Patents Issued in August 20, 2024
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Patent number: 12066837Abstract: Systems and methods for flexible conveyance in an assembly-line or manufacturing process are disclosed. A fleet of self-driving vehicles and a fleet-management system can be used to convey workpieces through a sequence of workstations at which operations are performed in order to produce a finished assembly. An assembly can be transported to a first workstation using a self-driving vehicle, where an operation is performed on the assembly. Subsequently, the assembly can be transported to a second workstation using the self-driving vehicle. The operation can be performed on the assembly while it is being conveyed by the self-driving vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Ryan Christopher Gariepy, Andrew Dobson, Nir Rikovitch, William John Alexander Torrens, Roydyn Clayton
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Patent number: 12066838Abstract: Obtaining location data in a novel way is considered to be a part of this invention. An exemplary method for doing so includes identifying first positioning information for a data delivery vehicle based at least in part on a plurality of positioning signals received at the data delivery vehicle from a set of satellites of a global navigation satellite system (GNSS). The example method comprises obtaining relative position information associated with a position vector from the data delivery vehicle to a remote vehicle, the remote vehicle being unable to receive the plurality of positioning signals from the set of satellites. The example method comprises determining second positioning information for the remote vehicle based at least in part on the first positioning information and the relative position information. The example method comprises transmitting the second positioning information to the remote vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Chioccoli LLCInventors: Gregory Daniel Chiocco, Michael Brogioli
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Patent number: 12066839Abstract: Provide is an agricultural chemical spraying drone with improved safety. An acceleration sensor and a contact detection sensor are combined to detect contact of a drone with an obstacle. In a case where the contact is detected, a retreat action such as hovering is taken. In addition, a message may be displayed on a control terminal, a warning sound may be generated, and a warning light may be turned on. Further, a structure capable of minimizing finger insertion accidents and minimizing interference with a rotor even in collision is adopted as a propeller guard.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: NILEWORKS INC.Inventors: Chihiro Wake, Hiroshi Yanagishita
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Patent number: 12066840Abstract: A method and a system for establishing a route of an unmanned aerial vehicle are provided. The method includes identifying an object from surface scanning data and shaping a space, which facilitates autonomous flight, as a layer, collecting surface image data for a flight path from the shaped layer, and analyzing a change in image resolution according to a distance from the object through the collected surface image data and extracting an altitude value on a flight route.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: THINKWARE CORPORATIONInventors: Young-Kuk Ham, Tae Kyu Han
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Patent number: 12066841Abstract: According to the embodiments described herein, system and methods for determining relative pose of materials handling vehicles in an industrial environment may include utilizing ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna array systems respectively mounted on the materials handling vehicles to send mutually received information to determine the relative pose between the vehicles, determining one or more fields of each materials handling vehicle, and determining one or more overlapping fields between the materials handling vehicles based on the determined one or more fields and the relative pose. A vehicle control may be implemented based on the determined relative pose and the overlapping fields as a field enforcement, such as a control action to avoid collision between the vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Crown Equipment CorporationInventors: Ryan Estep, Justin Bennett, Mike Etienne Ciholas, Ben Morelli, Chad Lefeld, Trisha Marie Luthman
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Patent number: 12066842Abstract: In a vehicle remote instruction system, a remote commander issues a remote instruction relating to travel of an autonomous driving vehicle based on sensor information from an external sensor that detects an external environment of the autonomous driving vehicle. The vehicle remote instruction system sets a range of information to be transmitted to the remote commander among the sensor information detected by the external sensor, as a limited information range, based on the external situation or an external situation obtained based on map information and a trajectory of the autonomous driving vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sho Otaki, Takayuki Iwamoto
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Patent number: 12066843Abstract: Embodiments include systems and methods of in-line mixing of hydrocarbon liquids and/or renewable liquids from a plurality of tanks into a single pipeline based on density or gravity. According to an embodiment, a method of admixing hydrocarbon liquids from a plurality of tanks into a single pipeline to provide in-line mixing thereof includes initiating a blending process. The blending process including continuously blending two or more liquids over a period of time, each of the two or more liquids stored in corresponding tanks, each of the corresponding tanks connected, via pipeline, to a blend pipe thereby blending the two or more liquids into a blended liquid. The method further includes determining a density of each of the two or more liquids to be blended during the blending process.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LPInventor: Kyle E. Miller
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Patent number: 12066844Abstract: A method is provided for operating a materials handling vehicle comprising: monitoring, by a processor, vehicle acceleration in a direction of travel of the vehicle during a manual operation by an operator of the vehicle when the vehicle is traveling in a first vehicle orientation; collecting and storing, by the processor, data related to the monitored vehicle acceleration; receiving, by the processor, a request to implement a semi-automated driving operation; calculating, by the processor, a maximum vehicle acceleration based on acceleration data comprising the stored data, wherein the data related to the monitored vehicle acceleration used in calculating the maximum vehicle acceleration comprises only the vehicle acceleration data in the direction of travel of the vehicle collected when the vehicle is traveling in the first vehicle orientation. Based at least in part on the maximum vehicle acceleration, controlling, by the processor, implementation of the semi-automated driving operation.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Crown Equipment CorporationInventors: Andreas Simon, Sebastian Theos, Johannes Nachtigal
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Patent number: 12066845Abstract: A device heater module can be installed within a device such as a server, and can prevent the device from powering on while the temperature of the device is being restored to an operating temperature. The device heater module can prevent the device from powering on by operating a switch to disconnect the device from an external power supply. The device heater module can thereafter actively or passively modify the temperature of the device. After the temperature of the device is restored to within the operating temperature, the device heater module can operate the switch to reconnect the device to the external power supply, thereby allowing the device to initiate a boot process.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS, L.P.Inventors: James Utz, Jeffrey R. Taus, Zachary A. Cravens
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Patent number: 12066846Abstract: Current temperatures for an enclosure of a media handling device are monitored and managed using threshold temperature values. When a current temperature deviates below a threshold temperature value, commands are sent to modules of the device to start and idle their motors causing heat to be generated from current flowing to the motors. The heat radiates within the enclosure raising the current temperature. When the current temperature reaches a second threshold temperature value for the enclosure, second commands are sent to the modules of the device to stop idling their motors causing heat within the enclosure to dissipate and lowering the current temperature for the enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: NCR Atleos CorporationInventors: Paul David Rutherford, Adam Delaney Boyd, Donald Iain MacInnes, He Ren
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Patent number: 12066847Abstract: A regulator valve assembly for a compressed fluid source may comprise a valve housing defining a main fluid channel, a secondary fluid channel, a primary outlet, a primary inlet, and a secondary inlet. A poppet may be located in the main fluid channel, The poppet may define a poppet channel and a poppet outlet. The poppet channel may be fluidly connected to the secondary inlet. A rod may be configured to translate in and out the poppet outlet. A pin may be biased toward the secondary fluid channel. The pin may be configured to translate into a translation path of the rod. A solenoid valve may be configured to control a flow of fluid into the secondary fluid channel.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATIONInventors: Vasantha Kumara Jnanegowda, Poly John
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Patent number: 12066848Abstract: An in-wall power adapter adapted to receive a control attachment is described. The in-wall power adapter may comprise a first plurality of contact elements adapted to receive wires of a junction box, the first plurality of contact elements comprising a first contact element adapted to receive a power signal, a second contact element adapted to receive a neutral signal, and a third contact element adapted to provide the power signal to a load; a recess adapted to receive a control attachment; and a switch comprising a switch element having a first terminal adapted to receive the power signal and a second terminal adapted to provide the power signal to a load, and an actuator element coupled to the switch element to control the switch element; wherein the in-wall power adapter is adapted to control an application of the power signal received at the first contact element to a load in response to an actuation of the switch actuator.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Smart Power Partners LLCInventors: John J. King, Stephen DeLano
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Patent number: 12066849Abstract: A semiconductor device including an error amplifier configured to receive a voltage of an output node and a reference voltage, a flipped voltage follower (FVF) circuit configured to receive an output of the error amplifier and maintain the voltage of the output node at the reference voltage, and a bias current control circuit configured to receive first to third mode signals, control a magnitude of a bias current flowing through the FVF circuit based on the first to third mode signals, control the bias current of a first magnitude, based on the first mode signal, control the bias current of a second magnitude smaller than the first magnitude, based on the second mode signal, and control the bias current of a third magnitude smaller than the second magnitude, based on the third mode signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyoung Jun Roh, Jae Woo Park, Jun Han Choi, Myoung Bo Kwak, Jung Hwan Choi
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Patent number: 12066850Abstract: A method and system of controlling the time dependent transfer of electrical power between a first electrical network and a second electrical network is disclosed. The first electrical network is operable to provide instantaneous electrical power to the second electrical network located at a location, the second electrical network includes electrical generating capacity at the location based on stored energy accessible at the location. The method and system involves receiving at the second electrical network pricing information from the first electrical network, the pricing information associated with the future supply of electrical power by the first electrical network to the second electrical network and then modifying substantially in real time the transfer of electrical power between the first and second electrical networks in accordance with the pricing information and the electricity demand characteristics of the location.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Applied Hybrid Energy Pty LtdInventors: John Charles Ellice-Flint, Petar Branko Atanackovic
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Patent number: 12066851Abstract: A home appliance can operate in a future time frame. Information is obtained from a power distributor in order to determine a time when to operate the home appliance in this future time frame. The home appliance then operates at the time determined with information from the power distributor.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, William James Lyren, William Christopher Lyren
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Patent number: 12066852Abstract: A neutral return mechanism includes an interlocking shaft to be pushed and pulled in an axial direction in conjunction with a swinging operation of an operation member; a housing member to support the interlocking shaft such that the interlocking shaft is movable in the axial direction and accommodate the interlocking shaft such that one of opposite end portions thereof protrudes; a neutral return spring to return the interlocking shaft from a post-movement position to an initial position, the neutral return spring being accommodated in the housing member such that the neutral return spring extends in the axial direction of the interlocking shaft, wherein the housing member includes a supported portion between a spring accommodation portion in which the neutral return spring is accommodated and a protrusion opening through which the interlocking shaft protrudes, the supported portion being supported at a bracket member.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignees: KUBOTA CORPORATION, KYB CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Horii, Tetsuya Aoki, Hirotaka Kobayashi
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Patent number: 12066853Abstract: A processing device includes a plurality of processing cores, a control register, associated with a first processing core of the plurality of processing cores, to store a first base clock frequency value at which the first processing core is to run, and a power management circuit to receive a base clock frequency request comprising a second base clock frequency value, store the second base clock frequency value in the control register to cause the first processing core to run at the second base clock frequency value, and expose the second base clock frequency value on a hardware interface associated with the power management circuit.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Vasudevan Srinivasan, Krishnakanth V. Sistla, Corey D. Gough, Ian M. Steiner, Nikhil Gupta, Vivek Garg, Ankush Varma, Sujal A. Vora, David P. Lerner, Joseph M. Sullivan, Nagasubramanian Gurumoorthy, William J. Bowhill, Venkatesh Ramamurthy, Chris MacNamara, John J. Browne, Ripan Das
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Patent number: 12066854Abstract: A data processing device comprises: a data receiver to receive data to be processed, an external clock, and a unit control signal determining a processing unit for the data to be processed from an outside, the data receiver including a PLL circuit to receive the external clock; a clock abnormality detector to operate based on a clock of a system different from a system of the external clock and detect abnormality of the external clock based on a lock signal output from the PLL circuit; and a data processing controller to control processing of the data. When abnormality of the external clock is detected, the data processing controller stops taking in the data to be processed, and when the external clock becomes normal again, take in the unit control signal and resume taking in the data to be processed.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hajime Tsukahara, Tomohiro Sasa
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Patent number: 12066855Abstract: Various implementations described herein are related to a device having multi-port circuit architecture with multiple ports. The multi-port circuit architecture may expand a primary clock into multiple dummy clocks so as to separately track, simulate and report clock power consumption for each port of the multiple ports to a central processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Arm LimitedInventors: Andy Wangkun Chen, Yew Keong Chong, Sriram Thyagarajan, Akash Bangalore Srinivasa, Munish Kumar, Khushal Gelda, Akshay Kumar
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Patent number: 12066856Abstract: A foldable mechanism, a display device, and an electronic equipment are provided. The foldable mechanism includes a first sub-mechanism and a second sub-mechanism. Through an asymmetric and complementary arrangement of the first sub-mechanism and the second sub-mechanism, the foldable mechanism includes a plurality of structures with different thicknesses, which can not only meet loading requirements of components of different thicknesses, but also reduce a thickness of an entire machine of the foldable mechanism after the foldable mechanism is folded, thereby reducing a thickness of an entire machine after folding the display device and the electronic equipment.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventors: Zhuo Zhang, Zikang Feng
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Patent number: 12066857Abstract: The present application discloses an electronic device including a housing, support plates and a display panel. The housing is recessed inward to form one or more clearances penetrating the housing along a first direction. A number of the support plates is at least two, and one clearance is correspondingly arranged below adjoining parts of two adjacent support plates. The support plates are configured to support the display panel. The display panel is switchable between a folded position and an unfolded position. When the display panel is in the unfolded position, first surfaces of the support plates that abut against the display panel are flush.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhenhua Luo, Hao Wu, Na An, Xiao Ma, Gang Ci, Xinfeng Gong, Shaopeng Xu, Zheng Zhang, Qingzhu Guan, Guochun Wang, Zuoxin Yu, Dianzhong Liu, Zheng Zong, Pengcheng Dong, Quan Long, Qidong Sun
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Patent number: 12066858Abstract: A foldable display device includes: a display panel including a foldable display area; a first base plate overlapping a portion of the foldable display area to guide folding of the display panel; a second base plate overlapping another portion of the foldable display area to guide the folding of the display panel together with the first base plate; a first rotor coupled to the first base plate to rotate around a first virtual rotation axis, a second rotor coupled to the second base plate to rotate around a second virtual rotation axis; a follower in contact with the first and second rotors to reciprocate in a first direction by rotation of at least one of the first and second rotors; and a bracket coupled to the first and second rotors to guide a rotation path of each of the first and second rotors.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: In Soo Park, Se Yong Kim
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Patent number: 12066859Abstract: A content display method of a user terminal device including a bended touch screen divided into a main area and a sub area, includes displaying, on the main area, a first main content provided by a first application, and displaying, on the sub area, a first sub content associated with the first main content, receiving a user gesture input on the main area, and in response to receiving the user gesture, displaying, on the main area, a second main content provided by a second application, and displaying, on the sub area, a second sub content associated with the second main content.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ji-yeon Kwak, Yun-kyung Kim, Yong-yeon Lee, Hyun-jin Kim, Yeo-jun Yoon, Nipun Kumar, Joon-kyu Seo
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Patent number: 12066860Abstract: An accessory for an electronic device includes: a watch comprising a housing and a band connected to the housing; at least one phased array antenna on the watch, the at least one phased array antenna comprising an array of antenna elements that are configured to form a beam in a determined direction, the at least one phased array antenna being configured to communicate wirelessly with an external device; a local communication system in the watch, the local communication system configured to communicate locally with the electronic device; and a battery in the watch, the battery operatively connected to each of the at least one phased array antenna and the local communication system.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: GLAIVERF, INC.Inventor: Wayne H. Woods, Jr.
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Patent number: 12066861Abstract: A head-mountable device can include a nosepiece that distributes forces away from a top of the nose to the sides of the nose. The nose contact elements of such nosepieces can be slideably and/or rotationally biased to apply forces to the sides of the nose when the head-mountable device is worn by a user. Such distribution allows forces to be spread across a greater area, which improves overall comfort, positioning, and light sealing of the head-mountable device.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Claire E. Dalke, Paul X. Wang, Liam R. Martinez
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Patent number: 12066862Abstract: Embodiments of a dock with an actively controlled heatsink for a multi-form factor Information Handling System (HS) are described. In some embodiments, a dock may include: a base, a plateau configured to receive an IHS, and an arm coupling a distal edge of the base to a proximal edge of the plateau, where the plateau comprises a heatsink configured to cool a heatpipe disposed within the IHS via a bottom surface of the IHS.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.Inventor: Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert
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Patent number: 12066863Abstract: A foldable electronic device, including: a foldable screen, where the foldable screen is made of a plurality of layers of materials; and a first housing and a second housing, where the first housing and the second housing are connected by using a folding shaft, traction mechanisms are disposed on the first housing and the second housing, an outermost layer of the foldable screen is fixedly connected to the first housing and the second housing, an innermost layer of the foldable screen is fixedly connected to the traction mechanisms, the traction mechanisms slide on the first housing and the second housing along a first direction, the traction mechanisms are configured to drag the layers of the foldable screen to be dislocated mutually, and the first direction is a direction perpendicular to the folding shaft.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Jianbo Ran, Wen Fan, Chunjun Ma, Tao Huang
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Patent number: 12066864Abstract: Provided is a foldable display that is excellent in mass production applicability, and that is resistant to image distortion that can appear in the folding portion after the display is repeatedly folded, and also a mobile device equipped with such a foldable display. The foldable display includes a hard coating film on at least part of the front surface thereof, the hard coating film including a polyester film having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.65 to 1.0 dl/g as a substrate film; a hardened layer formed from a polyimide-based resin, the hardened layer having a thickness of 0.5 to 3.0 ?m; and a hard coating layer, wherein the hardened layer and the hard coating layer are present in this order at least on the front surface side of the substrate film.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Hongo, Mayu Ogawa, Akinori Ejima
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Patent number: 12066865Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and proposes an adjustable frame and a foldable display device. The adjustable frame includes a central shaft part, a rotatable frame part, a movable frame part, and an adjustment mechanism. The rotatable frame part is rotatably connected to the central shaft part. The movable frame part is arranged on a side of the rotatable frame part away from the central shaft part. An end of the adjustment mechanism is connected to the central shaft part, and an opposite end of the adjustment mechanism is connected to the movable frame part. The adjusting mechanism is configured to adjust the spacing between the movable frame part and the rotatable frame part with rotation of the rotatable frame part and the movable frame part.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Chong Zhang, Baofeng Sun, Yonghong Zhou, Yanyan Yang, Shangchieh Chu, Pengfei Zhou, Yanli Wang, Wei Liu, Bo Wang
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Patent number: 12066866Abstract: The present invention relates to a flexible display device and a control method therefor. The flexible display device comprises: a body part having a polygonal column shape; a flexible display unit which is configured to be inserted into the body part or withdrawn from the body part, while being deformed by an external force; a rotary member which is rotatably installed inside the body part and makes the flexible display unit become rolled or unrolled along the outer surface; a conductive member which is installed and fixed to the bottom surface portion inside the body part and contacts the flexible display unit to apply a touch input; and a control unit which sets an externally exposed region of the flexible display unit as an active region on the basis of the touch input applied to the flexible display unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Juhyun Park
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Patent number: 12066867Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display having a flexible substrate with fastened bent edges. The flexible substrate may have an active region that includes an array of light-emitting elements such as organic light-emitting diodes. The flexible substrate may also have inactive regions that lie outside of the active region. The bent edges may include portions of the inactive regions and portions of the active region. The bent edges may be wrapped to conform to the shape of an internal support structure. The bent edges may be fastened to the support structure with fastening members that attach a housing member or an internal clamp to the support structure. The bent edges may be secured between the housing member or the internal clamp and the support structure. The fastening members may be engaged in openings in the support structure and may pass through or alongside the bent edges.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: John Raff, Scott A. Myers, Christopher Stringer
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Patent number: 12066868Abstract: Systems and methods for providing merchant/customer interaction include determining that a tablet computer is in a merchant orientation, retrieving merchant product information according to a received instruction and merchant orientation information, and displaying a merchant screen on the tablet computer that includes the merchant product information according to the merchant orientation information. A change in the orientation of the tablet computer enclosure/stand is then detected from the merchant orientation to a customer orientation. In response, the merchant screen is transitioned on the tablet computer display to a customer screen as the tablet computer enclosure/stand changes orientations by moving the merchant screen and the customer screen linearly while in a stacked orientation.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: Michael Voege, Faran Najafi, Egan Schultz, Satish Govindarajan
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Patent number: 12066869Abstract: An accessory device designed to receive and carry a portable electronic device is disclosed. The accessory device may include a first section having multiple segments configurable in different manners to form at least two different support angles, thereby supporting the portable electronic device in at least two different angles. Further, the accessory device may include an additional second section rotationally coupled to the first section. The second section may include one or more input mechanisms (e.g., keyboard, trackpad), as well as a magnetic assembly that magnetically couples with a device magnet (or device magnets) in the portable electronic device. The magnetic assembly defines a pivot point, or fulcrum, that allows the portable electronic device to rotate from the first angle to the second angle, or vice versa. The pivot point (defined by the magnetic assembly) removes the need for multiple, additional rows of magnets.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Dylan L. Vassberg
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Patent number: 12066870Abstract: A plate arrangement for change of direction in a chain hinge assembly, the plate arrangement comprising a first hinge plate comprising one center pivot axis, and a second hinge plate comprising a center pivot axis and two end pivot axes, the end pivot axes being arranged at opposite sides of the center pivot axis. The first hinge plate and the second hinge plate are pivotally interconnected such that the center pivot axis of the first hinge plate coincides with the center pivot axis of the second hinge plate. The end pivot axes of the second hinge plate are adapted for pivotally connecting to first and second further elements such that the further elements may pivot in a direction which is opposite of a pivoting direction of the first hinge plate, in relation to the second hinge plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2018Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Juuso Heiskanen
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Patent number: 12066871Abstract: A portable electronic device including a first body, a second body, and a hinge mechanism is provided. The second body is connected to the first body through the hinge mechanism, and the hinge mechanism has a rotating shaft fixed to the second body. When the second body rotates relative to the first body, the rotating shaft slides along an arc-shaped path to increase or decrease a distance between a lower edge of the second body and a back side of the first body.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Yi-Ta Huang, Yu-Shih Wang, Cheng-Nan Ling, Chih-Chun Liu
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Patent number: 12066872Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display including a first area, a second area, and a folding area between the first area and the second area, a first housing configured to support the first area, a second housing configured to support the second area, and a hinge assembly configured to connect the first housing and the second housing, wherein the hinge assembly includes a hinge bracket including a pair of first rail structures formed to define a pair of hinge axes, a pair of hinge structures having one side connected to the first housing or the second housing and another side rotatably connected about the hinge axis along the first rail structure, and including a first cam structure. an intermediate member connected to the hinge bracket, and an elastic member configured to provide an elastic force to the intermediate member.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jongkeun Kim, Donghyun Byun, Sukjin Yun, Chongkun Cho, Yonghwa Han
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Patent number: 12066873Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel including a display layer and an antenna layer. The display layer includes pixel units arranged according to a first rule. The antenna layer is arranged on a light-exiting side of the display layer and includes multiple metal grid units that are uniformly arranged in the antenna layer according to a second rule. The antenna layer includes a first area and a second area. The metal grid units in the first area are in conduction with each other and are not in conduction to the metal grid units in other areas to form an antenna unit. The second area is a non-antenna area. The ratio of the total area of the first area and the second area to the area of the display layer is greater than 90%.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITEDInventor: Hai Yu
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Patent number: 12066874Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an apparatus main body having a first external surface that faces a first direction and a first side surface that faces a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a first exterior panel curved at least partly, in which the first exterior panel covers the first external surface and is attached to the first external surface, and the first exterior panel has, at an end portion of the first exterior panel, a first projecting portion beyond a position of the first side surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yujin Morisawa, Kazutaka Eto, Yasuhiro Ootori, Yuta Tamaki, Toshihiro Ueda
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Patent number: 12066875Abstract: In one aspect, a bracket assembly comprises a bracket and a pair of rails. The bracket comprises a first portion which includes a first segment with a first opening and a second segment with a second opening. The pair of rails comprises: a first rail which includes a first tab protruding from the first rail and including a first notch; and a second rail which includes a second tab protruding from the second rail and including a second notch. The bracket is to attach to the pair of rails when: the first portion is placed against the ends of the rails such that the first tab is inserted into the first opening and the second tab is inserted into the second opening; and the bracket is slid down such that the first opening rests in the first notch and the second opening rests in the second notch.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Warren A. Kartadinata, Vance B. Murakami, Neil Jefferson Asmussen
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Patent number: 12066876Abstract: An electronic system includes an electronic device and a cooling device. The electronic device includes a housing, a heat source, a heat-conducting seat, and a heat-conducting block. The housing includes a space and at least one opening in communication with each other. The heat source and the heat-conducting seat are disposed in the space and contact with each. The heat-conducting seat faces the opening. The heat-conducting block is located at the opening and is connected to the housing. The cooling device includes a pressing portion and a cooling portion. The pressing portion presses the heat-conducting block, to cause the heat-conducting block to move into the space and abut against the heat-conducting seat, so that heat of the heat source is transferred to the pressing portion. The cooling portion is connected to the pressing portion, and dissipates the heat transferred to the pressing portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Kuo-Chin Hung, Ching-Yuan Yang
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Patent number: 12066877Abstract: A wearable device includes a multi-use circuit that includes a terminal provided so as be able to be close to a subject and that is capable of being used for both (i) a determination function that determines whether the wearable device is being worn on the subject and (ii) a predetermined function other than the determination function, and a processor configured to execute the determination function.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Munetaka Seo
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Patent number: 12066878Abstract: According to various aspects, a controller may be configured to: control a transmission over a single-wire interface of an instruction corresponding to a high-current operation; and control an electrical behavior of a charging path to provide current at the single-wire interface during a time period corresponding to an execution of the instructed high-current operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Tue Fatt David Wee, Chunyan Zhang
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Patent number: 12066879Abstract: Multiport adapters include a power connection port, a host connection port, a peripheral device connection port, a controller, and a power supply circuit. The controller is configured to receive, through the power connection port, first power information regarding power suppliable from a power supply device to the multiport adapter, determine a maximum power value in the first power information, transmit a message requesting the power supply device to supply power of the maximum power value to the multiport adapter, determine a third power value obtained by subtracting, from the maximum power value, a first power value consumed by the multiport adapter and a second power value set to be supplied to a peripheral device, generate, based on the third power value, second power information regarding power suppliable from the multiport adapter to a host device, and transmit the second power information to the host device through the host connection port.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Kyoungwon Kim
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Patent number: 12066880Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for elastic delivery, processing, and storage for wearable devices based on system resources. For example, a wearable apparatus may have at least one battery; at least one sensor configured to measure at least one property associated with a user of the wearable apparatus; at least one memory storing measurements from the at least one sensor and instructions; at least one transmitter configured to send data to a device remote from the wearable apparatus; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: receive, from the at least one battery, an indicator of a charge; and based on the received indicator, sending a command to the at least one sensor to operate in a low-power mode or a high-power mode, the low-power mode having. a lower sampling rate than the high-power mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: BIOMECH SENSOR LLCInventors: John Douglas, Frank Fornari, Jeff Rowberg
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Patent number: 12066881Abstract: A method for operating an electronic device includes while a display is in low power mode, detecting based on data collected by a time of flight (ToF) sensor, a movable object within a field of view of the electronic device; in response to the detecting initiating a period of detection having a plurality of frames, the period of detection being a time period over which a distance value indicative of a distance between the movable object and the display is detected; for each of the plurality of frames, changing the distance value to reflect whether the movable object is moving near or further from the electronic device; detecting that the distance value after the period of detection is less than a threshold distance value indicative of the movable object approaching the display; if the distance value is less than the threshold distance value, waking up the display.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignees: STMICROELETRONICS (BEIJING) R&D CO., LTD., STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS, STMicroelectronics, Inc.Inventors: Arnaud Deleule, Kalyan-Kumar Vadlamudi-Reddy, Darin K Winterton, Jihong Chen, Olivier Lemarchand
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Patent number: 12066882Abstract: Systems and methods for managing power consumption of device subsystems include a device which maintains one or more constraint metric tables for applications executable on the device. Each of the one or more constraint metric tables may specify respective power levels for subsystems of the device according to a respective application or an application type of the respective application. The device may determine to operate the device at a reduced power level for a first application, based on a condition for the device satisfying at least one of a thermal threshold criteria or a power threshold criteria when the device operates at full power level. The device may apply a constraint metric responsive to determining to operate at the reduced power level, to cause a subset of the plurality of subsystems to adjust a power consumption level according to a first constraint metric table corresponding to the first application.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Siddharth Ray, Ping Wang, Achaleshwar Sahai, Xiaodi Zhang, Neeraj Poojary, Dong Zheng, Guoqing Li, Shivank Nayak, Madhusudan Kinthada Venkata, Swaminathan Balakrishnan
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Patent number: 12066883Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system for automating graphical testing during video game development. The system can use Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) to create a model to detect graphical glitches in video games. The system can use an image, a video game frame, as input to be classified into one of defined number of classifications. The classifications can include a normal image and one of a plurality of different kinds of glitches. In some embodiments, the glitches can include corrupted textures, including low resolution textures and stretched textures, missing textures, and placeholder textures. The system can apply a confidence measure to the analysis to help reduce the number of false positives.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Electronic Arts Inc.Inventors: Linus Mathias Gisslén, Carlos García Ling
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Patent number: 12066884Abstract: Systems and methods involving provision of machine-learning-based prediction of future failure, anomaly, etc. in execution of batch processes are disclosed. In one illustrative implementation, an exemplary method may comprise obtaining historical data from prior execution of one or more batch processes, training a machine learning model to predict one or more future failure(s) and/or future flag(s) in execution of a future batch process, generating and/or collecting descriptive analytics pertinent to execution of the batch processes, and predicting a future failure and/or future flag in execution of the batch processes using the trained machine learning model and/or the descriptive analytics.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Donald Gennetten, Fatma Ben Yemna, Gaurav Jain
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Patent number: 12066885Abstract: An information handling system includes a processor and an embedded controller. The processor executes operations while the information handling system is in an active power state. The embedded controller communicates with the processor. While the information handling system is in the active power state, the embedded controller detects a trigger event. In response to the trigger event, the embedded controller provides a ping command to the processor. Based on a response to the ping command not being received, the embedded controller determines a processor freeze, stores forensic data associated with the processor freeze, and stores an indication to perform a processor freeze recovery during a next boot operation.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Craig L. Chaiken, Balasingh P. Samuel, Siva Subramaniam Rajan
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Patent number: 12066886Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving, by a service stack recovery engine, an error message indicating a failed service in a plurality of services executed in a cloud platform, determining, by the service stack recovery engine, a set of services for recovery in response to the error message, and, for each service in the set of services, identifying, by the service stack recovery engine, an error handler that is associated with a service recovery type in a set of service recovery types, the error handler including a set of error handling operations to be executed to recover the failed service, and transmitting, by the service stack recovery engine, the error handler to a service recovery agent associated with the respective service, the service recovery agent executing error handling operations of the error handler to recover the service.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Le Zhang, Yu Wang, Daping Wang, Moritz Semler