Patents Examined by Rodney E Fuller
  • Patent number: 12782413
    Abstract: A test jig for testing a plurality of semiconductor devices formed on a wafer, including: a substrate having an opening extending therethrough in an up-down direction, to allow air to be injected from the opening during testing; a chamber formed to surround the opening, and being positioned lower than the substrate; and a first probe for measuring each semiconductor device, the first probe being connected to the substrate. The chamber includes: a surrounding member that surrounds the first probe, and is configured to float upward in response to the injection of the air from the opening during the testing; a support part configured to support the surrounding member before the surrounding member floats upward during the testing; and a restraining member configured to restrain the surrounding member from lowering such that the surrounding member does not contact the wafer after the injection of the air stops during the testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuru Yoshida
  • Patent number: 12782477
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging system, and a radio-frequency signal processing method and radio-frequency coil therefor are provided. The method comprises: receiving, via a radio-frequency coil, a radio-frequency pulse transmitted from a transceiver coil to generate a radio-frequency field that excites a subject to be examined; and sending, via the radio-frequency coil, a magnetic resonance signal received from the subject to be examined to the transceiver coil, wherein the radio-frequency coil and the transceiver coil are electromagnetically coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Xuelian Lu, Kun Wang, Jiabin Yao, Yulong Duan
  • Patent number: 12782487
    Abstract: A calibration method of calibrating a test instrument includes the following: consecutively connecting a set of calibration standards to at least one port and performing a calibration measurement for each calibration standard connected, thereby obtaining a first set of measurement data; determining, based on a multi-port error model and the first set of measurement data, a plurality of error terms of the multi-port error model, wherein at least one of the error terms includes a product of two error parameters; connecting an additional calibration standard to the at least one port; performing a calibration measurement with the additional calibration standard connected, thereby obtaining a second set of measurement data; and determining the two error parameters based on the second set of measurement data. Further, a calibration system is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Florian Ramian
  • Patent number: 12775198
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a grip portion having a surface shape portion. The surface shape portion has a first shape portion extending in a first direction, and a second shape portion extending in a second direction and/or a third shape portion extending in a third direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2026
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Keita Kamei
  • Patent number: 12770450
    Abstract: A sensor element for testing a flat-surface data carrier having a spin resonance feature. The sensor element includes a magnetic core with an air gap, into which the flat-surface data carrier can be inserted for testing, a polarization device for generating a static magnetic flux in the air gap, a resonator device for exciting the spin resonance feature of the data carrier to be tested in the air gap, having at least one stripline resonator fed by a signal source, and a modulation device for generating a time-varying magnetic modulation field in the air gap parallel to the static magnetic field. The modulation device has a plurality of modulation coils, which are designed and configured for generating different modulation frequencies so that the modulated magnetic field generated by the modulation device, together with the polarization device, has different modulation frequencies at different locations within the air gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2026
    Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Stephan Huber, Sina Scholz-Riecke
  • Patent number: 12761252
    Abstract: A first voltage value is determined using a comparator operating based on a first hysteresis value. A second voltage value is determined using the comparator operating based on a second hysteresis value and in dependence on the first voltage value. One or more indications of at least one of the first voltage value and the second voltage value are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2026
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventors: Manas Kumar Hati, Peter Kwang Lee, Shih-Yao Christine Sun, Santhosh Narayana-Swamy
  • Patent number: 12761539
    Abstract: An optical accessory case includes a cap connected to a base. The base of the optical accessory case includes one or more dividers in the base of the optical accessory case. One or more dividers include a pedestal which is attached to the base and a column which is attached to the pedestal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2026
    Assignee: MICHAEL THE MAVEN, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Shiffler
  • Patent number: 12761168
    Abstract: A sensor element is for testing a planar data carrier that has a spin resonance feature. The sensor element includes: a magnetic core having an air gap into which the planar data carrier can be inserted for testing purposes; a polarization device for generating a static magnetic flux in the air gap; and a resonator device for exciting the spin resonance feature of the data carrier to be tested in the air gap. The resonator device has a stripline resonator and a supply structure for the stripline resonator and is designed to generate a high-frequency field with circular polarization owing to the geometry of the stripline resonator and/or the geometry of the supply structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2026
    Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventor: Stephan Huber
  • Patent number: 12754215
    Abstract: A current sensor for sensing a current through two different conductors. The sensor comprises a magnetic sensor configured to read a magnetic field induced by the first and second currents. The sensor is configured also to provide a first signal representative of a magnetic field parameter in a first direction and configured to provide at least a second signal representative of a magnetic field parameter in a second direction different from the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2026
    Assignee: MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES SA
    Inventors: Simon Houis, Adrian Hill, Bruno Boury
  • Patent number: 12743009
    Abstract: A camera stick apparatus for holding an object such as an animal toy in the field of view of a camera is described. In one embodiment the camera stick is has an upper stick portion and a lower stick portion coupled to a phone clamp, the phone clamp is adapted to cradle a phone having a phone camera. An attachment arm coupled with the camera stick portion of the camera sick has a first coupling portion, the first coupling portion may be adapted to couple with a second coupling portion of an apparatus adapted to hold an object such as the animal toy substantially in the field of view of the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2026
    Inventor: Kathryn G. O'Hare
  • Patent number: 12743010
    Abstract: A camera includes a lens, and aperture blades. The aperture blades are movable between a minimum aperture position at which the aperture blades generate vignetting at a periphery of the photographing area and a maximum aperture position radially outward from the minimum aperture position. The camera further includes a switch including an operation lever movable through a user operation and an actuation lever connected to the aperture blades and operable to move the aperture blades between the minimum aperture position and the maximum aperture position in response to movement of the operation lever. The operation lever is movable in a circumferential direction about an optical axis. The actuation lever is rotatable about an axis. The operation lever has a cam slot elongated in the circumferential direction between an inner portion and an outer portion. The actuation lever includes a follower engageable with and movable along the cam slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2026
    Assignees: NIDEC PRECISION CORPORATION, FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Akamatsu, Tomihiro Wakayama, Akihiro Hashiguchi
  • Patent number: 12742964
    Abstract: A camera system includes a camera, a first light source, and a second light source. A main optical axis of the first light source intersects with a main optical axis of the second light source at an intersection point, and the intersection point is not located within a depth of field of the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2026
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Susumu Morimoto, Masaya Mori, Srikanth Kadiyala, Pius Ng, Dharma Hariharan Babu
  • Patent number: 12733981
    Abstract: A method for planning an arthroplasty procedure on a patient bone. The method may include accessing generic bone data stored in a memory of a computer, using the computer to generate modified bone data by modifying the generic bone data according to medical imaging data of the patient bone, using the computer to derive a location of non-bone tissue data relative to the modified bone data, and superimposing implant data and the modified bone data in defining a resection of an arthroplasty target region of the patient bone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2026
    Assignee: Howmedica Osteonics Corporation
    Inventors: Elena I. Pavlovskaia, Oleg Mishin, Boris E. Shpungin, Ilwhan Park, Venkata Surya Sarva, Irene Min Choi
  • Patent number: 12736601
    Abstract: An MRI apparatus includes a measurement point determination unit that determines each measurement point of three-dimensional k-space data. In a case where a kx direction of a three-dimensional k-space is set as a readout direction, for a plurality of measurement points on a ky-kz plane, the measurement point determination unit adjusts a first condition that an angle of a straight line connecting the measurement points and a center of the plane changes with a golden angle (?) and a distance (r) from a center point of the plane monotonically increases, and determines the measurement point to satisfy a second condition that a change in a position of the measurement point is to be non-periodicity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2026
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki Amemiya, Atsuro Suzuki, Yukio Kaneko, Suguru Yokosawa, Toru Shirai, Hiroki Shoji
  • Patent number: 12724331
    Abstract: An electronic device and a support assembly are provided. The support assembly includes a bracket and a frame. The bracket includes a bracket main body, a movable member, a first sliding member, and a second sliding member. The bracket main body has a receiving portion. The movable member is connected to the bracket main body and is in contact with the first sliding member. The first sliding member is movable relative to the bracket main body, and includes a contacting surface. The second sliding member is movable relative to the bracket main body, and has a force-receiving portion. Each contacting surface is in contact with each force-receiving portion. The frame includes a frame main body and an extension portion connected to the frame main body that is detachably located in the receiving portion. The movable member moves to enable each second sliding member to contact each of two extension portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: WISTRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chien Lin Pan, Wensien Siao, Kuan Hsun Huang, Jhe Ci Lin, Bao Jun Chen
  • Patent number: 12721512
    Abstract: An acquisition kit including: a mobile telephone with an objective lens for acquiring a 2D and/or 3D representation; a holder to which the telephone is fastened, the holder defining an oral aperture to be inserted into the mouth of a user, the objective lens having a view at least partially representing the oral aperture, the view representing at least a first mark selected from: —a categorization mark identifying a category to which a first constitutive component of the holder belongs; and/or —a personalization mark identifying the user and/or pathology of the user and/or dental care professional and/or group of professionals. The kit includes a computer controller programmed to read the first represented mark and to deduce therefrom a first identifier; then record the first identifier and/or prepare and transmit a message to the user and/or dental care professional; and/or to modify the calibration of the telephone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: DENTAL MONITORING
    Inventors: Thomas Pellissard, Cédric Lancon, Guillaume Ghyselinck
  • Patent number: 12724324
    Abstract: Provided are a lens assembly including, a barrel detachably coupled to a camera, a focusing lens, a driving unit moving the focusing lens by generating a driving force with power supplied from the camera, an input button receiving a user command, and a control device controlling the driving unit to move the focusing lens to a preset custom focus position when a custom focus adjustment command is input through the input button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: SAMYANG OPTICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ji Hoon Lee, Hyun Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 12716977
    Abstract: A method for magnetic resonance imaging with motion estimation comprises: a) performing with a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus a quantitative scout acquisition to produce a data acquisition sequence; b) predicting, based on the data acquisition sequence, navigator data throughout an entirety of the data acquisition sequence; and c) performing joint motion and ?B0 estimation from the navigator data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Kawin Setsompop, Yannick Willy E Brackenier
  • Patent number: 12716014
    Abstract: An insulation adhesive, an insulation tape incorporating the insulation adhesive, and a method for preparing the insulation adhesive. The insulation adhesive includes: an insulation colloid, and an insulation particle doped in the insulation colloid. Breakdown field strength of the insulation particle is greater than breakdown field strength of the insulation colloid. Since the breakdown field strength of the insulation particle is greater than the breakdown field strength of the insulation colloid, the insulation colloid is easier to break down than the insulation particle. When an electro-static discharge current acts on the insulation adhesive, the electro-static discharge current breaks down the insulation colloid that has worse insulation performance and that is easier to break down, and bypasses the insulation particle that has better insulation performance and that is more difficult to break down, so that a breakdown path of the electro-static discharge current becomes longer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tongkai Zhang, Jing Gao, Yin Meng, Fenxing Lei
  • Patent number: 12710497
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for cine magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF). In one example, a method includes obtaining k-space data of an MRF scan of a subject, the k-space data acquired over a plurality of phases of at least one cardiac cycle of the subject, training an image reconstruction network (IRN) to output, for each phase, one or more subspace images of the subject using the k-space data, and training a parameter estimation network (PEN) to output, for each phase, a set of tissue parameter maps of the subject using the one or more subspace images output by the IRN for the corresponding phase. Upon training the IRN and the PEN, the method further includes obtaining (and displaying and/or saving in memory) a final set of tissue parameter maps of the subject for one or more or each of the plurality of phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignees: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS CLEVELAND MEDICAL CENTER
    Inventors: Jesse Hamilton, Gastao Lima da Cruz, Sanjay Rajagopalan, Nicole Seiberlich, Imran Rashid