Patents Examined by H. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12285879
    Abstract: A knife comprising a handle and a blade assembly. The blade assembly includes a blade, a tang, and blade assembly connection structure. The handle includes a receiver configured to receive the tang, and includes handle connection structure. The blade assembly connection structure and handle connection structure are arranged to releasably lock the blade assembly in an installed position on the handle with the tang in the tang receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: AOB Products Company
    Inventors: Dennis W. Cauley, Jr., James Tayon, Michael Cottrell, Justin Burke, Brian Steere, Kyle Martin, Anthony Vesich, Matthew Kinamore, Seth Wheeler, Michael Lindsay, Ryan Varnum, Curtis Smith, Josh Neville, Mark Dalton, Timothy S. Kinney
  • Patent number: 12288809
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device includes first and second source/drain (S/D) regions doped with lead (Pb) at a first dopant concentration. The semiconductor device also includes a channel region between the first and second S/D regions, where the channel region is doped with Pb at a second dopant concentration that is lower than the first dopant concentration. The semiconductor device further includes first and second S/D contacts in contact with the first and second S/D regions, respectively. The semiconductor device also includes a gate electrode over the channel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Miao-Syuan Fan, Pei-Wei Lee, Ching-Hua Lee, Jung-Wei Lee
  • Patent number: 12288550
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed herein for focused training of language models and end-to-end hypertuning of the framework. In one aspect, a method is provided that includes obtaining a machine learning model pre-trained for language modeling, and post-training the machine learning model for various tasks to generate a focused machine learning model. The post-training includes: (i) training the machine learning model on an unlabeled set of training data pertaining to a task that the machine learning model was pre-trained for as part of the language modeling, and the unlabeled set of training data is obtained with respect to a target domain, a target task, or a target language, and (ii) training the machine learning model on a labeled set of training data that pertains to another task that is an auxiliary task related to a downstream task to be performed using the machine learning model or output from the machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Poorya Zaremoodi, Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Duy Vu, Dai Hoang Tran, Budhaditya Saha, Nagaraj N. Bhat, Thanh Tien Vu, Tuyen Quang Pham, Adam Craig Pocock, Katherine Silverstein, Srinivasa Phani Kumar Gadde, Vishal Vishnoi, Mark Edward Johnson, Thanh Long Duong
  • Patent number: 12285681
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for video transmission. In one example, a processor generates first data related to first positional coordinates set in advance in a first virtual space and second data related to second positional coordinates set in advance in a second virtual space, the first data including first virtual reference points set on the first positional coordinates; the second data including second virtual reference points corresponding to each of the first virtual reference points; and the second data includes: data related to a basic coordinate group including the some of the second virtual reference points obtained by multiplying some of the first virtual reference points by a predetermined magnification; and data related to a distortion coordinate group including some of the second virtual reference points obtained by multiplying some of the first virtual reference points by a magnification different from the predetermined magnification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Norifumi Okumura
  • Patent number: 12289578
    Abstract: A bone conduction microphone is provided. The bone conduction microphone may include a laminated structure formed by a vibration unit and an acoustic transducer unit. The bone conduction microphone may include a base structure configured to carry the laminated structure. At least one side of the laminated structure may be physically connected to the base structure. The base structure may vibrate based on an external vibration signal. The vibration unit may be deformed in response to the vibration of the base structure. The acoustic transducer unit may generate an electrical signal based on the deformation of the vibration unit. The bone conduction microphone may include at least one damping structural layer. The at least one damping structural layer may be arranged on an upper surface, a lower surface, and/or an interior of the laminated structure, and the at least one damping layer may be connected to the base structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenbing Zhou, Yongshuai Yuan, Wenjun Deng, Xin Qi, Fengyun Liao
  • Patent number: 12288080
    Abstract: System, method, and circuitry for generating content for a programmable computing device based on user-selected configuration information. A settings registry is generated based on the user's selections. The settings registry and the user selected configuration information is utilized to generate the content, such as code, data, parameters, settings, etc. When the content is provided to the programmable computing device, the content initializes, configures, or controls one or more software and hardware aspects of the programmable computing device, such as boot sequence configurations, internal peripheral configurations, states of the programmable computing device, transitions between states of the programmable computing device, etc., and various combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics France, STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET) SAS, STMicroelectronics (Grand Quest) SAS
    Inventors: Emmanuel Grandin, Nabil Safi, Maxime Dortel, Laurent Meunier, Frederic Ruelle
  • Patent number: 12285948
    Abstract: In some examples, a controller can include a processing resource and a memory resource storing instructions to cause the processing resource to determine a reservoir for a spitting operation of a printhead in an imaging device based on predetermined reservoir data, determine a spit type for the spitting operation of the printhead, and cause the spitting operation to occur in the reservoir using the determined spit type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Wei Lit Teoh, Kian Yaw Goh, Narayanasamy Periyasamy, Ban Ho Chong
  • Patent number: 12289205
    Abstract: A framework for joint computation, caching, and request forwarding in data-centric computing-based networks comprises a virtual control plane, which operates on request counters for computations and data, and an actual plane, which handles computation requests, data requests, data objects and computation results in the physical network. A throughput optimal policy, implemented in the virtual plane, provides a basis for adaptive and distributed computation, caching, and request forwarding in the actual plane. The framework provides superior performance in terms of request satisfaction delay as compared with several baseline policies over multiple network topologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Northeastern University
    Inventors: Edmund Meng Yeh, Khashayar Kamran
  • Patent number: 12289430
    Abstract: Systems for performing instant optical character recognition (OCR) of documents to be uploaded to a server process for allowing mid-stream adjustments during the document upload process. are disclosed. A system may include a mobile device with a document upload application and a backend system to which a document is to be uploaded. The backend system may initiate the OCR process automatically upon receiving images of documents to be uploaded and provide options to the document upload application for managing the upload process based on the results of the OCR process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Keegan Franklin, Christopher Gregory, Keane Ellis, James Brighter, John Maillett, Suranya Jayan Schott, Karin Gonzalez, Xinfeng Dong, Charlie Hung
  • Patent number: 12289573
    Abstract: The present invention provides a speaker box including a housing and a speaker unit accommodated in the housing. The speaker box also includes an air-permeable spacer accommodated in the housing. The housing includes a bottom wall away from the speaker unit and a side wall bent and extended from the bottom wall toward the speaker unit. The air-permeable spacer is enclosed with the bottom wall and the side wall to form a containment space filled with sound absorbing powder. The inner surface of the side wall is provided with a number of protruding portions that support the air-permeable spacer. The air-permeable spacer is fixedly connected with the protruding portion. The speaker box of the present invention saves internal space and increases the filling amount of the sound absorbing powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yi Chen
  • Patent number: 12288004
    Abstract: A method implemented in an electronic device, the electronic device and a corresponding computer program product and medium. The method includes: at least partial playback, on a user interface of the electronic device, of items obtained from computing applications and associated with at least a first class of a plurality of item classes; acquiring at least a first command to be executed, wherein the first command relates to at least one of the items that has been at least partially played back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Sonia Laurent, Laetitia Hertault, Cédric Floury
  • Patent number: 12288083
    Abstract: A system and method provide access by a web application running on a host computing device in communication with a remote server to a native binary DLL. A browser extension to the web application and a native messaging application communicate with the browser extension via standard input/output. A long-running computational process on the host computing device configured as a wrapper for the binary DLL is executable by the host computing device. The native messaging application and the long-running computational process communicate with one another via a named pipe, and the long-running computational process duration is independent of the native messaging application duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes Americas Corp.
    Inventors: John Hoene, Joseph Miller, Steven Deziel, Paul Meyer
  • Patent number: 12287311
    Abstract: Disclosed is a synchronous and dynamic loading method in electro-magneto-thermo-mechanical multi-field coupling conditions. The method comprises the following steps: applying maximum pulse current to a test object by a pulse power supply to realize loading in extreme electric field and magnetic field conditions; meanwhile, generating a large amount of friction heat by the high-speed rotation of a rotating body and the friction of the test object to realize loading in an extreme-temperature field combined with a large amount of Joule heat and arc heat; synchronously applying pressure to the rotating body by a pressure device to realize loading of extreme force combined with the gravity of the rotating body and the friction force between the rotating body and the test object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Hefei Institutes of Physical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Liansheng Huang, Xiaojiao Chen, Shiying He, Xiuqing Zhang, Chuan Li
  • Patent number: 12288101
    Abstract: Technologies for dividing work across one or more accelerator devices include a compute device. The compute device is to determine a configuration of each of multiple accelerator devices of the compute device, receive a job to be accelerated from a requester device remote from the compute device, and divide the job into multiple tasks for a parallelization of the multiple tasks among the one or more accelerator devices, as a function of a job analysis of the job and the configuration of each accelerator device. The compute engine is further to schedule the tasks to the one or more accelerator devices based on the job analysis and execute the tasks on the one or more accelerator devices for the parallelization of the multiple tasks to obtain an output of the job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Susanne M. Balle, Francesc Guim Bernat, Slawomir Putyrski, Joe Grecco, Henry Mitchel, Evan Custodio, Rahul Khanna, Sujoy Sen
  • Patent number: 12289222
    Abstract: To accurately infer a cause of a trouble occurring in a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC.
    Inventor: Shinya Kita
  • Patent number: 12288408
    Abstract: Systems and methods of monitoring inventory of a product storage facility include an image capture device configured to move about the product storage areas of the product storage facility and capture images of the product storage areas from various angles. A computing device coupled to the image capture device obtains the images of the product storage areas captured by the image capture device and processes the obtained images of the product storage areas to detect individual products captured in the obtained images. Based on detection of the individual products captured in the images, the computing device analyzes each of the obtained images to extract meta data from the packaging the individual products to detect one more keywords and determine the locations of the detected keywords on the packaging, and then utilize this information to predict an identity of the products associated with the packaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Lingfeng Zhang, Han Zhang, Abhinav Pachauri, Amit Jhunjhunwala, Ashlin Ghosh, Avinash Madhusudanrao Jade, Raghava Balusu, Srinivas Muktevi, Mingquan Yuan, Zhaoliang Duan, Zhiwei Huang, Tianyi Mao
  • Patent number: 12289209
    Abstract: A system is described that combines outputs of network simulations, which are used for capacity planning, with empirical data of network element failure probabilities, to produce what traffic utilization is needed for each network device interface to achieve a specified availability target. Utilization of each interface can be captured for each failure case simulated. From this failure data, the utilization distribution for each link can be produced, across all failure cases. This utilization-by-failure data from simulation is combined with the empirical mean-time between failure (MTBF) and mean-time to recovery (MTTR) of each failure from the span reliability data set. This allows for a prediction of what percentage of time the interface is utilized. Thus, a relationship is established between the capacity provisioned and the percentage of time that the capacity will be uncongested. Network devices can then be added to the network to establish the availability target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John William Evans, Ahmed Elmokashfi
  • Patent number: 12287926
    Abstract: A sensor device 1A includes: an insulating substrate 11; a touch sensor TS that includes a sensor electrode 12 disposed on a first surface 15a disposed on an operation surface side; a shield electrode 131 disposed on the first surface 15a; and a detecting electrode 14 facing the shield electrode 131 and disposed on a second surface 15b different from the first surface 15a. The first surface 15a is located closer to the operation surface than the second surface 15b, the shield electrode 131 and the detecting electrode 14 constitute a pressure-sensitive sensor that detects a change in capacitance value caused by approaching of the shield electrode 131 and the detecting electrode 14, and the shield electrode 131 blocks capacitive coupling between an operator FIN and the detecting electrode 14 caused by approaching of the operator FIN to the operation surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Eriko Hayashi, Makoto Takamatsu, Yasuyuki Tachikawa, Takashi Kameshima
  • Patent number: 12288955
    Abstract: A connection arrangement for connecting an electrical conductor includes: a housing; a busbar; a clamping spring including a clamping leg transferrable into a clamping position and into a release position; a conductor connection space formed between a section of the busbar and the clamping leg of the clamping spring; a displaceably arranged guide element, which is in operative connection with the clamping leg of the clamping spring, the clamping leg being holdable in the release position by the guide element; a release element, which, in the release position of the clamping leg of the clamping spring, is in engagement with the guide element, the release element during insertion of the conductor to be connected into the conductor connection space being actuatable thereby such that the release element comes out of engagement with the guide element and the guide element is displaceable by a spring force of the clamping leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Martin Gebhardt
  • Patent number: 12279639
    Abstract: Electrically heated cigarettes used in an electrical smoking system include a flavoring-release additive and sorbent effective to remove one or more gas-phase constituents of mainstream tobacco smoke. The flavoring-release additive includes gamma cyclodextrin and at least one flavoring. Flavoring is released in a cigarette upon the flavoring-release additive reaching at least a minimum temperature during smoking. The flavoring-release additive can have various forms including, for example, powder and films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: Munmaya K. Mishra, Susan E. Wrenn, Jay A. Fournier