System to manage biometric data
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271456
Maintaining the security of biometric data is an utmost priority. Biometric data is secured using one or more techniques. With one technique, biometric input such as images of a user's palm is used to generate first primary data (PD). The original biometric input is deleted from temporary secure storage while the first PD is securely stored. The first PD may then be processed later to determine a second PD. The first PD may then be deleted, and the second PD subsequently used. With…
Establishing communication links to assist headless devices
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273807
Techniques for establishing connections between user devices and headless devices attempting to connect to networks. A headless device may attempt to connect to an access point that requires interaction with a captive portal webpage for access to a network. However, the headless device my lack a display to present the captive portal webpage. The headless device may establish a connection with a user device using a PAN protocol. The headless device may then receive the captive portal…
Guided camera focusing using barcode images
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273621
Techniques for guiding camera focusing using barcode images are described herein. In an example, a computer system receives an image of a calibration target having a center that is aligned with an optical axis of a camera that generated the image. The calibration target includes steps that are located at different depths with respect to a lens of the camera. The calibration target includes barcode sets. Individual barcodes of a barcode set have a barcode attribute. The computer system…
Migrating an on premises workload to a web services platform
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273408
Techniques are disclosed for migrating a computer application from an entity's premises to a web services platform. Data from multiple sources on the entity's premises is gathered and normalized into a common format. The normalized data is used to create a topology of the network on the entity's premises. This topology is analyzed to determine whether a computer application executing on the entity's premises may be migrated to the web service platform.
Adaptive testing service that generates test cases from observed behaviors
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273255
Techniques are disclosed to implement an adaptive testing service (ATS) capable of automatically generating test cases for a network service to adapt test coverage to observed behaviors of the network service. In embodiments, the ATS uses telemetry data from a production version of the network service to identify classes of testable behaviors. Test cases are generated for the behaviors and assigned weights based on frequency or recency metrics of the behaviors. The test cases are stored…
Dereverberation and noise reduction
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272369
A system configured to improve audio processing by performing dereverberation and noise reduction during a communication session. In some examples, the system may include a deep neural network (DNN) configured to perform speech enhancement, which is located after an Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) component. For example, the DNN may process isolated audio data output by the AEC component to jointly mitigate additive noise and reverberation. In other examples, the system may include a…
Enhanced graphical user interface for voice communications
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272358
Enhanced graphical user interfaces for transcription of audio and video messages is disclosed. Audio data may be transcribed, and the transcription may include emphasized words and/or punctuation corresponding to emphasis of user speech. Additionally, the transcription may be translated into a second language. A message spoken by a user depicted in one or more images of video data may also be transcribed and provided to one or more devices.
Systems for determining elevations of skin features
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272053
A wearable device may compress the skin of a user when worn, which may affect values determined using sensors of the device. To determine the effect of skin compression on the values, a time-of-flight signal, images, or frames of video data that depict a portion of the body having indentations from wearing the device may be acquired. Characteristics of the images, such as shadows associated with the indentations, may be processed using a machine learning algorithm or mathematical…
Control circuit comprising symmetric asymmetric threaded superconducting quantum interference devices (symmetric ATSs)
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271783
A fault tolerant quantum computer is implemented using hybrid acoustic-electric qubits or electromagnetic qubits, as a few examples. A control circuit includes symmetrically arranged asymmetrically threaded superconducting quantum interference devices (ATSs) that excite phonons in a resonator by driving a storage mode of the resonator and dissipate phonons from the resonator via an open transmission line coupled to the control circuit, wherein the open transmission line is configured to…
Configuration of a deep vector engine using an opcode table, control table, and datapath table
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271732
A technique to program a compute channel having multiple computational circuit blocks coupled in series in a pipeline can include receiving a machine instruction for the compute channel. The machine instruction is decoded to obtain an opcode, and the opcode can be used as an index to access an opcode entry in an opcode table. The opcode entry contains a pointer to a microoperation, and the pointer can be used to access a microoperation represented by a control entry in a control table…
Techniques for identifying semantically relevant search results
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271411
Techniques are described herein for generating a semantically related search query that differs by at least one lexical token from document data provided as input. A machine-learning model may be trained using supervised and/or deep learning algorithms and a training data set including historical queries and the document data identified as being semantically related to those queries. The semantically-related search query may be associated with the document and utilized in subsequent…
Generating metadata from a scan of a data object in an object store for performing subsequent queries to the data object
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271376
An object data store may generate metadata responsive to a request that causes a scan of a data object for subsequent use in performing queries to the data object. A request may be received that causes a scan operation of the data object. As part of performing the scan one or multiple types of metadata describing the data object may be generated. The generated metadata may be applied to access the data object and perform a subsequently received query to the data object at the object data…
Systems and methods for enabling a failover service for block-storage volumes
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271276
The present disclosure generally relates to a first network device in a primary region that can failover network traffic into a second network device in a failover region. The first network device can receive routing criteria identifying how traffic originating in the primary region should be routed. The first network device can transmit this routing criteria to the second network device in the failover region. Based on determining the occurrence of a failover event, the first network…
Device with rotatable privacy cover
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271098
A device includes a housing, a camera at least partially disposed within the housing, one or more microphones at least partially disposed within the housing, and a printed circuit board (PCB) including a switch. The switch has a lever that is transitionable between a displaced position and a non-displaced position. A privacy cover couple to the housing and includes a rib disposed on an interior surface of the privacy cover. The privacy cover is transitionable between a first position in…
Foldable containers having mechanical secured door indicators
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269644
Systems and methods are disclosed for containers having mechanical secured door indicators. In one embodiment, an example container may include a first container wall, a second container wall, a third container wall, and a fourth container wall configured to move from an open position to a closed positon. The fourth container wall may include a first portion coupled to the second container wall, and a second portion coupled to the third container wall, where the first portion and the…
Structural rib assemblies for container shuttle rails
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12264015
Systems and methods are disclosed for structural rib assemblies for container shuttle rails. In one embodiment, an example system for a shuttle may include a rib assembly. The rib assembly may include a first plate with a first tab on a first lateral side, a second tab on a second lateral side, a first cutout disposed adjacent to the first tab, a second cutout disposed adjacent to the second tab, and a third cutout disposed along an upper portion of the first plate. The rib assembly may…
Graphical interface for speech-enabled processing
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265756
Methods and devices for sampling applications using a touch input are described herein. In some embodiments, an electronic device detects a touch input, which may cause the electronic device to send identifiers to a backend system. The backend system may then determine an application and sample audio request associated with the received identifiers. The backend system may then receive text data representing the sample audio request and text data representing a response to the sample…
Detecting out-of-band screen captures and recordings
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265641
Captures or recordings of sensitive information or data displayed on screens or displays are detected by generating unique identifiers of users and embedding linked codes including such identifiers into the information or data. When the information or data is accessed by a user and displayed on a screen, and an image of the information or data is captured by a camera of a mobile device or other system, the camera detects a code within the images and requests to access a page or other…
Natural language query processing
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265528
Techniques for handling natural language query processing are described. In some examples, a sequence-to-sequence model is used to handle a natural language query. Post-processing of a result of the sequence-to-sequence model utilizes fine-grained information from an entity linker. In some examples, the sequence-to-sequence model and aspects of a natural language query pipeline are used to handle a natural language query.
Block-storage service supporting multi-attach and health check failover mechanism
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265443
A block-based storage system hosts logical volumes that are implemented via multiple replicas of volume data stored on multiple resource hosts in different failure domains. Also, the block-based storage service allows multiple client computing devices to attach to a same given logical volume at the same time. In order to prevent unnecessary failovers, a primary node storing a primary replica is configured with a health check application programmatic interface (API) and a secondary node…
