Patents Examined by H. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12282647
    Abstract: An information processing device 200 generates a home screen for allowing a user to select an application to be executed. The information processing device 200 causes a display device to display the generated home screen. The information processing device 200 displays an array of a plurality of icons on the home screen. The plurality of icons represent a plurality of pieces of content related to one application and display different pieces of content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Takahiro Fujii
  • Patent number: 12280205
    Abstract: An aerosol provision device includes a first section for containing an aerosolizable substance from which a flow of aerosol can be generated; and a second section for containing a material. In use, a flow of aerosol generated from aerosolizable substance in the first section flows through material in the second section before being inhaled by a user. The first section and the second section are located in a side-by-side arrangement in the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventor: Ugurhan Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 12282543
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes digital watermark detection systems and methods. In one such system, a plurality of intellectual property cores are integrated on a system-on-chip, such that the intellectual property cores comprise a first intellectual property core and a second intellectual property core. The system further includes a first network interface connected to the first intellectual property core that can encode a first digital watermark into a packet stream designated for the second intellectual property core. The system further includes a second network interface connected to the second intellectual property core that can receive the packet stream and decode the packet stream to generate a second digital watermark. The second network interface is further configured to perform a validation test on the packet stream and deliver the packet stream to the second intellectual property core when the first digital watermark is determined to match the second digital watermark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Prabhat Kumar Mishra, Thelijjagoda Subodha Nadeeshan Charles, Vincent Bindschaedler
  • Patent number: 12280650
    Abstract: A vehicle includes: an electric device mounted on the vehicle; a functional component placed on the electric device to extend further rearward than the electric device in plan view when mounted on the vehicle; a cable connecting the electric device and a battery mounted on the vehicle; and a cable mount that is provided below and within a plane of projection of the functional component on the electric device and has a terminal port facing downward in a vertical direction when mounted in the vehicle. The vehicle reduces the risk of a human touching an electric terminal, improving safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Uneme, Ryuta Wakabayashi, Takahiro Kozeki
  • Patent number: 12281958
    Abstract: An optical power detection system comprises a sensor and a reader. The sensor is configured to detect light in the cladding of an optical fiber. The sensor is positioned both within a ferrule of the optical fiber and proximate the cladding. The sensor is additionally configured to produce an output signal representative of the detected light. The reader is electrically coupled to the sensor and is configured to receive the sensor output signal. The reader is additionally configured to operation on the output signal to produce a corresponding visual and/or audible indication of the optical power in the optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Christopher Coffey, Steven C. Zimmel, Joseph Polland, Morgan C. Kurk, Trevor D. Smith
  • Patent number: 12279645
    Abstract: A flavor delivery device for adding flavor to an aerosol stream generated by a smoking article includes an electrical heating element configured for connection to an electrical power source; and a portion of flavorant provider arranged to receive heat from the heating element, the flavorant provider including flavorant material held in a substrate material, the flavorant material able to form a vapor and the substrate material softenable under the application of heat, such that provision of electrical power to the heating element delivers heat to the flavorant provider to soften at least part of the substrate material and release at least some of the flavorant material as a vapor. The smoking article may be an electronic aerosol provision system or a combustible smoking article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventor: Alfred Vincent Spencer
  • Patent number: 12281621
    Abstract: Method for controlling a turbomachine equipped with a gas generator, the turbomachine including at least one electric machine forming a device for the injection/take-off of power onto/from one of the low-pressure/high-pressure rotating shafts of the gas generator. Said method has steps included in a loop which include determining, for at least one shaft and according to a speed setpoint, of a variation dU in a power command; determining, for all of the electric machines as a whole and according to an injection/take-off setpoint, of a variation dPelec in a power injection/take-off command; and determining a command including components pertaining to fuel flow rate and to power injection/take-off for each electric machine, according to the variations dU dPelec, and according to the operational limits of the turbomachine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventor: Jean-Marie Kai
  • Patent number: 12283019
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: SHANGHAI BILIBILI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yunjie Ji
  • Patent number: 12282411
    Abstract: Some embodiments generate prompts and submit them in queries to a language model trained on code to perform automated program repair. Some embodiments fix syntactic mistakes and semantic mistakes by combining multimodal prompts, iterative querying, test-case-based selection of few-shots, and program chunking. In some cases, edit distance is minimized between an initial flawed program and the automatically created improved version of that program. The initial flawed program is obtained from a programming student, or from a source code generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jialu Zhang, José Pablo Cambronero Sánchez, Gustavo Araujo Soares, Vu Minh Le, Sumit Gulwani, Gust Ben Anneloes Verbruggen
  • Patent number: 12280374
    Abstract: Disclosed are nanofluidic analytical devices. The devices employ a sample processing region that includes a plurality of fluidically connected sample handling elements that, in combination, affect a physical change on a sample introduced into the sample processing region. This physical change can include, for example, purification of an analyte of interest present in the sample, concentration of an analyte of interest present in the sample, chemical modification (e.g., cleavage and/or chemical derivatization) of an analyte of interest present in the sample, or a combination thereof. The analytical devices further include a nanochannel comprising a plurality of in-plane nanopores in series fluidically coupled to the sample processing region. The in-plane nanopores can be used to detect and/or analyze analyte(s) present in the sample following processing by the sample processing region. These analytical devices can advantageously provide for the label-free detection of single molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignees: University of Kansas, Univ. of N Carolina at Chapel Hill, Board of Supervisors of LSU and A&M College, Northeastern University, Clarkson University
    Inventors: Steven A. Soper, Collin J. McKinney, Elizabeth Podlaha-Murphy, Sunggook Park
  • Patent number: 12283623
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Hsuan Lin, Hsi Chung Chen, Chih-Teng Liao
  • Patent number: 12280604
    Abstract: A recording device including a medium support portion for supporting a medium, a recording unit for recording on the medium, a movement unit configured to move relative to the medium support portion along a first axis, and a detector attached to the movement unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihiko Momose
  • Patent number: 12282578
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for improving phishing webpage content detection. A method can include instantiating an odometer with a nested privacy filter architecture, the nested privacy filter including privacy filters of different, increasing sizes, training a DL model, maintaining, during training and by a privacy odometer that operates using the nested privacy filter, a running total of privacy loss budget consumed by the training, and responsive to a query for the total privacy loss budget consumed, returning, by the odometer, a size of a smallest privacy filter of the nested privacy filters that is bigger than the running total of the privacy loss budget.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Mathias François Roger Lécuyer
  • Patent number: 12283365
    Abstract: Particular embodiments provide a method for anomaly detection in images of tissue. An image processing system may receive an image of a tissue sample. A set of tiles may be generated from the image of the tissue sample. The set of tiles may be input into an anomaly detection model comprising a generator model comprising functional skip-connections and a Markovian discriminator model. The anomaly detection model may be trained to isolate a feature space of normal tissue samples. Anomaly scores may be computed for the set of tiles, and an assessment may be generated for the image of the tissue sample based on the anomaly scores for the set of tiles. The assessment may include a reconstructed heatmap of the image of the tissue sample, wherein colors of the heatmap are selected based on the anomaly scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventor: Fang-Yao Hu
  • Patent number: 12282797
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Suzhou MetaBrain Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jingben Sun, Minggang Sun, Qinglin Liu
  • Patent number: 12282796
    Abstract: Apparatus for performing group computing in a safety-critical operating environment (SCOE) includes a primary computing device, wherein the primary computing device includes a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor. The memory contains instructions configuring the processor to receive task data, determine a group computing need by comparing the task data against a preset group computing criterion, determine a hardware allocation as a function of the group computing need, create a virtual environment using a secondary computing device communicatively connected to the primary computing device, as a function of the hardware allocation, allocate at least a portion of the task data to the at least a secondary computing device, as a function of the group computing need, wherein the at least a portion of the task data is executed by the secondary computing device, and receive from the at least a secondary computing device a processing result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Parry Labs, LLC
    Inventors: David Walsh, Charles Adams
  • Patent number: 12283545
    Abstract: A package structure includes a semiconductor die and a first redistribution circuit structure. The first redistribution circuit structure is disposed on and electrically connected to the semiconductor die, and includes a first build-up layer. The first build-up layer includes a first metallization layer and a first dielectric layer laterally wrapping the first metallization layer, wherein at least a portion of the first metallization layer is protruded out of the first dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yung-Chi Chu, Hung-Jui Kuo, Yu-Hsiang Hu, Wei-Chih Chen
  • Patent number: 12282856
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for transforming magnetic resonance (MR) imaging across multiple vendors is provided. The method comprises: obtaining a training dataset, wherein the training dataset comprises a paired dataset and an un-paired dataset, and wherein the training dataset comprises image data acquired using two or more MR imaging devices; training a deep network model using the training dataset; obtaining an input MR image; and transforming the input MR image to a target image style using the deep network model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: SUBTLE MEDICAL, INC.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Enhao Gong, Gregory Zaharchuk
  • Patent number: 12284884
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel has a display region and a non-display region. The display panel includes: a substrate; a driving array layer including first pixel circuits in the non-display region and second pixel circuits in the display region; a light-emitting device layer including first light-emitting devices in the non-display region and second light-emitting devices in the display region; and a photosensitive device assembly including first photosensitive devices and second photosensitive devices in the driving array layer. The first light-emitting devices are electrically connected with the first pixel circuits and the second light-emitting devices are electrically connected with the second pixel circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignees: Wuhan Tianma MicroElectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch., Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nana Xiong, Bonggeum Lee, Chong Qian
  • Patent number: 12277446
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method comprises monitoring a request for use of memory requested by a container manager application on behalf of a given one of a plurality of containers during runtime of the given container. The method further comprises determining that the request for use of memory has caused an exception. The exception indicates that the request has requested an invalid operation on a memory table or that the request has requested a previously not seen memory table. In response, the method further comprises determining an action to perform. The action depends on both first trustworthiness information associated with the given container and second trustworthiness information associated with the given container. The first trustworthiness information is obtained from a Third Party Reputation Service (TPRS). The second trustworthiness information is obtained based on monitoring the runtime behavior of the given container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: John David White, Steven Joseph Rich, William Michael Hudson, Jr., Chris Allen Shenefiel