlling satellite operations in accordance with a frame definition including timeslots for a frame and defining an allocation of capacity between forward and return traffic; and a satellite including: pathways; at least one LNA, an output of which is for coupling to a pathway and to amplify uplink beam signals in accordance with the allocation; and at least one HPA, an input of which is for coupling to the pathway and to amplify downlink beam signals in accordance with the allocation, and wherein the frame definition specifies at least one pathway as a forward pathway for at least one timeslot and as a return pathway for at least one other timeslot in the frame. |
| US12284026B2 |
Hub communication with a satellite network or a terrestrial network
Apparatuses, methods, and systems of hub communication with a satellite network or a terrestrial network are disclosed. One method includes determining a propagation delay between a wireless communication device and a base station of a satellite network, adjusting, by the wireless communication device, a timing offset between transmit and receive radio frames at the wireless communication device based on whether the satellite network or a terrestrial network is selected, and based at least on the propagation delay, configuring air interface communication protocol timer values including at least a wait time for a response based on at least a frame offset between uplink and downlink frames at the base station of the satellite network, and communicating, by the wireless communication device, with the base station of the satellite network when the satellite network is selected, and with a base station of the terrestrial network when the terrestrial network is selected. |
| US12284022B2 |
Receiver system and a method for receiving a transmitted signal via a long-range link
A receiver system and a method for receiving a transmitted signal via a long-range link. The system comprises a plurality of interconnected devices in a short-range network, the plurality of devices including at least one main device and one or more assisting devices, the at least one main device and the one or more assisting devices each configured to receive the transmitted signal via the long-range link; wherein the one or more assisting devices are configured to transmit a relayed signal representing the received transmitted signal at the assisting device to the at least one main device via the short-range network; and wherein the at least one main device is configured to generate output data representing the content of the transmitted signal based on the transmitted signal received at the at least one main device and the one or more relayed signals received from the one or more assisting devices. |
| US12284021B2 |
Systems for determining variability in a state of a medium
Systems for determining a variability in a state of a medium include one or more transmit elements or antennas and one or more receive elements or antennas which are relatively decoupled from one another. The transmit and receive elements or antennas can be less than 95% coupled to one another. The system also includes a transmit circuit configured to generate a transmit signal to be transmitted, which is in a radio or microwave frequency range of the electromagnetic spectrum. The system also includes a receive circuit configured to receive a response detected by the at least one receive antenna resulting from transmission of the transmit signal into the medium. The system includes a processor configured to determine the variability in the state of the medium based on processing of the response over time. The variability can further be used to direct notifications or automated actions. |
| US12284012B2 |
Radial modes for OAM MIMO communication
An example aspect comprises selecting an azimuth mode for an OAM MIMO transmission by a transmitter that includes a first number of circles that each include a second number of antenna elements, wherein the azimuth mode defines a DFT vector of a size less than or equal to the second number; selecting, from a plurality of radial modes associated with the azimuth mode, a radial mode for the transmission, wherein the radial modes include at least a first radial mode defining a first beamforming vector and a second radial mode defining a second beamforming vector, wherein each one of the first and second beamforming vectors includes the DFT vector weighted and repeated for a number of times less than or equal to the first number, wherein the first and second beamforming vectors are orthogonal to each other; and transmitting a signal using a beam configured according to the radial mode. |
| US12284011B2 |
Solution to beam squint for wideband communications
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to hybrid beamforming. A plurality of time delay elements is used to perform analog beamforming. Each time delay element is configured to apply the same time delay at different frequencies. The plurality of time delay elements is coupled to at least one RF chain to receive signals. Each antenna in an antenna array is configured to be selectively connected to one of the plurality of time delay elements based on a target configuration of a connection between the plurality of time delay elements and the antenna array. In operation, the target configuration is determined based on time delay information concerning the plurality of time delay elements and channel information concerning a physical channel over which the signals are to be transmitted. |
| US12284008B2 |
Wireless communication device
According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a receiver configured to receive a plurality of first frames which are transmitted by multiplexing; and a transmitter configured to transmit a second frame containing check results indicating whether the plurality of first frames are successfully received and first information specifying at least one wireless communication device. The receiver is configured to receive a plurality of third frames transmitted by multiplexing in response to the second frame. |
| US12284000B2 |
Easy DSL signal detector
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing easy digital subscriber line (“DSL”) signal detection. In various embodiments, after a connector of a signal detector has been inserted into a network service port, a processor of the signal detector may determine whether at least one C-tone is present on at least one signal wire communicatively coupled to the network service port, the at least one C-tone being indicative of network service being ready for provision via the at least one signal wire. If so, the processor of the signal detector may cause a display device to indicate to a user that the network service port is ready to provide the network service. A modem can then be installed by connecting with the network service port. The connector, the processor, and the display device are integrated within a single, compact, handheld form factor of the signal detector. |
| US12283998B2 |
Method and apparatus for mapping out sources of decoherence in quantum channels
Systems, apparatus and methods for defining an impairment profile along a polarization quantum channel such as in terms of modal loss and decoherence. The disclosed impairment profile or characterization methods may be used as part of a tool such as to inform a network operator of a weakest span of the communication channel, thus facilitating optimal signal routing decisions. |
| US12283986B2 |
Optical wavemeter
An apparatus for determining a wavelength and a power of an input signal is described. The apparatus comprises a memory which stores instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: recover a first phase for a first Mach-Zehnder Interferometer MZI; recover a second phase for a second MZI; subtract the first phase from the second phase to provide a phase difference; determine an unwrapped phase difference as a function of wavelength; determine a coarse wavelength; and determine a first wavelength for the first FSR and a second wavelength from the second FSR; and average the first and second wavelengths to determine the wavelength of the input signal. |
| US12283978B2 |
Support plate and portable communication device including the same
Disclosed is a portable communication device including a housing, a printed circuit board seated in the housing and mounted to a communication circuit, and a least one position adjusting groove, wherein the housing includes a support plate having at least one antenna unit operatively connected with the communication circuit, and an injection molded member surrounding at least a portion of the at least one antenna unit, wherein the support plate includes a main body in which at least a portion of the printed circuit board is seated, and at least one lead connecting the at least one antenna unit with the main body, and wherein the at least one position adjusting groove is formed at a position at which the at least one lead makes contact with the injection molded member. |
| US12283975B2 |
System and method for dyadic distribution-based compression and encryption
A system and method for simultaneous compression and encryption of data. The system analyzes input data to determine its properties and creates a transformation matrix based on these properties. Using this matrix, the input data is transformed into a modified distribution, generating a main data stream of transformed data and a secondary stream of transformation information. The main data stream is compressed, and both streams are combined into a single output. The system implements security measures to protect against various attacks, including side-channel vulnerabilities. By using a dyadic distribution algorithm, the system achieves both compression and encryption in a single pass over the data, offering significant efficiency gains. The system can operate in both lossless and lossy modes, providing flexibility for different application requirements. This approach offers a unique solution for data transmission and storage scenarios where both data reduction and security are critical concerns. |
| US12283973B2 |
Methods and apparatus for constructing polar codes
Methods and apparatus for constructing polar codes are provided. A transmitter determines at least one set of parameters corresponding to data to be transmitted, and a set of sorting indices corresponding to bits of the data to be transmitted based on the set of parameters, the set of sorting indices indicating a position set of the bits to be transmitted. The transmitter polar encodes the data based at least on the set of parameters and the set of sorting indices to generate a coded block of the data, and transmits the coded block of the data. |
| US12283972B2 |
Method and system for error correction in memory devices using irregular error correction code components
Example implementations include a method of optimizing irregular error correction code components in memory devices, a method including obtaining one or more code rate parameters including a payload size parameter, a group size parameter, and a redundancy parameter generating a first number of first code component blocks associated with a first error correction capability, and a second number of code component blocks associated with a second error correction capability aligning the first code component blocks and the second code component blocks to the group size parameter aligning the first code component blocks and the second code component blocks to a code component length constraint, and generating, in accordance with an optimization metric based on the first error correction capability and the second error correction capability, first optimized code components based on the first code component blocks and second optimized code components based on the second code component blocks. |
| US12283969B2 |
Time-interleaved analog to digital converter based on control of counter
A time-interleaved analog to digital converter includes capacitor array circuits, first and second transfer circuits, a fine converter circuitry, a control circuitry, and an encoder circuit. The capacitor array circuits sample an input signal and generate first residues according to first quantization signals. The first and second transfer circuits transfer first and second residues respectively. The fine converter circuitry performs a signal conversion on the first and second residues according to a conversion control signal to generate a second quantization signal. The control circuitry generates a count signal according to the second quantization signal, and outputs the count signal as a switching signal. The capacitor array circuits generate the second residues in response to the signal conversion, and adjusts those residues according to the switching signal. The encoder circuit generates a digital output according to a corresponding first quantization signal and the second quantization signal. |
| US12283963B2 |
Phase locked loop and sensing device
A phase locked loop has an oscillator that varies a frequency according to a control signal, a resonance element that resonates at a predetermined resonance frequency and output a signal obtained by shifting a phase of an output signal of the oscillator by 90 degrees at the resonance frequency, a phase detector that detects a phase error between an output signal of the resonance element and an output signal of the oscillator, a feedback controller that controls a frequency of an output signal of the oscillator by proportional control and integral control according to the phase error, and a control signal corrector that corrects the control signal by adding a correction term corresponding to environment information to an output signal of the feedback controller. |
| US12283962B2 |
Method of controlling a frequency-modulated oscillator of a phase-locked loop circuit
A method of controlling a frequency-modulated oscillator 110 of a phase-locked loop circuit 100 is described, wherein the oscillator 110 comprises a bank of capacitors 413. The method comprises the steps of (i) switching a capacitor 414 of the bank of capacitors 413 to change an output frequency 1050 of an output signal 112 of the oscillator 110 from a first frequency 1051 to a second frequency 1052, (ii) determining a frequency information associated with the capacitor 414 and based on at least one of the first frequency 1051 and the second frequency 1052; and (iii) writing the frequency information to a look-up table 224, 225, 226 stored in a control unit 120 of the oscillator 110. A corresponding frequency-modulated oscillator 110 and phase-locked loop circuit 100 are also described. |
| US12283960B2 |
Low-power fast-transient large current-sink with dynamic biasing
A current-sink and method of using the same is provided for sinking transient load currents of a load coupled to a floating-rail. In one embodiment, the current-sink includes a latch system operable to receive a transient load current signal from the load and set a latch to apply a voltage to a gate of a current sinking switch. The current sinking switch includes a first source/drain (S/D) coupled to the floating-rail, and a second S/D coupled to ground, and is operable to sink the transient load current to provide a stable floating-rail voltage (VSSHV) on the floating-rail. Generally, the latch system further includes a dynamically biased comparator for comparing VSSHV to a reference voltage and resetting the latch when a difference is less than a predetermined voltage. A dynamic bias circuit coupled to a latch output enables the comparator only while the transient load current is present. |
| US12283957B2 |
Interface device and signal transceiving method thereof
An interface device and a signal transceiving method thereof are provided. The interface device includes a slave circuit and a master circuit. The slave circuit is coupled to the master circuit and includes a first programmable delay line, a first output clock generator, and a first phase detector. The first programmable delay line provides a first adjusting delay amount according to a first adjust signal, and generates a first delayed clock signal by delaying a first clock signal according to the first adjusting delay amount. The first output clock generator generates a second clock signal according to the first delayed clock signal. The first phase detector detects a phase difference of the first clock signal and the second clock signal to generate first phase lead or lag information. The first adjust signal is generated according to the first phase lead or lag information. |
| US12283955B1 |
Majority or minority based low power checkerboard carry save multiplier with inverted multiplier cells
A low power adder uses a non-linear polar capacitor to retain charge with fewer transistors than traditional CMOS sequential circuits. The non-linear polar capacitor includes ferroelectric material, paraelectric material, or non-linear dielectric. The adder may include minority gates and/or majority gates. Input signals are received by respective terminals of capacitors having non-linear polar material. The other terminals of these capacitors are coupled to a node where the majority function takes place for the inputs. |
| US12283952B2 |
Voltage level shifter with multi-step programmable high supply voltage and high supply voltage-dependent variable low supply and gate bias voltages
A structure includes a level shifter, first and second variable voltage generators, and a programmable voltage generator. The level shifter includes low and high supply voltage nodes and two parallel branches, including multiple transistors, connected between the nodes. The programmable voltage generator generates and applies a high supply voltage (VH) to the high supply voltage node. VH is programmable to one of multiple possible VH levels. Based on the voltage level of VH, the first variable voltage generator generates and applies a low supply voltage (VL) to the low supply voltage node and the second variable voltage generator generates and applies a gate bias voltage (VGB) to gates of some transistors. By tracking VH and adjusting VL and VGB based on thereon, the voltage level shifter operates within the SOA at high VHs, remains operable at low VHs, and maintains operating speed at mid-level VHs. |
| US12283950B2 |
Common-mode transient suppression protection circuit for digital isolator
The present invention provides a common-mode transient suppression protection circuit for a digital isolator, including a modulation circuit, a demodulation circuit and an isolation capacitor connected between the modulation circuit and the demodulation circuit. The modulation circuit includes a modulation circuit front-end and a drive circuit, which are connected in sequence, and a clamping module is arranged in the drive circuit. The protection circuit further includes a linear voltage regulator structure connected with the drive circuit, and a power supply clamp is arranged in the linear voltage regulator structure. By providing the linear voltage regulator structure having the power supply clamp and the drive circuit having the clamping module in the protection circuit, low-voltage devices in the drive circuit can be protected from being damaged by high-voltage signals generated by common-mode transient interference. |
| US12283949B2 |
Operating unit for a domestic appliance
An operating unit for a domestic appliance has a touch-sensitive unit and an LED unit positioned on the rear thereof. The touch-sensitive unit is formed with a diffuser foil which has a top side, facing an operator, provided with a printed character layer and an underside, directed away therefrom, provided with a printed functional layer. This leads to a simpler structure of the operating unit with a smaller number of components, which permits a cost-optimized manufacturing process, and also a higher display contrast with the simultaneous reduction of undesirable reflection effects. |
| US12283948B2 |
Touch button, control method, and electronic device
A touch button, a control method, and an electronic device are provided. The touch button includes a first conductive part, a second conductive part, and a touch part, where the second conductive part surrounds the first conductive part to form a capacitance structure. The method includes receiving a touch input acting on the touch part; detecting whether the second conductive part has any capacitance change in a plurality of preset directions; and determining, in a case a capacitance change exists in a target direction among the plurality of preset directions, a control instruction corresponding to the target direction. According to the method, when the touch button receives the touch input, the touch part transfers pressure to the first conductive part, so that the first conductive part moves relative to the second conductive part resulting in a change of capacitance. |
| US12283947B2 |
Switching device, electronic appliance, and vehicle
A switching device includes: an N-type semiconductor substrate; a power MISFET having the N-type semiconductor substrate as its drain; an input electrode receiving an input signal; a control circuit generating a gate control signal for the power MISFET according to the input signal; and a negative current prevention circuit provided between the input electrode and the control circuit. The negative current prevention circuit includes: a P-channel MISFET connected, with its drain toward the input electrode and its source and back gate toward the control circuit, between the input electrode and the control circuit, with its gate fed with a fixed potential, with the potential at its back gate separated from the potential of the N-type semiconductor substrate; and a diode connected, with its anode toward the input electrode and its cathode toward the control circuit, between the input electrode and the control circuit. |
| US12283939B2 |
Acoustic wave resonator assembly and related modules
Embodiments of this disclosure relate to reducing coupling between acoustic wave resonators. An isolation region of a substrate can be located between acoustic wave resonators. The isolation region can reduce capacitive coupling through the substrate between the acoustic wave resonators. In certain embodiments, the isolation region can be located between acoustic wave resonators of different filters to thereby increase isolation between the filters. |
| US12283933B2 |
Electronic device controlled based on sound data and method for controlling electronic device based on sound data
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication circuit, a display, at least one sensor, and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to obtain sound data regarding a surrounding environment from a wearable electronic device through the communication circuit, obtain sensor data through the at least one sensor, identify whether the surrounding environment matches one of a plurality of preset contexts, based on the sound data and the sensor data, and perform at least one of transmitting, to the wearable electronic device, a signal for controlling the wearable electronic device through the communication circuit or displaying a notification message on the display, based on the matching context, a state of the display, or whether the wearable electronic device is outputting a sound, in response to identifying that the surrounding environment matches one of the plurality of preset contexts. |
| US12283928B2 |
Operational amplifier for use in coulomb counter circuit
A circuit may include a two-stage feedforward compensated operational transconductance integrated amplifier, and the two-stage feedforward compensated operational transconductance integrated amplifier may include an input terminal, an output terminal, a signal path between the input terminal and the output terminal, the signal path comprising a first signal path gain stage and a second signal path gain stage, and ripple rejection circuitry coupled between the input terminal and an intermediate node of the signal path located between the first signal path gain stage and the second signal path gain stage. The ripple rejection circuitry may include a first ripple rejection circuitry gain stage coupled at its input to the input terminal and coupled at its output to an input terminal of a chopper circuit, a notch filter coupled at its input to an output terminal of the chopper circuit, and a second ripple rejection circuitry gain stage coupled at its input to an output terminal of the notch filter and coupled at its output to the intermediate node. |
| US12283925B2 |
Bias circuit and power amplifier circuit
A bias circuit for a PA. A first transistor has its drain terminal and its gate terminal connected to a first circuit node and its source terminal connected to a first supply terminal, a first current source connected to the first circuit node, and a first resistor connected between the first and second circuit nodes. A second transistor receives a first component of a differential input signal to the PA at its gate terminal, has its drain terminal connected to the second circuit node and its source terminal connected to a second supply terminal, and a third transistor receives a second component of the differential input signal to the PA at its gate terminal, having its drain terminal connected to the second circuit node and its source terminal connected to a second supply terminal. The gates terminals of the second and third transistors are biased by a first voltage. |
| US12283921B2 |
Methods and apparatus for driver calibration
Driver circuits, systems for driving actuators, and imaging systems with actuators. The driver circuit includes a current comparator circuit, a driver, and a replica circuit. The current comparator circuit includes a first node having a first voltage. The current comparator circuit also includes a second node having a second voltage. The driver includes a first terminal responsive to the second voltage. The driver also includes a second terminal connected to a reference voltage. The replica circuit includes a third terminal connected to the first node. The replica circuit also includes a fourth terminal connected to the second terminal of the driver. The replica circuit also includes a fifth terminal connected to the first terminal of the driver. |
| US12283920B2 |
Supply modulator and wireless communication apparatus including the same
A supply modulator including a multiple output voltage regulator (MOVR) configured to output voltages in a discrete level-envelope tracking mode (DLETM) having different levels from each other respectively corresponding to reference output voltage signals, a switching regulator configured to output a switching regulator voltage, an output voltage being based on the switching regulator voltage and a selected voltage among the voltages in the DLETM and based on the switching regulator voltage in an average power tracking mode, a switching regulator controller configured to sense an output current of the MOVR to obtain a sensing value, and control the switching regulator based on the sensing value in the DLETM, a switch array comprising switches respectively corresponding to the voltages and configured to selectively connect the selected voltage to a power amplifier by performing a switching operation, and a switch controller configured to control the switching operation. |
| US12283919B2 |
Oven-controlled crystal oscillator
One or more embodiments of the disclosure may be an oven-controlled crystal oscillator that may include a core section hermetically encapsulated inside a thermal insulation package. The core section includes at least: an oscillation IC; a crystal resonator; and a heater IC. The core section is mounted on a core substrate that is mechanically connected to the package by a non-conductive adhesive. The core section and the package are electrically connected to each other by wire bonding. A space is provided between the core substrate and a bottom surface of the package. |
| US12283917B2 |
Photovoltaic module
A photovoltaic module according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a photovoltaic panel; and a junction box electrically connected to the photovoltaic panel and mounted on the rear side of the photovoltaic panel. The junction box comprises: a circuit unit including a circuit board; a case accommodating the circuit unit and having a remaining empty space; and an air discharge member mounted on the case, for allowing air flow inside and outside the case. |
| US12283914B2 |
Cost effective frame design for thinner wafers
A slim solar module is proposed. It comprises a solar laminate comprising plural solar cells interposed between front and rear cover sheets, a frame enclosing the solar laminate and at least one reinforcement strut arranged at a rear surface of the solar laminate. A ratio between a frame surface and a frame thickness shall be between 45000 and 70000. For example, the frame may have a thickness of less than 35 mm. Specifically, the frame may have a length of 1665 mm, a width of 991 mm and a thickness of 30 mm. Due to the reduced thickness, the solar module has a reduced volume being beneficial during transport to a destination location. However, the thickness has been optimized to, with the reinforcement struts, still providing for sufficient mechanical stability for the solar module. |
| US12283912B2 |
Infrastructureless active carrier plane (ACP)
The disclosed Infrastructureless™ Data Center is a green-on-green technology. In an embodiment, an example Infrastructureless™ Data Center includes an Infrastructureless™ base node including a photovoltaic (PV) panel assembly. The Infrastructureless™ Data Center further includes a variety of proprietary computing components attached to the Infrastructureless™ base node including some or all of compute, memory, network, power and storage assemblies that, when attached to the Infrastructureless™ base node, create an Infrastructureless™ Data System. Infrastructureless™ Data Systems of similar configurations can be grouped together to form Infrastructureless™ Clusters. Multiple Infrastructureless™ Clusters can be grouped together to form an Infrastructureless™ Data Center of any size. In some embodiments, the Infrastructureless™ Data Center is electrically self-sufficient, e.g., carbon neutral, and does not need to be connected to an external power grid. In other embodiments, the Infrastructureless™ Data Center is carbon negative and can supply unused electricity to an external power grid. |
| US12283911B2 |
Auto-braking for an electromagnetic machine
Systems and methods are provided for braking a translator of a linear multiphase electromagnetic machine. The system detects a fault event. A polarity indicative of an electromotive force in determined in at least one phase of the linear multiphase electromagnetic machine caused by a motion of the translator. In response to detecting the fault event, the system causes, based on the polarity, a current to be applied to a respective phase of the at least one phase to cause a force acting on the translator that opposes an axial motion of the translator to cause the translator to brake. Braking includes causing the translator to reciprocate at a reduced velocity by opposing axial motion over one or more cycles. The system may use one or more of position information, current information, operating parameters, to brake, or may brake the translator independent of such information. |
| US12283908B2 |
Motor driver having temperature sensing mechanism
A motor driver having a temperature sensing mechanism is provided. A control circuit determines a time for outputting a controlling signal according to a pulse-width modulation signal received from an external pulse-width modulation circuit. A driving circuit outputs a driving signal according to the controlling signal. An output stage circuit operates according to the driving signal to output an output stage signal to a motor to drive the motor to rotate. In a temperature sensing mode, a thermal sensor circuit senses a temperature inside the motor driver to output a temperature sensing signal. An external system circuit determines whether or not the motor driver causes overheating to the motor when being adapted to the motor according to the temperature sensing signal, and evaluates whether or not the motor driver is applicable to the motor. |
| US12283903B2 |
Multi-three-phase drive system
A multi-three-phase motor drive system includes a power distribution network, a motor drive unit, and a motor network. The power distribution network includes a partitioned direct current (DC) link connected between a positive voltage rail and a negative voltage rail. A connection between the positive voltage rail and a mid-point node defines an upper portion of the partitioned DC link and a connection between negative voltage rail and the mid-point node defines a lower portion of the partitioned DC link. The motor drive unit includes a plurality of inverter units, and the motor network includes a plurality of motor windings which are each connected to a respective inverter unit. A first group of the inverter units is connected in parallel with the upper portion of the portioned DC link, and a second group of the inverter units is connected in parallel with the lower portion of the partitioned DC link. |
| US12283898B2 |
Method for detecting a characteristic operating parameter of a transistor of an inverter
An inverter. The inverter includes a first and second transistors, which are a high-side transistor and a low-side transistor of the inverter, and control electronics configured to trigger a first switching operation, in which the first transistor is switched on, wherein the second transistor is in a switched-off state, wherein a parasitic capacitance of the first transistor is discharged during the first switching operation, to trigger a second switching operation, in which the first transistor is switched off or switched on again, wherein the second transistor simultaneously remains in the switched-off state, wherein the parasitic capacitance of the first transistor is already discharged in the second switching operation, to record a time difference which describes a difference between a duration of the first switching operation and a duration of the second switching operation, and to determine a characteristic operating parameter of the first transistor based on the time difference. |
| US12283897B2 |
Modular multi-level converter
The present disclosure relates to a modular multi-level converter, wherein a cluster comprises multiple sub-modules connected to each other in series and multiple individual reactors connected to the respective sub-modules in series, and the multiple individual reactors are disposed between the multiple sub-modules, respectively. Therefore, the converter of the present invention is advantageous in that the volume thereof can be further reduced compared with when a conventional large-capacity reactor is used. |
| US12283895B2 |
Integrated power conversion apparatus for electric vehicle and control method thereof
An integrated power conversion apparatus for an electric vehicle according to the present disclosure includes a first H-bridge converter with one side connected to a high voltage battery; a three-winding transformer in which a primary winding is connected to the other side of the first H-bridge converter; a second H-bridge converter with one side which is connected to a secondary winding of the three-winding transformer; an AC-DC converter in which one side is connected to the other side of the second H-bridge converter and the other side is selectively connected to a motor or a power system; and a low voltage stage converter in which one side is selectively connected to a tertiary winding of the three-winding transformer through a selective switch and the other side is connected to a low voltage battery. |
| US12283887B2 |
Controller circuit and control method for resonant switched capacitor converter
A controller IC for a resonant switched capacitor converter includes a drive circuit and a frequency controller. The frequency controller controls a switching frequency based on an output voltage of the resonant switched capacitor converter. |
| US12283884B2 |
DC-DC converter and power device including the same
The present disclosure refers to direct current-to-direct current (DC-DC) converters and power supplies including the same. In an embodiment, a DC-DC converter includes a first switching circuit, a second switching circuit, a fourth capacitor coupled to a second node, and an inductor-capacitor (LC) filter coupled to a third node. The first switching circuit includes a first transistor coupled between a first capacitor and an input node, a second transistor coupled between the first capacitor and a second capacitor, a third transistor coupled between a first node and a third capacitor, and a fourth transistor coupled between the third capacitor and a ground node. The second switching circuit includes a fifth transistor coupled between the second capacitor and the third capacitor, a sixth transistor and a seventh transistor coupled between the first capacitor and the third capacitor, and an eighth transistor coupled between the first capacitor and the ground node. |
| US12283882B2 |
Supply voltage generating method for a driver circuit in a power system
A supply voltage generating circuit and method for a power system. The power system has a power input terminal to receive an input voltage, a system output terminal to provide a system voltage, a switching circuit, a bootstrap capacitor, and a first driver circuit with a power terminal. The switching circuit works in a buck mode to convert the input voltage to the system voltage, or in a boost mode to convert the system voltage to a boost output voltage. The bootstrap capacitor provides a bootstrap voltage at a bootstrap terminal. The method is generating an input pump voltage based on the input voltage and the boost output voltage, generating a first supply voltage based on the bootstrap voltage and the input pump voltage, and providing the first supply voltage to the power terminal of the first driver circuit. |
| US12283880B2 |
T-type buck-boost rectifier
A T-type buck-boost power factor correction (PFC) rectifier (TBPR) comprises a power inductor, first and second storage capacitors, and first, second and third bi-directional switches. The first bidirectional switch connects a power supply input to a first end of the power inductor, the second bidirectional switch connects the first end of the power inductor to a first end of the first capacitor and the third bidirectional switch connects the first end of the power inductor to a first end of the second capacitor. At the same time, the second end of the first capacitor, the second end of the second capacitor and the second end of the power inductor are connected to a common node. |
| US12283873B2 |
Method and system for pole retainer with integrated cooling
The disclosed apparatus, system, and techniques described herein allow pole retention hardware of the electric motor to also function as a cooling manifold for removing heat generated by the electrical coils. A pole retainer apparatus can include a pole retainer for retaining a pole to a hub. The pole retainer can include a proximal end mounted on the hub and a distal end. The pole retainer can include a channel extending through the pole retainer from the proximal end of the pole retainer mounted on the hub to the distal end of the pole retainer. The apparatus can include a mount located at the distal end of the pole retainer and configured to retain the pole on the hub. The apparatus can include a fluid transfer duct connected to the mount. The cooling system can be employed on TORUS Axial Flux Permanent Magnet motors, and various other motor designs. |
| US12283852B2 |
Twisting device of hair pin type stator coil
Provided is a twisting device of a hair pin-type stator coil. The twisting device of a hair pin-type stator coil, which is to twist-form a plurality of hair pin-type stator coils inserted as a plurality of layers in a stator core, includes i) a base frame, ii) a coil fixing unit installed on the base frame through a plurality of support rods, iii) a twisting tool unit allowing a plurality of stator coils of two adjacent layers, among the plurality of layers, to be inserted thereinto, the two layers being rotated in different directions, and installed to be movable up and down in the base frame on a lower side of the coil fixing unit, iv) a tool driving unit installed on the base frame and operatively connected to the twisting tool unit. |
| US12283849B2 |
Motor controller and vehicle having same
A motor controller and a vehicle having the same are disclosed in the present disclosure. The motor controller includes a box, a low-voltage control unit, a driver unit, and a power unit. A low-voltage control layer, a driver layer and a power layer sequentially laminated are defined in the box. The low-voltage control unit is arranged in the low-voltage control layer. The driver unit is arranged in the driver layer. The power unit is arranged in the power layer. A part of the box located between the low-voltage control layer and the driver layer is an electromagnetic shield. |
| US12283847B2 |
Rotor of rotary electric machine, rotary electric machine and electric drive device
Improving the coercive force of magnets used in a rotary electric machine by arranging magnets such that a q-axis side portion is located on an outer diameter side with respect to a d-axis side portion, and a magnet thickness Ti on an inner diameter side (d-axis side) of a rotor core is formed to be larger than a magnet thickness To on the outer diameter side (q-axis side) of the rotor core. An axial space is formed in the magnets such that when the lateral cross section of each of the magnets is divided into an outer diameter side region112o and an inner diameter side region112i in a manner that the lateral cross section areas are equal to each other with a circumference C around a rotation center as a boundary, and a space density of the axial space in the inner diameter side region112i is larger than a space density of the axial space in the outer diameter side region112o. |
| US12283846B2 |
Stator core, rotary electric machine, and design method for stator core
The present invention is a stator core having a plurality of laminated electrical steel sheets, in which, among a plurality of teeth (121a to 121p) of the stator core, a width of teeth along a direction in which magnetic characteristics are excellent may be narrower than a width of teeth along a direction in which the magnetic characteristics are poor. |
| US12283844B2 |
Reserve power supply system
A reserve power supply system for providing a supplemental source of electrical power to a main power source. The system includes a backup battery and a switch that can be controlled to couple the backup battery to the main power source when reserve power is needed. The system also includes a sensor to detect when the backup battery should be engaged and a system control unit. |
| US12283842B2 |
Power management systems, devices, and methods
A Radio Transceiver is described herein, which according to one embodiment, includes a solar panel, a battery and an advanced power management circuit operably connected to the solar panel and the battery. The advanced power management circuit is configured to receive electrical energy from the solar panel and the battery. A supercapacitor is operably connected to the advanced power management circuit and configured to receive electrical energy from the advanced power management circuit. A communications module is coupled to the supercapacitor. The Radio Transceiver can be powered by measuring a supercapacitor voltage using the advanced power management circuit; determining whether the supercapacitor voltage is above a first threshold voltage and below a second threshold voltage; and charging the supercapacitor using at least one of the solar panel and the battery based on whether the supercapacitor voltage is above the first threshold voltage and below the second threshold voltage. |
| US12283831B2 |
On-board charger and DC-DC converter architecture for balancing of voltages or currents between batteries in electric vehicle battery systems
An electric vehicle battery system is provided. In some embodiments, the electric vehicle battery system can comprise a battery pack comprising a first battery and a second battery. In various embodiments, a first bidirectional direct current to alternating current (DC-AC) converter can be electrically coupled to the first battery and to a first bidirectional high-voltage (HV) alternating current to direct current (AC-DC) converter. In various implementations, a second bidirectional DC-AC converter can be coupled to the second battery and to a second bidirectional HV AC-DC converter. In further embodiments, and a power factor correction AC-DC module can be electrically coupled to the first bidirectional HV AC-DC converter via a first switch and the second bidirectional HV AC-DC converter via a second switch. |
| US12283822B2 |
Hybrid energy systems
A hybrid energy system is configured to carry a power load for a generator configured to output a first AC signal. The hybrid energy system includes a battery bank, a DC/DC converter, an AC/DC converter, and a DC/AC converter. The battery bank includes a plurality of batteries and outputs a first DC signal. The DC/DC converter, operating in a first mode, receives and converts the first DC signal into a second DC signal, which is output to a DC bus. The AC/DC converter receives and converts the first AC signal into a third DC signal. The second DC signal and the third DC signal are tied together on the DC bus. The DC/AC converter receives and converts the second DC signal from the DC bus into a plurality of second AC signals, which are output to an AC outlet interface. |
| US12283820B2 |
Power supply system for mobile vehicles
A power conversion device includes a conversion device having includes a first, a second, a third and a fourth converter, and a control unit. The first converter has a first input terminal and a first output terminal; the second converter has a second input terminal and a second output terminal; the first and the second input terminal are electrically connected to a power supply. The third converter has a third input terminal and a third output terminal, the third input terminal is coupled to the first output terminal; the fourth converter has a fourth input terminal and a fourth output terminal; the fourth input terminal is coupled to the second output terminal, and the third output terminal is electrically connected to the fourth output terminal. The control unit is coupled to the conversion device, receives a power request from a load, and controls an output power of the conversion device. |
| US12283819B2 |
Control system and power balancing method
A control system includes a computer that controls each of multiple power balancing resources. The computer selects one or more control targets to be used for power balancing of an external electric power source from the power balancing resources, and controls each of the one or more control targets so as to cause the power storage device to charge or discharge for the power balancing. The computer preferentially selects the power balancing resource provided with a small-capacity power storage device as the control target for the power balancing of which duration is shorter than a predetermined time, and preferentially selects the power balancing resource provided with a large-capacity power storage device as the control target for the power balancing of which the duration is longer than the predetermined time. |
| US12283804B1 |
Screwless look junction box cover plate and bracket
An electrical junction box cover plate assembly with an electrical junction box and a cover attachment bar. Each end of the cover attachment bar has an attachment screw aperture that aligns with a mounting screw aperture of the electrical junction box. A cover plate has an upper side with a cavity, an annular lip extending inward into the cavity, and at least two entry ports extending through the annular lip, each configured to receive one of the two ends of the cover attachment bar. When the ends of the cover attachment bar are inserted into the entry ports, the cover plate is rotatable with respect to the cover attachment bar and the electrical junction box to interlock extensions of the two ends with the annular lip of the cover plate to conceal the electrical junction box, the cover attachment bar, and the screws. |
| US12283803B2 |
Weatherproof pop-up electrical device enclosures
An electrical device enclosure is provided that includes an electrical device; a telescoping support member having the electrical device supported thereon; an electrical device region, the telescoping support member being configured to move the electrical device into a stored position in a first space defined in the electrical device region and to move the electrical device into a deployed position outside of the first space; and a hood pivotally connected to the electrical device for movement between a hooded position and an unhooded position. The hood and electrical device region have cooperating surfaces, the cooperating surfaces being configured and positioned so that movement of the electrical device to the stored position moves the hood into sealed contact with the electrical device to define a weather-tight space around the electrical device. |
| US12283802B2 |
Integrated cable tray splice
A cable tray assembly includes first and second cable tray sections. Each cable tray section included a rail including a vertical web, an upper flange, and a lower flange. Each upper flange includes an outboard portion having a downwardly extending tab forming a groove extending along the upper flange. A splice plate assembly connects the first and second cable tray sections. The splice plate assembly includes a first splice plate configured to be retained in the groove extending along the upper flange of the first cable tray section. A second splice plate is configured to be retained in the groove extending along the upper flange of the second cable tray section. The first and second splice plates each define a fastener opening. The fastener openings are alignable with one another and configured to receive a fastener to connect the first and second cable tray sections when the splice plates are attached to the respective cable tray sections. |
| US12283799B2 |
High voltage overhead electric transmission line equipped with switchgear unit
A high-voltage overhead electric transmission line extends from a first electrical substation to a second electrical substation and includes at least one “T” junction that forms a joint with three sections A first section and a second section allow connection between the first and the second electrical substations. A third section allows connection to the high-voltage overhead electric transmission line of a user or a third electrical substation or primary substation. The at least one “T” junction has a first switchgear unit configured to allow grid reconfigurations and installed on the first section, and a second switchgear unit configured to allow grid reconfigurations and installed on the second section. Each switchgear unit has a plurality of switchgear unit poles. Each switchgear unit pole is associated with a respective phase of the high-voltage overhead electric transmission line and has a line circuit breaker and at least one line disconnector. |
| US12283798B1 |
Electrical panel with arc prevention member
An electrical panel having an arc prevention member wherein the arc prevention member inhibits exposed wire from contacting the inner surface of the sidewall of the panel box. The present invention includes a panel box having four side walls and a rear wall forming an interior volume operable to receive conventional electrical components therein. The electrical panel of the present invention includes an arc prevention member operably coupled to the side wall. The arc prevention member includes an upper portion and a lower portion contiguously formed. The upper portion is formed from a first segment and second segment having a void therebetween that is configured to couple to an edge of the side wall. The lower portion is integrally formed with the upper portion and extends outward therefrom into the interior volume of the panel box. The lower portion is arcuate in form. |
| US12283796B2 |
Spark plug
A spark plug includes a center electrode extending along an axial line, a metal shell holding the center electrode in an insulated manner, and a ground electrode connected to the metal shell by a connection portion. At least one of the center electrode and the ground electrode includes a protrusion. A discharge member joined to the protrusion via a fused portion forms a spark gap between the discharge member and the other one of the electrodes. A recess is formed at a position including the protrusion. |
| US12283794B2 |
Polarised emission from quantum wires in cubic GaN
A semiconductor structure comprising a matrix having a first cubic Group-III nitride with a first band gap, and a second cubic Group-III nitride having a second band gap and forming a region embedded within the matrix. The second cubic Group-III nitride comprises an alloying material which reduces the second band gap relative to the first band gap, a quantum wire is defined by a portion within the region embedded within the matrix, the portion forming a one-dimensional charge-carrier confinement channel, wherein the quantum wire is operable to exhibit emission luminescence which is optically polarised. |
| US12283793B2 |
Semiconductor optical device
A multi-terraced structure includes three or more sections with different thicknesses and adjacent to each other in a direction in which an optical waveguide extends. An adjacent pair of the three or more sections includes one section smaller in thickness and closer to an end face of the semiconductor multilayers and another section larger in thickness and farther from the end face of the semiconductor multilayers. The three or more sections include: a first section with a smallest thickness, including the lowermost layer; a second section adjacent to the first section, including the lowermost layer and additionally a stress relief layer composed of a material equal to or lower than Au in Young's modulus; and a third section with a largest thickness, including all layers from the uppermost layer to the lowermost layer. |
| US12283792B2 |
Light emitting device, and electronic apparatus
A light emitting device includes a first substrate, a light source on a first surface of the first substrate and that emits light toward an object, and a driver disposed in the first substrate and that drives the light source. The driver overlaps the light source in a plan view. The light emitting device includes at least one first via disposed in the first substrate and overlapping the driver in the plan view, and a first conductor on a second surface of the first substrate opposite the first surface and overlapping the light source, the driver, and the at least one first via in the plan view. The first conductor is connected to the at least one first via. |
| US12283791B2 |
Semiconductor laser chip and preparation method therefor
A semiconductor laser chip and a preparation method therefor, the method comprising: providing an epitaxial wafer (100), the epitaxial wafer (100) comprising a plurality of resonant cavities (110) arranged in parallel; providing a heat sink substrate (200); attaching the epitaxial wafer (100) to the heat sink substrate (200) so as to form a first chip semi-finished product (10); performing first division on the first chip semi-finished product (10) in the direction perpendicular to the resonant cavities (110) so as to divide the first chip semi-finished product (10) into a plurality of second chip semi-finished products (20); and performing second division on the second chip semi-finished products (20) in the direction parallel to the resonant cavities (110) so as to divide the second chip semi-finished products (20) into a plurality of semiconductor laser chips (30) such that the semiconductor laser chips (30) comprise at least one laser bar. |
| US12283783B2 |
Rf connector
An RF connector includes a single-piece housing with a mating end, a mounting end, and four walls, at least two consecutive ports defined by the housing, and a first conductor positioned in the first port of the at least two ports and a second conductor positioned in a second port of the at least two consecutive ports. The first conductor and the second conductor both only extend from the mating end to the mounting end. |
| US12283780B1 |
Locking electrical device
An electrical receptacle including a body having a plurality of electrical connections, a device face connected to the body and movable with respect to the body, a plurality of electrical plug contacts positioned behind the device face, and wherein the electrical plug contacts retain an electrical plug prong at a first tension when the device face is in a first position and the electrical plug contacts retain the electrical plug prong at a second tension when the device face is in a second position. |
| US12283776B2 |
Angled subassembly for an angled connector
An angled subassembly of an angled connector includes an angled shield and a cable disposed in the angled shield. The angled shield has a first shield section and a second shield section extending at a bend angle with respect to the first shield section. The cable has a first portion positioned in the first shield section and a second portion positioned in the second shield section. The second portion extends at the bend angle with respect to the first portion. |
| US12283774B2 |
Connector
It is aimed to avoid making a movable arm portion difficult to deflect. A connector is provided with a male housing (10) connectable to a female housing (40), a sealing ring (15) to be mounted on an inner peripheral surface of the male housing (10) for sealing between the inner peripheral surface of the male housing (10) and an outer peripheral surface of the female housing (40), resiliently deformable movable arm portions (30) formed on the male housing (40), and stoppers (37) for restricting a movement of the sealing ring (15). The movable arm portion (30) includes a fulcrum portion (31) and a displacing portion (32) extending from the fulcrum portion (31) and displaceable in a direction intersecting an extending direction. The stopper (37) projects from the displacing portion (32). |
| US12283767B2 |
Terminal spring spacer, and a female terminal utilizing said spring spacer
A terminal spring on a female terminal that integrates a terminal spring spacer to underlying terminal bases of said terminal spring to aid in maintaining proper contact interface gap for receiving therein a corresponding male terminal. The terminal spring spacer is integrally, contiguously, or unitarily connected to said terminal spring as a single piece. The female terminal, onto which the terminal spring with the terminal spring spacer is joined, includes a pair of terminal bases, each having a contact zone, a transition zone, and a terminal (wire) zone. The contact zones and transition zones of the first and second terminal bases are substantially contained within the terminal spring. The terminal spring spacer effectively maintains a correct gap through an interface gap between front ends of the contact zones of the first and second terminal bases through another gap between transition zones of the first and second terminal bases for accommodating therein the corresponding male terminal. |
| US12283766B2 |
Connector and flat cable
In a housing of a connector, there is formed an opening to be fitted with a protruding portion formed on a flat cable in a state in which a terminal section of the flat cable is electrically connected with contactors of a contact portion in an opening space. |
| US12283760B2 |
Radio-frequency module and communication apparatus
A radio-frequency module includes a multilayer substrate, a first semiconductor device, a second semiconductor device, a first mold layer, and a second mold layer. The multilayer substrate includes a plurality of stacked layers, and has a first major face and a second major face. The first mold layer seals the first semiconductor device. The second mold layer seals the second semiconductor device. The first major face includes a first recess. The first semiconductor device is mounted over a bottom face of the first recess. The second semiconductor device is mounted over the first major face so as to overlie the first recess. The first semiconductor device is connected with a metallic via that extends through a portion of the multilayer substrate from the bottom face of the first recess to the second major face. The first mold layer and the second mold layer are made of different materials. |
| US12283758B2 |
System and methods for use with electronically steerable antennas for wireless communications
Examples disclosed herein describe an antenna with antenna elements that may be selectively activated and deactivated to define active apertures. The active apertures may be of different shapes and sizes. An antenna may include one active aperture or multiple active apertures at a point in time. These one or more active apertures may be reconfigured, e.g., by deactivating the active antenna elements and activating other antenna elements. |
| US12283755B1 |
Input multiplexed signal processing apparatus and methods
Front end circuits and associated apparatus, systems, and methods for use in electronic devices such as buried utility locators are disclosed. The circuits include receivers and filters on input signals that are coupled to ground rather than differentially. A multiplexing circuit allows shared use of amplifiers, and analog-to-digital converters via a switching mechanism for selectively making or breaking electrical connection to the receiver channels for efficient sharing of electronics resources while minimizing crosstalk interference and advantageously reducing costs. |
| US12283753B2 |
Dual polarized folded dipole element and antenna
Provided is a dual polarized folded dipole element 1 including: four center portions 20 arranged adjacent to each other; and an element portion including two parallel wire portions 22, 23 extending in parallel to each other from different adjacent two of the center portions 20 and a short circuit portion 24 that short-circuits each two parallel wire portions 22, 23 at a distal end, in which: adjacent two of the center portions are physically connected to each other by the element portion; and the element portion extends in substantially the same plane in four directions from the center portions 20 with an angle of 90° therebetween. Also provided are antennae 10 and 10′ including the dual polarized folded dipole element 1. |
| US12283746B2 |
Antenna embedded in a radome
An aircraft-mounted mobile communicator for communicating with one or more satellites or base stations is disclosed. The aircraft-mounted mobile communicator includes a radome structure and one or more antenna elements embedded within or proximate to a shell of the radome structure that maximizes an aperture of the one or more antenna elements, wherein the one or more antenna elements are configured to operate over one or more frequency bands. |
| US12283741B2 |
Antenna mount for a structure
A pass-through antenna mount for a structure includes a base to be placed against an external wall of the structure and a shaft that extends from the base through an opening in the wall. The base defines an aperture therethrough. The shaft extends away from the base and defines a hollow channel extending along a length thereof. The channel is generally aligned with the aperture in the base. The shaft includes a neck portion and an adjacent body portion. The neck portion is configured to accept a fastener and the body portion defines a cable opening in a wall thereof. The cable opening fluidly communicates with the hollow channel. The antenna mount accepts an antenna mounted to the base, where the antenna cable(s) passes through the shaft and exits through the cable opening of the shaft's body portion, thereby taking a tortuous path through the antenna mount. |
| US12283739B2 |
Duplexer architecture using 90 degree hybrid coupler based balancing conditions
An electronic device may include isolation circuitry coupled between a transmitter, a receiver, and one or more antennas. The isolation circuitry may include a 90 degree hybrid coupler configured receive a transmission (TX) signal from the transmitter, split the TX signal into a first portion and a second portion, and phase-shift a portion such that the portions are +90 degrees out-of-phase. The isolation circuitry may include phase shifters that phase-shift the portions such that the portions are in-phase prior to propagating to the antenna. The phase shifters may receive a first portion and a second portion of a receiver (RX) signal from splitter circuitry. The phase shifters may phase-shift the portions such that the portions are out-of-phase by −90 degrees. The 90 degree hybrid coupler may phase-shift the first portion and/or the second portion such that the portions are in-phase and constructively combine prior to propagating to the receiver. |
| US12283735B2 |
Gapless ferrite structure for circulator or isolator
A gapless ferrite structure for circulator or isolator includes a first base having a first flange and a first limit slot surrounded by the first flange, a second base having a second flange and a second limit slot surrounded by the second flange, a ferrite with two ends accommodated in the first limit slot and the second limit slot respectively, two limit magnets installed on the first base and the second base respectively and configured to be corresponsive to the ferrite to generate an attraction force on the ferrite, and two sealing units configured between an end of the ferrite and the first limit slot and between the other end of the ferrite and the second limit slot respectively. In this way, a gapless structure can be formed on a signal transmission path in a circulator or isolator. |
| US12283731B2 |
Cost-efficient high energy density redox flow battery
Methods and systems are provided for a redox flow battery system. In one example, the redox flow battery is adapted with an additive included in a battery electrolyte and an anion exchange membrane separator dividing positive electrolyte from negative electrolyte. An overall system cost of the battery system may be reduced while a storage capacity, energy density and performance may be increased. |
| US12283727B2 |
Hydrogen-producing fuel cell systems and methods of operating the same
Hydrogen-producing fuel cell systems and methods of operating the same. The methods include initiating supply of a stored hydrogen stream, which includes stored hydrogen gas, to a fuel cell stack. Prior to the initiating, the stored hydrogen gas is stored in a low-pressure hydrogen storage tank at a hydrogen storage pressure. The methods also include generating an electrical power output from the stored hydrogen gas with the fuel cell stack. The methods further include, during a supply time interval that is subsequent to the initiating, monitoring a hydrogen supply variable that is indicative of flow of the stored hydrogen stream to the fuel cell stack. The methods also include detecting a change in the hydrogen supply variable and responding to the detecting. The systems include a controller that is programmed to perform the methods. |
| US12283726B2 |
Flow battery system
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a redox flow battery (RFB) may include a shell, an electrolyte storage tank assembly disposed in the shell, wherein at least a portion of the electrolyte storage tank assembly is supported by the shell, an electrochemical cell, and an electrolyte circulation system configured for fluid communication between the electrolyte storage tank assembly and the electrochemical cell. In some embodiments, at least a portion of the electrolyte storage tank assembly defines a tank assembly heat transfer system between an outer surface of the electrolyte storage tank assembly and an inner surface of the shell. In other embodiments, a pump assembly in the electrolyte circulation system is moveable between a first position and a second position. In other embodiments, a gas management system includes a first gas exchange device in fluid communication with the catholyte headspace and the anolyte. |
| US12283720B2 |
Bus bar, and battery module using same
Provided is a busbar capable of keeping a joint strength high at a joint between dissimilar metals. The busbar (2) joins terminals of a plurality of battery cells, the terminals each including a dissimilar metal. The busbar includes: a copper portion (2e) to be connected to a first terminal (1n) of a first battery; an aluminum portion (2f) to be connected to a second terminal (1p) of a second battery; and a joint (2x) including the copper portion bonded to the aluminum portion. The aluminum portion is placed so as not to overlap the bonding region between the first terminal and the copper portion, and has arms (2f1) extending in a direction from the second terminal to the first terminal. The joint includes the copper portion bonded to the arms, and the arms have a width such that a proximal end portion is wider than a distal end portion of the arms. |
| US12283718B2 |
Mikropact adaptive charge transference device
The present invention is directed to mikropact adaptive charge transference (ACT) devices that offer the combination of charge storage, charge pass-through, and charge conversion/adaption in a compact shell that is suitable for consumer portability in the pocket of the consumer or in the hand of the consumer. Moreover, the ability to achieve the mikropact nature of the device derives, in large part, from the novel reversible multi-stage charge transference micro-core structure that is removable and integrates with a mikropact containment shell, e.g., wherein the mikropact device incorporates both a 12V DC male socket connector and a 12V DC female socket port. In particular, the devices of the present invention are constructed to reversibly and operationally integrate a removable multi-stage charge transference micro-core structure. In addition, the containment shell is adapted to incorporate one or more convenience tools. |
| US12283716B2 |
Separator having heat resistant layer for electrochemical device and secondary battery comprising same
The separator according to the present disclosure and the electrochemical device including the same show low internal resistance between the separator and an electrode. The separator includes heat resistant particles in a heat resistant coating layer. The heat resistant particles include a particle-shaped inorganic material and fluorine (F) doped to a surface of the inorganic particles. When the internal temperature of a battery is increased during the operation of the battery, the separator shows improved heat resistance by virtue of an endothermic effect derived from a phase change of the heat resistant particles. In addition, decomposition of a lithium salt used as an ingredient of electrolyte is inhibited by the fluorine atoms introduced to the heat resistant particles, resulting in improvement of ion conductivity and resistance characteristics. Further, the separator including the heat resistant particles introduced thereto has excellent resistance characteristics and shows high oxidation stability of an electrolyte, resulting in improvement of the electrochemical stability of a battery. |
| US12283715B2 |
Separator for non-aqueous secondary battery and non-aqueous secondary battery
Provided is a separator for a non-aqueous secondary battery containing a porous substrate; and an adhesive porous layer that is provided on one side or on both sides of the porous substrate, and that contains a polyvinylidene fluoride type resin, an acrylic type resin and metal sulfate particles, in which an average primary particle diameter of the metal sulfate particles contained in the adhesive porous layer is from 0.01 μm to less than 0.30 μm. |
| US12283711B2 |
Venting unit and housing, in particular a battery housing
A venting unit for a housing has a base body to be connected fluid-tightly to a rim of a housing opening. The base body has a gas passage opening closed by a membrane that spans areally across the gas passage opening transversely to an axial direction. An actor is operatively connected to the base body and has an emergency venting spike extending axially toward the membrane. The emergency venting spike has a tip or a cutting edge arranged, in a state of rest, at a predetermined distance from a membrane surface of the membrane and can move toward the membrane when the actor is actuated so that tip or cutting edge punctures the membrane. A cover arranged at an outer side of the base body covers the gas passage opening. A fastening mechanism connects cover and base body. The actor has an actuation element for releasing the fastening mechanism. |
| US12283710B2 |
Battery cell including gas discharging portion
A battery cell includes: an electrode assembly; a battery case accommodating the electrode assembly and an electrolyte; and a gas discharging portion disposed between the electrode assembly and the battery case, and opening and closing a flow path based on pressure within the battery case, wherein the gas discharging portion includes: a moving member being moved in the flow path; a plurality of elastic members each elastically supporting the moving member; and a plurality of support members each disposed between the moving member and the elastic member, and in point contact with the moving member. |
| US12283708B2 |
Terminal protection device and battery module
Provided are a terminal protection device and a battery module. The terminal protection device includes a base having a bottom portion and side plates connected to peripheral sides of the bottom portion, the side plates and the bottom portion together form an accommodation cavity, and an input port is in communication with the accommodation cavity; each of the side plates is provided with an input port, through which an output electrode passes; each of the side plates is further provided with a connection port, the connection port is in communication with the accommodation cavity such that an external electric connector can pass through the connection port) and be connected to the output electrode; and a protection plate is provided at the connection port, and the protection plate detachably covers the connection port. |
| US12283706B2 |
Electric work machine
An electric work machine allows use of batteries with different sizes with battery covers and allows easy maintenance of a damaged battery cover. A rechargeable concrete vibrator includes a motor, a motor housing accommodating the motor, a battery holder connected to the motor housing to receive a battery in a detachable manner, and a battery cover to cover an overall part of the battery held by the battery holder. The battery cover is attachable to and detachable from the battery holder. |
| US12283702B2 |
Seal for a battery housing of a high-voltage battery, method, battery housing, high-voltage battery and motor vehicle
A seal can be moved from a production position for a production tool into an installation position for a battery housing. The seal has a seal body to be arranged between a housing flange of a lower housing part and a housing cover of the battery housing, and has positioning elements and fixing elements for positioning and fixing the seal body on the housing flange. The seal body is designed as a one-piece, frame-like sealing ring made of a resilient plastic and has a seal body portion, which is reversibly variable in length, with fold regions. The seal body portion in the folded state of the fold regions provides the production position and in the unfolded state of the fold regions provides the installation position. Positioning regions and fixing regions in which the positioning elements and fixing elements are arranged have a greater width than the fold regions. |
| US12283700B2 |
Adhesive film for metal terminal, method for producing adhesive film for metal terminal, metal terminal with adhesive film for metal terminal attached thereto, power storage device using said adhesive film for metal terminal, and method for producing power storage device
An adhesive film for a metal terminal is interposed between a metal terminal electrically connected to an electrode of a power storage device element, and a power storage device exterior material that seals the power storage device element, the adhesive film comprising a laminated body including, in the following order: a first polyolefin layer disposed on the metal terminal side; a base material; and a second polyolefin layer disposed on the power storage device exterior material side, wherein the adhesive film has a Martens hardness of at most 30 N/mm2 as measured in a direction perpendicular to a cross-section in the thickness direction of the first polyolefin layer. |
| US12283699B2 |
Solid state battery
A solid state battery that includes: a battery element including, along a stacking direction, one or more battery constituent units including a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer interposed between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer; first and second external terminals joined to an extended portion of each electrode layer of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, respectively; and a protective layer that covers a surface of the battery element other than the extended portions of each electrode layer, the protective layer including a side portion on a central region of a side portion of the battery element extending in substantially the same direction as the stacking direction and in which a first thickness dimension of a first portion is larger than a second thickness dimension of a second portion other than the first portion. |
| US12283695B2 |
Negative electrode material for lithium ion secondary battery, method of manufacturing negative electrode material for lithium ion secondary battery, negative electrode material slurry for lithium ion secondary battery, negative electrode for lithium ion secondary battery, and lithium ion secondary battery
A negative electrode material for a lithium ion secondary battery, including composite particles, each of the composite particles including: a spherical graphite particle; and flat graphite particles that are gathered or bound together such that the flat graphite particles have non-parallel orientation planes, wherein the composite particles satisfy the following (1) and (2): (1) a pore volume in a range of a pore diameter of from 0.10 to 8.00 μm obtained by the mercury intrusion method is from 0.20 to 1.00 mL/g; and (2) in a log differential pore volume distribution obtained by the mercury intrusion method, at least two peaks appear in a range of a pore diameter of from 0.10 to 8.00 the two peaks including a first peak P1 and a second peak P2 at a higher diameter than the first peak P1. |
| US12283694B2 |
Protective sulfide coatings on silver electrodes for electrochemical devices
Disclosed herein is a porous substrate having silver and optionally silver oxide and a silver sulfide coating. Also disclosed herein is a battery having a cathode, an anode, and a separator between the cathode and the anode. The cathode includes a substrate having silver and optionally silver oxide and a silver sulfide coating. Also disclosed herein is a method of submerging a substrate having silver and optionally silver oxide in a solution of elemental sulfur in dimethyl sulfoxide to form silver sulfide on the surface of the substrate. |
| US12283692B2 |
Positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery
This positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries includes a lithium transition metal complex oxide that has a spinel structure and that is represented by general formula Li1+αNi0.5-xMn1.5-y-zGeyMx+zO4 (in the formula, 0≤α<0.2, 0≤x<0.2, 0 |
| US12283687B2 |
Method for fabricating wide and continuous double-sided lithium metal anodes
A method for fabricating wide and continuous double-sided lithium metal anodes includes thermally evaporating lithium to form first and second continuous lithium layers on respective first and second continuous polymer substrates, so as to form respective first and second continuous lithium/polymer sheets. The first and second continuous lithium/polymer sheets are laminated onto respective top and bottom surfaces of a continuous metallic substrate, which may be made of copper, with the first and second continuous lithium layers being disposed in direct contact with the respective top and bottom surfaces to form a continuous polymer/lithium/metal/lithium/polymer structure. The first and second continuous polymer substrates are then removed from the continuous polymer/lithium/metal/lithium/polymer structure to provide a continuous lithium/metal/lithium anode structure. Each of the first and second continuous lithium layers may be at least 200 millimeters wide, and may cover an entire respective width of the respective first and second continuous polymer substrates. |
| US12283685B2 |
Utilization of electric arc furnace flue dust emerging from steel industry (during the production of ferro alloys and steel from scraps) as electrode material in energy applications
Disclosed is the use of electric arc furnace flue dust and materials that are recovered from the flue dust of electric arc furnaces (EAF) used in the production of ferroalloys or steel from scrap metals, as electrode materials in electrochemical applications such as energy storage. |
| US12283684B2 |
Secondary battery electrode and method for producing the electrode
An electrode having both high energy density and ion diffusivity includes an electrode active material layer on either a positive-or negative-electrode current collector, in which the electrode active material layer has a concave/convex shape on its surface in a predetermined pattern at a constant pitch. In a cross-sectional SEM image of the electrode active material layer, linear cracks are unevenly distributed in a concave portion compared to in a convex portion. |
| US12283682B2 |
Thermal blocking sheet
A thermal blocking sheet for reducing the spread of fire or heat, the thermal blocking sheet comprising a first layer and a second layer of expandable graphite. If the thermal blocking sheet is exposed to heat exceeding a threshold temperature the expandable graphite is configured to expand. |
| US12283681B2 |
Battery temperature regulation device, vehicle, and method for producing a battery temperature regulation device
A battery temperature regulation device having a main body; and one or more additional bodies that are arranged on and/or are arrangeable on the main body. The main body and/or the one or more additional bodies that are arranged on and/or are arrangeable on the main body each comprise one or more receiving openings for receiving battery cells, wherein receiving openings of the main body are preferably arranged to be coaxial with respective receiving openings of the one or more additional bodies that are arranged on the main body, wherein each battery temperature regulation module comprises a sealing element arrangement for sealing in the area of the receiving openings and/or for sealing between the main body and one or more additional bodies, and wherein the sealing element arrangement comprises one or more sealing elements which are arranged on, in particular are moulded onto the main body and/or onto each additional body. |
| US12283674B2 |
Battery box
This application provides a battery box, which includes: a heat exchange plate and a lower frame body located on the heat exchange plate. The lower frame body includes edge beams and internal beams, the edge beams forming a circumferential closure opened in an up-down direction, the edge beams and the heat exchange plate together forming an accommodating space with an upward opening, and the internal beams located inside the accommodating space and divide the accommodating space into sub-accommodating spaces for placing battery modules. The heat exchange plate is configured to support the battery modules and exchanges heat with batteries of the battery modules, and a bottom plane of an internal beam is partly in contact with a top plane of the heat exchange plate in the up-down direction. |
| US12283670B2 |
Power storage control system and power storage control method
A power storage control system reduces the operating cost in a power storage system, and comprises a monitoring section and a charge/discharge control section. The monitoring section monitors a prescribed index value that correlates with the degradation degree of a storage battery for each storage battery included in a plurality of power storage systems. The charge/discharge control section controls the period in which the prescribed index value of each storage battery changes to a prescribed value by degradation accompanying charging and discharging of the storage battery, by performing control relating to at least one of the charge amount or the charge/discharge speed in charging and discharging of the storage battery based on the monitoring results of the monitoring section. |
| US12283669B2 |
Temperature measuring apparatus, battery apparatus including the same and temperature measuring method
A temperature measuring apparatus for measuring a temperature of a battery pack is provided. A first resistor is connected between a first power supply and a first node, and a second resistor is connected between a second node and a second power supply. A temperature-variable resistive element whose resistance is varied depending on a temperature is connected to between the first node and the second node. A processor measures the temperature of the battery pack based on at least one of a first temperature measured based on a voltage of the first node and a second temperature measured based on a voltage of the second node. |
| US12283662B2 |
All-solid-state battery comprising a pre-lithiated silicon negative electrode
Disclosed is a negative electrode for an all-solid-state battery and an all-solid-state battery including the negative electrode. More specifically, disclosed is a pre-lithiated silicon negative electrode, and an all-solid-state battery comprising the same. |
| US12283659B2 |
Solid-state battery
A solid-state battery that includes a solid-state battery layered body including a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte interposed between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, wherein at least one electrode layer of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer has a tapered shape toward an edge of the electrode layer in a sectional view thereof, and the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, and the solid electrolyte are an integrally sintered body. |
| US12283658B2 |
Electrochemical apparatus, preparation method thereof, and electronic apparatus
An electrochemical apparatus includes a positive electrode plate including a positive electrode active material layer; a negative electrode plate including a negative electrode active material layer; and a separator disposed between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate. A mass ratio of fluorine to sulfur in a surface layer of the positive electrode active material layer is A, and a mass ratio of fluorine to sulfur in a surface layer of the negative electrode active material layer is B, where 30≤A≤300, and 5≤B≤50. |
| US12283655B2 |
High-ionic conductivity ceramic-polymer nanocomposite solid state electrolyte
A ceramic-polymer film includes a polymer matrix; a plasticizer; a lithium salt; and AlxLi7-xLa3Zr1.75Ta0.25O12 where x ranges from 0.01 to 1 (LLZO), wherein the LLZO are nanoparticles with diameters that range from 20 to 2000 nm and wherein the film has an ionic conductivity of greater than 1×10−3 S/cm at room temperature. The nanocomposite film can be formed on a substrate and the concentration of LLZO nanoparticles decreases in the direction of the substrate to form a concentration gradient over the thickness of the film. The film can be employed as a non-flammable, solid-state electrolyte for lithium electrochemical cells and batteries. The LLZO serves as a barrier to dendrite growth. |
| US12283654B2 |
Cathodes and electrolytes for rechargeable magnesium batteries and methods of manufacture
The invention relates to Chevrel-phase materials and methods of preparing these materials utilizing a precursor approach. The Chevrel-phase materials are useful in assembling electrodes, e.g., cathodes, for use in electrochemical cells, such as rechargeable batteries. The Chevrel-phase materials have a general formula of Mo6Z8 (Z=sulfur) or Mo6Z18-yZ2y (Z1=sulfur; Z2=selenium), and partially cuprated Cu1Mo6S8 as well as partially de-cuprated Cu1-xMgxMo6S8 and the precursors have a general formula of MxMo6Z8 or MxMo6Z18-yZ2y, M=Cu. The cathode containing the Chevrel-phase material in accordance with the invention can be combined with a magnesium-containing anode and an electrolyte. |
| US12283653B2 |
Secondary battery and method for manufacturing the same
A secondary battery that includes a wound electrode assembly in which a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode are wound about a winding axis; and a current collecting tab at a first end of the wound electrode assembly along a direction of the winding axis, wherein the wound electrode assembly has a separator extension portion in which the separator extends more than the positive electrode and the negative electrode toward a second end of the wound electrode assembly along the direction of the winding axis, the second end being opposite the first end, and the separator has a bent shape that protrudes toward an outer peripheral side of the wound electrode assembly at least at a part of the separator extension portion in a sectional view passing through the winding axis. |
| US12283648B2 |
μ-led, μ-led device, display and method for the same
The invention relates to various aspects of a μ-LED or a μ-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The μ-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few μm. |
| US12283642B2 |
Solar cell and method for producing the same
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a solar cell and a method for producing the same. The solar cell includes: a substrate having a first textured surface, a plurality of sheet-shaped anti-reflection films, and a plurality of grid lines. A plurality of grid-line areas spaced from each other are formed on the first textured surface, and each grid-line area has a second textured surface. One or more sheet-shaped anti-reflection films of the plurality of sheet-shaped anti-reflection films are formed on a portion of the second textured surface of each grid-line area. Each grid line of the plurality of grid lines is formed on a respective grid-line area, and each grid line is in contact with the one or more sheet-shaped anti-reflection films and with a remaining portion of the second textured surface of the respective grid-line area not covered by any sheet-shaped anti-reflection films. |
| US12283636B2 |
Devices including channel materials and passivation materials
A microelectronic device comprises a conductive line and a transistor adjacent to the conductive line. The transistor comprises a channel material extending into the conductive line, the channel material contacting the conductive line in three dimensions, a dielectric material adjacent to the channel material, a conductive material adjacent to the dielectric material, and a passivation material adjacent to the channel material. The microelectronic device further comprises a conductive contact adjacent to the channel material, the conductive contact including a portion extending between opposing portions of the channel material. Related microelectronic devices, electronic devices, and related methods are also disclosed. |
| US12283631B2 |
Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a fin structure is formed. The fin structure includes a stacked layer of first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers disposed over a bottom fin structure, and a hard mask layer over the stacked layer. An isolation insulating layer is formed so that the hard mask layer and the stacked layer are exposed from the isolation insulating layer. A sacrificial cladding layer is formed over at least sidewalls of the exposed hard mask layer and stacked layer. A first dielectric layer is formed, and a second dielectric layer made of a different material than the first dielectric layer is formed over the first dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer is recessed, and a third dielectric layer made of a different material than the second dielectric layer is formed on the recessed second dielectric layer, thereby forming a wall fin structure. |
| US12283630B2 |
Epitaxial source/drain structures for multigate devices and methods of fabricating thereof
Epitaxial source/drain structures for enhancing performance of multigate devices, such as fin-like field-effect transistors (FETs) or gate-all-around (GAA) FETs, and methods of fabricating the epitaxial source/drain structures, are disclosed herein. An exemplary device includes a dielectric substrate. The device further includes a channel layer, a gate disposed over the channel layer, and an epitaxial source/drain structure disposed adjacent to the channel layer. The channel layer, the gate, and the epitaxial source/drain structure are disposed over the dielectric substrate. The epitaxial source/drain structure includes an inner portion having a first dopant concentration and an outer portion having a second dopant concentration that is less than the first dopant concentration. The inner portion physically contacts the dielectric substrate, and the outer portion is disposed between the inner portion and the channel layer. In some embodiments, the outer portion physically contacts the dielectric substrate. |
| US12283628B2 |
Semiconductor device, power conversion device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer including a super junction layer in which an n-type pillar layer and a p-type pillar layer are alternately disposed and a p-type withstand voltage holding structure formed on an upper layer part of the semiconductor layer to surround an active region. At least one withstand voltage holding structure overlaps with the super junction layer in a plan view. At least one withstand voltage holding structure overlapping with the super junction layer in a plan view has a gap which is an intermittent part of the withstand voltage holding structure. |
| US12283624B2 |
Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a first fin structure, a second fin structure, a first wall fin structure and a second wall fin structure are formed over a substrate. The first and second fin structures are disposed between the first and second wall fin structures, and lower portions of the first and second fin structures and the first and second wall fin structures are embedded in the isolation insulating layer and upper portions thereof are exposed from the isolation insulating layer. A sidewall spacer layer is formed on sidewalls of the first and second fin structures. Source/drain regions of the first and second fin structures are recessed. An epitaxial source/drain structure is formed over the recessed first and second fin structures. A width W1 of the first and second fin structures is smaller than a thickness W2 of the sidewall spacer layer. |
| US12283623B2 |
Semiconductor structure and method for manufacturing thereof
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a conductive region, a first insulation layer, a second insulation layer, a gate structure, a low-k spacer, a gate contact, and a conductive region contact. The low-k spacer is formed between a sidewall of the gate structure and the first insulation layer. The gate contact is landed on a top surface of the gate structure. A proximity distance between a sidewall of the gate contact and the conductive region contact along a top surface of the second insulation layer is in a range of from about 4 nm to about 7 nm. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure is also provided. |
| US12283622B2 |
Semiconductor device and method
A method for forming a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device formed by the method are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes depositing a dummy dielectric layer on a fin extending from a substrate; depositing a dummy gate seed layer on the dummy dielectric layer; reflowing the dummy gate seed layer; etching the dummy gate seed layer; and selectively depositing a dummy gate material over the dummy gate seed layer, the dummy gate material and the dummy gate seed layer constituting a dummy gate. |
| US12283609B2 |
Gate structure of transistor including a plurality of work function layers and oxygen device and method
A method of forming semiconductor devices having improved work function layers and semiconductor devices formed by the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes depositing a gate dielectric layer on a channel region over a semiconductor substrate; depositing a first p-type work function metal on the gate dielectric layer; performing an oxygen treatment on the first p-type work function metal; and after performing the oxygen treatment, depositing a second p-type work function metal on the first p-type work function metal. |
| US12283607B2 |
3D inductor design using bundle substrate vias
A three dimensional (3D) inductor is described. The 3D inductor includes a first plurality of micro-through substrate vias (TSVs) within a first area of a substrate. The 3D inductor also includes a first trace on a first surface of the substrate, coupled to a first end of the first plurality of micro-TSVs. The 3D inductor further includes a second trace on a second surface of the substrate, opposite the first surface, coupled to a second end, opposite the first end, of the first plurality of micro-TSVs. |
| US12283606B2 |
Light-emitting device
A light-emitting device comprises a substrate; a first light-emitting unit and a second light-emitting unit formed on the substrate, each of the first light-emitting unit and the second light-emitting unit comprises a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and an active layer between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, wherein the first light-emitting unit comprises a first semiconductor mesa and a first surrounding part surrounding the first semiconductor mesa, and the second light-emitting unit comprises a second semiconductor mesa and a second surrounding part surrounding the second semiconductor mesa; a trench formed between the first light-emitting unit and the second light-emitting unit and exposing the substrate; a first insulating layer comprising a first opening on the first surrounding part and a second opening on the second semiconductor layer of the second light-emitting unit; and a connecting electrode comprising a first connecting part on the first light-emitting unit and connected to the first semiconductor layer formed in the first opening, a second connecting part on the second light-emitting unit and connected to the second semiconductor layer of the second light-emitting unit, and a third connecting part formed in the trench to connect the first connecting part and the second connecting part. |
| US12283601B2 |
Method for manufacturing TFT substrate and TFT substrate thereof
The embodiments of the present application provide a method for manufacturing thin-film transistor (TFT) substrate and a TFT substrate thereof. A semi-finished substrate has a first region, a second region, and a third region. The semiconductor layer and the insulating layer of the semi-finished substrate are patterned under the shielding of the first etching barrier layer and the second etching barrier layer having different thickness, so that only the semiconductor layer in the second region is kept and causing the thickness of the insulating layer in the first region is greater than the thickness of the insulating layer in the third region. |
| US12283595B2 |
Integration of multiple transistors having fin and mesa structures
A structure includes a bulk semiconductor substrate, a first plurality of dielectric isolation regions over the bulk semiconductor substrate, a plurality of semiconductor fins protruding higher than the first plurality of dielectric isolation regions, a first gate stack on top surfaces and sidewalls of the plurality of semiconductor fins, a second plurality of dielectric isolation regions over the bulk semiconductor substrate, a mesa structure in the second plurality of dielectric isolation regions, and a second gate stack over the mesa structure. Top surfaces of the first gate stack and the second gate stack are coplanar with each other. |
| US12283594B2 |
Stacked device structures and methods for forming the same
A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) device includes a transistor of a first type formed over a first substrate, and a transistor of a second type formed over a second substrate. The CMOS device is formed when the transistor of the first type formed on the first substrate is bonded to the transistor of the second type formed over the second substrate. |
| US12283587B2 |
Integrated circuit and method of forming the same
An integrated circuit includes a first cell, a second cell, a buffer zone and a first power rail. The first cell includes a first set of fins extending in a first direction. Each fin of the first set of fins corresponds to a transistor of a first set of transistors. The second cell includes a second set of fins extending in the first direction. Each fin of the second set of fins corresponds to a transistor of a second set of transistors. The second set of fins is separated from the first set of fins in a second direction. The buffer zone is between the first cell and the second cell. The first power rail extends in the first direction, and overlaps at least the buffer zone. The first power rail is in a first metal layer, and is configured to supply a first voltage. |
| US12283586B2 |
Integrated circuit device, method and system
An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a circuit region, a lower metal layer over the circuit region, and an upper metal layer over the lower metal layer. The lower metal layer includes a plurality of lower conductive patterns elongated along a first axis. The upper metal layer includes a plurality of upper conductive patterns elongated along a second axis transverse to the first axis. The plurality of upper conductive patterns includes at least one input or output configured to electrically couple the circuit region to external circuitry outside the circuit region. The upper metal layer further includes a first lateral upper conductive pattern contiguous with and projecting, along the first axis, from a first upper conductive pattern among the plurality of upper conductive patterns. The first lateral upper conductive pattern is over and electrically coupled to a first lower conductive pattern among the plurality of lower conductive patterns. |
| US12283581B2 |
Display device
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a substrate, a light-emitting element mounted on the substrate, an anode terminal disposed on an bottom portion of the light-emitting element and a cathode terminal disposed on an emitting surface of the light emitting element, on an opposite side to the anode terminal, and the cathode terminal is formed of a metal material. |
| US12283573B2 |
Semiconductor power module
A semiconductor power module including an insulating substrate having one surface and another surface, an output side terminal arranged at a one surface side of the insulating substrate, a first power supply terminal arranged at the one surface side of the insulating substrate, a second power supply terminal to which a voltage of a magnitude different from a voltage applied to the first power supply terminal is to be applied, and arranged at an other surface side of the insulating substrate so as to face the first power supply terminal across the insulating substrate, a first switching device arranged at the one surface side of the insulating substrate and electrically connected to the output side terminal and the first power supply terminal, and a second switching device arranged at the one surface side of the insulating substrate and electrically connected to the output side terminal and the second power supply terminal. |
| US12283571B1 |
Ultra high-bandwidth artificial intelligence (AI) processor with DRAM under the processor
Described is a packaging technology to improve performance of an AI processing system. An IC package is provided which comprises: a substrate; a first die on the substrate, and a second die stacked over the first die. The first die includes memory and the second die includes computational logic. The first die comprises DRAM having bit-cells. The memory of the first die may store input data and weight factors. The computational logic of the second die is coupled to the memory of the first die. In one example, the second die is an inference die that applies fixed weights for a trained model to an input data to generate an output. In one example, the second die is a training die that enables learning of the weights. Ultra high-bandwidth is changed by placing the first die below the second die. The two dies are wafer-to-wafer bonded or coupled via micro-bumps. |
| US12283569B2 |
Semiconductor device package and a method of manufacturing the same
At least some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a semiconductor device package. The semiconductor device package includes a first substrate with a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a second substrate adjacent to the first surface of the first substrate, and an encapsulant encapsulating the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate defines a space. The second substrate covers the space. The second surface of the first substrate is exposed by the encapsulant. A surface of the encapsulant is coplanar with the second surface of the first substrate or protrudes beyond the second surface of the first substrate. |
| US12283565B2 |
Adhesive for semiconductor, production method therefor, and semiconductor device and production method therefor
An adhesive for semiconductors, the adhesive containing a thermoplastic resin, a thermosetting resin, a curing agent having a reactive group, and a flux compound having an acid group. The adhesive has a calorific value of 20 J/g or less at 60° C. to 155° C. on a DSC curve, which is obtained by differential scanning calorimetry involving heating the adhesive at a rate of temperature increase of 10° C./min. |
| US12283557B2 |
Integrated circuit structure
An integrated circuit structure includes an aluminum pad layer on a dielectric stack, a passivation layer covering the aluminum pad layer, and an aluminum shield layer including aluminum routing patterns disposed directly above an embedded memory area and embedded in the dielectric stack. The aluminum shield layer is electrically connected to the uppermost copper layer through a plurality of tungsten vias. The plurality of tungsten vias is embedded in the dielectric stack. |
| US12283556B2 |
Package structure
A package structure is provided. The package structure includes a die, an encapsulant and a RDL structure. The RDL structure is disposed on the die and the encapsulant. The RDL structure includes a first dielectric structure and a first redistribution layer. The first dielectric structure includes a first dielectric material layer and a second dielectric material layer on the first dielectric material layer. The first redistribution layer is embedded in the first dielectric structure and electrically connected to the die. The redistribution layer includes a first seed layer and a first conductive layer surrounded by the first seed layer. A topmost surface of the first seed layer and a topmost surface of the first conductive layer are substantially level with a top surface of the second dielectric material layer. |
| US12283555B2 |
Semiconductor packages
A package is disclosed. The package includes a carrier that comprises a first conductive layer on a first side and a second conductive layer on a second side opposite the first side. The first conductive layer comprises wire bonding pads. The package also includes a semiconductor die that is flip chip mounted on the first side of the carrier. |
| US12283554B2 |
Integrated circuit layout, integrated circuit, and method for fabricating the same
An integrated circuit layout is provided. The integrated circuit layout includes: a first active region having a first plurality of field effect transistors (FETs); and an interconnect contacting sources and drains of the first plurality of FETs in the first active region through a first set of contact structures. At least one of the first set of contact structures is electrically non-conductive. |
| US12283547B2 |
Contact structures for three-dimensional memory devices and methods for forming the same
The present disclosure describes a three-dimensional (3D) memory device includes first and second memory arrays disposed on a semiconductor layer. The 3D memory device can also include a staircase structure disposed between the first and second memory arrays. The staircase structure includes first and second staircase regions. The first staircase region includes a first staircase structure that contains a first plurality of stairs descending in a first direction. The second staircase region includes a second staircase structure that contains a second plurality of stairs descending in a second direction. The 3D memory device can also include a contact region disposed between the first and second staircase regions. The contact region includes a plurality of contacts the extending through an insulating layer and into the semiconductor layer. |
| US12283544B2 |
Semiconductor storage device
A semiconductor storage device includes a first stacked region, a second stacked region, and a connection region arranged between the first and second stacked regions. In the connection region, one of a plurality of conductor layers in an upper stepped portion is connected to one of the plurality of conductor layers in the first stacked region via one of the plurality of conductor layers in a bridge portion. |
| US12283535B2 |
IC die and heat spreaders with solderable thermal interface structures for multi-chip assemblies including solder array thermal interconnects
Thermal heat spreaders and/or an IC die with solderable thermal structures may be assembled together with a solder array thermal interconnects. A thermal heat spreader may include a non-metallic material and one or more metallized surfaces suitable for bonding to a solder alloy employed as thermal interface material between the heat spreader and an IC die. An IC die may include a metallized back-side surface similarly suitable for bonding to a thermal interconnect comprising a solder alloy. Metallization on the IC die and/or heat spreader may comprise a plurality of solderable structures. A multi-chip package may include multiple IC die having different die thickness that are accommodated by a z-height thickness variation in the thermal interconnects and/or the solderable structures of the IC die or heat spreader. |
| US12283533B2 |
Test circuit of semiconductor apparatus and test system including the same
A test circuit of a semiconductor apparatus includes a first resistor, a second resistor and a feed-back loop circuit. The first resistor is coupled between a pad and a test element. The second resistor is coupled to the first resistor in a parallel manner. The feed-back loop circuit is configured to feed a result back to the second resistor, the result being one of comparing a first voltage and a second voltage with each other, the first voltage and the second voltage being applied respectively to the first resistor and the second resistor. |
| US12283532B2 |
Semiconductor structure and method of manufacture
Test pad structures and methods of forming a test pad are described herein. A method for forming a test pad includes forming a device element over a substrate, depositing a dielectric layer over the device element and the substrate, and etching openings in the dielectric layer to a first depth. Once the openings have been formed, a conductive material is deposited in the openings and followed by a chemical mechanical planarization to form a first grid feature and a panel region of the test pad, the first grid feature extending lengthwise from the panel region to a perimeter of the test pad. Once formed, a probe may be used to contact the panel region of the test pad during a wafer acceptance test (WAT) and/or a process control monitoring (PCM) test of the device element. |
| US12283530B2 |
Method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure for detecting vertical electrical leakage
A method of manufacturing semiconductor testing structure includes providing a substrate; forming a first metal layer on the substrate, wherein the first metal layer comprises a plurality of fingers extending along a first direction; forming a dielectric structure on the first metal layer; and forming a plurality of second metal layers on the dielectric structure. |
| US12283529B2 |
Method of repairing through-electrodes, repair device performing the same and semiconductor device including the same
In a method of repairing through-electrodes, a plurality of through-electrodes are grouped into a plurality of through-electrode groups. A plurality of redundant through-electrodes are grouped into a plurality of redundant through-electrode groups. Repair paths for the plurality of through-electrodes are searched. When searching the repair paths, in response to a Y-th through-electrode included in an X-th through-electrode group being a defective through-electrode or in response to receiving a first signal from an (X−1)-th through-electrode group, it is determined whether a y-th redundant through-electrode included in an x-th redundant through-electrode group is available for performing signal transmission thereto. In response to the y-th redundant through-electrode being available for performing signal transmission thereto, a second signal input to the Y-th through-electrode is transmitted to the y-th redundant through-electrode. In response to the y-th redundant through-electrode being unavailable for performing signal transmission thereto, the second signal input to the Y-th through-electrode is transmitted to an (X+1)-th through-electrode group. |
| US12283518B2 |
Method for fabricating semiconductor device with contact structure
The present disclosure provides a method for fabricating a semiconductor device including providing a photomask including an opaque layer on a mask substrate and surrounding a translucent layer on the mask substrate, wherein the translucent layer includes a mask opening of contact portion which exposes a portion of the mask substrate; providing a stack structure including an etch stop layer on a bottom conductive layer and a first inter-dielectric layer on the etch stop layer, and forming a pre-process mask layer on the stack structure; patterning the pre-process mask layer using the photomask to form a patterned mask layer including a mask region corresponding to the opaque layer, a region of body portion corresponding to the translucent layer, and a hole of contact portion corresponding to the mask opening of contact portion. |
| US12283510B2 |
Substrate treating apparatus and substrate treating method using the same
The present disclosure provides a substrate treating apparatus having improved efficiency and productivity. The substrate treating apparatus of the present disclosure comprises a process chamber having a treating space therein, a transfer robot comprising a robot hand for loading and unloading a substrate into and out of the treating space and gripping the substrate, and a teaching buffer for aligning the robot hand, wherein the teaching buffer comprises a teaching plate for providing a reference point, and at least one camera looking at the teaching plate, wherein the camera captures the reference point of the teaching plate, wherein the transfer robot aligns the robot hand with the reference point using the camera. |
| US12283509B2 |
Load port adapter
A load port adapter is a load port adapter fixable on a mounting table of a load port. The load port adapter includes a holder capable of holding a cassette capable of accommodating a plurality of circuit boards. The holder is fixable on the mounting table of the load port. The holder includes a position adjustment mechanism configured to position the cassette at a reference position. In the cassette clamped on the load port adapter, the reference position is a reference position on a load port adapter side when the circuit board is taken out from the cassette. |
| US12283507B2 |
Substrate transport vacuum platform
A transport apparatus including a robot drive; an arm having a first end connected to the robot drive; and at least one end effector connected to a second end of the arm. The arm includes at least three links connected in series to form the arm. The arm is configured to be moved by the robot drive to move the at least one end effector among load locks and two or more sets of opposing process modules. |
| US12283505B2 |
Substrate retaining assembly and door device
A door device includes a door body and a substrate retaining assembly. The substrate retaining assembly is disposed on a side of the door body. The substrate retaining assembly includes a retaining body and a plurality of retaining members. The retaining members are disposed on the retaining body and arranged at intervals. Each of the retaining members includes two elastic arms and a clamping structure. The clamping structure includes a clamping body, a clamping groove, and at least one relief portion. The clamping body is connected between the two elastic arms. The clamping groove is located on the clamping body and is communicated with adjacent ends of the elastic arms. The relief portion and the clamping groove are communicated to each other. |
| US12283502B2 |
Substrate transfer device and substrate transfer method
A substrate transfer device includes a transfer unit configured to transfer, in a first direction, a carrier in which substrates are stored, an upper interface unit configured to move the transfer unit, a lower interface unit configured to receive the carrier from the transfer unit, and a controller configured to control the upper interface unit and the lower interface unit integrally such that the transfer unit and the carrier move in the first direction at the same time. |
| US12283501B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus, method of manufacturing semiconductor device, method of processing substrate, and recording medium
An object transfer device includes: a motor; a motor drive circuit; an encoder that detects a motor output shaft rotation angle; a drive system that transmits motion of the output shaft to an object; an origin sensor that detects arrival of a predetermined site of the drive system interlocked with the object at a predetermined position; a drive circuit-including servo amplifier that records a current position of the object based on detection by the encoder and the origin sensor, and controls the object to a target position; an absolute position holder that acquires an absolute position of the predetermined site based on detection by the encoder at least while the drive circuit is off; and a power saving controller that is bidirectionally communicable with the servo amplifier and can resume servo control with the absolute position as a current position of the predetermined site when the drive circuit is on. |
| US12283500B2 |
Methods and systems for temperature control for a substrate
A direct current (DC) power is supplied to a heating element embedded into a substrate support assembly (SSA). A voltage across the heating element and a current through the heating element is measured as the DC power is supplied to the heating element. A resistance of the heating element is determined based on the measured voltage and current. A temperature measurement for the heating element and/or a zone including the heating element is obtained based on signal(s) of a temperature sensor. A temperature model is updated based on the determined resistance and the obtained temperature measurement. The heating element embedded in the SSA and/or an additional heating element embedded in the SSA or in another SSA is controlled based on the updated temperature model during a substrate process. |
| US12283497B2 |
Semiconductor deposition monitoring device
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor deposition monitoring device comprising a supporting table, a chamber, a lamp, an optical sensor, a conduit, a plurality of sensors in the conduit, and a heat exchanger. The supporting table supports a deposition target wafer on which a deposition material is deposited. The chamber comprises an upper dome and a lower dome. The lamp emits light to the chamber. The optical sensor receives the irradiated light and measures the deposition material formed in the chamber. The conduit has an inlet conduit through which air is injected into the chamber and an outlet conduit through which the air is discharged from the chamber. The plurality of sensors sense information of the air. The sensed information may be used to control the heat exchanger. |
| US12283496B2 |
Multi-zone heater
A multi-zone heater capable of heating a wafer mounted on a disc-shaped ceramic substrate includes: a plurality of lift pin holes which are provided in the substrate; an inner zone heater embedded in an inner zone of the ceramic substrate; an outer zone heater embedded in an outer zone outside the inner zone; first and second feed terminals to which opposite ends of the inner zone heater are connected; first and second leads to which opposite ends of the outer zone heater are connected; and third and fourth feed terminals to which the first and second leads are respectively connected, the plurality of lift pin holes, the inner zone heater, and the outer zone heater are arranged to be symmetric with respect to a common axis of symmetry, and the first and second leads are arranged along the axis of symmetry to be symmetric to each other. |
| US12283483B2 |
Sag nanowire growth with a planarization process
The present disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a nanowire structure. According to an exemplary process, a substrate is firstly provided. An intact buffer region is formed over the substrate, and a sacrificial top portion of the intact buffer region is eliminated to provide a buffer layer with a planarized top surface. Herein, the planarized top surface has a vertical roughness below 10 Å. Next, a patterned mask with an opening is formed over the buffer layer, such that a portion of the planarized top surface of the buffer layer is exposed. A nanowire is formed over the exposed portion of the planarized top surface of the buffer layer through the opening of the patterned mask. The buffer layer is configured to have a lattice constant that provides a transition between the lattice constant of the substrate and the lattice constant of the nanowire. |
| US12283482B2 |
Thin wafer process for improved crystal utilization of wide bandgap devices
A method of fabricating a wide bandgap device includes providing a thin native substrate. An epitaxial layer is grown on a surface of the native substrate. After growing the epitaxial layer, a handle substrate is attached to the opposite surface of the native substrate by way of an interface layer. With the handle substrate providing mechanical support, wide bandgap devices are fabricated in the epitaxial layer using a low-temperature fabrication process. The handle substrate is detached from the native substrate after fabrication of the wide bandgap devices. |
| US12283479B2 |
Substrate processing method
Provided is a substrate processing method capable of filling a film in a gap structure without forming voids or seams in a gap, the substrate processing method including: a first step of forming a thin film on a structure including a gap by performing a first cycle including supplying a first reaction gas and supplying a second reaction gas to the structure a plurality of times; a second step of etching a portion of the thin film by supplying a fluorine-containing gas onto the thin film; a third step of supplying a hydrogen-containing gas onto the thin film; a fourth step of supplying an inhibiting gas to an upper portion of the gap; and a fifth step of forming a thin film by performing a second cycle including supplying the first reaction gas and supplying a second reaction gas onto the thin film a plurality of times. |
| US12283474B2 |
Dynamically concentrating ion packets in the extraction region of a TOF mass analyzer in targeted acquisition
Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamically switching an ion guide and a TOF mass analyzer between concentrating or not concentrating ions in a targeted acquisition. Product ions are ejected from the ion guide into the TOF mass analyzer and the intensity of a known product ion is measured at two or more time steps. The ion guide initially ejects product ions using a sequential or Zeno pulsing mode that concentrates product ions with different m/z values within the TOF mass analyzer at the same time. If the intensity of the product ion is increasing and greater than a threshold intensity, the ion guide switches to a continuous or normal pulsing mode that does not concentrate ions with different m/z values in the TOF mass analyzer at the same time. Similarly, if the intensity decreases below a threshold in continuous mode, the ion guide switches back to sequential mode. |
| US12283473B1 |
Non-radioactive plasma ion source device
Described is a non-radioactive homogenous plasma ion source that is power efficient. The non-radioactive plasma ion source comprises an ion source, an ion source housing for retaining the ion source, a gas inlet chamber having a gas conduit connectable to a gas source, at least one planar electrode for forming an electric field, a mounting head for mounting the non-radioactive plasma ion source device to an external device, and a passageway extending across a longitudinal axis of the non-radioactive plasma ion source device for allowing gas to flow therethrough. The gas inlet chamber has an improved design in that the gas inlet chamber comprises one or more openings in a body of the gas inlet chamber, the one or more openings being spaced such that the gas from the gas source is injected uniformly into the passageway. |
| US12283472B2 |
Identification of chemical structures
A method for analysing mass spectral data of a substance comprises identifying a plurality of candidate chemical structure sets for the substance, each set being identified using one or more respective properties of the mass spectral data. The method comprises determining a level of similarity between candidate chemical structures from different candidate chemical structure sets, so as to determine a likelihood that one of the candidate chemical structures represents the substance. |
| US12283470B2 |
Multifocal magnetron design for physical vapor deposition processing on a single cathode
An apparatus has a keeper plate with a keeper plate outer perimeter. An annular magnet array with an annular magnet array outer perimeter is coincident with the keeper plater outer perimeter. An inner top magnet is positioned on a centerline of a first side of the keeper plate and an inner bottom magnet is positioned on the centerline of a second side of the keeper plate. The inner top magnet is of a first magnetic orientation and the annular magnet array and the inner bottom magnet have a second magnetic orientation opposite the first magnetic orientation to form a magnetic field environment that provides plasma confinement of ionizing electrons which causes a gas operative as a reactive gas and sputter gas to become ionized and subsequently be directed to a target cathode while simultaneously causing the ionization of sputtered species which are dispersed across a substrate. |
| US12283468B2 |
Methods and systems for increasing energy output in Z-pinch plasma confinement system
Methods and systems are provided for increasing energy output from Z-pinch and other plasma confinement systems. In one example, a system may include memory storing instructions that, if executed by one or more processors, cause the system to adjust one or more parameters to generate a magnetic field which is sufficiently strong to axially compress a fuel gas to induce thermonuclear fusion and increase a fusion energy gain factor greater than a fusion energy gain factor limit attainable by the thermonuclear fusion. In certain examples, adjusting the one or more parameters may include adjusting a duty cycle of a discharge current applied to the fuel gas based, at least in part, on an amount of thermal collisions between fusion byproducts and the fuel gas. In certain examples, by adjusting the duty cycle, the magnetic field may be adjusted to induce or increase the thermal collisions. |
| US12283465B2 |
Plasma processing apparatus and plasma processing method
This plasma processing apparatus for performing plasma processing on an end part of a substrate includes a processing container, a substrate supporting member configured to support a portion of the substrate and to which a high frequency power is applied, at least a side of the substrate supporting member being composed of a dielectric, an opposing dielectric member composed of a dielectric and disposed to oppose the substrate supporting member, and a gas supply configured to supply a processing gas for generating plasma on at least the end part of the substrate. The plasma processing apparatus further includes a side ground electrode provided at a side of the substrate so as to be close to the substrate to such an extent that an electrical coupling is formed between an end surface of the substrate and the side ground electrode, the side ground electrode having a ground potential. |
| US12283464B2 |
Plasma reaction device
Provided is a plasma reaction device which can reduce a heating value through installation of a dual-coil type inductor in a resonant network circuit part, and a cooling method thereof. The plasma reaction device may include: a reactor part for exciting an input gas to be in a plasma state by using transformer coupled plasma; a resonant network circuit part electrically connected to the reactor part and including at least one inductor and at least one condenser; and a power supply part for applying power to the resonant network circuit part, wherein the inductor may comprise: a first coil which is formed between a first terminal and a second terminal and at least a portion of which is spirally wound to form a first cylindrical reception space inward; and a second coil which is formed between the first terminal and the second terminal to be connected to the first coil in series, and spirally wound in the first cylindrical reception space. |
| US12283463B2 |
Systems and methods for multi-level pulsing in RF plasma tools
Systems and methods for multi-level pulsing are described. The systems and methods include generating four or more states. During each of the four or more states, a radio frequency (RF) generator generates an RF signal. The RF signal has four or more power levels, and each of the four or more power levels corresponds to the four or more states. The multi-level pulsing facilitates a finer control in processing a substrate. |
| US12283452B2 |
Charged particle beam apparatus
Provided is a charged particle beam apparatus capable of realizing a highly reliable insulating structure. This charged particle beam apparatus emits a charged particle beam from a charged particle beam emission device onto a sample, detects charged particles generated from the sample, and creates a sample image or processes the sample. The charged particle beam emission device is provided with a charged particle source and a shield arranged in an interior of a metal housing that is filled with an insulating gas, and an acceleration electrode arranged below the charged particle source, power being supplied to the acceleration electrode via the shield. |
| US12283451B2 |
Systems and methods for filtering radio frequencies from a signal of a thermocouple and controlling a temperature of an electrode in a plasma chamber
A method includes: receiving a first signal from a first sensor at a first filter and preventing passage of a first portion of the first signal via the first filter. The first portion of the first signal is at a first RF. A second portion of the first signal is indicative of a first temperature of a first electrode in a plasma chamber. The method further includes: outputting a second signal from the first filter; receiving the second signal at a second filter; and preventing passage of a portion of the second signal via the second filter. The portion of the second signal is at a second RF. The second RF is less than the first RF. The first filter and the second filter are implemented on a printed circuit board. The method further includes adjusting a temperature of the first electrode based on an output of the second filter. |
| US12283449B1 |
High voltage vacuum tubes
The present disclosure relates to a high voltage vacuum tube including: a vacuum tube envelope comprising an interior; an anode assembly disposed within the interior of the vacuum tube envelope; and a cathode assembly disposed within interior of the vacuum tube envelope that emits an electrode beam to strike a target surface of the anode assembly and form electromagnetic radiation. The high voltage vacuum tube includes a braze assembly, said braze assembly comprising a first component and a second component joined together by a first braze joint, said first braze joint comprising a composition including no more than 18.0 wt % in total of one of more precious metals selected from Au, Pd and Pt, where at least a portion of the braze joint is exposed to the interior of the vacuum tube envelope. |
| US12283440B2 |
Keyboard switch with removeable supporting member
The present invention relates to a keyboard switch including a base, a supporting member, a spring, a button and an upper cover. The supporting member includes a first plate connected to the base to seal the opening, a tube extending substantially perpendicularly from a surface of the first plate, and a plurality of blocks extending substantially perpendicularly from the first plate and configured around the tube. There is a gap between the tube and the plurality of blocks. The base and the supporting member may be made of different materials and colors from the base, so that the supporting member may have a good light-shielding performance and durability; and the base may be made of a collocation of different materials and colors, and has a wide design space. |
| US12283439B2 |
Illuminated keyswitch structure
An illuminated keyswitch structure includes a base plate, a keycap, and a light-emitting die package. The light-emitting die package is disposed to illuminate the keycap through the base plate. The light-emitting die package comprises a warm color temperature light-emitting die and a cold color temperature light-emitting die, and the light-emitting die package extends along an arrangement direction. Each of the two light-emitting dies has a short side arranged adjacent to each other, with a long side of each of the two light-emitting dies facing a same direction and configured proximate to each other. A gap between the two adjacent short sides of the two light-emitting dies is not greater than either one of the two adjacent short sides of the two light-emitting dies. |
| US12283436B2 |
Power storage device, and method for manufacturing power storage device
A disclosed power storage device includes a power storage element, a case with a bottomed cylindrical shape having an opening at one end and housing the power storage element, and a sealing member for sealing the opening. The case has, in a vicinity of the opening, a first pressing portion pressing a side surface of the sealing member and protruding inward of the case, and a gas vent portion disposed nearer to the one end of the case than an apex which is the most protruded point of the first pressing portion. This can provide a power storage device including an explosion-proof mechanism that has high operational reliability and does not impair airtightness. |
| US12283434B2 |
Solid electrolytic capacitor element and solid electrolytic capacitor
A solid electrolytic capacitor element includes an anode body, a dielectric layer formed at the surface of the anode body, and a cathode portion that covers at least a part of the dielectric layer. The cathode portion includes a solid electrolyte layer that covers at least a part of the dielectric layer. The solid electrolyte included in the solid electrolyte layer has a weight reduction ratio of 3% or less when measured through thermogravimetric analysis in which the solid electrolyte is heated to 180° C., is kept at 180° C. for 20 minutes, is cooled from 180° C. to 30° C., and is then heated from 30° C. to 260° C. at a rate of 20° C./min. |
| US12283428B2 |
Ceramic electronic device and manufacturing method of the same
A ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer chip in which internal electrode layers are alternately stacked with dielectric layers, respectively, and are exposed alternately at a first surface and a second surface of the multilayer chip, wherein, in a capacity section in which the internal electrode layers exposed at the first and second surface overlap each other as viewed in the stacking direction, the dielectric layers are at least three dielectric layers, each dielectric layer including Sn, wherein a dielectric layer having a smaller Sn concentration is closer to an outermost end in the stacking direction than is a dielectric layer having a larger Sn concentration which is located at a center area in the stacking direction, in a relationship of at least two of the at least three dielectric layers in the capacity section. |
| US12283421B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for producing ultra-strong magnetic fields, and propulsion systems and methods utilizing planetary magnetic fields
Some examples herein provide a method for generating a magnetic field. The method may include accumulating positive charges at a first electrode; accumulating negative charges at a second electrode; and rotating the first electrode relative to the second electrode so as to induce a relative angular velocity between the positive charges and the negative charges and thus generate a magnetic field. In some examples, the magnetic field may be used for propulsion. |
| US12283417B2 |
Permanent magnetic assemblies and methods of assembling same
A magnetic assembly includes a plurality of magnets arranged in a Halbach array. The plurality of magnets includes a first magnet and a second magnet positioned adjacent the first magnet, the first magnet having a first surface and the second magnet having a second surface adjacent the first surface. A first cavity is defined in the first surface and a second cavity is defined in the second surface. The magnetic assembly also includes a ferromagnetic pin positioned within the first cavity and the second cavity. The ferromagnetic pin has a size, a shape, and a magnetic permeability that facilitate a magnetic force between the first surface and the second surface inducing a magnetic flux path through the ferromagnetic pin. |
| US12283413B2 |
Coil structure, lead frame, and inductor
A coil structure includes layered metal plates, wherein each of the metal plates includes a lead wire portion having a partial-loop shape, end portion thick plate portions formed at both ends of the lead wire portion and thicker than the lead wire portion, and an inside thick plate portion formed with a thickness the same as the end portion thick plate portions, the inside thick plate portion being arranged inside a partial loop formed by the lead wire portion and being away from the lead wire portion, and wherein adjacent metal plates are bonded to each other at one of the end portion thick plate portions, the lead wire portions of the respective metal plates are connected in series to form a coil having a partial-loop shape, and the inside thick plate portions of the adjacent metal plates are bonded to each other to form a magnetic core. |
| US12283412B2 |
Manufacturing method of magnetic element
The present disclosure provides a manufacturing method of a magnetic element, comprising: forming an insulation layer on an outer side of at least one section of a magnetic column of a magnetic core; forming a metal wiring layer on an outer side of the insulation layer through a metallization process; and dividing at least part of the metal wiring layer into a multi-turn metal winding through a mechanically dividing process. |
| US12283408B2 |
Thick film resistor paste, thick film resistor, and electronic component
To provide a thick film resistor paste for a resistor having a smaller resistance change rate and excellent surge resistance, a thick film resistor using the thick film resistor paste, and an electronic component provided with the thick film resistor. A thick film resistor paste comprises a lead-ruthenate-containing glass powder and an organic vehicle, the lead-ruthenate-containing glass powder comprises 10 to 70 mass % of lead ruthenate, a glass composition of the lead-ruthenate-containing glass powder comprises 3 to 30 mass % of silicon oxide, 30 to 90 mass % of lead oxide. 5 to 50 mass % of boron oxide relative to 100 mass % of glass components, and, a combined amount of silicon oxide, lead oxide and boron oxide by mass % is 50 mass % or more relative to 100 mass % of the glass components. |
| US12283407B2 |
High-voltage power cable
Provided is a high-voltage power cable. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to a high-voltage power cable that exhibits excellent dielectric strength, such as dielectric breakdown voltage and impulse breakdown strength, and that is capable of implementing and maintaining dielectric characteristics even when a temperature of a cable insulator rises due to the transmission of power or when negative impulse or polarity reversal occurs. |
| US12283405B2 |
Luminescent wire
Disclosed is a luminescent wire. The luminescent wire includes a silicone sleeve, a luminescent light bar and a flat cable, the silicone sleeve is internally provided with wire holes, the wire holes penetrate through the silicone sleeve along a longitudinal direction, each of the wire holes is used for one group of the flat cables to pass through, an end portion of the flat cable is connected to a plug or a socket, the flat cables inside each of the silicone sleeves may be used alone, or the plurality of the silicone sleeves may be selected to be used side by side, as to form different specifications of the luminescent wires. An accommodating hole is arranged above the wire holes, used to accommodate the luminescent light bar, the silicone sleeve is provided with a light transmitting area. The luminescent wire may also be conveniently viewed and used in darker environments. |
| US12283401B2 |
Magnet wire with thermoplastic insulation
Magnet wire including extruded insulation formed from a blend of different polymeric materials is described. A magnet wire may include a conductor and insulation formed around the conductor. The insulation may include at least one layer of extruded insulation formed from a blend of at least three different polymeric materials. A first polymeric material, such as polyetheretherketone, may have a thermal index above 250° C. Second and third polymeric materials, such as polyphenylsulfone and polyethersulfone, may have lower thermal indexes. |
| US12283398B2 |
Method and apparatus for manufacturing insulating sheet
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing an insulating sheet, comprising: forming at least a groove on a flat sheet; a first cutting step for cutting a side surface of the groove by irradiating a laser beam to a side surface of the sheet; a second cutting step for cutting the insulating sheet to completely separate the groove from the insulating sheet by irradiating a laser beam from above the groove having the side surface cut; a tape attaching step for attaching a tape to an outer surface of the insulating sheet; and a bending step for bending one end portion of the surface of the insulating sheet having the tape attached toward a place where the tape is attached. It is possible to mass-produce the insulating sheets having a three-dimensional shape, regarded as being difficult to manufacture with a mold. |
| US12283396B2 |
Low profile watertight connector and method of using the same
A connector adapted to secure an electrical power line entering an electrical meter box comprises (a) a cylindrical member adapted to be at least partially inserted into the meter box through an access hole, (b) a flange affixed to or integral with a first end of the cylindrical member and (c) a cylindrical grommet selectively insertable at least partially into a second end of the cylindrical member and securable therein. The flange remains outside of the meter box and abuts an outer surface of the wall of the meter box or abuts a gasket sandwiched between the flange and the outer surface of the wall of the meter box. The cylindrical member, the flange, and the grommet all have aligned through-holes through which the power line passes as the power line enters the meter box. |
| US12283395B2 |
Device for separating the core and the sheath of a cable and method for separating the core and the sheath of a cable
A device for separating a core and sheath of cable includes an apparatus delivering the cable along cable feed axis parallel to longitudinal axis of cable. Two knives cut sheath to two portions mechanically dissociated from one another. Each knife cuts sheath over its whole thickness in radial cutting zone with respect to central axis of the cable. Two blockers extend the knives in the direction of the feed axis of the cable and keep the core in position along the feed axis of the cable. At least one ramp extends from each knife in a second direction perpendicular to the radial cutting zone and to the feed axis of the cable. The ramp has an outer surface extending away from the cable feed axis in the first direction when movement takes place in the feed direction of the cable to separate the core and the portions of the sheath. |
| US12283391B1 |
Ground conductor with steel core, copper sheath, and width to thickness ratio of at least 11:1
Ground conductors are disclosed. The ground conductors can include a core made primarily of a first material, such as steel. The ground conductor can include a surrounding sheath, which includes at least one layer made primarily of a second material, such as copper. The ground conductor has a ratio between its width and its thickness of no less than 11.1:1. |
| US12283389B2 |
Methods and systems for the concurrent generation of multiple substantially similar X-ray beams
An adjustable collimator device for collimating a beam of energy emitted from a radiation source is disclosed. The collimator has an elongated plate-like body with a front-end and a rear-end. The collimator has a first set of emission apertures equally spaced around a central axis of the body that defines a zero-degree position. The first set of emission apertures are placed on the rear-end of the body and are configured to receive and sample a beam of energy entering the adjustable collimator device. A second set of apertures are placed proximate the front-end of the body. The second set of apertures are adjustable such that a first of the second set of apertures can be configured to have a first angular offset relative to the zero-axis and a second of the second set of apertures can be configured to have a second angular offset relative to the zero-axis. |
| US12283388B2 |
Method to separate isotopes created by photonuclear reactions
The widespread utilization and growing demand for radiopharmaceuticals are attributable to the development and availability of a range of radiopharmaceuticals. The present disclosure describes methods of making 3-dimensional nano-porous, micro-porous, meso-porous, or macro-porous materials. The present disclosure also describes methods of irradiating and separating isotopes using the 3-dimensional nano-porous, micro-porous, meso-porous, or macro-porous materials. |
| US12283385B1 |
Advanced composites and coatings for radiation environment shielding
Radiation shielding performs a range of functions determined by the type and number of layers of materials used, thickness, weight, and structural support afforded by the radiation shielding. A radiation shield laminate stack may be constructed consisting of a plurality of layers of ultra-high molecular weight (UHMW) polyethylene, polyethylene film, and carbon fiber, which is held together with an epoxy. The carbon fiber lay may be coated with nanoparticles of Boron (B) or Boron Nitride (BN), Boron Oxide (B2O3) or Boron Carbide (B4C) or a combination thereof to increase the shielding properties of the laminate stack. The radiation shield is lighter than aluminum, structurally sound, and thus may be used in the space environment to effectively block Galactic Cosmic Rays, atomic oxygen and UV radiation. |
| US12283384B2 |
Nuclear power plant
According to an embodiment, a nuclear plant has: an outer well; an in-Containment Atmosphere Dilution System to inject a gas that has a low concentration of oxygen in the outer well into a containment vessel; an accumulator containing pressurized oxygen therein; and a passive containment cooling system including: a scrubbing pool arranged in the outer well; a cooling water pool installed above a dry well and the outer well; a heat exchanger partly submerged in a cooling water; a wet well gas supply pipe that is connected to an inlet plenum of the heat exchanger at one end and connected to a wet well gas phase at the other end; and a gas vent pipe that is connected to an outlet plenum of the heat exchanger at one end and is submerged in the scrubbing pool at the other end. |
| US12283381B2 |
Systems and methods for continuous glucose monitoring outcome predictions
Methods and devices include predicting future glucose and engagement levels for a user by receiving the user's glucose levels collected by a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) device over a time period, receiving engagement data associated with the user, wherein the engagement data are associated with the user's medication intake, diet, physical activity, laboratory results, and education activity, determining a first glycemia risk index (GRI) value, determining, using a machine learning model and responsive to the user's glucose levels and the engagement data collected over the time period, one or more predictions for future glucose levels for the user including a prediction that a future GRI value is greater than or less than the first GRI value, and determining, using the machine learning model and responsive to the user's engagement data collected over the time period, one or more predictions for future engagement levels. |
| US12283378B2 |
Providing healthcare via autonomous, self-learning, and self-evolutionary processes
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to autonomous assessment and treatment of a patient. In one embodiment, a method includes, responsive to acquiring, in a managing device, sensor data characterizing a condition of the patient, determining a diagnosis for the condition according to a correlation of the sensor data with a subset of markers. The method includes selecting, using a treatment model, a treatment algorithm from a set of treatment algorithms for performing therapeutic delivery using a robotic device. The method includes causing the robotic device to perform the therapeutic delivery according to the treatment algorithm selected by the treatment model. |
| US12283375B2 |
Remote control device, and remote control system
A memory stores gesture information corresponding to a gesture of a medical worker that is allocated to a function of a medical device. A sensor is configured to detect a gesture. A transmitter is configured to wirelessly transmit a control signal for remotely controlling the function. A processor is configured to cause the transmitter to transmit the control signal in a case where the gesture corresponding to the gesture information is detected by the sensor. |
| US12283374B2 |
Noninvasive multi-parameter patient monitor
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a handheld multi-parameter patient monitor capable of determining multiple physiological parameters from the output of a light sensitive detector capable of detecting light attenuated by body tissue. For example, in an embodiment, the monitor is capable of advantageously and accurately displaying one or more of pulse rate, plethysmograph data, perfusion quality, signal confidence, and values of blood constituents in body tissue, including for example, arterial carbon monoxide saturation (“HbCO”), methemoglobin saturation (“HbMet”), total hemoglobin (“Hbt”), arterial oxygen saturation (“SpO2”), fractional arterial oxygen saturation (“SpaO2”), or the like. In an embodiment, the monitor displays a line associated with a patient wellness level. |
| US12283372B2 |
System for communication of data
A system for communication of data is provided. The system includes a medical device. A data consuming device is positioned at a first network layer. An edge communication device is positioned at a second network layer. The edge communication device is in communication with the medical device to receive data from the medical device. The edge communication device has a profile. The profile defines a data format for the data and a communication path for transmitting the data between the network layers. A gateway device is configured to route the data from the edge communication device to the data consuming device via the communication path. The edge communication device is also configured to modify the data format to correspond to the data consuming device and to format the data according to the data format. |
| US12283371B2 |
System for monitoring a clinical scenario
The present invention relates to a system for monitoring a non-static clinical scenario, preferably a surgical field, such that different elements of interest can be located throughout the entire clinical event; in particular, a high-precision monitoring and distinction of critical biological tissues, such as nerves or blood vessels, is sought. |
| US12283363B2 |
Web application for service recommendations with machine learning
Embodiments relate to web applications and interfaces providing personalized access to relevant wellness resources using microservices and machine learning models. Embodiments relate to web applications and interfaces that provide recommendations based on personas computed using machine learning models. The interfaces and web applications using microservices to provide interface tools that scale to multiple users. |
| US12283357B2 |
Systems and methods for monitoring use of and ensuring continuity of functionality of insulin infusion pumps, glucose monitors, and other diabetes treatment equipment
A personal diabetes equipment management system can include at least one diabetes treatment device adapted for use with one or more disposable diabetes devices; a remote server system including an inventory database identifying operational diabetes treatment devices and operational disposable diabetes devices in the possession of a user; and a controller in communication with (i) the at least one diabetes treatment device over a first network connection and (ii) the remote server system over a second network connection, the controller adapted to automatically detect use of the at least one diabetes treatment device and determine an operational condition for the diabetes treatment device or the one or more disposable diabetes treatment devices based on information received from the at least one diabetes treatment device over the first network connection, the controller transmitting update information to the remote server system over the second network connection to update the inventory database. |
| US12283353B2 |
Method for designing primers for multiplex PCR
There is provided a method for designing primers for multiplex PCR, for assigning priorities to candidate amplification regions on same chromosomal DNA and designing primers for PCR amplifying the candidate amplification regions according to the priorities, the method having a feature in a method for assigning priorities. |
| US12283350B2 |
Computer implemented method and system for small molecule drug discovery
In a small molecule drug discovery method, a transition state for a specific enzyme is modelled using quantum mechanics and molecular dynamics based simulation of the enzyme and substrate reaction; data defining the transition state (a ‘quantum pharmacophore’) is fed to a machine learning engine configured to generate transition state analogues, such as enzyme inhibitors. |
| US12283349B2 |
Metagenomic analysis of microbial flora
A method of the present invention includes: performing clustering on a sample sequence, the clustering including the following: grouping base sequences having 100% similarity with each other, for the sample sequences thereby to generate a primary OTU (Operational Taxonomic Unit); and further performing the clustering on the sample sequences thereby to generate a secondary OTU composed of a sequence of a predetermined centroid, and sample sequences that have a similarity larger than or equal to a predetermined threshold value with the sequence of the centroid. Here, the predetermined threshold value is less than 100%. The method further includes: setting a sequence of a primary OTU having the largest number of sequences among the primary OTUs included in each secondary OTU, as a representative sequence of the secondary OUT; collating the representative sequence with a database; and thereby estimating a lineage of the secondary OTU. |
| US12283345B2 |
Pulse generator, error check and scrub (ECS) circuit and memory
A pulse generator, an Error Check and Scrub (ECS) circuit and a memory are provided. The pulse generator includes: a delay circuit configured to receive an ECS command signal, perform delay processing on the ECS command signal, and output a delay command signal, the delay between the ECS command signal and the delay command signal being a first preset value; and a latch circuit configured to receive the ECS command signal and the delay command signal, perform latch processing based on the ECS command signal and the delay command signal, and output an ECS pulse signal. The pulse width of the ECS command signal is provided with a plurality of values, and the pulse width of the ECS pulse signal is the first preset value. |
| US12283344B1 |
Electronic device with buffered operation engine and method for performing calculation using same
As one aspect of the present disclosure, an electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device comprises a receiving unit for receiving a command from an external source, a first buffer for storing a first data value, and an operation engine for loading the first data value from the first buffer in response to the command and performing an operation based on a predetermined calculation formula on the loaded first data value, wherein the first data value is at least one of a result data value obtained by the operation engine previously performing an operation based on the predetermined calculation formula or a query data value to be used for an operation based on the predetermined calculation formula. |
| US12283342B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for input buffer data feedback equalization circuits
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for input buffer data feedback equalization (DFE). An input buffer includes a DFE circuit which adjusts a threshold voltage of the input buffer based on a previously latched data bit. The DFE circuit includes a number of DFE legs coupled in parallel to a node of the input buffer. Each DFE leg is selectively activated by a DFE code. Each DFE leg includes a capacitance (e.g., a field effect transistor) which is coupled to the node in an active leg based on the previously latched data bit. The previously latched data bit may also be used to generate a reset signal which couples the capacitors to ground. Each DFE leg may also include a transistor coupled to a bias voltage, which is stable across a range of PVT variations. |
| US12283341B2 |
Dynamic clock mask based on read data for power saving
Systems and methods disclosed herein provide for reduced power composition during data read operations from memory devices through gating of clock signals based on a bit pattern of data to be read from the memory device. Example devices and methods disclosed herein comprise receiving a command to read data from a memory structure of the memory device and latching a bit pattern of the data from the memory structure to a data register based on the received command. The disclose systems and methods use the bit pattern to generate a clock mask according to similarities between bit values within the bit pattern. When a read enable signal is detected on a read enable interface of the embodiments disclosed herein, the clock mask is gated based on the clock mask, and bit values are latched to an input/output interface of the memory device in accordance with the gated read enable signal. |
| US12283340B2 |
Method for controlling sense amplifier and control device using the same
The disclosure provides a method for controlling a sense amplifier. The control device includes a latch circuit and a control circuit. The latch circuit receives a plurality of memory data signals from the sense amplifier, wherein the latch circuit respectively generates a plurality of reference data signals based on the plurality of memory data signals. The control circuit is coupled to the latch circuit, provides an enable signal to the sense amplifier in response to a pass gate signal of the sense amplifier, and stops providing the enable signal in response to at least one of the plurality of reference data signals, wherein the enable signal controls a sensing period of the sense amplifier. |
| US12283336B2 |
System for differentiated thermal throttling of memory and method of operating same
A system includes a high bandwidth memory (HBM) arranged into portions including memory cells, the HBM further including a differentiated dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DDVFS) device to perform the following: for a first set of one or more of the memory cells in a first one of the portions, the first set including a first one of the memory cells, controlling a temperature of the first set based on one or more first environmental signals corresponding to at least a first transistor in the first memory cell; and for a second set of one or more of the memory cells in a second one of the portions, the second set including a second one of memory cells, controlling a temperature of the second set based on one or more second environmental signals corresponding to at least a second transistor in the second memory cell. |
| US12283324B2 |
Array dependent voltage compensation in a memory device
The memory device that includes a die with a CMOS wafer with programming and erasing circuitry. The die also includes a plurality of array wafers coupled with and in electrical communication with the CMOS wafer and having different programming and erasing efficiencies. Each of the array wafers includes memory blocks with memory cells. The control circuitry of the CMOS wafer is configured to output at least one of different initial programming voltages and unique erase voltages to the plurality of array wafers. |
| US12283323B2 |
Memory device and method of operation with sequential discharging of word lines
Provided herein may be a memory device and a method of operating the same. The memory device may include a memory cell string including a plurality of memory cells coupled to a plurality of word lines, a peripheral circuit configured to perform an operation that applies an operating voltage to a selected word line and applying a pass voltage to unselected word lines, among the plurality of word lines, and an operation controller configured to control the peripheral circuit to perform, after the operation has been performed, a discharge operation that sequentially decreases voltages of the plurality of word lines that range from at least one central word line located in a central portion in relation to the memory cell string to a word line, among the plurality of word lines, located in an outermost portion in relation to the memory cell string, adjacent to a select line. |
| US12283322B2 |
Three-dimensional NAND memory and fabrication method thereof
The present disclosure provides a method for forming a three-dimensional (3D) memory device. The method includes disposing an alternating dielectric stack over a substrate, wherein the alternating dielectric stack includes first dielectric layers and second dielectric layers alternatingly stacked on the substrate. The method also includes forming a channel structure penetrating through the alternating dielectric stack and extending into the substrate, wherein the channel structure includes a channel layer disposed on a sidewall of a memory film. The method further includes removing the substrate and a portion of the memory film that extends into the substrate to expose a portion of the channel layer; and disposing an array common source (ACS) on the exposed portion of the channel layer. |
| US12283319B2 |
Operating circuit and operating method of resistive random access memory
An operating circuit and an operating method of a resistive random-access memory are provided, the operating circuit includes: at least one capacitance connected in series with the resistive random-access memory, so that the resistive random-access memory is grounded through the at least one capacitance. The operating method includes: connecting at least one capacitance in series with a resistive random-access memory, so that the resistive random-access memory is grounded through the capacitance; applying a forming pulse voltage or a set pulse voltage on the resistive random-access memory to achieve a forming operation or a set operation of the resistive random-access memory. |
| US12283313B2 |
Low-power static random access memory
A low-power static random access memory (SRAM) is set forth which includes a cache memory function without requiring a special bit cell, and which realizes robust read and write operation without any write assist circuit at 16 nm or below FinFET technology. The SRAM comprises a half-Vdd precharge 6 T SRAM cell array for robust operation at low supply voltage at 16 nm or below, and with cacheable dynamic flip-flop based differential amplifier referred to as a main amplifier (MA). Prior art 6 T SRAM cell arrays use Vdd or Vdd-Vth precharge schemes, and have separate read and write amplifiers. The SRAM set forth uses one main amplifier only, which is connected to the bit line (BL) through a transmission gate. The main amplifiers functions as a read amplifier, write amplifier, and a cache memory. |
| US12283310B2 |
Memory device with single-transistor DRAM cells with no capacitors, and memory cells stacked in the vertical direction using gate-all-around (GAA) technology
A first insulating layer 21 is disposed on a substrate 20. N+ layers 2 are separated from the insulating layer and in directions horizontal and vertical to the substrate. P layers 1 contact the n+ layers 2 and extend in the horizontal direction. N+ layers 3 contact the p layers 1. Gate insulating layers 4 cover the p layers 1 and part of the n+ layers 2 and 3. Second gate conductor layers 6 are electrically separated from a first gate conductor layer 5 contacting the gate insulating layers 4. A conductor layer 12 contacts the n+ layers 2. A conductor layer 13 contacts the n+ layers 3. A second insulating layer 22 contacts the first gate conductor layer 5, the n+ layers 2, and the conductor layer 12. A third insulating layer 23 contacts the second gate conductor layers 6, the n+ layers 3, and the conductor layer 13. |
| US12283309B2 |
Pseudo-static random-access memory and reading method thereof
A pseudo-static random-access memory is provided. A count-and-command decoder starts counting a clock signal when an internal enable signal changes from a disable state to an enable state, and outputs a column address strobe signal at a first level when the count reaches a first clock amount. During a period starting from when the column address strobe signal changes from a second level to the first level to when the internal enable signal changes from the enable state to the disable state, a burst-length counter counts the clock signal to provide a burst length accordingly. A delay control circuit outputs a first confirmation signal at the first level to a row-and-column control circuit, such that a length of a column select signal is equal to the burst length. |
| US12283307B2 |
Memory control circuit providing die-level read retry table, memory package, and storage device
A storage device includes a memory including a plurality of word lines, a plurality of bit lines and a plurality of memory cells, and a controller configured to control the memory and perform a read retry operation for the memory using a read retry table. The memory includes a special block that stores a read retry table in which a plurality of read retry values are set for each of a plurality of first conditions and each of a plurality of second conditions corresponding to each of the plurality of first conditions. |
| US12283306B2 |
Memory device including semiconductor
A p layer extending in a direction horizontal to a substrate is provided separately from the substrate. An n+ layer is provided on one side of the layer. A gate insulating layer partially covers the layers. A gate conductor layer partially covers the layer. A gate insulating layer partially covering the layer is provided separately from the layer. A gate conductor layer partially covers the layer. An n+ layer is provided at part of the p layer between the layers. The layers are connected to a bit line, a source line, a word line, and a plate line, respectively. Memory operation of a dynamic flash memory cell is performed by manipulating voltage of each line. |
| US12283298B2 |
Magnetoresistive random access memory with data scrubbing
Embodiments are disclosed for a system that includes a data scrubbing circuit, a magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) having a memory array, and an analog persistent vital information circuit (APVIC) that performs a method. The method includes resetting weights corresponding to blocks of the memory array. The method further includes adjusting the weights based on a timer, data accesses on the memory blocks, and weight change values corresponding to the weights. The method also includes determining, in response to the timer, a data scrubbing threshold based on ambient temperature and magnetic field strength. The method additionally includes determining one of the weights meets the data scrubbing threshold. Further, the method includes providing, in response to the determination, an indication that a data scrubber, scrub one of the memory blocks corresponding to the weight that meets the data scrubbing threshold. Also, the method includes resetting the weight. |
| US12283292B2 |
Hard disk drive idle sweep for thermal asperity avoidance
An idle sweep routine for a hard disk drive involves a series of servo-controlled one-Nth (1/N) equivalent sub-band random seeks in one radial direction, followed by another series of servo-controlled one-Nth equivalent sub-band random seeks in the other radial direction, where a complete band refers to the complete set of user-data tracks and a one-Nth sub-band refers to a contiguous 1/N portion of the complete band. For example, a first series of ⅕ sub-band random seeks may be in the disk outer diameter (OD) to inner diameter (ID) direction, followed by a second set of ⅕ sub-band random seeks in the ID to OD direction. Based on disk scratch and Si smear robustness, ⅕ sub-band random seeks are found effective in moving the sider over a significant number of tracks during each seek to likely inhibit disk lubrication degradation and avoid thermal asperities during such an idle sweep routine. |
| US12283290B2 |
Template-based excerpting and rendering of multimedia performance
Disclosed herein are computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable storage-medium embodiments for implementing template-based excerpting and rendering of multimedia performances technologies. An embodiment includes at least one computer processor configured to retrieve a first content instance and applying a template that results in transforming the first content instance. The first content instance may include a plurality of structural elements. The first content instance may be transformed by a rendering engine running on the at least one computer processor and/or transmitted to a content-playback device. An embodiment of transforming the first content instance includes trimming the content instance based on requirements provided by social media platforms. |
| US12283289B2 |
Separating and rendering voice and ambience signals by offsetting impact of device movements
Processing of ambience and speech can include extracting from audio signals, ambience and speech signals. One or more spatial parameters can be generated that define spatial characteristics of ambience sound in the one or more ambience audio signals. The primary speech signal, the one or more ambience audio signals, and the spatial parameters can be encoded into one or more encoded data streams. Other aspects are described and claimed. |
| US12283288B2 |
Artificial latency for moderating voice communication
A computer-implemented method to determine whether to introduce latency into an audio stream from a particular speaker includes an audio stream from a sender device. The method further includes providing, as input to a trained machine-learning model, the audio stream and a speech analysis score, information about one or more voice emotion parameters, and one or more voice emotion scores for a first user associated with the sender device, wherein the trained machine-learning model is iteratively applied to the audio stream and wherein each iteration corresponds to a respective portion of the audio stream. The method further includes generating as output, with the trained machine-learning model, a level of toxicity in the audio stream. The method further includes transmitting the audio stream to a recipient device, wherein the transmitting is performed to introduce a time delay in the audio stream based on the level of toxicity. |
| US12283286B2 |
Signal processing device, system and method for processing audio signals
A signal processing device for processing audio signals is described. The signal processing device has an input interface for receiving an input signal and an output interface for outputting an output signal. Moreover, the signal processing device has at least one neural network for separating one or more audio signals from the input signal. The number of audio signals separated from the input signal by using the at least one neural network is variable. |
| US12283280B2 |
Data sequence generation
A method for audio signal filtering. The method includes generating a pair of filters for a certain location specified by an elevation angle ϑ and an azimuth angle φ, the pair of filters consisting of a right filter (ĥr(ϑ, φ)) and a left filter (ĥl(ϑ, φ)); filtering an audio signal using the right filter; and filtering the audio signal using the left filter. Generating the pair of filters comprises: i) obtaining at least a first set of elevation basis function values at the elevation angle; ii) obtaining at least a first set of azimuth basis function values at the azimuth angle; iii) generating the right filter using: a) at least the first set of elevation basis function values, b) at least the first set of azimuth basis function values, and c) right filter model parameters; and iv) generating the left filter using: a) at least the first set of elevation basis function values, b) at least the first set of azimuth basis function values, and c) left filter model parameters. |
| US12283277B2 |
Audio firewall
An audio firewall system has a microphone that generates audio data. A speech-to-text engine converts the audio data to text data. The text data is parsed for a service wake word and corresponding content data. The service wake word identifies one of a local security system and a remote assistant server. A text-to-speech engine converts the service wake word and the corresponding content data to converted audio data. The converted audio data is provided to the remote assistant server. The content data is provided to the local security system. The audio firewall system receives a response from the remote assistant server or the local security system and outputs an audio signal corresponding to the response. |
| US12283276B2 |
Voice notes with transcription
A messaging system, which hosts a backend service for an associated messaging client application, includes a voice notes system that addresses the technical problem of serving an audio message to the recipient in a manner that permits the recipient to consume the message in a text format as a transcription. A chat user interface (UI) provided with the voice notes system permits a user to play an audio message or request generation of the transcription of the audio message on-demand to prevent unnecessary cluttering of the UI real estate. |
| US12283273B2 |
Service management system and service management method for a vehicle
Provided are a service management system for a vehicle and a service management method for a vehicle that may receive a request from a passenger in a van by voice. In particular, the service management system determines whether to approve the request considering other passengers' opinions in the van, and then automatically performs relevant controls to fully reflect the passenger's request and safely provide a service even in the van carrying a large number of passengers. |
| US12283269B2 |
Intent inference in audiovisual communication sessions
In one aspect, a user's intent can be inferred based on voice analysis during a communications session, and prompts can be presented, or other actions taken, at least partly in response to the inferred intent. For example, a network microphone device (NMD) having one or more microphones can capture voice input and transmit the voice input to remote computing device(s) for a communication session (e.g., a videoconference). The NMD can analyze the voice input to detect one or more utterances. Based on the utterance(s), the NMD can cause a user prompt to be displayed via a display device communicatively coupled to the NMD. The particular prompt can depend at least in part on one or more context parameters associated with the communication session (e.g., a microphone state of one or more users, a screen share state of one or more users, or a recording status of the session, etc.). |
| US12283268B2 |
Information processing apparatus and information processing method
An information processing apparatus includes a voice data input device (a microphone) to which voice data is input; a user data input device (an input device) to which user data is input from a user; and a controller. The controller recognizes first voice data input to the voice data input device (the microphone), outputs second voice data indicating that predetermined equipment is to be controlled based on a recognition result the first voice data, and controls the predetermined equipment based on the recognition result after the second voice data is notified, but stops controlling the predetermined equipment if user data indicating that control of the predetermined equipment is to be stopped is received during a time period when the second voice data is being notified. |
| US12283265B1 |
Own voice reverberation reconstruction
A method that includes determining a set of one or more reverberation parameters of an extended reality (XR) environment in which a user is to participate, determining whether an audio source device is wirelessly communicatively coupled to send audio to an audio output device, in response to determining that the audio source device is not wirelessly communicatively coupled to the audio output device obtaining a microphone signal produced by a microphone of the audio source device, producing a reverberant audio signal from the microphone signal according to the set of one or more reverberation parameters, and sending the reverberant audio signal to drive a speaker driver of the audio source device. |
| US12283259B2 |
Merging multiple exposures to generate a high dynamic range image
A method of generating a high dynamic range (HDR) image is provided that includes capturing a long exposure image and a short exposure image of a scene, computing a merging weight for each pixel location of the long exposure image based on a pixel value of the pixel location and a saturation threshold, and computing a pixel value for each pixel location of the HDR image as a weighted sum of corresponding pixel values in the long exposure image and the short exposure image, wherein a weight applied to a pixel value of the pixel location of the short exposure image and a weight applied to a pixel value of the pixel location in the pixel long exposure image are determined based on the merging weight computed for the pixel location and responsive to motion in a scene of the long exposure image and the short exposure image. |
| US12283258B2 |
Two-way communication to allow consistent per-frame configuration update
An electronic device uses a leader synchronize signal generator to synchronize clock signal generators used by multiple components in the electronic device to a common time-base. A processor core complex of the electronic device sends per-frame configuration to a timing controller for frames to be displayed on an electronic display before a corresponding frame begins. |
| US12283254B2 |
Backlight module, display device, and method for driving backlight unit
A backlight module includes a pixel driver integrated circuit (PDIC) configured to generate a switch control signal and a pulse control signal, the pulse control signal including timing information and dimming data, a pixel integrated circuit (PIC) configured to generate a pulse modulation signal based on the pulse control signal, a switch group configured to transfer a driving voltage based on the switch control signal, and a backlight unit (BLU) including a first end connected to the switch group and a second end connected to the PIC, the BLU configured to emit light on a panel based on the driving voltage and the pulse modulation signal, where the PDIC is configured to generate the switch control signal and the pulse control signal such that a light emitting diode emits light at a time point at which a pixel of the panel operates. |
| US12283253B2 |
Voltage monitoring device, lighting device, and display device
A voltage monitoring device includes a voltage supply device configured to supply a second voltage generated from a first voltage to the electric component, a voltage supply control section configured to control the voltage supply device, a voltage level detection section configured to detect a voltage level related to the first voltage, and a voltage monitor section configured to monitor the first voltage, compare the voltage level with a first threshold in the voltage non-supply time, compare the voltage level with a second threshold that is lower than the first threshold in the voltage supply time, control the voltage supply device to continue supplying the second voltage when the voltage level is higher than the first threshold or the second threshold, and control the voltage supply device to stop supplying the second voltage when the voltage level is lower than the first threshold or the second threshold. |
| US12283250B2 |
Display device and method of driving the same
A display device includes pixels which displays an image based on image data, a driving voltage generator which provides a driving voltage to each of the pixels, and a driving voltage controller which calculates block pixel numbers corresponding to first to nth grayscale blocks based on the image data, calculates maximum grayscales with respect to the first to nth grayscale blocks based on the image data, determines a maximum grayscale block among the first to nth grayscale blocks by comparing the block pixel numbers to minimum pixel numbers corresponding to the first to nth grayscale blocks, determines a maximum grayscale with respect to the maximum grayscale block based on the maximum grayscales, calculates a load of the image data, calculates a voltage drop amount of the driving voltage based on the load, and calculates a magnitude of the driving voltage based on the maximum grayscale and the voltage drop amount. |
| US12283249B2 |
Gate driving panel circuit and display device
A display device and a gate driving panel circuit including the same are discussed. The gate driving panel circuit in an example includes an output buffer block configured to receive a clock signal and output a scan signal, and a logic block configured to control respective voltages of a Q node and a QB node electrically connected to the output buffer block. The output buffer block includes a pull-up transistor disposed between a clock node to which the clock signal is input and an output node to which the scan signal is output, and a pull-down transistor disposed between a gate low voltage node to which a gate low voltage is applied and the output node. A gate node of the pull-up transistor is electrically connected to the Q node. |
| US12283245B2 |
Display substrate and display device
A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes sub-pixels including a light emitting element and a pixel circuit, the light emitting element includes a second electrode including a main body electrode. The sub-pixels include a first color sub-pixel which includes a first connecting portion. In the first color sub-pixel, the connecting electrode is connected with the first connecting portion through a first via hole, and the first connecting portion is electrically connected with the pixel circuit through a first connecting hole; and the first via hole and the first connecting hole are not overlapped with the main body electrode, and orthographic projections of the first via hole and the first connection hole on a first straight line extending in an extension direction of the data line are overlapped. |
| US12283244B2 |
Display substrate and display panel
A display substrate, including a base substrate, and a driving circuit layer and light emitting elements formed on the base substrate, and in a same pixel circuit, an active general layer includes a first column-wise active portion including active layers of a data writing transistor and a first light emission control transistor, and a first active connection portion, an orthographic projection of the first active connection portion on the base substrate at least partially overlapping an orthographic projection of a corresponding power supply line on the base substrate, a dimension of the first active connection portion in a row direction of the pixel units less than a dimension of the active layer of the data writing transistor in the row direction, and a dimension of the active layer of the first light emission control transistor in the row direction. A display panel is further provided. |
| US12283243B2 |
Display panel and method for driving display panel, and display apparatus
A display panel, a method for driving the display panel and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel includes a light-emitting element and a pixel circuit, the pixel circuit includes: an enable signal terminal being a pulse width modulation signal, including a plurality of first active levels spaced in one frame light-emitting duration, a first inactive level being between two adjacent first active levels, where the enable signal is capable of driving the light-emitting element to emit light during a first active level period; a reset signal terminal including at least one second active level and one second inactive level in one frame light-emitting duration, the second active level being in a first inactive level period, and the first active level being in a second inactive level period, where the reset signal is capable of resetting the light-emitting device during a second active level period. |
| US12283241B2 |
Pixel driving circuit, driving method thereof, and display panel
The present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit, a driving method thereof, and a display panel. The pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor; a compensation module including a first transistor, a compensation transistor for compensating a threshold voltage of the driving transistor, a second transistor, and a storage capacitor connected in series between a source or a drain of the compensation transistor and a gate of the driving transistor; and a data writing module including a data writing transistor connected to an upper plate of the storage capacitor, to improve display effect. |
| US12283236B2 |
Processor for compensate image and operation method thereof
A processor is disposed in a display device and is configured to perform following operations: calculating a total coupling coefficient for a (N−1)th frame according to input data, in which N is a positive integer greater than 1; calculating a coupling coefficient difference value of two adjacent lines for a Nth frame according to the input data; generating a first compensation value for a target sub-pixel according to the coupling coefficient difference value and target input data of the target sub-pixel; generating a second compensation value for the target sub-pixel according to the first compensation value and the total coupling coefficient; generating an output data for the target sub-pixel according to the target input data and the second compensation value; and controlling a display panel in the display device to display a final image according to the output data. |
| US12283235B2 |
Pixel, display device including pixel, and pixel driving method
A pixel includes: a light-emitting element including an anode and a cathode, a first transistor including a first and a second electrode and a gate electrode connected with a first node, a third transistor connected between the second electrode of the first transistor and the first node and including a gate electrode connected with a first scan line, a sixth transistor connected between the second electrode of the first transistor and the anode and including a gate electrode connected with a first emission line, and a seventh transistor connected between the anode and an initialization voltage line and including a gate electrode connected with a second scan line. During an initialization period, the third, sixth, and seventh transistors are turned on such that an initialization voltage from the initialization voltage line is transferred to the gate electrode of the first transistor. |
| US12283234B2 |
Pixel driving circuit and driving method therefor, and display panel and display apparatus
A pixel driving circuit including a driving circuit, a first light emission control circuit and a first digital circuit. The driving circuit is connected to a first power source end, a first node and the light-emitting unit, and is used for providing, according to the voltage of the first node, a driving current for the light-emitting unit by using the first power source end; the first light emission control circuit is connected to a first digital signal end; and the first digital circuit comprises a first signal conversion circuit, and the first signal conversion circuit is connected to a first analog signal end and the first digital signal end and is used for inputting the first digital signal into the first digital signal end according to a first analog signal of the first analog signal end. |
| US12283228B2 |
Display panels with stage transmission signal lines and display devices having the same
The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate, and a driving circuit layer disposed at a side of the substrate. The driving circuit layer includes multistage gate driving units disposed in a non-display area and stage transmission signal lines connecting the gate driving units of different stages. The driving circuit layer includes a first semiconductor layer disposed at the side of the substrate, the first semiconductor layer includes a plurality of first semiconductors disposed in non-display regions, and the gate driving units include the first semiconductors; and the stage transmission signal line is disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the substrate, and is arranged to overlap with at least a portion of the gate driving unit in the non-display area. |
| US12283225B2 |
Display apparatus and flicker reduction method thereof
A display apparatus comprises: a display panel including pixels that emit light, wherein an amount of emitted light is controlled based on a data voltage, and an emission time of the pixels is controlled based on a duty ratio of an emission control signal applied to the pixels; a timing controller configured to control the emission control signal in an active period of one frame and in a blank period of the one frame, where the data voltage is supplied to the pixels during the active period of the one frame and the data voltage is maintained during the blank period of the one frame; and a gate driver configured to apply to the pixels the emission control signal having a first duty ratio during the active period and the emission control signal having a second duty ratio that is different from the first duty ratio during the blank period. |
| US12283223B2 |
Gate driver and display device having the same
Provided is a gate driver comprising an inverter inverting a start signal to generate an inverted start signal, a first driver including a first stage generating a bias gate signal to initialize a light emitting element of each of pixels in response to the inverted start signal, and a second driver including a second stage generating a write gate signal to apply data voltages to the pixels in response to the start signal. Accordingly, the gate driver may generate a plurality of gate signals using one start signal. In addition, since the gate driver generates a write gate signal and a bias gate signal using one start signal, a bias operation and a light emitting element initialization operation may be performed in a self-scan period without adding the start signal. Further, a size of the gate driver may be reduced, and accordingly, the gate driver may be efficiently disposed. |
| US12283215B2 |
Display device and driving method thereof
A display device including a display panel and a driving circuit is provided. The display panel is configured to display an image frame. The driving circuit is coupled to the display panel. The driving circuit is configured to output a gate signal to drive the display panel to display the image frame during a driving period. The driving period includes a first period, a second period, and a third period. The gate signal has a first voltage level during the first period and a second voltage level during the second period. The second voltage level is greater than the first voltage level. |
| US12283207B2 |
Display device
A display device is disclosed. The display device of the present disclosure may comprise: a flexible display panel; a panel roller which elongates and on or from which the display panel is wound or unwound; a first frame positioned to be adjacent to one end of the panel roller; a second frame positioned to be adjacent to the other end of the panel roller and faces the first frame with respect to the panel roller; a bearing coupled to the one end of the panel roller and fixed to the first frame; a disk wheel adjacent to the other end of the panel roller and coupled to the panel roller while intersecting a rotary shaft of the panel roller; a first stable roller coming into contact with the disk wheel; and a second stable roller coming into contact with the disk wheel. |
| US12283205B2 |
Self-laminating label assembly and method for using the same
Self-laminating label assemblies, self-laminating labels and methods for laminating label facestocks are described herein. The self-laminating label assemblies may include a label support liner and one or more self-laminating label(s) releasably affixed to the label support liner. Each self-laminating label may include a label facestock releasably affixed to the label support liner and a laminating facestock for at least partially laminating the label facestock. The laminating facestock may be releasably affixable to the label support liner, directly or indirectly, and may be provided between a non-laminating configuration in which at least part of the aminating facestock is releasably affixed to the label support liner for holding the laminating facestock thereon or thereabout, and a aminating configuration in which the laminating facestock is at least partially affixed to, and laminates, the label facestock. |
| US12283200B1 |
Flip screen with replaceable materials and adjustable screen tilt angle
The present application disclosed a flip screen with replaceable materials and adjustable screen tilt angle. Which comprising a U-shaped base, a crank handle, a polygonal rotating shaft, a left-fixed round plate, a right-fixed round plate, a damping plate, a side plug-in plate, and a damping arm. Pictures or images made from various materials can be securely clamped into the installation groove, allowing them to be supported by the side plug-in plate. This design extends the service life of the flip screen and does not impose strict requirements on the materials used for the images, enhancing its practicality. |
| US12283199B2 |
Systems and methods for extended reality educational assessment
A system and associated methods facilitate administration of assessments within an extended reality learning environment. Assessment recordings captured during administration of an assessment module to a first user are used for providing feedback information to the first user from a second user that can view the first user's interactions with the assessment module. |
| US12283198B2 |
Systems and methods for automatically revising feedback in electronic learning systems
Systems and methods for automatically revising feedback in an electronic learning system are provided. The method involves operating at least one processor to: receive feedback text data submitted by a user to evaluate another user; identify a plurality of sentiment groups in the feedback text data, each sentiment group consisting of a portion of the feedback text data associated with a common sentiment; select at least one feedback processing module to process each sentiment group, the at least one feedback processing module comprising at least one machine-learned model; for each sentiment group, process the corresponding portion of the feedback text data using the at least one machine-learned model to determine at least one suggested revision for the portion of the feedback text data; and generate a revised version of the feedback text data indicating each suggested revision for the feedback text data. |
| US12283195B2 |
Multi-sensory morse-code training and operating tool
The invention is an adjunct system used in conjunction with a Morse code communications system to provide touch and sight sensory outputs that mirror a Morse code signals audible code-element output. |
| US12283193B2 |
Helicopter obstacle avoidance with slung load
Load volume predication for slung loads of aerial vehicles are disclosed. A system can identify parameters of a load. The system can determine a volume occupied by a superposition of locations of the cone. The system can receive from sensors or models, characteristics of an environment associated with the aerial vehicle or the load. The system can detect an obstacle in the environment. The system can take a navigational action in response to detecting the obstacle. |
| US12283190B2 |
Driver assistance apparatus and recording medium containing computer program
A driver assistance apparatus is configured to carry out processing including: detecting a moving body and surrounding environment around the vehicle; predicting driving actions of the moving body detected; calculating collision risks between the moving body and the vehicle after a predetermined period of time, for the respective driving actions predicted of the moving body, on the basis of distances between the moving body and the vehicle after the predetermined period of time and probabilities that the moving body takes the respective driving actions; and setting a driving condition of the vehicle that provides a smallest one of the collision risks. |
| US12283187B2 |
Emergency response vehicle detection for autonomous driving applications
In various examples, audio alerts of emergency response vehicles may be detected and classified using audio captured by microphones of an autonomous or semi-autonomous machine in order to identify travel directions, locations, and/or types of emergency response vehicles in the environment. For example, a plurality of microphone arrays may be disposed on an autonomous or semi-autonomous machine and used to generate audio signals corresponding to sounds in the environment. These audio signals may be processed to determine a location and/or direction of travel of an emergency response vehicle (e.g., using triangulation). Additionally, to identify siren types—and thus emergency response vehicle types corresponding thereto—the audio signals may be used to generate representations of a frequency spectrum that may be processed using a deep neural network (DNN) that outputs probabilities of alert types being represented by the audio data. |
| US12283185B2 |
Road traffic control system
A road traffic control system includes a mobile terminal, a fixed terminal, a traffic sign, a control module, and a prompt unit. The mobile terminal includes a mobile terminal communication module for transmitting mobile terminal parameter data. The fixed terminal includes a fixed terminal communication module that is in communication connection with the mobile terminal communication module and is configured to receive the mobile terminal parameter data. The traffic sign includes a sign communication module configured to be in communication connection with the fixed terminal communication module. The control module is connected to the sign communication module. The prompt unit is connected to the control module and configured to provide a traffic instruction according to the mobile terminal parameter data. |
| US12283183B2 |
Dynamic multi-intersection management based on time of arrival
A computer system that manages traffic flow is described. During operation, the computer system may receive information specifying or corresponding to an estimated time of arrival of a vehicle at an intersection. Then, the computer system may receive second information corresponding to traffic conditions in an environment (such as traffic flows), where the traffic conditions are associated with one or more other intersections that input traffic to the intersection, that received output traffic from the intersection, or both, and at least a subset of the one or more other intersections are not along a route of the vehicle. Next, based at least in part on the estimated time of arrival and the traffic conditions associated with the one or more other intersections, the computer system may selectively modify traffic management in at least one of the one or more other intersections. |
| US12283182B2 |
Dynamic control of vehicle drivetrain modes
A computer-implemented method for establishing at least one low or zero emission traffic zone and for controlling and monitoring a dynamically operated drivetrain of hybrid vehicles passing through the at least one established low or zero emission traffic zone is provided. The method includes: acquiring data from air quality-sensitive sensors placed within a region including the at least one low or zero emission traffic zone to be established; operating a cloud-based service for evaluating the acquired data regarding air quality; wirelessly transmitting signals representative of a location and a shape of the at least one low or zero emission traffic zone to hybrid vehicles; operating vehicle-based mode transition means for at least initiating a change of a drivetrain mode of the hybrid vehicle to electric mode; generating a blockchain data block including data regarding the current position and the dynamically operated drivetrain of the hybrid vehicle; and adding the generated blockchain data block to a blockchain residing in a blockchain system. |
| US12283181B2 |
Apparatus and method for controlling traffic signals of traffic lights in sub-area by using reinforcement learning model
Provided are methods and apparatuses for controlling traffic signals of traffic lights in a sub-area by using a neural network model. The method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may configure state information of a sub-area by using downstream information obtained in a current cycle time for each of a plurality of intersections included in the sub-area. In addition, the method may input the state information to a trained reinforcement learning model, and obtain action information of the sub-area including green times and offsets, by using an output from the trained reinforcement learning model. Furthermore, the method may generate coordinated signal values for applying the action to traffic lights in the sub-area in a subsequent cycle time. |
| US12283179B2 |
Vehicle leveling assembly with mobile device
An assembly for correcting an attitude of at least a selected portion of a structure, where the assembly includes a controller affixed to a structure operatively coupled with one or more jacks operable to change the attitude of the structure; and a remote device configured to communicate wirelessly with the controller to change the attitude of a selected portion of the structure. Also disclosed is a method for adjusting an attitude of a movable structure. |
| US12283178B2 |
Multi-angle trip alarm apparatus, kit and method
A multi-angle trip alarm apparatus, a kit including parts for a multi-angle trip alarm apparatus, and a method for setting a multi-angle trip alarm apparatus using such parts. |
| US12283174B2 |
Premises security system using ultra-wideband (UWB) functionality to initiate at least one action
A management device for a premises security system that is configured to monitor a premises is provided. The management device includes an ultra-wideband (UWB) transceiver configured to provide a coverage area, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is in communication with the UWB transceiver and configured to detect a UWB device within the coverage area, determine a distance of the UWB device from the management device based on signaling received from the UWB transceiver, determine a movement vector of the UWB device based on the signaling received from the UWB transceiver, and initiate a premises security system action based on the distance and the movement vector. |
| US12283171B2 |
Notification controller and notification control method
The present disclosure is intended to notify an off-board passenger of a hazardous situation occurring around a target vehicle in the presence of an on-board passenger in the vehicle. A notification controller according to the present disclosure includes: an on-board passenger judgment unit, if at least one passenger in a target vehicle gets out of the vehicle to become an off-board passenger, the on-board passenger judgment unit judging whether there is a different passenger staying in the target vehicle; a hazard judgment unit that judges whether a hazardous situation is occurring around the target vehicle if there is an on-board passenger; and a notification control unit that makes radio communication with a communication terminal of the off-board passenger to make outward notification that is notification indicating the occurrence of the hazardous situation to the off-board passenger if the hazard judgment unit judges that the hazardous situation is occurring. |
| US12283169B2 |
Monitoring system, monitoring method, and recording medium
Provided is a monitoring system that provides appropriate notification in accordance with whether or not a person to be monitored is with a registered companion. This monitoring system is provided with: a recognition unit which recognizes a person to be monitored and a registered companion associated with the person to be monitored; and a notification unit which notifies a prescribed contact that the person to be monitored has been recognized. When it is recognized that the person to be monitored is with the registered companion, the notification unit refrains from notifying the contact. |
| US12283167B2 |
Indoor monitoring method, device, and system, storage medium and camera device
The disclosure relates to the field of intelligent home, and particularly to an indoor monitoring method, device and system, a storage medium and a camera device. The method includes: controlling a camera device to acquire monitoring images at consecutive times in a room; identifying a first monitoring image at a previous time and a second monitoring image at a current time, and identifying items corresponding to the first monitoring image and the second monitoring image and positions of the items, respectively; determining whether a position of an item changes according to the position of the item in the first monitoring image and the position of the item in the second monitoring image; and generating item record information of the item when it is determined that the position of the item changes, wherein the item record information represents movement of the item in the room. In this way, the item record information helps the user to record the relevant information of the item, so as to ensure that the user can quickly find the corresponding item. |
| US12283161B2 |
Gaming systems with configurable jackpot award strategies
A gaming machine includes an input device and a processor coupled to the input device. The input device is configured to receive a game play event from a player. The processor is programmed to determine whether a jackpot trigger condition is satisfied based at least in part on the game play event. The jackpot trigger condition includes a target quantity of games played, a target set of game tokens, a target pattern of game symbols, and/or a target pattern of game play outcomes. The processor is further programmed to award a jackpot credit to one or more players when the jackpot trigger condition is satisfied. |
| US12283159B2 |
System and method for dynamically adjusting prizes or awards based on a platform
One aspect of the disclosure relates to implementing a system to encourage cross platform operation in an online game. The online game may provide the ability to provide incentives for participating in cross platform game play. The system may monitor the player's performance on a particular console and provide incentives to accomplish tasks through game play on a different platform than the player is currently operating to play the game. |
| US12283158B2 |
Asynchronous persistent group bonus game
An asynchronous persistent group bonus game system, method and apparatus may have a plurality of gaming machines including a first processor and a bonus server having a second processor. The first processor may be configured to: determine when a bonus game session event is triggered, transmit a bonus game session request to the second processor, and receive an end session notification from the second processor. The second processor may be configured to execute and maintain the always-on asynchronous persistent group bonus game, receive a bonus game session request from at least one of the plurality of gaming machines, instantiate a bonus game session inside the continuous asynchronous persistent group bonus game for the at least one gaming machine, determine when an end session trigger has been triggered for the bonus game session, and transmit an end session notification to the at least one gaming machine if it is determined that the end session condition has been triggered. |
| US12283150B2 |
Methods and devices for providing machine surface colors and animations based on trigger events
A gaming device includes a frame, a display, and an electronic-ink film that is attached to various exterior surfaces of the frame. As a trigger event occurs, the appearance state of the electronic-ink film is dynamically changed to provide a specific color or animation output. This output changes an appearance of the exterior surfaces of the frame and the gaming device in general. The trigger events correspond to gameplay events, player activity, and a state of the gaming device. |
| US12283146B2 |
Methods and apparatus for accessing secured physical assets at a facility utilized for maintenance and management
A facility access system for facilitating on-site access to physical assets, comprising a physical structure having one or more actuated features each configured to provide selective access to one or more secured physical assets for retrieval by on-site personnel, including an optical unit configured to receive a unique code from the on-site personnel. A computing platform configured to validate the unique code received by the optical unit, provide a present status of the one or more secured physical assets based on the unique code, negotiate access to the one or more secured physical assets that corresponds to the unique code thereby permitting selective access for retrieval by the on-site personnel, a sensor configured to sense the transfer of the one or more secured physical assets, and wherein the present status is updated to transferred when the on-site personnel takes possession of the one or more physical assets. |
| US12283136B2 |
Digital twin generation and logging for a vehicle
The present disclosure generates a digital twin of the interior of a vehicle to initiate and track maintenance issues. In one aspect, the digital twin is formed using multiple captured images of the interior of the vehicle where multiple components in those images are identified using a machine learning (ML) model. The components identified by the ML model are then mapped to a model (e.g., a 3D model) of the components that lists their location in the vehicle and an identifier (e.g., a part number or serial number). In this manner, the digital twin can identify, using the identifiers, the various components in the images captured by a camera. |
| US12283134B2 |
System and method for reliable opinion polls
A system and method of reliable polling of an authenticated population of participants using network connected computing devices for the purpose of collecting and reporting verifiable opinions in an election, including, but not limited to, granting participants the right to participate in the election, collecting answers to one or more ballot questions from authenticated participants, using one or more blinded authorizations to submit participant answers to ballot questions, and accumulating answers to the one or more ballot questions. |
| US12283133B2 |
Vehicle position validation
A method for validating a current position of a first vehicle, the method comprising: receiving position data from the first vehicle, the position data providing the current position of the first vehicle; receiving position validation data associated with the first vehicle, the position validation data being generated by a source distinct from the first vehicle; and validating the current position of the first vehicle provided by the position data against the position validation data to determine an accuracy value for the current position. |
| US12283123B2 |
Vehicle display device, vehicle display system, vehicle display method, and non-transitory storage medium stored with program
A vehicle display device includes: an obstacle information acquisition section configured to acquire information relating to a plurality of obstacles in surroundings of a vehicle; and a mark display section configured to display a predetermined individual mark prompting caution toward an individual obstacle among the plurality of obstacles by superimposed display in a display region inside a vehicle cabin, and to display a predetermined cluster mark prompting caution toward a plurality of the obstacles by superimposed display in the display region in a case in which a predetermined condition has been satisfied. |
| US12283116B1 |
Vehicle signature capture apparatus and system for entry, occupancy, exit, and security
This invention identifies vehicles on arrival, and matches exiting vehicles to their corresponding entry event. The system uses at least one camera to capture not only the vehicle license plate but also the visual features. A “signature” formed out of the optical features of the vehicle is compared against the pre-generated signatures of vehicles in a whitelist. The “signature” for each exiting vehicle is compared against all signatures of vehicles that entered the garage. A plurality of filters reduce the possible matching candidates based on factors like license plate based edit distance, location information of vehicle owner. Synchronizing a database in each local processing unit (LPU) with a central database enables signature from images from sites that have good license plate reads, to assist in authentication in other sites where the reads are lower quality. Spatial diversity in cameras and/or illuminators enable hologram and 3D Printing detection and decoding. |
| US12283115B1 |
Camera and sensor system for measurement of road surface deflection
A system for measuring surface deflection of a road includes a first stereo line-scan camera pair on a sensor rig and for capturing a first set of 3D images of a road surface; a second stereo line-scan camera pair on the sensor rig and for capturing a second set of 3D images of the road surface; at least one digital electro-optical (EO) camera rigidly attached to the sensor rig; an inertial measurement unit (IMU) detecting inertial forces acting upon the sensor rig; and a processor compensating for acceleration and vibration effects upon the sensor rig; and calculating the surface deflection of the road based on the first and second sets of 3D images. The processor utilizes imagery from the EO camera and inertial measurements from the IMU to produce 2D mosaics and 3D reconstructions of the road surface from the first and second sets of 3D images. |
| US12283114B2 |
Vehicle lane boundary detection
A system for determining lane information. A memory storing instructions executable by a processor includes instructions to receive forward image data of a roadway from a forward-facing camera of a vehicle, determine visible lane boundaries of the driving lane based on lane marking features in the forward image data, determine a predicted lane boundary of the driving lane based, at least in part, on forward features in the forward image data, and determine a driving path of the vehicle through the visible lane boundaries and the predicted lane boundary. |
| US12283112B2 |
Automatic evaluation of three-dimensional vehicle perception using two-dimensional deep neural networks
Vehicle perception techniques include applying a 3D DNN to a set of inputs to generate 3D detection results including a set of 3D objects, transforming the set of 3D objects onto a set of images as a first set of 2D bounding boxes, applying a 2D DNN to the set of images to generate 2D detection results including a second set of 2D bounding boxes, calculating mean average precision (mAP) values based on a comparison between the first and second sets of 2D bounding boxes, identifying a set or corner cases based on the calculated mAP values, and re-training or updating the 3D DNN using the identified set of corner cases, wherein a performance of the 3D DNN is thereby increased without the use of expensive additional manually and/or automatically annotated training datasets. |
| US12283109B2 |
Guidance processing apparatus and guidance method
A guidance processing apparatus (100) includes an information acquisition unit (101) that acquires a plurality of different pieces of guidance information on the basis of states of a plurality of people within one or more images, and a control unit (102) that performs control of a plurality of target devices present in different spaces or time division control of a target device so as to set a plurality of different states corresponding to the plurality of pieces of guidance information. |
| US12283106B2 |
Systems and methods for video surveillance
Systems and methods for tracking an object in video surveillance are provided. A method may include obtaining a video including a plurality of consecutive frames; obtaining a current frame from the plurality of consecutive frames, wherein an object of interest is identified in at least two previous frames of the current frame; obtaining at least two template frames from the at least two previous frames; and identifying a position related to the object of interest in the current frame based on the at least two template frames using a correlation filter. |
| US12283104B2 |
Method, electronic device, and computer program product for extracting target frame
A method in an illustrative embodiment includes acquiring a first sequence of a set of image frames of a video arranged in positive order. The method further includes generating, based on the first sequence of a positive-order arrangement, a second sequence of the set of image frames arranged in reverse order. The method further includes determining a first cross correlation sequence of the image frames in the first sequence relative to the image frames in the second sequence; determining a second cross correlation sequence of the image frames in the second sequence relative to the image frames in the first sequence; determining, based on the first cross correlation sequence and the second cross correlation sequence, a global feature distribution for the set of image frames; and finally, determining, based on the global feature distribution, at least one target frame in the set of image frames. |
| US12283095B2 |
Image detection method, electronic device, and storage medium
An image detection and classification method for faster detection and classification by a neural network is applied to a neural network model including n operators. The neural network model is mapped to a singly-linked list. A vector of data pairs corresponding to the singly-linked list is established, and operator subsets of the neural network model are determined according to the vector. A target image is input to the neural network model, and input data and output data of the operator subset are recorded. The neural network model is applied to detect the target image, and a detection result is output according to the input data and the output data. The method can detect images quickly. |
| US12283092B2 |
Information processing device, learning method, and recording medium
The information processing device performs distillation learning of a student model using unknown data which a teacher model has not learned. The label distribution determination unit outputs an arbitrary label for the unknown data. The data generation unit outputs new generated data using an arbitrary label and unknown data as inputs. The distillation learning part performs distillation learning of the student model using the teacher model and using the generated data as an input. |
| US12283088B2 |
Method and system for determining a driving corridor
The invention relates to a method for determining a driving corridor for a motor vehicle (1). The motor vehicle (10) comprises at least one camera (22) and a control unit (24), the camera (24) being designed to generate images of a front region (30) in front of the motor vehicle (10) and to forward these images to the control unit (24). The control unit (24) comprises a machine learning module (28) having an artificial neural network. The method comprises the following steps: an image of the front region (30) in front of the motor vehicle (10) is obtained by the at least one camera (22); characteristic image features of the image are extracted by means of the artificial neural network; by means of the same artificial neural network, image points (32) which delimit the driving corridor of the motor vehicle (10) and/or at least one driving corridor adjacent to the driving corridor are determined on the basis of the extracted characteristic image features. The invention also relates to a system (20) for determining a vehicle corridor. |
| US12283085B2 |
Data labeling method based on artificial intelligence, apparatus and storage medium
Provided is a data labeling method based on artificial intelligence, an apparatus, and a storage medium relating to the field of artificial intelligence, particularly data labeling, image recognition, and natural language processing. The method includes: determining a plurality of samples involved in clustering; performing a plurality of following operations circularly to realize iterative processing, until a convergence condition is satisfied or a quantity of iterations reaches a number threshold, comprising: pre-clustering the plurality of samples according to a vector representation of the respective samples to obtain a plurality of class clusters, each class cluster containing at least one sample; receiving labeling information for the respective class clusters and re-determining the plurality of samples according to the labeling information; and determining a clustering result according to the labeling information for the respective class clusters. |
| US12283082B1 |
Method and system for quantifying semantic variance between neural network representations
A method and system for quantifying semantic variance between neural network representations is provided. Two neural network representations to be compared are first extracted, the weight of each filter in an intermediate layer corresponding to each semantic concept is learned on a reference dataset using the Net2Vec method, then set IoU of each representation for all semantic concepts in the reference dataset are calculated, and finally variance between the set IoU of the two representations for all the semantic concepts are integrated to obtain semantic variance between the two neural network representations. The method solves the problem of lack of accurate measurement on the variance between neural network representations on a semantic information level, and has an accurate measurement effect. |
| US12283080B2 |
Method of extracting and labeling connected elements in images
The present disclosure relates to a method of extracting and labeling connected elements in images, and more particularly, to a method of detecting connected elements formed as pixels are connected to one another in images and assigning label numbers thereto. A method of extracting and labeling connected elements of images of the present disclosure has the effect of improving productivity by quickly and effectively performing detection and grouping of connection element objects in an image and assigning label numbers thereto by using a small number of operations. A method of extracting and labeling connected elements of images of the present disclosure has an effect of accurately extracting and labeling connected elements without an error even when the shape of the connected elements of an image is complicated. |
| US12283077B2 |
Imaging system, imaging method, and computer readable medium
An imaging system (10) includes: iris imaging means (1) for photographing an iris of a subject; first irradiation means (2a) for applying light to the subject; and second irradiation means (2b) for applying light to the subject in such a manner that an angle between an optical axis of the light emitted from the second irradiation means (2b) and an optical axis of the iris imaging means (1) is larger than an angle between an optical axis of the light emitted from the first irradiation means (2a) and the optical axis of the iris imaging means (1). |
| US12283076B2 |
Decoding method, decoding apparatus and program for decoding part of an entire point cloud in a three-dimensional space
A decoding method is a decoding method performed by a decoding device, the decoding method including steps of: acquiring, from among a plurality of slice numbers indicating a plurality of slices associated with encoded data of the entire point cloud distributed in a three-dimensional space, a first slice number indicating a first slice associated with encoded data of a point cloud of a first space that is a portion of the three-dimensional space, on the basis of a pointer indicating the first slice; and acquiring the encoded data of the point cloud of the first space on the basis of the first slice number, and decoding point cloud data of the first space from the encoded data of the point cloud of the first space. |
| US12283074B2 |
Planar and azimuthal mode in geometric point cloud compression
A device for encoding point cloud data, the device comprising: a memory to store the point cloud data; and one or more processors coupled to the memory and implemented in circuitry, the one or more processors configured to: determine a horizontal plane position of a node, wherein the horizontal plane position indicates a position of a single plane that is perpendicular to a first axis of a coordinate system, wherein the first axis is a horizontal axis; determine, from a plurality of contexts consisting of 8 contexts, a context for the horizontal plane position of the node; and perform arithmetic encoding on a syntax element indicating the horizontal plane position using the determined context. |
| US12283067B2 |
Distance measuring apparatus and distance measuring method
A distance measuring apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises an image acquisition unit that acquires time-series images by an imaging unit, and a processing unit that performs image processing. The processing unit generates a plurality of enlarged images obtained by enlarging a reference image acquired before a target image among the time-series images at a plurality of types of different enlargement rates. The processing unit obtains a difference between each of the plurality of enlarged images and the target image, detects a target object that is a subject from the target image, and specifies a distance to the detected target object on the basis of the enlargement rate of the enlarged image with which the difference is minimum. |
| US12283060B2 |
Splatting-based digital image synthesis
Digital image synthesis techniques are described that leverage splatting, i.e., forward warping. In one example, a first digital image and a first optical flow are received by a digital image synthesis system. A first splat metric and a first merge metric are constructed by the digital image synthesis system that defines a weighted map of respective pixels. From this, the digital image synthesis system produces a first warped optical flow and a first warp merge metric corresponding to an interpolation instant by forward warping the first optical flow based on the splat metric and the merge metric. A first warped digital image corresponding to the interpolation instant is formed by the digital image synthesis system by backward warping the first digital image based on the first warped optical flow. |
| US12283059B2 |
Resilient dynamic projection mapping system and methods
Systems and methods for dynamically tracking objects, and projecting rendered 3D content onto said objects in real-time. The methods described herein further include image data capture performed by various image-capturing devices, wherein said data is segmented into various components to identify one or more projectors for rendering and projecting 3D content components onto one or more objects. |
| US12283053B2 |
System and method for determining damage on crops
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computer system (100) for determining the impact of herbicides on crop plants (11) in an agricultural field (10). The system includes an interface (110) to receive an image (20) with at least one crop plant representing a real world situation in the agricultural field (10) after herbicide application. An image pre-processing module (120) rescales the received image (20) to a rescaled image (20a) matching the size of an input layer of a first fully convolutional neural network (CNN1) referred to as the first CNN. The first CNN is trained to segment the rescaled image (20a) into crop (11) and non-crop (12, 13) portions, and provides a first segmented output (20s1) indicating the crop portions (20c) of the rescaled image with pixels belonging to representations of crop. A second fully convolutional neural network (CNN2), referred to as the second CNN, is trained to segment said crop portions into a second segmented output (20s2) with one or more sub-portions (20n, 20l) with each sub-portion including pixels associated with damaged parts of the crop plant showing a respective damage type (11-1, 11-2). A damage measurement module (130) determines a damage measure (131) for the at least one crop plant for each damage type (11-1, 11-2) based on the respective sub-portions of the second segmented output (20s2) in relation to the crop portion of the first segmented output (20s1). |
| US12283052B2 |
Method and system for automatically detecting anatomical structures in a medical image
The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for automatically detecting anatomical structures (3) in a medical image (1) of a subject, the method comprising applying an object detector function (4) to the medical image, wherein the object detector function performs the steps of: (A) applying a first neural network (40) to the medical image, wherein the first neural network is trained to detect a first plurality of classes of larger-sized anatomical structures (3a), thereby generating as output the coordinates of at least one first bounding box (51) and the confidence score of it containing a larger-sized anatomical structure; (B) cropping (42) the medical image to the first bounding box, thereby generating a cropped image (11) containing the image content within the first bounding box (51); and (C) applying a second neural network (44) to the cropped medical image, wherein the second neural network is trained to detect at least one second class of smaller-sized anatomical structures (3b), thereby generating as output the coordinates of at least one second bounding box (54) and the confidence score of it containing a smaller-sized anatomical structure. |
| US12283049B2 |
Medical imaging apparatus for obtaining medical image of equine and operating method thereof
An operation method of a medical imaging apparatus for capturing an X-ray medical image is provided. The method includes receiving identification information of a user, receiving photographing mode selection information, determining that a photographing mode is an X-ray photographing mode for checking a health condition of an object on the basis of at least one of the identification information of the user and the photographing mode selection information, obtaining identification information of the object, determining an initial photographing position from among a plurality of predetermined photographing positions, and determining a photographing sequence of the plurality of predetermined photographing positions on the basis of the initial photographing position. |
| US12283040B2 |
Mining equipment inspection system, mining equipment inspection method, and mining equipment inspection device
A computer-implemented point-cloud data acquisitioning method for acquiring point-cloud data of the inside of a mining equipment. The method includes the step of acquiring from a sensor, a first dataset and a second dataset, wherein each dataset includes datapoints at coordinates. The method extracts features from the first and second dataset and aligns the first and second dataset using the extracted features. The first and second dataset are aligned into a point-cloud data. The geometry of the mining equipment is estimated based on the point-cloud data and the point-cloud data is used to identify a region of the estimated geometry indicating insufficient data. |
| US12283039B2 |
Method and system for defect inspection based on deep learning
The present disclosure in some embodiments provides a product inspection method and a system based on deep learning for detecting a product defect. The present disclosure provides a product inspection method and system for detecting product defects by linking a predeveloped deep learning-based classification model to interwork with the existing product inspection system while fine-tuning the classification model to be maintained or supplemented by instantly correcting errors of the classification model, thereby improving the accuracy of product quality inspection. |
| US12283036B2 |
Automatic determination process device, automatic determination process method, inspection system, program, and recording medium
An automatic determination process device 1 comprises image acquisition units 14, 147, 247, an automatic determination unit 15, and determination result output units 14, 148, 248. An error detection verification device 2 displays a defect candidate image on a display device. The error detection verification device 2 acquires, via an input device, secondary inspection determination result information about the defect candidate image. The image acquisition units 14, 147, 247 read the defect candidate image displayed by the error detection verification device 2 from a medium for displaying the same on the display device. The automatic determination unit 15 executes a determination process on the basis of the content of the defect candidate image read by the image acquisition units 14, 147, 247 and outputs a determination result. The determination result output units 14, 148, 248 generate a signal in accordance with the determination result. Said signal is equivalent to pressing, via the input device connected to the error detection verification device 2, either a “defect” button or a “good” button included on a screen displayed by the error detection verification device 2. |
| US12283034B2 |
Manufacturing method of learning data, learning method, learning data manufacturing apparatus, learning apparatus, and memory medium
A manufacturing method of learning data is used for making a neural network perform learning. The manufacturing method of learning data includes a first acquiring step configured to acquire an original image, a second acquiring step configured to acquire a first image as a training image generated by adding blur to the original image, and a third acquiring step configured to acquire a second image as a ground truth image generated by adding blur to the original image. A blur amount added to the second image is smaller than that added to the first image. |
| US12283032B2 |
Image processing device, image processing method, image capturing apparatus, and image processing system
An image processing device includes: a determination means for determining an image capturing means used for capturing at least one particular portion in a combined image in which a first partial image captured using a first image capturing means and a second partial image captured using a second image capturing means are stitched together; and a correction means for applying image correction to the combined image based on a determination result of the determination means. |
| US12283031B2 |
Method and apparatus for removing honeycomb artifacts from optical fiber bundle images based on artificial intelligence
Provided are an apparatus and method for honeycomb artifacts removal for removing honeycomb artifacts in images received from an optical fiber imaging device through a honeycomb artifact removal model. The honeycomb artifact removal apparatus according to an embodiment includes a control unit configured to create a training dataset, build the honeycomb artifact removal model with the created training data, remove a honeycomb artifact in an input image through the built honeycomb artifact removal model and output a corrected image, wherein the control unit is configured to perform preprocessing of a raw image, acquire a honeycomb artifact image through the optical fiber imaging device, and synthesize the preprocessed raw image with the honeycomb artifact image to generate a honeycomb artifact synthesized image, and the training dataset is created by mapping the honeycomb artifact synthesized image as input data and the preprocessed raw image as output data. |
| US12283025B2 |
Image generation apparatus, control method, and non-transitory recording medium
Provided are a memory and a processor connected to the memory to execute a program stored in the memory. The processor classifies each of pixels included in an image into any one region of a region of achromatic color and a region of chromatic color inside a color space, uses the pixels classified into the region of achromatic color to extract a first predetermined number of representative colors, uses the pixels classified into the region of chromatic color to extract a second predetermined number of representative colors, and replaces each of the pixels included in the image with a pixel of a representative color having a smallest difference in pixel value from the pixels included in the image, among the first predetermined number of representative colors and the second predetermined number of representative colors, to generate a color-reduced image of the image. |
| US12283024B2 |
Super-resolution radar for autonomous vehicles
Examples disclosed herein relate to an autonomous driving system in a vehicle. The autonomous driving system includes a radar system configured to detect a target in a path and a surrounding environment of the vehicle and produce radar data with a first resolution that is gathered over a continuous field of view on the detected target. The system includes a super-resolution network configured to receive the radar data with the first resolution and produce radar data with a second resolution different from the first resolution using first neural networks. The system also includes a target identification module configured to receive the radar data with the second resolution and to identify the detected target from the radar data with the second resolution using second neural networks. Other examples disclosed herein include a method of operating the radar system in the autonomous driving system of the vehicle. |
| US12283019B2 |
Method and apparatus for displaying virtual card, computer device, and storage medium
Techniques for displaying a virtual card are provided. The techniques comprise obtaining a first card face pattern, a first initial parameter, and a first association relationship corresponding to the virtual card, wherein the first initial parameter represents an initial parameter of a first display feature of a first material, and the first association relationship represents a rule by which a real-time parameter of the first display feature changes as a change of a parameter associated with a sensor in a mobile client device happens; displaying the first material in the virtual card based on the first initial parameter; detecting in real time the parameter associated with the sensor, and determining the real-time parameter of the first display feature based on the first association relationship and the parameter; and displaying the first material in the virtual card based on the real-time parameter of the first display feature. |
| US12283014B2 |
Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, information processing method, and information processing device
Provided are a program and the like, in which it is possible to display a globe in a photographed image and three-dimensionally display a cloud at the corresponding position.A program according to one aspect causes a computer to execute processing of acquiring an altitude of a cloud at each position, and displaying, when a globe of a reality space is held up, a globe of a first virtual space, in response to a movement of the globe of the reality space, while three-dimensionally displaying a cloud according to a specified altitude at a corresponding position on the first virtual space. Accordingly, it is possible to display the globe in the photographed image and three-dimensionally display the cloud at the corresponding position. |
| US12283009B2 |
Augmented reality system
An example augmented reality system includes: obtaining information about an instance of a device; recognizing the instance of the device based on the information; selecting a digital twin for the instance of the device, with the digital twin being unique to the instance of the device; and generating augmented reality content based on the digital twin and an actual graphic of the instance of the device. |
| US12283008B2 |
Systems and methods for parametric capture of live-streaming events
Embodiments of the present disclosure may include a method for parametric capture of an event including capturing discrete elements. In some embodiments, the discrete elements may include at least one participant, a three dimensional object, and an environmental aspect of the event. Embodiments may also include filming a live event to create image data from a scene. In some embodiments, a frame of the image data from the scene may include a discrete element. In some embodiments, the discrete element includes at least one of the three dimensional object, at least one participant, or the environmental aspect of the event. Embodiments may also include receiving the image data of the scene. Embodiments may also include identifying at least one discrete element within the image data from the scene. In some embodiments, the discrete elements may be associated with one or more characteristics. |
| US12283005B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing visual network service
Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for processing an application service. The method includes: registering a user using a visual network service and at least one physical entity supporting the visual network service; mapping at least one virtual entity corresponding to the at least one physical entity; in response to the user's entering a visual network service space, displaying the at least one virtual entity on a terminal device of the user; and confirming a user input for the at least one virtual entity and controlling an operation of the at least one physical entity corresponding to the at least one virtual entity. |
| US12283003B2 |
Remote assistance using augmented reality
Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: receiving a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) models of a plurality of assembly parts of a physical object; displaying, on a display device and over a live video of the plurality of assembly parts, an augmented reality (AR) overlay including the plurality 3D models; providing the plurality 3D models to a remote device for display on the remote device; receiving, from the remote device, data indicative of instructions for assembling the plurality of assembly parts into the physical object; and modifying, based on the received data, the AR overlay displayed on the display device to provide the instructions for assembling the plurality of assembly parts into the physical object. |
| US12283000B2 |
Method, system, and program for generating three-dimensional model using plane symmetry or rotational symmetry
A method, a system, and a program for generating a three-dimensional model are provided. A method according to an embodiment for generating a three-dimensional model includes (1) deriving an initial reference coordinate system based on measurement data indicating a three-dimensional shape of an object (2) selecting an axis of the initial reference coordinate system (3) determining whether or not there is rotational symmetry about the axis (4) determining whether or not there is rotational symmetry with an angular period about the axis (5) when there is the rotational symmetry with the angular period, correcting a reference coordinate system (6) when there is no rotational symmetry, determining plane symmetry about the axis (7) when there is the plane symmetry, correcting the reference coordinate system and (8) performing processing of (3)-(7) for each of three axes of the initial reference coordinate system. |
| US12282997B2 |
Generating simulation scenarios and digital media using digital twins
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a request for generating a simulation scenario or digital media that includes one or more entities and one or more assets in an environment, the request including contextual information. The method further includes selecting three-dimensional (3D) digital twins based on the contextual information, wherein one or more of the 3D digital twins correspond to the assets, one or more of the 3D digital twins correspond to the one or more entities, and one of the 3D digital twins corresponds to the environment. The method further includes generating the simulation scenario that initializes the 3D digital twins and establishes a spatial relationship between the 3D digital twins based on the contextual information. The method further includes controlling behavior of the 3D digital twins in the simulation scenario based on the contextual information. |
| US12282994B1 |
System and method for rendering multiple polygons
A system and method builds triangles from vertices of polygons and stores the pixels overlayed at least in part by each triangle. The system and method then takes pixels overlayed by an even number of times for each polygon and renders them. Antialiasing information may be generated and provided by oring or exclusive oring bits representing each polygon for each of several pixel divisions. |
| US12282987B2 |
Generating image mattes without trimap segmentations via a multi-branch neural network
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for generating image mattes for detected objects in digital images without trimap segmentation via a multi-branch neural network. The disclosed system utilizes a first neural network branch of a generative neural network to extract a coarse semantic mask from a digital image. The disclosed system utilizes a second neural network branch of the generative neural network to extract a detail mask based on the coarse semantic mask. Additionally, the disclosed system utilizes a third neural network branch of the generative neural network to fuse the coarse semantic mask and the detail mask to generate an image matte. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed system also utilizes a refinement neural network to generate a final image matte by refining selected portions of the image matte generated by the generative neural network. |
| US12282986B2 |
Mobile terminal and cosmetics automatic recognition system
The present invention relates to a mobile terminal and a cosmetics automatic recognition system capable of recognizing cosmetics located nearby and recommending a make-up method using the recognized cosmetics. The present invention may comprise a mobile terminal including: an RFID reader unit configured to recognize cosmetics through an RFID tag attached to a cosmetic and receive cosmetic information from the recognized RFID tag and from cosmetics having an RFID tag which stores cosmetic information attached thereto; a control unit configured to generate a cosmetics list consisting of at least one cosmetic recognized by the RFID reader unit; and a display unit configured to display the cosmetics list. |
| US12282980B2 |
Picture loading method and related apparatus
A picture loading method includes an electronic device that obtains a first picture file. The first picture file includes a format field and a data field. The format field indicates a source format of the first picture file, and the data field includes pixel data of the first picture file. The electronic device determines, based on the source format of the first picture file, a rendering operation corresponding to the first picture file and renders the first picture file on a display. |
| US12282976B2 |
Automatically enhancing content items through identifying relationships
Provided are techniques for automatically enhancing content items through identifying relationships. One or more content items and an associated transcript for each of the one or more content items are received. One or more terms are identified in the one or more content items. A content tree is built for each of the one or more content items using the one or more terms and corresponding contexts. A content graph is built using each content tree. One or more subgraphs of the content graph are identified. One or more paths through each of the one or more subgraphs are identified and one or more content expansion recommendations are provided. In response to selection of a content item, the one or more paths are used to provide an enhanced content item with one or more prerequisite content items and one or more subsequent content items. |
| US12282975B2 |
Systems and methods for reducing risk of pathogen exposure within a space
A system reduces risk of pathogen exposure within a space that is located within a facility having a plurality of spaces that periodically have one or more people within the space. The system includes one or more occupancy sensors that are configured to provide an indication of when the space is occupied and when the space is not occupied. A sanitizer is configured to sanitize surfaces within the space when activated. A controller is operably coupled with the one or more occupancy sensors and the sanitizer. The controller is configured to determine a designated time to sanitize the space based at least in part upon information received from the one or more occupancy sensors and to automatically instruct the sanitizer to sanitize surfaces within the space at the designated time. |
| US12282973B2 |
Virtualized battery resources for grid service participation
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to virtualizing battery resources for grid service applications. In particular, some of these aspects provide a method for configuring a plurality of virtual energy storage devices in an energy storage device of a fixed energy storage system; and performing two or more grid services concurrently with two or more virtual energy storage devices of the plurality of virtual energy storage devices. |
| US12282972B2 |
Electric power agreement system and electric power agreement method
The present disclosure is intended to reduce the occurrence of breakdown of a line facility due to variation between an agreement result and electric power actually flowing through a line. An electric power agreement system includes: an agreement result calculation unit that calculates an agreement result about each customer; a flow achievement calculation unit that calculates a flow achievement for the line facility individually; a flow plan calculation unit that calculates as the flow plan for the line facility individually; a risk calculation unit that calculates a variation of the flow achievement from the flow plan assumed in the future as a risk for the line facility individually on the basis of a variation of the flow achievement from the flow plan in the past; and a line constraint evaluation unit that determines for the line facility individually whether a risk-considered flow plan fulfills line constraint. |
| US12282971B2 |
Distributed energy resource system design and operation
An energy management system for enhancing design and operation of a distributed energy resource system includes a two-level design system and a hierarchical optimization-based control system. The two-level design system includes a top-level designer configured to coordinate decentralized bottom-level designers for individual energy resources to seek a global target for the designed distributed energy resource system that satisfies the energy demand of a target deployment location within a confidence level, and multiple bottom-level designers configured to enhance detailed designs of local energy sub-systems. The hierarchical optimization-based control system include a primary controller configured to determine a long-term operational schedule based on long-term constraints and future events at a first level, one or more secondary controllers configured to control daily orchestrations of the distributed energy resource system during operation at a second level, and multiple tertiary controllers and aggregators configured to rapidly adjust various hardware at a third level. |
| US12282969B2 |
Insights system
Systems and methods are disclosed for generating interactive user interfaces for evaluating transactions of an organization. For example, a system can be configured to receive transactions for an organization and determine a first subset of the transactions during a trip at a first location that is different from a home location of a consumer. A respective transaction associated with a second location that occurred during the trip is identified. The respective transaction is assigned to the first subset of the of transactions for the trip. A second subset of the transactions of a spending type is determined. A parameter value associated with the spending type is identified. A parameter adjustment is determined. The system is configured to cause a display of a spending type user interface on a client device and receive a selection of a parameter component. |
| US12282967B2 |
Systems and methods for generating insurance policies with predesignated policy levels and reimbursement controls
A computer system for providing reimbursement controls to insurance policies is provided. The computer system may include a processor in communication with a memory device. The processor may be configured to: (i) generate a plurality of predesignated policy levels having a maximum reimbursement amount for a user based at least in part upon user data, (ii) prompt the user to select a predesignated policy level of the plurality of predesignated policy levels that includes an insurance policy covering one or more item categories up to the associated maximum reimbursement amount, (iii) store the selected predesignated policy level, (iv) receive a claim from the user, (v) determine, in response to the claim and based at least in part upon the selected predesignated policy level and the associated maximum reimbursement amount, an actual reimbursement amount for each insured item category of the one or more item categories, and (vi) provide a payment device to the user having reimbursement controls that provide the actual reimbursement amount by insured item category. |
| US12282965B2 |
Personalized insurance systems
Personalized insurance systems, including vehicle-based devices and modules, insurance system servers, personal mobile devices, and other computing devices, may operate individually or in combination to determine and implement personalized vehicle insurance policies. Such policies may be driver-specific, time-specific, vehicle-specific, and/or driving-trip specific. Various driver data, vehicle data, and driving trip data may be received and analyzed in order to determine usage-based insurance parameters for vehicle driving and non-driving activities. Personalized vehicle insurance policies may be presented to and accepted by drivers, after which the drivers and one or more associated vehicles may be monitored to detect and store vehicle usage data in accordance with the personalized insurance policy. |
| US12282963B1 |
Automatedly generating and issuing accident data gathering recommendations following a vehicle accident
Methods and systems described herein are directed to automatedly generating and issuing accident data gathering recommendations for a vehicle accident occurrence. In response to a recommendation system detecting an occurrence of a vehicle accident, the system can retrieve initial accident data for the occurrence. Using the initial accident data, the system can generate accident data gathering recommendations to obtain additional accident data via mapping to one or more characteristics for the vehicle accident occurrence. The recommendations, when executed, can yield additional accident data that can be compiled with the initial accident data into a vehicle accident evidence package. |
| US12282960B2 |
Compression of an exchange traded derivative portfolio
An illustrative computing device may include a processor and a non-transitory memory device for storing a data structure capable of being compressed, where the data structure includes a plurality of data elements and each of the plurality of data elements includes a date field and a quantity field. The computing device may process instructions to arrange the plurality of data elements in a consecutive series in date order based on a value stored in the date field of each data element, determine whether a gap appears in the consecutive series of data elements based on a value stored in the quantity field of each element, remove the determined gaps in each of the data elements, and repeat the determining and removing steps until a predetermined criterion has been reached. |
| US12282957B2 |
Funding central bank digital currency (CBDC) wallet accounts
Disclosed are various embodiments for funding central bank digital currency (CBDC) accounts by converting funds (e.g., fiat money, representative money, account currency, etc.) into CBDC. A request to fund a central bank digital currency (CBDC) wallet associated with a CBDC wallet address is received. The associated funds can be verified and, in the case of fiat money, confirmed destroyed. A transaction can be generated indicating an addition of CBDC having a CBDC value corresponding to the value of the funds. The transaction can be recorded in a CBDC ledger in association with the CBDC wallet address. |
| US12282951B1 |
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for customizing product packages
System, methods, and apparatuses provide customizable product features by receiving, from a computing device associated with a user, an indication of user interest in a product, identifying, based on a first profile associated with the user, a first attribute, determining one or more second profiles that comprise the first attribute, determining one or more features, of the product, that are associated with the one or more second profiles, determining, for each of the one or more features, a utility value, simulating, based on strategic alternatives data and the utility value for each of the one or more features, demand for the one or more features, determining, based on the simulated demand, that a subset of the one or more features satisfies a need state associated with the user, and sending, to the computing device, a product package including the subset of the one or more features. |
| US12282950B2 |
Credential provisioning for an electronic device
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for provisioning credentials on an electronic device are provided. In one example embodiment, a secure platform system may be in communication with an electronic device and a financial institution subsystem. The secure platform system may be configured to, inter alia, detect a selection of a particular commerce credential, access communication mechanism data indicative of at least one communication mechanism of the device, where the at least one mechanism is configured to receive a communication on the device, transmit information to the financial subsystem, where the information includes the mechanism data and the selection of the particular commerce credential, and instruct the financial subsystem to provision the particular commerce credential in a disabled state on the device and communicate credential enablement data to the device using a particular communication mechanism of the at least one communication mechanism indicated by the communication mechanism data. |
| US12282948B2 |
Assisting users in visualizing dimensions of a product
A computer readable medium for sizing a product includes instructions, that when executed by at least one processor, cause a computing device to: retrieve from a webpage information on a product including product dimensions; present on a display of a client device a graphical button that upon access by a user activates a camera for capturing an image of an object positioned at a focal distance from the camera, the object having a surface; prompt the user to enter boundary information of an imaginary housing to be placed on the surface; generate the imaginary housing dimensions in two dimensions (2D) based on the boundary information and the focal distance; and determine whether the product fits within the imaginary housing by comparing the product dimensions against the imaginary housing dimensions. |
| US12282943B2 |
Utilizing a vehicle to determine an identity of a user
There are provided systems and methods for utilizing a vehicle to determine an identity of a user. A user may establish a vehicle as associated with the user, such as a vehicle owned by the user or used by the user. The vehicle may include a vehicle device that may be configured to establish connections with other devices using short range and network communications. In various embodiments, the other devices may be devices at merchant locations. Thus, a merchant at the merchant location may be informed about settings, preferences, and/or parameters for use of the vehicle established by the user. The merchant may receive these parameters even if another user is utilizing the vehicle, thus, establishing rules for use of the vehicle by the other user. In other embodiments, the other devices may be devices in other vehicles, allowing the users to communicate and set waypoints during trips. |
| US12282942B2 |
Selection device and selection method for motor and amplifier
Provided are a selection device and a selection method for enabling an operator to efficiently select an amplifier capable of driving a motor having a desired performance, said selection being made from the perspective of the number of amplifiers installed, the price, or the installation space. This selection device for selecting an amplifier and a motor is provided with: a storage unit for storing the motor performance for each of a plurality of motors and, for each of a plurality of amplifiers, the number of control shafts and/or the price and/or the installation space of the amplifier, as well as the performance of the motors that can be driven; an input unit for enabling an operator to input selection information; a motor selection unit for selecting a motor satisfying a condition; an amplifier selection unit for selecting one or more amplifiers for driving the required number of motors satisfying the condition, said selection being made so as to minimize the total number installed, the total price, or the total installation space; and a display unit for displaying the selected motor and the selected amplifiers. |
| US12282940B2 |
Advertisement title rewriting method, apparatus and device, and storage medium
Provided are an advertisement title rewriting method, apparatus and device and a storage medium. The method includes steps described below. Preset information in an advertisement title is replaced with a corresponding placeholder so that the advertisement title is converted into a title template; a rewritten title template is generated through a preset neural network model according to the title template, an advertisement attribute key-value table and a query cluster; and the placeholder in the rewritten title template is replaced with the corresponding preset information so that the rewritten title template is converted into a rewritten title. |
| US12282938B2 |
Methods and apparatus for generating information about portable device advertising
Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture are disclosed herein to generate information about portable device advertising. An example apparatus includes memory and at least one processor to execute machine readable instructions to, in response to one or more commands from a simulation processor external to the at least one processor, access data via the Internet based on a usage profile, the usage profile representative of portable device usage by persons having similar usage characteristics, sample portions of the data to distinguish an advertisement from non-advertising content, determine an attribute of the advertisement; and transmit the attribute to the simulation processor. |
| US12282935B2 |
Tool for generating and publishing vehicle offer
A tool for generating and publishing vehicle offers by matching up manufacturer incentive data and vehicle data received from a third party data source with inventory data received from a dealership data source is disclosed. The disclosed tool allows a user to match incentive and vehicle data to specific vehicles currently in a dealership's inventory and to generate custom offers for those specific vehicles that uniquely identify the specific vehicles from dealership's inventory. |
| US12282934B1 |
Analysis of debit card compared to credit card use
An example computing device includes: a processor; and a system memory, the system memory including instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the computing device to: identify a financial account associated with debit card use; parse financial transactions associated with the financial account to identify debit card transactions; categorize the debit card transactions into categories based upon types of merchants; map the categories to incentives associated with a credit card; and present potential savings associated with the incentives. |
| US12282933B2 |
Location determination using anonymous browser data
Systems, methods, and apparatus are described herein for determining a location from anonymous data. For example, a computing device may receive anonymous data associated with a browser session initialized by a user via a browser on a user computing device. The computing device may determine that the user has not been assigned a unique identifier. The computing device may determine whether the user opted-in to location tracking. If the user opted-out of location tracking, the computing device may determine a latitude coordinate and a longitude coordinate of the user computing device during the browser session. The computing device may identify a physical address for the user based on the latitude coordinate and the longitude coordinate, for example, using a map application programming interface (API). The computing device may assign the unique identifier to the user. The computing device may associate the unique identifier to the physical address. |
| US12282932B2 |
Double blind wine tasting
A system for conducting a beverage tasting event includes a plurality of beverage containers, a plurality of distinct identifiers, a plurality of distinct covers, and a set of instruction materials. The set of instruction materials instructs a first participant to privately assign a correspondence between each distinct beverage and a distinct identifier, and to privately transfer distinct beverages into beverage containers with the distinct identifiers visibly displayed in accordance with each assigned correspondence. The set of instruction materials further instructs a second participant to privately assign a correspondence between each distinct identifier and one of a plurality of distinct covers, and to privately mask, in accordance with each assigned correspondence, the distinct identifiers visibly displayed on the beverage containers, with the distinct covers, such that the distinct covers are visibly displayed on the beverage containers and the distinct identifiers are no longer visible on the beverage containers. |
| US12282931B2 |
Optimized lead generation, management, communication, and tracking system
An optimized lead generation, management, communication, and tracking system is disclosed. In particular, the system may allow for the automation of business, clinical, and computing activities for a practice, organization, business, or other entity. The system utilizes a comprehensive and robust online portal with digital software functions and digital communications capabilities to accomplish tasks that are traditionally performed by personnel or unable to be performed by personnel. For example, the system is capable of attracting, screening, and scheduling patients for procedures to be performed at a medical practice. Additionally, the system may communicate with a patient before and after a medical procedure, track patient outcomes after a patient undergoes a procedure, and calculate key performance metrics and indicators specific to the entity and/or the procedure. Notably, use of the system substantially reduces errors and costs associated with the operation of the entity, while simultaneously optimizing the use of computing resources. |
| US12282925B2 |
Multi-phase privacy-preserving inferencing in a high volume data environment
A method, apparatus and computer program product that provides multi-phase privacy-preserving inferencing in a high throughput data environment, e.g., to facilitate fraud prediction, detection and prevention. In one embodiment, two (2) machine learning models are used, a first model that is trained in the clear on first transaction data, and a second model that is trained in the clear but on the first transaction data, and user data. The first model is used to perform inferencing in the clear on the high throughput received data. In this manner, the first model provides a first level evaluation of whether a particular transaction might be fraudulent. If a transaction is flagged in this first phase, a second more secure inference is then carried out using the second model. The inferencing performed by the second model is done on homomorphically encrypted data. Thus, only those transactions marked by the first model are passed to the second model for secure evaluation. |
| US12282919B2 |
Biometric tokenized networks
Biometric tokenized networks. In one embodiment, a system includes a network and a server. The server includes a memory storing a biometric token vault, a communication interface, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to: receive a biometric token (i.e., identity token), a merchant identifier, and transaction details via the network, confirm a uniqueness of the biometric token with a second biometric token stored in the biometric token vault, generate a relationship identifier based on the merchant identifier and a global unique identifier linked to the second biometric token, and determine whether the relationship identifier is associated with a payment account reference, and output the merchant identifier, the transaction details, and a personal account number associated with the payment account reference to an issuer via the network in response to determining that the relationship identifier is associated with the payment account reference. |
| US12282918B2 |
Systems, methods, and computer program product for content exchange services for payment networks
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for secure content exchange. A secure content exchange platform includes a content exchanger and exchange gateway interface. The content exchanger stores a content item and generates a globally unique identifier (GUID) associated with the content item. The exchange gateway interface receives a registration request for the content item from a sending financial institution system, submits the content item to the content exchanger, receives the GUID associated with the content item from the content exchanger, returns the GUID to the sending financial institution system as a response to the registration request, receives a retrieval request from a recipient financial institution system, retrieves the GUID from the retrieval request to submit the GUID to the content exchanger, receives the content item from the content exchanger, and returns the content item to the recipient financial institution system as a response to the retrieval request. |
| US12282914B1 |
Mobile electronic wallet
Association of personal, financial, and/or business-related identification information with a mobile communication device (MCD) is provided for herein. For example, an MCD can be associated with a financial account and can further include an identification component that verifies an identity of a user of the MCD. Identity can be verified by biometric analysis (e.g., finger/thumb print scan), username and password, optical feature scan, or a combination thereof or of like mechanisms, for instance. Accordingly, the claimed subject matter provides a mechanism to verify identification of a user of an MCD and incorporate user ID into remote data exchange, including remote financial transactions, with one or more networked devices. |
| US12282913B2 |
Mobile wireless communications device having digital wallet with multi-mode user card and related methods
A mobile wireless communications device may include a housing, a wireless transceiver carried by the housing, a memory carried by the housing, a display carried by the housing, and a processor carried by the housing. The processor is configured to implement a digital wallet including a multi-mode user card having first and second user interface modes, and selectively change the multi-mode user card from the first user interface mode to the second user interface mode based upon a current location, a current time, or a determined event. The second user interface mode includes one or more of a mapping interface mode, a survey interface mode, or a purchase interface mode. |
| US12282912B2 |
System and method for ephemeral compute with payment card processing
Technology is described for payment card processing using ephemeral compute. An example system comprises a client application, an ephemeral compute instance, and a payment service. The client application is configured to send a request for transmitting sensitive information associated with a payment card to the ephemeral compute instance. The ephemeral compute instance is triggered to transmit the sensitive information to the payment service in response to receiving the request and is configured to shut down after the transmission of the sensitive information to the payment service. The payment service is configured to authorize a transaction based on the received sensitive information transmitted by the ephemeral compute instance. |
| US12282910B2 |
Secure data management for sensitive information
Methods, systems, and computer readable medium are provided for generating, by a secure processor, a plurality of configurable data entry elements configured into a webpage, receiving sensitive data entered via the plurality of configurable data entry elements during a user data entry session, generating a hidden controller iframe in the webpage, aggregating, by the hidden controller iframe, the sensitive data across the plurality of configurable data entry elements, and directing aggregated sensitive data to the secure processor hosted by a first server separate from a second server hosting the webpage. |
| US12282909B2 |
Transmitting data based on retrieval locations
A system, a medium, and a method are provided to send compensation data to devices at one or more locations where the data is retrievable. For example, a communication interface of a server device accesses request data, where the request data includes an indication of one or more locations where a compensation amount is retrievable. A compensation data component generates compensation data based on the indication of the one or more locations where the compensation amount is retrievable. A location component determines a location of a client device that corresponds to the one or more locations. A transceiver transmits the compensation data to the client device based on the determined location of the client device that corresponds to the one or more locations. |
| US12282907B2 |
Offloading a signing operation on a user device
In some implementations, a terminal device may obtain exchange information associated with an exchange initiated at the terminal device. The exchange information may identify a medium used in the exchange. The terminal device may be configured to present a terminal-side user interface for performing a signing operation of the exchange. The terminal device may selectively obtain user information associated with the medium used in the exchange. The user information may identify a user device associated with the medium. The terminal device may transmit, to the user device and based on obtaining the user information, presentation information that identifies content for a user-side user interface for performing the signing operation at the user device. The terminal device may receive, from the user device, signing information associated with a performance of the signing operation at the user device via the user-side user interface. |
| US12282906B2 |
Transaction data processing apparatus connected to an external device for data communication
A transaction data processing apparatus includes a scanning unit configured to scan a product code of a product related to a transaction, a printing unit configured to print transaction data on a sheet, a communication unit configured to transmit the transaction data to an external device over a network, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to generate the transaction data based on the scanned product code, determine whether the network is online or offline, and control the communication unit to transmit the transaction data to the external device when the network is online, and the printing unit to print the transaction data on the sheet when the network is offline. |
| US12282904B2 |
User and intermediary implementation mechanisms for digital currencies
An electronic communication device (ECD) includes a memory that stores software instructions; and a processor that executes the software instructions. When executed by the processor, the software instructions cause the ECD to: generate and send formatted inquiries and formatted instructions for virtual notes of a national digital currency to a central system that tracks all instances of virtual notes of the national digital currency; and receive responses to the formatted inquiries and confirmations of the formatted instructions from the central system if the formatted inquiries and formatted instructions comply with a predetermined format required by the central system to process the formatted inquiries and formatted instructions. |
| US12282897B1 |
System and method for establishing contextual links between data in a construction environment
A method for establishing and generating contextual links between data from a plurality of data sources is described. The method includes receiving data and decomposing the received data into a decomposed data set; parsing and analyzing the decomposed data set based on a set of attribute analyzers to associate one or more attributes to the decomposed data set; determining an intent of data from the decomposed data set; generating a semantic graph of the decomposed data set based on the intent of data to evaluate data relatability between the decomposed data set; generating atomic knowledge units (AMUs) based on the parsed decomposed data set and the semantic graph; analyzing the AMUs corresponding to the received data by applying trained machine learning models to generate links between the AMUs and processing the generated links by a model ensemble to establish contextual links between data. |
| US12282896B1 |
Collaborative planning system
A collaborative planning system facilitates sharing of critical plans (e.g., a military mission plan) within an organization and managing authorizations of the plans from reviewers at multiple levels within the organization. Once the plans are approved, a data object representative of the plans is created and stored in an ontology of data objects (with objects of various types and associations between related data objects) so that the plans may be identified as associated with related data objects via searches of the data objects in the ontology. |
| US12282893B2 |
Systems and methods for a 3D model for visualization of landscape design
The following relates generally to light detection and ranging (LIDAR) and artificial intelligence (AI). In some embodiments, a system: receives LIDAR data generated from a LIDAR camera; measures a plurality of dimensions of a landscape based upon processor analysis of the LIDAR data; builds a 3D model of the landscape based upon the measured plurality of dimensions, the 3D model including: (i) a structure, and (ii) a vegetation; and displays a representation of the 3D model. |
| US12282889B2 |
Mobile delivery system with secure access lockers
An autonomous delivery vehicle including locking storage containers may be used for item deliveries, rejections, returns, and/or third-party fulfillment. A delivery vehicle or robot may include a number of locking storage containers, an authorization interface, and one or more sensors to receive delivery requests, detect and authorize users, and control locker access at various delivery locations to allow users to receive delivered items, and reject or return items. The vehicle may also include a passenger compartment to transport one or more passengers. The vehicle may be reconfigurable to accommodate different combinations of lockers and/or passenger seats. An item delivery system may receive delivery requests and determine routes for delivery vehicles, including centralized delivery locations and/or direct deliveries to recipients. |
| US12282881B1 |
Remote capture and viewing of workstation activity
Devices, systems, and methods for remote capture and viewing of workstation activity are provided. The system may comprise a worker computer, a data-streamer, a segmenter, a server, a requester, a stitcher, and a watcher computer. The segmenter creates segment files associated with segments of data-streams of captures of workstation activity. The stitcher creates data-streams of captures of workstation activity from such segment files. Gains in speed and efficiency are achieved by segmenting data-streams into segments for transmission, storage, and processing. |
| US12282880B2 |
Connecting a supervisor device to a contact center engagement
A sentiment-based score is determined for a contact center engagement between a first contact center service operator and a contact center user. The sentiment-based score is indicated within a graphical user interface displaying information associated with multiple contact center engagements at a device of a second contact center service operator. Based on a request to participate in the contact center engagement received from the device of the second contact center service operator via the graphical user interface, information associated with the contact center engagement is transmitted to the device of the second contact center service operator, and a contact center session involving a device of the contact center user and the device of the second contact center service operator is established. |
| US12282877B2 |
Device-specific productivity enhancements
Disclosed herein are various embodiments for a device-specific productivity enhancements. An embodiment operates by determining a plurality of actions, corresponding to key performance indicators, associated with a user account. A user interface displaying the actions is provided to a mobile device. A first subset of the plurality of actions actionable from the mobile device and a second subset of the plurality of actions actionable from the another device associated with the user account are identified. The first subset of actions is provided to the user interface on the mobile device. An indication that the action was performed is received via the user interface, and a key performance indicator corresponding to the indicated action is identified. A value of the identified key performance indicator and updated and provided to the user interface on the mobile device. |
| US12282875B2 |
Linkedchain, control tower and blockchain for enterprise applications
The present invention provides linkedchain, control tower and blockchain for one or more enterprise applications. The system includes a linked chain within a control tower configured to connect with blockchain and non-blockchain based entity systems. |
| US12282873B2 |
On-demand transport selection process facilitating third-party autonomous vehicles
A network computing system can coordinate on-demand transport serviced by transport providers operating throughout a transport service region. The transport providers can comprise a set of internal autonomous vehicles (AVs) and a set of third-party AVs. The system can receive a transport request from a requesting user of the transport service region, where the transport request indicates a pick-up location and a destination. The system can determine a subset of the transport providers to service the respective transport request, and executing a selection process among the subset of the transport providers to select a transport provider to service the transport request. The system may then transmit a transport assignment to the selected transport provider to cause the selected transport provider to service the transport request. |
| US12282871B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program
The information processing apparatus, the information processing method, and the program include at least one processor configured to acquire, in at least one piece of processing of the process, at least one piece of information of chemical information or physical information of an object to be processed and a processed object at two points at which elapses of processing times between before the processing and after the processing are different from each other, acquire a calculation value of a difference between numerical values at the two points that are obtained from the information, and set the difference as an explanatory variable, set the quality of the product as an objective variable, and predict the quality of the product based on the calculation value by using a trained model obtained by performing machine learning based on a known data set of the explanatory variable and the objective variable. |
| US12282869B2 |
On-device machine learning platform
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for on-device machine learning. In particular, the present disclosure is directed to an on-device machine learning platform and associated techniques that enable on-device prediction, training, example collection, and/or other machine learning tasks or functionality. The on-device machine learning platform can include a context provider that securely injects context features into collected training examples and/or client-provided input data used to generate predictions/inferences. Thus, the on-device machine learning platform can enable centralized training example collection, model training, and usage of machine-learned models as a service to applications or other clients. |
| US12282868B1 |
Route scoring for assessing or predicting driving performance
In a computer-implemented method of assessing driving performance using route scoring, driving data indicative of operation of a vehicle while the vehicle was driven on a driving route may be received. Road infrastructure data indicative of one or more features of the driving route may also be received. A route score for the driving route may be calculated using the road infrastructure data, and a driving performance score for a driver of the vehicle may be calculated using the driving data and the route score for the driving route. Data may be sent to a client device via a network to cause the client device to display the driving performance score and/or a ranking based on the driving performance score, and/or the driving performance score may be used to determine a risk rating for the driver of the vehicle. |
| US12282861B2 |
System and method for generating training data for machine learning classifier
Systems and methods are provided for generating training data for a machine-learning classifier. A knowledge representation synthesized based on an object of interest is used to assign labels to content items. The labeled content items can be used as training data for training a machine learning classifier. The labeled content items can also be used as validation data for the classifier. |
| US12282859B2 |
Method and system for predicting relevant network relationships
The computing device trains a first model on a first data set using a first graph to predict relevant links between a plurality of nodes. The computing device obtains the first data set or a second data set associated with the plurality of nodes. The computing device determines the one or more features for the one or more links between the plurality of nodes, applies the trained first model to the one or more links between the plurality of nodes, outputs the relevant links and non-relevant links of the one or more links between the plurality of nodes, removes the non-relevant links between the plurality of nodes, connects each node of the plurality of nodes with the relevant links to generate one or more first sets of networks, and outputs the one or more first sets of generated networks. |
| US12282854B2 |
Batch selection policies for training machine learning models using active learning
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a machine learning model. In one aspect, a method comprises: generating a set of candidate batches of model inputs; generating, for each candidate batch of model inputs, a respective score for the candidate batch of model inputs that characterizes: (i) an uncertainty of the machine learning model in generating predicted labels for the model inputs in the candidate batch of model inputs, and (ii) a diversity of the model inputs in the candidate batch of model inputs; and selecting the current batch of model inputs from the set of candidate batches of model inputs based on the scores; and training the machine learning model on at least the current batch of model inputs. |
| US12282853B2 |
Accelerated embedding layer computations
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable media, are described for performing neural network computations using a system configured to implement a neural network on a hardware circuit. The system includes a host that receives a batch of inputs to a neural network layer. Each of the inputs is stored in a memory location identified by an address. The system identifies one or more duplicate addresses in a listing of addresses for one or more inputs. For each duplicate address: the system generates a unique identifier that identifies the duplicate address in the listing of addresses. The system (i) obtains first inputs from memory locations identified by addresses corresponding to the unique identifiers and (ii) generates an output of the layer from the obtained first inputs. |
| US12282852B2 |
Dynamic quantization of neural networks
An apparatus for applying dynamic quantization of a neural network is described herein. The apparatus includes a scaling unit and a quantizing unit. The scaling unit is to calculate an initial desired scale factors of a plurality of inputs, weights and a bias and apply the input scale factor to a summation node. Also, the scaling unit is to determine a scale factor for a multiplication node based on the desired scale factors of the inputs and select a scale factor for an activation function and an output node. The quantizing unit is to dynamically requantize the neural network by traversing a graph of the neural network. |
| US12282851B2 |
Mutual information adversarial autoencoder
A method for generating an object includes: providing a dataset having object data and condition data; processing the object data to obtain latent object data and latent object-condition data; processing the condition data to obtain latent condition data and latent condition-object data; processing the latent object data and the latent object-condition data to obtain generated object data; processing the latent condition data and latent condition-object data to obtain generated condition data; comparing the latent object-condition data to the latent condition-object data to determine a difference; processing the latent object data and latent condition data and one of the latent object-condition data or latent condition-object data to obtain a discriminator value; and selecting a selected object based on the generated object data. |
| US12282849B2 |
Method for training classification model, classification method, apparatus and device
The present application discloses a method for training a classification model, a classification method, an apparatus and a device. A specific implementation is: acquiring behavior information of multiple users and personal basic information of the multiple users; where categories of at least part of users of the multiple users are known; inputting the personal basic information of the multiple users into a classification model to be trained to obtain feature information of the multiple users and predicted categories of users with known categories; and training the classification model to be trained according to the behavior information of the multiple users, the feature information of the multiple users, the predicted categories of the users with the known categories, and real categories of the users with the known categories, to obtain a trained classification model. The user categories determined by using the classification model are more accurate. |
| US12282847B2 |
Method and system for extraction and annotation using semantic attribute paths
An annotation assistant for semi-automatic creation of annotated machine learning training data comprises a graphical annotation interface provider that provides a graphical annotation interface for displaying a sequence of tokens to be annotated and allowing a span selection by a user. An automatic span tagger comprises an artificial neural network configured to assign class probabilities to the tokens of the sequence of tokens and a processor-based path-scoring algorithm for computing scores for semantic attribute paths of the span selection. The graphical annotation interface is further configured for displaying the scored semantic attribute paths, and for receiving a selection among the scored semantic attribute paths from the user. |
| US12282845B2 |
Multiobjective coevolution of deep neural network architectures
An evolutionary AutoML framework called LEAF optimizes hyperparameters, network architectures and the size of the network. LEAF makes use of both evolutionary algorithms (EAs) and distributed computing frameworks. A multiobjective evolutionary algorithm is used to maximize the performance and minimize the complexity of the evolved networks simultaneously by calculating the Pareto front given a group of individuals that have been evaluated for multiple objectives. |
| US12282842B2 |
Neural network processing apparatus, neural network processing method, and neural network processing program
A CNN processing apparatus (1) includes an input buffer (10) configured to store an input signal given to a CNN, a storage unit (12) configured to store a table (120) in which the input signal given to the CNN and a binary signal corresponding to the value of the input signal are associated with each other, a binary signal acquisition unit (13) configured to acquire the binary signal corresponding to the value of the input signal stored in the input buffer (10) by referring to the table (120), and a convolutional operation unit (14) configured to perform an operation of the CNN based on the binary signal acquired by the binary signal acquisition unit (13). The binary signal has an accuracy complying with a predetermined operation accuracy of the CNN. |
| US12282841B2 |
Synaptic chain comprising spintronic resonators based on the spin diode effect, and neural network comprising such a synaptic chain
The invention relates to a synaptic chain of neural networks, the synaptic chain comprising synapses, each synapse being a spintronic resonator, the spintronic resonators being electrically connected in series by a transmission line and being alternately connected. |
| US12282840B2 |
Method and apparatus with neural network layer contraction
A processor-implemented neural network method includes: determining a reference sample among sequential input samples to be processed by a neural network, the neural network comprising an input layer, one or more hidden layers, and an output layer; performing an inference process of obtaining an output activation of the output layer based on operations in the hidden layers corresponding to the reference sample input to the input layer; determining layer contraction parameters for determining an affine transformation relationship between the input layer and the output layer, for approximation of the inference process; and performing inference on one or more other sequential input samples among the sequential input samples using affine transformation based on the layer contraction parameters determined with respect to the reference sample. |
| US12282837B2 |
Systems and methods for processing data collected in an industrial environment using neural networks
Methods and an expert system for processing a plurality of inputs collected from sensors in an industrial environment are disclosed. A modular neural network, where the expert system uses one type of neural network for recognizing a pattern relating to at least one of: the sensors, components of the industrial environment and a different neural network for self-organizing a data collection activity in the industrial environment is disclosed. A data communication network configured to communicate at least a portion of the plurality of inputs collected from the sensors to storage device is also disclosed. |
| US12282836B2 |
Learning robust predictors using game theory
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for invariant risk minimization games is provided. The present invention may include defining a plurality of environment-specific classifiers corresponding to a plurality of environments. The present invention may also include constructing an ensemble classifier associated with the plurality of environment-specific classifiers. The present invention may further include initiating a game including a plurality of players corresponding to the plurality of environments. The present invention may also include calculating a nash equilibrium of the initiated game. The present invention may further include determining an ensemble predictor based on the calculated nash equilibrium. The present invention may include deploying the determined ensemble predictor associated with the calculated nash equilibrium to make predictions in a new environment. |
| US12282834B2 |
Systems and methods for intelligent contract analysis and data organization
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for intelligent contract analysis and data organization. In example aspects, input data may be received into the system in the form of a legal document, such as a contract. The contract may be processed by a natural-language processor, and a summarized version of the contract and/or particular contract provisions may be provided. In other aspects, a machine-learning engine may process the input data in combination with a user's decisions to accept or reject particular contract provisions. The ML engine may provide an intelligent recommendation to a user regarding whether the user should consent or not consent to a particular contract provision. In other example aspects, a data dashboard displaying how a user's personally identifiable information (PII) is shared with third parties may be displayed. Aggregated PII may further be displayed in a dashboard. |
| US12282829B2 |
Techniques for data type detection with learned metadata
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for creating and utilizing multidimensional embedding spaces for data objects, such as to condition the data for input to a neural network, for instance. Some embodiments are particularly directed to detecting data types for structured data based on learned metadata. In many embodiments, an embedding space for a set of data objects may be customized with a set of dimensions that correspond to various characteristics of the set of data objects. For example, a set of data objects may correspond to a table with each data object corresponding to a data entry in the table. In such examples, correlations between different columns and/or within a column of data may be identified and utilized as metadata to improve classifications by the neural network. |
| US12282828B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for determining optimal configuration in cognitive autonomous networks
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for determining and/or applying optimal configurations in cognitive autonomous networks (CANs) are provided. |
| US12282826B2 |
Call registration device
A registration device includes a reader, a specification unit, a determination unit, a setting unit and a call registration unit. The specification unit specifies a plurality of candidate floors on the basis of a two-dimensional barcode. In a case where it is determined by the determination unit that a candidate floor that matches an installation floor is included, the setting unit sets the candidate floor as a departure floor and sets another candidate floor included in the plurality of candidate floors as a destination floor. The call registration unit registers a call for a car on the basis of the departure floor and the destination floor set by the setting unit. |
| US12282821B1 |
Device installation system, related tools, and methods
The present disclosure describes a device installation system. The system includes a device having a wireless communication tag that stores device identification information and torque information for installing the device via a threaded fastener. The system further includes a tool for applying torque to the threaded fastener to install the device. The tool includes a wireless communication tag reader, a temperature sensor, and at least one processor in communication with the wireless communication tag reader and the temperature sensor. The processor is configured to obtain the device identification information and the torque information from the tag via the tag reader; obtain ambient temperature information in a vicinity of the device via the temperature sensor; and determine an amount of torque required to apply to the threaded fastener to install the device using the obtained device identification information, torque information, and ambient temperature information. Related tools and methods are also described herein. |
| US12282817B2 |
Metal detector resistant RFID tags
A conductive structure for use with a RFID device having a metallic mass that is below a standard detection threshold of a metal detector and a method of manufacturing the same is disclosed herein. The conductive structure preferably comprises a pair of dipole arms extending from a tuning loop, wherein each of the pair of dipole arms terminates in a load end. The conductive structure may be manufactured from a printed metallic ink, or by cutting, lasering, or etching a metal foil. The conductive structure is modified to reduce overall thickness and metallic mass of the device as much as possible, while still maintaining an acceptable level of performance. Portions of the load ends may also be hollowed out to further reduce the conductive structure's metallic mass. |
| US12282813B1 |
System and method for dynamic registration and utilization of QR-code identifiers on physical media
This invention provides a novel system and method for dynamic QR-code registration and utilization, enabling users to define specific purposes for QR-codes printed on various physical media and attached to a person, animal or thing. |
| US12282809B2 |
Scale up and out compression
A graphics processing apparatus includes graphics processors connected by a network connection, where the graphics processors pass compressed data. A first graphics processor stores data blocks as compressed data in a memory. The compressed data has data blocks of variable size, where a size of a block of compressed data depends on a compression ratio of the block of compressed data. A second graphics processor also stores data blocks as compressed data. The first graphics processor concatenates a variable number of blocks of compressed data into a packet of fixed size to send to the second graphics processor. The packet has a variable number of blocks of compressed data depending on the compression ratios of the multiple blocks of compressed data. |
| US12282807B1 |
Systems and methods for multi-language training of machine learning models
A system, method, and computer-program product includes receiving, by a controller node, a request to execute a client process associated with a first programming language and a plurality of threads; launching, by the controller node, a plurality of multi-language worker processes based on a number of threads associated with the client process; and instructing, by the controller node, the plurality of multi-language worker processes to execute the plurality of threads associated with the client process. |
| US12282804B2 |
Mobile device resource optimized kiosk mode
A resource optimized kiosk mode that improves the mobile experience for creators and users of mobile devices such as an augmented reality (AR)-enabled wearable eyewear device. An eyewear device enters a kiosk mode by receiving a kiosk mode request for an application and, in response to the request, determining which services and application programming interfaces (APIs) are required to execute the selected application. An identification of the determined services and APIs required to execute the selected application are stored and the eyewear device is rebooted. After reboot, the selected application is started, and only the identified services and APIs are enabled. To determine which services and APIs are required to execute the selected application, metadata may be associated with the selected application specifying the services and/or APIs that the selected application requires to use when in operation. |
| US12282797B1 |
Request processing method and apparatus, and device and nonvolatile readable storage medium
The present application relates to the technical field of storage. Disclosed are a request processing method and apparatus, and a device and a non-volatile readable storage medium, which are applied to a request acceleration module for connecting a virtual machine and a back-end storage. The method includes: polling a request queue in shared memory, wherein a virtual machine and a request acceleration module, which are used for providing a unified storage service, both perform a read-write operation on the shared memory; and when it is polled that there is a target request, which is initiated within the virtual machine, in the request queue, processing the target request in the manner of calling a corresponding processing function. |
| US12282789B2 |
Using a remote pod in kubernetes
Embodiments are directed to using remote pods. An intermediary software is instantiated in a worker node virtual machine and is used to cause a pod virtual machine to be created, the pod virtual machine being remote from the worker node virtual machine. An overlay network is established between the intermediary software in the worker node virtual machine and a pod space in the pod virtual machine. The overlay network is used to cause containers to be created in the pod virtual machine, where the worker node virtual machine is configured to use the overlay network to manage communications with the pod virtual machine. |
| US12282787B2 |
Inter-environment use of java virtual machines for multiple address modes
Described techniques enable inter-environment communication between a first runtime environment and a second runtime environment of an operating system. A function requested by an application executing in the first runtime environment may require execution by a second application running in a virtual machine in the second runtime environment. An address mode (AMODE) of the virtual machine may be determined from among at least two AMODEs. The second runtime environment may be launched from the first runtime environment, and the virtual machine may be launched within the second runtime environment, using the AMODE. The function may then be executed using the second application. |
| US12282786B2 |
Contextual navigation menu
Systems and methods to generate and cause display of a contextual navigation menu within a GUI, wherein the contextual navigation menu presents contextually relevant interface elements. |
| US12282784B1 |
Media device user interface and content personalization using natural language prompts
Disclosed herein are system, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for personalizing a user interface (UI) of a media device and/or content presented thereby. An example embodiment operates by obtaining a first natural language user input, providing the first natural language user input to a personalization language model that is configured to interpret different natural language user inputs to respectively determine different update tasks invoked thereby, the different update tasks including a UI update task and a content update task, receiving from the model a first update task determined thereby based at least on the first natural language user input, generating one or more first application programming interface (API) calls based on the first update task, and placing the one or more first API calls to a service that implements the first update task based on the one or more first API calls. |
| US12282783B2 |
Data object list display method, data object list display apparatus, electronic device and medium
An interface display method, an interface display apparatus, an electronic device and a medium are provided. The interface display method includes: for a list item in a data object list, creating an interface container proxy and arranging an interface data object of the list item in the interface container proxy; in response to a first update operation on a display interface, binding the interface container proxy to a corresponding interface container on the display interface if the first update operation is configured to instruct updating the list item to the display interface for display; and displaying the interface data object of the list item in the interface container proxy in a region that is on the display interface and that corresponds to the interface container according to a binding relationship between the interface container and the interface container proxy. |
| US12282771B2 |
Addition mask value generator, encryptor and method for generating stream key
An addition mask value generator is provided. A first operation circuit is configured to obtain first intermediate data according to first output mask value and fourth output mask value. A second operation circuit is configured to obtain the addition output mask value of a first mask group according to first intermediate data and fourth input mask value. A third operation circuit is configured to obtain second intermediate data according to second output mask value and third output mask value. A fourth operation circuit is configured to obtain the addition output mask value of a second mask group according to second intermediate data and second input mask value. The first and second addition input mask values of first mask group are first and second input mask values. The first and second addition input mask values of second mask group are third input mask value and first intermediate data. |
| US12282770B2 |
Storage medium, arithmetic operation method, and information processing apparatus
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an arithmetic operation program that causes at least one computer to execute a process, the process includes searching for first order information such that an evaluation value is updated as a generation progresses by using an evolutionary algorithm for a first individual that is a target of a combinatorial optimization process which includes an array search, the individual including the first order information; generating a first array by using the first order information; converting the first array into a QUBO format; and searching for a combination by using the converted first array. |
| US12282769B2 |
System and method for automating SRE and project management tool metrics and creating user dynamic views
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for automatically determining whether an application is SRE ready for production deployment are disclosed. A processor implements an AI/ML algorithm and natural language processing algorithm to analyze input data corresponding to an application onboarded onto an application platform; generates an assessment report data that includes SRE readiness score that identifies SRE maturity for the application based on analyzing the input data; determines whether the generated SRE score is equal to or more than a preconfigured assessment score or less than the preconfigured assessment score; automatically determines that the application is SRE ready for production deployment based on determining that the generated SRE score is equal to or more than a preconfigured assessment score; and automatically implements a self-healing algorithm to correct each deficiencies identified in the assessment report. |
| US12282761B2 |
Application module startup method and electronic device
Disclosed are an application module startup method and an electronic device. When a first device needs to start an application module that is not installed and that is in an application on the first device or another device that is communicatively connected to the first device, a system module on the first device may query whether the application module is installed on the first device. When it is determined that the application module is not installed on the first device and/or another device, the system module on the first device may communicate with a first server, so that the system module on the first device may download, install, and start a first application module on the first device and/or another device based on a message sent from the first server. |
| US12282760B2 |
Accelerating application and sub-package installations
In some examples, a method includes downloading, from an application provider, a patch to be applied to a first application element and a stripped version of the application that does not include one or more application elements to be reused during installation of the application, decompressing the first application element to generate a decompressed version of the first application element, and decompressing the patch to generate a decompressed version of the patch. The method may also include applying the decompressed version of the patch to the decompressed version of the first application element to generate a patched application element, compressing the patched application element to generate a compressed patched application element, and installing the application using the compressed patched application element, the stripped version of the application, and the one or more application elements other than the first application element. |
| US12282759B1 |
Distributed data processing and machine learning workload scaling
Systems and techniques may generally be used for streamlining a deployment and scaling of data processing and machine learning workloads on a distributed system. An example method may include receiving, from a user at a user interface, a plugin command, an input including a name key and a query, and a driver code including a code package. The method may include filtering the query based on a scope of the plugin command, obtaining input data by querying an input measure group, and slicing the obtained input data into one or more slices based on the slicing key. The method may include determining a number of containers to be used, and assigning at least one slice for each container. The method may include executing at each container the respective assigned at least one slice, generating an output for each input, and storing each output at a respective output measure group. |
| US12282756B2 |
Method and system of command buffer between a CPU and GPU
A method and system for a command processor for efficient processing of a program multi-processor core system with a CPU and GPU. The multi-core system includes a general purpose CPU executing commands in a CPU programming language and a graphic processing unit (GPU) executing commands in a GPU programming language. A command processor is coupled to the CPU and CPU. The command processor sequences jobs from a program for processing by the CPU or the GPU. The command processor creates commands from the jobs in a state free command format. The command processor generates a sequence of commands for execution by either the CPU or the GPU in the command format. A compiler running a meta language converts program data for the commands into a first format readable by the CPU programming language and a second format readable by the GPU programming language. |
| US12282749B2 |
Configurable MAC pipelines for finite-impulse-response filtering, and methods of operating same
An integrated circuit comprising a plurality MAC pipelines wherein each MAC pipeline includes: (i) a plurality of MACs connected in series and (ii) a plurality of data paths including an accumulation data path, wherein each MAC includes a multiplier to multiply to generate product data and an accumulator to generate sum data. The integrated circuit further comprises a plurality of control/configure circuits, wherein each control/configure circuit connects directly to and is associated with a MAC pipeline, wherein each control/configure circuit includes an accumulation data path which is configurable to directly connect to the accumulation data path of the MAC pipeline to form an accumulation ring when the control/configure circuit is configured in an accumulation mode, and an output data path configurable to directly connect to the output of the accumulation data path of the MAC pipeline when the control/configure circuit is configured in an output data mode. |
| US12282747B2 |
Method for human-machine dialogue, computing device and computer-readable storage medium
A method includes: acquiring an input sentence in a first language in a current round of conversation; translating the input sentence in the first language to obtain an input sentence in a second language, according to dialogue contents in the first language and dialogue contents in the second language that have a mutual translation relationship with the dialogue contents in the first language in historical rounds of conversation; invoking a multi-round conversation generation model to parse the input sentence in the second language in the current round of conversation to generate an output sentence in the second language in the current round of conversation; translating the output sentence in the second language in the current round of conversation to obtain at least one candidate result in the first language; and determining an output sentence in the first language from the at least one candidate result in the first language. |
| US12282746B2 |
Display method, electronic device, and storage medium
A display method, an electronic device, and a storage medium, which relate to a field of natural language processing and a field of display. The display method includes: acquiring a content to be displayed; extracting a target term from the content using a term extraction rule; acquiring an annotation information for at least one target term, responsive to an extraction of the at least one target term; and displaying the annotation information for the at least one target term and the content. |
| US12282741B2 |
Information processing system and information processing method to control behavior of an agent
Provided is an information processing system that includes a user information storage unit that stores user information related to a user, a personality information storage unit that stores personality information defining a personality unique to an agent, and a control unit that controls an externalized behavior which is a behavior externalized by the agent, based on the personality information. |
| US12282739B2 |
Systems, methods, and storage media for preventing compliance violating messages from being communicated to a recipient
A method for analyzing a digital message for presence of a non-compliant expression within the digital message is disclosed. The digital message may be created using a computing device including a text input hardware device and may contain at least one segment. The method includes capturing keystrokes at the text input hardware device, analyzing the keystrokes to capture the digital message including an end of the segment, and assessing the segment for presence of a concept flag in at the segment, wherein the concept flag is associated with the non-compliant expression. Assessing may include obtaining a relation pattern for the concept flag, generating a dependency parse graph for the segment, and comparing the dependency parse graph to the relation pattern. If at least a portion of the dependency parse graph matches the relation pattern, then concluding that the segment contains the concept flag associated with the non-compliant expression. |
| US12282736B2 |
Framework for managing natural language processing tools
A system performs operations that include receiving, via first computing environment, a request to process text data using a first natural language processing (NLP) model. The operations further include accessing configuration data associated with the NLP model, where the configuration data generated using a domain specific language that supports a plurality of preprocessing modules in a plurality of programming languages. The operations also include selecting, based on the configuration data, one or more preprocessing modules of the plurality of preprocessing modules, generating, based on the configuration data, a preprocessing pipeline using the one or more preprocessing modules, and generating preprocessed text data by inputting the text data into the preprocessing pipeline. The preprocessed text data is provided to the first NLP model. |
| US12282728B2 |
Automatic text recognition with layout preservation
Aspects of the subject technology include accessing, by an electronic device, a plurality of lines of text data and text attributes corresponding to the plurality of lines of the text data. Aspects may also include, for each respective line of the plurality of lines of the text data, determining whether the respective line and the subsequent line correspond to separate paragraphs within the text data based on a first of the text attributes that corresponds to the respective line of the plurality of lines with a second of the text attributes that corresponds to a subsequent line of the plurality of lines. Aspects may further include generating output data for the plurality of lines and performing at least one process for the plurality of lines of the text data using the generated output data. |
| US12282727B2 |
Automatic document sketching
Systems and method directed to assistive document generation are described. More specifically, similar documents share large portions of reusable text structures that can be used to generate an initial document thereby saving a user time. To generate the document, an indication to create the document may be received and based on the indication, a plurality of example documents and grounding content may be identified. Example documents may be existing documents that are similar to a target document of the writer. Grounding information may refer to content that is relevant, timely, and accurate when applied to the target document. The plurality of example documents and the grounding content may be received, and a document sketch based on the example documents and the grounding content may be generated and contains a plurality of predicted text sequences based on the example documents and the grounding content. |