Patents Examined by Phi A
  • Patent number: 12293448
    Abstract: Methods and graphics processing systems render items of geometry using a rendering space which is subdivided into a plurality of first regions. Each of the first regions is sub-divided into a plurality of second regions. Each of a plurality of items of geometry is processed by identifying which of the first regions the item of geometry is present within, and for each identified first region determining an indication of the spatial coverage, within the identified first region, of the item of geometry, and using the determined indication of the spatial coverage within the identified first region to determine whether to add the item of geometry to a first control list for the identified first region or to add the item of geometry to one or more second control lists for a respective one or more of the second regions within the identified first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Xile Yang, Robert Brigg
  • Patent number: 12293440
    Abstract: A computing system receives data for a game. The data includes at least one of tracking data or event data. Based on the data for the game, the computing system determines that an event has occurred within the game. Based on the determining, the computing system generates a graphic responsive to the event. The graphic includes insights related to the event. The computing system recommends an image relevant to the event based on metatags associated with the event. The computing system generates a visual element by merging the image and the graphic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: STATS LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Joseph Lucey, Anthony Borsumato, Kevin Allinson, Christian Marko
  • Patent number: 12293457
    Abstract: A method includes: performing semantic segmentation on an RGBD image to obtain a semantic label of each pixel of the image; performing reconstruction of a point cloud based on the image and mapping the semantic label of each pixel of the image into the point cloud to respectively obtain a semantic point cloud of a current frame with the semantic labels and a three-dimensional scene semantic map with the semantic labels; generating two-dimensional discrete semantic feature points for each of three-dimensional semantic point clouds in the current frame and the semantic map to obtain a corresponding two-dimensional semantic feature point image, and performing a three-dimensional semantic feature description on each feature point in the two-dimensional semantic feature point image; and performing feature matching on all feature points in the current frame and all feature points in the semantic map to obtain positioning information based on the three-dimensional semantic feature description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD
    Inventors: Tiecheng Sun, Jichao Jiao
  • Patent number: 12286835
    Abstract: A window ventilation arrangement includes a window assembly and a window insert arrangement. The window assembly includes a window frame and a slidable window. The frame includes an insert-receiving channel and is configured to provide an air-letting opening. The slidable window is displaceable within the window channel portion so as to provide the air-letting opening. The window insert arrangement includes a panel and a plurality of panel spacers. The panel has four corners, a first panel edge, a second panel edge, and a panel thickness. The panel spacers are attached to the panel at least at the four corners for providing an overall insert thickness equaling an insert channel width of an insert-receiving channel of the slidable window. The window insert arrangement is insertable into the insert-receiving channel of the slidable window and exposed portions of the panel providing a reduced, air-letting opening for reductively ventilating the room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Inventor: John G. Labuda
  • Patent number: 12279063
    Abstract: This application discloses a synchronous rendering method, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: determining, by a virtual graphics processing driver based on a second synchronization flag bit of a synchronization signal, whether to generate a rendering frame; after the rendering frame is generated, setting a first synchronization flag bit and the second synchronization flag bit of the synchronization signal to indicate that the rendering frame has been generated; obtaining, by a virtual graphics processing unit, the rendering frame and the synchronization signal, and determining, based on the first synchronization flag bit, whether to render the rendering frame; and after the rendering frame is rendered, setting the first synchronization flag bit and the second synchronization flag bit to indicate that the rendering frame has been rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Ruijie Network Suzhou Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Guang Li
  • Patent number: 12276118
    Abstract: A plurality of hidden clips can be included with a strip of clips and separated by a frangible section or tab located between adjacent clips. An aperture defined in each hidden clip can include an offset cylindrical section that causes a fastener to pivot from a vertical alignment when the fastener is driven into a joist. Each strip can be provided with a hand grip portion removably attached to a proximal-most hidden clip in the strip of clips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: MN Fastener LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Demuth, Mark T. Reum
  • Patent number: 12271986
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and associated methods for generating an autonomous bot that replicates speech characteristics, visual expressions, and actions of a professional in order to further relationships established by the professional in meetings that the professional is unavailable for. The system monitors meetings involving the professional at different stages of a workflow, and classifies the workflow stage associated with each meeting. The system models content, speech characteristics, and visual expressions expressed by the professional at each workflow stage based on commonality that is detected in a different set of meetings classified to a corresponding workflow stage. The modeling is used to generate an autonomous bot as a surrogate for the professional in a meeting that the professional is unavailable for.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: PEAKSPAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
    Inventors: Vikas Kumar, Philip Alexandrov, Evan Kessler, Philip Dur
  • Patent number: 12270194
    Abstract: A field-deployable construction set for the assembly of a Relocatable Habitat Unit (RHU) and associated panels, used for simulating real world environments without costly construction expenses. The various panels, supports, and accessories used to construct an RHU may be interchangeable and readily modified in the field with minimal tools, further providing significant options for reconfiguration of floor, ceiling, and wall panels without having to disassemble the structure. The exterior of the lightweight panels may be customizable to provide a realistic environment for high quality training in a versatile system that is deployable by truck or aircraft and can be assembled with only a single tool. The RHU or components thereof may simulate a real building structure both visually and in a non-visual domain such as via electromagnetic sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Inventors: Stuart C. Segall, Kit Lavell
  • Patent number: 12272010
    Abstract: Interesting features of an object within a physical environment are identified from a video of the physical environment. A model of the object is obtained, the model includes dimensions of the object. A first array is maintained with the pixel coordinates of the identified features within the video. A second array is maintained with the dimensions of the features obtained from the model. A processing framework is provided for using the first and second arrays and estimating, updating, and tracking the anchor pose in the physical environment within the video along with any AR generated objects placed in the video. The framework provided to an Augmented Reality (AR) app to initiate an AR session and to maintain the session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: NCR Atleos Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Dent, Kyle Joseph Monaghan, Joseph Michael Gripo Tolentino, Gwyneth Dela Cruz Valdehueza
  • Patent number: 12270217
    Abstract: A high pressure inflatable beam (1) with a typical internal operating pressure in the range of 100 to 1,000 kPa, formed from conventional or modified fire hoses, or other industrial hoses or tubes produced by seamless braiding technology with an internal lining impervious to air and a possible outer protective coat, the ends of which are closed by a plug, wherein at least one plug contains at least one filling and/or discharging element for the filling medium, and the ends of the beam (1) are firmly put in at a distance of less than the total length of the beam (1), where at least one a section of its length, the beam (1) is provided with at least two adjoining fixed attachment points (2) located in the longitudinal direction of the beam (1) and formed on the surface of the beam (1) or sleeves (5) of the beam (1), wherein the fixed attachment points (2) are interconnected by at least one force exerting element (3), whose straight length between the fixed attachment points (2) is shorter than the straight leng
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: ZEPELIN, S.R.O.
    Inventors: Juraj Brezan, Henrich Hodák, Pavol Ochodnický
  • Patent number: 12271980
    Abstract: A computing system receives data for a game. The data includes at least one of tracking data or event data. Based on the data for the game, the computing system determines that an event has occurred within the game. Based on the determining, the computing system generates a graphic responsive to the event. The graphic includes insights related to the event. The computing system recommends an image relevant to the event based on metatags associated with the event. The computing system generates a visual element by merging the image and the graphic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: STATS LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Joseph Lucey, Anthony Borsumato, Kevin Allinson, Christian Marko
  • Patent number: 12264476
    Abstract: A shingle coating asphalt composition is provided that is produced from a paving grade asphalt. The asphalt composition comprises a paving-grade asphalt that has been modified with one or more polymer additives; and a secondary additive comprising one or more of a viscosity reducing agent, a wax, a salt of a fatty acid ester, and an amide of a fatty acid. The shingle coating asphalt coating composition is used to make a shingle. The shingle includes a substrate, the asphalt, and roofing granules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Carmen Anthony LaTorre, Jacob Paul Honsvick, Christopher Patrick Kasprzak, Daniel James Buckwalter, Edward R. Harrington, Jonathan Ross Davis, Laurand Henry Lewandowski, David Michael Ploense, William Edwin Smith, Scott W. Schweiger, Ganesh Latta
  • Patent number: 12254587
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to electronic devices that can provide protected use of user-related information to applications, for generating user-specific outputs. The protected access may allow an application to process the user-related information within a processing environment of a processor that is separate from a primary processor of an electronic device. Within that processing environment, the application can utilize the user-related information to generate a user-specific output from the device. However, the application is prevented from extricating the user-related information, and information derived from the user-related information, from that processing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paul W. Chinn, Karol B. Gasinski, Nathaniel S. Brown, Pau Sastre Miguel, Pierre D'Herbemont, Rohan Sehgal
  • Patent number: 12252898
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a prefabricated infilled panel-frame structure capable of accommodating seismic-loading and seismic energy dissipation, and a construction method thereof, including a frame body, a prefabricated infilled panel group, a panel connector, and a disc spring assembly. During an earthquake, the present invention slides to dissipate energy only after the maximum starting sliding force is exceeded, thus providing the structure with a relatively high lateral stiffness prior to sliding. After an earthquake, the disc spring assembly of the present invention may provide a certain restoring force due to being compressed so as to reduce the residual displacement. Further, the present invention achieves the bidirectional deformation cooperation of the prefabricated infilled panel under earthquakes, so that the infilled panel may still achieve the function of seismic energy dissipation under the coupling action of in-plane and out-of-plane loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, CHINA CONSTRUCION FOURTH ENGINEERING DMSION GREEN BUILDING TECHNOLOGY (GUANGDONG), LTD, CHINA CONSTRUCTION FOURTH ENGINEERING DIVISION CORP. LTD, BEIJING BRACE DAMPING ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Junxian Zhao, Hao Qin, Xiangkun Yao, Zhi Luo, Kezhu Jiang, Guohui Yuan, Weijie Chen, Wei Han
  • Patent number: 12255577
    Abstract: Mounting components of photovoltaic (PV) modules and PV module assemblies are described, including PV module couplings and PV module mounting chassis. In an example, a PV module includes a PV module coupling having a toe portion extending from a PV module frame, and a PV module mounting chassis includes a toe slot to receive the toe. The toe and toe slot construction allows for the PV module frame to be assembled to the PV module mounting chassis without using tools, and thus, permits a PV module assembly to be quickly constructed during installation of a PV module system. Furthermore, the toe and toe slot construction accommodates thermal expansion and other environmental loads seen after installation, while providing a grounding connection for the PV module assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: TotalEnergies OneTech
    Inventors: Brian S. Wares, Vicent Ripoll Agullo, Tyler Grushkowitz
  • Patent number: 12246650
    Abstract: A method of displaying a rear-view image and a digital dashboard using the method are provided. The method includes: receiving a rear-view image; and displaying the rear-view image on a default area of a display in response to receiving a signal associated with a direction indicator light, wherein the default area corresponds to the direction indicator light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Kinpo Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Chi Chen, Hsien Chung Chen, Sheng-Chang Wu
  • Patent number: 12249050
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes obtaining 3D model of real-world environment; receiving image of real-world environment captured using camera and pose information indicative of camera pose from which image is captured; utilising 3D model of real-world environment to generate reconstructed depth map from perspective of camera pose; and applying extended depth-of-field correction to image segment(s) of image that is/are out of focus, by using point spread function determined for camera, based on optical depths in segment(s) of reconstructed depth map corresponding to image segment(s) of image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Varjo Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Mikko Strandborg, Mikko Ollila
  • Patent number: 12243180
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and method capable of suppressing an increase in processing load when randomly accessing scene descriptions. As update information for updating spatial arrangement information for arranging at least one 3D object in a 3D space, initial value reference difference information that is difference information which uses an initial value of the spatial arrangement information as a reference, or post-update information in which an update to the initial value reference difference information is reflected in the initial value of the spatial arrangement information, is generated. Then, an update file which stores the update information is generated, and the initial value reference difference information or the post-update information is stored in the update file as a random access point. The present disclosure can be applied in, for example, an information processing device, an information processing method, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuka Kiyama, Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi, Ryohei Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12243157
    Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate inferred object shading is disclosed. The apparatus comprises one or more processors to receive rasterized pixel data and hierarchical data associated with one or more objects and perform an inferred shading operation on the rasterized pixel data, including using one or more trained neural networks to perform texture and lighting on the rasterized pixel data to generate a pixel output, wherein the one or more trained neural networks uses the hierarchical data to learn a three-dimensional (3D) geometry, latent space and representation of the one or more objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Selvakumar Panneer, Mrutunjayya Mrutunjayya, Carl S. Marshall, Ravishankar Iyer, Zack Waters
  • Patent number: 12227987
    Abstract: The sealing tape includes at least one base body of flexible foam capable of recovery after compression. In the area of the bottom surface of the sealing tape, an adhesive layer for bonding to a frame profile of a window or door is arranged. The sealing tape has a continuous barrier structure for reducing the permeability to the diffusion of water vapor and/or the permeability to air in the functional direction of the sealing tape, the barrier structure extends from the top surface to the bottom surface and also extends over an area of the top surface. The barrier structure includes, at least in the area of the top surface, a closed-cell flexible foam or consists of closed-cell flexible foam. The barrier structure, at least in the area of the top surface of the sealing tape, has a thickness of between 10 ?m and 5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: ISO-Chemie GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Deiss