Patents Examined by Nguyen At
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Patent number: 12251647Abstract: A cap, a magic kit, and methods for performing a magic trick are described. The cap can include a circular top end having an interior surface and an exterior surface, a side wall extending radially from the circular top end, an open bottom end, a thread on a side wall interior surface, a groove proximal the interior surface of the circular top end and a portion of the side wall, and a marker. The cap may be used to perform a magic trick where the groove retains a coin in the cap when the cap is flipped over.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2024Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Penguin Magic, Inc.Inventor: Seth Race
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Patent number: 12254313Abstract: The disclosed technology is generally directed to code transparency. In one example of the technology, raw input data that includes version information that is associated with code is received. The version information includes pull requests associated with the code. Extracted key phrases are provided by performing a key-phrase extraction on the raw input data. A list of documents and a list of people are determined based at least in part on the extracted key phrases. A relevance ranking is performed on the list of documents and the list of people. Based on the relevance ranking, relevant documents and relevant people are determined, such that the relevant documents and the relevant people are relevant to the code. To a developer environment that is associated with the code, information associated with the relevant documents and/or the relevant people is provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Bjarte Sjursen, Dino Ilić, Yiran Liu, Zhengyuan Liu, Fatma Mohamed Ali, Tudor Marius Popa, Victor Manuel Garcia Rosales
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Patent number: 12255113Abstract: An alignment method and an alignment device thereof are provided. The alignment method includes: providing a wafer including wafer coordinate information. Two probes are respectively aligned with two bonding pads on a dicing road of the wafer, and an image capture device is used to assist the two probes to obtain actual wafer information. The wafer coordinate information is then compared with the actual wafer information to determine whether the two probes are accurately aligned with the two bonding pads on the dicing road, respectively. When an alignment position of the two probes is determined, the positions of any chips and bonding pads on the wafer can be determined.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: STAR TECHNOLOGIES (WUHAN) CO., LTD.Inventor: Choon Leong Lou
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Patent number: 12252433Abstract: An assembly for pushing an electrode into a glass melting vessel can include a frame, a shaft, a pusher actuator, a contact mechanism, a master actuator, and a torque limiter. The contact mechanism can be attached to the shaft. The pusher actuator can be mounted to the frame and configured to cause translation of the shaft and the contact mechanism relative to the frame. The master actuator can be operatively connected to the pusher actuator such that operation of the master actuator causes operation of the pusher actuator. The torque limiter can be operatively connected between the master actuator and the pusher actuator, and can be configured to disengage when a rotational force on the master actuator exceeds a predetermined amount.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Chih Hung Chien, Hyun-taek Han, JinSoo Kim, Yong-hyeon Park
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Patent number: 12255192Abstract: A display device includes a display portion mounted with a first LED and a second LED are mounted, a pixel circuit portion provided with a first pixel-circuit thin film transistor electrically connected to the first LED and a second pixel-circuit thin film transistor electrically connected to the second LED, a drive circuit portion provided with a drive-circuit thin film transistor, and a shielding layer provided between the display portion and the drive circuit portion. A fixed potential is applied to the shielding layer. The second LED overlaps the drive circuit portion with the shielding layer therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Masanobu Ikeda, Yoshinori Aoki, Akihiro Ogawa
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Patent number: 12251042Abstract: A French press rod assembly configured to be operably engaged with a French press coffee pot wherein the French press rod assembly provides an element to engage therewith to stabilize the French press rod assembly during removal of the filter screen. The French press rod assembly includes a shaft having a first end and a second end. A handle is secured to the first end of the shaft and a filter screen is removably secured to the second end of the shaft. The shaft has surroundably mounted thereto proximate the second end an engagement member. A flow member is rotatably secured to the shaft wherein the flow member is intermediate the second end of the shaft and the engagement member. In a preferred embodiment of the flow member, the flow member is rotatably mounted to the shaft and includes a plurality of blades.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Inventors: Shuijin Liang, Sterling Enyu Lyang, Zhujuan Yang, Jian Liang
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Patent number: 12250966Abstract: A smoking pipe assembly configured to provide pipe and lighter functionality to a user. The smoking pipe assembly has a sheath having generally a tubular shape with a bottom wall joined to a side wall having an open end. A bowl is formed on the sheath extending away from the side wall. An opening extends through the bowl and the side wall. A carburetor air opening is formed through the bottom wall. A plurality of interference fit ribs is joined to the side wall and the bottom wall. A lighter is inserted into the open end into the sheath and against the plurality of interference fit ribs. The sheath provides pipe functionality when separated from the lighter.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Inventor: Bradley Joseph Sliger
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Patent number: 12254940Abstract: An operating method of a memory controller that controls an operation of a memory device that includes a memory region and a repair memory region. The operating method may include receiving an address associated with the memory region that is included in a first read command and data read out from the memory region associated with the address, decoding the data using an error correction code and detecting an error included in the data, generating error type information indicating a type of an error included in the data, updating, based on the error type information, a count value associated with the address, the count value indicating a number of times that the type of error indicated by the error type information has occurred for the address, comparing the count value with a threshold value, and backing up the data that is stored in the memory region associated with the address to the repair memory region when the count value is equal to the threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoonyul Yoo, Kwangmin Han
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Patent number: 12256648Abstract: Integrated circuit (IC) chips and seal ring structures are provided. An IC chip according to the present disclosure includes a device region, an inner ring surrounding the device region, an outer ring surrounding the inner ring, a first corner area between an outer corner of the inner ring and an inner corner of the outer ring, and a second corner area disposed at an outer corner of the outer ring. The first corner area includes a first active region including a channel region and a source/drain region, a first gate structure over the channel region of the first active region, and a first source/drain contact over the source/drain region of the first active region. The first source/drain contact continuously extends from a first edge of the first corner area to a second edge of the first corner area.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Chun Yu Chen, Yen Lian Lai
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Patent number: 12255591Abstract: A temperature compensation bias circuit is provided, including a third resistor, a fourth resistor, a fifth resistor, a sixth resistor, a seventh resistor, a second capacitor, a third capacitor, a fifth capacitor, a fifth transistor, a sixth transistor, and a seventh transistor. A power amplifier is further provided, the power amplifier applies the temperate compensation bias circuit. Compared with the prior art, there are fewer effects on a bias point of the temperature compensation bias circuit when the temperature compensation bias circuit and the power amplifier are in RF operating states, the power amplifier is enabled to have good temperature compensation effect and high linearity.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2024Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: LANSUS TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Wei Zhu, Jiashuai Guo
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Patent number: 12254181Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a memory system that can include a controller and a memory coupled thereto, each memory cell of the memory is configured to store m-bit information, and the controller includes at least one of an exclusive OR circuit, an inverter and an access circuit. The controller is configured to receive n groups of logic page data, and generate, at different values of m and n, at least one group of logic page data selectively by at least one of the exclusive OR circuit, the inverter and the access circuit. The controller is further configured to transmit the m groups of logic page data to the memory to generate 2n different data states in the memory.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hua Tan, Yaolong Gao
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Patent number: 12256032Abstract: A portable electronic device may include a housing having a wall defining an opening in the housing and at least a portion of four side surfaces of the portable electronic device. The portable electronic device may further include a display at least partially within the housing, a front cover positioned in the opening in the housing and over the display, the front cover defining a front surface, a peripheral side surface extending from the front surface and at least partially surrounded by the wall of the housing, and a notch that, together with a portion of the wall of the housing, defines an acoustic port of the portable electronic device. The electronic device may further include an acoustic port cover positioned at least partially in the acoustic port and a speaker at least partially within the housing and configured to direct sound through the acoustic port cover.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Ethan R. Stobbe, Cameron Bauer, Samuel J. Pliska, Macey E. Dade, Baris Ozgen, Lee E. Hooton, Benjamin S. Bustle, Jason M. Gillier, Stoyan P. Hristov, Anthony B. Sinclair, Nicholas Merz, Daniel Jarvis, Ian A. Spraggs, Mitchell T. Hoertz, Michael D. Quinones, David A. Pakula, Brandon R Collins-Smoot, Matthew R. McGuire, Richard H. Koch, Simon C. Helmore, Gareth L. Rose, Marwan Rammah, Zachary S. Scott, Jonathan M. Lee, Melissa A. Wah, Jacob Barton, Laura M. Burke, Jesse P. Harris, Samruddhi A. Deshpande, Ekaterina Pease, David J. Dunsmoor, Nawaf Al-Baghly
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Patent number: 12255788Abstract: Systems and methods monitor performance of a computing platform, including identifying infrastructure components associated with computing platforms of an organization, identifying component dependency between different infrastructure components across all system resources an enterprise network, and correlating the performance of an infrastructure component with business related KPIs for the platform. The platform management system generates a metadata representative of each the computing platform so that a graphical user interface (GUI) can provide real-time or near real-time data analytics to client devices, within a private enterprise cloud network. The performance platform management system may automatically take actions in response to identified infrastructure issues based on predetermined resolution procedures, individual configurations (based on permissions), or client interaction through the GUI.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2024Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc.Inventors: Laurie Pistilli, Radhika Aasoori, Ram Challagandla, Abhimanyu Ghei
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Patent number: 12252110Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an electric machine control system for a vehicle, the electric machine control system comprising one or more controllers, wherein the vehicle comprises an electric machine arranged to be selectively coupleable to provide torque to at least one wheel of an axle of the vehicle, the control system comprising input means to receive a speed signal indicative of a speed of the vehicle, processing means arranged to determine a desired coupling state (525) of the electric machine to the at least one wheel of the axle in dependence on the speed signal, wherein the processing means is arranged to determine the desired coupling state as coupled in dependence on the speed signal being indicative of a vehicle speed equal to or below a first low-speed threshold (910) and to determine the desired coupling state as no-request in dependence on the speed signal being indicative of a vehicle speed above a second low-speed threshold (920), wherein the second low-speed threshold represType: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITEDInventors: Matthew Hancock, Gareth Jones, Blake Hemingway, Christopher Blakesley, Daniele Giovanelli
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Patent number: 12254397Abstract: An apparatus and a method of implementing activation logic for a neural network are described. The apparatus comprises an input unit, a first address translated look-up table, an intermediate storage unit, a second address translated look-up table, and an output unit. The first address translated look-up table includes (2{circumflex over (?)}n1) first entries that map to (2{circumflex over (?)}n1) addresses based on the n bits of the input unit. Each the (2{circumflex over (?)}n1) first entries includes (n1?1) first preset values. The intermediate storage unit includes (n?1) bits. The second address translated look-up table includes (2{circumflex over (?)}(n?1)) second entries that map to the (2{circumflex over (?)}(n?1)) bit addresses based on of the (n?1) bits of the intermediate storage unit. Each the (2{circumflex over (?)}(n?1)) second entries includes (n2+1) second preset values.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Inventor: Woon-Sik Suh
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Patent number: 12251776Abstract: A method for laser processing a workpiece is provided. The workpiece includes a material transparent to a laser beam of the laser processing. The method includes splitting an input laser beam by using a beam splitter into a plurality of partial beams. The splitting of the input laser beam is performed by application of phases to a beam cross section of the input laser beam. The method further includes focusing the plurality of partial beams decoupled from the beam splitter by using a focusing optical unit. Multiple focus elements are formed by the focusing of the plurality of partial beams. The method further includes subjecting the material of the workpiece to at least a subset of the multiple focus elements. The application of the phases is performed in such a way that at least two of the multiple focus elements have different intensities.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2024Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: TRUMPF LASER- UND SYSTEMTECHNIK SEInventors: Daniel Flamm, Myriam Kaiser, Jonas Kleiner
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Patent number: 12253503Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for a modular aspirated smoke, gas, or air quality monitoring system are described herein. One modular monitoring unit, includes a base having a plurality of sampling tubes mounted thereon, at least one pump, and at least one detector module that is releasably attached to the base, wherein the pump draws air from one of the sampling tubes into a particulate sensing chamber within the detector module.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventor: Kemal Ajay
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Patent number: 12253414Abstract: An image sensor includes an array of metasurface structures and an array of optical-to-electrical conversion units. The array of metasurface structures is located above the array of optical-to-electrical conversion units. A first optical-to-electrical conversion unit in the array of optical-to-electrical conversion units includes a plurality of optical-to-electrical conversion elements, each optical-to-electrical conversion element in the first optical-to-electrical conversion unit corresponds to one frequency band in a spectrum. A first metasurface structure in the array of metasurface structures includes a first substrate and a microstructure located above the first substrate. The first substrate and the microstructure are configured to transmit an optical signal at each frequency band to an optical-to-electrical conversion element corresponding to each frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Youming Zhang, Lifeng Sun
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Patent number: 12255399Abstract: An antenna module includes feeding elements arranged adjacent to each other and filters connected to the respective feeding elements. Each of the filters includes a plurality of resonant lines that is not connected to each other. The filters are arranged between the feeding elements so as to cross a virtual line equidistant from the feeding elements when the antenna module is viewed in plan from the normal direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirotsugu Mori, Tadashi Sugahara, Kengo Onaka
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Patent number: 12255519Abstract: A generator unit of a system for generating electrical power includes a generator coupled to a turbine. A flowline coupled to the generator unit conveys a fluid to an inlet of the turbine. A second flowline couples an outlet of the turbine and a tree of a well at a wellsite. The second flowline conveys the fluid from the outlet to the tree.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Burkhard Sommer, Pierre Petit, Edmund Peter McHugh, Michael Mullin, Conor Gray, Martin Fleet, Michael Anthony McKeon, Gustavo Gonzalez, Phillip Theriot