Patents Examined by Nitin Patel
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Patent number: 12658142Abstract: A display substrate, a driving method therefor and a display device are provided, the display substrate includes: a plurality of gate driving circuits, each of the gate driving circuits includes a plurality of shift registers that are cascaded with each other, each of the shift registers includes a first reset sub-circuit, the first reset sub-circuit is connected to an inter-frame reset control end, a reset signal end and a first to-be-reset node, respectively, and the first reset sub-circuit is configured to write a reset signal of the reset signal end into the first to-be-reset node according to an inter-frame reset control signal of the inter-frame reset control end; wherein the inter-frame reset control end is connected to an inter-frame reset control line, and inter-frame reset control ends of the plurality of gate driving circuits are connected to a same inter-frame reset control line.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2024Date of Patent: June 16, 2026Assignees: HEFEI BOE JOINT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Can Yuan, Yongqian Li, Liu Wu, Zhidong Yuan
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Patent number: 12653702Abstract: A prosthetic liner incorporating a locking attachment that can be used by amputees to engage their prosthetic liner with a prosthetic device. The prosthetic liner has an open proximal end and a closed distal end with a liner opening at the closed distal end. The prosthetic liner further comprises an external fabric layer and an internal elastomer layer. This internal elastomer layer may be made of silicone, urethane, or a thermoplastic styrene-based elastomer gel. The locking attachment is comprised of two parts: an umbrella further comprising a stem having a base and the exterior screw cap. The exterior screw cap can engage the umbrella in a variety of ways including, but not limited to, locking grooves, locking studs, and locking teeth. In addition, the locking attachment has an internally threaded central aperture that allows for the expulsion of air as well as the mounting of a prosthesis.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2023Date of Patent: June 16, 2026Inventors: Aldo Laghi, Nathaniel Vint, Kurt T. Kruger, Jakob W. McClelland
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Patent number: 12658144Abstract: A security device includes a summing circuit configured to receive a key signal and generate a merged signal by summing a lock signal and the key signal, a check voltage generating circuit configured to generate a check voltage having a voltage level corresponding to a duration of an on-period of the merged signal, and a check circuit configured to check whether the merged signal exceeds a comparison voltage, to check whether the check voltage is within a normal check voltage range, and to generate an OK signal having an on-level if the merged signal does not exceed the comparison voltage and the check voltage is within the normal check voltage range.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2025Date of Patent: June 16, 2026Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jungeon An, Kihyun Pyun
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Patent number: 12650759Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an input unit capable of detecting handwritten input; a display unit capable of displaying a trajectory of the handwritten input; a text recognition unit which recognizes text based on the handwritten input detected by the input unit; a prediction processing unit which predicts text candidates following the text based on the text recognized by the text recognition unit; a handwriting synthesis unit which synthesizes the text candidates predicted by the prediction processing unit into handwritten characters by combining first generation processing to generate handwritten characters based on tokens, each of which is a set of one or more handwriting strokes, collected from the handwritten input by a user, and second generation processing to generate handwritten characters based on a conversion model prepared in advance for converting text characters to handwritten characters; and a display processing unit which displays, on the display unit, the handwritten characterType: GrantFiled: February 27, 2025Date of Patent: June 9, 2026Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Tran Minh Khuong Vu, Qiang Yao
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Patent number: 12651555Abstract: A pixel according to embodiments of the present inventive concept includes a first transistor having a gate electrode connected to a first node; a light emitting element connected between the second electrode of the first transistor and a second power source line; a second transistor connected between the first node and a data line; a third transistor connected between the first electrode of the first transistor and a second node; a fourth transistor connected between the first power source line and the second node; and a first capacitor connected between the first node and the second node, and a reference power source and a voltage of a data signal are sequentially supplied to the data line during a horizontal period.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2024Date of Patent: June 9, 2026Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ji Young Lee, So Hae Kim, Ji Song Chae, Sang Gu Lee, Yong Woo Lee, Hyung Uk Cho, Hyun Young Choi
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Patent number: 12610479Abstract: Disclosed is a portable electronic device including a flexible display, a shutter frame arranged on a back surface of the flexible display, a middle frame arranged on a back surface of the shutter frame, a sub-board connected to an end of the flexible display via a flexible substrate and arranged between the shutter frame and the middle frame, a main board and a battery arranged in a back surface of the middle frame, and a back cover that covers the main board and the battery and is coupled to the back surface of the middle frame, wherein the middle frame includes a front mounting portion protruding in a backward direction at a location corresponding to the sub-board, a back mounting portion defined at a location corresponding to the main board and the battery, and a shielding side wall between the back mounting portion and the front mounting portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2023Date of Patent: April 21, 2026Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hyunsuk Yang, Yongjin Hwang, Donghyok Shin, Peelhyuk Lim, Bongjun Jae, Byeongduk An, Dongjoon Choi, Laio Kang
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Patent number: 12605298Abstract: A supporting module including a supporting frame including a proximal end and a distal end a connecting plate connected with the distal end of the supporting frame, a sliding plate in contact with one face of the connecting plate, a supporting band connected to both ends of the connecting plate, and an elastic strip configured to connect the sliding pate and the connecting plate is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2023Date of Patent: April 21, 2026Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Byungjune Choi, Se-Gon Roh, Minhyung Lee, Youn Baek Lee, Hyun Do Choi, Jeonghun Kim, Jongwon Lee
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Patent number: 12603053Abstract: A pixel circuit can include an internal compensation unit having a driving transistor and a capacitor having a first terminal connected to a gate electrode of the driving transistor. Data lines are connected to a first electrode of the driving transistor and a second terminal of the capacitor, respectively, so that a light-emitting element emits light with a grayscale corresponding to a difference between data voltages charged in the capacitor. Accordingly, the number of bits of data output from channels of a data driving circuit can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2024Date of Patent: April 14, 2026Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Tae Kwon, Yong Won Jo, Jong Wook Jang
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Patent number: 12594172Abstract: An implantable human-machine interfacing system is disclosed that includes an implantable muscle interface device including a substrate including a first plurality of sensors and a second plurality of amplifiers that capture and amplify, respectively, electromyographic (EMG) signals arising from motor units under control of neural signals representative of volitional limb movements; and a transceiver device connected to the first plurality of sensors that wirelessly transmits signals to an external decoder that produces decoded signals that discriminate motor signals representative of movements of the motor units, wherein the substrate at least partially surrounds a muscle from which the EMG signals arise; and a receiver device that uses the decoded signals for interaction with an external system.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 7, 2026Assignee: The Johns Hopkins UniversityInventors: Connor Glass, Nitish V. Thakor, Sami Tuffaha, Alexis Lowe
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Patent number: 12592197Abstract: A display substrate is provided to include: a base substrate including a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area; pixel units in array are in the display area; a driving module is in the peripheral area and is configured to provide electrical signals for the pixel units, to control the pixel units to operate; the driving module includes driving circuits each provided with a corresponding operating signal line group in the peripheral area; the signal line group includes at least two operating signal lines connected to the corresponding driving circuit, to provide electrical signals thereto; the at least two operating signal lines include first and second clock signal lines; the first clock signal lines for at least two driving circuits are a same first clock signal line; and/or the second clock signal lines for the at least two driving circuits are a same second clock signal line.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2024Date of Patent: March 31, 2026Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gansong Yang, Yunpeng Zhang, Ming Yang, Yanhong Ding, Ke Liu, Miao Liu, Xing Yao
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Patent number: 12588350Abstract: A display device includes: a base layer; a circuit layer on the base layer; and an element layer on the circuit layer and including a light emitting element and a hybrid element, wherein the hybrid element includes: a hybrid anode electrode; a light receiving stack on the hybrid anode electrode; a light emitting stack on the light receiving stack; and a hybrid cathode electrode on the light emitting stack, wherein the light emitting element is configured to be turned on to emit a first color light in a light emitting mode and a light receiving mode, wherein the hybrid element is configured to be turned on to output a second color light in the light emitting mode, and wherein the hybrid element is configured to be turned on to receive the first color light in the light receiving mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2024Date of Patent: March 24, 2026Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Suk Kim, Hyoungwook Jang, Sung-Soo Bae, Jae-Kyoung Kim
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Patent number: 12586537Abstract: A display apparatus having a thin bezel is provided. The display apparatus may include a substrate including a display area and a first peripheral area, a first gate driver, a data driver, a plurality of pixel groups in the display area and including at least a first pixel group, a second pixel group, a third pixel group, and a fourth pixel group, a first scan line extending in the first direction in a plan view, a second scan line extending in the first direction in a plan view, a third scan line extending in the first direction in a plan view, and a first horizontal scan line extending in a second direction in a plan view and connecting the first scan line and the third scan line to each other, the second direction crossing the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2024Date of Patent: March 24, 2026Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Byeongsoo Kang, Kwangwoo Park, Hyemin Park, Donghwan Shim, Jinyong Lee, Yongseon Jo
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Patent number: 12586535Abstract: A driver circuit configured to output a control signal to a row of display pixels is provided. The driver circuit can include a first transistor having a drain terminal coupled to a first positive power supply line, a gate terminal, and a source terminal that is coupled to an output port of the driver circuit on which the control signal is generated and a second transistor having a drain terminal coupled to the output port of the driver circuit, a gate terminal, and a source terminal that is coupled to a first ground power supply line. The first and second transistors can be coupled to a plurality of transistors coupled between a second positive power supply line and a second ground power supply line, configured to receive one or more clocks signals, and at least some of which include bottom gate terminals.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2024Date of Patent: March 24, 2026Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hao-Lin Chiu, Chin-Wei Lin, Shinya Ono, Kyung Wook Kim, Szu-Hsien Lee, Pei-En Chang, Kwang Soon Park
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Patent number: 12575947Abstract: A rotatable and removable wrist connection for a prosthetic hand. A prosthesis coupling includes first and second ball race sections that may be moved together or apart to constrain ball bearings to an inner zone or an outer zone to allow the prosthesis coupling to be secured to or removed from a socket coupling. A socket coupling includes a socket body for receiving a wrist coupling having a rotary connector core extending from the socket body and compliantly mounted to the socket body.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 17, 2026Assignee: Taska Prosthetics LimitedInventors: Ross Hughan Dawson, Mathew James Jury, David Neil Lovegrove, Michael James Van Der Werff, Matthew Sultan Yan
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Patent number: 12562127Abstract: This application provides a screen drive circuit, a display, and an electronic device. An input terminal of a drive selection circuit in the screen drive circuit inputs a row drive signal, and a control terminal of the drive selection circuit inputs a row address selection signal. The drive selection circuit outputs, based on the row address selection signal, the row drive signal corresponding to a pixel row whose displayed content changes. The row address selection signal is generated, by a display drive chip connected to the display, based on the pixel row whose displayed content changes. It can be learned that, the screen drive circuit can separately select, based on an update frequency of displayed content on the display, some pixel rows in a pixel array for content refreshing, thereby implementing local refreshing based on the displayed content.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2023Date of Patent: February 24, 2026Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.Inventors: Yabin An, Yi Su, Haiming He, Mingyuan Zhao
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Patent number: 12562129Abstract: Disclosed are a display device, a display driving circuit thereof, and an operating method thereof. The display device includes a power management circuit and a display driving circuit. The display driving circuit converts a power voltage provided by the power management circuit into a first boundary voltage and a second boundary voltage, and generates multiple gamma voltages based on the first boundary voltage and the second boundary voltage. When a system condition transitions from a normal state to a specified state, the first boundary voltage transitions to a specified boundary level, and the power voltage transitions to a specified power level. When the system condition returns from the specified state to the normal state, the first boundary voltage returns to a normal boundary level, and the power voltage returns to a normal power level.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2024Date of Patent: February 24, 2026Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Hao-Jan Yang, Wei-Lun Shih, Kun-Zheng Lin, Chun-Hung Chen
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Patent number: 12554358Abstract: A touch panel-equipped display device includes an electrostatic capacitance type touch panel and an organic EL display panel. The touch panel includes a transparent insulating substrate, a plurality of first electrodes formed on the substrate and extending at least in a first direction, a plurality of second electrodes formed on the substrate and extending at least in the second direction that intersects the first direction, and a plurality of wirings provided in a peripheral area of the substrate. The plurality of wirings are electrically connected to the first electrodes and the second electrodes respectively. The first electrodes include a first portion and a second portion. The second portion is formed on the same layer as that on which the second electrodes are formed. The first portion is formed on a layer different from that on which the second portion and the second electrodes are formed.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2024Date of Patent: February 17, 2026Assignee: Paneltouch Technologies LLCInventor: Masahiro Teramoto
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Patent number: 12549656Abstract: A method and apparatus for identifying a water ingress risk of a terminal, a device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: respectively acquiring a first variation amount of a capacitance signal of a capacitive touch screen caused by connection between a ground wire on the surface of a housing of a smart terminal and a chip ground of a capacitive touch screen chip of the smart terminal, and a second variation amount of the capacitance signal of the capacitive touch screen caused by disconnection between the ground wire on the surface of the housing and the chip ground of the capacitive touch screen chip; and identifying a water ingress risk of the smart terminal according to the acquired first variation amount of the capacitance signal and the acquired second variation amount of the capacitance signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: February 10, 2026Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Xiaoliang Zhang, Yigang Feng
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Patent number: 12539221Abstract: A prosthetic wrist unit providing a connection between the arm and a hand mechanism, comprising a wrist base unit with at least one connection slot into which the hand mechanism is to be inserted and at least one connecting piece enabling the rotational movement of the prosthetic wrist unit; a joint including a joint seat and a joint body; a locking mechanism comprising a locking mechanism opening into which the joint body is inserted and enabling the prosthetic wrist unit to operate in two positions, i.e., fixed or movable; an arm coupling unit into which the joint and the locking mechanism are inserted and which restricts the movement of the joint and the locking mechanism; and at least one tendon ensuring the joint stiffness of the prosthetic wrist unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 3, 2026Assignee: OZYEGIN UNIVERSITESIInventors: Ramazan Unal, Ahmed Abdelrahman Ibrahim Elsayed, Baris Baysal
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Patent number: 12515358Abstract: An exoskeleton system comprising: one or more actuator units that comprise a fluidic actuator; an exoskeleton device; one or more cables, the one or more cables comprising a first cable extending from the exoskeleton device to a first actuator unit of the one or more actuator units; and a retractable cable assembly coupled to the first cable, with the retractable cable assembly configured to pull the first cable to reduce slack in the first cable.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: January 6, 2026Assignee: ROAM ROBOTICS INC.Inventors: Phil Long, Kevin Conrad Kemper, Timothy Alan Swift, Austin Campbell, Linus Park, Ashley Swartz, Rob Stuart, Samuel Pannepacker