Patents Examined by R Patel
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Patent number: 12201551Abstract: An intraoral device wearable by a patient may include an intraoral device body, a first advancement structure configured to be coupled to a first jaw of the patient. and a second advancement structure configured to be coupled to a second jaw of the patient. The device may also include an intraoral actuator coupled to the first advancement structure to displace a lower jaw of the patient from a first position to a second position. The first position may be a habitual jaw position and the second position may be a modified jaw position. Displacing the lower jaw of the patient may include moving the lower jaw from the habitual jaw position to the modified jaw position based at least in part on data from at least one sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Avi Kopelman
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Patent number: 12206639Abstract: A content pushing method includes that a terminal device obtains first information, where the first information includes location information of the terminal device. When the first information meets a preset first condition, the terminal device displays second information. The second information includes to-be-pushed content associated with the first information or a link of the to-be-pushed content. The first condition includes that a location corresponding to the location information of the terminal device is in a first area, and a type of the first area is one of preset area types.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Zhiwei Ma
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Patent number: 12201550Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems are disclosed for controlled delivery of a therapy, such as a stimulant, to a mouth of a subject via an oral device positioned in a secured configuration in the mouth. At least one of a tongue position stimulator (TST) and tongue position sensor (TSE) is provided, according to certain aspects. According to another aspect, a stimulus is delivered to the mouth and/or tongue via a mouthpiece secured to the subject's teeth. In another regard, a stimulus is delivered that generates a natural response to eliminate or reduce sleep disorders, such as for example at least one of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Split Rock Scientific, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Hermanson, Amit Rajguru
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Patent number: 12205539Abstract: A pixel driving circuit and a mobile terminal are provided. The pixel driving circuit includes a switch circuit, a storage circuit, and a light driving circuit. The switch circuit receives data signal applied on the data line in response to scan signal applied on the scan line. The storage circuit is charged by the data signal. The light driving circuit emits light in response to the data signal. The light driving circuit includes a driving unit, light-emitting unit, a supply voltage end, a ground end, and a voltage dividing unit that is coupled between the driving unit and the ground end.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Daobing Hu
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Patent number: 12205269Abstract: A method for detecting a display panel defect, including: collecting a panel image of a to-be-detected display panel, a plurality of first pixels of the display panel corresponding to a plurality of second pixels in the panel image; converting the panel image into a binary image; dilating each bright spot region in the binary image such that adjacent bright spot regions communicate with each other to form at least one closed communication region in the binary image; determining a region of interest mask image in the binary image in accordance with the at least one closed communication region; determining a region of interest in accordance with the region of interest mask image and the panel image; and performing feature identification on the region of interest to determine a defect of the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Hao Tang, Ronghua Lan, Jiuyang Cheng, Shuo Zhou, Zhong Huang, Guo Jiang, Li Wang, Lijia Zhou, Zhidong Wang, Lirong Xu, Quanguo Zhou
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Patent number: 12201810Abstract: The invention relates to a splint for an infant. It has a body including an insert of a malleable material, wherein the body has a longitudinal axis, a first arm extending from an edge of the body in a plane substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis; and a second arm, spaced apart from the first arm, extending from the edge of the body in a plane substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The arms wrap around the limb of the infant and provide a surface for using medical tape or the like, thus avoiding the need for the tape to come into contact with the skin of the infant. In addition, the malleable insert allows the splint to be deformed and hold its shape if the splint is to be used on a joint of the limb.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: MWDESIGN LIMITEDInventors: Jack Hamon, Michael Bryan Williams
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Patent number: 12206555Abstract: Disclosed is a method and device for dynamically adding a consensus node in a blockchain. The method comprises: receiving a registration request, initiated by a new participant, for registration as a new consensus node in a consensus network, wherein the registration request is used for initiating a registration to the consensus network; generating, according to the registration request, a network update block in which topological information of a new consensus network is written, wherein the new consensus network comprises consensus nodes in the consensus network and the new consensus node; and synchronizing block information in the consensus network and the network update block to the participant and the consensus nodes so as to obtain the new consensus network.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: JINGDONG TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Shuang Zhang
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Patent number: 12205503Abstract: Disclosed are a source driver and a method of detecting crack of a display panel. A source driver may comprise a first circuit configured to apply first data to data lines connected to sub-pixels of a display panel to charge a first driving voltage; and a second circuit formed on the display panel that applies the first driving voltage to a detection line formed on the display panel to detect the presence of cracks in the display panel based on the illumination status of the sub-pixels, wherein the detection line includes a first detection node and a second detection node formed on one side of the display panel along its extension direction, wherein the first detection node is connected to data lines of the first and third sub-pixels, and wherein the second detection node is connected to data line of the second sub-pixel.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.Inventors: Byeon Cheol Lee, Seong Geon Kim, Won Kim, Tai Ming Piao, Young Ho Shin
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Patent number: 12202077Abstract: Transport system for transporting soldering material through a soldering apparatus and soldering apparatus, having two transport tracks running parallel to one another and extending in a transport direction, wherein each of the transport tracks includes two transport rails, and wherein at least one of the two transport rails of the respective transport track is adjustable in the transverse direction running transversely to the transport direction for a width adjustment of the respective transport track.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: ERSA GmbHInventor: Uwe Hofmann
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Patent number: 12204371Abstract: The present invention includes a jig for installing a protection member to a portable electronic device and a guide jig device including the same. The jig includes a main body and retaining members formed to be elastically deformed and coupled or connected to the main body while surrounding a mounting space in which the portable electronic device formed in the main body is inserted. The guide jig device is advantageous in that it can be used for a portable electronic device that is manufactured and sold in a size relatively greater than the size of the portable electronic device disclosed before its release.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: SPIGEN KOREA CO., LTD.Inventors: In Sung Yoon, Ji Hye Kang, Dong Kyung Choi
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Patent number: 12206570Abstract: Provided herein is a method of improving throughput of a DHT network, which may include the steps of inputting a maximal allowable number of node hops, receiving a data retrieval query, and locating an authority node via a gossip protocol. If the observed node hop number exceeds the maximal allowable number, the network may perform a shortening protocol, which may include the steps of creating a supplementary read table for the receiving node, adding the entry's hash to the supplementary read table, creating a supplementary write table for the authority node, and adding the entry's hash to the supplementary write table. The gossip protocol may interrogate in parallel the routing table and the supplementary read table, when extant, of each node participating in the gossip protocol.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventors: Manikandan Rajaraman, Sakshi Bakshi, Saravanan Balasubramanian, Jayakumar Manokaran
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Patent number: 12194572Abstract: An ultrasonic welding diagnostic method includes: applying a pressing force to an object to be joined so as to generate a surface pressure on a joint surface of the object to be joined; inputting ultrasonic waves to the joint surface; detecting an elastic wave propagating through the object to be joined by at least one sensor at a plurality of different positions; analyzing a signal detected by the sensor to generate an envelope of the signal and calculating information about the envelope; and determining a joint state on the joint surface based on the calculation result of the information.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takashi Usui, Keisuke Ueno, Mamoru Shibuya, Souichi Hanafusa, Tatsuhiko Sakaguchi
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Patent number: 12193922Abstract: Introduced here are apparatuses and systems for mitigating contact pressures applied to a human body by the surface of an object, such as a chair, bed, or table. A pressure-mitigation apparatus can include a series of chambers whose pressure can be individually varied. When placed between a patient and a contact surface, the pressure-mitigation apparatus can vary the contact pressure on a specific anatomical region of the patient by controllably inflating and/or deflating one or more cell. Moreover, a pressure-mitigation system can be readily integrated into a conventional treatment regimen for a variety of different conditions.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2024Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: TurnCare, Inc.Inventor: Rafael Paolo Squitieri
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Patent number: 12199785Abstract: A meeting robot method and system is provided. In one embodiment, a meeting substitute system includes processing circuitry configured to cause the meeting substitute system to obtain information related to a meeting request, the information associated with a teleconference meeting and the information including a date and a time for the teleconference meeting; as a result of a trigger, automatically: join the teleconference meeting at the date and the time; and during the joined teleconference meeting, capturing a set of meeting data for the teleconference meeting, the captured set of meeting data comprising at least one of a video recording and an audio recording of the teleconference meeting and a speech-to-text translation; and generate a meeting summary based at least in part on the captured set of meeting data for the teleconference meeting.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Dan Wang, Ghassan Abdallah, Baosheng Xu, Bin Liu, Weizhen Nie
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Patent number: 12198619Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a pixel driving circuit and a display device. The pixel driving circuit comprises a driving transistor, a first data writing module and a second data writing module. The driving transistor comprises: a channel in a channel layer, a first gate in a first gate layer, and a second gate in a second gate layer, and an output end electrically connected to a light generating unit. The first gate and the second gate are respectively located at opposite sides of the channel. The first data writing module comprises an output end electrically connected to the first gate. The second data writing module comprises an output end electrically connected to the second gate.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei Gao, Zhenling Wang
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Patent number: 12194521Abstract: Equipment for manufacturing a separator plate for a fuel cell, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, includes: a first uncoiler uncoiling a first metal strip; a second uncoiler uncoiling a second metal strip; a press receiving the first metal strip and the second metal strip to respectively form patterns thereon; a welding machine overlapping and integrally bonding the first metal strip and the second metal strip, transferred from the press, by a welding process; and a cutter cutting a bonded body of the first metal strip and the second metal strip, transferred from the welding machine, wherein the press, the welding machine, and the cutter are sequentially arranged, and the first metal strip and the second metal strip are passed through the press, the welding machine, and the cutter, while connected to each other, to be processed.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Elf System Co., LTDInventor: Byung-Soo Jung
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Patent number: 12198632Abstract: A display device includes a pixel circuit configured to generate a driving current based on a data signal supplied to a data line, a first light-emitting stage configured to emit light based on the driving current, and including first light-emitting elements connected in parallel, a detector configured to detect voltages of respective ends of the first light-emitting stage, and a current compensator configured to compensate for a current flowing through the first light-emitting stage based on a first voltage difference between the voltages of the respective ends of the first light-emitting stage.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Won Jang, Seung Won Kuk, Myung Chul Kim
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Patent number: 12198635Abstract: A display device of the present disclosure includes: a pixel array unit in which pixels respectively including light emitting units are arranged; a writing scanning unit that writes a video signal while scanning each of the pixels of the pixel array unit in units of pixel rows; and a light emission driving unit that divides a display screen into a plurality of units in a scanning direction in units of the pixel rows, and performs light emission driving for each of the divided units.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Takuma Fujii
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Patent number: 12198396Abstract: Systems and methods for enhanced object detection for autonomous vehicles based on field of view. An example method includes obtaining an image from an image sensor of one or more image sensors positioned about a vehicle. A field of view for the image is determined, with the field of view being associated with a vanishing line. A crop portion corresponding to the field of view is generated from the image, with a remaining portion of the image being downsampled. Information associated with detected objects depicted in the image is outputted based on a convolutional neural network, with detecting objects being based on performing a forward pass through the convolutional neural network of the crop portion and the remaining portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2024Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: TESLA, INC.Inventors: Anting Shen, Romi Phadte, Gayatri Joshi
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Patent number: 12186224Abstract: A pivoting hinge assembly for an orthotic device for a knee joint afflicted with osteoarthritis, thus reducing pain and improving mobility, comprising: a proximal subunit, a distal subunit, an energy storage element capable of generating significant forces around the joint, and a tension adjustable geared hinge assembly. Four embodiments are disclosed of hinge assemblies useable with the knee brace, or other types of braces. The hinge assemblies comprise: two subunits housing intermeshed gears, and at least one elastic band extending between the hinge subunits over a cam surface above the gears. In three embodiments, U-shaped connectors secure the subunits and gears together, and the subunits may comprise a user mechanism that adjusts the elastic band's tension and thus the amount of weight unloaded, then releases it.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Icarus Medical, LLCInventor: David T. Johnson
